Lot 228
Africa.- Faulkner (Henry) Elephant Haunts: being A Sportsman's Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone, 1st ed., cont. cloth, 1868.
Hammer Price: £350
Description
Africa.- Faulkner (Henry) Elephant Haunts: being A Sportsman's Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone, with scenes of Elephant, Buffalo, and Hippopotamus Hunting, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and title-vignette, lacking half-title and and 16pp. advertisements at end, pencil signature at head of title and on front free endpaper, upper hinge weak with frontispiece and title loose, contemporary cloth, rubbed and marked, short tear to spine, some holes to rear cover and lower joint, corners bumped, [Czech p. 56], 8vo, 1868.
⁂ Rare.
Description
Africa.- Faulkner (Henry) Elephant Haunts: being A Sportsman's Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone, with scenes of Elephant, Buffalo, and Hippopotamus Hunting, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and title-vignette, lacking half-title and and 16pp. advertisements at end, pencil signature at head of title and on front free endpaper, upper hinge weak with frontispiece and title loose, contemporary cloth, rubbed and marked, short tear to spine, some holes to rear cover and lower joint, corners bumped, [Czech p. 56], 8vo, 1868.
⁂ Rare.