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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Wolverton (Lord Frederick Glyn)

FIVE MONTHS' SPORT IN SOMALI LAND

Published: Chapman and Hall, London, 1894

Edition: First Edition

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With illustrations from photographs by Colonel Paget

First edition.108 pages, 20 plates, text illustrations, folding map, brown bevelled cloth boards, titled gilt with a small gilt vignette of a lion on the upper cover, spine gilt and starting to fray at the top and the bottom, lightly bumped corners, foxing on the top edge, a good copy.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 – 1999, page 307: Wolverton details his lion hunting episodes through the Ogaden and near the Webbi Shabeyli, when not confronting recalcitrant bearers. He also hunted oryx, kudu, gazelle and crocodile. The illustrations by Arthur Paget are particularly vivid.

  • Overall Condition: A Good Copy
  • Size: 8vo (240 x 160 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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  • Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA


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