Major P.H.G. Powell-Cotton: 'In Unknown Africa, A Narrative ...

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£60 - £80

Major P.H.G. Powell-Cotton: 'In Unknown Africa, A Narrative Of Twenty Months' Travel And Sport In Unknown Land Among New Tribes', London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904, 1st edition, 2 folding maps plus 204 illustrations from drawings by A. Forestier and the author's photographs complete, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Cotton's hunting trip to East Africa for sport hunting all the major species also to prove the existence of the five horned giraffe, which he eventually bagged; together with J. Bland-Sutton: 'Man and Beast in Eastern Ethiopia. From Observations Made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan', L, Macmilan, 1911, 1st edition, 204 wood engraved illustrations complete, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt (2)