NEUMANN, Arthur H.

Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa.

Name: Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa.
Brand: NEUMANN, Arthur H.
SKU: 122976
Price: 2052.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting.

Stock Code 122976

London, Rowland Ward, 1898.

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with the rare butterfly plate

Neumann's Elephant Hunting is one of the most important, and also one of the scarcest, books on elephants. Czech observes that the coloured butterfly plate was 'highly prized by entomologists, and was often removed'.

First edition; 8vo (23 x 17.5 cm); folding map in rear cover pocket, 2 plates (one coloured plate of butterflies), 62 illustrations in the text (15 full page, 30 photographic); publisher's original red cloth gilt, lettered in black to upper cover, zebra skin patterned endpapers, light discolouration and fading to cloth, a very good copy; xx, 456, [8, ads.] pp.

Czech (Africa) p.122

Provenance

Provenance: C. J. Anstruther (armorial bookplate).

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