LYELL Denis D.. HUNTING TRIPS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA; with Accounts of Sport and Travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa, and also notes on the game animals and their distribution.. London: Horace Cox, 1910.

Price: US$1416.40 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xii, 118, (2) advertisements, half-title, frontispiece, 54 plates, errata slip tipped to page x, original green patterned cloth, vignette of the camp mounted on upper cover, near fine. "Lyell recounts his experiences in the big game lands of Rhodesia with exciting details. All manner of games was collected, including elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros and lion. In addition, sable, impala, kudu, eland, lechwe, waterbuck and other antelopes were taken." Seeing game is more of a matter of knowing what looks like than exceptional eyesight, though one has to be very quick-sighted to catch sight of an animal before it has become aware of danger." Lyell." Czech p101

Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom

LYELL, Denis D.:. Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia. With Accounts of Sport and Travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa, and also Notes on the Game Animals and Their Distribution.. London: Horace Cox: First edition, 1910.

Price: US$1925.02 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: large 4to., xii, 118pp., + 2pp. ads, half-title & errata slip present, illustrated with 96 b/w photographs and drawings, appendix and index, colour patterned endpapers. Bound in the original dark green simulatedl crocodile leather cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt with a pictorial onlay showing a camp scene. A generally VG+ bright clean copy in a nice tight original binding with just light fading to two gilt letters on spine. [Czech, page 101 - A cornerstone of big-game books and scarce]. Czech writes "Lyell recounts his experiences in the big game lands of Rhodesia with exciting details. All manner of game was collected, including elephant near Lake Chiuta, hippopotamus on the Shire River, rhinoceros on the Luangwa River, and lion. In addition, sable impala, kudu, eland, letchwe, waterbuck and other antelopes were also taken."

Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom

Lyell, Denis D.. Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia. Horace Cox, London, 1910.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Sport and travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa and also notes on the game animals and their distribution. 118 pp, profuse ill. Exciting hunting trips in what was then northern Rhodesia. Big five + plains game. Near fine in original green simulated crocodile cloth with gilt stamping and original photo on front board (tiny tear in lower photo inset). Gilt stamped spine. Orig front board photo is crisp and sharp. Deco end papers. Super copy for a collector.

Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.