Africa.- Big Game.- Neumann (Arthur H.) Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, chromolithographed plate of butterflies, folding map in pocket at end, illustrations, some full-page, original zebra patterned endpapers with pocket, modern light red crushed morocco, gilt spine in compartments and with double black leather labels, t.e.g., [Czech p.122], 8vo, 1898. ⁂ A very good clean copy of this classic of African hunting literature. 'Neumann hunted throughout British East Africa, hunting rhino and oryx near the Mackenzie River, then traveling to the Jambeni Range for elephant, impala, and rhinoceros... The colored plate of butterflies was highly prized by entomologists and was often removed' (Czech). Czech further observes that the coloured butterfly plate was 'highly prized by entomologists, and was often removed'.
Africa.- Big Game.- Neumann (Arthur H.) Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, chromolithographed plate of butterflies, folding map in pocket at end, illustrations, some full-page, original zebra patterned endpapers with pocket, modern light red crushed morocco, gilt spine in compartments and with double black leather labels, t.e.g., [Czech p.122], 8vo, 1898. ⁂ A very good clean copy of this classic of African hunting literature. 'Neumann hunted throughout British East Africa, hunting rhino and oryx near the Mackenzie River, then traveling to the Jambeni Range for elephant, impala, and rhinoceros... The colored plate of butterflies was highly prized by entomologists and was often removed' (Czech). Czech further observes that the coloured butterfly plate was 'highly prized by entomologists, and was often removed'.
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