Lot 2
  • 2

Arkell-Hardwick, Alfred

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Description

  • An Ivory Trader in North Kenia. London: Longmans, 1903
  • Paper, ink, leather
8vo. Half-title, folding map, 16 plates; spotting to title and fore-edge spotted. Pictorial gilt blue cloth.

Condition

8vo. Half-title, folding map, 16 plates; spotting to title, frontispiece, and frontis tissue. Pictorial gilt blue cloth; fore-edge spotted, some very minor rubbing to head and foot of spine.
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Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION. "The author hunted along the Guaso Nyiro in Kenya, bagging buffalo and rhinoceros. His party attempted to reach the Lorien Swamp, but, having failed, they returned to the Guaso Nyiro where hippopotamus and giraffe were collected." (Czech). One of the scarcer African hunting titles.