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COBB, F. CECIL Sport on the Setit. The narrative of a sporting trip along the rivers Atbara and Setit.

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COBB, F. CECIL Sport on the Setit. The narrative of a sporting trip along the rivers Atbara and Setit.

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Lot 79
COBB, F. CECIL Sport on the Setit. The narrative of a sporting trip along the rivers Atbara and Setit.
Canterbury: Cross & Jackman, 1911. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); xiv, 125, [1] pp., plates throughout after photographs by H. Leney and the author. Spine a bit faded, some soiling to binding, endpapers browned, some very minor spotting but in all internally clean.
A very scarce work indeed, provincially published in a small edition. Cobb hunted in the Sudan, bagging an elephant, waterbuck, greater kudu, hartebeest, gazelle etc., using two rifles borrowed from Major Powell-Cotton. Czech, Africa, p. 64.


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