Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum Natural History

by J. G Dollman

$200 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

London: Trustees of the Museum, 1921. First edition. 8vo. vii, 112pp. Heavily annotated in ink by American businessman and big-game hunter George L. Harrison, Jr., his marginal notes giving sizes of his trophies against those in the Selous collection; at the end of the preface Harrison has written a note concerning a conversation with Selous about the collection. The catalogue has two sections, the first describing 443 specimens from Africa, the second 81

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