Evans Vety Capt (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Rangoon: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Burma, 1901, Third Edition. Full leather binding with a repaired spine attached to the original leather boards, most likely bound in India, with a blind stamped image of an elephant and other blind stamped decoration to the corners. With 36 illustrations (some with 3 or 4 to a page) bound in at the rear of the volume, the last few illustrations bound in the wrong order but complete. Pagination: 262pp with 21 pages of 36 Illustrations, vii Index. Provenance: inscription of F Desmond Little to the front end paper, Certificate of Registration of Firearms (Burma) in the same name loosely inserted. Approximately 10 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles to black label. Joints very good condition repaired. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition full leather boards with blind stamped decoration to the boards, elephant to the centre of both boards, marks and wear. Page edges very good condition all red, top edges slightly darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound and strong, repaired. Paste downs good condition brown. End papers good condition brown end papers. Title good condition gently tanned. Pages good condition gently tanned with some foxing. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1901 Binding: Hardback.

Rangoon, Authority, Government Printing Burma, 1901. 8vo. Later dark brown half morocco over brick cloth; raised bands on spine with lettering and ornamentation in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. [ii], 5, iii, 262, [17], vii; with 4 photographic plates, and 17 plates after drawings; with a tipped-in printed note from the author at the start of chapter 1; Royal Asiatic Society stamp to title-page, overstamped as 'Sold'; even light discolouration to paper-stock; a few light spots to outer edge; unobtrusive pencil inscriptions; a very good copy on this rare work of a practical guide to elephant health. Third edition. Evans notes in the Preface that this text is a revision of the earlier work on elephants originally written by Mr J. Slymm, Deputy Conservator of Forests in Burma. The text moves from detailing general information about elephants and their habits, into specific diseases and parasites that can infect them, with a number of remedies and treatments for such ailments. The tipped-in slip makes an appeal to readers of the guide, asking 'to assist by kindly favouring with careful notes on cases, specimens of parasites, &c., in order that, should it be found desirable to bring out another edition, it may be more complete.'.

Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Collation, 262,VIIpp, engravings complete as listed. Bound in modern buckram, cloth, with gilt title lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed and bumped on corners, library mark on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, no loose pages, no writing, library bookplate on fixed endpaper, 3 library stamps on verso of title page, ( i,e not the printed side ), no other library stamps or marks. Pages in very good clean condition. This copy was in reserve stock, not on the lending list. A good clean copy of a rare work.8990.A24 Size: 8vo.