EHA [Edward Hamilton Aitken] — The Tribes on My Frontier

London, Thacker Spink & Co. 1884 . Cloth. A scarce second edition copy of this abundantly illustrated natural history work. The scarce second edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative green cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece, 7 plates, and in text illustrations throughout. With 32 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.A work by Edward Hamilton Aitken, a civil servant in India, better known for his humorist writings on natural history in India and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to extremities, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to spine. Marks to rear board. Hinges cracked. Internally, generally firmly bound, but fragile to the middle of the work. Pages 113- 144 disbound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot. Ink inscription to first blank. Good . Ill.: F.C. Macrae. Good .