Big Game Hunting from Springbok Books

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. NO OTHER COPY FOR SALE ANYWHERE ELSE AT THE TIME OF… Read more about this item

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. Cruises in the Bering… Read more about this item

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

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

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

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.

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. Baker… Read more about this item

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

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

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)

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