Chapman, Abel Collection of works

Chapman, Abel Collection of works On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, inscribed to 'The skipper, from the author' on the front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, split to head of front joint, spotting to endpapers [Czech Africa p. 59]; Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, map frontispiece, 29 halftone plates from photographs, cloth slightly rubbed and marked [Czech Africa pp. 59-60]; First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling. London: Horace Cox, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for (several folding), occasional spotting to text; Wild Spain (España Agreste). London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper ('Abel Chapman, nest off Crowhall Moor, June 23, 1927'), original cloth (recased), folding map, all plates as called for; Unexplored Spain. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all plates as called for, spine slightly rubbed. Together with 12 others (these not collated), including: Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond, 1924, Retrospect, 1928, Wild Norway, 1897, Memories, 1930 (all first editions, original cloth), and Bird-Life of the Borders, 1907 (second edition, original cloth); Frederick Courtenay Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, 1893, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, 1893, Sport and Travel East and West, 1900 (first, third and first editions, all in original cloth); J. G. Millais, The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 (first edition, one of 1,025 copies, 3 volumes, large 4to, original cloth, plates, cloth mottled, wear to spines), The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901 (first edition, 4to, original half japon, mottled), Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, 1918 (first edition, original cloth, ex Aberdovey Literary Institute), Wanderings and Memoires, 1919 (first edition, original cloth) Qty: (19) Note: '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).