AFRICAN HUNTING AMONG THE THONGAS
Harper & Brothers. 1923 New York, 1st edn, 286pp, illus, endpaper map. Big-game hunting in Portuguese East Africa. Author was the first to bring a common nyala back to the US.
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SPORT AND TRAVEL IN EAST AFRICA; An Account of Two Visits 1928 and 1930
Phillip Allan. 1934 London, 1st edn, 273pp, 37 illus, 3 color/fold-out maps. Compiled from the diaries of the Prince of Wales. Account of two hunting trips to Sudan, Tanzania and Kenya. Includes a hunt for a then world record oryx as well as the dangerous game.
THE IBEX OF SHA-PING; And Other Himalayan Studies
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1915 London, 1st edn, 151pp, illus in color and b&w. The life and times of an ibex in the Himalayas as written by an English army officer.
SAFARI, R.S.V.P.
Coward McCann, Inc. 1960 New York, 1st edn, 179pp, illus. Tells us how to set up a safari and how to hunt the game. Big five plus plains game. Mostly East Africa.
SHEEP AND BEAR TRAILS:; A Hunter's Wanderings in Alaska and British Columbia
Frank Walters Pub. 1933 New York, 211pp, 43 illus, deco end papers, gilt pictorial sheep on cover, limited edition of 75 numbered, signed, slipcased copies. One of few titles approved by the Boone & Crockett Club. This title covers Dall sheep and grizzly bear hunting in Alaska and British Columbia.....
HUNTING THE SPIRAL HORNS; Entire set of 5.
Rowland Ward & P Flack. 2012-2016 Johannesburg, 1st edns, profuse color photos, maps, end paper photos, ltd to 200 numbered, leather/cloth bound signed copies in cloth slipcase. This 5 volume set covers hunting all 9 spiral horned antelopes of Africa which are considered among the most desirable trophies on Earth.....
ROBERT RUARK'S AFRICA ADVENTURE
DVD, running time 1 hour, 5 minutes. This movie, made in 1954 and narrated by Robert Ruark himself, gives a picture of safari hunting in British East Africa (BEA) at the time of the Mau Mau Emergency. Ruark arrives in BEA via Cairo and Addis Ababa in an Ethiopian Airlines.....
BUFFALO II!; More Lessons Learned
Safari Press Inc. 2020 Long Beach, 1st edn, 308pp, photos in color, ltd to 26 leather copies A-Z, signed, clamshell box. Every couple of weeks-for the past thirty years-the phone would ring and a gruff, cheerful voice would say, "Boddington, what's this I read about XXX?" In truth, my buddy.....
THE PERFECT SHOT FOR AFRICA CARD PACK
Safari Press Inc. 38 cards, 4x6 inches. Lots of people love the mini Perfect Shot series of books, but since most of us hunt only a few animals at a time, most prefer to have just those pictures with us afield. We have been asked many times if we could.....
THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS OF SIBERIA
Rowland Ward. 1904 London, 259pp, 60 illus, fold-out map. Major Swayne traveled from Moscow to Mongolia to hunt Altai argali together with H. Seton Karr. He followed in the footsteps of Prince Demidoff who had hunted in the same area some years previously. He obtained sheep, ibex, maral, and Siberian.....
SEVENTEEN TRIPS THROUGH SOMALILAND AND A VISIT TO ABYSSINIA; With a supplementary Preface on the Mad Mullah Risings.
Rowland Ward. 1903 London, 3rd edn, 385pp, illus, 3 fold-out map. Major Swayne hunted and surveyed extensively in Somalia and Ethiopia. He hunted lesser kudu, black rhino, oryx, gerenuk, lion, greater kudu and most of the other local antelope.
STALKING BIG GAME WITH A CAMERA IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA; With a Monograph on the African Elephant
William Heinemann Ltd. 1925 London, 206pp, profuse illus, fold out photos, color fold-out map, royal quarto. A book dedicated mainly to the African elephant. Includes hunting, photography and observations of jumbo. When this book was issued it was the finest example of African wildlife photography to that date. Even by.....
THE RECOLLECTIONS OF WILLIAM FINAUGHTY ELEPHANT HUNTER, 1864-1875
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 272pp, illus, leather-bound. Finaughty counted among his friends such famous hunters as Roosevelt, Chapman, and Lyell. They enjoyed his book, and there is no doubt that you will too. Much on elephants.
THE RECOLLECTIONS OF WILLIAM FINAUGHTY ELEPHANT HUNTER 1864-1875.
J.B. Lippincott Company. 1916 Philadelphia, 1st edn, 242pp, ltd to 250 copies. Finaughty's friend, George L. Harrison visited Finaughty in 1913 in Bulawayo. Finaughty gave his hunting experiences as described in articles of the Rhodesian Journal to Harrison. Based on these articles this book was produced. Born in Grahamstown, north.....
ADVENTURE, SPORT AND TRAVEL ON THE TIBETAN STEPPES
Constable and Company Limited. 1911 London, 1st edn, 343pp, illus, fold-out maps. Comprised largely of the diaries of Lieut. Jack W. Brooke on his 1906-07 and 1907-08 expeditions to determine the source and course of the Tsangpo River. After being refused permission by the British to enter Tibet from Assam.....
CAMPS IN THE ROCKIES
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1882 New York, 1st edn, 438pp, fold-out map. An early North American big-game hunting title based on the authors hunting in Wyoming and Colorado for bighorn sheep and elk. One of the more desirable North American titles that is surprisingly hard to find. Author visited the canyons.....
FRONTIERS OF ENCHANTMENT; An Artist's Adventures in Africa
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1939 London, 284pp, profuse drawings by author. William Leigh went along with Akeley on his African trips. The text is filled with pen and ink sketches of individual animals and action scenes depicting lions, hyenas, baboons, elephants, and other animals while hunting/collecting in East.....
HUNTING AT HIGH ALTITUDES; The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
Harper & Brothers. 1913 New York, 1st edn, 351pp, illus, bear head on cover. Fifth book of the club. As the title would indicate, mountain hunting (ibex in the Tian Shan). Also much on bear hunting.
KENYA DIARY 1902-1906
Oliver and Boyd. 1957 Edinburgh, 1st edn, 347pp, illus. Col. Meinertzhagen was one of the most interesting characters of Kenya's colonial days. He was an army intelligence officer during the Mau Mau uprising and served in the Kings African Rifles. Meinertzhagen has become highly controversial in more recent times in.....
AFTER BIG GAME; The Story of an African Holiday
T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1915 (nd, circa) London, 327pp, illus, fold-out map. The story of an African holiday. Mr. & Mrs. Meikle in classic British East Africa for waterbuck, gerenuk, lion (lots), leopard, etc. in Tanzania, Uganda, and the Tsavo area in Kenya.
BIG GAME RECORDS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
The Trophy Wildlife Records Club of BC. 1983 Nanoose, BC, 216pp, illus, photo-end papers. Contains records of all the game animals found in British Columbia. Limited to 2000 copies. Boone and Crockett scoring system used. A must for record book enthusiasts and hunters bound for British Columbia.
ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD; A record of sport and travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkestan, Mongolia and Siberia.
Constable and Company Ltd. 1911 London, 1st edn, 437pp, illus, map. In 1909 Etherton traveled across the Himalayas for extended travel and hunting. Shooting Ovis poli in the Pamirs, ibex and maral in the Tian Shan, Ovis Ammon in the Altai mountains. Superior Asian sheep and mountain game work. His.....
HUNTING AMERICAN LIONS
Thomas Y. Cromwell Company. 1948 New York, 1st edn, 225pp, illus. Frank Hibben on that great American game cat, the puma. Very good lion book with very nice illustrations. This work is generally considered as one of the classics on American mountain lion hunting. This is the true 1st edition.....
ELEPHANT HAUNTS; Being a Sportsman's Narrative of the Search of Doctor Livingstone, With Scenes of Elephant, Buffalo, Hippopotamus Hunting.
Hurst & Blackett. 1868 London, 1st edn, 325pp & 12pp of advertising & 4pp of adv. unnumbered, frontis. Considered an elephant hunting classic. Czech says "In 1867, Royal Navy lieutenant E. D. Young trekked to Africa to find the great missionary-explorer David Livingstone who was reported to be lost while.....
HUNTING MEMORIES OF MANY LANDS
T. Fisher Unwin. 1925 London, new and revised edn, 262pp, illus. In Canada and the U.S. after bighorn, moose, bear, wapiti, antelope and mule deer. Also a trip to New Zealand. Scarce title.