1907 In Wildest Africa
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
Part autobiographical and part informational, this work by German wildlife photographer Carl Georg Schillings provides a first hand account of exploration through Africa's natural landscape.
This work is in the first edition and is a follow-up volume to Schillings' earlier work With Flashlight and Rifle, which was very well received and was printed in German, British, and American editions.
Containing over three hundred illustrations taken directly from the author's photographs, as well as other in-text illustrations.
Translated from the original German by translator, Frederic Whyte.
This copy was the personal copy of renowned British zoologist Leonard Harrison Matthews, noted by his ink signature to the front free-endpaper of Volume I. Matthews was the scientific director of the Zoological Society of London from 1951 to 1966.
This copy came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII.
Condition
In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Slight fading to the spine and a few marks to the boards. Previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper. Internally, hinges are starting but firm. Binding is generally firm. Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good
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