WILD LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA
George G. Harrap & Co. 1936 London, 1st edn, 283pp. A book of information and anecdotes for sportsmen about big-game in South Africa. Informative work on that part of Africa.
George G. Harrap & Co. 1936 London, 1st edn, 283pp. A book of information and anecdotes for sportsmen about big-game in South Africa. Informative work on that part of Africa.
Cecil Palmer. 1930 London, 1st edn, 268pp, illus. Author hunted mainly for ivory and the book deals a lot with elephants, but adventures with lions, hippos, buffalo and other dangerous game come into a story spiced with breathless thrills. Scarce book.
Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1894 London, 326pp, illus, foldout map. Author's real name was Henry Bailey but the natives called him Bula N'Zau (The Elephant Smasher) for good reason. He spent 4 years in Gabon, Congo and Zaire mainly pursuing elephant and buffalo. This book is scarce, and it is.....
Dean & Son/L. Booth. 1864 (nd, circa) London, 336pp, leopard drawing on title page. It would appear that this book was originally published for the St. Hubert's club and subsequently issued again under this title. However, the information on this publication because of its scarcity is very scant indeed. The.....
Standard Publications. 1947 Huntington, WV, 1st edn, 342pp, illus, deco cover. This is the bible on the African buffalo. Just as Bell's name is associated with elephant hunting, Burger's name is associated with buffalo hunting. Burger hunted in the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Read about adventures and close calls.....
Johnson Reprint Corp. 1970 New York, 2nd edn, 2 vol, 303pp & 205pp, with map and illus. A republication of the two-volume first edition published as WEST AFRICA FROM LIVERPOOL TO FERNANDO PO. On the voyage to take up his position as West African consul at Fernando Po from 1861-1863.....
Ackerman and Co. 1841 London, 15pp, plus 15 hand-colored plates, 15 sketches, folio. Capt. Butler arrived in the Cape Colony in the 1830's and described his travels and hunts in the interior. One of the very earliest books on African hunting together with Harris. This scarce volume combines lithographed line-drawings.....
Edward Stanford. 1898 London, 1st edn, 226pp, many illus, front- and rear-pocket maps. Buxton's scarcest book. Hunting trips to Daghestan, the deserts of north-east Africa, Crete, Somaliland, the Sinai, and the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe. As with his other books, Buxton did a fine job describing his adventures. Buxton.....
Safari Press Inc. 1994 Long Beach, 1st edn, 300pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. Virtually all modern safari hunting is done under the guidance of professional hunters. However, it is still possible today to roam Africa as it was done one hundred years ago. Each year.....
Privately printed by the author. 1929 Chicago, 12mo. 65pp Text illustrations. Ken Czech in his excellent bibliography states; Cameron delivered an address relating his African experiences to the Executives Club of Chicago in March 1929, then apparently had these booklets printed for distribution to friends and business allies. While there.....
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.....
The Derrydale Press. 1988 Lyon, MS, 220pp, photos. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by Peter Capstick and Wally Johnson. Wally Johnson spent half a century in Mozambique hunting white gold--ivory. Most men died at this hazardous trade. He's the last one able to tell his story: How he survived.....
Private Printing. 1938 (no place) 180pp, illus. Hunting big game in the Western U.S. and British Columbia for bighorn, pronghorn, wapiti, and puma. Then to Kenya for a safari after buffalo, lion, and rhino. Finally a Mexican jaguar hunt.
Roycrofters. 1937 New York, 34pp, illus, marker, map. Rare, small book on Carpenter's African hunt, privately printed for him. Certainly the rarest of all his titles. Very hard to get and a fine addition to an Africana library.
John Murray. 1856 London, 1st edn, 401pp, 6 folding maps/plans. Sir George was well-respected as a soldier and a statesman, and his short rule over the Cape Colony was recognized as beneficial to the country. "This work gives a full account of the Kaffir War with Sandilli during the period.....
The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1929 Indianapolis, 1st edn, 326pp, illus. A truly nice book on South Central Africa, containing stories on buffalo, sitatunga, eland, etc. Good to read. Illus by Wilhelm Kuhnert.
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.
E.P. Dutton & Co. 1934 (circa nd) New York, 273pp, 37 illus, 3 color, fold-out maps. Compiled from the diaries of the Prince of Wales. Safaris in pursuit of the Big Five and in company with Bror Blixen von Finecke, Denys Finch-Hatton, and Pete Pearson and Capt. Ritchie and others.....
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.
MacMillan and Co. 1896 New York, 1st edn, 535pp, many illus, 2 maps in rear pocket. William Chanler hunted and explored East Africa together with Ludwig von Hoehnel who wrote DISCOVERIES OF LAKE RUDOLPH AND STEPHANIE. They concentrated on the area lying between the Juba and the Tana Rivers. Important.....
Gurney & Jackson. 1924 London, 1st edn, 489pp, 14 color plates by Riddell, 170 sketches by author. Partial autobiography of the famous hunter and naturalist who wrote SAVAGE SUDAN, ON SAFARI, etc. Chapters on the natural history of red grouse, black grouse also chapters on wildfowling, punt gunning, shooting wood.....
Edward Arnold. 1908 London, 1st edn, 340pp, 170 drawings and photos. Another fine Abel Chapman book. Hunting for the buffalo, lion elephants and plains game. Possibly the most sought after Chapman title. With illustrations by Edmund Caldwell.
Gurney & Jackson. 1921 London, 1st edn, 452pp, 248 illus, map, gilt decorated covers. A fine book on the Sudan with many, many illus by the author. Chapman, a hunter and naturalist, describes his encounters with the wild fauna of savage Sudan as a firsthand witness during seven strenuous expeditions.....
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.....
MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1936 London, 1st edn, 400pp, illus, 2 folding maps. Cheesman was H.M. Consul in North-West Abyssinia, and led this surveying expedition to Lake Tana in the course of which he became the first European to visit all the islands on Lake Tana. He also made the.....