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[INDIA-TRAVEL & HUNTING] Manuscript record of the travels and hunting adventures of Giles Graeme. Ferozepore: 1867-1869. Three volumes, notebooks in octavo and small folio, the first bound in full calf, the latter pair in calf-backed marbled boards. Several hundred pages legibly written in black ink on blue paper, the first volume with inserted photographs and drawings, drawings on the rear endpaper of the second, the third with an order for supplies from the Maharajah of Cashmere tipped-in, with his seal, as well as some drawings. Bindings quite worn, internally clean, mailing labels on front covers (these were apparently all mailed at the time to various recipients in the U.K.). Collection of Mikhail Baskhanov, with his bookplates. An exceedingly interesting account of travels on the Indian sub-continent, including much time spent in Cashmere. The first volume notes that Graeme (an officer in the 8th Fusiliers) wrote this account "to wile away a few hours for an old and blind gentleman" but this is a far more compelling account than perhaps those words would indicate! The first volume describes a hunting trip taken to Cashmere from 16th April to the 14th October, and contains a number of crude (though amusing) drawings, as well as some tipped-in photographs of the period. The 1868 travels begin July 12th, with the account written in Ferozepore (Firozpur) in November 1868. The final volume recounts Graeme's journey, again to Cashmere, beginning on July 18th of 1869, and appears to have also been written in Autumn of that year. A lengthy and engaging account of travels in the Cashmere region, over a three-year period, with precise day-to-day accounts of everything from food eaten to animals shot. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson