Lot Details
Lot 324
SELOUS, PERCY and H. A. BRYDEN Travel and Big Game.
London, Bellairs and Co., 1897. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches; [1], 195 pp.; frontispiece, plates, half-title. Extremities bumped, one or two pale spots to cloth, occasional foxing, but a lovely copy.
"Frederick Selous' cousin, Percy, describes hunting wildebeest, leopard, lion and giraffe near the Molopo River, with additional leopard hunting in Bechuanaland. He enjoyed sport after rhinoceros near the Zambesi River, and hippopotamus and kudu on the Limpopo River. Bryden contributes two chapters, including hunting giraffe and zebra in South Africa, and relating the adventures of a 'Dutchman' hunting buffalo" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 253.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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