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(Set of two)
a)
TITLE: Letters on the sport in Eastern Bengal
AUTHOR: Frank B Simson
PUBLISHER: R H Potter
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1886
NO.OF PAGES: 255 pages, 10 lithographic plates
BINDING: Beautifullybound in half calf, gilt edges, with spines intricately decorated, marbled boards
SIZE: 28 x 19.5 x 3 cm
The book records and advice on hunting the jackal, hog, tiger, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, crocodile and jungle-fowl. Written in a series of letters addressed to a young British gentleman in the Civil Service, based on the author's hunting notes and diaries kept since 1847.
b)
TITLE: The Highlands of Central India: Notes on their Forests and Wild Tribes, Natural History, and Sports
AUTHOR: Captain J Forsyth
PUBLISHER: J Chapman and Hall
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1871
NO.OF PAGES: 472 pages, 6 coloured illustrations, 9 b/w figures, 1 folding map
BINDING: Beautifully bound in full calf, decorated spineswith gilt in compartments, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt
Size 22.2 x 15 x 3.5 cm
James Forsyth (1838-1871) was an English traveller in India. After receiving a university education in England, Forsyth entered the civil service of theEast India Company, and went out to India as assistant conservator and acting conservator of forests. In a short time he was appointed settlement officer and deputy-commissioner of Nimar, and served under Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces.
Forsyth was attached to the Bengal staff corps, and made a complete tour of the Central Provinces of India in 1862-4. He reached Amarkantak, near the sources of the Narmada River, the Mahanadi
River, and the Son River. He travelled across the plain of Chhattisgarh to the Sal forests in the east.
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