• First edition of W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting by Burchard Heinrich Jessen, a scarce account of four hunting trips up the Blue Nile and East Africa.
  • First edition of W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting by Burchard Heinrich Jessen, a scarce account of four hunting trips up the Blue Nile and East Africa.
  • First edition of W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting by Burchard Heinrich Jessen, a scarce account of four hunting trips up the Blue Nile and East Africa.
  • First edition of W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting by Burchard Heinrich Jessen, a scarce account of four hunting trips up the Blue Nile and East Africa.
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JESSEN, Burchard Heinrich.

W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting

W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting

in southern Sudan, Abyssinia and East Africa.

Stock Code 122795

London, for private distribution only, 1906.

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Scarce. An account of the Norwegian author's four hunting trips with the McMillans of St. Louis, Missouri. The Blue Nile in 1902; Upper Baro River in 1904; the Blue Nile again, followed by British East Africa in 1905.

First edition; royal 8vo (25 x 18.5 cm); 112 illustrations including frontispiece, folding map in rear pocket, a few marginal marks to frontispiece; later quarter red calf, red cloth boards, spine in six gilt ruled compartments with gilt black morocco lettering piece; a very good copy. xiv, 415 pp.

Czech p84.

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