NATURE'S PARADISE; Africa
Houghton Mifflin Company. 1967 Boston, 1st edition, 360pp, profuse color & b&w photos, map. The African continent's natural history shown through photography. Extra large format.
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THE END OF THE GAME
The Viking Press. 1965 New York, 1st edn, 256pp, profuse illus in b/w & color. The most intriguing book produced on the interrelationship of man and beast in East Africa. This 1st edition is the only edition ever of this book with color photos. Contains many photos and stories of.....
SOUTH AFRICAN SKETCHES; Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony.
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.....
GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES;
Henry Sotheran & Co. 1894 London, 2nd edn, 185pp, illus. & plates by author, decorated cover. Devoted to the most noble game birds of the British Isles. Includes hunting for and descriptions of grouse, ptarmigan, black game, and capercaillie. A rare book by a great illustrator and writer.
THE BIG CATS; The Paintings of Guy Coheleach
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1982 New York, 1st edn, 244pp, profuse color/b&w illus, maps, small folio. For the BIG cat lover. Puma, jaguar, leopard, lion, tiger, cheetah, snow leopard and clouded leopard. EVERYTHING on these large felines plus tremendous paintings/drawings by Coheleach.
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES
Taylor & Francis for R.H. Porter. 1894-1900 London, 4 volumes, 1st editions, 220pp, 194pp, 245pp & 242pp, 100 hand-colored lithographs after J. Wolf and J. Smit, 121 wood engraved text illus. 9 by 11.25 inches. Letterpress titles with wood-engraved vignettes, with 100 hand-colored lithographed plates after the works of after.....
COLOR LITHOGRAPH
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.....
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; A Rhinoceros Hunted by Elephants.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. An Indian rhinoceros battling it out with a herd of elephants, hand-colored plate number XI from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Death of the Bear.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. Two Indian black bear being pursued by hounds, rider on horse a with spear, as well as an elephant with hunters, hand-colored plate number XXIX from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.....
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Dooreahs or Dog Keepers Leading out Dogs.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. Several Indian dog-handlers seen in action, presumably just before a hunt, hand-colored plate number XXXVII from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Driving a Bear out of Sugar Canes.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. An Indian black bear being pursued by hounds, riders on horses and elephants, and hunters on foot, hand-colored plate number XXVII from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Driving Elephants into a Keddah.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. A herd of wild elephants being driving into an enclosure to allow capturing, hand-colored plate number VIII from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Hunting a Hog Deer.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. Pursuit of a large male hog deer across a small stream, with dogs and horses, a mounted elephant can be seen in the back ground apparently on stand by, hand-colored plate number.....
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Hunting an Old Buffalo.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. A large male water buffalo with exceptional long horns makes a determined last stand after being surrounded by hunters on elephants, hand-colored plate number XXV from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.....
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; The Common Wolf.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. A pack of Asian wolves descending upon a trap with a hapless live prey suspended in a basket, hand-colored plate number XXXIII from Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS; Tiger Hunted by Wild Dogs.
Edward Orme. 1809 London, hand-colored plate, trim size 17.25 x 21.5 inches, image size 12.25 x 17.5 inches. Tiger being bayed by a pack of dogs in an Indian landscape, hand-colored plate number XXI from the book Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson.
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