Sale 19JJ03 | Lot 273

MORDEN, FLORENCE H. From the Field Notebook of Florence H. Morden.

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

Lot Details

Lot 273
MORDEN, FLORENCE H. From the Field Notebook of Florence H. Morden.
N.p.: privately printed by William J. Morden, 1940. Limited edition, no. 101 of an unspecified edition. Publisher's blue cloth with faux vellum spine. 11 x 8 inches; [x], 95, [1] pp.; engraved frontispiece, vignette title page and sectional titles, in-text illustrations printed in red, limitation page. Spine darkened, one or two spots to parchment, cloth lightly scuffed.
"William Morden privately printed this book in a limited edition after his wife's death. Her notebooks detail her travels and big game hunts abroad. Of African focus are her treks in the Mara Valley of British East Africa where lions, leopard and sitatunga were bagged, as were elephants along the Upper Nile in Uganda" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 201.


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

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT