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Lot 106
STIGAND, CAPT[AIN] C[HAUNCEY] H[UGH] The Game of British East Africa.
London: Horace Cox, 1913. Second edition. Publisher's green faux crocodile cloth with gilt lettering, pictorially stamped. 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (27 x 20.5 cm); xii, 310 pp., 8 pp. adverts., illustrated throughout. Top- and fore-edge sunned and spotted and some minimal wear to binding.
Captain Stigand, a prolific writer on subjects of African hunting, languages, travel, and geography, spent 18 years in British East Africa, Egypt, and Abyssinia in various administrative roles, enjoying a place among the foremost big game hunters of his day in those territories before his premature death at the age of 42.
C The Property of a New England Family
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