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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Foà (Edouard)

AFTER BIG GAME IN CENTRAL AFRICA

Published: Adam & Charles Black, London, 1899

Edition: First English Edition

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Records of a sportsman from August 1894 to November 1897, when crossing the dark continent from the mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo.

Translated from the French with an introduction by Frederic Lees With 71 illustrations and a sketch map showing route 

First English edition. 330 pages, frontispiece portrait, 29 plates, 36 text illustrations, new marbled end papers, rebound in full brown leather, titled gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, a very good copy.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth P.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 1999, page 98: Foà, a Frenchman, hunted from coast to coast across central Africa with numerous sporting episodes, After a lengthy dissertation on choosing a rifle and cartridge, the author proceeds to describe his hunts for buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard and other game in the Chiromo district. He continued to hunt elephant and hippopotamus as he travelled westward in 1895 into Barotseland. Entering the Congo, he bagged a wide variety of antelope as well as buffalo, and more elephant. Among his trophies was an enormous elephant sporting tusks at 114.5 pounds each.

  • Overall Condition: A very good copy
  • Size: 8vo (230 x160mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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