Beschreibung:

Short Stalks, Second Series, comprising trips in Somaliland, Sinai, the Eastern Desert of Egypt, Crete, the Carpathian Mountains, and Daghestan, 1st edition, Edward Stanford, 1898, numerous photographic plates including frontispiece, 2 folding maps in end-pockets, light spotting and browning to endpapers and half-title, half-title inscribed 'M de C Findlay, with the authors kind regards, April 1898', bookplate of the recipient Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay to front free endpaper, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original tan pictorial cloth, spine and portion of front board darkened, corners bumped, faint red stain to lower outer corner of front board, large 8vo, together with Two African Trips, with Notes and Suggestions on Big Game Preservation in Africa, 1st edition, Edward Stanford, 1902, numerous photographic plates including frontispiece, large folding map in end-pocket, edges untrimmed, original tan pictorial cloth, spine nicked and darkened, covers slightly marked, corners bumped, large 8vo, plus Roosevelt (Theodore), Mes chasses en Afrique, traduction de Norbert Sevestre, 1st edition, Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1910, photographic frontispiece, plates, toning, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, original brown cloth gilt, spine sunned, frayed at foot, large 8vo; and 2 others including a bright copy of Gaetano Casati's Ten Years in Equatoria, 1st edition, 1891, original cloth, volume 2 only Presentation copy of Short Stalks, inscribed to eminent British diplomat Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay (1861-1932). (3)