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2nd. xx-350 pages, illustrated in colour from photographs + map b/w line drawings and photographs. Publishers' pictorial laminated covers a fine copy. This book deals with the preparation for the hunt, tracking, shot placement, the all-round rifle, emergencies, and field preparation of trophies. It includes information on measurement and records, hunting ethics and law issues.

Quarter Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. J. Smit (illustratore). Bound volume with the spine title "Papers on Monkeys" containing ten extracted papers from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London as follows: 1) The Secretary on Additions to the Menagerie. Feb. 15, 1881. Pp 258-259, Pl XXIX, Pithecia Albinasa; 2) The Secretary on Additions to the Menagerie. March 18, 1884. Pp 176, Pl XIV, Cercopithecus Martini; 3) Sclater, P. L. Note on Lemur macaco, and the way in which it carries its Young. June 16, 1885. Pp 672-673; 4) Keith, Arthur. On the Chimpanzees and Their Relationship to the Gorilla. March 7, 1899. Pp 296-312, Pl XX, Anthropopithecus Troglodytes Kooloo-Kamba; 5) November 15, 1892. The Secretary on Additions to the Menagerie. Pp 579-560, Pl XL, Cercopithecus Stairsi. 6) Sclatter, P. L. On a new African Monkey of the Genus Cercopithecus with a list of the known species. March 14, 1893. Pp 243-258, Pl XVI, Cercopithecus Schmidti and PL XVII, Cercopithecus Moloneyi; 7) Sclater, P. L. Additional Notes on the Monkeys of the Genus Ceropithecus. Pp 441-444, Pl XXXIII, Cercopithecus Brazzae; 8) Boulenger, G. A. The Seceretary on Additions to the Menagerie. November 4, 1902. Pp 225-226, Pl XVIII, Nasalis Larvatus 9) Candler, Geo. Notes on the Habits of the Hoolock. February 17, 1903. Pp 187-190. 10) Thomas, Oldfield. On a New Chinese Monkey. August 6, 1903. Pp 224-225, Pl XXI, Rhinopithecus Brelichi. There are a total of nine colored plates after J. Smit. Volume shows some rubbing on covers, mostly on spine. There is a previous owner's book plate on the front paste down. There is an open tear seen in the front free end leaf with archival taped repair. Extracts and plates are generally in Very good to Fine condition.