AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI AND MONGOLIA
Arno Press. 1966 New York, 324pp, illus, color fold out map, deco cover. This is the second edition of a book that must rank at the top of the list on Mongolia and sheep.
Arno Press. 1966 New York, 324pp, illus, color fold out map, deco cover. This is the second edition of a book that must rank at the top of the list on Mongolia and sheep.
Hearst and Blackett, Ltd. 1912 London, 334pp, 74 illus and map, decorated cover. Excellent descriptions of the country, Somali ethnography, flora and fauna (Drake-Brockman also published "The Mammals of Somaliland". Livestock, economy etc. Author considerable amounts of time in Somaliland and is a recognized authority on this region.
John Murray. 1861 London, 1st edn, 479pp, folding-map, illus, folding frontis piece of gorilla. In 1859, Paul Du Chaillu, a young explorer of French origin and adopted American nationality, emerged from the jungles of the Gabon with 20 complete specimens of gorillas, an animal virtually unknown outside of West Africa.....
Briar Patch Press. 1990 Camden, SC, 313pp, 86 illus, leatherbound, deluxe edn, one of 500 numbered copies. Hunting in Portuguese Africa and Zululand. Good quality reprint of this title.
Hutchinson & Co. 1937 London, 288pp, illus. Thirty years of travel throughout the world with an especially large sections on Zimbabwe and Burma. No hunting.
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.....
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.....
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.
Countrysport Press. 1997 Michigan, 203pp color and b&w photos. Exploration of why the classic handcrafted side-by-side is still the best gun for bird shooters. Beautifully illustrated with color photography, glossary, list of gun dealers, makers and master craftsmen, index. Its primary focus concerns the creation of a classic side by.....
C.Struik. 1988 Cape Town, 119pp, 120 color & 120 b/w illus, oblong folio, limited edition of 350 numbered copies, signed by author and artist. Bound in 1/4 elephant leather. ELEPHANTS OF AFRICA contains reproductions of 24 outstanding pastel paintings of elephants in representative habitats throughout the continent. In addition, there.....
T. Fisher Unwin. 1906 London, 1st edn, 332pp, 72 photos, 2 fold-out maps. Book consists of two sections; Ethiopia and Kenya & Uganda. Most of the Ethiopian section is mostly travel with little hunting. The Kenya & Uganda section of the book, however, contains big-game hunting for elephant, lion, rhino.....
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.....
Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894 London, 1st English edn, 2 vol, 179 drawings, 5 maps. This is the account of Count Teleki's discovery of two major lakes in eastern Kenya as described by his lieutenant, Ludwig von Hohnel. A truly interesting set with exploration and hunting for the big game.....
Quiller Press. 1985 London, 176pp, photos in black and white and color. THE SHOOTING FIELD is part of the British heritage. Lord Ripon, the greatest shot who ever lived, said that when we no longer continued to shoot "the England of whom the poets have sung will have ceased to.....
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 1st edn, 318pp, 28 hand-colored plates, limited edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Rowland Ward, small folio. The most difficult of all the Rowland Ward published and Lydekker/ Bryden authored series of five volumes on the game animals of the world to get. Covers all.....
J.B. Lippincott Company. 1929 (nd, circa) Philadelphia, 234pp, illus. Dennis Lyell takes us along to hunt and track the game of British Central Africa. The classic big five, but also eland, roan, waterbuck, kudu, sable, etc ... all the desirable large antelopes. Many people feel that Lyell's books are among.....
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.....
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.....
The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1910 Indianapolis, 1st edn, 402pp, illus. Author was cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune and describes his adventures on the Dark Continent. He hunted on the Tana River and met Theodore Roosevelt on his African trip. Nice drawings by the author. NOTE: there are two bindings of the.....
T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1915 (nd, circa) London, 327pp, illus, fold-out map. The story of an African holiday. Mr. & Mrs. Meikle in classic British East Africa for waterbuck, gerenuk, lion (lots), leopard, etc. in Tanzania, Uganda, and the Tsavo area in Kenya.
Safari Press Inc. 1985 Long Beach, 522pp, 380 photos, large format. African Hunter is regarded as the most comprehensive title ever written on African hunting. There are 380 first-class black-and-white pictures on the 522 pages, with 52 chapters focusing on 20 different African countries. James Mellon led the Carnegie Museum's.....
Longmans, Green & Co. 1907 London, 1st edn, 340pp, illus. The hard-to-find first edition describes hunting for caribou in Newfoundland. Many interesting sketches and photographs of various heads obtained by Millais during his trip into an area relatively unknown at that time.
Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. 1901 London, 1st edn, 350pp, b&w illus, fold-out maps and photos. John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870-1947) was an English biologist, best known for leading two expeditions to Tanganyika. He led the First and Second Tanganyika Expeditions (1894-1897 and 1899-1900). During the second expedition he was the.....
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.....
Rowland Ward. 1908 London, 1st English edn, 426pp, many illus. Paul Niedieck was a German big-game hunter and sportsman who hunted in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), bagging hippopotamus, lion, buffalo, eland, as well as various antelope and zebra. Subsequently he went to the Sudan and there in 1902 he shot.....