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POWELL-COTTON, Percy Horace Gordon. A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, London: Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1902. 8° (225 x 163mm). Half-title, frontispiece, 9 plates, folding coloured map in pocket at end, numerous illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.) Original pink cloth upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, imitation zebra-skin endpapers (spine soiled). Provenance: author's inscription on half-title, dated 1902. FIRST EDITION, inscribed. Czech p.133: 'excellent narrative of sport and exploration'.
With 7 other books of related interest including H. A. Bryden's Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend, and Natural History in Cape Colony (London, 1889), A. Barton Hepburn's The Story of an Outing (New York, 1913) and Cuthbert Christy's Big Game and Pygmies. Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi (London, 1924). (8)
With 7 other books of related interest including H. A. Bryden's Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend, and Natural History in Cape Colony (London, 1889), A. Barton Hepburn's The Story of an Outing (New York, 1913) and Cuthbert Christy's Big Game and Pygmies. Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi (London, 1924). (8)
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