Antiquarian Book
Monday, 11 - Wednesday, 27 September 2023
"Silver Hackle" - Man-Eaters And Other Denizens Of The Indian Jungle
Estimate $100 - $200
Realised: $75 plus premium
Lot Details
Thacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta & Simla, first edition, 1928, illustrated with photographs and sketches by the author and of heads mounted by Messrs Van Ingen and Van Ingen, Taxidermists of Mysore, pictorial green cloth. The authors real name was Albert George Shuttleworth and the book tells tales of hunting tigers, leopards, bison and other game from the Himalayas to the Southern Indian jungles of Mysore with much on the Shikari & other native peoples. Scarce.
