Fine Books and Manuscripts

Lot #519:

Twenty Volumes of The African Collection from Briar Patch Press.

[Hunting] Twenty Volumes of The African Collection from Briar Patch Press. Camden: Briar Patch Press, 1986/1990. Consisting of The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia by Sir William White Baker (1987); The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter by W.D.M. Bell (1987); Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa by Arthur H. Neumann (1987); The Wild Sports of Southern Africa by Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1987); American Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt (1987); Wild Beasts & Their Ways by Sir Samuel W. Baker (1988); Lake Ngami by Charles John Andersson (1988); On Safari by Abel Chapman (1988); Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-East Africa by Frederick Roderick Noble Findlay (1990); A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa by Frederick Courteney Selous (1986); African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by Frederick Courteney Selous (1988); The Recollections of William Finaughty: Elephant Hunter (1987); In Haunts of Wild Game by Frederick Vaughn Kirby (1989); East Africa and its Big Game by Captain Sir John C. Willoughby (1990); A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia by P.H.G. Powell-Cotton (1990); After Big Game in Central Africa by Edouard Foa (1987); The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter by James Sutherland (1990); Memoirs of an African Hunter by Denis D. Lyell (1990); A Game Ranger Note Book by A. Blayney Percival (1987); and A Hunter’s Life in South Africa by R. Gordon Cumming (1987). Original leather stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Illustrated. 8vo/4to. Fine.