EAST AFRICA AND IT BIG GAME: The Narrative of a Sporting Trip from Zanzibar to the Borders of the Masai.

EAST AFRICA AND IT BIG GAME, The Narrative of a Sporting Trip from Zanzibar to the Borders of the Masai. By Captain Sir John C. Willoughby, Bart, Royal House Guards, With Postscript by Sir Robert G. Harvey, Bart.

Illustrated by G. D. Giles and Mrs. Gordon Hake those of the latter from photographs taken by the author. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York. 1889. A shooting expedition to East Equitorial Africa. List of Game Shot around Kilima-Njaro, Game seen up the Tana River, Appendix I - List of Fauna Found Chiefly in the Plains Round Kilima-njaro, List of game birds collected near Kilima-njaro, Appendix II- English-Swahali Vocabulary of Useful Words an Phrases, index, 312pp., plus publisher's 24 pg. catalogue of books. Complete with all 18 illustrated plates called for present and the color folding map which has 3 tape repairs on the verso and an archival tape repair along the first left side fold. See photo. Foxing through out, high-tide moisture line in the margin of the plates and to a lesser extent; affecting some of the illustrations. Please ask if you would like to see more photographs, as I have only included representational plates. This volume has been professionally restored; it has been rebacked with the original spine and boards, it has new head and tail pieces and new black endpapers, preserving it for reading for many years to come. It is tight. clean, no names, no writing and a good solid research copy.