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HUNTING. - ROUALEYN GORDON CUMMING (1820-1866). FIVE YEARS OF A HUNTER'S LIFE IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA. LONDON: W. CLOWES & SONS FOR JOHN MURRAY, 1850.
2 VOLUMES, 12° (202 X 130MM). ADDITIONAL TITLE TO EACH VOLUME WITH WOOD-ENGRAVED SURROUND, 1 MAP, 14 WOOD-ENGRAVED PLATES. (FIRST SIGNATURE IN VOL.I ALMOST DETACHED.) ORIGINAL CLOTH, BLOCKED IN GILT AND BLIND (REBACKED, ORIGINAL SPINES LAID DOWN, LIGHTLY SOILED, INNER HINGES REPAIRED). PROVENANCE: MACKNIGHT CRAWFURD (OF CARTSBURN, ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE); NATHANIEL CUSHING NASH (BOOKPLATE). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn I,p.398.
Alfred W. DRAYSON. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa. London & New York: Cox & Wyman for G. Routledge & Co., 1858.
8° (226 x 148mm). Half-title, 48pp. publisher's advertisements at back. 8 plates printed in colours from woodblocks, after Harrison Weir from 'designs' by Drayson. (The final plate with small sections of tissue guard adhering to the surface.) Original red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (spine soiled and chipped, light soiling to upper cover). Provenance: Arthur Sampson (inscriptiohn dated 1859). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn I,p.486
And two other works in three volumes (Roualeyn GORDON CUMMING. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the far interior of South Africa Paris: 1850. 8°. Contemporary morocco-backed boards. Galignaini/Baudry's European Library edition; J.W.D. MOODIE. Ten Years in South Africa: including a particular description of the wild sports of that country. London: 1835. 2 volumes, 8°. Contemporary half calf. FIRST EDITION). (6)
2 VOLUMES, 12° (202 X 130MM). ADDITIONAL TITLE TO EACH VOLUME WITH WOOD-ENGRAVED SURROUND, 1 MAP, 14 WOOD-ENGRAVED PLATES. (FIRST SIGNATURE IN VOL.I ALMOST DETACHED.) ORIGINAL CLOTH, BLOCKED IN GILT AND BLIND (REBACKED, ORIGINAL SPINES LAID DOWN, LIGHTLY SOILED, INNER HINGES REPAIRED). PROVENANCE: MACKNIGHT CRAWFURD (OF CARTSBURN, ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE); NATHANIEL CUSHING NASH (BOOKPLATE). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn I,p.398.
Alfred W. DRAYSON. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa. London & New York: Cox & Wyman for G. Routledge & Co., 1858.
8° (226 x 148mm). Half-title, 48pp. publisher's advertisements at back. 8 plates printed in colours from woodblocks, after Harrison Weir from 'designs' by Drayson. (The final plate with small sections of tissue guard adhering to the surface.) Original red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (spine soiled and chipped, light soiling to upper cover). Provenance: Arthur Sampson (inscriptiohn dated 1859). FIRST EDITION. Mendelssohn I,p.486
And two other works in three volumes (Roualeyn GORDON CUMMING. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the far interior of South Africa Paris: 1850. 8°. Contemporary morocco-backed boards. Galignaini/Baudry's European Library edition; J.W.D. MOODIE. Ten Years in South Africa: including a particular description of the wild sports of that country. London: 1835. 2 volumes, 8°. Contemporary half calf. FIRST EDITION). (6)
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