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Price: US$21.93 + shipping
Description: Le tour du monde, s.d. (après 1863). Cahier in/4 extrait de la revue "Le tour du Monde", p. 369 à 416, 1 carte, illustrations in et hors-texte. Extraits du livre publié à Londres, chez Richard Bentley "African Hunting". Chasse à lhippopotame, léléphant, à la girafe, au rhinocéros, au crocodile, à lautruche, au lion, harrisbuck (aigocère noir), babouins, aux serpents, aux antilopes coudous.
Seller: Philippe Lucas Livres Anciens, Lyon, France
WILLIAM CHARLES BALDWIN. AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURE. RICHARD BENTLEY, LONDON, UK, 1863.
Price: US$38.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: * PUBLISHER : RICHARD BENTLEY * YEAR : 1863 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 451 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER BOARDS ARE HEAVILY RUBBED AND WORN WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS. THE SPINE HAS TORN AWAY FROM THE FRONT BOARD FULLY EXPOSING THE BINDING. THE SPINE IS HEAVILY WORN WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS WITH TWO TEARS ACROSS THE CENTRE. THE HINGE HAS CRACKED AT SEVERAL PLACES WITHIN BOOK, HOWEVER THE BINDING REMAINS FIRM. INSIDE BOOK IS A PULL OUT MAP OF SOUTH AFRICA WHICH HAS TORN AWAY AND PLACED LOOSELY INSIDE. THERE IS FOXING INSIDE BOOK. THE PAGES ARE LIGHTLY TANNED, THOUGH PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First edition. Hard cover published by Richard Bentley in London in 1863. Green cloth covers with gilt design of a lion attacking a horseman on front and gilt lettering on spine. Front and back have embossed borders. Covers are stained, corners are bumped and worn, and spine is creased. Front cover and spine are only attached to back cover. First several pages have tears and holes (possibly insect damage) along side edge. Pages have spotting or foxing. Second page has a large water stain, and title page has some stains. Name of a previous owner is written at top of title page (has a date of 1885). Pages containing the list of illustrations and the folding map are loose. Pages have some tanning. Book is in acceptable condition. 451 pages plus ads for books in back, 2.6 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 451 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Baldwin, William Charles. AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURE. Richard Bentley 1863 2nd edition, 1863.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: 10+451+30 pages, folding map, illustrations, 17 plates (of which 6 are tinted lithos), portrait frontispiece : his famous account of hunting from Natal to the Zambesi including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc.; hardback, professionally rebound maintaining original backstrip & boards, new matching end papers, board edges bumped & rear board stained, signs of use & some page edges fragile, a little foxing, has knocked around Africa for many years, better than it sounds, a tight, complete g+ copy. Mendelssohn I.73 rates this IMPORTANT book south africa big game hunting hunter natal zambesi game animals safari big game hunters lion elephant hunting african wildlife
Seller: Yesterday's Books, BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom
Baldwin, William Charles. AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURE. Richard Bentley 1863, 2nd edition, 1863.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: 10+451+30 pages, folding map, illustrations, 17 plates (of which 6 are tinted lithos), portrait frontispiece : his famous account of hunting from Natal to the Zambesi including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc.; Mendelssohn I.73, Czech page 12; hardback, professionally rebacked maintaining original backstrip & boards, new sympathetic end papers, light foxing to prelims, edges & some margins, now a very good copy south africa big game hunting hunter natal zambesi game animals safari big game hunters lion elephant hunting african wildlife
Seller: Yesterday's Books, BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. x, 451, [1 (blank)]; with half-title, portrait frontispiece, and 47 illustrations including a folding map and 6 lithographic plates; some foxing, especially to frontispiece and title; overall good in twentieth-century half red morocco over red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; slight wear to extremities; inscription to front free endpaper 'A. Smith Drawing Prize Christmas 1865 from his friend H.E. Harris?.Second edition recounting the African hunting expeditions of the famous hunter William Charles Baldwin (d. 1903), filled with 'wild adventure, cool daring, and narrow escapes from death' (Daily News, Dec. 1862). 'A work of early sport and travel, this describes Baldwin's journeys through Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Namaqualand to the Zambesi and the Victoria Falls (though not yet known as that). He hunted in the lands of the Amatongas and Zulus where he collected hippopotamus, lion, eland, rhinoceros, buffalo, kudu, and giraffe. Near Lake Ngami, he bagged elephant, then crossed the Tugela River on his way to the Zambesi (Victoria) Falls where he encountered buffalo and lion' (Czech). 'Mr. Baldwin's experiences are written in a simple and unostentatious manner, but he went through more adventures than almost any other of the great South African travellers and hunters' (Mendelssohn). The present copy is the second English edition, published in the same year as the first English and American editions (the original title read simply African hunting from Natal ). It contains some handsome illustrations, the work of James Wolf and Johann Baptist Zwecker. Czech, p. 12; Hosken, p. 10; Mendelssohn I, pp. 73-74.
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$215.19 + shipping
Description: 250mm x 180mm (10" x 7"). x, 451pp + plates. 12 plates (5 colour, 1 fold-out) + 35 b/w vignettes. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Some foxing
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full leather binding with decorative gilt spine, coat of arms on front and rear boards of King Eward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, endpapers / edges of textblock marbled. Small sellers label on inside front cover. The text-block is sound with slight browning and some spotting to the first few leaves. Front hinge broken but holding , cover rather scuffed , most of label on spine lost Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Second edition. x, 451, 30 pp, frontis, folding map of Baldwin's route in South Africa, illustrated with lithographic plates. Bound in modern maroon cloth, gilt spine. Good binding and cover. Lacking Giraffe Hunt plate. Clean, unmarked pages. Big game hunting in South Africa. Mendelssohn I, 73-74: "Mr. Baldwin's experiences are written in a simple and unostentatious manner, but he went through more adventures than almost all of the great South African travelers and hunters.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition 1863. Engraved frontispiece of the author, lithographs and text illustrations throughout. Folding map. The folding map has a slightly dusty fore edge. Foxing throughout, heavy in some places. Publishers green gilt decorated and blind stamped cloth, corners lightly bumped, top and bottom of spine lightly rubbed and frayed. Spine slightly creased and some very slight bubbling to the cloth. Still a very presentable copy in original condition. 451 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Baldwin, William Charles. African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi. Richard Bentley, London, 1863.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight fraying to crown and heel, gilt title remain bright, corners lightly bumped, hinges starting yet still tight, firm copy. TM/Africa
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$544.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Annotation to bep reads, 'Resewn, case remade and recased, Manston Mill, Nov 1962' followed by an illegible signature. Pages x + 451 + 32 of publisher's adverts following. Some occasional light foxing. Foldout map preceding p1. All 40 indexed illustrations are present with additional un-indexed plates: p186 'Chasing Haris Bucks'; p372 ' An African Serenade'; p424 ' Narrow Escape'. The plate from p424 is gilt stamped to the front board. Gilt ttling to spine faded but clearly readable. Mendelssohn pp73-74 lists this as 'second edition' although there is no reference to indicate this on the copyright page. 'During the last three years of Baldwin's wanderings, he joureyed over from 12,000 to 15,000 miles of country, and becoming at last somewhat weary of his vagrant life, he made up his mind that it was "nearly time to call a halt.' Mr Baldwin's experiences are written in a simple and un-ostentatious manner, but he went through more adventures than almost any other of the great South African travellers and hunters. (AD-****-IWYY-U11)
Seller: CHAPTER TWO, Pinetown, KZN, South Africa
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With Illustrations by James Wolf and J. B. Zwecker. 8vo. Frontispiece engraved portrait of the author. x, 451 pp. + 32 pp. ads. Illustrated, including fold-out map. Original illustrated gilt stamped green cloth binding. Wear at the spinal extremities and tips, "prize" award inscription from 1869 front free endpaper, rear hinge reinforced. This is a very good book in the scarce original publisher's binding.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. x, [2], 451, 32 (Bentley ads); title page printed in red and black; frontispiece portrait, folding map, 10 wood-engraved and/or lithograph plates plus other illustrations in the text; generally a fine copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Big game hunting in South Africa. Mendelssohn I, 73-74: "Mr. Baldwin's experiences are written in a simple and unostentatious manner, but he went through more adventures than almost all of the great South African travelers and hunters." Czech, Africa, p. 12: "A work of early sport and travel, this describes Baldwin's journeys through Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Namaqualand to the Zambesi and the Victoria Falls."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: Second Edition, 8vo, pp x, 451, folding map, frontispiece, numerous illustrations, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette of lion attacking horse and rider on upper cover, very good and clean. Mendelssohn I, p73: "Mr Baldwin penetrated through Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Namaqualand, in days when some of these countries were hardly known even by name, and he was the second European to reach the falls of the Zambesi River, now famous as the Victoria Falls. On his arrival in Natal, in 1851, he joined a well-known hunter, known as 'Elephant White', and served his apprenticeship to the life of a hunter in his company."
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, x, 451pp. Full red polished calf, double gilt-ruled border on covers with florets at corners. Title in gilt over green leather spine label, raised bands with decorative gilt compartments. Marbled edges and endpapers. Bound by Bickers & Son, London. Complete with 46 illustrations and fold-out map of South Africa. Frontispiece portrait of Baldwin. Wear at edges and shelf wear to boards. Intermittent foxing. Previous bookseller's label on rear endpaper. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. (Czech 16-17) (Mendelssohn I, pp. 73-74). William Charles Baldwin collected hippopotamus, lion, eland, rhinoceros, kudu, giraffe, elephant, and buffalo throughout his travels outlined in this text. African Hunting is considered "a necessary volume in the African sporting library." (Czech 17).
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
William Charles Baldwin. African Hunting From Natal to the Zambesi. Richard Bentley, 1863.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Beautiful Fine Copy in 3/4 Brown Leather. Firs Edition (1863). Gorgeous Plates. Very Scarce.Beautiful Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "AFRICAN HUNTING from Natal to the Zambesi - Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c. from 1852 to 1860" by William Charles Baldwin. 1863 1st edition (with no edition designation on the title page); Richard Bentley; London. All 40 indexed illustrations are present with additional un-indexed plates. There is also a fold-out map of South Africa at the front. Scarce, true first edition in original publisher's cloth binding. Here are some examples of the contents: Hunting Expedition into the Zulu Country; The Transvall Republic; The Boers; I am Deserted; Sechele's Daughter; The Bush on Fire; Merico; Anecdotes of Crossing the Tugela; Result of a Zebra Hunt; Elephant Hunt; The Zambesi Falls; Meet with Dr. Livingstone; Intense Heat; Adventure with a Lion; Accident to Englishmen; Return to Natal.and more. There is an Index and a 32-page publisher's catalog at the back. Condition: Cloth tears at the bottom 2 cover corners; small cloth tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Consistent light foxing throughout the book (though heavy foxing to the front/rear end papers, as well as to the frontispiece and title page). The folding map of South Africa at the front is securely attached and is in very good condition with no tears. Pages 2-12 have a tiny tear at the outer edge. Old bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Old name written in pencil on the front end paper. Overall the book is in Good+ condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.