Records of big game . with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements of the different species.
Rowland Ward (1848 - 1912)
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3131546.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii,[1], 495,[1] p. [1] leaf of plates . ill.. . 25cm.. Cutting and photo of rhino "shot by C. in Nepal ... now at Kedleston" inserted at p.438; plate of tiger loosely inserted at end. Typescript letter requesting information from Lord Curzon on shoots carried out with the "Old Maharajah", from his biographer F.G. Aflalo, inserted at front endpaper. Provenance: manuscript inscription in blue pencil: "Curzon 1903 [i.e.: George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925)] vide p.438 468" [references to animals shot by Curzon]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full navy cloth; as issued.
Makers and roles
Rowland Ward (1848 - 1912)