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Hardcover. Very Good+. John Culler & Sons With illustrations. New introduction by Kenneth P. Czech. Full black leather with gilt lettering and decoration. 4 raised spine bands. Blue marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Sewn-in yellow marker ribbon. This is an unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 500. Leather boards have a few light, non-penetrating scratches. Slight wobble top of front hinge. Tight, pristine contents.

Camden, SC: John Culler & Sons. The Asian Series. No. 55 of a limited edition of 500 copies. A facsimile of the 1898 edition. Illustrated. Full brown leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; ribbon page marker. Housed in a textured cloth slipcase. . Fine. Full-Leather. Limited Edition. 1994.

Edinburgh.: Blackwood.. New Edition.. 1891.. 2 photographic plates with keys printed on tissue guards, four full page sepia tinted illustrations, numerous engravings, xviii + 362pp and 24 pages of publisher's adverts dated 4/91 at the rear. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, light age toning to preliminaries, extremities little rubbed, head and tail of spine abraded and spine badly mottled, however a firm and clean ex-library copy stamped in gilt on the rear cover with the insignia of the Caledonian United Services Club. Yakushi M23. .

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 8vo. original decorated brown cloth gilt (endpapers renewed, a little rubbed with occ. small nicks/splits in cloth (neatly repaired), prev. owner's name to half-title, light offsetting, else clean & bright); pp. xx, 464, 24 (pubs. advts), with 35 illustrations, inc. a coloured frontispiece. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG.

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889, First edition. . original brown pictorial cloth with gilt mountain sheep in decorative border, gilt spine title lettering, spine ends chipped & worn, corner wear, internal hinges repaired, faint blindstamp on title margin & cancelled libr bookplate on verso, good, copy. . 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xx, 464, 24 [publisher's catalogue] pp, fine color lithographed (chromolithograph) frontis, tissue guard, 8 plates from drwgs and photo with tissue guards (one with letterpress key), other engraved illus, complete. . Yakushi, M23: 'The author traveled from Srina -gar to Leh, and then to Chang Chenmo, Lingzi-tang in 1871'. Interesting descriptions of the peoples, their customs, cities, religion, and of nature including tiger, bear, mahseer, pheasant, partridge, jurrow, leopard, hog, musk-deer, ibex, swamp-deer, elephant, surrow, stag, yak, ovis ammon, goa, burrell, hunting and fishing, Goorkas, etc. Extensive travels including Cashmere… Leer más

London: William Blackwood and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1891. Hardcover. 2/3" stain to front board. 1/8" loss of cloth at tips of corners of boards. A few 1/8" splits to cloth at ends of spine. Moderate rubbing to joints. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Split to gutter at front hinge.; xviii, 362 page + photogravure frontis + 1 photogravure plate + 4 full page plates + 26 small in-text illustrations. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 202 x 129mm. The two photogravure plates show collections of game animal heads, both have an overlaying tissue paper guard with a printed key to the illustration. In the short preface to this new edition, the author notes that an index has now been added. "The bygone performances of an old 'muzzle-loader' may perhaps be considered rather obsolete by the young sportsman of the present with his double 'express.' But as human nature always has been, and, I opine, ever will be much… Leer más

London : White Lotus, 1891. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Macintyre, Major-General Donald. Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas