POTOCKI, Józef and Piotr STACHIEWICZ.
Notatki mysliwskie Z Afryki: Somali.
Warsaw, Gebethner & Wolff, 1897. Large 4to (40 x 31 cm). With a colour-printed frontispiece, 18 photogravure plates (5 double-page), 5 numbered full-page tinted plates, and ca. 60 illustrations in text (mostly tinted). Publisher's original pictorial beige cloth, with a lion's head on the front board and zebra-patterned endpapers. 133, [1] pp.
€ 3,250
Well-illustrated first edition, in the original Polish, of "one of the rarest of all African big game hunting books" (Czech) by the Polish count Józef Potocki (1862-1922), a renowned big game hunter and breeder of Arabian horses. In 1895 he went on safari to Somaliland and afterwards wrote the present volume to commemorate the trip. The illustrations were made by the notable Polish painter and illustrator Piotr Stachiewicz (1858-1938) and include 18 beautiful photogravures of his paintings, including 5 double-page. It was translated into English a few years later as Sport in Somaliland (1900), a much sought after publication and usually much more expensive, but equally rare.
Some foxing throughout, binding slightly soiled and one hinge slightly damaged. A good copy. K.P. Czech, Bibl. African big game hunting, p. 133.
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