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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Chapman (Abel)

MEMORIES OF FOURSCORE YEARS LESS TWO 1851 - 1929

Published: Gurney and Jackson, London, 1939

Edition: First Edition

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With a memoir by George Bolam.

With many illustrations in the text by the author coloured and half tone plates by W.H. Ridell

First edition. xix, 257 pages, frontispiece, 24 coloured plates with tissue guards and captions, 3 black and white plates, numerous text illustrations, maps, uncut edges, original green cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in a worn dust jacket – a chip on the spine simply repaired and now preserved in a protector.

Czech (Kenneth)An Annotated Bibliography of Big Game Hunting Books 1785 - 1999 page 60: While not a hunting book per se, this volume relates Chapman's journeys through the Sudan. There are numerous references to other hunting books, and his observations of wild game are astute. The book is splendidly illustrated by W.H. Riddell's coloured plates.

  • Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 170 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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