MAXWELL, Marius - Lot 241

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MAXWELL, Marius - Lot 241
MAXWELL, Marius Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa. With a monograph on the African Elephant. Preface by Sidney F. Harmer. London, William Heinemann, 1925. Infolio (312 x 248 mm) XIX, 206 pp, 113 plates (including frontispiece) from photographs by Maxwell. Blue percale, smooth spine with gilt title (publisher's binding). See Czech, African Big Game, 109. First English edition (after the 1924 New York original), enriched with the monograph on elephants which is not included in the American edition. Beautiful photographs (including 3 fold-outs printed in sepia) with snapshots of elephants, rhinos, hippos, buffalo, and giraffes. A fine copy, complete with all required plates (including a map of Kenya). Without the dust jacket (not illustrated). "Needless to say, the photographic images are striking" (Czech). Binding very slightly sunned. Provenance : Forêt de Crécy (ex-libris)
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