Sale 19JJ03 | Lot 260

METHUEN, HENRY H. Life in the Wilderness; or Wanderings in South Africa.

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

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Lot 260
METHUEN, HENRY H. Life in the Wilderness; or Wanderings in South Africa.
London: Richard Bentley, 1846. First edition. Publisher's green cloth. 8 x 5 inches; xii, [1], 318 pp.; tinted lithographed frontispiece, 2 plain plates, in-text illustrations. Generally a bit worn with flaking at spine ends, spine sunned, light foxing to frontis, plates toned, contemporary ownership signature and bookplate to front pastedown.
Czech, Africa, p. p. 195 ("An early work of travel and sport"); Mendelssohn II:6 ("there are a number of well-drawn illustrations of the heads and horns of various species of antelopes met with in the course of the expedition").


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

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT