Exploration and Hunting in Central Africa,1895-96

Czech: An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 62, ‘A well-written account of the author’s journey up the Zambesi into Barotseland and into the country of the Marotse. He ably describes the region, with attention paid to the area around Lake Victoria. Gibbons relates episodes of hunting buffalo, lion, roan, eland, hartebeest, and wildebeest in the region. His frontispiece portrait reveals Victorian mustachios to die for.’

408 pages plus xi and 40 pages publisher’s catalogue dated October 1898. Frontispiece portrait, 8 full-page plates by C. Whymper, 24 photographic plates and folding map.

Original dark green boards with somewhat faded gilt vignette of hunting scene on the upper cover and gilt titling on the spine. The hinges are cracked but holding. Covers and endpapers are worn with tape residue on endpapers. The cloth is a little corrugated. Mild to medium foxing throughout. Folded map is torn at hinge and at sides but complete.