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Abel Chapman ON SAFARI 1 volume. Copy with Chavasse signature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1 volume.
Copy with Chavasse signature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Godfrey_Chavasse
Dark-grey cloth with gilt title on spine.
Gilt title on upper front cover and coloured
pictorial elephant head outlined in gilt.
xvi, 340 pages + photogravure frontispiece with tissue-guard.
Tissue-guarded Photogravure "Executors" page 149.
33 plates + full-page and in-text illustrations + maps.
"A prolific sporting author, Chapman combined fluid writing style
with his exciting experiences hunting in British East Africa.
He followed the Uganda Railway, with hunting excursions
toward Lake Elementeita and also westward to the Enderit
River and along Lake Nakuru. On a 1904 hunt, Chapman
describes his trek across the Athi Plains. There are plentiful
hunting experiences including lion, waterbuck, rhino, elephant,
gazelle, eland, kudu, and buffalo. The illustrations are plentiful
and come from photographs and the talented pen of Edmund Caldwell [Czech,
An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1950, p.35]."
Recorded shipping weight 2000g.
Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.
Edward Arnold
London
1908
First edition
Good
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1 volume.
Copy with Chavasse signature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Godfrey_Chavasse
Dark-grey cloth with gilt title on spine.
Gilt title on upper front cover and coloured
pictorial elephant head outlined in gilt.
xvi, 340 pages + photogravure frontispiece with tissue-guard.
Tissue-guarded Photogravure "Executors" page 149.
33 plates + full-page and in-text illustrations + maps.
"A prolific sporting author, Chapman combined fluid writing style
with his exciting experiences hunting in British East Africa.
He followed the Uganda Railway, with hunting excursions
toward Lake Elementeita and also westward to the Enderit
River and along Lake Nakuru. On a 1904 hunt, Chapman
describes his trek across the Athi Plains. There are plentiful
hunting experiences including lion, waterbuck, rhino, elephant,
gazelle, eland, kudu, and buffalo. The illustrations are plentiful
and come from photographs and the talented pen of Edmund Caldwell [Czech,
An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1950, p.35]."
Recorded shipping weight 2000g.
Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.
Edward Arnold
London
1908
First edition
Good
For further details and and to bid visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
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