Gun and Camera in Southern Africa

BRYDEN (H. Anderson).

Gun and Camera in Southern Africa

THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY IN A SPECIAL BINDING

A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the Kalahari Desert, and the Lake River Country, Ngamiland with Notes on Colonisation, Natives, Natural History and Sport. First edition. Folding map, 23 full page illustrations and others in text. 8vo. Full polished calf with pictorial gilt to upper board, title label and gilt tooling in compartments to spine. Bryden’s ex-libris to front pastedown. All edges marbled. Author’s ownership inscription to half-title, dated 1895. xiv, 544pp. London, Edward Stanford, 1893.

£750.00

“Bryden traveled through Bechuanaland, hunting antelope and small game, crossed the Kalahari Desert, then hunted giraffe near Lake Ngami. Upon reaching the Botletli River plains, Bryden’s group bagged zebra, wildebeest, lechwe, and other game. Recrossing the Kalahari, the expedition took trophy eland. There is a further chapter on the distribution of large game.” (Czech).

A professional rugby player as well as a passionate naturalist and big game hunter, Henry Anderson Bryden (1854-1937) traveled extensively in South Africa and beyond. This is his own copy of one of his earliest works.

Czech, Kenneth P. An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950. Minnesota, 1999. p.24-25.

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