Marius Maxwell; Sir Sidney F. Harmer - Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa

London, William Heinemann, 1925. Leather. A smart edition of this work on wildlife photography in equatorial Africa, with folding plates. Illustrated with three large folding monograph plates depicting African elephants, a large folding map of Kenya, and one hundred and nine other plates from photographs by the author. Collated complete. A detailed work on the skill of wildlife photography, with reference to equipment, incidents, experiences, and sighting animals like giraffes, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and the elephants. With notes on elephants as a species. Written and illustrated by Marius Maxwell, a British wildlife photographer for Natural History at the British Museum. With a preface by Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer, a British zoologist and president of the Linnean Society from 1927 to 1931. Bound in quarter calf with blue cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot and age toning to the endpapers. Library bookplate to the front and rear pastedowns, with library stamp to the rear of the plates. Very Good . Ill.: Marius Maxwell. Very Good .

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