Camden SC: John Culler & Sons, 1994. Reprint Limited to 500 Copies. Leather. Reprint orig publ almost one hundred years ago. 330 pp, ill. Urial sheep, Persian ibex, gazelle and stag. Author was an avid sheep hunter and contributed articles to numerous magazine in his time. Only 500 copies bound..... More
SC: John Culler, 1995. ltd ed 500 copies. Hardcover. Sketches of sport in Eastern Persia. 1995 SC This is the Asian Series ltd ed reprint. 283 pp, ill. All edgesgilt. Genuine gilt full leather binding. Slipcased. Author was British consul in the area and spent much time hunting ibex and..... More
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1866. First. Half Leather- Worn. or, notes on natural history of the game, game birds and fish of that country. Illustrated with colored plates and woodcuts. 334 pp, ill. Natural history of Canadian game. A cornerstone title but this should be rebound. It is bound in..... More
Winona, MN: Private Printing, 1939. 1st Edm 4th Prtg. Orig Printed Wraps. 42 pp. Profuse ill. Orig. printed wraps. 9 1/2 x 6 in. Two trips made by Mr & Mrs King to Tanganyika for dangerous and plains game. Mrs. King also wrote a book about their trips. This pamphlet..... More
Boulder Co: Sycamore Island Books, 1998. Trade Ed. First Trade. Hardcover. 477 pp. 96 pp of stunning color photos. Controversial, courageous, clever, colorful: Kingsley-Heath has trekked through the plains and bushes of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somaliland, Eritrea, and Mozambique. Maps. Read about his walking right into a pride of..... More
Boulder Co: Sycamore Island Books, 1998. Trade Ed. First Trade. Hardcover. 477 pp. 96 pp of stunning color photos. Controversial, courageous, clever, colorful: Kingsley-Heath has trekked through the plains and bushes of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somaliland, Eritrea, and Mozambique. Maps. Read about his walking right into a pride of..... More
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
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
London: Edward Arnold, 1929. First in English. Hardcover. 342 pp, 200 ill., fold out map. Foreword by Major Burrard. Author hunted 22 years for the Hungarian national museum. He spent much time in the Central African areas after big elephants. Also a lot on lion, rhino and buffalo. Save for..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1929. First in English. Hardcover. 342 pp, 200 ill., fold out map. Foreword by Major Burrard. Author hunted 22 years for the Hungarian national museum. He spent much time in the Central African areas after big elephants. Also a lot on lion, rhino and buffalo. Faded spine..... More
New York / London: Longman's Green, 1929. First Ed in English. Hardcover. Kittenberger, K. BIG GAME HUNTING AND COLLECTING IN EAST AFRICA 1903-1926. First ed. 1929 London & NY. 348 pp. 200 ill. Map. Foreword by Major Burrard. Author hunted 22 years for the Hungarian National Museum. He spent much..... More
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. First Trade. Hardcover. A Chronicle of Sport Hunting and Conservation. 772 pp, profuse color ill. Autobiography of the pioneer of Asian hunting and conservation. The name Klineburger has been a synonym for exotic international big game hunting for over half a century. After hunting in..... More
London: Kegan Paul Trench Krubner, 1910. First in English. Hardcover. 1910 London 340 pp, ill. The long serving Count traveled extensively through India and recalls hunts for buffalo, panther and tiger. However this is mainly a most interesting, but, a travel book. (Author also wrote The Markhor Sport in Kashmir.)..... More
Phoenix AZ: Southwest Natural History Museum, 1984. First. Hardcover. 205 pp, ill. References are mainly technical in nature. Fine condition. 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
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 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
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
NY: Simon & Shuster, 1938. Leigh, W.R. First. Hardcover. An artist's adventures in Africa. 299 pp, ill. End paper maps. Leigh was the artist who accompanied Carl Akeley to Africa and helped collect game and design the African Hall for the American Museum. VG+ to near fine in vg+ dj..... 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
Colorado: Self Published, 1968. First. Hardcover. 200 pp, close to 200 photos. Privately printed by the author. Large format. Leonard is, unfortunately, 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
London: John Long, 1911. First. Hardcover. 266 pp, 52 ill. A classic, written by one of the foremost gentleman big game hunters and adventurers of his day is one of the few classic big hunting titles to concentrate on Zambia, an area that is today still very much a safari..... 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
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
