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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 428pp. Octavo, rebound in green cloth retaining original green backstrip and cover cloth. With gilt cover device and ruled in black. B&W and two-tone plates, color lithographs. Rubbing and light wear to boards; occasional light smudging throughout. Very Good
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$174.91 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed. xxi + 428pp. Colour printed frontis., colour printed vignette to t.p., map, 12 tinted plates, ills. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary mottled boards with gilt stamp of Mill Hill School, rebacked in modern calf with original damaged gilt lettered title label. Mendelssohn Vol. 1., pp.487. 'The author spent five years at the Cape (1867-72), mainly in Tongaland, Zululand, and Swaziland and details his experiences in nine chapters, which deal with buffalo, rhinoceros, eland, lions, elephants, leopards, and antelopes, and articles are devoted to a description of "Hunting with Dogs," and the "Game Birds" of the country.' US$175
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 428 pages. Green cloth covers with gilt and black stamped letter and decoration. Covers are scuffed and show wear at corners, spine ends, and some along edges. Top hinge (internal) is cracked, but remains solid. Non-author presentation inscription on blank front free end leaf. Scattered light foxing and a few smudges.
Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$286.21 + shipping
Description: pp.xxi, [i], 428 with colour frontis., colour illus. title-page, 13 plates (12 in colour), 20 b/w. illus., and 1 full-page colour map. 8vo. TEG. Some browning to half-title and blank verso of map. Some spotting to fore-edge of text block and only a very minor amount internally, o/w. contents fine. Period half-morocco over green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$349.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, xxi + 428pp, coloured map, coloured litho frontispiece and coloured litho title vignette, numerous other illustrations, bound in new old-style quarter calf with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, title label on black morocco with gilt lettering, very good condition, Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1875.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original cloth, skillfully rebacked, original spine and endpapers preserved.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1055.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xxi, 428. with half-title. partly coloured map. chromolithographed frontis. & title vignette, & 12 tinted lithographed plates. 1 tinted lithographed vignette & 19 wood-engraved vignettes. contemporary half chagrin (rubbed). armorial bookplate of Canadian capitalist, Sir George Stephen. First Edition. Account of the authors hunting adventures at the Cape, mainly in Tongaland, Zululand, and Swaziland, from 1867 to 1872, with chapters on buffalo, rhinoceros, elands, elephants, lions, leopards, antelope, game birds, and hunting with dogs. Mendelssohn II 105. Czech 52.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada