THE HISTORY OF SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL
SCI. 2005 Tucson, 1st edn, 225pp, profuse photos, ltd to 1000 numbered copies. The history of Safari Club International as written by it's long time magazine editor.
SCI. 2005 Tucson, 1st edn, 225pp, profuse photos, ltd to 1000 numbered copies. The history of Safari Club International as written by it's long time magazine editor.
1947-1948 March-April. A photo album of a French hunter who visited French Equatorial Africa on a 60-day journey. The album contains 3 clippings of articles (in French) about Mr. Remodon’s trips one of which is page from “Le Saint-Hubbert”, the official newspaper of the St. Hubert Club of France. Author.....
Sporting Classics. 2006 No Place, 1st edn, 274pp, color and b&w photos, ltd to 750 numbered, leatherbound and slipcased copies. Alan Ritchie was Ruark's long-time secretary and saw some of RR most dramatic life episodes including his high-end life style, his drinking, partying and many wives and girlfriends. Although written.....
Jimmy Robinson. 1947 Minneapolis, 160pp, b&w photos throughout. Stories of duck and goose shooting, elk hunting, famous shots (including Annie Oakley), a chapter on Fred Kimble (inventor of the choke bore). This is the saga of one of America's outstanding exponents of guns and gunning. In this book are recounted.....
Scribners. 1929 New York, 1st edn, 277pp, fold out map, color frontis by Rungius. A rare tale of hunting the giant panda. Few Westerners ever shot this black and white bear.
Safari Poland. 2000 Poland, 1st edn, 354pp, color photos, b&w illustration, reference lists. Self printed cover. Text in Polish. An instructive book on how to prepare for safari as well as safari adventure. Text in Polish.
Harper Brothers. 1874 New York, 1st US edn, 2 vol, 559pp and 512pp, illus, fold-out map, deco cover. Three years of adventures and explorations in Central Africa. Big game and exploring by a man who was an important discoverer. Traveling in Africa from 1868 till 1871 he treaded on much.....
John Murray. 1882 London, 1st edn, 304pp, b&w drawings and maps. Henry Seebohm (1832-1895) lived in Sheffield, northern England, where he owned a steel manufacturing business. He used his wealth to undertake ornithological collecting trips, including two to Siberia. The author journeyed to the Yenisey River via Krasnoyarsk in March-October.....
Vanity Fair. 1894 (April 26). Print of Frederick C. Selous as depicted in the famous Vanity Fair magazine, a British publication that aimed to expose the vanities of society. Prtinted by the famous Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lithoraphy pritner as an insert for the magazine. It contained gossip about.....
Witherby & Co. 1907 London, 1st edn, 400pp, photos. Selous hunted around the Macmillan and Yukon Rivers for caribou, moose, wolf and Dall sheep. Although most hunters know Selous for his African books, his North American writings are equally as good.
Longmans, Green, and Co. 1901 London, 2nd, 311pp, illus. A month's sport in Asia Minor after pasang ibex, and two trips to the Rocky Mountains for wapiti, deer and pronghorn. As with all his other books, his writings are superb.
Rowland Ward. 1896 London, 2nd edn, 2nd imprint, 290pp, fold-out map, illus. Selous was engaged by the empire builder Cecil Rhodes to help the British South Africa Co. take over what is now Zimbabwe so that Rhodes could acquire the mineral wealth of that nation. However, King Lo Bengula, ruler.....
Longmans, Green & Co. 1897 New York, 1st US edn, 195pp, illus. Percy Selous, said to be the cousin of F.C. Selous, teams up with noted author H.A. Bryden to pursue grizzly, leopard, bighorn, lion, rhino, buffalo, etc.
Rand McNally & Co. 1890 Chicago, 1st edn, 587pp, illus, deco cover. Hunting throughout North America for Elk Hunting in the Olympic Mountains, Moose hunting in the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia deer in the Pacific Northwest, the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, Big Horn Sheep in the Rocky Mountains, Alligator.....
Edward Arnold. 1897 London/New York, 1st edn, 471pp, illus, fold-out maps, teg. Rhino, lion, leopard, elephant, etc. Author traveled from Somalia through the Ogaden and Boran to Lake Rudolph. Book is illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author. A much sought after and readable book on hunting and exploration.....
Natural History Books. 1985 Sandton, RSA, 1st edn, 241pp, profuse color illus. Ltd to 200 signed, numbered, slipcased copies, bound in ¾ leather with marbled boards, 5 raised bands, contrasting spine label. Cloth and marbled paper covered slipcase. The author was the editor of the Rowland Ward's Records of Big.....
MacMillan & Co, Limited. 1913 New York, 1st edn, 379pp, illus, fold-out chart. Together with Bell, Sutherland, and Neumann, this book is one of a handful of elephant classics. Stigand was a good writer, and it shows in this work. Elephant hunting galore. These days equally as scarce as the.....
Rowland Ward. 1903 London, 317pp, illus in color and b&w. Covers the large and small mammals of North America. This is the Rowland Ward edition of this book and a must for the collector who is completing his RW collection.
Game and Fisheries Dept. Sudan Government. 1950 (circa, nd) Karthoum, 108pp, photos, drawings, fold out map. Hints and regulations for hunting in the Sudan, includes some prices that we wish were still in force today! With articles by Lt. Col. W. A. H. Forbes, G. M. Stanton, R. Kirk, Lt.....
Rowland Ward. 1903 London, 3rd edn, 385pp, illus, 3 fold-out map. Major Swayne hunted and surveyed extensively in Somalia and Ethiopia. He hunted lesser kudu, black rhino, oryx, gerenuk, lion, greater kudu and most of the other local antelope.
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.....
Amwell Press. 1988 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 236pp, photos, ltd to 1000 signed numbered, slipcased copies. The author was a noted big game hunter and conservationist who hunted leopard, elephant, lion, kudu, rhino, nyala, forest buffalo, and eland in Tanganyika, Kenya's Northern Frontier, and Zaire. In the Zaire he is.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913 New York, 1st edn, 330pp, 147 photos. Kodiak bear, general South-East Alaskan hunting. Also on the Kenai for Dall sheep and a trip to Newfoundland. Bear & sheep combined.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1888 London, 1st edn, 280pp & 293pp, frontis map in volume 1. Scarce title by this noted explorer of Africa in collaboration with a female novelist. Set in 1880s in the foot hills of Mount Kilimanjaro the authors profess that all described is true.....
Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. 1912 London, 1st edn, 342pp, thirty-eight b/w photos, and map. Major Tremearne was an Australian-born anthropologist who held several military and civil appointments in West Africa. In the foreword he writes that one aim of this book is "to show how much the uncivilized natives.....