New York: Elliott Service, 1936. No Binding. Siemel, Sasha A FABULOUS piece of ephemera. Exceptionally large original news photo featuring Sasha Siemel, the well known jaguar hunter, especially noted for hunting these big cats armed only with a spear. Sasha was also an accomplished boxer. There is also a large..... More
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1904. First. Hardcover. 619 pp, ill, map. Twenty months' travel and sport in unknown lands and among new tribes. (Author also wrote A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia.) Author for many years held the record for the largest set of tusks ever taken by a sporting elephant..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 2 vol: 798 pp. Profuse ill. Over 40 distribution maps. Hunting throughout Africa. Information on nearly every species of game broken down by country. The most definitive hunting book written by Roosevelt. Nearly 40 pp. bibliography lists almost every African..... More
NY: St Martins Press, 1989. Capstick Reprint Series. Hardcover. East Africa, 1903-1926.348 pp, ill, map. A Hungarian nobleman's heart stopping memoirs of a lifetime of big game hunting in East Africa. One of the African big game hunting titles in the Capstick reprint series. Fine in near fine dj... More
Warren NH: Private Printing, 1934. First. Orig Printed Wraps. no date of pub but circa 1940. 60 pp, ill. Hunting throughout Kenya with Leslie Tarlton of Safariland and also with Sid Waller. Elephant, lion, rhino buffalo and a host of other game. Near fine. More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Soldier, Scientist & Spy. 292 pp, ill., index. Really good biography of the noted soldier, scientist and secret agent. Fine in like dj. More
NY: Stokes, 1911. First. Hardcover. 135 pp, ill. Author was Field Manager of the Buffalo Jones African expedition. Intro. by Theodore Roosevelt. The noted photographer Cherry Kearton was also a member of this expedition. Features the Buffalo Jones expedition to East Africa to lasso big and dangerous game including eland..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1893. Lynn Bogue Hunt. Third Impression. Hardcover. 455 pp, ill. One of the best, most widely read, quoted and reprinted books. Only the first four editions of this book have the green cloth with the three gold animal heads on the cover. Corners showing some wear but..... More
London: Seely Service, 1954. First. Hardcover. nd ca 1954. 255 pp, ill. End paper maps. Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, and Kenya. Hunting and travel. With Phil Percival and Harry Manners as their professional hunters this was a great safari. Near fine. More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. First American. Hardcover. 2 vol: each 318 pp. Profuse ill. 1886 NY First American Edition Fold out map. From the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi River to the Lake Regions of Central Africa through some of the finest hunting country in existence.Fans of..... More
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1873. First. Hardcover. 386 pp, ill. Author's scarcest, most sought after title and a sought after elephant hunting title as well. Includes stories from other explorer/hunters such as William Cotton Oswell and also stories on other game animals like lion and rhinoceros. Ranks with all the..... More
Barcelona: Olivo, 1993. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 228 pp, profuse colored illustrations. All of the great mountain and other big game of Europe with super big game hunting stories. All the great European game, color photos, super hunting stories & informative text. Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia, Hungary..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1983. First. Hardcover. 184 pp, profuse ill by Mohamed Amin. Parker is an authority on the world's ivory trafe and elephant game management. He is also a former game warden and big game hunter. This is an in depth look at man's interest in ivory and..... More
New York: Winchester Press, 1973. Kuhn, Bob. First. Hardcover. 154 pp, ill. First ed, Winchester Press. The big five in print and picture as only these to men could present them. A super book. Book near fine, jacket vg+. More
NP: Privately Printed, 1923. First. Hardcover. Author's first book (of 2). 234 pp. profuse ill. Long hunt in Kenya and Tanganyika with famous professional hunting legend Leslie Tarlton. Lion, rhinoceros and other game. Colburn was a good hunter, a good writer and a fine photographer and a facile writer. This..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1890. 1890. 1st Amer Ed. Hardcover. Two volumes: 548 & 540 pp. Ill. Elaborate deco stamped covers both volumes. Classic work on Stanley's African explorations and his quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria. Binding lightly worn but overall a vg to vg+ set..... More
London: Macmillan, 1890. 1890. Hardcover. Reminiscences of Europe,, Asia, Africa and America. 1890 London one volume ed. 455 pp, ill. Orig. gilt and scene stamped red cloth binding. Spot on front cover, front hinge weak, little better than vg. Great reading copy of an early edition. More
London: Rowland Ward, 1896. Second Edition. Hardcover. Being a narrative of events in Matabeleland both before and during the recent native insurrection up to the date of the disbandonment of the Bulwayo Field Force. 290 pp, zebra end papers, ill, fold out map, pub ads in rear. l printed cloth..... More
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1995. Coheleach, Guy. First - Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 509 pp, ill. Fourth in the Amwell Press big five series. Selections from the best books on leopard hunting, both old and recent as well as some selections written especially for this volume. Deservedly popular. Worth..... More
Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1976. Hardcover. Reprint of 1887 orig. ed. Hunting en route to the Victoria Falls. Orig. publ. as a series of articles, now compiled into a book, making it one of the earliest S African hunting guides. Fine in vg+ dj. More
NY: Scribner's, 1914. First. Hardcover. 383 pp, ill, large folding map. TR's expedition and hunting trips through Brazil. Internally fine and with firm hinges (unusual in this thick books). Very near fine with almost no wear on the outside or inside and only minor spotting on the spine. This is..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1929. First. Hardcover. 284 pp., ill. Grandsons of the famous President travel throughout Asia after some of the great mountain game. It was a long trip, with a lot of hunting and the men were rewarded with fine specimens of mountain sheep and ibex. Super reading..... More
London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Corbett, Jim Three of his popular books. MY INDIA 1st ed, 3rd printing 1954; THE MAN-EATING LEOPARD OF RUDAPRAYAG 1956 London, 2nd printing of illustrated edition, and THE TEMPLE TIGER AND MORE MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON 1954 London, 1st UK edition. All VG+, in vg..... More
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1875. American. Hardcover. Chambliss, J. THE LIFE AND LABORS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE 1875 PA 804 pp Fold out map. Richly illustrated. A thrilling narrative of the adventures, discoveries, experiences and achievements of one of the great explorers of modern times. Orig. highly decorative gilt cloth covers, beveled..... More
UK: Michael Joseph, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 236 pp, ill. For 25 years Koenig was the only professional hunter in what was then Tanganyika. He was considered by many as walking life insurance. These are the extraordinary adventures of one of Africa's great white hunters - 25 years of facing..... More
