The Hunter's Arcadia

"A trek through Bechuanaland ... with some incidents of hunting leopard, springbok and kudu."

First edition.  8vo; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, with gilt springhare to upper cover and gilt leopard to spine; pp. xvi + 300; plates.  Corners bumped; backstrip fragile, frayed at extremities, with a little loss at head, starting at tail of lower joint (with archival tape strengthening); slight scar from removed bookplate to front pastedown; hinges a little tender; some leaves (as often) brittle at gutters, particularly at plates' mounting points; occasional discreet archival tape strengthening; two small library stamps in text.  Good.  (Czech, p. 106; Hosken, p. 81; Mendelssohn I, p. 603)  

"A trek through Bechuanaland mostly after small game and birds, but with some incidents of hunting leopard, springbok and kudu.  Gillmore speaks highly of his Tolley .500-bore rifle." - Kenneth Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999.  

'Sketches of sporting adventures in Bechuanaland.  Mr. Gillmore remarks, "If there is an Eden on the face of this earth it is 'Kooruman' - 'Kooruman,' that has been represented by Moffat and Mackenzie as a residence unfit for white men, and only one grade better than the Sahara Desert."  The work possesses some notes on the flora and fauna of the country, more especially with regard to the game animals, birds and ferae generally, and there are a number of interesting illustrations, together with hints to sportsmen intending to hunt in this part of South Africa.' - Mendelssohn I