Thirty Years of Shikar

1 volume. First edition 1895.

From the library of Lord Carew, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

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Publishers pictorial cover.

Gilt title and gilt tiger vignette.

Gilt title to spine.

Colour endpapers.

x, 373 pages, [2], 31 page publishers catalogue.

Frontispiece with tissue-guard.

Slight foxing.

Chapter initial vignettes and tailpieces.

Colour fold-out map at rear 32 x 50 cm.

[Folding map of sections of forest in the Nepal terrain showing

where tigers had been killed].

First edition of the memoirs of Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon,

KCMG (1829-1904) following his departure from India, where he had

been a government magistrate.  Includes account of his experiences in

the Santhal rebellion and in the Mutiny as magistrate in the Santhal co.

In 1878 he moved to Tasmania, becoming a member of Parliament in

1879. He later represented Tasmania on the Federal Council, the

predecessor to the Constitutional Conventions of the 1890's. He

was a member of the first Australian parliament in the House of

Representatives (at the age of 72 the oldest member ever elected up

to that time). He ultimately became the Premier of Tasmania, a post held

from 1894 to 1899. Braddon was the brother of the novelist Mary Elizabeth

Braddon. Both the suburb of Braddon in the Australian Capital Territory and

the Division of Braddon in Tasmania are named after him. 

Recorded shipping weight 1500g.

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