1973 Paris, 177pp, illus, advertisements, photo end papers. Annual publication of the famous Paris hunting club listing all names and addresses of the members, which was a who is who of the European big-game hunting world in the 1970s, and the rules and regulations of the club. With many hunting.....
Edmonston and Douglas. 1871 Edinburgh, 1st edn, 523pp, plates, fold-out maps. "An early missionary account, chiefly of the Kuruman area." - "The reader is first introduced to the rural and village life of the Cape Colony. Sketches of social and religious life in the Free State and Transvaal Republic are.....
CBC Publishing. 1996 (circa, nd) Harare, 1st edn, 176pp, color photos and b&w drawings, end paper maps. Norman Carr is a well-known PH from Zambia and he will forever be associated with his beloved Luangwa Valley of that country. This is by far his scarcest publication, self-published in Zimbabwe a......
1902 London, 224pp. A catalogue of books, charts & prints from the bookshop of Francis Edwards on Africa and its surroundings. No book shop in London was more prominent than Francis Edwards in the Marylebone section of London. Fantastic reference to rare African and at prices that makes your mouth.....
Hutchinson. 1954 London, 1st edn, 48pp, 35 photos, map. Soft covers. Propaganda piece for the British and Kenya governments on the nature of Mau Mau as a terrorist movement.
Printed for the Author by T. & W. Merccin. 1817 New York, 1st edn, viii, 554pp, fold-out map, appendix xvi. Frontis and 8 plates. In 1815, James Riley survived a disastrous shipwreck and was enslaved by Arabs in Morocco. Captain Riley's ship, the Commerce, was sailing from Gibraltar to the.....
Academic Press. 1982 London, 1st edn, 7 volumes of approximately 450pp each. Kingdon’s remarkable seven-volume masterwork on East African mammals concludes with the bovids, placing them in a broad comparative, ecological, and evolutionary context. This, ONE volume of the 7 volume set covers cattle, water buffalo, kudus, elands, dwarf antelopes.....
Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited. 1891 London, 1st edn, 526pp, portrait frontispiece (author), 16 engraved plates, fold-out color map. Author was a physician from Ireland, joined the Egyptian Army in 1881 and served in the Tel el-Kebir campaign the following year. Later he became director of the Army Cholera.....
William Blackwoodand Sons. 1889 Edinburgh, 1st edn, 337pp, photos, drawings, map. Author visited the Yambuya Camp of Major Barttelot on the Aruhwimi River. Barttelot volunteered for Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and was Stanley's second in command and he was leader of the Rear Column which was left.....
Macmillan and Co. Ltd.-St Martin's Press. 1954 London, 2nd edn, 262pp, b&w photos, fold-out map. Author was governor of two Sudanese provinces; Berber and Halfa. It describes his travels and travails in the Sudan over a 30 year period. A tribute is paid to the work of the doctors, missionaries.....
Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd. 1927 London, 1st edn, 288pp Frontis, plates, folding map. Ken Czech in his excellent bibliography states; Cardinall was the British district commissioner of the Gold Coast in west Africa. While hunting in the forested zone of the country, he bagged duiker and other small game.....
Weatherby Inc. 1982 (nd, circa) South Gate, CA, 21st edn, 111pp, photos. The Weatherby Guides are a great collectors item and a show case of trophy rooms and who is who in international hunting and their trophies.
T. Maskew Miller. 1963 Cape Town, 408pp, limited edn of 500 copies, first printed in 1912. Excellent Southern African bibliography on books and pamphlets.
Constable & Company, Ltd. 1913 London, 351pp, illus, pocket fold-out map in rear pocket. 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 &.....
Greenberg. 1951 New York, 1st edn, 434pp, illus, limited issue of 1500 copies. One of the best gun book bibliographies ever, which also lists many rare hunting books. Excellent reference work.
The Adelphi Co. 1925 (nd, circa) New York, 217pp,illus. Game in the Ngorongoro Crater, with pachyderms, a night in the Sudd, and hunting throughout Africa with a man who is much more than an amateur.
John Murray. 1967 London, 1st edn, 226pp, photos. Gripping story of ivory poachers in East Africa. The hardest of Dennis Holman's books to get. A fascinating pictorial account of large scale elephant hunting and poaching in Kenya & Tanganyika, and the part played by the Game Warden Bill Woodley (James.....
Harper and Brothers. 1885 New York, 1st edn, 2 volumes, 528 & 483pp, numerous illus, 2 rear pocket maps, one in each volume. This two-volume work of exploration and history is the result of Stanley's expedition up the Congo River in 1879-84 and his attempts to re-open the interior for.....
John Murray. 1935 London, 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 reading. Highly recommended.....
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.....
George Allen & Company Ltd. 1912 London, 1st edn, 315pp, 61 illus. When one combines Britain's foremost naturalist with the subject of sheep of the world, a classic is bound to ensue. And it did. This is one of the most sought after (and seldom found!!) titles on the wild.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1926 New York, 233pp, illus. Saxton Pope's African hunts; lion, rhino, leopard, eland, and plains game. Scarcest of all his books.
Gurney & Jackson. 1928 London, 353pp, illus, color frontis. Hunting in British East Africa, the Transvaal, Spain, Scotland, etc. Big-game hunting as well as bird shooting. From the author of SAVAGE SUDAN and ON SAFARI. Autobiography of this famous hunter and naturalist.
Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1937 London, 1st edn, 247, illus. Bror von Blixen-Finecke was the husband of Karen Blixen. They were immigrants to Kenya from Denmark. This book has become scarce ever since the movie "Out of Africa."
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.
