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A SCARCE COPY OF 'THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS OF BIG GAME SHOOTING IN COOCH BEHAR, THE DUARS, AND ASSAM - A ROUGH DIARY', BY THE MAHARAJAH OF COOCH BEHAR,
first edition, 1908, Bombay, printed at the Times Press, with a hand-written dedication to Henry St. John Kneller dated March 1909, with velvet-bound cover, the front with the Cooch Behar crest.
The book details the Maharajah of Cooch Behar's hunting adventures between 1871 and 1907 and is accompanied by a variety of newspaper clippings from the period detailing information regarding the Maharajah, including various philanthropic endeavours, and is also accompanied by an assortment of personal correspondence between the Maharajah and Mr St. John Kneller describing various aspects of life of the period
Provenance: Research would indicate that Henry St. John Kneller was the tutor of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, and a guardian to the Maharajah's two sons. The book has some inserted, hand-written notes and memos in the hand of Mr St. John Kneller and the Maharajah which add some background information to the events described in the book.
Colonel H.H. Maharaja Shri Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, GCIE, (4 October 1862 - 18 September 1911) was Maharaja of the princely state of Cooch Behar, India from 1863 till 1911.
In the appendix of this book he dedicates a section specifically to his guns and rifles and towards the end he references his pair of .500 Cordite rifles by Holland & Holland which 'have never been out of order or given any trouble', earlier rating Holland & Holland "With regard to makers of rifles, I consider Messrs Holland & Holland second to none". The pair Holland & Holland rifles described in this book were sold through these Auction Rooms in December 2018, as Lot 1220
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Estimate £1,000-1,500