NATURE'S PARADISE; Africa
Houghton Mifflin Company. 1967 Boston, 1st edition, 360pp, profuse color & b&w photos, map. The African continent's natural history shown through photography. Extra large format.
Houghton Mifflin Company. 1967 Boston, 1st edition, 360pp, profuse color & b&w photos, map. The African continent's natural history shown through photography. Extra large format.
Charles Branford. 1961 Boston, 1st US edn, 236pp, map, illus. His autobiography edited by Col. Townsend Whelen. Adventures in the Yukon, South/East Africa, and during W.W.I. Also Bell's drawings, his early days in Africa, and lots of elephant hunting too.
Harcourt. 1949 New York, 288pp, endpaper maps. Account of Walter Bell's 4th expedition into Karamojo (now Uganda & Kenya) in the late 1890s when it was still completely unknown to Western man. Bell went on a 14-month safari and shot 180 tuskers and he brought back 18,762 lbs. of ivory!.....
Country Life. 1923 London, 1st edn, 187pp, illus. The greatest of all elephant books by the greatest of all elephant hunters, "Karamojo" Bell. Foremost an elephant title but also includes buffalo and lion. Both in production and writing the best of the old elephant hunting titles. Reprinted half-a-dozen times, yet.....
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 187pp, illus, leatherbound. The greatest of all elephant books by the greatest of all elephant hunters, "Karamojo" Bell. Foremost an elephant title but also includes buffalo and lion. Both in production and writing the best of the old elephant hunting titles. Good quality reprint.....
Smith, Elder & Co. 1914 London, 1st edn, 262pp, illus, fold-out map. Author claims in the introduction to belong to the "Elephant Hunters" of his time. North-Eastern Congo, Lado Enclave, and Uele District. Mostly elephants, but also hippo and lion etc. Interesting book on an area of Africa on which.....
George Bell and Sons. 1879 London, 1st end, 298pp, gilt stamped elephant on the cover. Hailing from Portugal the author, Ferdinand Das Neves, set out from Lourenco Marques on an expedition into the Transvaal in 1860 to collect ivory and stimulate trade in Portuguese territory. He hunted along the Save.....
Oxford University Press. 1928 London, 195pp, b/w photos and illus, with a Frontispiece in color by R. Gwello Goodman and 32 Photogravures from Photographs by Lancelot Ussher and many other illustrations. A history and tour of South Africa as it was when the first white people arrived and as it.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1970 New York, 1st US edn, 296pp, illus. The life and times of the famous PWH, Eric Rundgren. Ferocious encounters with rhino, lions, leopards, and buffalo. Rundgren's own professional ivory hunting. Also on the history of East African hunters. Good bibliography, well written and in consistent demand.....
Coward McCann, Inc. 1960 New York, 1st edn, 179pp, illus. Tells us how to set up a safari and how to hunt the game. Big five plus plains game. Mostly East Africa.
William Blackwood & Sons. 1893 Edinburgh, in two volumes. Vol.1, 563pp Frontis + plates + text illus. + folding map in front pocket + folding map in rear pocket + folding maps. Vol.2, 682pp Frontis + plates + text illus.+ folding colored map + colored maps in text + maps.....
E. P. Dutton Inc. 1935 New York, 1st edn, 270pp, illus. Denis Lyell's books are among the most sought-after books on African hunting and terribly difficult to come by! This book contains a lifetime of correspondence between Lyell and such great hunters as Bell, Chapman, Selous, and Pease. Above average.....
Heath Cranton Ltd. 1924 London, 1st edn, 221pp, illus. Readers interested in big-game hunting and the African elephant in particular will enjoy this superior title by Denis Lyell. Lyell was one of the most famous hunters and writers of the African continent. Original copies of this elephant classic are among.....
J.B. Lippincott Company. 1929 (nd, circa) Philadelphia, 234pp, illus. Dennis Lyell takes us along to hunt and track the game of British Central Africa. The classic big five, but also eland, roan, waterbuck, kudu, sable, etc ... all the desirable large antelopes. Many people feel that Lyell's books are among.....
Horace Cox. 1910 London, 1st edn, 118pp, illus. Denis Lyell's first book. Covers just about all the game of what is today Zambia. Sable, rhino, elephant, lion, leopard, roan, kudu, buffalo, and much more. Scarce, coming up for sale every now and then only. Czech writes "Lyell recounts his experiences.....
T. Fisher Unwin. 1923 London, 1st edn, 267pp, illus. MEMORIES.., of all of Lyell's books, is a peculiar title in that it is part autobiography, part travel log, and part pungent commentary on the author's perceptions of the creatures--both man and beast--he had known in Africa. This book also has.....
Horace & Cox. 1912 London, 1st edn, 116pp, illus. The second book written by Dennis Lyell, but probably the most scarce of all his books as it appears for sale but very rarely. Written for the sportsman who wanted to seek his luck in what was then called "Central Africa".....
The Field & Queen (Horace Cox) Ltd. 1913 London, 1st edn, 284pp, photos and drawings. One of Lyell's scarcest and most desirable titles. Virtually an encyclopedia on Central African big game with much on elephants. Lyell was the author of seven books on African big game hunting, although this is.....
Horace Cox. 1906 London, 1st edn, 315pp, many illus. Large size book with detailed descriptions on calibers, bullet performance, rifles, native names, and the game. Life size spoor (tracks) drawings in this beautiful work. Fold-out page of an elephant footprint. We personally think this to be the most desirable titles.....