London: William Heinemann, 1925. Royal quarto edition. Hardcover. With a mongraph on the African Elephant. 206 pp, profuse ill, 113 plates after photographs by the author. The photographer's famous work on elephants in East Africa. The book is as good to read as it is handsome to behold. Elephant stalking... More about Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa
Camden SC: Briar Patch Press, 1989. Abbett, Robert. First Limited to 500 Copies. Orig half Leather, Slipcase. 191 pp. ill. from the artists works. Part of the Masters of the Wild Series. Orig. half leather over marbled boards. Beautifully printed on heavy and coated stock. In original customer slipcase. In... More about Robert Abbett
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1954. Lodge, G., Henry, D. First Edition. Hardcover. 624 pp, pull out colored folding map in rear pocket. An account of the Arabian peninsula and desert regions of Sinai, Palestine, Syria, trans Jordan and Iraq. Thisk, heavy book. The book is vg+ only because inside the... More about Birds of Arabia
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyed, 1959. Lodge, Millais, et al. First Edition. Hardcover. The piratical and predatory habits of birds. 230 pages, ill. incl. b/w photos, sketches and colored plates. Ill by Lodge, Millais and others. VG+ in vg dj. More about Pirates and Predators
London: Hugh Rees, 1930. Lodge, Green, Gronveld. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 large format volumes 348 & 349 pp. Frontis, 31 plates (colored), 6 photogravures, 3 colored folding maps, text ill. Meinertzhagen and Nicoll (who was Asst Director of Egypt's zoological gardens) intended to produce a complete volume on the birds... More about Nicoll's Birds of Egypt
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
London: Henry Sotheran, 1897. Millais. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pp, 185 text and full page ill. mainly by the author and Landseer, Steel, Roe. Extinct British deer, red deer, fallow deer and roe deer. Images, description of horns and stalking stories. Millais tried to make this one of the most... More about British Deer and their Horns
London: Henry Sotheran, 1897. Millais. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pp, 185 text and full page ill. mainly by the author and Landseer, Steel, Roe. Extinct British deer, red deer, fallow deer and roe deer. Images, description of horns and stalking stories. Millais tried to make this one of the most... More about British Deer and their Horns
London: Longhams Green, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. with a frontispiece in Photogravure after a drawing by Millais, 8 photogravure plates, tissue guards, 2 colored plates and 50 ill. from author's drawings & photographs. 167 pp. ill. Large format: 12.25 x 10.25 inches. Waterfowl shooting throughout Scotland. Fair to good only... More about The Wildfowler in Scotland
NY: Scribner's, 1953. First. Hardcover. Intorudctory of H Anthony. 40 large plates and accompanying text on opposite page of the world's hoofed mammals shown in shadow form. This art form represented a first in picturing natural history specimens. Little wear at spine tips and slightest of wear at corners otherwise... More about Hoofed Mammals of the World
London and New York: Macmillan and Co Limited, 1939. First Edition. Soft cover. 40 pp. Supplement to the Journal of the Royal African Society July 1939 Vol XXVIII No CLII. Ancestry, anatomy, general information, habits and habitat. Very interesting lengthy booklet by the author of Big Game and Big Life. More about Elephant Past and Present
NY: The Ronald Press, 1962. First. Hardcover. 258 pp, ill. Great game animals from five continents. Concise life histories, locations and measurements of then record trophies. Plus rifle selection and care of trophies (especially good and still relevant today) section on how to keep trophies in top condition. Scarce. Fine... More about Trophy Heads
Cairo: Government Press, 1919. First. Orig Printed Stiff Boards. Ministry of Public Works, Zoological Service, Cairo. 119 pp + 31 colored plates on thick paper. Intended to be as complete a list as possible of the birds of Egypt. Also has in front a large colored folding map of Egypt... More about Handlist of the Birds of Egypt
London: Longmans Green, 1895. First. Hardcover. 328 pp, ill. Respected biography of the acclaimed animal painter. VG in orig. green cloth, Wear at spine tips (no loss of cloth but some closed tears) and a tear starting at front gutter. Cloth not worn through at corners though there is some... More about The Life of Joseph Wolf Animal Painter
Topsfield, MA: Salem House, 1987. Second. Hardcover. More about TREES
Inverness Scotland: Peter Spicer, 1914. 1913. Hardcover. Embracing the modeling of red deer heads. 117 pp, profuse ill, including many photos of trophies tipped in by hand on thick paper. Also includes measurements of the best heads of the season. Notes on the deer forests of Scotland. Great ads by... More about Spicer's Stalking Records Season 1913
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 315 pp, profuse photographic ill. Introduction to African animals and then lovely photographic plates preceded by descriptive introduction to the animal. Extra large format. Printed on thick paper and fine photo stock paper. VG (corners bumped) in orig. blue gilt cloth. More about Wild African Animals I Have Known
Kathmandu Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. A naturalist's adventure in Nepal. 301 pp, ill, fold out map, end paper maps. Author visited Nepal to collect specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. This is an account of his team's travels throughout that country. VG+ in like dj. More about Search for the Spiny Babbler
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1977. First. Hardcover. with a foreword by Prince Bernhatd of the Netherlands. 361 pp, profuse maps, diagrams and illustrations. Definitive study of Pakistan's mammals based on spending half his life in that country. Considered the only complete reference about Pakistan's mammals. Nice association: presented by Rohil... More about The Mammals of Pakistan
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1937. DeLuxe Limited Ed with extra signed etching. Hardcover. Ltd to 157 copies of which 135 are for sale. Collected etchings, drawings, & watercolors of Trout, Salmon and other game fish. Large format. Book fine, book is boog only, present but with separation. However the box label showing... More about Fish
Germany: Bjoern Verlag, 1979. First. Hardcover. 151 pp. Profuse color illustrations by the noted artist. Introductory text. A beautiful book and in like new condition in like new jacket. 65 color plates all printed on extra heavy special text stock. Large format, very heavy book. SOme experts think that Schatz... More about Wildbahn Impressionen
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1905. one volume. Hardcover. Photographing by flashlight at night the wild animal world of equatorial africa. Hunting and photography. Bette than good, front hinge loose but holding. More about With Flashlight and Rifle
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1818. First. Worn Full Leather. 615 pp, ill. Practical instructions in shooting, hunting, coursing, racing, cocking, fishing with observations on the breaking & training of dogs and horses and the management of fowling pieces and all other sporting implements. Collated complete. Fair condition externally (should... More about British Field Sports
Trabuco Canyon CA: California Classics, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. (not for boys); a Grizzly Introduction to the Santa Ana Mountains. 212 pp, end paper maps, ill. A comendium of Orange County, CA greatest bear stories (mainly about the Santa Ana Mountains. This was volume one in the Santa Ana Mountain... More about A Boy's Book of Bear Stories
Houston TX: Privately printed, 1959. First Edition. Soft cover. 36 pp, ill. History of the Smallwood Company and then articles on care of trophies in the field etc. VG+ to near fine. Likely a scarce item. More about The Art of Taxidermy
