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Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
by Sir Samuel White Baker
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition, First printing
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- 1855
- Binding
- Beautiful Half-Leather Binding
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THIS IS A VERY RARE BOOK
With ALL 6 of the color lithographs. Quarter-leather and marbled boards, gilded page edges
See photos for details of condition. The photos are part of the description of this book, so review them carefully.
Baker, who is most famous for his exploration in search of the Nile, lived for years and traveled extensively in Ceylon and describes… Read more about this item Item Price
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TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA
by James Chapman
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1868
- Binding
- Original binding, as issued
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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James Chapman's TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA, Comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading; With Journeys Across the Continent From Natal to Walvisch Bay, and Visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls
1868 Bell & Daldy, London, First Edition: 2 volumes. These original first editions are very, very rare.
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Complete 20-volume ASIAN SERIES: Hunting Trips in the Caucasus, Across Asia’s Snows and Deserts, After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia, Innermost Asia, Across the Roof of the World, Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir, Shooting Trip to Kamchatka, Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya, Sport and Folklore in the Himalaya, Big Game Hunting Diary, Summer in High Asia, Through the Highlands of Siberia, By Mountain, Lake and Plain, Hindu-Koh, Shooting in the Himalayas, Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet, Cruises in the Bering Sea,
by Paul Niedieck, Major G. Burrard, Fred Markham, Donald MacIntyre, Swayne, Alexander Kinloch, Hugh Whistler, Adair, Apponyi, Haughton, Kennion, S.J. Stone, Demidoff, Etherton, Cobbold, Morden, Darrah
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Original decorative bindings, with slip-cases, as issued
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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$2,999.00
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Complete 20-Volume set of the Asian Series published by John Culler & Sons. Each volume is like-new, unread, only admired a time or two. Each volume is #233 of only 500 sets of the Limited Deluxe Edition, each volume in a slip-case. Many of the original first editions of these big-game African hunting books are very expensive.
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Complete 24-volume African Collection: Lake Ngami, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Wild Beasts and Their Ways, On Safari, Big Game Shooting and Travel in Southeast Africa, After Big Game in Central Africa, A Hunter’s Life in South Africa, The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, The Hunting and Spoor of Central African Game, A Breath from the Veldt, Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, A Game Ranger’s Notebook, Sport in Somaliland, A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia, African Game Trails, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa, The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, East Africa and Its Big Game, The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, In Haunts of Wild Game, Memories of an African Hunter, The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter
by Charles John Andersson, Sir Samuel White Baker, Abel Chapman, William Finaughty, F. R. N. Findlay, Edouard Foa, Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, William Cornwallis Harris, John Guille Millais, Arthur Neumann, J. H. Patterson, A. Blayney Percival, Count Josef Poto
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- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Original decorative bindings, with slip-cases, as issued
- Quantity Available
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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$3,999.00
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Complete 24-Volume set of the African Collection published by Briar Patch Press. Each volume is like-new, unread, only admired a time or two. Each volume is #96 and still retains its original wax-paper protection. Only 500 sets of the Limited Deluxe Edition, each volume in a slip-case, were produced / sold worldwide. Many of the original first editions of these… Read more about this item Item Price
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Complete 24-volume African Collection: Lake Ngami, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Wild Beasts and Their Ways, On Safari, Big Game Shooting and Travel in Southeast Africa, After Big Game in Central Africa, A Hunter’s Life in South Africa, The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, The Hunting and Spoor of Central African Game, A Breath from the Veldt, Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, A Game Ranger’s Notebook, Sport in Somaliland, A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia, African Game Trails, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa, The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, East Africa and Its Big Game, The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, In Haunts of Wild Game, Memories of an African Hunter, The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter
by Charles John Andersson, Sir Samuel White Baker, Abel Chapman, William Finaughty, F. R. N. Findlay, Edouard Foa, Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, William Cornwallis Harris, John Guille Millais, Arthur Neumann, J. H. Patterson, A. Blayney Percival, Count Josef Poto
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- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Original decorative bindings, with slip-cases, as issued
- Quantity Available
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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$2,999.00
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Complete 24-Volume set of the African Collection published by Briar Patch Press. 22 volumes are #206, 2 are #105. Only 500 sets of the Limited Deluxe Edition, each volume in a slip-case, were produced / sold worldwide. Many of the original first editions of these big-game African hunting books are very expensive.
This is a wonderful and beautiful set of books,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Wild Sports of Southern Africa
by William Cornwallis Harris
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First British edition, First printing
- Published
- 1839
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- Original binding, as issued
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The first British edition 1839
Contents complete with all plates present and fold-out map at rear. The ORIGINAL publisher's binding is still in very good condition with only age-related wear and staining to bottom corners of cloth, and pastedowns and 2 or 3 leaves in front and at end. We have never seen a nicer copy of this edition. Foxing is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1850
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- Half-Leather Binding
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$525.00
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Rebound in half or 3/4-leather with marbled boards. The true first edition from June 1850 (the second edition was published also in 1850, but in August). Original cloth covers and spines bound in at the end of each volume. Item Price
$525.00
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(RARE 1867 First Edition) THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA
by Sir Samuel White Baker
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1867
- Binding
- Original binding, as issued
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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Here is a rarity. Original cloth binding. 1867 first London edition published by Macmillan.
Sir Samuel White Baker's THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA AND THE SWORD HUNTERS OF THE HAMRAN ARABS
This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.
The endsheets on this copy were replaced at the time that the spine cloth was internally reinforced.
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(RARE 1863 first edition) AFRICAN HUNTING
by William Charles Baldwin, Esq., F.R.G.S.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- n/a
- Edition
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1863
- Binding
- Rebound in half leather
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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Here is an absolute rarity, and one of the cornerstone Africana titles.
This beautiful copy is a First Edition (second editions are far more common)
The binding is new as of 2020, salvaging a copy that survived a fire Quarter-leather and marbled boards, marbled page edges; The book has been rebound adding (from another copy) the 32-page catalogue of "Mr. Bentley's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa
by Captain Alfred W. Drayson (A.W. Drayson, Alfred Wilkes Drayson)
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- n/a
- Edition
- First Edition, first printing
- Published
- 1858
- Binding
- Original decorative binding
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$479.99
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Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa
by A.W. Drayson (Alfred Wilks)
First edition, first printing, but instead of with 8 chromolithographed color plates & 1 black and white plate by Harrison Weir after drawings by the author, this copy has the black and white illustrations on plates from the second issue and second edition by Dalziel after Joseph Wolf.
In summary,… Read more about this item Item Price
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YOUNG YÄGERS & GIRAFFE HUNTERS
by Mayne Reid
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
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- Original decorative bindings
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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$59.99
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Two Matched-Binding Books
by Mayne Reid
YOUNG YÄGERS & GIRAFFE HUNTERS
These are from the 1880s, but the novels were original published in the mid-1800s
Nicely illustrated Adventures in South Africa
Bindings are nice for their age, with some faults as shown in photos
(former owner writing, ffep cut, tender inner hinges) Item Price
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Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa (RARE 1st edition)
by Captain Alfred W. Drayson (A.W. Drayson, Alfred Wilkes Drayson)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- n/a
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1858
- Binding
- Rebound in half-leather fine binding
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$199.95
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Mendelssohn 486: 'An account of hunting and sporting experiences in Kaffraria and Natal. The author joined a party of Boer hunters who were making an excursion into the plains under the Drekensburg mountains, near the sources of the Mooi river. He remarks on the wonderful eyesight possessed by these people and their contempt for the English as sportsmen. . .… Read more about this item Item Price
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