London: Pelham Richardson, 1844. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good hope through the territories of the Chielf Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn. This is the first edition to contain the full complement of hand colored plates and the two extra chapters. 359 pp... More about The Wild Sports of Southern Africa
NY: Frank Walters, 1933. DeLuxe Ltd only 75 copies. Hardcover. A hunter's wanderings in Alaska and British Columbia. 211 pp, ill. One of the few books published with the "approval" of the Boone & Crockett Club on title page. Excellent work on sheep and bear hunting in Alaska and British... More about Sheep and Bear Trails
London: Rowland Ward, 1905. First. Hardcover. 289 pp, ill. Orig. zebra endpapers. Ward's classic title on big game hunting in Asia. One of the classic Asian elephant hunting titles and one of the very few on seladang hunting. A lovely copy, original red cloth is sharp and bright, gilt is... More about Elephant and Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malay States
London: Rowland Ward, 1929. First. Hardcover. 232 pp, ill. Pull out rear pocket map. Two trips to Alaska for big game, especially good on sheep and bear. A fine, bright copy in the scarce vg+ dust jacket. More about To Far Western Alaska for Big Game
Boulder Co: Sycamore Island Books, 1998. Limited Ed. First Limited to 500 Copies. Full Leather. Never has a limited ed. sold out as quickly as this book-almost as soon as it came on the market. Yes, it's that good. Great stories of hunting dangerous game hunter and able story-teller. The... More about Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa
Calcutta and London: Thacker Spink, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India. Colonel Kinloch probably spent as much time as any sport hunter pursuing Indian big game animals. He is the author of four books on the subject of which this is the third extensive volume. 237... More about Large Game Shooting
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1896. Whymper, C. First. Hardcover. A hunter's wanderings from Khalamba to the Limbombo. 576 pp. Ill. Author is known for his pursuit of leopard, lion & elephant. His book is one of the first to talk about the different haunts of leopards throughout Africa and the different... More about In Haunts of Wild Game
London: Horace Cox, 1910. First. Hardcover. Sport and travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa and also notes on the game animals and their distribution. 118 pp, profuse ill. Exciting hunting trips in what was then Northern Rhodesia now Zambia. Big five + plains game, with accounts of sport and... More about Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia
London: Horace Cox, 1912. First. Orig Pictorial Cloth. 284 pp, ill, pub ads in rear. Deco end papers (orig). Author's ten years of hunting in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland. Elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino plus sable and other plains game. Author hunted along the Zambesi River, Luangwa... More about Wild Life in Central Africa
London: Horace Cox, 1912. First. Orig gilt Pict Cloth. 115 pp, ill. Perhaps Lyell's rarest work. Covers all the game of Nyasaland with excellent descriptions of distribution and hunting and accompanied by excellent trophy photos. One of the scarcest of all Lyell books. VG+ to near fine in original gilt... More about Nyasaland for the Hunter and Settler
Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 299 pp, 129 ill, pull out rear pocket maps. Foreword by FC Selous. Throughout BEA for most of that country's game. Madeira hunted with Selous and with a who's who of turn of the last century notables. Good chapter on chances and... More about Hunting in British East Africa
New York: Privately printed, 1930. First Edition in book form ltd to est 12 copies. Hardcover. In McClellan Mynderse and Allied Families. 163 pp, ill. Large format 10 x 13 inches. Printed on one side only. A Hunting Log covers pp 43 to 163. McClellen recounts a lengthy hunting trip... More about A Hunting Log
Indianapolis IN: Bobbs Merrill, 1910. Limited Ed - 250 Copies. Vellum Over Boards. Adventures in big game hunting country. 402 pp. Profuse ill. Author was a noted cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune who got the chance to go to Africa with Carl Akeley. He had a wonderful safari and wrote... More about In Africa
Edinburg: Oliver & Boyd, 1957. First. Hardcover. 347 pp, ill. A vivid picture of the life of a young officer in Kenya at a time when settlers were just beginning to arrive in the country that was still inhabited by primitive tribes and wild animals. Col. Meinertzhagen servied with the... More about Kenya Diary 1902-1906
Mazoe Rhodesia: Frank Read Press, 1978. Caldwell, Edmund. First Limited to 250 Copies. Gilt Stamped Imit. Morocco. Two volumes. First volume: 260 pp, ill. Limited to 250 copies, this being number 41. List of subscribers. Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick is considered one of the great stories of the... More about Jock The Art of Edmund Caldwell and The Art of Edmund Caldwell Volume II
Dehra Dun: Superintendent of the G T Survey, 1871. First Edition. Orig Printed Wrappers. Prepared for submission to the government of India. 25 pp, ill, lengthy appendix on extracts from the narrative reports on the executive offers in charge of the survey parties and operations. Numerous fold out maps accompany... More about General Report on the Observations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India during 1870-1871
London: Smith Elder, 1876. First. Hardcover. A sporting tour of some officers on the guards in the Soudan during the winter of 1874-5. 355 pp, ill with ORIGINAL PHOTOS by Rowland Ward, Two year hunting tour of the Sudan with the Hamran Arab guides who were renowned elephant hunters. A.... More about Life With the Hamran Arabs
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 about Travel and Adventure in the Congo Free State and Its Big Game Shooting
London: Chapman & Hall, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. 258 pp. Ill. Fold out map. Three months in Somaliland for elephant, rhino, numerous encounters with lion, leopard and kudu. Author was Asst Deputy Commissioner stationed in the area. He hunted everywhere he traveled. A VERY scarce, almost rare title. REcased in... More about Rambles in Lion Land
London: F E Robinson, 1900. First. Hardcover. being an account of two expeditions into the far interior together with a complete list of every animal and bird known to inhabit that country and a list of reptiles collected by the author. With notes on equipment needs to complete a big... More about Somaliland
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1881. First American. Hardcover. from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean through Unknown countries and the discovery of Great Zambesi affluents. 2 volumes: 337 & 388 pp, profuse ill, folding map frontis and pull out rear pocket map in back pocket; 388 pp, ill. Serpa Pinto headed the... More about How I Crossed Africa
Buffalo NY: privately printed, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Privately printed for the author. Orig. stiff board wraps. Trip with some friends including author Daniel Streeter and Richard Goodyear to East Africa mainly for elephant. 53 pp, ill, soft covers. Tipped in map at rear showing the trail of the elephant... More about The Log of the Amka
London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, madras presidency. ...indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, etc for killing game met with... More about Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills
Warsaw Poland: Gebethner I Wolff, 1897. Stachiewicz, P. First in Polish. Hardcover. 132 pp, ill (incl many photogravures). This is the true first edition of what was later reprinted by Rowland Ward in London as Sport in Somaliland. 15.5 x 12.25 inches. Patterned end papers on this paper. Gilt and... More about Notatki Mysliwskie Z Afryki Somali
London: Rowland Ward, 1902. First. Hardcover. Nine months journey from the plains of Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game from elephant to ibex and notes on the manners and customs of the natives. 531 pp, ill, folding map. One of the few books with... More about A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia
