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FAULKNER, Henry. Elephant Haunts: being a sportsman's narrative of the search for Doctor Livingstone, with scenes of elephant, buffalo, and hippopotamus hunting, London: Macdonald & Tugwell for Hurst & Blackett, 1868. 8° (220 x 140mm). Half title, 14pp. publisher's advertisements, wood-engraved frontispiece and title vignette. (Occasional light spotting.) Original brown cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine blocked in gilt (head and foot of spine bumped). Provenance: C. H. Gatty (signature). FIRST EDITION. Czech p.56; Mendelssohn I, p.537.
[GORDON CUMMING, Roualeyn (1820-1866)]. A Descriptive Catalogue of Hunting Trophies, Native Arms, and Costumes, from the far interior of South Africa, Edinburgh: W. Burness, printer, [c.1850]. 8° (200 x 134mm). Old limp cloth. Cf. Mendelssohn I, p.399 (variant title including the author's name); cf. Czech p.44.
With 10 other works, or part works, on hunting in Africa in 13 volumes including Andrew Steedman's Wanderings and Adventures in the interior of southern Africa (London, 1835, 2 vols.), Charles John Andersson's The Lion and the Elephant (London, 1873), the same author's Lake Ngami: or, explorations and discoveries, during four years' wanderings in the wilds of south western Africa (London: 1856), William Charles Baldwin's African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi ... second edition (London, 1863) and R. Gordon Cumming's Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the far interior of South Africa ... second edition (London, 1850, 2 vols.). (15)
[GORDON CUMMING, Roualeyn (1820-1866)]. A Descriptive Catalogue of Hunting Trophies, Native Arms, and Costumes, from the far interior of South Africa, Edinburgh: W. Burness, printer, [c.1850]. 8° (200 x 134mm). Old limp cloth. Cf. Mendelssohn I, p.399 (variant title including the author's name); cf. Czech p.44.
With 10 other works, or part works, on hunting in Africa in 13 volumes including Andrew Steedman's Wanderings and Adventures in the interior of southern Africa (London, 1835, 2 vols.), Charles John Andersson's The Lion and the Elephant (London, 1873), the same author's Lake Ngami: or, explorations and discoveries, during four years' wanderings in the wilds of south western Africa (London: 1856), William Charles Baldwin's African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi ... second edition (London, 1863) and R. Gordon Cumming's Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the far interior of South Africa ... second edition (London, 1850, 2 vols.). (15)
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