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MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE A Breath from the Veldt.

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

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Lot 262
MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE A Breath from the Veldt.
London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1895. Publisher's white polished pictorial buckram. 15 3/8 x 12 inches; x, 236 pp.; vignette title page, frontispiece and plates with tissue guards, in-text illustrations, half-title. Extremities bumped, spine darkened, cloth a bit stained, pale foxing to endpapers and some plates, occasional thumbsoiling.
"Highlighted by the author's detailed illustrations, this work represents Millais' journey toward the Limpopo River with excursions to hunt kudu, reedbuck, waterbuck, sable and roan. Near the Nuanetsi River, he bagged buffalo and zebra. After leaving the Limpopo, he collected trophy kudu, as well as lion and leopard. A most readable and visually exciting book of African travel and big game hunting" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 196; Hosken, p. 142; Mendelssohn II:3.


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

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT