A Breath from the Veldt.

London: Henry Sotheran and Co.,, 1895. A classic of the shooting world First edition. "Highlighted by the author's detailed illustrations, this work represents Millais's journey toward the Limpopo River with excursions to hunt kudu, reedbuck, waterbuck, sable, and roan. Near the Nuanetsi River, he bagged buffalo and zebra. After leaving the Limpopo, he collected trophy kudu, as well as lion and leopard. [This is] a most readable and visually exciting book of African travel and big-game hunting" (Czech). Mendelssohn notes that the book "soon became very rare" and quotes from the Daily Telegraph review which described it as "A classic of the shooting world. Never before, or elsewhere, have the winged and furred creatures of the wild lived in their lithe beauty and fantastic grace as in these delicate drawings." Large quarto (377 x 280 mm). Recent dark green full calf for Asprey, spine and front cover gilt lettered and blocked in imitation of the original cloth binding, scrolling foliate turn-ins, Turkish pattern marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Electro-etched frontispiece by Sir John Millais; 12 further tissue-guarded electro-etched plates after J. G. Millais, and 12 full-page half-tone plates, numerous half-tone illustrations in text, all by the author. Spine and front cover a little sunned, mottling to front cover, some slight scratches and abrasions to binding, foxing to margins of electro-etched plates. A very good copy, handsomely bound. Czech, p. 114; Mendelssohn II, p.13.