Author: Raymond B. Cowles
Title: Zulu Journal: Field Notes of a Naturalist in South Africa
Description: Berkley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1959. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this anthropological study of Zulu customs, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. Illustrated with a map to the front and thirty-two plates to the centre. Collated complete. An anthropological study of the tribes of South Africa, including details of: hunting, protective coloration, game reserves, bird life, seasons, night and superstition. Written by Raymond Bridgman Cowles, a herpetologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was born in the British colony of Natal in South Africa to American missionary parents, and is remembered as one of America's first ecologists and conservationists. From the library of Lord Raglan, Fitzroy John Somerset. Raglan"s great-great-grandfather was Field Marshal Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan and hero of the Battle at Inkerman and Alma in the Crimean War. He also served as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He died in the Crimea in 1855. The house in which the library was situated, Cefn Tilla Court, was purchased by the Raglan Memorial committee for his descendants. Lord Raglan was a keen collector of anthropology and folklore, with many of the works in his extensive library focusing upon this topic. In the original red cloth binding. Externally very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Zulu Journal Cowles Journal None
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Title: Zulu Journal: Field Notes of a Naturalist in South Africa
Description: Berkley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1959. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this anthropological study of Zulu customs, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author. Illustrated with a map to the front and thirty-two plates to the centre. Collated complete. An anthropological study of the tribes of South Africa, including details of: hunting, protective coloration, game reserves, bird life, seasons, night and superstition. Written by Raymond Bridgman Cowles, a herpetologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was born in the British colony of Natal in South Africa to American missionary parents, and is remembered as one of America's first ecologists and conservationists. From the library of Lord Raglan, Fitzroy John Somerset. Raglan"s great-great-grandfather was Field Marshal Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan and hero of the Battle at Inkerman and Alma in the Crimean War. He also served as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He died in the Crimea in 1855. The house in which the library was situated, Cefn Tilla Court, was purchased by the Raglan Memorial committee for his descendants. Lord Raglan was a keen collector of anthropology and folklore, with many of the works in his extensive library focusing upon this topic. In the original red cloth binding. Externally very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Zulu Journal Cowles Journal None
Price: GBP 60.00 = appr. US$ 85.68 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 847T79
- Book number: 847T79
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