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PEEL, Charles Victor Alexander. Somaliland being An Account of Two Expeditions into the Far Interior together with a Complete List of every Animal and Bird known to inhabit that Country, and a List of the Reptiles collected by the author, London: F. E. Robinson, 1900. 8° (252 x 155mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece, plates and illustrations. (Some spotting.) Original red pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (sections of upper cover faded, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Edmund Lechmere of Severn End (armorial bookplate dated 1917).
Inserted at the front is a 4-page autograph letter from Ethel Peel, the author's wife, to Sir Edmund Lechmere, dated June 30th [1931], reminiscing about her husband and thanking Sir Edmund and his wife for their letter of sympathy on his death. The front free endpaper is further inscribed by Sir Edmund with his own memories of Peel, and the book is copiously annotated by him, often wittily, in pencil.
Inserted at the front is a 4-page autograph letter from Ethel Peel, the author's wife, to Sir Edmund Lechmere, dated June 30th [1931], reminiscing about her husband and thanking Sir Edmund and his wife for their letter of sympathy on his death. The front free endpaper is further inscribed by Sir Edmund with his own memories of Peel, and the book is copiously annotated by him, often wittily, in pencil.
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