Author:
POWELL COTTON Major P.H.E.
Title:
In Unknown Africa, A Narrative Of Twenty Months' Travel And Sport In Unknown Land Among New Tribes
Price:
£360.00
Year:
1904
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Hurst And Blackett Ltd
Summary:
xxiii 619 pages, 2 full page plates in colour and numerous full page and text illus, 2 folding maps, foxing to prelims and closed page edges, small 3cm x 1cm loss to lower inner edge of front-end paper, cracking to inner hinge of end paper but a tight copy. Signed on the dedication page by Powell Cotton Bound in the original dark blue cloth with giraffe head and title in black to upper board. Gilt title and native vignette to spine, small 1cm x 1cm chip to spine below native vignette, light rubbing to corners, covers etc. Cotton's hunting trip to East Africa for sport hunting all the major species also to prove the existence of the five horned giraffe, which he eventually bagged. Czech 134.
Ref:
19316
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