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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Maydon (Major H.C.) Editor:

BIG GAME SHOOTING IN AFRICA. The Lonsdale Library, Volume XIV

Published: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., London, 1932

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First edition: 445 pages, frontispiece and many illustrations, map as endpapers, original fawn cloth, bookplate of I & F.W. Hosken on the half title page and another bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper, a good copy in frayed and tape-repaired dust jacket.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, pages 187/8, ‘An essential title in the African big game library, this work calls on the talents of numerous African sportsmen as contributors describing the hunting regions of the continent with attendant analysis of game animals and hunting methods. The contributors include Maydon; the Duke of Gloucester; R, Akroyd; G. Blaine; R.E. Drake-Brockman; P.H.P. Powell-Cotton; Stevenson Hamiltin; G.C. Swayne; H.F. Varian; and others.’

  • Jacket Condition: Poor
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (220 x 145 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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