Diary of a Journey Across Tibet
Kathmandu Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. 309 pp, ill, large folding map. Deco map end papers.Reprint of the rare classic on the area. VG in like jacket. More
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The Company of Adventurers
London: East Africa, 1928. First. Hardcover. 318 pp, ill.With a foreword by Lord Cranworth. One of the African pioneer adventurers who was most admired by Theodore Roosevelt. (Boyes was also King of the WaKikuyu tribe.) Boyes had more thrilling adventures in real life than most men have in fiction. Tremendous..... More
Memories of Africa
Long Beach CA: Safari Press, 2005. Limited Ed 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. Hunting in Zambia and Sudan 260 pp, ill, end paper maps. Limited to 1,000 signed, numbered, slipcased copies. Large format. The professional hunters and safari operator recounts hunting with client sin these two countries. Hunting for all the game..... More
The Campaign in the Crimea
London: Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, 1855. Simpson, William. First. Hardcover. An historical sketch. 112 pp illustrated with forty lithographed plates (frontis plus 39 full page plates throughout text) from drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson. The plates were designed to illustrate Simpson's "Seat of War in the East."..... More
A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula
London: Samuel Tinsley, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. 338 pp. Travel and big game hunting in a little known but excellent big game hunting part of the world. Much on tiger hunting and also elephant hunting. Plus an encounter with a rhino. Good reading and a very scarce work. Original printed..... More
Sourdough and Swahili
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1989. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 224 pp, ill. A professional hunter - and a popular one at that - talks about his remarkable hunting life on two continents: Africa and North America. Fine in like orig. slipcase. More
Far Arabia
Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1978. Readers Union Edition. Hardcover. Explorers of the Myth. 239 pp, ill. Arabia from the 16th century to the present days explorers. A story of travel, discovery, and one of the west's most enduring myths. Near fine in vg+ dj. More
Just Along for the Ride
Agoura, CA: Trophy Room Books, 2012. Limited Ed of 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 335 pp, 159 color photographic illustrations. Foreword by Mike Bartlett. Introduction by Craign Hamman. Don Bricker is a keen, enthusiastic international big game hunters whose accomplishments in the field of big game hunting make great reading. His adventures..... More
Tribes of the Sahara
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1960. First. Orig Cloth. 295 pp. Index. Covers major tribes of the area. More
Shooting and Deerstalking
London: Faber and Faber, 1913. Limited Edition 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 359 pp, profuse ill, and 102 full page photogravure plates. Folio sized. All edges gilt. Original publishers gilt stamped, decorated dark red morocco. Beveled edges. Gilt & stamped rules on front/rear boards. Raised bands on spine, rules & decorations in..... More
The Brock Safari 1950 and the Brock Shakari 1952
No place given: Privately printed for the author, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. Brock, O.C. THE BROCK SAFARI 1950 and the Brock Shakari of 1952. 12 pp, ill, soft printed covers. 1953. Lengthy safari through Kenya and Somalia buffalo, lion, kudu & antelope. Lots of photos, not much text. Privately..... More
Game Animals of the Sudan
London: Gurney and Jackson, 1931. Riddell, Millais, Bell, Wallace. First. Hardcover. Their habits and distribution. A Handbook for hunters and naturalists. 170 pp, ill, fold out maps. Ill w 12 coloured plates by Riddell, 45 sketches by Millais, Bell and Wallace, photographs and a fold out map. The wealth, beauty..... More
Screed of a Safari Scribe
Tennessee: Privately printed for the author, 1947. First Edition. Soft cover. 84 pp, Ill, large format, soft covers. The wife of Award winner Berry Brooks recounts the famous hunter's early African game hunt for the big five and plains game. He hunted with none other than Donald Ker and Syd..... More
Kachalola of Mighty Hunter
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1931. First American Ed. Hardcover. Broomfield, S. KACHALOLA or Mighty Hunter. The early life and adventures of S S Broomfield: Ivory Hunter, Prospector, Doctor of Medicine. 1931 NY 1st Amer. ed. 310 pp ill. The first half is entirely on EAST AFRICA, with lots..... More
Notes on the Care & Cataloguing of Old Maps
Windham CT: Hawthorne House, 1941. First. Hardcover. 144 pp, ill. From creation to ethnic groups, population, society, culture, cities, agriculture, oil etc. A mass of information presented in readable, digestible format. Near fine copy of a long respected work. More
The Story of Maps
Boston: Little Brown, 1953. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 397 pp, ill, end paper charts. Story of maps and mapmaking from the earliest times. A fascinating study. VG in vg+ dj. Actually book is nice but former owner has written his name inside front cover and on edge and bottom page edges..... More
Where Giants Trod
London: Quiller Press, 1989. First. Hardcover. The saga of Kenya's desert lake. Foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs. 431 pp, profuse ill. Pull out rear pocket map. Story of 13 missions. History, travel & exploration in this game rich corner of Kenya. Describes the adventures of men like Stigand, Neumann and..... More
Tours in Sikhim
Calcutta: W Newman, 1944. Fourth. Orig Printed Wraps. and the Darjeeling District. 188 pp, numerous folding plans in text and large folding pull out map in rear pocket. VG in original printed wraps. General information on the country and the people as well as information for touring both in vehicles..... More
Observations and Inquiries Relating to Various Parts of Ancient History
Cambridge, England: J. Archdeacon, 1767. First. Full Leather. containing dissertations ...together with an account of Ancient Egypt in its most early state and of the Shepherd Kings....324 pp. + errata page. 5 engraved folding maps, 1 engraved folding plate. Text and maps are clean. Rear board detached. End papers are..... More
Big Game Hunting in Central Africa
New York: St Martins Press, 1988. Capstick Reprint Series: 1st Ed Thus. Hardcover. 268 pp, ill. One of the popular classic African big game hunting titles in the Peter Capstick reprint series. Fine in like jacket. All the books in this series make great reading. More
Leaves from the Records of the St Huberts Club
London: L Booth, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. or Reminiscences of Sporting Expeditions in Many Lands 336 pp, ill. The majority of these stories originally appeared in a periodical printed from private circulation among regiment members. Mostly tiger and boar hunting with some fishing, a day on the bontebok flats. and..... More
The Hunter is Death
Huntington Beach CA: Safari Press, 1987. Astley Maberly, C. Reprint. Hardcover. Safari Press reprint of London 1st ed. 348 pp. Ill. End paper maps. Great reading story of professional elephant hunter George Rushby and others. Rushby was a member of that most select company of adventurers: the professional elephant hunter..... More
Arabic Proverbs
London: Darf, 1990. New Impression. Hardcover. Manners and customs of the modern Egyptians illustrated from their proverbial sayings current at Cairo. Translated and explained by Burckhardt. 283 pp. Reprint of 1830 orig. ed. More
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia
London: Sir Richard Phillips, 1819. Extract. Paper Boards. 32 pp extract from The Calcutta Journal describing the travels of the noted explorer. Part of spine of paper covers missing. Paper cover label (recent) present. Conents are very good. More