Lot 24
Africa
Collection of accounts of African big game hunting & natural history, 19th-20th century
Auction: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 1 to 30
Description
Neumann, Arthur H. Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa. London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, zebra print endpapers and pastedowns, 1 coloured plate, numerous illustrations (including frontispiece and 16 full-page), 1 large folding coloured map in rear pocket, pictorial bookplate of explorer, sculptor and writer Herbert Ward and his wife Sarita;
Powell-Cotton, P. H. G. In Unknown Africa: A Narrative of Twenty Months' Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and Among New Tribes. London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1904. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt (worn and faded), with vignette on upper board and spine, numerous plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps (torn and spotted), upper board bumped;
Bell, W. D. M. The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter. London: published at the offices of 'Country Life', 1923. First edition, 4to, original yellow buckram-backed grey boards, gilt lettering to spine, pink cloth label to upper cover, 42 plates, 38 with illustrations recto and verso, illustrations in text, a very clean copy;
Sykes, C. A. Service and Sport on the Tropical Nile. London: John Murray, 1903. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth (spine sunned and worn), gilt vignette on upper board, 17 plates including photogravure frontispiece of author (1 detached from text-block), 1 folding map, some spotting to endpapers and frontispiece;
Dracopoli, I. N. Through Jubaland to the Lorian Swamp. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1914. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, vignette on upper board, 32 plates (including frontispiece), 2 maps (1 folding coloured), light spotting;
Maxwell, Marius. Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1925. First trade edition (a limited edition was published in 1924 by the Medici Society), royal 4to, original blue cloth, 113 plates after photographs by the author (some folding), 1 folding coloured map;
Selous, Frederick Courteney. Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. London: Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, 1893. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt (worn and faded), 23 plates (including frontispiece portrait of author), numerous illustrations, 1 folding map;
Scott Elliot, G. F. A Naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an Account of a Journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika. London: A.D. Innes & Co., 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt (stained and sunned in places), numerous illustrations (several full-page), 4 maps (3 folding coloured maps at end);
and 13 others (21)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman