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Hunting trophy showing tigers and an elephant, made by Rowland Ward for the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London

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Identifier: sportsmansbritis00lyde (find matches)
Title: The sportsman's British bird book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Rowland Ward
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e ^3 : 3s. net. Big Game Shooting in Alaska. By Captain R. E. R.^uci.yme (Reserve of officers, late1st Life (i\i.ird.s;. With lMrly-(i\e Illustrations from Photographs, and Map. Imperial 8vo.Price 2IS. net. Elephant and Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malay States. Iy Theodoke H. I Iini;.\rK. With llliisirations. Price los. 6d. net The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet. Being a New and Revised I.ilition of The (ireal ami Small Gaiiu- nf India, Burma, and Tibet. HyR. LvDEKKKK. With Sixty-eight Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price i8s. net. A Trip to Pllawin. The Deer-Park of Count Joseph Potocki in \olhynia, Russia. Byk. LvDi.KKi.K. With Illustrations. Price6s.net. The Game Animals of Africa. Being a Revised Eflition of The Great and .Small (Jameof Africa. With Iifteen full-page and Ninety-three le.\t figures. Small crown 4I0. Irice25s. net. London: ROWLAND WARD. Limitkd THK JUNGLE, 167 IlCCADlLLV IlIOTOGKAIHED FKOM OMC OK THK SCENES AT INDIAN AM) COI.OMAI, EXHl HITKJN, 1886.
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COPYRIGHT THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION, 1886 THE JUNGLE ■ But everything else here is lii<ely to be forgotten in the presence of the wonderful jungle scenewhich Mr. Rowland Ward has constructed. . . . This will certainly be the first of the manyattractions to which visitors will turn. . . . On the right we have a trophy the most prominent feature of which is a tiger hunt \djoining this arc trophies designed to represent generally the Fauna and Flora of India, by representative animals and birds, picturesquely grouped inillustration of their life-habits.—Tintcs. The visitors . . . were lost in admiration of Mr. Rowland Wards masterly designs, modellings,and general arrangement. . . . The deep grass jungle is occupied necessarily by many creatureswhich would not in their native wilds be found in such close companionship. . . . The scene isrendered with true magic power.—Daily AWt.f. These numerous beasts . . . seem to illustrate the Fauna of India in a most vivid manner,

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  • bookid:sportsmansbritis00lyde
  • bookyear:1908
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Lydekker__Richard__1849_1915
  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds____Great_Britain
  • booksubject:Birds____Great_Britain
  • bookpublisher:London___Rowland_Ward
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:650
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
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