A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia: A Narrative of a Nine Months' Journey from the Plains of the Hawash to the Snows of Simien, with a Description of the Game, from Elephant to Ibex, and Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Natives (with map, and signed by the author's son)

London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 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. 177. Bookbinder's small ticket on the rear pastedown. With folding map, loose and tucked in (with a 10" closed tear along the horizontal center fold). Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) was an explorer, big game hunter, naturalist and anthropologist, and founder of the Quex Museum, Birchington (the Powell-Cotton Collection). He spent most of his life exploring and traveling throughout the world, as well as undertaking multiple overseas collecting expeditions. In total, Powell-Cotton undertook 27 expeditions spanning half a century. From the early 1880s, he was very much concerned with taking and developing his own photographs.

Signed by the author's son, Christopher, on the half title.