TWO AFRICAN TRIPS, with Notes and Suggestions on Big Game Preservation in Africa.

xiii + 209 pages, photographic frontispiece and 78 photographic plates, large coloured folding map set into a pocket in the back cover (A Map of Part of East Africa shewing (sic) The Game Reserves and Closed Districts in the Soudan 1902), original brown buckram with antelope heads on the upper cover and a lion’s head on the back cover, black titling on the spine, pages edges uncut.  The buckram cloth is darkened and frayed at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners, leaf 101/102 torn through from the margin to the gutter, the original light green endpapers are intact and the contents are crisp.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, page 49, ‘In this impressive work, Buxton describes two sporting trips to Africa. In 1899 he travelled to British East Africa, bagging Rhinoceros, lion, and a variety of plains game near the Athi River. On his journey along the White Nile via gunboat, the author is more descriptive of the terrain and vegetation of the region. He succeeded in bagging waterbuck, kob, lion, buffalo and roan. He concludes his narrative with a long chapter on game preservation, regretting not taking a proper camera into East Africa to record, ‘the wonderful herds which inhabit the great feeding grounds, opportunities for which may not recur when the game becomes rarer and wilder.’