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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Bell (Walter Dalrymple Maitland)

THE WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER

Published: Country Life, London, 1923

Edition: First Edition

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First edition. ix,188 pages, frontispiece, 86 illustrations many from sketches by the author, mustard yellow buckram spine gilt, brown paper-covered boards with cloth title label gilt inset on the upper cover, foxing on the page edges, a very good copy in a worn and torn dust jacket.

Czech (Kenneth) Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 -1999, page 23 -24: Bell's first book, detailing his early elephant hunting days in the Karamojo region where the "Karamojan elephants are distinguished for their bodily size, the quality and size of their ivory and for the quantity of fat on them." He also narrates his hunting expeditions through the Sudd, into the Lado Enclave and the interior of Liberia in the decade preceding World War I. This work is further distinguished by the author's sketches of hunting elephant and their vital areas. He was, of course, a great proponent of small bore rifle shooting for elephant, killing them with carefully placed shots at close range.

  • Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
  • Size: small 4to (260 x 200 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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