Author:
Forbes Major Jonathan
Title:
Eleven Years in Ceylon Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of That Colony
Price:
£480.00
Year:
1841
Publisher:
Richard Bentley
Summary:
xii-423 + viii-356, 2 volumes engraved frontis to each volume and 4 other plates and woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary inscription to front end papers. Publishers blind stamped cloth even fading to the spines and bora edges. A very good copy in the original cloth. First published in 1840 the second edition revised and corrected. Includes a number of elephant hunting and capturing incidents, Forbes also hunted bear and several stags. And much on the description of the country and its history, in the preface to the second edition details the potential for the colony. Czech 81
Ref:
23801
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