Lot Details
Lot 354
[SUDAN] Group of titles relating to Sudan.
Comprising: JAMES, F. L. The Wild Tribes of the Soudan. An Account of Travel and Sport Chiefly in the Basé Country... London: John Murray, 1883. First edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth gilt. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps, full-page map, plates, half-title. Recased preserving original spine, extremities worn with minor loss, interior clean; New York edition of same (1893). Publisher's yellow pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Extremities worn, cloth slightly darkened; GESSI PASHA, ROMOLO. Seven Years in the Soudan. Being a Record of Explorations, Adventures, and Campaigns Against the Arab Slave Hunters. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. First edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt. Folding map, frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations. Slight lean, spine lightly sunned, reddish staining to a few leaves (including map); TANGYE, H. LINCOLN. In the Torrid Sudan. Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1910. First edition. Publisher's green cloth gilt. Folding map, frontispiece, plates, half-title. Shaken, spine rubbed and darkened, extremities worn, map torn near mount, ownership signature to front free endpaper; DUGMORE, A. RADCLYFFE. The Vast Sudan. London: Arrowsmith, [1924]. First edition. Publisher's green cloth. Folding map, frontispiece, plates, half-title. Spine ends bumped, a bit overopened, light toning, ownership signature to front pastedown; SAVILE, FRANK. The River of the Giraffe. A Chronicle of Desert, Stream, and Forest Shooting in the Southern Sudan. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925. First edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt spine. Full-page map, frontispiece, plates, half-title, publisher's ads. Spine ends lightly bumped, a bit overopened, foxing throughout, bookplates to front pastedown; DOMVILLE-FIFE, C. W. Savage Life in the Black Sudan. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927. First edition. Publisher's black cloth gilt. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title. Inscribed to, and with the bookplate of, noted hunter, collector, and Derrydale Press author William Nicholas Beach; extremities bumped, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown; BROCKLEHURST, H. C. Game Animals of the Sudan. Their Habits and Distribution. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1931. First edition. Publisher's terracotta pictorial cloth gilt. Folding map, colored frontispiece, plates (many colored), in-text illustrations, half-title. Extremities a bit worn, endpapers toned.
The lot eight titles. (8)
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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