Lot Details
Lot 78
BUXTON, EDWARD NORTH Two African Trips with Notes and Suggestions on Big Game Preservation in Africa.
London: Edward Stanford, 1902. First edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth. 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches; xiii, 208, [1] pp.; folding map in rear pocket, frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Spine darkened and ends bumped, binding cracked but holding, exposed portion of map toned, bookplate to front pastedown and booksellers ticket to front free endpaper.
"In this impressive work, Buxton describes two sporting trips to Africa. In 1899 he traveled to British East Africa, bagging rhinoceros, lion and a variety of plains game near the Athi River. On his journey along the White Nile via gunboat, the author is more descriptive of the terrain and vegetation of the region. He succeeded in bagging waterbuck, kob, lion, buffalo and roan. He concludes his narrative with a long chapter on game preservation, regretting not taking a proper camera into East Africa to record 'the wonderful herds which inhabit the great feeding grounds, opportunities for which may not recur when the game becomes rare and wilder'" (Czech). Czech, Asia, p. 49.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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