Lot 117
  • 117

Landseer, Thomas, and Philip Charles Trench

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Description

  • Tiger Hunting; or A Day's Sport in the East. London: Hodgson & Graves, 1836
  • Paper, ink, leather
Folio (23 1/4 x 17 in.; 590 x 430 mm). 4 vibrantly hand-colored engravings by Thomas Landseer after drawings by Philip Trench, accompanying descriptive text; some closed tears to margins, foxing, plates rebacked. Full morocco ruled in gilt, gilt-lettering to upper cover, gilt-patterned endpapers; spine rebacked, corners repaired, edges rubbed. 

Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION of a rare volume of four exceptional illustrations of tiger hunting. Philip Trench was stationed with the Bengal Civil Service in Calcutta, and Thomas Landseer was one of the finest animal engravers of the period. The images here richly and vividly detail a hunt on elephant-back through the jungles near the holy city of Hardiwar.  

OCLC: one copy at Yale University; Copac: one copy at the British Library