Two. vols. xvi, 453, [1]; x, 443, [1] pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Frontisp. both vols., illustrated title pages, plates, text illustrations, photo illustrations throughout both vols. Pictorial brown publisher's cloth, white & black lettering front covers & spines, gilt illust. on spines of lion & moose (some minor soiling, rubbing, minor bumping to a few corners, slight fraying head & foot of spines), still VG- set from the library of Joseph Anderton, w/ armorial bookplate on front pastedowns, Non Flectimus. First editions of these volumes in The Badminton Library, featuring extensive hunts in South Africa and East Africa in vol. I with chapters on elephant, buffalo, lion, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ostriches, giraffes, lion and musk ox; while vol. II details hunting in the Arctic, the Caucasus, Alps, and substantial portion for hunting in India.

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Title

Big game shooting. Vol. I; Vol. II. . . with illustrations by Charles Whymper, F. Wolf and H. Willink, and from photographs. . . .

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.,, London:

Publication Date

1894

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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Big Game Hunting

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