Lot n° 224

HUGHES, Joseph Edward Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu. With an Introduction by Major H.C. Maydon. …

Estimation : 800 - 1 200 EUR
Adjudication : 1 643 €
Description
HUGHES, Joseph Edward Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu.
With an Introduction by Major H.C. Maydon. Londres, published by The Field, sans date [1933]. In-4 (249 x 180 mm) de XVI, 376 pp., frontispice et 75 planches en noir. Percaline orange, plat supérieur orné (homme fumant), dos lisse avec titre doré, doublure et gardes ornés d'une grande carte du Lake Bangweulu (reliure de l' éditeur).
Czech, African Big Game, 80.
Édition originale de cet ouvrage rare. “Hughes travelled to Nyasaland in 1901 as an assistant native commissioner in the British South
Africa Company, eventually resigning his post in favor of becoming a full-time hunter and trader... This is an excellent work of hunting and adventure with wonderful detail of the area (today's Zambia), and quite scarce” (Czech).
Quelques rousseurs sur les coupes ; traces de doigt sur la reliure, sinon bel exemplaire, complet.
Provenance : Forêt de Crécy (ex-libris).
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