SPORT ON THE NILGIRIS AND IN WYNAAD
Macmillan & Co., Limited. 1911 London, 1st edn, 455pp, illus, color fold-out map. Bison, leopard, tiger, Nilgiri tahr and various species of deer in Central India.
Macmillan & Co., Limited. 1911 London, 1st edn, 455pp, illus, color fold-out map. Bison, leopard, tiger, Nilgiri tahr and various species of deer in Central India.
Safari Press. 1986 Long Beach, 330pp, 29 plates, numerous text illus, photos, fold-out map, limited to 1000 numbered, & slipcased copies. Edouard Foa was the premier collector for the Paris National Museum. Traversing the entire continent from west to east, he pursued his game in the area of what is.....
A. & C. Black. 1899 London, 1st English edn, 273pp, illus, map. Edouard Foa was a collector for the Paris National Museum. Much on the Big Five and other classic animals. Lots on the elephant. The book is very well produced and has first-rate illustrations. Foa looks like a great.....
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 273pp, illus, map, leatherbound, deluxe edn, one of 500 numbered copies. Edouard Foa was a collector for the Paris National Museum. Much on the Big Five and other classic animals. Lots on the elephant. The book is very well produced and has first-rate illustrations.....
Librairie Plon. 1900 Paris, 3rd edn, 352pp, illus, fold-out map. Edouard Foa was a collector for the Paris National Museum. Much on the big five and other classic animals. Lots on the elephant. The book is very well produced and has first rate illustrations. Foa looks like a great hunter.....
Hutchinson & Co. 1937 London, 288pp, illus. Thirty years of travel throughout the world with an especially large sections on Zimbabwe and Burma. No hunting.
Hutchinson & Co. 1936 London, 1st edn, 360pp, photos, end paper maps. Foreword by Lord Cranworth. Recollections by Robert Foran in the early days of the Kenya colony during which he took many trips into the backcountry when various luminaries such as Winston Churchill, Lord Delamere and Sir Fredrick Jackson.....
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1933 London, 1st edn, 320pp, photos. This book was written after the author had spent 34 years in the Dark Continent. Here he tells the stories when he faced death in his career in East Africa, mainly Kenya but also some adventures in India. Rogue rhinos.....
A H & A W Reed. 1965 New Zealand, 187pp, illus, endpaper maps. Covers all the game of New Zealand: chamois, stag, boar, tahr, sika, and goat.
Horace Cox. 1891 London, 120pp, 42pp of advertisements, illus, cover decorated with markhor. Early guide for the hunter seeking game in the Himalayas. Very scarce work that was likely produced in limited numbers. Covers urial, markhor, ibex, goral, thar, bears, etc. Author wrote under pseudonym of K.C.A.J. Czech/Asia: "The first.....
Amwell Press. 1988 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 314pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, slipcased copies. The African safaris in this book cover a span of twenty-five years from 1950 to 1975, considered by many to be the golden age of big-game hunting on the African continent. Throughout the years.....
Charger Books. 1994 Capistrano Beach, CA, 315pp, photos. The African safaris in this book cover a span of twenty-five years from 1950 to 1975, considered by many to be the golden age of big-game hunting on the African continent. Throughout the years Gates went on many exploratory safaris into little.....
Winchester Press. 1971 New York, 1st edn, 270pp, illus. Follow Elgin Gates, he will show you what it is like to hunt the elusive ibex of Kirthar, the royal stags of Persia and Kashmir, the Himalayan markhor, the massive horned argali (ovis ammon) of Central Asia, the wild yak of.....
Charger Productions Inc. 1982 Capistrano Beach, 2nd printing, 270pp, illus. Follow Elgin Gates, he will show you what it is like to hunt the elusive ibex of Kirthar, the royal stags of Persia and Kashmir, the Himalayan markhor, the massive horned argali (ovis ammon) of Central Asia, the wild yak.....
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.....
Derby & Jackson. 1856 New York, 1st US edn, 432pp, double frontis, 6 plates. About the same time W.C. Harris hunted in South Africa the Frenchman Jules Gerard hunted lion and other game in North Africa. Unusual book that is equally as interesting, and maybe more so, than the early.....
Kennedy Galleries. 1969 new York, 1st edn, 98pp, color and b&w photos, 3 fold-out plates, ltd to 300 numbered copies, slipcased. Issued as part of an exhibition in the Kennedy Galleries to purchasers of Harry Jackson’s famous Western-themed bronzes of cowboys, Indians, trappers and other personalities of the early American.....
Methuen & Co. 1898 London, 1st edn, 397pp, many illus, fold-out map, 38pp of advertisements. From the list of contents: "Charged by a wounded lioness, Charged by wounded bull buffalo, Large herd of sable." Much of the hunting takes place along the Zambezi River in Zambia. An interesting account and.....
Harrison & Sons. 1890 (nd, circa) London, 1st edn, 349pp, fold-out map. Parker Gillmore, whose nom de plume was "Ubique," wrote this book to counter the claim of the Portuguese on Mozambique. He had hunted Mozambique in the years before he wrote this book and many of his experiences are.....
H.F. & G. Whiterby. 1930 London (new and enlarged edn), 319pp, illus, frontis. Record of the greatest bags ever obtained with a shotgun. Amazing book that amounts to the "Guinness Book of Records" on shot-gunning and bags.
Harper & Brothers. 1906 London, 1st edn, 241pp, illus. Author recounts his hunting stories while stationed in India (tiger, serow, deer, etc.) and in Africa (oryx, lion, gerenuk, kudu, and rhino) as well as hunting in Somaliland.
Safari Press. 2008 Long Beach, 1st edn, 202pp, color and b&w photos, ltd to 500 signed, numbered, and signed copies. At Safari Press we have only published a few sheep hunting books in the past. However, those few have been by most standards the best sheep hunting books published in.....
Edward Arnold. 1911 London, 1st edn, 360pp, illus, foldout-map. Primarily a travelogue with two chapters on game and hunting as well as some chapters on what rifles to use. Also a good section on native hunting of elephant.
Petroleum Pub. Inc. 1971 Anchorage, 111pp, profuse illus. All Alaskan big game covered--from Alaska brown bear to wolverine; includes tables of measurements giving clues for finding the biggest trophies. Good articles on the best techniques to use to bag your animal.
2006 New York, 58pp. Founded in 1905 this is a reprint of the first by-laws, certificate of incorporation of the Explorers Club of new York. It contains a biographical essays of all members which include George Bird Grinnell, Casper Whitney, Henry Fairfield Osborn, William Abercrombie.