CUMMING, Roualeyn Gordon - Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa / 2 Volumes

New York City, Harper & Brothers, 1852. Hardcover. pp. 326, 303. Small 8vo. Complete two volume set bound in original dark brown cloth. With extra illustrated title page to both volumes, and eight-page publisher's catalogue at end of volume II, dated February, 1852. Boards of both volumes edge-worn, bumped and scuffed. About two-thirds of the spine of volume II detached. Front hinge weak on volume II and rear board almost detached. Contents of both volumes foxed, but otherwise clean. Can be read with care; thus a good reading set. 'With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, etc.' First published by John Murray in 1850, in London, and by Harper, in New York in the same year. This is a later printing of the first edition. .

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