Sale 19JJ03 | Lot 207

JOHNSON, ISAAC CHARLES, Jr. Sport on the Blue Nile; or, Six Months of a Sportsman's Life in Central Africa.

Catalogue: Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

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Lot 207
JOHNSON, ISAAC CHARLES, Jr. Sport on the Blue Nile; or, Six Months of a Sportsman's Life in Central Africa.
London: Robert Banks & Son, 1903. First edition. Publisher's green cloth with mounted photographic illustration of a lion, gilt-lettered, recased. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; viii, 256 pp.; frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Recased, preserving much of the original spine, some wear to extremities, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown.
"A relatively scarce African big game title, this presents Isaac Johnson's travels through the Sudan armed with a .303 Martini-Metford carbine as his firearm of choice" (Czech). Johnson bagged crocodile, hippopotamus, elephant, reedbuck, roan, leopard, and lion.


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Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT