WITH FLASHLIGHT AND RIFLE:

A RECORD OF HUNTING ADVENTURES AND STUDIES IN WILDLIFE IN EQUATORIAL EAST AFRICA.

With an introduction by Sir H.H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.

2 Volumes:  I. xxviii + 376. viii + 377 pages, frontispiece portrait in volume I, 101 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, original light green cloth with gilt titling on the spines and a vignette of the head of an elephant on the upper covers, top edges gilt. Very light spotting on the fore edges and some soiling on the spine of volume II, contents bright. A good set.

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, page 247, ‘Schillings, a German, was an astute observer and photographer of African wild life besides being an able big game hunter. Much of his photographic efforts were in the brush country near Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Njiri Swamps in old German East Africa. There are numerous instances of hunting elephant, rhino, buffalo, hippo, lion, leopard and various species of antelope. The author was a pioneer of night photography and captures wonderful images of predators on the prowl. His photo of a thorn bush thicket makes one wince!’