Lot Details
Lot 92
CHAPMAN, ABEL On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life.
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. First edition. Publisher's black pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xvi, 340, [4] pp.; frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Extremities bumped, cloth a bit rubbed, somewhat overopened, foxing throughout, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown.
"A prolific sporting author, Chapman combines fluid writing style with his exciting experiences hunting in British East Africa. He followed the Uganda Railway, with hunting excursions toward Lake Elementeita and also westward to the Enderit River and along Lake Nakuru. On a 1904 hunt, Chapman describes his trek across the Athi Plains. There are plentiful hunting experiences including lion, waterbuck, rhino, elephant, gazelle, eland, kudu, buffalo, etc. The illustrations are plentiful and come from photographs and the talented pen of Edmund Caldwell" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 59-60.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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