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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 203 pages. Pictorial hardcover with a dust jacket. Large format. 12" x 11.75". Profusely illustrated. Rigby's story is the story of colonial adventure, of the world's most famous big-game hunters and their rifles. The authors bring Rigby owners Jim Corbett, W.D.M. Bell, Field Marshal Mannerheim, the Maharana of Udaipur, and others to life in rich detail. Extensively illustrated and including a thorough treatment of the development of the technology behind Rigby rifles and ammunition, this book provides substantial insight into the people, adventures, and rifles behind big-game hunting in the early 20th century. "Whether you were a sportsman, civil servant, subaltern, or tea planter, you wanted a good rifle if you were headed out to the colonies. From the height of British imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through its demise in Asia, Africa, and beyond in the twentieth, John Rigby & Co, an elite cadre of gunmakers working at the heart of Britain's empire, crafted some of the finest sporting rifles and guns ever made." An outstanding reference book. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in Fine condition with only light use.

1st Edn. xi 196+ pages, landscape 4to., finely illustrated in colour and b/w from photographs, drawings etc., pictorial laminated cover, a vg+ copy in dj, dj has 2cm closed tear to base of spine. Much on the big game hunter and their rifles including Jim Corbett, W D M Bell etc, with some excellent period photographs.