A Hunters Wanderings In Africa Being A Narrative Of Nine Years Spent Among The Game Of The Far Interior Of South Africa
Author:
SELOUS Frederick Courteney
Year:
1890
Edition:
2nd Edn,
Publisher:
Richard Bentley and Son
Summary:
xvii 455 pages, 19 full page and text illus by Miss A.B.Selous, J Smit and E Whymper. Large folding map of Central South Africa, book plate and booksellers' ticket to front paste down. The contents clean and free of foxing. Publishers' green cloth with 3 gilt antelope heads to the upper board, the cloth clean and bright, a vg+ copy of Selous first book. The first 3 editions published by Bentley are bound in green cloth and quite scarce. Selous travelled through Bechuanaland and Matabeleland, numerous hunting episodes, after lion black rhinoceros, buffalo, and elephant. A classic on African hunting' Czech 251 .
Ref:
22739
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