Description

Second Edition. Profusely illustrated with photographs on full page plates throughout. 4to, publisher's original green cloth blindstamped in an alligator skin pattern, gilt-lettered on the spine and upper cover, and with a black pictorial design of an African hunter on the top cover. xii, including errata, 310, including appendix and index, 8 ads pp. A handsome copy, sometime rebacked using the original spine panel and other materials, end-leaves renewed, clean and very well preserved internally, the binding strong and tight.

Edizione: scarce work in the original cloth. this book is an attempt to record vanishing species of african wildlife, their habits, colouration, spoor and populations. stigand considered that with civilization advancing at such a rapid pace, there would be little opportunity in the future to find and observe animals still undisturbed by the encroachment of humans on the landscape. very scarce.