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BALDWIN, William Charles.
African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi
including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c. from 1852 to 1860.
First edition, a book most frequently encountered in the second edition issued in the same year with a slightly variant title, and the third edition of 1894. "A work of early sport and travel, this describes Baldwin's journeys through Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Namaqualand to the Zambesi and the Victoria Falls (though not yet know as that). He hunted in the lands of the Amatongas and Zulus where he collected hippopotamus, lion, eland, rhinoceros, buffalo, kudu and Giraffe. Near Lake Ngami, he bagged elephant, then crossed the Tugela River on his way to the Zambesi … where he encountered buffalo and lion." (Czech) Mendelssohn commends Baldwin's "simple and unostentatious" style, remarking that he "he went through more adventures than almost all of the great South African travellers and hunters."
Octavo (211 × 127 mm). Later nineteenth-century half-morocco on marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red and dark tan labels to the spine, spine gilt in compartments, double gilt rules to corner and spine edges, top edge gilt, matching marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 tinted lithographic plates, 10 engraved plates and numerous engraved vignettes to the text, folding map. Armorial bookplate of Col. Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell to the front pastedown. A couple of very minor scuffs to the spine, light shelf-wear, a little browned, but overall a very good copy.
