LARGE GAME And Natural History of South and South-East Africa. From the journals of the Hon. W.H. Drummond
Author:	Drummond (W.H.)
Subject:	BIG GAME HUNTING
Published:	London
Date:	1875
Price($):	$910.00
Price(£):	£520.00
Details:	428 pages, 8vo (230 x 170 mm), coloured map, chromolithographic frontispiece and title page vignette, 12 tinted plates, many wood engraved illustrations, recent quarter brown morocco, brown cloth sides very lightly scarred by silverfish, half title pages misbound after the title page and foxed, some occasional foxing in the text, top edge gilt
Catalogue Number:	25
Book Number:	#380/6
Description:	S.A.B. 2:105. Mendelssohn 1:487. ‘The author hunted in Swaziland, Zululand and Tongaland. There are nine chapters on buffalo, rhinos, eland, lions, elephants, leopards and antelopes, and articles devoted to the description of "Hunting with dogs" and "Game Birds' of the country".'Czech, page 52, 'While the title suggests that this is more of a scientific title, most of the text revolves around Drummond's sporting adventures from 1868 to 1972. There are long chapters describing his hunting experiences after buffalo, eland, lion, elephant, rhinoceros, and leopard with attendant narrative on various antelope and on hunting with dogs. Though he bagged a number of elephant, he was concerned that continued hunting would extirpate the animal "merely for the purpose of supplying Europe with ivory ornaments and billiard-balls...." This work is written in a lively style with unique illustrations'.
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