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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Schillings (C.G.)

IN WILDEST AFRICA

Translated by Frederic Whyte with over 300 photographic studies direct from the author's negatives taken by day and night; and other illustrations

Published: Hutchinson & Co., London, 1907

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2 volumes: 716 pages – continuous pagination, frontispiece portrait, numerous illustrations, brown pictorial cloth, spine gilt, both volumes coming loose at front hinge and lacking the free endpaper in volume 2, the contents printed on coated paper is are bright.

Czech (Kenneth) AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS 1785 -1999 Page 247: In his second work on photographing and hunting game in East Africa, Schillings captures the essence of the African landscape and its people with his brilliant, early snapshots. The first volume concerns a general view of the region, with a brief history of the encroachment of civilization on the African wild and an interesting, if oddly placed chapter on sport and nature in Germany. Volume two includes chapters on hunting elephant, rhino, and lion with additional sport after leopard, eland and other antelope. There is a remarkable photograph of the extraordinary pair of elephant tusks weighing a combined 450 pounds.

  • Size: 4to (250 x180mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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