(London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889).

FIRST EDITION OF A VERY WELL RESPECTED BOOK. Willoughby traveled from Zanzibar to the borders of the Masai. One of the first books to discuss the hunting of game and the animals present in this region of Africa. Willoughby, on leave, met his friend Sir Robert Harvey and the two set out for virgin land with Mombassa being the starting point for the journey inland from the coast to the forest of Taveta...virgin ground in the plains surrounding the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, an isolated and giant mountain on the borders of the warlike Masai. They had a reliable following and a lead man, a Maltese who had proved his eminent fitness during his term of service to Mr. J. Thomson, the well known explorer of Masai-land. A journey of two hundred fifty miles from the coast and within ten miles of the base of Mount Kilima-njaro. Here, they would set up a base camp from which to journey out in search of animals of the area. Item #70100

First Edition. Illustrated with eighteen plates taken from photographs by the author, and with a very large colour folding map (ca. 15 1/2" x 21"). Large octavo, handsomely bound in the publisher's original dark green cloth with gilt pictorial vignette of an African native on upper cover and author's signature in gilt, the spine gilt lettered and decorated with the bust of a rhinoceros in gilt. xii, 312 pp. including Index and 24 pp. catalogue of publisher ads. A good copy, the cloth still dark green and without fading, the gilt bright and well preserved, especially to the cover art gilt-work, the extremities a bit rubbed from shelving and wear, bookplate of R. Daniel, Jr., his ownership signature and stamp to endleaves, map tab loose from binding, a good thing as the map can be viewed without damaging it.