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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

Buxton (Edward North)

SHORT STALKS, Second Series

Comprising Trips in Somaliland, Sinai, The Eastern Desert of Egypt, Crete, The Carpathian Mountains, and Daghestan

Published: Edward Sandford, London, 1898

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $50/60

Bidding opens: 3 Oct 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Oct 16:30 GMT

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First Edition: 226 pages, numerous plates, lacks the two folding maps which were placed in pockets in the front and back covers of the cloth edition but were omitted when this copy was rebound in half morocco with marbled paper sides, bookplates on the front endpapers, some light foxing.

Czech (Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of Big Game Hunting Books 1785 – 1999, page 49: ‘In this continuation of his sporting adventures abroad, Buxton travelled to the Haud region of Somaliland, bagging oryx, both lesser and greater kudu, hartebeest, gazelle and other antelope species. The more interesting chapters in this work take place in the Carpathians of Central Asia.’

  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 160 mm)


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