Safari Press Inc. 1995-2007 Long Beach, 1st edns, 7 volumes, 451pp, 341pp, 384pp, 375pp, 349pp, 312pp and 325pp, frontis, drawings, all copies limited to 1000 numbered, slipcased copies, signed by David Annabel and Dell Annabel Lamey. This is the entire Safari Press Russell Annabel Adventure series set of books. All.....
Safari Press Inc. 1995-1997 Long Beach, 1st edns, 5 volumes, 451pp, 341pp, 384pp, 375pp, and 349pp drawings, frontis, all copies limited to 1000 numbered, slipcased copies, signed by David Annabel and Dell Annabel Lamey. This set contains the first five volumes of the Safari Press Russell Annabel Adventure series. All.....
MacMillan & Co. 1867 London, 1st edn, 596pp, illus. Baker explored the Nile in 1861-1864. He first traveled to Gondokoro (Juba) where he encountered Speke who was returning from Lake Victoria. He explored Lake Albert and discovered Murchison Falls. Much on elephant, lion, buffalo, hippo and others. Lengthy account of.....
F. B. Toothaker, Printer. 1911 Columbus, Ohio, 1st edn, 48pp, photos. Ohioans Arthur Bannon and his companion, James Blair, hunted for moose, caribou, grizzly, black bear and Dall sheep in the Yukon. A rare account of a hunting trip to northwest Canada. Streeter notes that "This is a plain, straightforward.....
Books of Zimbabwe. 1980-1995 Bulawayo, 12 volumes, 11 titles, hard cover, all books bound in brown elephant hide leather and contrasting red and gilt spine labels. Each book housed in elephant hide leather slipcases lined with linen. All bindings matching, the same size. R. Gordon Cumming: A Hunter’s Life in.....
East Africa Ltd. 1928 London, 1st edn, 318pp, photos, map. The following is a direct quote from the publisher promoting the book back in 1928. "John Boyes, the author, fought in the Matabele War, and then, seeking further adventure, made his way up the East Coast of Africa by Arab.....
Edward Stanford. 1893 London, 544pp, many plates and fold-out map. Well produced important hunting work on the Southern Africa area. This book very much resembles Selous' works.
Ackerman and Co. 1841 London, 15pp, plus 15 hand-colored plates, 15 sketches, folio. Capt. Butler arrived in the Cape Colony in the 1830's and described his travels and hunts in the interior. One of the very earliest books on African hunting together with Harris. This scarce volume combines lithographed line-drawings.....
Horace Cox. 1903 London, 1st edn, 191pp, 26 plates. Scarce book on hunting in Alaska and very much sought-after. The author, Colonel Claude Cane, a Britisher, laments in the beginning of the book about the sour deal the Dominion of Canada got from the border commission that established the final.....
Cross & Jackman. 1911 Canterbury, 1st edn, 125pp, frontis, photos. One of the very scarcest Africa big-game hunting books to obtain; the author mounted a self-guided hunting expedition into the Sudan along the Setit and the Atbara Rivers. Together with his friend H. Leney they obtained numerous trophies including roan.....
William Heinemann. 1900 London, 1st edn, 354pp, illus, fold-out map. Hunting for Marco Polo sheep in highest Asia. This most noble game is only found "where the three Empires meet" (China, Russia, and Britain). Since hunting for Marco Polo in both Russia and China are once again in full swing.....
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 1st edn, 506pp, 54 illus, 2 rear pocket maps. Ken Czech in his bibliography of Asian books says;" Darrah kept a detailed diary of his travels and sporting adventures in Baltistan and Ladak. He journeyed from Srinagar to Shitkuri, crossed the Zogi La, then on to.....
Book Supply Co. 1904 Cleveland, 1st edn, 181pp, frontis. Heller attributes the authorship to J. C. Davis, though no explanation is given; the title page itself lists only the initials “J.C.D.” The table of contents includes the following chapters: The Glory of the Way; An Exquisite Metropolis; A Fair Maiden.....
Rowland Ward. 1904 London, 1st edn, 302pp, 113 text illus, 5 photogravures, and 1 fold-out colored text map and 1 fold-out colored map in rear pocket. The third and last book by this famous Asian sheep and ibex hunter. In 1900 Prince Demidoff, his wife Sophie and a companion of.....
The author. 1871-82 London, 9 volumes, vol I with 102 numbered pages, volumes II-VIII unnumbered but with a hand written page count in pencil as follows; vol II 644pp, vol III 620pp; vol IV 635pp; vol V 668pp; vol VI 708pp; volume VII 660pp; vol VIII 666pp. Volume IX dated.....
Hurst & Blackett. 1868 London, 1st edn, 325pp & 12pp of advertising & 4pp of adv. unnumbered, frontis. Considered an elephant hunting classic. Czech says "In 1867, Royal Navy lieutenant E. D. Young trekked to Africa to find the great missionary-explorer David Livingstone who was reported to be lost while.....
J.B. Lippincott Company. 1916 Philadelphia, 1st edn, 242pp, ltd to 250 copies. Finaughty's friend, George L. Harrison visited Finaughty in 1913 in Bulawayo. Finaughty gave his hunting experiences as described in articles of the Rhodesian Journal to Harrison. Based on these articles this book was produced. Born in Grahamstown, north.....
Methuen & Co. 1898 London, 1st edn, 397pp, many illus, fold-out map, 38pp of advertisements. From the list of contents: "Charged by a wounded lioness, Charged by wounded bull buffalo, Large herd of sable." Much of the hunting takes place along the Zambezi River in Zambia. An interesting account and.....
John Murray. 1839 London, 2nd edn, xxvi + 387pp, illus, fold out map. William Harris was the first to hunt in South Africa and to write about it. This is a splendid book with beautiful plates. Not only an important work because of the ground breaking work that Harris did.....
Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894 London, 1st English edn, 2 vol, 179 drawings, 5 maps. This is the account of Count Teleki's discovery of two major lakes in eastern Kenya as described by his lieutenant, Ludwig von Hohnel. A truly interesting set with exploration and hunting for the big game.....
Rowland Ward. 1905 London, 1st edn, 289pp, many illus. Scarce Rowland Ward item on jungle hunting in Southeast Asia for elephant and the world's largest wild cattle, the gaur. By the same author as TO FAR WESTERN ALASKA FOR BIG GAME. Although jungle hunting in Asia is now almost entirely.....
2023 Windhoek, 572pp, color and B&W photos, 12x15, ltd to 50 numbered and signed copies, bound in Moroccan leather and housed in a wax-cloth custom-made clamshell with marbled end paper lining. Safari is what this book is all about. It is dedicated to dangerous game, although not all the chapters.....
Safari Press. 2000 Long Beach, 1st edn, 165pp, drawings, deluxe Edition of 350 numbered and signed copies. Hunting the Big Five, published by Safari Press in 2000, is an outstanding handmade, letterpress book, issued in a unique, limited edition of 376 copies, never to be printed again. The Full Leather.....
Rowland Ward, Limited. 1898 London, 329pp, 24 hand colored plates of the deer of the world and profuse other illustrations, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Rowland Ward. Lydekker was the foremost naturalist in Britain during the turn of the century. And although opinions on the various sub-species of.....
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 1st edn, 318pp, 28 hand-colored plates, limited edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Rowland Ward, small folio. The most difficult of all the Rowland Ward published and Lydekker/ Bryden authored series of five volumes on the game animals of the world to get. Covers all.....
