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Lot 225
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
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[SPORTING]. CARPENTER, Robert Ruliph Morgan (1877-1949). Game Trails from Alaska to Africa. N.p.: n.d, [ca 1938].
8vo. Numerous photographic illustrations. Contemporary tan morocco gilt (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Roy Chapman Andrews (presentation inscription).
LIMITED EDITION, number 5 of 50 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARPENTER: “To Roy Chapman Andrews with kindest regards Ruly Carpenter Aug. 9, 1944”.
[With:]
HARRIS, William Cornwallis, Sir (1807-1848). Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa. Mazoe, Rhodesia: Frank Read Press, 1976. Folio (583 x 415 mm). Numerous color plates. Modern quarter leather gilt, all edges stained red. LIMITED EDITION, number 162 of 550 copies. Facsimile of the first edition of 1840.