SPORTING TRIPS OF A SUBALTERN

xii, 246 pages, photographic frontispiece, 23 photographic plates. Original blue cloth with gilt titling and vignette of a buck on the upper cover and gilt titling on the spine, light foxing on half title page and the uncut page edges, inscription by previous owner in ink on front free endpaper, a good copy.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 64/65, ‘ As with many British military men, Glossop chose to use his leave to hunt big game in India and Africa. He arrived in Somalia in 1897, hunting lion, aoul gazelle, and oryx near the Toyo Plain. Nearing the Ogaden, he collected rhino and hartebeest, and in the Goli Mountains, kudu and Speke’s gazelle. A year later, he was in northern Nigeria in the Borgu territory hunting roan, leopard, and buffalo.’