Chapman (Abel). On Safari, 1st edition, 1908, & 9 other Chapman titles
Sold for £500
Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 34 plates including frontispiece, 4 + 16 pp. advertisements, presentation inscription from Chapman on his letterhead pasted to front pastedown, original cloth, rubbed, spine rolled, 8vo, together with:
Savage Sudan, its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921, 30 plates including frontispiece, original cloth, pale mottling in places, 8vo, and 8 other Abel Chapman titles, i.e. Bird-Life of the Borders (1889; and another copy, 1907), Wild Spain (1893), Wild Norway (1897), Unexplored Spain (1910), The Borders and Beyond: Arctic ... Cheviot ... Tropic (1924), Retrospect (1928; frontispiece loose), and Memories (1930), all 1st editions in original cloth (except Bird-Life, 1907, 2nd edition)
(Qty: 10)
Czech Africa pp. 59-60 (On Safari, Savage Sudan, Retrospect, Memories).
'[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).
Sale price
Time, Location
Auction House
Sold for £500
Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 34 plates including frontispiece, 4 + 16 pp. advertisements, presentation inscription from Chapman on his letterhead pasted to front pastedown, original cloth, rubbed, spine rolled, 8vo, together with:
Savage Sudan, its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921, 30 plates including frontispiece, original cloth, pale mottling in places, 8vo, and 8 other Abel Chapman titles, i.e. Bird-Life of the Borders (1889; and another copy, 1907), Wild Spain (1893), Wild Norway (1897), Unexplored Spain (1910), The Borders and Beyond: Arctic ... Cheviot ... Tropic (1924), Retrospect (1928; frontispiece loose), and Memories (1930), all 1st editions in original cloth (except Bird-Life, 1907, 2nd edition)
(Qty: 10)
Czech Africa pp. 59-60 (On Safari, Savage Sudan, Retrospect, Memories).
'[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).
