MY SPORTING HOLIDAYS
Edward Arnold. 1904 London, 367pp, illus. After big game in Wyoming in the late 1800s: wapiti, deer, and bighorn sheep; also includes fishing and hunting in Scotland. With illustrations by Edmund Caldwell.
Edward Arnold. 1904 London, 367pp, illus. After big game in Wyoming in the late 1800s: wapiti, deer, and bighorn sheep; also includes fishing and hunting in Scotland. With illustrations by Edmund Caldwell.
Tiensin Press Limited. 1922 Tientsin China, 347pp, 1st edn, color paste in frontis, color plates, photos. Arthur de Carle Sowerby spent much of his life in China. He is one of the very few Westerners that wrote about hunting in China and documented its wildlife before WW II. In this.....
John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1912 London, 1st edn, 321pp, illus, decorated cover, gilt letters. Big-game shooting in the hills of the Himalayas in pursuit of markhor, thar, blue sheep, urial sheep, goral, serow, Himalayan bear, and Kashmir stag. Sought-after Asian title. Full of mountain game.
John Murray. 1936 London, 274pp, illus. Elephant, leopard, rhino, along the Nile. One trip to the Himalayas.
Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd. 1927 London, 1st edn, 284pp, illus, frontis. Tiger, deer, bears, gaur and other jungle game. The author wrote this as a practical guide on how to hunt Indian game with various sketches and diagrams to help the novice along. An interesting approach to the subject.....
George H. Doran Company. 1924 (nd, circa) New York, 296pp, illus. This story is the product of seven journeys around the world in a period covering 20 years. Narrow escape from elephants, snake stories, experiences with man-eating lions, lechwe, tsessebe, and the big five.
Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 1936 London, 1st edn, 251pp, illus, end paper maps. Stockley was a famous Himalayan hunter who bagged virtually all the game from these mountains. Includes all the sheep, ibex, markhor, goral, serow etc. Book will be of interest to any hunter traveling either to Nepal or Pakistan.....
The C.V. Mosby Co. 1930 St. Louis, 347pp, illus, map, end paper maps. Richard Sutton was a wealthy sportsman and member of the Royal Geographical Society. He and his wife traveled and hunted all over the world. They produced four books on their hunting travels, and this one deals with.....
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.....
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.....
Private Printing. 1988 Tasmania, 1st edn, 182pp, profuse color, b&w illus. This is a record of the author's search for a trophy of each of the 15 major big-game species in the South Pacific. This book spans 10 years in the author's pursuit of these game animals and vividly describes.....
Thacker, Spink & Co. 1927 Calcutta, 202pp, 8 fold-out maps. A handbook for the India bound sportsman, describing virtually all game found in Northern India.
BBA. 1990 Turkey, 230pp, profuse color illus. A beautifully illustrated in-depth look at the past, present, and future of big-game hunting in Turkey; there is also much on the history of Turkey as it relates to hunting--we learn for instance that Turkey held tigers well into the 20th century. Some.....
Trophy Room Books. 1993 Agoura, CA, 1st edn, 385pp, illus, limited to 1000 signed copies. Published first in France several years ago, this book met with good success in Europe. It was translated into English and with 10 additional chapters added. Vettier has literally hunted around the world for the.....
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1906 London, English edn., 368pp, no photos or illustrations. Tibetan Tales is a collection of the most exquisite Buddhist tales from the ancient annals of Tibetan literature. Painstakingly collected by those devoted to the study of eastern literature and finally given the shape.....
John Murray. 1913 London, 1st edn, 318pp, illus, map. Chapters include; "The Wild Sheep of Western Kansu", "Hunting the Takin", "The White-Maned Serow", "Wapiti of Kansu" and more. Appendices with field measurements. Title has obviously become more sought after since China has opened to hunting.
Country Life. 1913 London, 1st edn, 112pp, profuse photos, limited to 600 numbered copies. An important record book covering all the game heads of the 1913 Country Life exhibition in London. Featured: red deer, roe deer, and fallow deer from the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Scarce.
Rowland Ward/Game Coin. 1986 San Antonio, 20th edn, 626pp, color illus, large size, limited to 250 leather-bound copies. Devoted to Africa and Asia only. Thousands of entries of record size animals dating as far back as the 1850s. Contains color illustrations of most of the African and Asian species. Considered.....
Rowland Ward/Game Coin. 1986 San Antonio, 626pp, color illus, large size, limited to 3000 numbered copies. Devoted to Africa and Asia only. Thousands of entries of record size animals dating as far back as the 1850s. Contains color illustrations of most of the African and Asian species. Considered a "must.....
Rowland Ward/Game Coin. 1988 San Antonio, 284pp, color illus, gilt edges, large size. No limitation. This is the first, and so far only, Rowland Ward volume entirely devoted to the 31 varieties of European game, both native and exotic. There are nearly 10,000 entries and the tables also list the.....
Rowland Ward/Game Coin. 1989 San Antonio, 796pp, illus, large size. Collectors edition, bound in leather limited to 200 copies. Latest edition covers the entire world. In addition to the listings from Rowland Ward, the trophies from the CIC measurement system (Europe, and the Australian Deer Association (ADA) are listed). Over.....
Rowland Ward/Game Coin. 1995 Johannesburg, 950pp, color frontis, illus, large size, limited to 1000 numbered copies. The 24th edition in the famed RW record book series, covers the entire world. In addition to the listings from Rowland Ward, the trophies from the CIC measurement system (Europe) and the Australian Deer.....
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.....
Safari Press Inc. 2012 Long Beach, 1st edn, 163pp, photos in color. The history of Weatherby began in the mid-1940s when a young "wildcatter" named Roy Weatherby set out to change the world of firearms performance. Contrary to then-popular thinking (heavy bullets pushed at slow speeds), Roy believed that lightweight.....
The Military Service Publishing Co. 1946 Harrisburg, 1st edn, 2 vol, 232 & 211pp, illus. Townsend Whelen, Sports Afield editor for many years, brought together some of the more interesting stories on American, African and Asian game. Includes many famous authors: Neumann, Kirby, Baker, Sheldon, Selous, Barringer, Sears, Cotton Oswell.....