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2023x-1032211067Routledge 2023. Hardcover. New. 206 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.64 inches. Routledge hardcover
21710All the manuscipt records pasted into the volume apart from 15 of the later records which are typescript and pasted in. On 51 light card leaves the remainder blank. Some damp marking/browning to blank margins the glue used to paste at the margins has discoloured and occasionally damaged where used. With a charming watercolour frontispiece and decorative watercolour title-page blank margins of these discoloured. Folio 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Contemporary full black bevelled morocco; lettered in gilt all edges gilt; very good. Weight 4.5 kg thus extra overseas shipping will be requested. unknown
2025x-1032869569Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. 248 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. Routledge hardcover
2026x-3032216532Springer Nature Switzerland Ag 2026. Paperback. New. 399 pages. 6.10x0.91x9.25 inches. Springer Nature Switzerland Ag paperback
21711<p>Descriptive of the game shot in India South Africa British East Africa Rhodesia & Nepal. The left hand pre-printed page has columns for Date Members of the Shooting Party and Place. The other columns are headed as to game shot and are for:Tiger:Leopard:Bear:Sambue:Chettal:Antelope:Boar:Geese:Duck:Partridge:Snipe: & Quail. Two colums heading are left blank for any other species one has bagged e.g Elephant Crocodile or Python. The facing page is for "Remarks" i.e comments on the day's sport e.g. "The Tiger measured after death 9 feet 9 inches was shot with a 500 Express" - "Python about 10 feet long" - "One Tiger has 3 unborn Cubs" - "Was charged by Cow Bison" - etc. The total for 1930 alone was 2089 head including 3 Tiger 7 Cheetah 1434 Duck & 438 Snipe and for another year 999 head including 1 Rhinoceros 1 Leopard 2 Crocodile & 5 Bears.Leather presentation label on front pastedown lettered in gilt "Presented to the Officers of 3rd King's Own Hussars by Lieutenant H. S. Laverton".Suitably and extravagantly bound in full polished crocodile with large hallmarked silver corners to the upper cover and the Regimental crest in silver mounted to the upper cover. The pre-printed leaves and the binding by Webster & Compy 60 Piccadilly London.18 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Upper outer joint cracked but firm one inner gutter cracked with the result that 5-leaves have worked loose. A splendid example of a military game book.The pre-printed leaves and the binding by Webster & Compy 60 Piccadilly London.</p><p>Colonel H. S. Laverton died in December 1958 at the age of 85.He joined the 3rd Hussars in 1895 at Aldershot and went with them to India in 1898.<br />He accompanied the Regiment to South Africa in 1901 and became Adjutant in the same year. After the South African War the Regiment went back to India but returned to South Africa in 1907 when Laverton commanded "A" Squadron. He came back to England with the Regiment in 1911 retired in 1913 and went to Kenya.<br />During the Great War he commanded a battalion of the King's African Rifles and was made O.B.E. He retired again in 1918. Vide QRH Museum</p> hardcover
200162721Galleries. New. 2001. Paperback. 0919153704 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 80 pp. With 42 ills. 32 col. . 29 x 21 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Galleries paperback
201088612Museum; Et Al. New. 2010. Hardcover. 092081087X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 128 pp. ; 58 illus. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum; Et Al hardcover