Wild Life in China or Chats on Chinese Birds and Beasts

by George Lanning

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. xvi, 255 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth. Bookplate of C.J.G. Hill. Czech, Asia, p. 123. Item #317378 There are two interesting chapters on Chinese field sports, with sections on tiger, leopard and a few other species of big game. The appendix contains a discussion of Chinese big game by noted plant hunter Frank Kingdon Ward Czech .

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