A Hunter’s Life in South Africa, Volumes I and II (African Hunting Reprint series)

Complete in two volumes. Facsimile reproduction of the 1850 edition with a new frontispiece and introduction. xviii, 390pp, with occasional maps and illustrations; xii, 380pp, with occasional plate illustrations. Both volumes uniformly bound in brown cloth with gilt motif and lettering. Boards are rubbed at edges. Some mild spotting on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Both volumes in their original, illustrated dust jackets, rubbed and bumped at edges, minor loss on corners and spine ends, a little flat scuffing, with inner flaps lightly toned. In the vanguard of the migration from the coastal regions into the dark interior of Africa in the early 19th century were hunters, notably those who shot elephant for the profitable ivory trade. Many wrote of their adventures, some, including the current author, making a valuable literary contributory. Cumming writes of his hunting expedition which started in Grahamstown in October 1843 and took him through land teaming with game to the Orange River and Griqualand West.