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CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c.

Catalogue: Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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Lot 103
CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c.
London: John Murray, 1850. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's tan pictorial cloth gilt. 7 7/8 x 5 inches; [xvi], 386; x, 370 pp.; frontispieces, additional engraved vignette title pages, full-page map, plates. Boards a bit mottled, spine ends worn and chipped, scattered foxing, bookplates to front pastedowns.
From the distinguished Africana collection of Edward C. Tabler, with his bookplates. Czech, Africa, pp. 71-72 ("One of the classics of African big game hunting"); Mendelssohn I:398-9.


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

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT