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Auction #123 begins on 15 May 2025

Schillings (C. G.)

IN WILDEST AFRICA

Published: Harper Brothers, New York, 1907

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $45

Approximately:

Estimate: $65/85

Bidding opens: 15 May 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 22 May 16:30 GMT

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Published by Harper & Bros., New York & London, 1907 First edition (in one volume). 16+716 pages, 300+ photographs from the author. Half leather binding with gilt title to spine and raised bands to spine . Coloured endpapers. Internally fine. A fresh copy. 

Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" 

  • Binding Condition: Near fine
  • Overall Condition: Near Fine
  • Size: Large 8vo


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