Hurst & Blackett. 1873 London, 1st edn, 386pp, 14pp adv in back, frontis and 3 drawings. Perhaps one of the best hunting titles ever published; very few printed and John Charles Andersson's rarest book. Sometimes books have a title that is much better than their content but in this case.....
MacMillan & Co. 1866 London, 1st edn, 1st state with list of illus mistake, 2 vols, 395pp & 384pp, illus, fold-out map, volume 2 has a tinted plates. Exploration and hunting by a man who was both a great explorer and a fanatical hunter. He carried a gargantuan 2-bore black.....
James Nisbet & Co. 1878 London, 1st edn, 256pp & 8pp advertising, frontis, drawings. Letters from the author in South Africa to his friend, "Periwinkle." Hunting for ostriches, springbok, lion as well as travel. According to Czech he gives interesting and amusing accounts on ostrich and later in the book.....
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 187pp, illus, leatherbound. The greatest of all elephant books by the greatest of all elephant hunters, "Karamojo" Bell. Foremost an elephant title but also includes buffalo and lion. Both in production and writing the best of the old elephant hunting titles. Good quality reprint.....
Indian Museum, Nat. History section. 1908 Calcutta, 96pp, many illus, soft cover. Catalog with pictures and measurement tables of all the major Indian big-game species. Covers sheep, ibex, markhor, goral, tahr, wild cattle, and deer. Unusual item of which few have likely survived ravages of time.
His Majesty's Stationary Office. 1911 London, 52pp, soft covers. The majority of this publication is a catalog with trophy measurements of the British Section of the 1910 International Field Sports Exhibition in Vienna. Gives largest measurements of Asian, African and North American trophies known at that time, mostly shot by.....
The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Publishers. 1927 Indianapolis, 1st edn, 308pp, b&w photos.
Boone & Crockett. 1971-1982, softcovers, illustrated. Set of 4 booklets issued for each three-year awards period; these are the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Awards Periods (from 1971 till 1982). Features measurements and pictures of the top entries.
Henry Holt & Co. 1958 New York, 1st printing, 264pp, illus. Fourth book in the record book series. Includes articles by Don Hopkins, Grancel Fritz, and James Clark. Scarce book and becoming more so with each passing year.
Dean & Son/L. Booth. 1864 (nd, circa) London, 336pp, leopard drawing on title page. It would appear that this book was originally published for the St. Hubert's club and subsequently issued again under this title. However, the information on this publication because of its scarcity is very scant indeed. The.....
Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 1925 London, 1st edn, 320pp, illus, 8 maps. Much on the sheep, ibex, blue sheep, markhor, goral etc. Maps and photos are especially good. This book has been for years, and still is, the standard reference work on the Himalayas for hunters. Burrard was one of the.....
Horace Cox. 1903 London, 1st edn, 191pp, 26 plates. Scarce book on hunting in Alaska and very much sought-after. The author, Colonel Claude Cane, a Britisher, laments in the beginning of the book about the sour deal the Dominion of Canada got from the border commission that established the final.....
MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1936 London, 1st edn, 400pp, illus, 2 folding maps. Cheesman was H.M. Consul in North-West Abyssinia, and led this surveying expedition to Lake Tana in the course of which he became the first European to visit all the islands on Lake Tana. He also made the.....
Smith, Elder & Co. 1914 London, 1st edn, 262pp, illus, fold-out map. Author claims in the introduction to belong to the "Elephant Hunters" of his time. North-Eastern Congo, Lado Enclave, and Uele District. Mostly elephants, but also hippo and lion etc. Interesting book on an area of Africa on which.....
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 352pp, illus, leather-bound. An account of sport with the lion, elephant buffalo, rhinoceros, leopard, ostrich, hippopotamus, wildebeest, kudu. Cumming was one of the very first to hunt Africa. Nice reprint bound in leather.
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.
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.....
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).....
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 1st edn, 319pp, many illus, fold-out map. One of the most sought after books written on the tur, especially the Western, or Kuban tur. As in his other books, the Prince hunted for long periods of time and bagged many fine heads. In fact the trophies.....
John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1908 London, 1st edn, 285pp, 77 illus. From Czech "Dickinson's approach is systematic, describing the haunts of each major species of wild game in East Africa including lion, kudu, oryx, eland, and other plains game, particularly near the Gusaso Nyiro and the River Tana. There.....
William Heinemann. 1910 London, 1st edn, 231pp, illus, map and reproductions of numerous photographs from life by the author. Dugmore became famous as a wildlife photographer and naturalist with various titles to his credit. In this impressive volume, he describes his efforts with James L. Clark in photographing big game.....
Lowman & Hanford Co. 1924 no place, 1st edn, 90pp, illus. One of the scarcest books on hunting in Alaska. Moose, bear, goat, and Dall sheep. The first book by this enthusiastic bear hunter, in the form of a letter to his sister.
T. Fisher Unwin. 1925 London, new and revised edn, 262pp, illus. In Canada and the U.S. after bighorn, moose, bear, wapiti, antelope and mule deer. Also a trip to New Zealand. Scarce title.
Constable and Company Ltd. 1911 London, 1st edn, 437pp, illus, map. In 1909 Etherton traveled across the Himalayas for extended travel and hunting. Shooting Ovis poli in the Pamirs, ibex and maral in the Tian Shan, Ovis Ammon in the Altai mountains. Superior Asian sheep and mountain game work. His.....
Oxford University Press. 1928 London, 195pp, b/w photos and illus, with a Frontispiece in color by R. Gwello Goodman and 32 Photogravures from Photographs by Lancelot Ussher and many other illustrations. A history and tour of South Africa as it was when the first white people arrived and as it.....
