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JESSEN, Burchard Heinrich. W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Suden, Abyssinia, & British East Africa, London: printed by Marchant Singer & Co. for private distribution, 1906. 4° signed in 8s (245 x 172mm). Portrait frontispiece, 36 plates after Jessen, folding coloured lithographed map in pocket at end, illustrations, a few full-page. (Small clean tear to upper inner blank margin of P1, clean tears to folds of map.) Original red cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt (stitching loose, slight discolouration to cloth). Provenance: Walter Rutherford Peterson (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this rare work: an account of the expeditions which concentrated largely on the Blue and White Nile. Czech p.84: "very scarce."

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JESSEN, Burchard Heinrich. W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Suden, Abyssinia, & British East Africa, London: printed by Marchant Singer & Co. for private distribution, 1906. 4° signed in 8s (245 x 172mm). Portrait frontispiece, 36 plates after Jessen, folding coloured lithographed map in pocket at end, illustrations, a few full-page. (Small clean tear to upper inner blank margin of P1, clean tears to folds of map.) Original red cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt (stitching loose, slight discolouration to cloth). Provenance: Walter Rutherford Peterson (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this rare work: an account of the expeditions which concentrated largely on the Blue and White Nile. Czech p.84: "very scarce."
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