SPORTING JOURNEYS IN ASIA AND AFRICA
Barre Publishers. 1966 Barre, MA, 1st edn, 183pp, illus, ltd to 2500 numbered copies. Hunting and fishing excursions that range from the mountains of Kashmir and Ceylon to the jungles of India and Africa.
Barre Publishers. 1966 Barre, MA, 1st edn, 183pp, illus, ltd to 2500 numbered copies. Hunting and fishing excursions that range from the mountains of Kashmir and Ceylon to the jungles of India and Africa.
Harper & Brothers. 1850 New York, 1st US edn, 326pp & 303pp + 6pp + 2pp, vignettes. Czech says "After several years in the military, Cumming decided to penetrate the interior of South Africa and try his hand at sport. Near the Great Fish River he discovered vast herds of.....
John Murray. 1850 London, 2nd edn, 2 vol, 388pp + map & 381pp, drawings. Gordon Cumming was at the vanguard of African hunting during the middle of the last century. He was especially known as a lion hunter, but he really hunted almost every species in South Africa at the.....
Rowland Ward. 2007 Johannesburg, 1st edn, 199pp, color photos, ltd to 350 numbered, signed and slipcased copies. This is "an exciting, specialist book on lion hunting for the lion hunter by an expert lion hunter. It contains many thought provoking and valuable lessons, for example, on calibers, cartridges and why.....
Houghton Mifflin Co. 1925 Boston, 280pp, illus. Written by Richard and Charles this book has two sections: Kenya for the heavy stuff and plains game then to Angola for giant sable antelope. In Kenya there was considerable amount of lion hunting, with PH Philip Percival, as well as buffalo and.....
Land's Edge Press. 2003 St. Cloud, MN, 1st edn, 254pp, color photos. Excellent Asian bibliography on big-game hunting books up to 1980. Contains around 930 entries, very complete giving information on binding and content which are often missing in other bibliographies. We professionally use bibliographies on a weekly bases and.....
Safari Press Inc. 2016 Long Beach, 294pp, photos, drawings. What do you get when you pair the world's foremost bibliographer of English language hunting books with one of the world's leading experts on mountain game? One darn good bibliography . . . which is exactly what Ken Czech and Raul.....
Quiller Press. 1995 London, 1st edn, 262pp, hundreds of photos in b&w and color, Limited edition 1/2 leather binding issue. The famous London gun maker Boss & Company has been in continuous existence for two centuries. During this period, it has remained a family firm. Considered one of the "Big.....
MacMillan and Co. Limited. 1937 London, 1st edn, 322pp, illus. The author ranged all over Africa, largely after big ivory, penetrating the pygmy forests and other recesses then still unexplored. An increasingly scarce book.
CIC & Rowland Ward. 2014 Budapest, 1st edn, 2 vol, 520pp & 584pp, hard covers, 210x275mm, profuse color photos, maps. This detailed and meticulously researched CIC Caprinae Atlas of the World presents an overview on the distribution ranges of wild Caprinae phenotypes in the northern hemisphere, their physical appearance, life.....
CIC & Rowland Ward. 2014 Budapest, 1st edn, 2 vol, 520pp & 584pp, hard covers, 210x275mm, profuse color photos, maps. Limited to 185 signed, numbered, and slipcased copies. Artisanal hand binding in green leather and beige linen, gold stamping. This detailed and meticulously researched CIC Caprinae Atlas of the World.....
A.A. Balkema. 1976 Cape town, 147pp, 30 color plates, ltd to 550 numbered copies, elephant folio. With a new introduction by Frank Bradlow. A sumptuously produced book depicting early South African scenes of natives, camp life, hunting and game animals. Each plate is accompanied with a detailed and lengthy explanatory.....
William Daniell & William Wood. 1820 London, 1st edn, 48 etchings each with a page of explanatory text. Oblong folio. These sketches, by Samuel Daniell, depict a Southern Africa at a time that no photography existed and very few artists bothered to record what was Africa in a pristine, unspoiled.....
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 1st edn, 506pp, 54 illus, 2 rear pocket maps. Ken Czech in his bibliography of Asian books says;" Darrah kept a detailed diary of his travels and sporting adventures in Baltistan and Ladak. He journeyed from Srinagar to Shitkuri, crossed the Zogi La, then on to.....
George Bell and Sons. 1879 London, 1st end, 298pp, gilt stamped elephant on the cover. Hailing from Portugal the author, Ferdinand Das Neves, set out from Lourenco Marques on an expedition into the Transvaal in 1860 to collect ivory and stimulate trade in Portuguese territory. He hunted along the Save.....
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.....
Robert Hale Ltd. 1967 London, 1st edn, 188pp, illus. Early in his hunting career, Dawkins met John Taylor and they became friends, sharing a love of hunting, an enthusiasm for the chances and charges of the chase, and a mutual quest for knowledge about the knock-down characteristics of the various.....
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1937 New York, 98pp, color and b/w illus. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, these adventures in sport during war are vividly brought to life in this assembly of anecdotal descriptions of hunts, horse races, hunting the fox with hounds, pig-sticking, polo games etc. All the sports involve horses.....
Stanwill Press. 1976 London, 1st edn, 194pp, illus, softcover. The best jaguar-hunting book ever written in our opinion. Almeida is the most successful guide for jaguars alive today. Includes notes on other South American game. This is the true first edition, later re-issued by Safari Press as well as other.....
Safari Press Inc. 1990 Long Beach, 1st edn, 275pp, photos, illus, ltd to 500 numbered, leatherbound, signed, and slipcased copies. Not since Sasha Siemel has there been a book on jaguar hunting like this. Tony de Almeida is the most successful guide for jaguars in the history of South American.....
Safari Press Inc. 1990 Long Beach, 3rd printing, 275pp, photos, drawing. Foreword by Bert Klineburger. Not since Sasha Siemel has there been a book on jaguar hunting like this. Tony de Almeida is the most successful guide for jaguars in the history of South American hunting. He has guided some.....
William Heinemann. 1906 London, 2nd edn, 360pp, 183 b&w photos.
Truber & Co. 1877 Ludgate Hill (London), 1st edn, drawings, 246pp. Authors give a sort of Monograph on Ostriches, their capture, value of their feathers and meat. There is also extensive information on the large flightless birds of South America, Australia and Papua New Guinea (Emu, kiwi, mooruk, rhea, cassowary).....
Methuen & Co. 1900 London, "new edition" 593pp, illus, 2 maps and 1 colored folding map. Decle traveled from Cape Town to the Zambezi, the north through Tanzania and into Uganda where he hunted rhino and lion, albeit not always successfully.
Methuen & Co. 1898 London, 1st edn, 593pp, illus, fold-out maps. Introduction by Henry Stanley. Lionel Decle gained fame in his day by making the longest journey at one stretch across Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, a distance of over 7,000 miles. He was also the first.....