BIG GAME HUNTING IN MANCHURIA
Hutchinson & Co. 1936 London, 285pp, illus. Unusual book on hunting inner most Manchuria for tiger, stag, leopard and more. Good section on tigers. Surprisingly scarce.
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN
Constable and Co. Ltd. 1934 London, revised edn, 332pp. An inventory of the political, racial and other aspects of South African life as it stood in the early 1930s.
HORN OF THE HUNTER
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1955 New York, 315pp, illus. Ruark's most sought-after book describing his lengthy safari in Kenya and Tanzania with his wife and professional hunter Harry Selby.
SHOOTING JOURNAL; of George Henry MacKay.
Cosmos Press. 1929 Cambridge, 1st edn, 373pp, frontis. Limited to 300 copies. Privately printed for John C. Phillips, the famed bibliographer of sporting books, this book is exceedingly difficult to find. A scarce work on duck shooting by a renowned sportsman of his day. Mackay hunted all manner of waterfowl.....
WILD BOAR FEVER
DVD, running time 57 mins. What!!? A movie on "haaawg" hunting? Safari Press cannot be serious! Excuse us, but these are not "haawgs" or feral pigs but Eurasian wild boars. Steeped in tradition, these Eastern European hunts feature dozens of beaters and fast-running prey. This is not your father's feral.....
BUFFALO HUNTERS, Part 2; Hunting the Asian Water Buffalo
DVD, running time 1 hour, 11 minutes. Rainer Josch is both a talented PH and a talented film producer. He likes to make graphically appealing films that focus not just on the kill. This is hard to do because most hunters are interested in seeing the result of a hunt.....
TANGIER HOLIDAY
Privately printed by the author. 1945 Santa Barbara, 28pp Text illus. Limited to 275 numbered copies. As a young American diplomat, Philip was stationed in Morocco where he was invited to participate in several pig-sticking adventures in the brush country near Tangier during the early 20th century. Distributed as Christmas.....
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Dooreahs or Dog Keepers Leading out Dogs.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. Several Indian dog-handlers seen in action, presumably just before a hunt, hand-colored plate number XXXVII from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Death of the Bear.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. Two Indian black bear being pursued by hounds, rider on horse a with spear, as well as an elephant with hunters, hand-colored plate number XXIX from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Driving a Bear out of Sugar Canes.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. An Indian black bear being pursued by hounds, riders on horses and elephants, and hunters on foot, hand-colored plate number XXVII from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Hunting an Old Buffalo.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. A large male water buffalo with exceptional long horns makes a determined last stand after being surrounded by hunters on elephants, hand-colored plate number XXV from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
TOWARDS THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON; A Journey in East Africa
William Blackwood and Sons. 1884 Edinburgh, 1st edn, 386pp, foldout map. A travelogue of a journey to the Church of Scotland's mission in the interior of East Africa. Includes chapter dealing with Zanzibar, Mozambique, Delagoa Bay, The Zambesi, Shire River and describes Blantyre as it was in Malawi. Some incidents.....
THE HISTORY OF SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL
SCI. 2005 Tucson, 1st edn, 225pp, profuse photos, ltd to 1000 numbered copies. The history of Safari Club International as written by it's long time magazine editor.
12 VOLUME REPRINT SET
Rowland Ward/Trophy Room. 1985-1998, not dated, circa, 12 volumes. Leatherbound, slipcased. From the mid 1980 onward Rowland Ward and Trophy Room produced a series of reprints of classic big-game hunting titles, all of them on Africa, save Demidoff’s book on Mongolia. These reprints, 12 in all, were all limited; from.....
TROPHY ROOMS AROUND THE WORLD 1
Hines Proguide. 1995 Ontario, 1st edn, 128pp plus advertising, profuse color photos. This is the first volume in a series of books by Canadian photographer Sherman Himes who started collecting photos of trophy rooms and publishing them. The series is today over 10 volumes but this, the FIRST volume, was.....
STRAY SPORT
William Blackwood and Sons. 1893 Edinburgh, 1st edn, Vol. 1: xii + 304 pp. Frontis + 9 plates + text illustrations. Vol. 2: viii + 293 pp. + 32 pp. ads. Ken Czech says of this set; "In this extensive work combining the author's sporting adventures in India, Ceylon, and.....
THROUGH THE MACKENZIE BASIN; A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899.
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited. 1908 London, 1st edn, From the preface; In 1899 a treaty with the Indians of the great Mackenzie basin followed the report of a Senate select Committee, chaired by Sir John Schultz; but, owing to the absence of roads and markets, and other.....
I AFRIKAS KLOER; Fra en Jagtreise I Kenya ofg en Tur Afrika Rundt.
Gyldendal. 1934 Copenhagen, 131pp, photos, map. TEXT in DANISH. Author hunted in Kenya and Tanzania, up to the Mara River and as far north as Mt. Kenya. He shot multiple large lions as well as buffalo and rhino and other smaller game.
ELEPHANTS FOR AFRICA
Abu Publications. 2000 Auckland Park, South Africa, 366pp, color and b&w photos. Randall Moore is famous in Botswana for having a large herd African elephants that are trained to take safaris on sight seeing trips in the Okavango. This is the photographic and text record of his venture that has.....
WHEN DUCKS WERE PLENTY; The Golden Age of Duck Hunting
Safari Press. 2000 Long Beach, 1st edn, 383pp, photos, drawings, ltd to 500 signed, numbered and slipcased copies. Ed Muderlak has gathered some fifty-odd stories from thousands of journals and hundreds of books that are among the best ever written on the early duck-hunting days of this country. This book.....
MEMOIRS OF A HUNTER; A Story of Fifty Eight Years of hunting and Fishing.
Shwan & Borden Co. (printers). 1948 Davenport, WA, 1st edn, frontis, 309pp, photos. Covering a period of 58 years in the Pacific Northwest from 1890 till after WWII. Deer, bear, moonshining. Elk, geese and prarie chickens.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the Wild Sports of the East; and exhibiting , in a novel and interesting manner, the Natural History of ... undomesticated animals.. interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes.
Anthony Atha Publishing. 1984 London, 150pp, 40 color plates, limited to 350 numbered copies bound in 3/4 leather, housed in a clamshell box. Folio size. By the late 1700s India was rapidly becoming the place to go to have sport after tiger, water buffalo, Asian elephant and other large game.....
AMERICAN RIFLEMAN MAGAZINE
NRA. Complete years of American Rifle man (12 issues, January through December) for 1943, 1948 and 1952 bound in a red custom binding. Contains articles by Nash Buckingham, Col. Julian Hatcher, Wallace Taber, Franz Rosenberg, Archibald Rutledge, Bob Hagel and many more with wonderful articles on rifles, shotguns and hunting.....
THE ATLAS OF AFRICA'S PRINCIPAL MAMMALS
Natural History Books. 1985 Sandton, RSA, 1st edn, 241pp, profuse color illus. The author was the editor of the Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game for about a decade. In this atlas he profiles 121 different species with a 4-color map (often showing several subspecies) a silhouette of the animal.....
THE WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER (audio books)
Safari Press Inc. 2007 Long Beach, 6 audio CDs, running time 7 hours 29 minutes. Now for the first time on CD as a audio book! This is the first book written by W. D. M. Bell, an intrepid adventurer, who was known far and wide as “Karamojo” Bell for.....