Safari Press Inc. 1991 Long Beach, 1st edn, 367pp, illus in color and b&w, ltd to 1000, signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. The first volume in Safari Press's African Country Series is the finest selection of hunting stories ever compiled on that great East African game country--Tanzania. An incredible lineup.....
1975 Preliminary Issue, Fall. The first issue of this illustrious sporting magazine that is still going strong today. Contains stories by Ed Gray, Lee Wulff, Frank Woolner, Carlie Waterman, Robert Brister, Charley Dickey and George Bird Evans.
Ernest Stanton Ltd. 1980 Johannesburg, 1st edn, 209pp, illus, end paper maps, soft cover. Harry Manners was a long-time Mozambique resident. He hunted buffaloes for meat and elephants for ivory. A very good book on both of these animals and this book is rightly considered a modern elephant hunting classic.....
The Jennings and Graham Press. 1909 Cincinnati, 1st edn, 247pp, profuse photos, Fleishmann, from an old established wealthy East Coast family, recorded his hunts in North America and East Africa. His hunts stretched from the Cassiar Mountains in British Columbia to the plains of Tanganyika. Beautifully produced. Scarce.
Richard Bentley. 1835 London, 1st edn, 2 vol, 347pp, frontis, 352pp, frontis. The author arrived in Cape Town in 1819, then proceeded into the interior of the country with his brothers to stake a claim for farm land. There are descriptions of the countryside and inhabitants, with particular notice taken.....
Constable & Company Ltd. 1923 London, 253pp, illus, fold-out maps. This book was published after Stigand was killed by Dinka tribesman in the Southern Sudan. Detailed account of the infamous Lado Enclave area on the west bank of the Upper Nile. When the region was handed over to Britain by.....
Constable & Company, Ltd. 1913 London, 351pp, illus, pocket fold-out map in rear. One of the scarcer Stigand titles. Author's famous account of the part of British East Africa that lies between the Juba & Zambesi rivers with informed comments on the country, the natives, their language, ways & customs.....
C. Scribner's Sons. 1914 New York, 1st edn, 2 vols., 798 total pp, illus, drawings by Philip Goodwin, 40 maps, tissue-guard frontis. After Theodore Roosevelt came back from his famous safari and he had finished writing AFRICAN GAME TRAILS, he decided to publish an in-depth work on the East African.....
Richard Bentley. 1848 London, 2nd revised edn, 363pp, 16 wood-engraved text illustrations. 'A journal of an eight months' sporting expedition through the Eastern Province to the Orange and Vaal Rivers, Waterboer's country (Griqualand West), and thence in a north-easterly direction to the junction of the Mariqua and Limpopo Rivers as.....
Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1929 London, 1st edn, 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.....
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. 1907 London, 1st edn, 312pp, 80 illus, decorated cover. Author was a minister in the Bunyoro district near Lake Albert. He hunted hippos on the lake and had encounters with crocodiles. In the elephant chapter he used a .450 Nitro Express for the gray giants. Interesting account.....
Seeley, Serrvice & Co. Limited. 1927 London, 1st edn, 275pp, illus, fold out map. The author recounts his 1912 journey of exploration through Jubaland on the Somali coast to the Lorain Swamp. While on the trail, he hunted oryx, rhinoceros, gerenuk, leopard, lion and buffalo. Near Mt. Kenya, Haywood bagged.....
J.B. Lippencott Company. 1926 Philadelphia, 285pp, illus, fold out map. Fairly scarce book on West African hunting in Nigeria, Cameroon, French Sudan, Sierra Leone and Togo, which lies immediately to the West of Benin. Author hunted elephant, lion and a chimpanzee which was aggressive towards humans. One of the few.....
Amwell Press. 1988 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 314pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, slipcased copies. The African safaris in this book cover a span of twenty-five years from 1950 to 1975, considered by many to be the golden age of big-game hunting on the African continent. Throughout the years.....
T. Fisher Unwin. 1903 London, 1st edn, 313pp, 86 illus, fold-out map. Hunting in Portuguese Africa and Zululand. Findlay did lots of hunting in this incredibly game-rich country. Many very good illustrations and stories. With lustrations by Edmund Caldwell.
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.....
Harcourt. 1949 New York, 288pp, endpaper maps. Account of Walter Bell's 4th expedition into Karamojo (now Uganda & Kenya) some 100 years ago when it was still completely unknown to Western man. Bell went on a 14-month safari and shot 180 tuskers!!! He brought back 18,762 lbs. of ivory! Of.....
G. Routledge & Co. 1858 London, 1st edn, 327pp, 8 color plates. One of the earlier works on African sport, this details the author’s hunting trip near the Drakensburg Mountains, he hunted elephant, eland, hartebeest and leopard. He also provides descriptions of other game in the area, with much on.....
Wildlife Conservation Organization. 1973 Addis Ababa, 45pp, soft cover, 3 color fold-out maps in rear pocket. Illustrations by Doris Tishler. Issued by Ethiopian Government as a guide to hunting areas, animals and regulations. his is a guide to the game species of Ethiopia, large and small. Pictures and information are.....
Richard Bentley. 1860 London, 1st edn, 318pp, 5 plates, map. Hunting in Kashmir, Tibet and on lower grounds. Part of the book is on shooting tiger and other game in the foothills of the Himalayas, the second half the author treks to Tibet and shoots wild yak, chiru antelope, blue.....
Harper & Brothers. 1861 New York, 1st edn, 414pp, illus, map. This is the first US edition, published in the same year as the first UK edition. The US edition is considered more desirable by many as it contains the color fold-out map the English edition lacks and is a......
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.....
Scribner's Sons. 1885-1919, 20 volumes. Theodore Roosevelt was by far our most prolific book writing president, he wrote books ranging from tomes on politics to the histories of several famous leaders and politicians. It is hard to imagine one person being such a busy politician and having the time to.....
Amwell Press. 1994 Clinton, NJ, 411pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered slipcased, copies. Largely excerpts from earlier Amwell books, mostly on North American mountain hunting, with some Asia mixed in.
