Description

New edition in a single volume. Illustrated with over three-hundred photographic studies direct from the author's negatives, taken by day and night; and other illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Vignette portrait of elephants stamped in colours on the upper cover. xvi, 716, 2 ads. A bright, clean and handsome copy. Interior pages are exceptionally clean and bright, the binding with just a bit of mellowing at the spine panel.

Edizione: scarce. schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" (from the introduction). this is a fine and early text and survey of the fauna of the african continent.