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HOLUB, EMIL Seven Years in South Africa: Travels, Researches, and Hunting Adventures, Between the Diamond-Fields and the Zambesi (1872-79). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881. First American edition. Two volumes. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth gilt. 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; xi, 426; xi, 479 pp.; folding map, frontispieces, plates, in-text illustrations. Extremities somewhat worn, textblocks overopened and a bit loose, map torn, scattered foxing. "A well illustrated work, this is more valuable in terms of exploration and travel than for its hunting content" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 132-133. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson