ELEPHANT. By Commander David Enderby Blunt, R.N. (Retd.). With a foreword by The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L.

# 1933 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 225mm). Ppxvi,260 + 18pp ads. B/w photograph plates. Brown patterned cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt elephant head vignette on upper board.

# The scarce first edition of one of the classic studies of African elephants and elephant hunting. "Blunt was an elephant control officer in Tanganyika, hunting primarily in the Lindi Province. He details the natural history and biology of the elephant, relates his experiences as a cultivation officer and provides an excellent chapter on past and present elephant hunters." Czech. "...probably the most encyclopaedic book on elephants." Melland.