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PEEL, Charles Victor Alexander.

Somaliland. Being an account of two expeditions into the far interior. Together with a complete list of every animal and bird known to inhabit that country, and a list of the reptiles collected by the author ... London, F.E. Robinson & Co., 1900.

8vo, pp. xv, [1], 345, [3]; with frontispiece, 4 plates, a folding map and numerous illustrations within the text; light damp staining to frontispiece; very good in original maroon cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt with gilt vignette to upper cover; extremities a little rubbed, a few marks to covers; ink inscriptions to front endpapers ‘With the Author’s Compliments 1900’ and ‘R.C. de Crespigny'.

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First edition, presentation copy from the author. ‘An excellent sporting title, this features all manner of big game hunting in the regions southwest of Hargeisa on Peel’s first expedition, then through the Haud and Ogaden on his second’ (Czech).

Peel (1869-1931) was a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and established a private museum of natural history and anthropology in his home town of Oxford. His other works include the utopian novel The Ideal Island: a Romance (1927) in which the islanders espouse universal nudity.

Czech p. 127.

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Presented by the Author

PEEL, Charles Victor Alexander.

Somaliland. Being an account of two expeditions into the far interior. Together with a complete list of every animal and bird known to inhabit that country, and a list of the reptiles collected by the author ... London, F.E. Robinson & Co., 1900.