H.F. & G. Whiterby. 1922 London, 240pp, photos, frontis. Record of the greatest bags ever obtained with a shotgun. Amazing book that amounts to the "Guinness Book of Records" on shot gunning and bags. A delightful item that lists the best shots in Great Britain at that time, record bags.....
Farrar Rinehart, 1933 New York, 1st edn, 312pp, frontis + 5 plates printed on recto & verso. Adventurer and journalist Sinclair describes his traipse through India with an attendant hunt for tiger in the Sundarbuns. When he first fired a .65 caliber rifle for his hunt, he admitted, “it was.....
Amwell Press. 1985 New Jersey, 241pp, illus, ltd to 1000 numbered, signed, slipcased copies. The life and times of Lionel Hartley, professional hunter in East Africa.
Chas. A. Heyer & Co. 1930 (nd, circa) "5th publication" 33pp, 14pp of advertising, drawings, profuse photos. Large, over-sized, advertising brochure for Chas. A. Heyer who used to conduct safaris in Kenya and Tanzania. They apparently used to work in close association with John A. Hunter, Alan Black and Bill.....
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 1st edn, 319pp, many illus, fold-out map. One of the most sought after books written on the tur, especially the Western, or Kuban tur. As in his other books, the Prince hunted for long periods of time and bagged many fine heads. In fact the trophies.....
Edward Arnold. 1907 London, 1st edn, 246pp, illus, gilt letters, fold-out map. Includes hunting for croc, hippo, buffalo, elephant, roan etc. Bulpett was a good friend and companion of John Boyes and edited his book KING OF THE WA-KIKUYU. They spent 10 years in Africa together. In this book Bulpett.....
Cecil Palmer. 1930 London, 1st edn, 268pp, illus. Author hunted mainly for ivory and the book deals a lot with elephants, but adventures with lions, hippos, buffalo and other dangerous game come into a story spiced with breathless thrills. Scarce book.
Rowland Ward. 1899 London, 1st edn, 611pp, 15 hand-colored plates, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Rowland Ward. Cornerstone to anybody's African library. Probably the most sought after of all 5 Lydekker's books on the big-game of the world. (For an unknown reason H. Anderson Bryden is listed as.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928 New York, 413pp, illus, photo end papers. William Morden traveled together with James Clark in Central Asia. He hunted extensively for that grand animal, Marco Polo sheep, and he went after the Ovis ammon darwini and Ovis ammon ammon in Mongolia. They also hunted Ovis ammon.....
George G. Harrap & Co. 1936 London, 1st edn, 283pp. A book of information and anecdotes for sportsmen about big-game in South Africa. Informative work on that part of Africa.
Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1951 London, 1st edn, 295pp, illus. A recollection of the Danish East African expedition to collect animals for the National Museum. Ahlefeldt-Bille was Chief Game Warden of Denmark and his book describes the Danish East African Scientific Expedition to collect animals for the Zoological Museum of.....
Horizon Press. 1961 New York, 2 vol, 412 & 468pp, illus. Well known work by the famous explorer Sir Richard Burton. One of two books Burton wrote regarding the discovery of the source of the Nile which Burton and Speke sought together.
Briar Patch Press. 1988 Camden, SC, small folio size, 139pp, 58 colored illus, leatherbound. Account of a lengthy hunting trip into the interior of Somaliland. A fine quality reprint with many plates depicting hunting scenes with rhinos, lions, leopards and antelopes. This edition is the only reprint ever we are.....
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 359pp, illus, leatherbound. Fine facsimile reprint of Sir William Cornwallis Harris' classic book, which includes hunting for all the game of South Africa; this is one of the first-known books on African hunting. All 26 color illustrations of the original have been included in.....
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 559pp, illus, leatherbound. Reprint of TR's classic account of his African safari. No African hunting book collection is complete without it. This one bound in full leather with elaborate gilt stamping on spine and front cover.
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.....
Charles Scribner's sons. 1909 New York, 366pp, illus. Hornaday published two sheep hunting books in the beginning of this century. This book deals with hunting the desert bighorn in Mexico. A desert sheep classic by any standard.
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1908 New York, 1st edn, 366pp, illus, frontis. Hornaday published two great sheep hunting books in the early 1900s. This title is on his desert sheep hunting trips into Mexico. A desert sheep classic by any standard.
Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1953 London, 188pp, frontis, end paper maps. In the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda, story of a lone 3000 mile journey from the source of the Nile to the Mediterranean in a collapsible canoe. Adventure and hunting.
L.G. Page & Company. 1910 Boston, 2nd printing, 402pp, 64 illus. A better an account of a Victorian era shooting party to British East Africa in which lions, buffalo and plenty of other game is bagged.
Pelham Richardson, Cornhill. 1844 London, 4th edn, 359pp, hand color frontis and title page and 24 hand-colored lithographs (26 total), 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.....
Trophy Room Books. 1996 Agoura, CA, 1st edn, 450pp, 375 illus, ltd to 1000 signed and numbered copies. To paraphrase Karen Blixen, Africa's game fields can teach to you that God and the devil can be one. If there ever was a big-game hunting area that could only be described.....
Amwell Press. 1979 Clinton, NJ, ltd to 1000 signed copies, slipcase, 144pp, illus. The history of the East African Professional Hunters organization. Written by Tony Dyer, a long time member. A valuable record of the men (and women) who guided clients mostly in Kenya and Tanzania. Full of lore, legend.....
Putnam. 1935 London, 1st English edn, 208pp, illus, map. Author was an Hungarian who hunted in East Africa before WW II. Interesting book, fairly scarce. Includes hunting for Kenya bongo, elephant, lion, buffalo, and sitatunga.
John Murray. 1903 London, 1st edn, 306pp, illus, fold-out map. One of the earlier records of sport in the Sudan. Elephant, hippo, rhino, etc. Author was stationed in the Southern part of the Sudan.
