EXPLORATION AND HUNTING IN CENTRAL AFRICA 1895-96

1 volume. First edition 1898.

8 full-page plates by Charles Whymper.

Publishers navy cloth with gilt cover vignette.

Gilt title to spine.

Untrimmed page-blocks.

Bookplate on inside cover.

xi, 408 pages, 40 pages publisher’s catalogue [October 1898].

Frontispiece portrait plate with tissue-guard.

8 full-page plates.

16 photographic plates containing 22 illustrations.

Large fold-out map [41 x 35 cm]. [part of the Kingdom of the Marotse]. 

Sporadic spotting/foxing.

The appendices contain some excellent chapters on the

characteristics, climate, prospects and fauna of the Country.

A well-written account of the author’s journey up the Zambesi

into Barotseland and into the country of the Marotse. He ably

describes the region, with attention paid to the area around

Lake Victoria. Gibbons relates episodes of hunting buffalo, lion,

roan, eland, hartebeest, and wildebeest in the region. His

frontispiece portrait reveals Victorian mustachios to die for.

[Czech., pg 62. An Annotated Bibliography

of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950].

Recorded shipping weight 1200g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.