SPORTS OF THE WORLD. With Illustrations from Drawings and Photographs. Edited by F.G. Aflalo, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. In one volume.

1903 1st edition. 4to (210 x 285mm). Ppviii,416. B/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Half-leather, black leather over dark green boards, marbled end-papers. .

Covers a huge range of sports from a section on lion hunting by F.C. Selous to roller-skating through to military sports in India. Other chapters include; pike fishing in Ireland, red deer of Hungary, fox hunting in the provinces, continental shooting dogs, pheasant shooting in coverts, woodcock shooting at Constantinople, ferrets, rabbits and dogs, sea-fishing in Australia, barbel fishing, trotters and trotting in England, cliff-climbing for birds' nests, a wild day in the west of Scotland, the ways of the black bass, Japanese fencers and archers, whippet racing: a working man's sport, hunting with the cheetah and rook hawking by Gerald Lascelles.