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Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, published in 1874.
Octavo, [two volumes], xiv, [17], 18-326pp; viii, [9], 10-303pp, [1], 4pp ads. Publisher’s brown cloth, ornate border stamped in blind on covers. Title in gilt on spines. Solid text blocks, cloth worn away at corners and spines, a near fine set.
The first edition of Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa was published in London in 1850. (Czech 71) (Hosken 53) The work details Cumming’s hunting trips through Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and the Limpop River valleys through present-day South Africa.
