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Baker (Samuel White). The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, half-title, 6 chromolithographic plates, 2 + 32 pp. advertisements, spotting to plate margins (and to image of final plate), a few spots and marks elsewhere, endpapers renewed, original green cloth, rubbed and marked, spine-ends refurbished, 8vo, together with: ibid. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, half-title, 6 chromolithographic plates, 24 pp. advertisements, light spotting to plate margins, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original green cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, rubbed and marked, 8vo, Pieris (Paulus Edward). Ceylon and the Hollanders 1658-1796, 1st edition, Tellippalai: American Ceylon Mission Press, 1918, frontispiece, folding map, original cloth, slightly marked, 8vo, Ferguson (John). Ceylon in the "Jubilee Year", 3rd edition ('revised, enlarged, and brought down to date'), London: John Haddon and Co., 1887, 3 plates including frontispiece, folding map (with closed tear), original pictorial cloth, spine rolled, 8vo, Nicholas (Samuel Ernest N.). Commercial Ceylon, 1st edition, Colombo: The Times of Ceylon Company, Limited, 1933, 19 plates including frontispiece, 2 folding maps (one with closed tear), folding tables, advertisements, original cloth, 8vo, and 5 others on Sri Lanka (not collated), original cloth: Cave, The Book of Ceylon, 1908; Knox, An Historical Relation of Ceylon, 1911; Corner, Ceylon, 1908; Bremer, Memoirs of a Ceylon Planter's Travels 1851 to 1921, 1930; St. Nihal Singh, Ceylon: New and Old, 1928 (Qty: 10) Abbey Travel 415 (Baker, Eight Years); Czech Asia pp. 19-20 (Baker, both works). The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon is Baker's first book, and 'a cornerstone in the Asian big-game hunting library' (Czech).