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Lot 139
FAULKNER, HENRY Elephant Haunts: Being A Sportsman's Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone, with scenes of elephant, buffalo, and hippopotamus hunting.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1868. First edition. Publisher's rust-colored cloth. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; ix, 325, [1] pp.; frontispiece, vignette title page, half-title. Recased preserving much of the original spine, endpapers renewed, corners worn with loss, ink stamp to title page, two leaves repaired at fore-edge, occasional thumbsoiling and minor tears to fore-edge.
Uncommon. "In 1867, Royal Navy lieutenant E. D. Young trekked to Africa to find the great missionary-explorer David Livingstone who was reported to be lost while searching for the origins of the Nile. Henry Faulkner joined the expedition primarily to hunt. His efforts collecting elephant, buffalo and hippo in present day Malawi and around Lake Nyasa are duly captured in this rather scarce narrative" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 93.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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