CAMPBELL, Walter (Colonel) SKU: 20266 Barcode:
Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1864.
First Edition. 8vo. pp xix, 484. Engraved frontispiece (with tissue-guard), titlepage with vignette coloured map, six further engraved plates. Rebound in contemporary half calf, red label to spine, edges of boards slightly rubbed. Front gutter slightly pulled. A nice copy in period binding. Culled from Campbell's original journals, with many notices on natural history and hunting wildlife including a chapter on tigers, and chapters dedicated to bison shooting and hog hunting. Campbell further describes his impressions of Goa, Dharwar, and Bangalore, and his excursions to the Neilgherry Hills, Machilipatnam, and more.
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