2 volumes: I. xiv + 318. II.viii + (319) – 716 pages – continuously paginated, frontispiece portrait in volume I, 195 plates and numerous text illustrations, , original brown cloth with gilt titling on the spines and a vignette of the head of an elephant on the upper covers. Light spotting on the page edges, crease in the cloth at the top of the spine of volume I, some very light insect scarring, contents bright. A good set.
Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, pages 247/8. ‘In his second work on photographing and hunting game in East Africa, Schillings captures the essence of the African landscape and its peoples with his brilliant, early snapshots. The first volume concerns a general view of the region, with a brief history of the encroachment of civilisation on the African wild, and an interesting if oddly placed chapter on sport and nature in Germany. Volume two includes chapters on hunting elephant, rhinoceros and lion, with additional sport after leopard, eland and other antelope. There is a remarkable photograph of the extraordinary pair of elephant tusks wighing a combined 450 pounds!’
