


Lot 34•
POTOCKI (JOSEPH) Sport in Somaliland, Being an Account of a Hunting Trip in that Region, NUMBER 186 OF 200 COPIES signed by the publisher, Rowland Ward, 1900
15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
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POTOCKI (JOSEPH)
Sport in Somaliland, Being an Account of a Hunting Trip in that Region, NUMBER 186 OF 200 COPIES signed by the publisher, translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, 18 photogravure plates (6 double-page), large folding colour-printed map, numerous coloured illustrations in the text, tissue guards, frontispiece loose, one leaf of text (pp.69/70) re-inserted on stub, occasional light spotting, publisher's pictorial white cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., a few small marks but generally clean, folio (390 x 300mm.), Rowland Ward, 1900
Footnotes
"One of the rarest of all African big game hunting books" (Czech), recording a hunting trip undertaken by Count Potocki (1862-1922) to the Haud and Ogaden regions of Somaliland in 1895.
Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, bookplate