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 + .

Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15631

Catalogue: Sporting

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

Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn

A Hunter's Life in South Africa African Collection series

Camden, S.C. Briar Patch Press, c1987. Hardcover. 352p. illus. Fine condition, leather boards .

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 44611

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Hunting--South Africa