Brown's Sporting Tour in India. A Pictorial Journal of that Distinguished Sportsman's Doings in the East de HUNT, William Shapter, Captain - 1865

London: J. Hogarth, 1865. Oblong quarto. Initial dedication leaf, additional handcolored engraved title-page, and 40 handcolored engraved plates after and by Hunt. Publisher's pebbled red cloth gilt, yellow endpapers, gilt edges, expert repairs to top and tail of spine First edition: a humorous twist on color plate sporting books. "An amusing series of well-coloured Indian sporting pictures" (Schwerdt), satirizing in narrative form the misadventures of a newcomer on a sporting tour of India. After numerous failures and much personal injury, he does manage to shoot an elephant, only to find that it was a tame elephant belonging to the government. Scarce, with only a handful of copies in OCLC (Yale, Harvard, British Library and two copies in Australia). Schwerdt I:257; Bobins, The Exotic and the Beautiful 1400.