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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Barclay (Edgar N.)

BIG GAME SHOOTING RECORDS (Presentation copy)

Together with biographical notes and anecdotes on the most prominent big game hunters of ancient and modern times illustrated from photographs

Published: H.F. & G. Witherby, London, 1932

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288 pages, frontispiece, 11 plates, original green cloth spine faded, light foxing on preliminary pages.

Presentation inscription by the author to H.W.L. Allot dated March 1932 on the front free end paper.

Czech (Kenneth) AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS 1785 -1999 Page 18: Barclay examines the major game of the world including Africa, with brief biographical notes concerning some of the most famous hunters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are chapters on elephant, rhino, buffalo and lion. Among the sportsmen in focus are James Sutherland, Arthur Neumann, W.D.M. Bell, Frederick Selous, William Finaughty, Petrus Jacobs and Roualeyn Gordon Cumming and others.

  • Size: 8vo (220 x150mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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