Published by A & C Black, 1899
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Add to basket1st Edn,. xxvii â" 330 - 10pp adverts, top edge gilt, frontis and 29 full page plates, + text illustrations with a full page sketch map showing the route, armorial bookplate of C. T Anstruther to the front paste. Publishers' blue cloth binding with gilt elephant's head to the upper cover, the cloth clean and bright a very good+ copy. Foa a Frenchman hunted from coast to coast across Central Africa, gives a description of choosing a rifle and cartridge, the author proceeds to describe his hunts for buffalo, and hippopotamus elephant, lion, leopard, and a variety of antelopes includes an elephant with enormous tusks weighing 114.5lbs each, translated from the French by Frederic Lees Czech 98.