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Chapman, Abel.
Savage Sudan: Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life.
Publisher: Gurney and Jackson, London;
Date of Publication: 1921
Stock Code: 9550
FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo, pp. xx, 452. With 248 illustrations including frontispiece and 29 plates (some full page and others multi-image), sketches by the Author and maps. Publishers’ finely reeded bottle green cloth with gilt titles and ruling to spine and gilt animal motifs to boards, top edge gilt. Slightly bumped to spine-tips and corners. Some minor off-setting to front endpapers and title-page. Cover cloth is clean and contents tight, bright, clean, and free or annotations or inscriptions. Overall Near Fine. Scarce game-hunting classic by the Sunderland born naturalist. Abel Chapman (1851–1929) was responsible for the establishment of the Sabi Game Reserve (the first game reserve in South Africa) and helped save the Spanish Ibex from extinction. This work describes his travels up the White Nile and the wildlife he encountered, including rhino, gazelle and buffalo. With the printed bookplate of R. A. H. Coombes to the ffep. Coombes was a respected ornithologist and the author of the King Penguin “Mountain Birds”. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £175.00