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[FINAUGHTY, WILLIAM] William Finaughty. Recollections of William Finaughty Elephant Hunter, 1864-1875.
Philadelphia: Press of J. B. Lippincott Company for George L. Harrison, [1916]. First edition, one of 250 copies. Publisher's brown cloth backstrip over boards, printed paper label on front board and spine. 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches (21 x 14 cm); 242 pp. Spine somewhat darkened, some wear to spine label, some minor wear and soiling to covers; internally a clean copy. Bookplate of Thomas Barbour.
The book was published by George L. Harrison, who had (as he states in the preface) employed one of Finaughty's sons in Northwestern Rhodesia. This account is one of the finest accounts of African hunting before the decimation of the elephant population; Selous states that Finaughty stopped hunting elephant due to their dwindling numbers before Selous himself arrived in Africa. According to Czech, one of the rarest big game hunting works, with copies given to noteworthy sportsmen including Theodore Roosevelt. The owner of this copy, Thomas Barbour, was Director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for many years, and a prodigious traveler. Czech, African Big Game, p. 95.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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