Set of 3 books on Hunting

a) William Rice, Indian Game (From Quail to Tiger), London: W H Allen, 1884

pp. iv, 227 + 12 tinted lithographs; original illustrated cloth
12 x 9.5 in (30 x 24 cm)

There are chapters on: Small game shooting, wild fowl shooting, Black buck shooting, Hog hunting, Cheetal shooting, Panther shooting, Bear hunting, Samber shooting, Bison shooting, Lion shooting, Tiger shooting.

b) Colonel Fred Markham, Shooting in The Himalayas: A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, & c., London: Richard Bentley, 1854

pp. xii, 375 with 9 tinted lithographs and many woodcuts; half-leather binding with marbled boards and marbled edges
10 x 6.8 in (25 x 17 cm)

c) James Inglis, Tent life in Tiger Land, With Which is Incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier: Being Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of a Pioneer Planter in an Indian Frontier District, Sydney and Brisbane: A. Hutchison & Son, 1888

pp. xxiv, 690, frontispiece, 22 chromolithographic plates after photographs; original decorated cloth in black and gilt, decorated spines
10 x 6.5 in (25 x 16.2 cm)

The book brings together the Nepaul book, published under the name Maori in 1878 which detailed Inglis’s experiences in the North India province of Bihar as a planter from 1863-1875 and the Tigerland book, a continuation of his planting and hunting experiences there, before he moved to Australia. The book is entirely on India, specifically the province of Bihar.

James Inglis was the son of a Scottish clergyman. "In 1866 he went to India at the instigation of his brother Alexander, a Calcutta tea merchant, and became an indigo planter in Bihar and the North-West Provinces. He revelled in tiger shooting and pig sticking, and published sporting verses, Tirhoot Rhymes (Calcutta, 1873), under the pseudonym 'Maori', and Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier (London, 1878). In 1875 he became famine commissioner for Bhagalpur. After visiting Scotland Inglis returned to manage extensive government territory" (Australian Dictionary of Biography).

(Set of three)

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