1890 WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS VOLS I & II BY BAKER 27 B/W PLATES ASIA AFRICA *

Description: I have here for sale a book entitled WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America Vols I and II by Sir Samuel W Baker. It is a first edition published by Macmillan and Co in 1890. There are a total of 27 b/w plates across the two volumes, 13 in one and 14 in the other. Vol I focuses on the elephant, tiger, leopard, lion and bear and Vol II focuses on the hippopotamus, crocodile, buffalo, American buffalo, rhinoceros, boar, hyena, giraffe, antelope, African antelopes, deer, wapiti, sambur and spotted deer. Sir Samuel White Baker KCB FRS FRGS (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the first European to visit Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa, and for his exploits as a big game hunter in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Baker wrote a considerable number of books and published articles. He was a friend of King Edward VII, who as Prince of Wales, visited Baker with Queen Alexandra in Egypt. Other friendships were with explorers Henry Morton Stanley, Roderick Murchison, John H. Speke and James A. Grant, with the ruler of Egypt Pasha Ismail The Magnificent, Major-General Charles George Gordon and Maharaja Duleep Singh. Bound in dark red cloth hardboards with a gilt band to the top and bottom of the boards and gilt images of animals to the centre of both front and rear boards. Gilt lettering to the spines. Vol I has quite a faded spine and both volumes are chipped and bumped to the head and tail. Boards firm. Dark green endpapers. Page edges a little darkened and slightly rough cut. Pages themselves clean in both volumes. Prelims and flyleaf have very light foxing. Vol I - 419 pages, Vol II - 379 + 59 page publisher's catalogue. 23 x 15 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.

Price: 199.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

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Shipping Cost: 46.34 GBP