Big Game Hunting II from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Imprensa Nactional De Mocambique, 1956. 266p. [8] leaves of plates. Read cover page wrinkled else a near fine copy. Language: Portuguese. One of Mozambique's legendary hunters provides photographs. The eight engravings all have their original tissue guards. uncut.. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Desennos e Fotograias Do Author. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. ... Read More

Bookseller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (Arizona, United States)

New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. 188p., there is a closed 1" tear on the bottom of p. 54-55 not extending to the text of the first American edition among the classics of man versus a single ferocious beast. Corbett's accounts of man-eating tigers but man-eating leopards are rare and when according to official government records 125 people were viciously killed and eaten, he began a search for it which seemed impossible. Government employees caught it once only to have it escape through it... Read More

Bookseller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (Arizona, United States)

London: Rowland Ward, Limited 533p. Index of Species and Races. One of the finest ever produced with thousands of measurements, many photographs, etc. It was the last gasp of great hunting which changed forever through the difficulties of Depression, World War II, the collapse of Colonialism and the rapaciousness of both native and hunter ending the era where extensive hunting in the wilds could never again be duplicated. A very nice copy in protective mylar cover. No flaws other than a few pages at be... Read More

Bookseller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (Arizona, United States)

London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1949 8vo., 281pp. A zoologists travel in 1938-39, with 31 plates in half-tone, and 11 line illustrations. Map. Index. Bound in black cloth boards, with map endpapers, and illustrated ddust jacket ( 1/8" chipping at crown). First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... Read More

Bookseller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (Arizona, United States)