Lot 17
  • 17

Potocki, Joseph, Count.

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Description

  • Sport in Somaliland being an account of a hunting trip to that region. London: Rowland Ward, 1900
number 80 of a limited edition of 200 copies, large 4to (385 x 300mm.), coloured portrait frontispiece, 18 plates on india paper mounted, illustrations in the text, most coloured or tinted, folding hand-coloured map, original pictorial cloth gilt, binding a bit worn and shaken

Literature

Czech, Africa p.133: "One of the rarest of all African big game hunting books"

Condition

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