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In Unknown Africa; A Narrative of Twenty Months Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and Among New Tribes.
de POWELL-COTTON, P.H.G
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1904. London, Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1904. 8vo. Original illustrated cloth gilt, giraffe head in black to upper cover, gilt vignette to spine, top edge gilt; pp. xxiii, 619, highly illustrated after photograph, two colour plates of giraffes, 2 folding lithographed maps; very light marking to cloth, expert restoration to head of spine, pp. 371 and 372 (one leaf) with with expertly repaired marginal tear, otherwise very good First edition. Czech: 'After the success of his sporting trip to Abyssinia, Powell-Cotton was determined to attempt another hunting expedition, this time to British East Africa, not only for sport, but also to prove the existence of the five-horned giraffe, which Harry Johnston had discovered ... Crossing the Tana, they spent time with the Kikuyu ... On the Baringo Plain, trophy kudu was collected as was lion. Powell-Cotton eventually bagged a five-horned giraffe before entering Masai territory ... ' Czech p. 135.
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- In Unknown Africa; A Narrative of Twenty Months Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and Among New Tribes.
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- POWELL-COTTON, P.H.G
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- 1904
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