Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1938
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/48
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    72 Copley (H.) The Game FisHes of AFrica, illusts., Ready shortly £1 5s The main object of this book is to help and guide men situated in any part of Africa with their efforts to fish: well over 100 fresh water and about 200 salt water fish are described. 73 Corry (J.) OBSERVATIONS upon the WINDWARD Coast of AFRICA: the Religion, Character, Customs, etc., of the Natives . Resources of the Country, 1805-06; with a Letter on the Most Simple and Effectual Means of Abolishing the Slave Trade, coloured front., map and 7 aquatint plates, including fine folding views of Sierra Leone, the Island of Goree, Porto Praya, Bance Island, etc., 4to., half calf, 1807 £3 74 Cox (Sir Percy) GENEALOGICAL TREES of the Aysa and Gadabursi Somal, large 4to., half leather, Aden, 1894 15s 75 [Crouch] Burton (Richard, 7.c., NATHANIEL CROUCH) The ENGLISH ACQUISITIONS in GUINEA and East INDIA . . . with an account of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Government, etc. . ..a Description of the Isle of St. Helena, curious woodcuts, |2mo., calf, 1728 £2 10s Includes a description of the forts and castles of the Royal African Company and of the forts and factories of the East India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra and China. 76 Crowther (Rev. S.) An EXPEDITION up the NIGER and TsHADDA Rivers by MacGregor Laird, 1854, map, cr. 8vo., cl., 1855 8s 77 Dallas (R. C.) History of the Maroons, from their Origin to the Establishment of their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone, maps and fronts., 2 vols, 8vo., ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, VERY FINE COPY, 1803 £1 10s 78 Dalrymple (A.) An Account of the Loss of the ‘‘ GROSVENOR ” INDIAMAN, commanded by Capt. John Coxon, on the 4th August, 1782 (inferred from the Portuguese Description of the Coast of Africa to have happened between 28 deg. and 29 deg. S.); witha relation of the Events which befel those Survivors who have reached England . . . being the Report given into the East-India Company, by Alexander Dalrymple, Esq., 8vo., half calf (few stains and some margins shaved), 1783 | £4 79 Daly (Marcus) Bic Game HUNTING and ADVENTURE, 1897-1936, illusts., sm. 8vo., cl., 1937 10s 6d Mr. Daly began his hunting career just after the Matabeleland Rebellion of 1896, in which his father and elder brother were killed, and his first job was to catch young game for Cecil Rhodes’s Zoo. Since then he has ranged all over Africa, largely after ivory, penetrating the pygmy forest and other recesses still imperfectly explored. A life of continual peril from man and beast has been met with an equal hardihood, and many of his chapters are as exciting as they are vivid.
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