Five years of a hunter's life in the far interior of South Africa.. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c. By Roualeyn Gordon Cumming ... With illustrations. In two volumes.
Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming (1820-1866)
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3164333.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2. plates. ill... 20cm. Provenance: Inscribed transversely on half-title page: "Calke Abbey Library". Inscribed on main title page: "John[?]H.Crewe Calke" [i.e. Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet (1824-1886)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full brown cloth, blind fillets with corner pieces forming a border, gilt decorative centre piece (lion); gilt decorative spine, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming (1820-1866)