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Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson[INDIA] — LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROGER LLOYD KENNION"Shikar," a group of hunting diaries, accompanied by photography and ephemera. [India, ca. 1883-1900] 5 volumes, small 4to (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; 215 x 172 mm). Manuscript diaries, accomplished in two different hands in black and purple in, with approximately 145 albumen and silver gelatin prints (from 3 x 2 1/4 in.; 76 x 55 mm, to 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 196 x 132 mm), mostly mounted on diary leaves; some minor toning and foxing. Full brown calf, four of which bound by Newman & Co. of Calcutta, covers embossed in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; overall rubbed, corners bumped, some loss to calf. [With]: A group of additional related photography and ephemera, to include a gun maker's label from J. & W. Tolley, newspaper clippings, postcards with hunting tallies, correspondence from the taxidermist J.F. Snuggs & Co., a letter from O.E.C. Nicolls on War Office stationery, etc. A trove of hunting narratives and related photography and ephemera The present diaries offer a more technical chronicle of game bagged on the left-hand page, and on the right, a diary account of each hunting expedition. The diaries are by and large the work of Kennion, but on occasion is would seem that his wife contributes as well. Kennion was an officer in the British Indian Army and travel writer. He entered the Central India Horse in 1890, and joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893. He served in Kashmir, Gilgit, and Leh before being appointed Consul for the Districts of Seistan and Kain in Iran in 1907. Ultimately, he was made Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. He then went on to publish Sport and life in the further Himalaya (1910), and By Mountain, lake, and plain: being sketches of sport in eastern Persia (1911).Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The