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Lot 451
[NIGHTINGALE, GEOFFREY, Captain] Journal of Shikar from 13th February-to 31st May, 1851.
--manuscript account. Likely Hyderbad: 1851. Original light blue self wrappers, titled as indicated above. 8 x 6 1/2 inches (20 x 16 cm); 28 ff. (including covers, written in dark brown ink on blue paper in a neat and reasonably legible English cursive hand of the period; accompanied by an envelope containing a letter to Nightingale, and a list of horses and trophies. Light wear, toning, wrappers partially split along spine.
Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Geoffrey Nightingale was the commandant of the 3rd Cavalry at Hyderabad. He is commemorated by a monument near Tilford in Surrey. He was a well-known Indian sportsman, see (for example) the account of his extensive tiger hunting in Hamilton's Records of Sport in Southern India. This journal covers Nightingale's extensive shikar from Kolapoor, including much pig-sticking, tiger hunting etc.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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