Harper & Brothers. 1861 New York, 1st edn, 414pp, illus, map. This is the first US edition, published in the same year as the first UK edition. The US edition is considered more desirable by many as it contains the color fold-out map the English edition lacks and is a......
A.A. Balkema. 1974 Cape Town and Rotterdam, Imperial folio 22 X 16", 30 colored plates tipped in by hand, ltd edn of 950 copies. With a new introduction by Frank R. Bradlow. A facsimile reprint of the original 1849 edition, with reproductions of the original hand-colored lithographs. The Kafirs Illustrated.....
H.F. & G. Witherby. 1932 London, 1st edn, 288pp, illus. A Guinness Book of Records on big game. Contains a wealth of information on who made the biggest bags of moose, lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, European and American game. Also contains notes on famous big-game hunters in modern and ancient.....
Amwell Press. 1981 Clinton NJ, 1st edn, 2 vols. totaling 596pp, illus, ltd to 1,000 numbered, signed, slipcased copies. The first and best book by Batten. Anthology of the best of sheep hunting in America, Asia, and Europe by a total of some 2 dozen different authors. Well-produced work that.....
East Africa. 1933 London, 1st edn, 260pp, illus. This book is more difficult to obtain in 1st edition than any of Walter Bell's books. This should tell you something about how good it is! A superb elephant classic that ranks as one of the 10 best titles on elephants ever.....
Safari Press Inc. 2020 Long Beach, 1st edn, 308pp, photos in color, ltd to 26 leather copies A-Z, signed, clamshell box. Craig Boddington is not only today's best known writer on hunting in Africa, but also no hunter alive has accomplished all that Craig has in his pursuit of the.....
Boone and Crockett Club. 1948 (circa, nd) New York, 31pp, illus, softcover. Issued by the club to show the biggest heads obtained to that date and to promote the B&C system, then still the old system which was to be changed shortly after this competition. Very possibly this is the.....
C. Scribner's Sons. 1952 New York, 1st printing, 174pp, illus. Third book in the record-book series, but the first book that employs the new measuring methods.
The Trophy Wildlife Records Club of BC. 1983 Nanoose, BC, 216pp, illus, photo-end papers. Contains records of all the game animals found in British Columbia. Limited to 2000 copies. Boone and Crockett scoring system used. A must for record book enthusiasts and hunters bound for British Columbia.
Private printing. 1947 (circa, nd) Memphis, TN, 84pp, illus, large format, softcover. Privately printed for the wife of Weatherby Award Winner Berry Brooks who kept a daily diary of their hunting trip to Kenya Colony in 1947 which started on 15 April and ended 27 August that year (inclusive of.....
Rowland Ward. 1899 London, 1st edn, 611pp, 15 hand-colored plates, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Rowland Ward. Cornerstone to anybody's African library. Probably the most sought after of all 5 Lydekker's books on the big-game of the world. (For an unknown reason H. Anderson Bryden is listed as.....
Longmans Green and Co. 1889 London, 435pp, 16 illus. One of Bryden's most difficult to locate books. Shooting in South Africa for klipspringer, vaal rhebok, elephant, springbok, and other game. Book paints a delightful picture of very early hunting in the Cape as it was. In addition a chapter on.....
Thacker, Spink & Co. 1928 Calcutta, 6th edn, 669pp, plus ads, pull-out, rear pocket game book. The most extensive coverage to date of all aspects of hunting/game in India. Includes measurements of record heads and skin measurements. It was Asian hunting author Peter Byrne who alerted us that this sixth.....
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.....
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.
Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1973 Oklahoma, 247pp, photos, drawings, maps. The sheep of the world classified on a species by species basis intermingled with hunting stories. Although the book was printed years ago, demand seems to continue unabated and this seems to get scarcer every year. Clark was an accomplished.....
Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 1948 London, 1st edn, 157pp, color end paper maps. This is the true first edition, printed in India but the main publisher's address is listed as London. (NB, We have seen many references made to a "1947 Indian" edition but all our research has indicated.....
Clarendon Press. 1968 Oxford, 1st edn, 548pp, A detailed historical survey of East African from its initial occupation by the Arabs. The author discusses the European presence in the area and its effects on the locals.
B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1989 London, 1st edn, 255pp, photos. The book gives information on the practical aspects of testing and buying a gun; choosing the appropriate accessories and clothing; gunfighting and maintenance and repairs and storage. It gives advice on choice of guns and cartridges, safe gun handling, perfecting technique.....
MacMillan & Co. Ltd. 1939 London, 1st edn, 367pp, illus. From the jacket.."..has all the virility and raciness which is to be expected from a man of action, a sportsman, traveler, pioneer settler, and a big game hunter of the days when a safari was an arduous and dangerous expedition.".....
MacMillan and Co., Limited. 1919 London, 503pp, illus, map, color frontis. Written to encourage settlers and big-game hunters to come to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Chapters on "Big Game Shooting", "Animals which Provide Sport", "Animals of the Back Blocks", etc.
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.....
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.....
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.....
