An Account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan During the Winter of 1874-5.
xvi, 355 pages and 2 pages of the publisher’s catalogue, 5 laid down photographic plates including the frontispiece with tissue guards, original green cloth - the upper cover bears a gilt vignette of the head of a rhinoceros within a black border stamped in black, gilt titling on the spine, original brown endpapers intact, edges uncut, contents bright. Tears and a fold in the plate opposite page 97 have been neatly repaired - the tears and fold affect mainly the margins and only ten millimetres of the printed area of the photograph (see scan below), faint library stamp with a number in ink at the top of the title page, the faint stamp also appears on page 17, overall a very good copy.
Czech (Dr Kenneth) An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page, 206, 'A surgeon in the Coldstream Guards, Myers embarked on a sporting expedition to the lands of the Hamrans, renowned as elephant hunters. In the remote regions beyond the town of Kassala, his hunting party encountered lion and elephant with Myers trying to bag the latter by moonlight. Crossing the Setit River, they enjoyed considerable sport after rhinoceros, buffalo, hippopotamus and numerous engagements with lions. They also bagged bushbuck, kudu, dikdik and other plains game. This tile also features mounted photographs by Rowland Ward.'
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