Lot 183
Powell-Cotton, Percy Horace Gordon
In Unknown Africa
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
a Narrative of Twenty Months' Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and among New Tribes. London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1904. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 2 colour plates, 2 folding maps, halftone photographic plates throughout, maps spotted, ownership inscription to title-page;
Idem. A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia. London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1902. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, zebra-pattern endpapers, photogravure frontispiece, folding map in end-pocket, spine faded, pale mottling to covers, wear to bottom edges of boards, spotting to edges of text-block;
Crum, Frederick Maurice. With the Mounted Infantry in South Africa. Being Side-Lights on the Boer Campaign 1899-1902. Printed for Private Circulation. Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1903. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper;
Idem. With Riflemen, Scouts, and Snipers, from 1914 to 1919. Oxford: for private circulation, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original green wrappers, 7 halftone photographic plates, separation along joints, evidence of old adhesive-repair;
Idem. Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout. Stirling: A. Learmonth & Son, c.1951. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, photographic illustrations throughout;
Hesketh-Prichard, H. Sniping in France. With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers. London: Hutchinson & Co., c.1920. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 28 plates;
Greener, W. W. Sharpshooting for Sport and War. London: R. W. Everett & Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo, original wrappers, illustrations in text;
and 7 others