Lot 686
  • 686

Jessen, Burchard Heinrich

Estimate
500 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Jessen, Burchard Heinrich
  • W.N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa... for private distribution only. London: Marchant Singer & Co., 1906
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (245 x 168mm.), xvi [includes frontispiece], 416pp., folding map [in the rear cover pocket], 37 plates [1 photographic, 36 after sketches], 82 photo illustrations in the text, original ribbed red cloth, slipcase

Provenance

James Andrew Tennant Mortlock, armorial bookplate

Literature

Czech (Africa) p.84

Condition

A very good copy
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