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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Dickinson, Captain F. A.

Lake Victoria to Khartoum With Rifle & Camera

Published: John Lane, London and New York, 1910

Edition: First Edition

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Dickinson provides details of where to hunt the major game of the Uganda southern Sudan region, from the highlands to the Sudd of the Nile. He served as Winston Churchill s escort from Lake Victoria to Gondokoro and includes two chapters on elephant hunting, with additional sport after rhino, antelopes, etc. Original red cloth with blind rules and bright gilt titles on upper board, gilt spine titles a little dulled but quite legible. Original endpapers, front inner hinge starting, rear inner hinge firm and tight. Well illustrated with photo plates. This copy from the private library of the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, with their bookplate on the front pastedown, and a sympathetic cloth swatch covering the spine numbers.

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: Thick octavo
  • Sold By: Classic Arms Books
  • Contact Person: Ken Czech
  • Country: United States
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