CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON:

Fem års jägarlif i det inre af Syd-Afrika. Stockholm 1873.

. Pp. xii, 273. With 4 woodcut plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Bookplate. A Swedish abridgment of this early classic on African hunting anonymously translated from the original English (1850). According to the author he was the first European in Bamangwatoland. See Mendelsohn i, 399.

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Book number: 14290

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, afrika, africana, travel, travels, voyage, exploration, explore, south africa

CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON:

Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With Anecdotes of the Chase and Notices of the Native Tribes. Two volumes. London, John Murray, 1855.

. Pp. xvi, 388; x, 381. With engraved fronts, vignettes on titles, thirteen engraved plates and one map. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spines faded. A classic work on African game hunting, first published in 1850. Also valuable for information about the natives, the Boers, as well as for zoological and botanical observations. Cf Czech p. 43. Cf Mendelssohn I, p. 398-9.

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Book number: 121011

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, african, afrique, afrika, afriken, travel, exploration, south africa, game, hunting

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon; with an Introduction by Bayard Taylor

A Hunter's Life Among Lions, Elephants and Other Wild Animals of South Africa. ; Two Volumes in One. Complete

New York, Derby And Jackson, 1857. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; I; xiv, 17-326; II; viii, 9-303; Illustrated with a frontispiece and six black and white inserted plates; red cloth decorated in blind, spine decorated in gilt, blue leather spine label lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers; This copy has been professionally re-backed; Spine label a bit worn else, very good. Scottish traveller and sportsman, known as the "lion hunter," was the 4th baronet of Altyre and Gordonstown. At eighteen, he joined the East India Co.'s service as a cornet in the Madras Light Cavalry. A hunting enthusiast, his first books with greeted with incredulity, until David Livingstone, of Stanley fame, vouched for the accuracy of his big game narratives in public. Good + .

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Book number: 15631

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Big Game Hunting; Africa; Big Game; Elephants; Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Roualeyn Gordon Cumming

The Lion Hunter of South Africa Five Years' Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa, with Notices of the Native Tribes and Savage Animals

London, John Murray, 1904. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Eight edition of this much reprinted account of five years in South Africa in the early 1840s. Illustrated. Foxing, occasionally heavy. Former owner's signature neatly to fep. Blue cloth, blind embossed to front with bright gilt titling to spine, worn to edges. 8vo. 497pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009845

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: World Travel & Culture Africa

Roualeyn Gordon Cumming

The Lion Hunter of South Africa Five Years' Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa, with Notices of the Native Tribes and Savage Animals

London, John Murray, 1911. Hardcover. Third impression of the eighth edition of this much reprinted account of five years in South Africa in the early 1840s. Illustrated. Minor foxing to block edge, but internally all is clean and bright. Former owner's signature neatly to fep. Red cloth, blind embossed to front with bright gilt titling to spine, worn to edges and marked/faded to spine. 12mo. xii. 497pp . Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 106862

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: World Travel & Culture Africa

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. Bayard Taylor, Editor

Wild Men and Wild Beasts or Scenes in Camp or Jungle

New York, Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1873. Hardcover. Small octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 372, (iv), ads; frontispiece and seventeen black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt. A remarkable relic of Gilded Age publishing offering a look at the unknown places of the World. Taylor compiled and arranged this volume. Bears the bookplate and signature of Leon G. Bagley of Rutland Vermont. Bagley was a prominent citizen and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office. The Library Of Travel, Exploration & Adventure Edited by Bayard Taylor. very good to near fine and appear to have never been read .

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Book number: 18587

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Africa