W.N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Southern Sudan, Abyssinia, & East Africa.
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Privately printed by Marchant Singer & Co, London., 1906. First edition. Royal octavo. pp xvi, 415. 112 illustrations, mostly from photographs by Mrs McMillan, but also a number of full-page reproductions of drawings by the author. Large folding colour map in pocket at rear. Original red cloth gilt. Accounts of four hunting trips by Mr and Mrs McMillan in which the author participated. The McMillans, originally from St Louis, Missouri, had relocated to London and also owned a farm in Kenya.Gift inscription (from 1923) on front free endpaper. Front inner hinge starting to split. Endpapers a bit tanned and spotted. Very good indeed. Scarce.
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- W.N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Southern Sudan, Abyssinia, & East Africa.
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- BIG GAME HUNTING. JESSEN, B.H
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- Privately printed by Marchant Singer & Co, London.
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- 1906
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- africa sudan abyssinia sudan big game hunting
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