Captain C.A. Sykes: 'Service and Sport on the Tropical Nile....

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£50 - £80

Captain C.A. Sykes: 'Service and Sport on the Tropical Nile. Some records of the duties and diversions of an officier among natives and big game during the re-occupation of the Nilotic Province.', London, John Murray, 1903, 1st edition, photogravure frontis + 16 plates and folding map complete, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; plus seven others on Africa and wildlife, including A. Radclyffe Dugmore: 'Camera Adventures in the African Wilds. Being an account of four months' expedition in British East Africa, for the purpose of securing photographs from life of game.', L, Heinemann, 1910, 1st edition, profusely illustrated with full page plates and illustrations from photos complete, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, Marius Maxwell: 'Stalking Big Game With a Camera in Equatorial Africa. With a mongraph on the African Elephant', L, Heinemann, 1925, 1st trade edition, profusely illustrated with plates from photographs throughout (some large folding) and folding colour map complete, imperial 4to, original cloth gilt. The photographer's famous work on elephants in East Africa, first published in a limited edition in 1924 by the Medici Society Ltd. Contains the folded four-part photographic panorama of a herd of elephants advancing through the Lorian swamp as a frontispiece, G.F. Scott Elliot: 'A Naturalist on Mid-Africa. Being an Account of a Journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika', L, Innes & Co, 1896, 1st edition, full plate and text illus from photographs, drawings etc., maps including 3 coloured folding maps, all collated complete, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, Philip J. Sampson: 'The Conquest of German East', Cape Town, Published for "The Nongqai" by The Argus Printing And Publishing Co., 1917, 1st edition, xl,71,xl-lix pp., frontis + numerous other illustrations from photos and other ills. including one folding, 4to, old cloth worn, scarce, etc (8)