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PEASE (ALFRED E.) Travel & Sport in Africa, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902
15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
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PEASE (ALFRED E.)
Travel & Sport in Africa, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, numerous coloured and photogravure plates, photographic illustrations in text, 4 folding maps, publisher's buckram-backed cloth, t.e.g., some fading and light mildew to sides, small ink mark on one spine [Czech, p.126], large 4to (320 x 255mm.), Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902
Footnotes
Lavishly presented record with numerous photographic illustrations describing Alfred Pease's extensive big game hunting trips through Africa, to Somaliland, the Sahara, Abyssinia, Algeria and elsewhere in the 1890s. Pease was later entertained by the future American President Theodore Roosevelt in Africa, taking him on his first lion hunt.
Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, bookplate.