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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Széchenyi (Count Zsigmond)

LAND OF THE ELEPHANTS

Big Game Hunting in Kenya Tanganyika and Uganda

Published: Putnam, London, 1935

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $95

Approximately:

Estimate: $125/150

Bidding opens: 14 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Nov 16:30 GMT

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First English edition: 208 pages, frontispiece portrait, 47 black and white photographs, map, rebound in grey padded faux suede, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy.

Czech (K.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-199, page 278: Originally published in Hungary in 1934, this translation details a Hungarian nobleman's pursuit of elephant in the Kitui Forest and along the Tiva River in Kenya. He also hunted bongo near Mt. Kenya, kudu along the northern reaches of Lake Rudolph, leopard on the northern Guaso Nyiro and lion on the Serengeti Plain. He wrote other African hunting books which still await translation.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 160 mm)


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