Central African Game and Its Spoor

Hardcover. English. Horace Cox, Field Office, London. 1906, 1st edition. ISBN: n/a.

xii + 315 pages, extensive black & white photographs and illustrations, including several fold-outs. 64 pages of plates, 2 folding, from photographs and from drawings of spoor. The plates are printed on one side of the paper only though both sides are treated as numbered pages. In addition there are 5 plates which are not numbered.

Bound in orange cloth on beveled boards with green lettering and tan illustration of paw print. Front opposing endpaper is torn out, front hinge cracked but holding. The fold-out paw print is torn. There is damage to the bottom of the page from about the two thirds in, continuing for abut 20 pages, possibly from insect or water damage. Still a very good reference copy.

Intended to help and guide the young or experienced sportsman who intended to make a hunting trip to Central Africa, it contains all the information one might need to know for such an endeavour: Big Game Shooting, How to Look for Spoor, How to Find Game, Stalking and Shooting, Vital Shots, Native Hunters, Preservation and Trophies, Rifles, Knowledge of Country, General Hints, etcetera. Book No: 2501239