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| Author: |
(Bailey, Henry) "Bula N'Zau" |
| Title: |
Travel and Adventures in the Congo Free State and Its Big Game Shooting |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Chapman & Hall |
| Date: |
1894 |
| Item # : |
172496 |
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331 |
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19 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 632 |
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| Description: |
| xvi, 327 pp. Frontispiece and 10 plates and illustrations. 8¾x5½, maroon cloth stamped in gilt and black. First Edition. |
| Early account of big game hunting in West Africa. Author's nom de plume means "The Elephant Smasher" in the local native language. |
| Condition: |
| Covers moderately scuffed; old WH Smith & Sons bookplate to front pastedown; creasing to front free endpaper, half-title, and frontispiece; rear hinge cracked; scattered foxing, else very good. |
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