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  First Edition of "Perhaps the most famous of all Hunting Books" A Hunter's Wanderings In Africa; Inscribed by Frederick Courteney Selous to James Jameson

  SELOUS, Frederick Courteney.

  A Hunter’s Wanderings In Africa.

  London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1881.

  First edition of this classic firsthand account "perhaps the most famous of all hunting books" of Frederick Courteney Selous' hunting expeditions across southern and central Africa. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded wood engraved frontispiece, a folding map, with 19 black and white full-page illustrations. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To James S. Jameson with kind regards from the author Nov 1881." The recipient, James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was a Scottish explorer, naturalist, and heir to the Jameson whiskey fortune. In the early part of 1879, he went to South Africa in search of big game and joined African hunter F.C. Selous in Matabele (Ndebele), before pushing on to Mashonaland, hunting lions and rhinoceroses. He is mentioned fifteen times in the index. On page 415 Selous writes, 'Jameson opened the ball by striking a large cow (hippo) right in front of the head with a 10-bore bullet....' Towards the end of 1878 he went out to South Africa in search of big game, and hunted on the edges of the Kalahari Desert. In the early part of 1879 he returned to Potchefstroom, from where, despite the disaffection of the Boers, he reached the Zambezi district of the interior, ...

  Price: $9,800.00     Item Number: 148068

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