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Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 + 16 pp. advertisements, duplicate of plate at p.108 ('Jackson's Hartebeests') laid in, light spotting to frontispiece, a few leaves unopened, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original pictorial cloth gilt, mottling and small perforation to front board, 8vo together with: Savage Sudan, its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921, 30 plates including frontispiece, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, Wild Spain (España Agreste). Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History and Exploration, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893, folding map frontispiece, 51 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements, frontispiece spotted, edges untrimmed, original cloth, spine slightly rolled, large 8vo, Wild Norway: with Chapters on Spitsbergen, Denmark, etc., 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1897, 16 halftone plates, 2 + 16 pp. advertisements, original cloth, 8vo, Unexplored Spain, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1910, 32 halftone plates, 22 pp. advertisements, original pictorial cloth gilt, wear to upper inner corner of front board, lower outer corners bumped, 4to (Qty: 5) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance (Wild Norway): Presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'To Howard Saunders Esq. with the author's sincere thanks - gratias non semel, sed terque, quaterque curatus' on the front free endpaper. Saunders (1835-1907) was the author of An Illustrated Manual of British Birds (1888-9). Czech Africa pp. 59-60 (On Safari, Savage Sudan). '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).