Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 281

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MYERS, ARTHUR BOWEN RICHARDS. Life with the Hamran Arabs. An Account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan during the Winter of 1874-5. 5 mounted Woodburytypes of hunting trophies. xv, [1], 355 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 198x133 mm, later buckram, slightly blistered, endpapers renewed preserving Guards Club bookplate (gift of the author dated 1876); occasional marginal fingersoiling. Inscription "Presented by the Author" and stamps of Basil D. Barr on half-title. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1876

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first edition of a memoir of big game hunting in eastern Sudan by a surgeon in the Coldstream Guards. Czech/African, page 206.