Author: EHA [Edward Hamilton Aitken]
Title: A Naturalist on the Prowl or in the Jungle
Description: London, W. Thacker & Co. 1894. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated commentary of the flora and fauna of India. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighty in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of accounts of the author's time spent in India, with reference to the flora and fauna n the Western Ghats region. Includes chapters on the king cobra, the banian tree, tillers of the soil, caterpillars, monkeys, and more. Written by Edward Hamilton Aitken, a British civil servant in India, known for his humorist writings on natural history and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of EHA. Illustrated by Robert Armitage Sterndale, a British naturalist, artist, writer and statesman who worked in British India before becoming governor general of St. Helena. With publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Previous owner's bookplate and bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: Robert Armitage Sterndale. Very Good .

Keywords: Naturalist Prowl EHA Aitken Prowl Robert Armitage Sterndale


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