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Auction #121 begins on 27 Feb 2025

Maugham (R. C. F.)

WILD GAME IN ZAMBEZIA

With map and illustrations

Published: John Murray, London, 1914

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $75

Approximately:

Estimate: $100/125

Bidding opens: 27 Feb 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 6 Mar 16:30 GMT

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First edition xii, 376 pages, frontispiece, 27 photographic plates, folding map, blue cloth boards, titled gilt on the upper cover and spine - which is wearing along the edges, uncut fore-edge and bottom edge, top edge gilt, slight foxing on the page edges, a very good copy.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 - 1999, page 185 - 186: The author, a renowned writer, sportsman and British diplomat, describes various types of game and hunting conditions in Mozambique primarily north of the Zambesi River. He includes his own hunts after elephants, rhino buffalo, lion, hippo and a variety of antelopes, with lengthy chapters on equipment, game preserves and tsetse fly.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (230 x150mm)


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