POWELL-COTTON, P.H.G.

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POWELL-COTTON, P.H.G.
In Unknown Africa. A Narrative of Twenty Months' Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and Among New Tribes. London, Hurst and Blackett Limited, 1904. In-8 (220 x 143 mm) of XXIII, 619 pp. 2 folding maps, 2 plates (giraffes) in colour, numerous illustrations in black. Blue percale, boards and spine decorated with a special iron showing a giraffe, gilt title on the upper board, smooth spine, gilt head (publisher's binding). Czech, African Big Game, 134. First edition. "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 fivehorned giraffe, which Sir Harry Johnston had discovered" (Czech). Minor wear to binding, scattered foxing. Provenance: H.G. Bryden, Eastbourne 1904 (signatures on endpaper) - Forêt de Crécy (bookplate).
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