Collins. 1979 London, 1st edn, 304pp, profuse black and white images. Limited to 160 numbered copies, bound in 3/4 leather, all edges gilt, linen slipcase. Wilfred Thesiger - one of the last in a great British tradition of individual and often eccentric travelers - recreates a lifetime's journey in some.....
T. Fisher Unwin. 1903 London, 1st edn, 313pp, 86 illus, fold-out map. Hunting in Portuguese Africa and Zululand. Findlay did lots of hunting in this incredibly game-rich country. Many very good illustrations and stories. With lustrations by Edmund Caldwell.
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.....
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 1890 London, 1st edn, 2 volumes, 529pp & 472pp, ltd to 250 copies, signed by Stanley. In the late 1880s Henry Stanley had made a strong case in New York and London that Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan, needed.....
Smith, Elder @ Co. 1910 London, 1st edn, 233pp, frontis, 72 photos, map. The book is mostly concerned with the British East African Protectorate (Kenya). Interesting chapters on Mombasa, the Uganda Railway, the Masai, Nairobi in the early 1900's, the Rift Valley, Safaris, Nakuru, Port Florence (Kisumu), Rusinga Island, Lake.....
Boone & Crockett. 1983-2003, 7 volumes 1500PP plus, many photos. A set of 7 hard cover with jackets Big Game Awards books from the 19th edition till the 25th (24th is missing). In-between all-time record books the B&C club has been publishing these awards books that list all trophies form.....
1981. The first three issues of Sporting Classics magazine; the premier issue of mid 1981 plus the two subsequent issues form that year. Few other magazines have such a nice color treatment of quality hunting and fishing stories as well as great wildlife art articles and commensurate advertising.
Flagg and Gould. 1816 Andover, 398pp, frontis, 6 plates, fold-out map. John Campbell (1766-1840), Scottish missionary and explorer, arrived at the Cape in 1812. He inspected the settlements of the London Missionary Society and returned to England with his reports of the colony and its hinterland in 1814. Campbell was.....
Safari Press Inc. 1997 Long Beach, 349pp. This is the sequel to From Mt. Kenya to the Cape, and it includes Boddington's hunts in the Dark Continent during his second decade of hunting. Since writing his first African book, he has shot big game in Ethiopia, the Central African Republic.....
Safari Press Inc. 1994 Long Beach, 330pp, photos, illus. John Taylor is well known to just about anybody interested in firearms or African hunting. This is the first complete biography of this very controversial character, written by Peter H. Capstick with research by Brian Marsh, an old Taylor acquaintance. Capstick.....
Safari Press Inc. 2007 Long Beach, 1st edn, 275pp, photos, ltd 1000 copies, numbered, signed, slipcased copies. I have a story that must be told about hunting in Zambia and the vanishing breed of men who carried me through a wildly adventurous part of my youth. Hunting tales and other.....
Safari Press Inc. 1999, Long Beach, 1st edn, 271pp, photos in color, illus in color, large format. Africa boosts more varieties of big game than any other continent. Almost all these animals have very different "kill zones," but knowing where to place a killing shot (the most import criterion in.....
1938 Denver, 32pp, photos, soft cover. Brochure of 52 coated pages chock full of photos showing the Jonas Brothers Studios taxidermy work. Great shots of old trophy rooms, shots of the studios in Denver, New York and Seattle as well as sculptures by Coloman Jonas and early hunting photos in.....
T. Fisher Unwin. 1907 New York, 1st edn, 220pp, photos. Author was a novelist and a WW II correspondent. Travels and observations in the Congo (Zaire) and the West and East coast of Africa. Has an interesting hunting chapter for hippo and crocodile chapter on the Kasai River which is.....
Rowland Ward Ltd. 2002 (nd, circa) Johannesburg, approx. 140 pages, drawings, 5.5 inches wide, 4.5 inches high. A leatherbound large oblong diary for recording bird hunts with columns for Date; Name/Place; Oberservations; list of game birds, Guns and Notes. Each page has vertical lines on the left and the opposite.....
Platicas de Caceria. 1997 Mexico, 302pp, illus in color and b&w. In North America for bighorn, black bear, Dall sheep, brown bear, puma, elk. Europe for chamois, ibex, bear, stag, Spanish ibex. Africa for sitatunga, lechwe, rhino, lion., bongo, elephant, leopard, giant eland, buffalo. TEXT IN SPANISH...
SCI. 2000 Tucson, 1266pp, profuse photos. Hard cover edition of the of SCI record book.
Bell & Daldy. 1867 London, 385pp, frontis, 15 plates. A delightfully illustrated instructive work on English sports for young men, written under the pseudonym 'Craven'. This work is an instructive guide for young sportsmen in the nineteenth century who were interested into exploring various sports. Including deer stalking, grouse shooting.....
Ernest R. Gee. 1928 New York, 155pp, illustrated with tipped-in plates. Kester deals almost exclusively with game birds and waterfowl native to the Delaware Valley that surrounds Philadelphia: wild turkeys, partridge, snipe, quail, grouse, and ducks. With regard to rifles and guns he addresses cleaning, powder, wadding, etc. And when.....
Safari Press Inc. 2019 Long beach, 1st edn, 332pp, color photos, ltd to 26 leather copies lettered A-Z, housed in clamshell box. Few people need an introduction to Buzz Charlton, made famous over the last decade with a series of elephant hunting DVDs set in Zimbabwe. If you haven’t seen.....
John Van Voorst. 1886 London, 1st edn, 214pp, illus in b&w and color. Fold out illustration. The author states that in the English Eastern counties 100 decoys caught 5000 ducks each per season. Please note that the use of the word decoy in British English means a duck trap also.....
The Carton Printers Ltd. 1972 Caldwell, ID, 1st edn, not paginated, 26 plates with text. Beautifully produced album of the sporting artwork of David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014) with calligraphy by Sam Lehman with "Original Etching" 26 plates. Twenty-six magnificent colored plates by Mr. Hagerbaumer with the accompanying calligraphy by Mr. Lehman.....
John Murray. 1882 London, 1st edn, 304pp, b&w drawings and maps. Henry Seebohm (1832-1895) lived in Sheffield, northern England, where he owned a steel manufacturing business. He used his wealth to undertake ornithological collecting trips, including two to Siberia. The author journeyed to the Yenisey River via Krasnoyarsk in March-October.....
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1888 London, 1st edn, 280pp & 293pp, frontis map in volume 1. Scarce title by this noted explorer of Africa in collaboration with a female novelist. Set in 1880s in the foot hills of Mount Kilimanjaro the authors profess that all described is true.....
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd. 1898 London, 1st edn, 249pp, limited to 250 copies, 19 photos. In a series of two volumes Augustus Grimble describes his shooting experiences in the British Isles: grouse, duck, pheasant, snipe, partridges and hares. He seems to have been a prolific game shot.....
