Author: Charles Hamilton; F. G. H. Price
Title: Sketches of Life and Sport in South-Eastern Africa
Description: London, Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first edition of this account of Charles Hamilton's time spent in South Easter Africa. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates.Charles Hamilton's account of his time spent living and working in South East Africa, noting particularly the life of the Kaffirs, with whom he lived for many months.Edited by F. G. H. Price.Illustrated by Pierre Mejanel.Slip bound in before the first contents page, 'The portrait of the Author which is mentioned in the Preface has been cancelled, and another Frontispiece substituted&apos.Collated, complete. Collated from Jisc from a copy held a the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with some marks and discolouration to the boards and spine. A couple of cracks to the joints. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Hinges are a little strained. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots. The occasional ink and pencil note to the text. Good . Ill.: Pierre Mejanel. Good .

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