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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Kearton (Cherry) & Barnes (James)

THROUGH CENTRAL AFRICA, FROM EAST TO WEST

Published: Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, 1915

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283 pages, colour frontispiece, 8 photogravure plates, 160 illustrations from photographs by Kearton, folding map, original black cloth gilt titled and decorated on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt. The folding map has been carelessly folded, the cloth is insect scarred and the slow hinge is splitting but is holding firmly. Contents bright.

Not a book about hunting but a pioneering journey to East Africa in quest of photographs of game.

  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (245 x 175 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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