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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First. Hardcover. the Dalai Lama's fight for Tibet. 235 pp, end paper maps. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First. Hardcover. the Dalai Lama's fight for Tibet. 235 pp, end paper maps. More
London: H F & G Witherby, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 1932 London 288 pp. Ill. Together with biographical notes and anecdotes on the most prominent big game hunters of ancient and modern times and the dangerous game they hunted. Selous, Neumann, Sutherland, lion, elephant etc. Underrated book in our opinion..... More
London: Edward Stanford, 1902. First. Hardcover. 209 pp, 80 full page ill, pull out rear pocket map. Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Central Africa. Buxton was one of FC Selous' favorite authors. A lovely thick book crammed full of the author's hunting for African big game. Throughout British East Africa. Czech..... More
London: T Fisher Unwin, 1903. First. Hardcover. 313 pp, 86 ill, 3 appendices, maps. Top edges gilt. Hunting in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza districts of what is now Mozambique. Traveling through a hitherto unknown region, Findlay discovered a sporting paradise. A beautifully illustrated and action packed work on African big..... More
Camden SC: Briar Patch Press, 1990. Trade Ed. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Shooting trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza divisions of Portuguese southeast Africa and Zululand. Limited trade edition reprint. 313 pp, ill, new foreword by Jim Casada. Fine in gilt stamped imit. leather binding, all edges gilt, marbled end papers..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. First. Hardcover. 355 pp, ill. Fold out map. Hunting from 1884 to 1888. Baily (author's real name) earned the non de plume of bula n'zau or ELEPHANT SMASHER because of his hunting prowess. This book ranks right up there with all the famous elephant hunting..... More
Boston: National Sportsman, 1911. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Being Humorous Tales of Camp Life. 127 pp, ill with drawings. Includes The Patience of Peggy, Nothin' But Luck, The Laughing Bear of Swift River and Lost in New York without a Compass. Hunting in New York and New Bruncwick. Moose and..... More
NY: WW Norton, 1954. First. Hardcover. An adventure in Tibet. 248 pp, ill, end paper maps. The Scot who became a Tibetan. A wild ride against time through an unknown Himalayan track. VG+-nr fine in vg+ dj. More
London: Harvill Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Nomads of the Jade Sea. 242 pp, profuse color ill. Large format. In the far northern reaches of Kenya, (The Rift Valley) on the shores of Lake Turkana, lives a group of nomads. The area is so poorly endowed that it cannot support..... More
London: Argonaut Press, 1929. Argonaut Press Ltd to 1,050 Copies. Hardcover. together with the travels of Nicolo de Conti.. # 1029 of 1050 copies. 381 pp, colored frontis, folding map before ch 1, notes, appendices. Original yellow cloth cover white vellum. Lightly soiled. Fine inside, in fact partially uncut and..... More
Philadelpha: Lippincott. First. Hardcover. an account of the institution as it existed in the palace of the Turkist sultans with a history of the grand seraglio from its foundations to the present time. 277 pp, 35 ill in half tone, 7 photogravures and folding plan. Near fine copy in vg-vg+..... More
NY: AS Barnes, 1958. First. Hardcover. 222 pp, ill. True life adventures with Colonel Powell, a great hunter, as he records his adventures when tiger hunting in the jungles of the Indian peninsula. Price lined through on front free endpaper, otherwise near fine in VG+ dj. More
London: George Allen Unwin, 1932. First. Hardcover. 322 pp, 3 ill. Cubbon was commissioner of Mysore from 1834 to 1861. This book is a biographical account of his life and work there and compiled from material obtained both in India and the India Office in London. VG+ in vg+ dj..... More
London: Longman's Green, 1903. First British. Hardcover. 342 pp, ill. maps, large foldout map in rear. Ascent of Lefroy & Victoria, Waputehk ice field, Mount Murchison, Selkirks, north fork of the Saskatchewan River, discovery of the Columbia ice field, through the Selkirks, Bush River. Long respected work. From the library..... More
London: The Sportsman's Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 176 pp. Profuse ill in color & b/w. Biographies of the three generations of Millais who were avid sportsmen, fine artists, and keen observers of nature. Nicely done work and fast paced reading. Fine in like dj. More