Lot 152
Shikar
Collection of Indian hunting narratives, including local imprints
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Nripendra Narayana Bhupa, Maharajah of Cooch Behar. Thirty-Seven Years of Big Game Shooting in Cooch Behar, the Duars and Assam. Bombay: printed at the Times Press, 1908. First edition, 4to, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, plates with halftone illustrations, 1 folded map (partially coloured) at rear, some minor worming of boards and final pages and map, with no text affected, boards stained in places;
Braddon, Edward. Thirty Years of Shikar. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1895. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's green cloth, frontispiece, folded coloured map to the rear, traces of library bookplates on front pastedown and ink stamp ‘Staniforth Bequest’ and shelfmarks on verso of title-page;
Strachan, Arthur W. Mauled by a Tiger: Encounters in the Indian Jungles. Edinburgh & London: the Moray Press, [1933]. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's red cloth, with illustrated dust jacket (unclipped), frontispiece and 7 tipped in colour plates from miniatures by the author mounted on black card, along with half tone illustrations, slight wear to front of dust jacket, some foxing throughout;
Kinloch, Alexander A. Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West. London: Harrison, 1869. First edition, 4to, original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, 12 mounted albumen prints on 11 ff., folded map, folded wood-engraved plate, errata slip, front free endpaper detached, boards worn at extremities, spine torn, some toning and dust soiling;
Van Ingen and Van Ingen. The Preservation of Shikar Trophies. Mysore: Wesleyan Mission Press, 1933. First edition, 8vo, publisher's brown printed paper wrappers with mounted half-tone to upper cover, half-tone illustrations, printed compliment slip loosely inserted, one of a series of pamphlets produced by the taxidermy firm from the 1920s onwards;
Tyacke, R.H. In Quest of Game: a Sportsman's Manual for Game Shooting in Kulu, Lahoul and Ladak to the Tso Morari Lake. Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1927. Revised edition, 12mo, original publisher's red cloth, 8 folded maps, hinges slightly cracking, residue of tape repair on front pastedown, binding slightly faded;
together with 18 others (not collated), dating from 19th and 20th centuries, on big game hunting (24)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA