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Jackson, Sir Frederick |
EARLY DAYS IN EAST AFRICA
1930.
1st Edward Arnold.
xv ? 399 pages, folding map, frontispiece, 15 illustrations, folding coloured map, foreword by Lord Cranworth. Publishers' blue cloth a very good + copy. "Jackson recounts his early life hunting around Lake Lamu in the 1880s. Besides hippo, waterbuck, hartebeest, eland and oryx, he bagged buffalo near the Mau Escarpment and buffalo and elephant and lion near Mt. Elgon. There is also a chapter on professional hunters in general". A hard title to find especially in this condition. Czech138/39
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£420.00 |
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JESSEN B.H. |
W.N.McMillan's Expeditions And Big Game Hunting Southern Sudan, Abyssinia & British East Africa
1900.
1st Edn,.
xii 415 pages, for private circulation only, small 4to., frontis portraits of Mr and Mrs McMillan + full page and text illus from photographs and drawings, folding map in rear pocket, 4 ownership stamps to front end papers, 2 to rear end paper and one to blank margin of page 193 "Major H Twyford", original brick red cloth, fade mark to front board gilt title to upper board, browning to EP's. A scarce privately printed title, McMillan settled in Africa with his wife at Juja, Jessen recounts 4 hunting trips with the McMillans, the first along the Blue Nile records only a few gazelles, the 2nd in Abyssinia along the Baro River bagged elephant, hippo, lion and a variety of plains game, the 3rd trip along the Blue Nile, the 4th trip in 1905 to British East Africa, rhino, lion, eland etc were bagged, Czech 142.
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£680.00 |
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JOHNSON Isaac C. |
Sport On The Blue Nile Or Six Months Of A Sportsman's Life In Central Africa
1903.
1st Edn,.
Robert Banks & Son.
VIII 256 pages, frontis illus + 31 full page plates, presentation inscription to verso of front end paper to "Geo Appleton Esq with the publishers kind regards and best wishes Sept 1903", some offsetting from inscription to 1/2 title, original cloth with gilt title and photo insert of male lion to upper board and photo insert of shot elephant to rear flap, light rubbing to the corners. The author travels through the Sudan with a .303 Martini Metford Carbine, the weapon of his choice. He hunted hippo, crocodile, elephant, lion plains game etc., "One of the scarcest of the big game titles" Czech 84. A vg copy.
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£1350.00 |
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JOHNSON Martin |
Over African Jungles The Records From Pen And Camera Of A Glorious Adventure Over The Big Country Of Africa 60,000 Miles By Airplane
1935.
1st Edn,.
George G Harrap & Co,.
New York.
249 pages, Frontis and full page b/w illustrations from photographs. Some browning to prelims. Publishers' green cloth with blind stamp ruling to the board gilt title and aircraft vignette to the spine, a very good clean copy. "There are several hunting incidents in East Africa including rhinoceros and leopard". Czech 145
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£25.00 |
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Johnston, Harry H. |
British Central Africa. An attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambesi.
1897.
1st Edn.
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.
xix-544 pages, op edge gilt large 8vo, photogravure frontis of "An Angori Warrior" and 220 illustrations from the authors drawings or from photographs, six folding-coloured maps on 6 sheets, leopard patterned end papers. Armorial bookplate ofL.de Rothschild to the front paste down, apart from some spotting to the frontis and title page. Publishers binding with 2 standing natives printed in white and black with title on a yellow background, the rear cover with similar yellow inlay with a crowned crane vignette in white and black on black cloth the spine black cloth with gilt title, a very good copy. Covers all aspects on the area history geology, European settlers, the natural history the zoology includes game animals, natives etc all with excellent illustrations. A very good + copy in the original later editions appeared in a plain cloth binding.
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£360.00 |
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JOHNSTON Sir Harry |
George Grenfell And The Congo A History And Description Of The Congo Independent State And Adjoining Districts Of Congoland Together With Some Account Of The Native Peoples And Their Languages The Fauna And Flora; And Similar Notes On The Cameroons And The Island Of Fernando Po
1908.
1st Edn,.
Hutchinson and Co.
2 Vols, XXIII 496, XX 990 pages, lge 8vo, illus, 6 folding maps, clean copy.
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£300.00 |
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JOHNSTON Sir Harry |
The Uganda Protectorate. An attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley between the First Degree of South Latitude and the Fifth Degree of North Latitude
1902.
1st Edn,.
Hutchinson And Co.
2 Vols, xx ? xiii + 1018 pages, small 4to., 506 illustrations from photographs and drawings, 48 colour plates and 9 maps, some spotting to the blank verso of the maps. Original black cloth with native head inserts in gilt to upper boards a vg + copy, of a comprehensive work covering the history, people, geography, natural history of the territories.
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£220.00 |
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