Author: Abel Chapman
Title: Savage Sudan
Description: London, Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the first work of natural history on Sudan, by Abel Chapman, a smart and illustrated volume. The first edition.A travel work exploring Sudan by Abel Chapman, in which he explores the natives of the country, as well as the big-game and bird-life of Sudan. This was the first natural history work on Sudan, and offers an in-depth study on the wildlife of the country. Chapman travelled to Sudan many times over a course of fifty years.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-nine plates, and in-text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.Chapman was a hunter-naturalist who helped to save the Spanish Ibex from extinction. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the joints, spine, and to the gilt to the front board. A few light marks to the cloth. Hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Abel Chapman. Very Good Indeed .

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