Five Years Hunters Life Far Interior South Africa: First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Vol 2 only of 2, discoloration to original green cloth covers, gilt spine title still readable, f/o name in pencil on tp, ads in rear dated February 1852., 1st edn, usual foxing, engraved tp by prominent engraver William Roberts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. American edition. Vol. 1 (ONLY). Octavo. 326pp. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Foxing and small stains in the text, small tears at the spine ends, near very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback - volume two only of a two volume set, 1950, with no jacket as issued. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards slightly rubbed with chips to cloth at spine head and tail, and slight crack to lower front spine fold. Binding tight and appears little read - hinges sound. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text and illustrations (with tissue-paper guards) bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Later Edition. Octavo, [two volumes], xiv, [17], 18-326pp; viii, [9], 10-303pp, [1], 4pp ads. Publisher's brown cloth, ornate border stamped in blind on covers. Title in gilt on spines. Solid text blocks, cloth worn away at corners and spines, a near fine set. The first edition of Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa was published in London in 1850. (Czech 71) (Hosken 53) The work details Cumming's hunting trips through Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and the Limpop River valleys through present-day South Africa. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, published in 1874. (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. 1st U.S. edition. Volume 1. Sm 8vo. Disbound hardcover. Poor book or binding copy. Disbound: lacking boards and spine. Dampstained. Pencil drawing on rear endpage. (Hunting, South Africa) Inquire if you need further information.

First edition. Two volumes. Frontispieces, extra pictorial titles, plates and map. 8vo, (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches), original brown cloth, gilt blocked lion to upper covers, and with attractive extensive gilt blocked hunting scene to the spines. The upper portion of the bacckstrip of volume 2 has come away at lower joint, whereas the lower portion has come away complately, but all is there waiting for someone more skilled than I to reattach them. Restored it would be a lovely copy.…

Fronts, additional engr. titles, plates. Orig. brown cloth, spines lettered and dec. in gilt, at some time carefully recased, e.ps. replaced; some rubbing but a good-plus copy. Ownership inscriptions of Edmund Wilmot and Francis Ley. Gordon-Cumming, 1820-1866, brother of Alexander Penrose, traveller, knowns as 'the lion hunter' and described by Livingstone as 'a mad sort of Scotsman'. This copy of the first edition with Derbyshire provenance: Edmund Wilmot, 1809-1869, of Chaddesdon, Derbyshire and later Hopton Hall, was son of Sir Robert and Lady Lucy Wilmot. Sir Francis Ley, 1846-1916, industrialist, founded Ley's Malleable Castings Vulcan Ironworks in Derby. Keen on sports, he built facilities for football, cricket, and baseball - the last reintroduced to England by Ley, hence Derby County F.C.'s old ground being named 'The Baseball Ground'. His own cricket team in 1912 included three England football players, Messrs Bloomer, Barnes and Bagshaw. …