GUN AND CAMERA IN SOUTHERN AFRICA;

A YEAR OF WANDERINGS IN BECHUANALAND, THE KALAHARI DESERT, AND THE LAKE RIVER COUNTRY, NGAMILAND, WITH NOTES ON COLONISATION, NATIVES, NATURAL HISTORY AND SPORT.

xiv, 544 pages, photographic frontispiece, 23 plates, several illustrations in the text and a folding map. Decorative endpapers, front free endpaper bears an inscription by a previous owner. Original grey cloth with black titling and a vignette of a zebra’s head on the upper cover and gilt titling on spine. The cloth is soiled and with some light stains, frayed at the top and bottom of the spine and corners bumped. Front hinge is split and the binding is loose, light foxing on the tissue guards of the plates, the map and pages adjacent to map.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 24/25, ‘Bryden traveled through Bechuanaland, hunting antelope and small game, crossed the Kalahari Desert, then hunted giraffe near Lake Ngami. Upon reaching the Botletli River plains, Bryden’s group bagged zebra, wildebeest, lechwe, and other game. Recrossing the Kalahari, the expedition took trophy eland. There is a further chapter on the distribution of large game.’