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Auction #135 begins on 12 Nov 2026

Roosevelt (Theodore)

AFRICAN GAME TRAILS (1st Edition)

Published: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1910

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $70

Approximately:

Estimate: $100 /150

Bidding opens: 12 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 19 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: United Kingdom

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1st Edition; 529pp; Numerous plates, photos, map, text photos & illustrations throughout. Good condition. 

Externally, original khaki-coloured publisher's cloth covered boards with gilt lettering stamped on the spine and upper board with gilt elephant silhouette profile decoration. Gilt top page edges , fore and lower edges untrimmed. Sunning to spine and covers with some stains/markings, and shelf wear to the extremities. 
 
Internally, the first few pages have some minor water stains at the top and bottom end with some exposed binding netting but binding is tight. Internally, some mild tanning to pages but no foxing and pages are clean and bright. 
 
Roosevelt's own account and famous work, on African big game hunting, chronicling the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition to collect specimens for the new Natural History Museum. He undertook the expedition after leaving office as President. 11,400 specimens were shipped back from the expedition and took Smithsonian naturalists over eight years to catalogue.
  illustrator Ronald Balfour
Photos provided reflect the condition in addition to the above description.
 
Size: 250mm x 17.5cm
 
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910
 
NB: This book will be shipped from Northern Ireland (UK) and will incur additional shipping & insurance costs. 
 
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 250mm x 17.5cm


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