Through Gasa Land, and the Scene of the Portuguese Aggression.

8vo; original red pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and blocked in black to upper cover; pp. xii + 349; folding map in colours. Cloth partially sunned, with trace of soiling and silverfish attention; bookplate of R. K. Fraay to front pastedown (see 'South African Bookplates from the Percival J. G. Bishop Collection', p. 43); some foxing to edges, prelims., and occasionally elsewhere. Good condition.

(Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999, p. 107; Mendelssohn 1, p. 604; Hosken, p. 81) 'Gillmore entered Gasa Land, the coastal area of present day Mozambique, to emulate "the exploits of Gordon Cumming, Andersson, Sir Cornwallis Harris, and other mighty Nimrods" in pursuit of elephant and other big game. His hunting party encountered buffalo near the Limpopo River, then elephant which left his shoulder "so fearfully contused" from his rifle's recoil that he had to take a recess from his sporting adventures. Eventually setting up base camp on the Sabi River, the sportsmen enjoyed considerable hunting for elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, buffalo, lion, giraffe and the like while collecting ivory and trading with native Mashonas, Matabele and Manatees.' - Kenneth Czech