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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Various authors

African Hunting Reprint Series

Published: Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, 1980-1991

Edition: Reprint

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Facsimile reprint edition. All volumes have been bound in elephant skin with top edge gilt, raised bands and gilt lettering to the spine. All in very good condition. Includes:

Vol 1 and Vol 2 - A Hunter's Life in South Africa by R.Gordon Cumming in two volumes. Facsimile reprint of the 1850 edition. xvii, xv, 388p and 381p. Illustrations and map.

Vol 3 - The Recollections of an Elephant Hunter 1864-1875 by William Finaughty. Reprint of the 1916 edition. 244p, frontispiece, illustrations, sketch map.

Vol 4 - African Hunting and Adventure by William Charles Baldwin. Reprint of the 1863 edition. xii, x, 451p. frontispiece, illustrations and fold-out map.

Vol 5 - A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa by Frederick Courteney Selous. Reprint of the 1881 edition. ix, 455p, frontispiece, fold-out map and illustrations.

Vol 6 - Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa by Arthur H.Neumann. Reprint of the 1898 edition. x, 455p, frontispiece, illustrations, fold-out map.

Vol 7 - Trekking the Great Thirst: Sport and Travel in the Kalahari Desert by Arnold W.Hodson. Reprint of the 1912 edition. xvi, 359p, frontispiece, illustrations and 4 maps.

Vol 8 - Hunting the Elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years wandering by Captain C.H.Stigand. Reprint of the 1913 edition. xxi, xv, 379p, frontispiece, illustrations, fold-out table of measurements.

Vol 9 - The Wild Sports of Southern Africa by Captain William Cornwallis Harris. Reprint of the 1844 edition. xvi, 359p, frontispiece, colour plates, fold-out map.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good


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