The Wild Sports of Southern Africa. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by HARRIS Captain William Cornwallis
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo,, 1991. 8vo., with additional coloured portrait frontispiece, coloured frontispiece, coloured engraved and printed titles, coloured plates and folding map coloured in outline; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. African Hunting Reprint Series, vol. 9. High-quality facsimile reissue of the original Richardson fourth edition of 1844. VERY SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41104
- Title
- The Wild Sports of Southern Africa. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- HARRIS Captain William Cornwallis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo,
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- sporting, sports, field sports, big game hunting, south africa, william cornwallis harris,
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