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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Meinertzhagen (Col. R.)

KENYA DIARY 1902 – 1906

Published: Oliver and Boyd Ltd., Edinburgh, 1957

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $75

Approximately:

Estimate: $100/125

Bidding opens: 16 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 23 Jan 16:30 GMT

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347 pages, 34 plates, maps, brown cloth spine gilt, dust jacket preserved in a protector, a very good copy.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 - 1999, Page 193, 'The author recounts his early service in Kenya, Uganda and Rhodesia, meetings with Lord Delamere amd Tippoo Tib, the famous slave trader, among others. He also did quite a bit of hunting in the region. “When I arrived in the country I was obsessed by an unashamed bloodlust. Hunting is man's primitive instinct and I indulged it to the full.”'

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 150mm)


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