Shikar Sketches with Notes on Indian Field-Sports by BROWN, J. Moray Published by Hurst and Blackett, London, 1887, (FIRST EDITION) octavo orig red cloth binding WITH ORIGINAL 4 PAGE LETTER TIPPED IN DATED 1891 & 1895 by COLONEL DAVID CORIE (Hero in 1879 ZULU War and Big Game Hunter) xv, 336, [24] p. 20 cm. 9 b&w plates. Red cloth hardcover with black and gold impressing. Darkened spine. Some soiling to covers. Occasional foxing. Signed in ink by CHARLES LeRoy on half-title page on a front endpaper. Occasional Knowledgeable marginalia in an old hand 39 p. section with Indian sporting songs and 24 p. section at rear with publisher's advertising. Includes a folded short story, The Man-Eater, by G. B. Burgin, as well as letters to the author, one from Park Hall, Oswestry.

The wonderful sporting memoirs of a soldier based in India in the late 1800s. Often shocking by today's standards, Brown's attitudes towards animals and the native population reflect his time period. Though he stresses he is no great sportsman ("There are many men who have made bigger bags and seen more of shikar than your humble servant"), Brown's lack of experience shows how widespread big game hunting was; one didn't need great wealth or skill to take part. He also discusses the use of natives as guides, local cooking and eating habits, and life as a British officer on duty in India, all providing insight into his time period.

The tipped in letter seems to address hunting issues, illness and the sudden death in an 1895 addendum of Colonel David Corie, etc.