Ackerman and Co. 1841 London, 15pp, plus 15 hand-colored plates, 15 sketches, folio. Capt. Butler arrived in the Cape Colony in the 1830's and described his travels and hunts in the interior. One of the very earliest books on African hunting together with Harris. This scarce volume combines lithographed line-drawings.....
Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1925 (circa, nd) New York, 1st US edn, 320pp, illus, 8 maps. Much on the sheep, ibex, blue sheep, markhor, goral etc. Maps and photos are especially good. This book has been for years and still is the standard reference work on the Himalayas for hunters.....
Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 1925 London, 1st edn, 320pp, illus, 8 maps. Much on the sheep, ibex, blue sheep, markhor, goral etc. Maps and photos are especially good. This book has been for years, and still is, the standard reference work on the Himalayas for hunters. Burrard was one of the.....
T. Fisher Unwin. 1925 London, 1st edn, 217pp,illus. Game in the Ngorongo Crater, pachyderms, a night in the Sudd, and hunting throughout Africa with a man who is much more than an amateur. Fairly scarce title.
Harper & Brothers Pub. 1913 New York, 107pp, illus. Hunting trip to Kenya for general bag and lion.
Standard Publications. 1947 Huntington, WV, 1st edn, 342pp, illus, deco cover. This is the bible on the African buffalo. Just as Bell's name is associated with elephant hunting, Burger's name is associated with buffalo hunting. Burger hunted in the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Read about adventures and close calls.....
Longmans Green and Co. 1889 London, 435pp, 16 illus. One of Bryden's most difficult to locate books. Shooting in South Africa for klipspringer, vaal rhebok, elephant, springbok, and other game. Book paints a delightful picture of very early hunting in the Cape as it was. In addition a chapter on.....
Amwell Press. 1981 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 318pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, leather bound, slipcased copies. John Batten was one of America's foremost sheep hunters, and this is the only book with his personal sheep hunting experiences. Enough sheep stories in this book to satisfy even the most ardent.....
Amwell Press. 1981 Clinton NJ, 1st edn, 2 vols. totaling 596pp, illus, ltd to 1,000 numbered, signed, slipcased copies. The first and best book by Batten. Anthology of the best of sheep hunting in America, Asia, and Europe by a total of some 2 dozen different authors. Well-produced work that.....
The Derrydale Press. 1938 New York, 1st edn, 198pp, illus, ltd edn of 950 numbered copies. Russell Annabel was for years the top-notch guide of Alaska. In recent years his works have become recognized for what they are: cornerstones in Alaskan hunting. All game animals of the great Alaskan game.....
A.A. Balkema. 1974 Cape Town and Rotterdam, Imperial folio 22 X 16", 30 colored plates tipped in by hand, ltd edn of 950 copies. With a new introduction by Frank R. Bradlow. A facsimile reprint of the original 1849 edition, with reproductions of the original hand-colored lithographs. The Kafirs Illustrated.....
Chatto & Windus. 1928 London, 307pp, 64 illus. In the Altai of Mongolia for Argali sheep and ibex. Mountain/ jungle shooting in India; then to Pamirs and Chinese Turkestan for Marco Polo. Especially current right now as he hunted in the area of what is today Kyrgyzstan and where today's.....
Richard Bentley & Son. 1881 London, 370pp. The scarcest of Phillipps-Wolley's titles. Hunting for boar, stag and "antelope" in the Crimea, Krasni Less and the Caucasus foothills. The author, the British vice-consul at Ketch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains.....
Amwell Press. 1981 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 312pp, slipcased, ltd to 1000 copies signed by Tony Dyer. The Lado Enclave always was a wild, lawless area but became even more so after the death of King Leopold of Belgium in 1909. Because of a strange agreement between the British and.....
Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1973 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.....
Quiller Press. 1985 London, 176pp, photos in black and white and color. THE SHOOTING FIELD is part of the British heritage. Lord Ripon, the greatest shot who ever lived, said that when we no longer continued to shoot "the England of whom the poets have sung will have ceased to.....
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1881 London, 1st edn, 2 vol, 426 & 478pp, drawings, color fold out map. Quoting from Czech, "Holub in 1872 enjoyed sport among the great herds of wildebeests and bagging lion in the Maquassie Hills. In November 1873 he started his second expedition through.....
Keagan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1915 London, 219pp, color fold-out map. Author traveled to eastern side of Lake Victoria to search for dinosaur bones.
Safari Press Inc. 1996 Long Beach, 2nd edition, 326pp, photos color and b&w, 103 color and b&w illus. Living legend and holder of eleven sheep-hunting records, Rashid Jamsheed reveals his exciting accounts of obtaining world-record heads from his native Iran, and his eventual move to the U.S. where he procured.....
Safari Press Inc. 1991-1998 Long Beach, 1st edn, 8 volumes, illus in color and b&w, each volume ltd to 1000 signed, numbered & slipcased copies. A complete set of the AFRICAN COUNTRY SERIES which contains some of the most noteworthy modern and old-time authors ever assembled in one set of.....
MacMillan and Co. Limited. 1912 London, 1st edn, 1st imprint, 324pp, illus. This classic elephant-hunting title was first published in London in 1912. It was so successful that the second imprint was published within one month of the first. Sutherland's classic tale is regarded as one of the best elephant.....
Edward Arnold. 1897 London/New York, 1st edn, 471pp, illus, fold-out maps, teg. Rhino, lion, leopard, elephant, etc. Author traveled from Somalia through the Ogaden and Boran to Lake Rudolph. Book is illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author. A much sought after and readable book on hunting and exploration.....
Chatto & Windus. 1983 London, 184pp, profuse b/w & color illus, photo endpapers. Ian Parker, an authority on the world's ivory trade, former game warden and hunter, brings us up-to-date on the true status of the African elephant (anno 1983). Fine photos including the famous frontis shot of Pat Auld.....
Houghton Mifflin Co. 1925 Boston, 280pp, illus. Written by Richard and Charles this book has two sections: Kenya for the heavy stuff and plains game then to Angola for giant sable antelope. In Kenya there was considerable amount of lion hunting, with PH Philip Percival, as well as buffalo and.....
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 352pp, illus, leather-bound. An account of sport with the lion, elephant buffalo, rhinoceros, leopard, ostrich, hippopotamus, wildebeest, kudu. Cumming was one of the very first to hunt Africa. Nice reprint bound in leather.
