Buy this book on-line MATHERS, E. P. (Frederick Courteney SELOUS INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY) : Zambesia England's El Dorado in Africa - Being a Description of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and the Less-Known Adjacent Territiries, and an Account of the Gold Fields of British South AfricaKing, Sell & Railton // Juta & Co, London and Capetown, 1891
Very good in the original grey pictorial cloth as issued, spine darkened, spine ends and corners worn, a small piece of the frontispiece tissue guard adhering to blank margin of the plate else a clean tight example. INSCRIBED on the head of the preface: "Isaac Shimmin From F. C. Selous Esq. July 30 1892". Isaac Shimmin was one of the first Wesleyan missionaries in Mashonaland, arriving in 1891. He was aquainted with Selous from the late 1880's when they were both in Klerksdorp, and Selous invited him to join the Pioneer Column offering him his own wagon. Due to circumstances he could not do this but arrived the following year . Shimmin was an accomplished hunter. His reminiscences of Selous are included in Millais biography, pp.369-373". A fine association between two notable pioneers of Rhodesia. Selous inscriptions are extremely scarce: this is only the second we have handled in over 40 years. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MATHERS, E. P. (Frederick Courteney SELOUS INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY) : Zambesia England's El Dorado in Africa - Being a Description of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and the Less-Known Adjacent Territiries, and an Account of the Gold Fields of British South Africa. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, atlases, out-of-print books, first editions and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |