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London: Robert Hale, 1946. First. Hardcover. The Journey to the World's End. 402 pp. End paper maps. An interesting biographical and historical narrative. Near fine. More
London: Robert Hale, 1946. First. Hardcover. The Journey to the World's End. 402 pp. End paper maps. An interesting biographical and historical narrative. Near fine. More
NY: AS Barnes, 1929. First. Hardcover. A Text book on the art of shooting for accuracy with the bow and arrow. 306 pp, ill. Fine copy save for offsetting from news clippings laid inside front cove:. a photo of a champion archery group and a newspaper article about Chester Seay..... More
Woodridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club, 1989. First. Hardcover. A Plantsman's Paradise, 516 pp, profuse color & b/w ill, end paper maps. Author has a long and distinguished career as a plantsman. He has travelled worldwide to study the world's flora. As a result of his travels in China, he is..... More
Ca: Star Press, 1918. August 1916 Edition. Orig Printed Stiff Wraps. by Pandit Man Mohan Lal Langar, Motamid Darbar - Kashmir State. 208 pp, folding map at fron and at rear, + 1 folding plan in text. Hints for visitors, routes, descriptions of valleys and cities, arts and industries, sport..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1902. First Edition. Soft cover. a new genus of giraffidae. Discovery, regional inhabited by, description. pp 279 to 310 of a larger publication. This is a separately published offprint of vol XVI part 6. Large format. Contains the splendid hand colored plate by P J...... More
Boston: Little Brown, 1930. First. Hardcover. 370 pp, end paper maps. The whole empire of Ghengis Khan was Tartary. Manchuria, Mongolia, the Pamirs and Tien Shan have also been considered part of Tartary. The barbaric hordes that broke through Central Asian barriers to the east and west were considered Tartars..... More
NY: Delacorte Press, 1968. First. Hardcover. Asia as seen through the eyes of its discoverers. 340 pp, bibliography, text map. Deco end papers. VG+-near fine in vg+ dj. Dramatic first hand accounts of history with lucid introductions. More
England: Whittington Press, 1988. Richard Kennedy. First Ltd 80 Copies. Full Leather. With a compantary by ET Leeds, edited and with an introduction by JM Wilson, with a memoir of ET Leeds by DB Harden and illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy. Book is 140 pp. There is a...... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. First American. Hardcover. the third expedition of Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil in Central Asia. 354 pp, ill, fold out map, end paper maps of exploring route through China, Mongolia, Tibet, Afghanistan, Turkestan Iraq and Syria. VG+ in orig. cloth. More
NP: Privately Printed. Hardcover. 44 pp, 4 orig color ill tipped in by hand. Leahy was a friend of Hemingway and wrote this book at Ernest's suggestion. The record of a Chicago salesman following an elusive Bengal tiger. Original binding with metallic illustration of a tiger hand painted and hand..... More
London: Heinemann, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's 4th novel and first that Heinemann printed. Book is in near fine condition, price clipped dj spine slightly faded but overall in better than vg+ condition. No writing. Text block square and tight. More
London: Longmans, Green, 1909. First. Orig Pictorial Cloth. The Bedawin (sic) of the desert, their origin, history, home life, strife, religion an superstitions in their relation to the bible. 222 pp. 28 ill. More
Boston: Little Brown, 1935. First American. Hardcover. the third expedition of Haardt and Dubreuil (Citroen Expedition). Syria, Iraq, Turkestan, Afghanistan, Pamirs, Gobi Desert and Mongolia. Through also to Gilgit, Srinagar, Kashgar, Kabul, Ghazbi and more. A long expedition. 368 pp, ill, end paper maps. VG in VG dj. More
Oxford: Clarendon Pres, 1886. First. Hardcover. being an account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (AD 399-414) in search of the Buddhist Books of discipline. 123 pp, ill + lengthy appendix of original manuscript in Chinese. VG copy in original printed boards, over cloth..... More
No place given: Privately printed, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. not paginated, ca 60 pp, ill. Described author's Poland/Scotland hunt in 1983. Author hunted stag. VG+ to near fine copy with one circular line stain on pp 10/11. We have never seen another copy of this book. Likely printed ina very..... More
New York: Huntington Press, 1933. Leigh, WR. First. Hardcover. 116 pp, , with text illustrations and tipped in plates (tipped in plates have tissue guards). Has a foreworby James L Clark. Covers Prehistoric horse, mustang, two chapters on hunting grizzly and bighorn sheep, then hunting men and wild horses, the..... More
Agoura CA: Trophy Room Books, 1999. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. History and Hunting in Central Africa. 256 pp, 135 ill. While noted elephant hunters have made areas like Karamojo, Oubangui-Chari and Aouk well known, no writer has ever produced a book on the history and hunting in those..... More
Colorado: Self Published, 1968. First. Hardcover. 200 pp, close to 200 photos. Privately printed by the author. Large format. Leonard is, alas, known as the man who got caught crossing state lines and guiding an undercover Fish & Wildlife officer to a bighorn ram. Nevertheless, his book is filled with..... More
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1988. Dick Williams. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 152 pp, ill. Mountain lion (cougar) hunting. Good book on the subject by a noted cougar hunter. Limited to 1,000 signed numbered slipcased copies. Fine in like slipcase. Of interest to anyone who likes really good reading..... More
London England: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. First in English. Hardcover. written by himself in the Jaghatai Turki (and translated by Leyden and Erskine). Notes plus geographical and historical introductions together with a map of the countries between the Oxus and Jaxartes and a memoir regarding its construction..... More
Aperture Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs 1880-1950. 159 pp, profuse ill. Large format. 140 Photographs from the archives of many museums and collections taken by intrepid travelers, adventurers, naturalists and explorers. Many of the things photographed have long since been destroyed. Fine in fine jacket. More
Santa Fe NM: State Game Commission Dept of Game and Fish, 1927. First Edition. Soft cover. Its conservation and management. Being a report on the game survey of the state in 1926 and 1927. 212 pp, profuse ill. Lovely gilt embossed cover with raised gilt embossed bighorn sheep head and..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1872. First. Hardcover. and Dr Livingstone's Explorations of the Upper Congo. Two ussues of the Processings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol XVL Dec 28 1872 and Vol XVII Feb 24 1873. The 1872 issue also contains some other news on DOctor Livingstone and the 1973..... More