Robert Hale Limited. 1958 London, 1st edn, 249pp, photos. Life of Forrest Webb with all sorts of sporting events such as motor cycle racing, horse riding and kayaking. While the book by no means is a hunting only tome, it contains some interesting chapters on the author's time in Nigeria.....
Scribners. 1910 New York, 583pp, photos and illustrations by Phillip Goodwin, map. Also printed in 1910 this trade edition, by Scribner’s, is printed on better paper than the Syndicate Publishing edition. This edition also has 200 extra illustrations/photos. The Phillip Goodwin plates are in black and white. The 1910 Scribner's.....
Syndicate Publishing Co. 1910 New York, 583pp, photos and illustrations by Phillip Goodwin, map. Also printed in 1910 this trade edition published by Syndicate Publishing is printed on lesser paper and with fewer pages than the Scribner's edition of the same year BUT it has 200 extra illustrations/photos AND it.....
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 1890 London, 1st edn, 2 volumes, 529pp & 472pp, ltd to 250 copies, signed by Stanley. In the late 1880s Henry Stanley had made a strong case in New York and London that Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan, needed.....
Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1967 Oklahoma, 2nd prining, 247pp, photos, drawings, maps. The sheep of the world classified on a species by species basis intermingled with hunting stories. Although the book was printed years ago, demand seems to continue unabated and the seems to get scarcer every year. Clark was.....
Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1970 Oklahoma, 247pp, photos, drawings, maps. The sheep of the world classified on a species by species basis intermingled with hunting stories. Although the book was printed years ago, demand seems to continue unabated and this seems to get scarcer every year. Clark was an accomplished.....
Safari Press. 2004 Long Beach, 1st edn, 325pp, profuse color and b&w photos, limited to 450 numbered, slipcased copies signed by Prince Abdorreza and Bill Quimby. His Imperial Highness Prince Abdorreza of Iran is an internationally known big-game hunter famous for his startling world records and the diverse nature of.....
The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Publishers. 1927 Indianapolis, 1st edn, 308pp, b&w photos.
George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. 1891 London, 499pp, b&w illustrations.
William Heinemann. 1906 London, 2nd edn, 360pp, 183 b&w photos.
Richard Bentley and Son. 1892 London, 1st edn, 331pp. In 1882 the British defeated the Egyptian Army at Tel el-kebir and thus the British Empire took over where the Ottoman Empire had been. The Suez Canal had been completed in 1869 and England and France, who had financed the project.....
J.B. Lippincott Co. 1924 Philadelphia, 312pp, b&w photos and map. A well researched account of what Abyssinia was like between the two world wars.
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1937 New York, 98pp, color and b/w illus. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, these adventures in sport during war are vividly brought to life in this assembly of anecdotal descriptions of hunts, horse races, hunting the fox with hounds, pig-sticking, polo games etc. All the sports involve horses.....
Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. 1912 London, 1st edn, 342pp, thirty-eight b/w photos, and map. Major Tremearne was an Australian-born anthropologist who held several military and civil appointments in West Africa. In the foreword he writes that one aim of this book is "to show how much the uncivilized natives.....
MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1897 New York, 604pp, three maps. In 1895 the author traveled from Cape Town to Fort Salisbury (Harare) via Bechuanaland. Then he returned via Portuguese East Africa and landed up in Beira. Then he sailed to Delagoa Bay and Durban and subsequently visited the Transvaal, Cape.....
William Heinemann. 1899 London, 452pp. The author, a resident of the Transvaal, wrote a perspective of the Jameson Raid (1895-6) that was led by Doctor Leander Starr Jameson and orchestrated by Cecil Rhodes with the purpose of overthrowing the Transvaal government of Paul Kruger. It has all the aspects and.....
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. 1935 New York, 1st edn, 335pp, illus, end paper map, color frontis. Miss De Watteville hunted East Africa with her father for the Bern museum. In this book she revisits Kenya and Tanzania as she had done with her father several years earlier.
Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1936 Washington, publication No. 470, 358pp, b/w photos, fold-out map seismology diagrams throughout. With contributions by J. B. Macelwane, S.J. Perry Byerly, Johannes Felsch, and H.S. Washington, this large quarto sized book has over 70 plates including geological map of the area, photo illustrations of the.....
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1913 London, 1st edn, first state, 314pp, illus, top edge gilt. Hunting in Somalia for its big game. Author shot a surprisingly big-manned lion in an area that was not known for good lion trophies. Also gerenuk, dibatag, oryx, Soemmering gazelle.
Day and Son, Ltd. 1866 London, 1st edn, 72pp, 10 tinted lithographed plates (including frontis), folding map, 1 plan in text. A rare and informative account of Lynch's inspection of the as-yet-unfinished Suez Canal in November, 1864. Under construction since 1859 but not officially opened until 1869, the Suez Canal.....
R.H. Porter. 1890 London, 1st edn, 455pp, frontis + plates + text illus. + folding maps. Jameson was the naturalist on the ill-fated expedition under Henry Stanley to rescue Emin Pasha in Equatoria (who really didn't need rescuing). The expedition resulted in additional fame and fortune for Stanley with the.....
Nicolas Franco-Strips Editores, S.A. 1986 Madrid, 75pp, soft covers. Listing of all CIC medal categories, bronze, silver and gold and the CIC points needed to attain them, for all categories of game world wide. Going hunting to Europe? Know the real medal categories before you go and do not be.....
Department of Lands and Forests. 1969 Ontario, 92pp, b&w photos, maps, large fold-out map in rear pocket. Softcover. Results of a study of wolves between 1958 and 1962 in Algonquin Provincial, Ontario. Study covers the desity of wolves vs prey such as moose and deer as well as smaller mammals.....
The Viking Press. 1934 New York, 112pp, b&w photos.
Jarrold & Sons. 1925 (nd, circa) London, 208pp, b&w photos. A book on wild English birds for children, it aims to fascinate young people with nature.
