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1928 Savage Abyssinia
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon
A fascinating and detailed ethnographical and topographical work on Abyssinia, or modern day Ethiopia, in Africa. Including chapters on climate, physical geography, rivers, Addis Ababa, and more. With a particular focus on big game hunting in these areas.
Written by James Edwin Baum, an American journalist and big game hunter whose big game specimens can be seen at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Illustrated with a frontispiece and a further seven plates. Also including double-paged maps to the pastedowns and endpapers.
Collated and complete.
The first edition of this work.
Containing the bookplate of one Clinton E. Geiser to the verso of the front free-endpaper and the bookplate of M.A. Muller to the front blank.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with some light shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. A small mark to the spine. Containing the bookplate of one Clinton E. Geiser to the verso of the front free-endpaper and the bookplate of M.A. Muller to the front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Instances of light spotting to some pages, though many do remain bright and clean.
Very Good
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