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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Denis D. Lyell

THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND ITS HUNTERS

Published: Heath Cranton, London, 1924

Edition: 1st

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Author's fourth book on hunting. Denis Lyell, a hunter with a long and practical experience of his subject gained in Nyasaland, North Eastern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa from 1898, has written the classic work on the subject. As well as discussing the elephant per se and elephant hunters themselves, there are interesting pages on ivory as a commodity which include various statistical tables.

Gilt title & elephant device on original red cloth boards. 221pp illustrated frontis & 12 plates. 8vo.

No inscriptions. newly recased with original boards and spine, new black eps, endpapers spotted else contents unmarked. an excellent, most attractive, and extremely sound copy.

Our Ref. #25013

  • Binding Condition: VG+
  • Overall Condition: VG+
  • Size: 225mm x 150mm x 0.6kg
  • Sold By: Fables Bookshop
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  • Country: South Africa
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