Digital Rare Book:
The Ivory King : A popular history of the elephant and its allies
By Charles Frederick Holder
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, London - 1902
Watercolour with pen and ink of the taming of a wild elephant in a large wooden arena at Amarapura from 'A Series of Views in Burmah taken during Major Phayre?s Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855' by Colesworthy Grant. This album consists of 1...
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Digital Rare Book:
The Wild Elephant and the method of capturing and taming it in Ceylon.
By James Emerson Tennent
Published by Longmans, Green & Co, London - 1867
Photograph of a group of elephants lined up in a compound at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, taken by an unknown photographer in c.1911, from the Nawab of Rampur's presentation album. The album was presented to the India Office by the Festival of Empire in November 1911....
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