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(Durban: Killie Campbell Africana Library / Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1990 and 1997) 0869805290. Two volumes, each 232 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers. Volume One: Translated by Fleur Webb, introduced and indexed by Stephanie J. Alexander and Colin De B. Webb; pp. xxxii + (xii) + 359, incl. index; facsimile frontis., title page, and some preliminaries from the original French edition; map; illustrations after those in the original edition. Volume Two: Translated by Fleur Webb, introduced and annotated by Stephanie J. Alexander and Bill Guest; pp. xxxii + (ii) + 401, incl. index; facsimile frontis. from the first edition; maps; illustrations reproduced from original edition. Some foxing, especially to edges and reverse of wrappers; earlier owner's name signed on first page, in each case. Good to very good condition. "To South Africa in 1838 came Adulphe Delegorgue, a young French naturalist with a passion for information, a keen eye and a ready wit ... and a… Read More

(London: Macmillan, 1912). 8vo; original navy cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, upper cover with gilt emblem of fallen elephant mounted by terrier; top edge gilt; pp. 324, incl. index, + publisher's adverts.; frontis. with tissue guard; numerous photographs, full page and in text. Cloth somewhat worn, with trace of silverfish nibbling to tail of spine and upper cover; a little foxing to edges and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. (Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999, p. 274) "One of the true classics of African big game hunting, this work recounts the author's elephant hunting exploits primarily along the Luwegu River in German East Africa, and the Locheringo River in Portuguese East Africa. In addition there are encounters with rhinoceros, man-eating lion, leopard and a variety of plains game. During one elephant stalk, Sutherland's little terrier, Whiskey, survived being thrown into the bush by an enraged… Read More

(Johannesburg: H.A. van der Post Publications, no date). Title from upper cover. 8vo; pictorial boards; pp. 64; photographs in full colour; maps. Boards a little rubbed. Very good condition. 'AFRICAN HUNTING, Southern Africa is a practical "how-to" book that is timely indeed. It is an answer to the myriad of questions of both the first-time African hunter and the experienced professional about hunting in southern Africa - more specifically South Africa. Alec van der Post, the author, is a registered professional hunter of the highest order, with years of experience in the bush. He is a descendant of an ancient and distinguished family of Afrikaans heritage, with lineage going back some 300 years in South Africa. ... This hunter's encyclopaedia of South African safari lore should be in every hunter's library.' - Howard W Pollock, Former US Congressman for Alaska, Former President The National Rifle Association of America .

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988) 0312021496. A volume in the Peter Capstick Library. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiii + (i) + 270, incl. index; plates. Spine very slightly cocked; trace of foxing. Very good condition. "This represents an accumulation of letters spanning thirty years the author received from big game hunters including F. C. Selous; C. H. Stigand; R. J. Cunninghame; T. A. Barns; Martin Ryan; Alfred E. Pease; J. Stevenson-Hamilton; Leslie J. Tarlton; A. Blayney Percival; J. A. Hunter; A. L. Barnshaw; St. George Littledale; R. Pigot; J. G. Millais; Norman Smith; Abel Chapman; C. E. Radclyffe; Charles Sheldon; W. D. M. Bell; and J. Brander-Dunbar. Most of this correspondence deals with hunting in Africa especially, for the Big Five, and rifle choices for use in various international locales." - Kenneth Czech, writing of the first edition .

(Johannesburg: Rowland Ward, 2005) 0958459053. 4to; original charcoal rexine boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. xii + 268; numerous photographs in text. Fine condition. "Paul Grobler is a man of many parts - successful tobacco and stock farmer, doyen of ivory hunters, business entrepreneur and safari operator, skilled pilot and fine golfer, linguist and philanthropist. Paul's reputation was built on his early prowess as an elephant hunter ... A lifetime of adventurous exploits in the African wilds is, by definition, loaded with potential dangers but Paul's powers of survival varied from the uncanny to the bizarre as those who know him well will testify. His remarkable physical fitness and sharp intellect today, aged in his eighties, bear witness to this amazing endurance. Did indeed the mystique of Africa, the stuff of fate and fable, envelop and protect this man when the old witch cast her spell over 'Kambada'? Who knows?" .

(Alberton: Galago, 1986) 0947020160. The text is a facsimile of the 1908 Macmillan 1st edition. Large 8vo; original green boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. xxx + 356, incl. index; plates. Spine panel of dustwrapper very slightly sunned; trace of spotting to top edge. Very good condition. Kenneth Czech describes this work as follows: 'A wide-ranging work that discusses everything from the coloration of African big game to the extinction of some species in South Africa. There are plenty of big-game hunting episodes, which Selous uses to accent his chapters on Cape buffalo, black rhinoceros, and lion, among others. Written at a time when there was a noticeable depletion of the great game herds, he becomes almost lyrical in his longing for the old days: "but no man will ever again sit by a camp fire near one of the little rivers ... eating prime pieces of fat elephant's heart, roasted on a forked stick, nor watch the… Read More

(Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1997) 1571570748. 4to; cloth-backed green pebbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 173; plates. Some minor foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper; earlier owner's name signed on title page. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 6 [Nairobi edition of 1946]) "One of the founders of the East Africa Professional Hunters' Association, Anderson recalls numerous elephant hunting adventures in Somaliland, the Sudan and in East Africa's Northern Frontier. There is also an interesting trek with James Sutherland in Tanganyika after elephant, and additional safaris with George Rushby. Accounts of leopard and lion hunting are also included, the latter cat mangling Anderson's leg during one attack. The author died of pneumonia just prior to publication." - Kenneth Czech .

(London: Country Life Limited, 1948). 4to; original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. ix + (i) + 182; plates. Backstrip slightly frayed at head and tail; corners turned; cloth a little rubbed and stippled; gift inscription to front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout; archival tape reinforcing to tail of upper hinge. Good condition. (Czech [2011], p. 270) "While most of this work details the author's treks in the African bush to photograph big game, there is mention of hunting elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, etc." - Kenneth Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 .

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989) 0312032749. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. Translated from the French by Frederic Lees. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + xxvii + (i) + 330, incl. index; plates; some photographs in text. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; light bump to top fore-corner of upper board; some foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 98 [Adam & Charles Black edition of 1899]) "In less than four years Édouard Foà covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot - from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foà succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest… Read More

(London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894). Two crown 8vo volumes; original brown pictorial cloth, backstrips with gilt lettering and maned lion and moose emblems; pp. xvi + 453 + adverts., x + 443; profusely illustrated with plates and drawings in text, including work by Charles Whymper. Cloth a bit rubbed; bookplate of R. E. Skyring Thomas to front pastedown and subsequent owner's signed name to free endpaper in each case; hinges a little tender; some browning, and scattered, generally moderate foxing. Good condition. (Mendelssohn II, p. 632; Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 220) Volume I is very largely concerned with African hunting, and includes contributions by Samuel Baker, William Cotton Oswell, Frederick Jackson, and Frederick Selous. It concludes with a brief consideration of North American hunting prospects. Volume II explores hunting in the Arctic regions, in various parts of Europe and Central Asia, and, of course, India. There are… Read More

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988) 0312021658. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + viii + 268, incl. index; photographs. Dustwrapper spine panel very slightly sunned, and a little creased at head; light bump to head of spine; earlier owner's name signed on half-title; some foxing to edges. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 42 [Cecil Palmer edition of 1930]) "Buckley was nearly everywhere and had done almost everything when it was actually happening, before Africa was sanforized and supposedly civilized. Best known for his ivory hunting, he struck up friendships with the better-chronicled of that most dangerous trade and earned a chink in the ragged wall of African hunting that was every bit as distinguished as the places occupied by his better-known… Read More

(London: Robert Hale, 1958). First edition. 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 206, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper slightly damp-rippled, somewhat rubbed, edgeworn, with a little loss; club book label and ownership inscription to front free endpaper; edges and endpapers a little foxed; merest suggestion of damp ingress to top edges of boards. Good condition. (Czech, p. 99) "Among Foran's numerous adventures in this book are his hunts after the Big Five, crocodiles and various antelope species in Kenya." - Kenneth Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999 .

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924). First edition. With illustrations from drawings by the author, by H. R. Millais, and from photographs. Royal 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. x + (ii) + 254, incl. index; map; fifty plates. Some silverfish attention to cloth; backstrip a little frayed at head and tail; earlier owner's name to front pastedown; scattered, moderate foxing. Good condition. (Czech, p. 197) "Millais traveled to Dinka territory in the Sudan. In the Sudd region, his party hunted reedbuck and kob but was unsuccessful in finding elephant. Continuing along the Nile valley, they bagged buffalo, hartebeest, and trophy roan. Perhaps his best chapter describes hunting buffalo and eland in the Bahr-el-Ghazal region. The illustrations, for the most part, are taken from Millais' excellent sketches." - Kenneth P. Czech: A Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1999 .

(London: Rowland Ward, 1908). Royal 8vo; original red buckram, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; decorative endpapers; pp. xix + (i) + 484, incl. index; publisher's catalogue; plates; illustrations in text. Cloth a little stippled and rubbed, with trace of wear to extremities of sunned spine; some foxing to endpapers and outermost leaves. Good condition; very good internally. (Czech: A Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1999, p. 172) "An excellent work that covers the natural history of both large and small game animals of Africa. Lydekker utilized segments of text he had written for The Great and Small Game of Africa edited by H. A. Bryden, with much new material added. Especially interesting are the hunting vignettes related by numerous sportsmen such as Selous, Neumann, Powell-Cotton and others from books and journal articles." - Kenneth Czech .

(London: Horace Cox, 1909). 4to; green cloth resembling crocodile skin, over bevelled boards; lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; warrior device blocked in black to upper cover; decorative endpapers; pp. x + (ii) + 310, incl. index, plus adverts.; numerous plates. Wear to spine extremities, upper joints and corners of boards; moderate foxing throughout. Good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 268) "A handsome volume that examines wild game, its habitat and spoor within Kenya, Uganda and the eastern Congo regions. Stigand observes game traits on the plains, and in the bush and forested areas detailing animal movements, coloration and even preservation of game. There are interesting chapters comparing hunting big game to shooting, and also on stalking." - Kenneth Czech .

(New York: Winchester Press, 1975) 0876912110. Presentation inscription from co-author Lee E. Jurras on title page. 8vo; original brown boards; laminated dustwrapper; pp. ix + (i) + 245, incl. index; several photographs. Dustwrapper a little rubbed, and sunned to spine panel; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Here is the first book to tell the sportsman how and where he can meet the ultimate challenge to his stalking skill and marksmanship - taking game with a sidearm. ... Handgun Hunting tells it all: the history of the sport, the best types of arms, where to hunt and what game to hunt for, selecting ammunition, handloading, choosing equipment and accessories, customized guns, techniques for hunting predators as well as large game ... " .

(no place [USA]: Scholar Select, no date). Text facsimile of the Library of Congress copy of the 1896 New York edition, published by Charles Barker Bradford. 8vo; glacé boards; pp. 207 + original publisher's adverts.; some illustrations. Fine condition. Field and Stream, St. Paul, Minn.: "Charles Barker Bradford will issue what will prove, perhaps, the last and best of the works of Isaac McLellan, 'Haunts of Wild Game.' It is with the keenest and most pleasurable expectation that we await the publication of this new volume. Its author is a grand example of the preservative element in a life in sun and shade, fanned by the breeze and calmed and smoothed beside the freshening brook. Few men put forth such vigorous sentiment to glorify Nature as that displayed in the advance sheets of this work." .

(Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1968). Illustrated by C. T. Astley Maberly. 8vo; original grey boards; no dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. viii + 348; line drawings in text. Sunned on backstrip; boards a bit bowed; damp stain to upper board; earlier owner's name signed on half-title verso; ripple and trace of damp-stain to several leaves; some foxing. Good reading copy. "This book is without doubt the most remarkable true account ever written of adventure in Africa. From its start in 1921 in a Salvation Army soup kitchen in Durban until its climax in Tanganyika in 1946, the reader is transported into a world of tumultuous and bizarre events. Here, for the first time, are the authentic details of an animalism, a lycanthropy and black magic almost beyond belief - the hyena cult of the Mbugwe people, the fearsome lion-men of the Singida district, and the twenty-two man-eaters of the Njombe district who killed and ate well over one thousand known human beings before nemesis brought them one by one… Read More

(Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa, 1980) 0869540807. 4to; pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 180, incl. index; detailed drawings of the various species, with distribution maps, tables and spoor illustrations. Some foxing to reverse of dustwrapper and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 308) "Among the information the author includes is planning a safari, tracking game, hunting wounded animals, skinning and preserving trophies, hunting all manner of species, choosing a rifle, etc." - Kenneth Czech .

(Durban: Killie Campbell Africana Library / Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1991) 0869807889. 230 x 148 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 150, incl. index; illustrations; folding map. Lamination slightly rippled; trace of foxing to cover and edges. Good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 273.) "Struthers arrived in Natal determined to become a successful big game hunter. He travelled in the vicinities of the Umvolozi and Utukela rivers, bagging numerous hippos, reedbucks, waterbucks, and the like. He continued into Amatonga territory where he hunted rhino and elephants as well as other game. Struthers' original journals were discovered on a South African bookdealer's shelves and now reside in the Killie Campbell Africana Library." - Kenneth Czech .