Big Game Shooting -- 1894 LIMITED DELUXE LARGE PAPER NUMBERED FIRST EDITION -- TWO VOLUMES

Phillipps-Wolley, Clive. WITH contributions by Sir Samuel W.Baker, W.C.Oswell, F.J.Jackson, Warburton Pike, F.C.Selous, Lt-Col R. Heber Percy, Arnold Pike, Major Algernon C. Heber Percy, W.A. Baillie-Grohman, Sir Henry Pottinger, Earl of Kilmorey, Abel Chapman, Walter J. Buck, and St. George Littledale. Series edited by The Duke of Beaufort , K.G., assisted by E.T. Watson

Edité par Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1894

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1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Big Game Shooting -- 1894 LIMITED DELUXE LARGE PAPER NUMBERED FIRST EDITION -- TWO VOLUMES
• Éditeur: Longmans, Green and Co., London
• Date de parution: 1894
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Hunting Botany Animals Nature
  • Polar
  • Africa