Lot Details
Lot 120
DRAYSON, ALFRED W. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa.
London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. First edition. Publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt. 9 x x 5 3/4 inches; xiv, 327, 48 pp.; frontispiece and plates with tissue guards, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Recased preserving much of the original spine, some staining to cloth, endpapers renewed, foxing throughout.
"One of the earlier works on African sport, this details the author's hunting trip with a party of Boers through then mostly unsettled South Africa. In the plains near the Drakensburg Mountains, he hunted elephant, eland, hartebeest and leopard. He also provides descriptions of other game in the area, with much on the landscape and natives of old Kaffraria" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 85.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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