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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute t…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this wor…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. A gatefold leaflet, approx. 15 x 12 cm., with six panels, one with illust. of exhibits, loosely containing a postcard of a further exhibit signed by Powell-Cotton to the right margin; minor creasing to leaflet, else VG. An unusual flyer for Powell-Cotton's Museum at Quex Park, Birchin…

Collector's Edition. 521pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Bound in dark orange leather, with raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endsheets. From the publisher's "African Collection." A narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, wit…

Antoinette (Tony) Powell-Cotton was the daughter of Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton (1866-1940), explorer, naturalist, founder in 1896 of the Quex Museum (the Powell-Cotton collection), at Birchington, Kent. 3pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with a couple of minor damp stains to the first leaf of two. She writes t…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xxiv,531,(12)pp, illustrated, folding map in rear pocket, owner's bookplate of Walter Hungerford Pollen on endpaper, slight browning, text clean and binding sound, page edges mostly uncut, pink cloth gilt, rubbed, corners bumped, minor staining on board top…

XXIII, (1), 531 pp. + 12 pp. (publ. cat.) + photogravure frontispiece of Abyssinian Ibex + folding colour map (loose in a pocket at end). Photo illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, zebra end-papers. Spine faded, top of spine worn. A few neat underlines in the text, edges slightly…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 619. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated with 240 drawings by A. Forestier, 2 colour plates of giraffe photographs by the author and two folding maps. (one with some slight repairs but now sound). Rebacked…

FIRST EDITION 8vo. hardback rebound in modern dark red buckram, gilt. New endpapers. xxiii, 531pp. plus 12pp. Advertisements at end. Indexed, and illustrated in b/w. With a large colour folding map in pocket at rear. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Slight wear and rubbing to all spine edges, else…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. 531; 12pp. Large octavo [23 cm] Bound in plain red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Blue and white animal-patterned endpapers. Covers a bit cocked. Text block has dropped. Endpapers cracked along the hinges and hinges going. Text block just starting to crack at p.…

Original Pictorial Blue Cloth. Zustand: Good/Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket as Published. First Edition. xxiii, 620pp, 2 folding maps, one with a short tear, illustrated through text, 2 colour plates, endpapers browned with ink signature on upper cover, edges roughly trimmed, occasional spotting, original…

FIRST EDITION 8vo. black buckram hardback with decorative gilt titles and vignettes to spine and upper board. t.e.g. xxiii, 619pp., Indexed, profusely illustrated in b/w plus 2 colour plates of giraffes and 2 folding maps. Small ink signature to tops of half title and title pages and some extraordinarily neat underlining in the…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of Powell-Cotton's energetic account of a nine-month hunting trip undertaken through Abyssinia, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A vivid account of a sporting trip taken through Abyssinia, a journey of nine months that travelled from the plains of…