Librairie Plon. 1900 Paris, 3rd edn, 352pp, illus, fold-out map. Edouard Foa was a collector for the Paris National Museum. Much on the big five and other classic animals. Lots on the elephant. The book is very well produced and has first rate illustrations. Foa looks like a great hunter.....
David Douglas. 1895 Edinburgh, 1st edn, 447pp, illus. Second book published by the club, this being the British edition. Contains stories on East Africa, Canada, India, Mongolia, Tibet and Russia. Contains measurements of heads and lists the, then, members of the club.
Rowland Ward. 1892-2006. Complete set of 27 editions of the Rowland Ward Records of Big Game series starting with the first edition in 1892 and going through 2006 which is the last book published that is now out of print. All books are in original bindings, the overall condition of.....
T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1925 London, 1st edn, 140pp, frontis, 6 plates. The history of the spring or trekbokke that once roamed the South African veld by the millions.
Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. 1901 London, 1st edn, 350pp, b&w illus, fold-out maps and photos. John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870-1947) was an English biologist, best known for leading two expeditions to Tanganyika. He led the First and Second Tanganyika Expeditions (1894-1897 and 1899-1900). During the second expedition he was the.....
Truber & Co. 1877 Ludgate Hill (London), 1st edn, drawings, 246pp. Authors give a sort of Monograph on Ostriches, their capture, value of their feathers and meat. There is also extensive information on the large flightless birds of South America, Australia and Papua New Guinea (Emu, kiwi, mooruk, rhea, cassowary).....
William Daniell & William Wood. 1820 London, 1st edn, 48 etchings each with a page of explanatory text. Oblong folio. These sketches, by Samuel Daniell, depict a Southern Africa at a time that no photography existed and very few artists bothered to record what was Africa in a pristine, unspoiled.....
1936. Complete run of all 12 issues of Sports Afield magazine with the classic covers of that era. Each issue is around 90-100 pages long so there are about 1100 to 1200 pages including original stories by Rusty Annabel plus dozens and dozens of other articles. To give you an.....
Rowland Ward Ltd. 2002 (nd, circa) Johannesburg, approx. 225 pages. A leatherbound large oblong visitors book with columns for Date; Name; Address; Comments. Have one in the entry way of your house and ask guests to sign, it gives you a wonderful reminder of who was at your house of.....
Rowland Ward Ltd. 2002 (nd, circa) Johannesburg, approx. 225 pages, drawings, 5.5 inches wide, 4.5 inches high. A leatherbound large oblong diary for recording big game hunts with columns for Date; Name/Place; Game; Measurements; Rifle; Bullet and Remarks. Each page has vertical lines, with columns, and line drawings of various.....
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.....
The Press, Broadcasting & Tourism Dept. 1956 Ankara, 1st edn, 56pp, plus about 24pages of photos and illus in color and black and white. A most unusual publication with hunting regulations and stories of hunting in Turkey as it was before and after WW II. Interestingly enough it appears big.....
Chatto & Windus. 1963 London, 1st edn, 125pp, b&w illus, two fold-out maps. Illustrated with the sketches of Lieutenant William Fairliepp. Diaries of George Westbeech (1885-8)and Capt. Norman MacLeod (1875-6). Contains a fair amount of hunting, but not primarily hunting stories. Not in Czech.
Horace Cox. 1896 London, 1st edn, 270pp plus adv, drawings, fold-out illus. Illustrations by the author and Chas. Whymper. A comprehensive book on wildfowling; flight shooting, seacoast shooting, punt gunning, geese and swans. In addition the author, who has written numerous books on shooting and big game, gives his own.....
1973 Winter. Winter 1973 issue of Safari Magazine. The 4th issue published by the club. Articles by Ken Vaughn, Warren Page, Loren Lutz, Chris Klineburger, Rashid Jamsheed and others. Especially noteworthy for the cover shot of the tremendous 60 plus inch Altai argali by Ken Vaugh with the story of.....
Holland & Holland Limited. 1976 London, 2 vol set, 71pp and 72pp, b&w photos and illus in map. Re-issue of two early Holland & Holland brochures. Together with 4 more modern era brochures circa 1980-1990.
Doubleday, Page and Co. 1908 New York, 1st edn, 251pp, profuse color illustrations throughout.
Oxford University Press. 1928 London, 195pp, b/w photos and illus, with a Frontispiece in color by R. Gwello Goodman and 32 Photogravures from Photographs by Lancelot Ussher and many other illustrations. A history and tour of South Africa as it was when the first white people arrived and as it.....
Wolfe Publishing Co. 1988 Arizona, 238pp, color & b&w photos. This book, written by Vivian Wilson, contains experiences in the African bush of Zambia and Zimbabwe as a voyage to Antarctica to survey the seals and whales.
1971, Fall, 23pp, photos. The FIRST issue of Safari Club International "Safari" Magazine with SCI's founder C.J. McElroy on the cover with a gemsbuck. Contains an article by, and a magnificent full-page photo of, Elgin Gates in his trophy room; many photos of the very first meetings of the club;.....
Macmillan and Co. 1892 London, 1st edn, ix, [3], 300 pages, errata slip, 2 folding maps in color. From the Yukon river to the Bering sea in 1887. Moose, bear caribou. "To see the muskox and the Indians who hunt them, Pike made a hard journey to Great Slave Lake.....
Scribner, Welford, & Armstong. 1877 New York & London, 1st edn, 732pp, 70 engravings, b&w illustrations and a fold-out map.
Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1861 New York, 281pp, frontis.
Countrysport Press. 1993-1994 Traverse City, MI, 1st edns, 189 & 150pp, color and b&w illus by Bruce Langton. Gathered here are many of the finest contemporary sporting writers: George Bird Evans, Charles Waterman, Gene Hill, Michael McIntosh, Jim Fergus, and many others. Each offers a unique story of his singular.....
Countrysport. 1992 Traverse City, 1st edn, 288pp, profuse color photos. Hunting for the following game birds for Magellan geese, pedriz partridge, rosy-billed pochard, tinamou, red-winged partridge, dove, snow geese, quail, African turtledove, green-winged teal, shoveler, spurwing goose, guinea fowl, francolin, yellow billed duck, graylag goose, pintail, grouse, pheasant and more.....
