Desirable first edition of Roosevelt’s final work on big-game hunting. Two volumes, original buckram cloth with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispieces, with illustrations from photographs and drawings by Philip R. Goodwin and with forty faunal maps. Life Histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt and Edmund Heller. Published April 1914 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, with Scribner’s seal on copyright page. A nice example. A lifelong naturalist, Roosevelt was recognized for his robustly masculine persona, which was reflected in his strong, energetic style of writing. Published in 1914, Life-Histories of African Game Animals is Roosevelt’s tour-de-force on the subject so dear to him. Chapters in Volume One: (1) The Country and Its History; (2) Derivation of the Fauna, Geographically and Paleontologically; (3) The Flora of East and Middle Africa and Its Relation to the Fauna; (4) Concealing and Revealing Coloration and Their Relation to Natural Selection; (5) Game Preserves; (6) The Lion; (7) The Leopard and the Cheetah; (8) The Spotted Hyena, Striped Hena, and Hunting Dog; (9) Pigs; (10) The Hippopotamus; (11) The Reticulated and Common Giraffes; (12) Roan, Sable, and Oryx; (13) Wildebeest, Damaliscus, and Hartebeest; and (14) Buffaloes. Chapters in Volume Two: (15) Bushbucks, Sitatungas, Koodoos, Bongos, and Elands; (16) The Waterbucks and Reedbucks; (17) Duikers and Small Antelopes; (18) The Gazelles and Their Allies; (19) The Dikdiks; (20) The Hook-Lipped or Black Rhinoceros; (21) White or Square-Mouthed Rhinoceros; (22) The Common Zebra or Bonte-Quagga; (23) The Grevy Zebra; (24) Elephants; and (25) Equipment, Arms, and Preservation of Specimens. No major faults. Minor soiling to covers. Rubbing to extremities. Very light sunning to spines. Some chipping to spine label on vol. 2, tiny bit of same on vol. 1. Half-title page of volume 1 had been partially torn away but has been secured using professional conservation methods. 7 x 9.75798 pp. which includes 42 pp. of Appendix and Index.

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