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Author: GIBBONS A.St.H.

Title: Exploration And Hunting In Central Africa 1895-96

Price: £520.00

Year: 1898

Edition: 1st Edn,

Publisher: Methuen

Summary: xi - 408 pages, 48pp adverts, the adverts dated 1901 as all copies we have handled, 8 full page illus by C Whymper, 25 photographs and map, some light spotting to title page and offsetting from newspaper cutting relating to Gibbon's career there is also a loose page obituary of Gibbons. Armorial bookplate of William Nathaniel Fraser to front paster down. A vg copy in the original blue cloth with gilt hunting scene to upper board, the cloth clean and bright. Captain Gibbons hunted in Barotseland for about 10 months, and he gives full description of the regions of the Upper Zambesi, and related episodes of hunting buffalo, lion, roan, eland, wildebeest etc. Mendelssohn 594, Czech 105

Ref: 22282

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