Big Game Shooting in Africa. With one hundred & fifty illustrations
by Maydon, Major H.C. (ed.)
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1951. Reprint of the 1932 original, part of the "Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes" series. 8vo. 445 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, endpaper maps. Contributors include Denis Lyell, Burrard, Powell-Cotton, and Gordon-Cumming. Czech Africa, p. 110 (for the first edition): "An essential title in the African big-game library ... describing the hunting regions of the continent with attendant analysis of game animals and hunting methods ... a wealth of information with exciting hunting experiences throughout." Gift inscription, else very good. Tan quarter-buckram and cloth, gilt spine title, dust jacket with pictorial paper onlays on upper panel and spine (short tear at head of spine taped). (7374).
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- Title
- Big Game Shooting in Africa. With one hundred & fifty illustrations
- Author
- Maydon, Major H.C. (ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
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