Two books on Wildlife and Hunting in India

a) Captain Walter Campbell, The Old Forest Ranger or Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles, and on the Plains, London: Virtue Bros, 1863, third edition

xiv, 359 pages, engraved title page, frontispiece, 6 illustrations; original decorated green cloth in gilt, decorated spine rebacked
8.2.x 6 in (20.5 x 15 cm)

"Major Campbell's account of his hunting expeditions in India was first published in the pages of the London "New Monthly Magazine," and is a "veritable romance of sporting, in the lands which are the birth place of the most gorgeous, the most fascinating of all romances - the seat of a yet un-extinguished, barbarous and barbaric civilization, older it is probable than the Pyramids, coeval, at least, with the winged bulls and lions, the eagle-headed gods, and sensuous worship of disinterred Nineveh."

b) George P Sanderson, Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation; with an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants, Edinburgh: John Grant, 1912

xviii, 387 pages, 24 illustrations from original drawings; publishers' green cloth, gilt title and hunting scene in gilt and black to upper cover, gilt leopard vignette to spine.
8.8 x 7.2 in (22.5 x 18.5 cm)

A detailed work on the Indian elephant, Sanderson details the natural history and chapters on rounding up and taming elephants. The hunting covers rogue elephants in Mysore and Bengal, numerous tiger encounters also panther and leopard. A title which ran to many editions, seldom found in this condition, the author was the government officer for elephants catching in Mysore.

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