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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Bryden (H. Anderson)

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. With numerous illustrations and a map.

Published: Edward Stanford, London, 1893

Edition: First Edition

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First edition: 544 pages, frontispiece, 34 plates, folding map, pictorial grey cloth titled in black on upper cover with a vignette of the head of a zebra and gilt on the spine, starting to fray at the top and the bottom of the spine, uncut fore-edge and top edge, original patterned endpapers, bookplate on front free endpaper, bottom corners lightly bumped, a good copy.

Czech (Kenneth) An annotated bibliography of big game hunting books 1785 -1999: page 40: Bryden travelled though Bechuanaland hunting antelope and small game, crossed the Kalahari Desert, then hunted giraffe near Lke Ngami, Upon reaching the Botleti plains, Byrden’s group bagged Zebra, wildebeest, lechwe and other game. Recrossing the Kalahati expedition took trophy eland. There is a chapter on the distribution of large game.

  • Overall Condition: A Good Copy
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 155 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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