Author:
JESSEN B.H.
Title:
W.N.McMillan's Expeditions And Big Game Hunting Southern Sudan, Abyssinia & British East Africa
Price:
£680.00
Year:
1900
Edition:
1st Edn,
Summary:
xii 415 pages, for private circulation only, small 4to., frontis portraits of Mr and Mrs McMillan + full page and text illus from photographs and drawings, folding map in rear pocket, 4 ownership stamps to front end papers, 2 to rear end paper and one to blank margin of page 193 "Major H Twyford", original brick red cloth, fade mark to front board gilt title to upper board, browning to EP's. A scarce privately printed title, McMillan settled in Africa with his wife at Juja, Jessen recounts 4 hunting trips with the McMillans, the first along the Blue Nile records only a few gazelles, the 2nd in Abyssinia along the Baro River bagged elephant, hippo, lion and a variety of plains game, the 3rd trip along the Blue Nile, the 4th trip in 1905 to British East Africa, rhino, lion, eland etc were bagged, Czech 142.
Ref:
21191
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