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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Kearton (Cherry)

WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD

Published: Hodder and Stoughton, London, No date (1913)

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Written and Illustrated by Cherry Kearton. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.

xvii + 286 pages, frontispiece, 91 plates, original blue cloth gilt. The cloth is very lightly insect scarred, contents bright.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, page 148, ‘While primarily a work of wildlife photography, there are exciting moments of hunting rhinoceros and lion in British East Africa. The also did the photographic work for the ‘Buffalo’ Jones safari to lasso big game (two chapters) and accompanied Masai hunters on a lion spearing expedition.’

  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: : 8vo (255 x 190 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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