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In Haunts of Wild Game. A Hunter-Naturalist's Wanderings from Kahlamba to Libombo. With a portrait of the author, numerous illustrations by C. Whymper and a map
Kirby, Frederick Vaughan
/ London: William Blackwood & Sons 1896
first edition; xvi, 576 pp., frontis., plates, folding map; contemporary half leather & cloth covered boards (hardcover), t.e.g., gilt title stamping rubbed from the spine, hand stamp to the title page, covers worn, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
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Subject/Keywords: Big Game hunting Africa Travel Natural History bzc
Item #: 1115633
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$144.48
Sport in the highlands of Kashmir: Being a narrative of an eight months' trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a lady's experiences in the latter country: Together with hints for the guidance of sportsmen
Darrah, Henry Zouch
/ London: Rowland Ward, Limited 1898
first edition; xviii, 506, [9] (ads) pp., frontis., plates, two folding maps in sleeve at the back; original silver-stamped maroon cloth, minor discoloration to the spine, book plate to the front paste down, hand stamp to the bottom margin of the title page, small discoloration mark to the spine, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: big game hunting central asia bzc
Item #: 1092255
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$241.46
Ornamental Pheasant Society of America. Organized January 8th, 1936
Philip M. Plant, C. L. Sibley, William Beebe, Frank Buck, et al.
/ Wallingford: Ornamental Pheasant Society of America 1936
41, [8] (ads) pp., plates; original illustrated paper wrappers, covers darkened, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: ornithology birds bzc
Item #: 1088492
$13.65
Australasia. Vol. II: Malaysia and the Pacific Archipelagoes. Second edition, revised by A. H. Keane. Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel (New Issue)
F. H. H. Guillemard
/ London: Edward Stanford 1908
xvi, 574, [2] (ads) pp., numerous folding maps, one of which is split at the folds, the balance are unmolested; original illustrated green cloth (hardcover), ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: pacifica bzc
Item #: 1088466
$36.33
Notes Taken During Travels In Africa
John Davidson
/ London: J. L. Cox & Sons 1839
first edition, printed for private circulation; [8], 213 pp., frontis. & two other plates; contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards, binding worn, hand stamp to the title page, book plate removed from the rear paste down, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: travel exploration africa bzc
Item #: 1088439
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$497.45
The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada, Or Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds, and Fish of that Country
King, W. Ross
/ London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866
first edition; quarto, xv, [3], 334 pp., errata slip, color frontis. and 5 other color plates, woodcut illustrations in text, original pictorial green cloth, corners worn, old library label to the spine, private book plate and book dealer's catalog description to the front paste down, previous owner's signature to the front free endpaper, hand stamp to the title page, the frontis. is foxed, however the balance of the plates are generally clean. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: hunting, fishing, Canada bzc
Item #: 1088433
$43.18
The Complete Writings of Thomas Say on the Entymology of North America. Edited by John L. Le Conte. In two volumes
Say, Thomas
/ NY: Balliere Brothers 1859
first edition; 2 volumes, xxiv, 412, 48 (publisher's catalogue) iv, 814 pp., 54 color plates in the first volume with the b&w beetle plate at the end of the second; uniformly bound in contemporary red quarter leather and green cloth covered boards, bindings worn, book plate to each front paste down, hand stamp to each title page, text and plates clean and bright. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: entomology butterflies insects lepidoptery bzc
Item #: 1032432
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$1,088.90
The Book of Antelopes. In four volumes (1894-1900)
Philip Lutley Sclater & Oldfield Thomas
/ London: R. H. Porter 1894
first edition; large quarto, 4 volumes, xxxv, 220 v, 194 v, 245 v, 242 pp., 100 chromolithographic color plates; original gilt stamped illustrated brown cloth, minor discoloration near base of the spines, a few of the plates are chipped at the fore edge margin, images unaffected, overall very good. Volumes
Included: 4
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: big game hunting art natural history bzc
Item #: 1030991
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$5,824.89
Five Months' Sport in Somali Land by Lord Wolverton. With illustrations from photographs by Colonel Paget
Wolverton
/ London: Chapma & Hall 1894
first edition; 108 pp., plates, folding map; original illustrated beige cloth, binding darkened and rubbed, the folding map suffers slightly from having been misfolded, hand stamp to the front paste down and title page, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Big Game hunting Africa Travel Natural History bzc
Item #: 1031003
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$121.66
The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands
Meyer, A. B., & L. W. Wiglesworth
/ Berlin: R. Friedlander & Sohn 1898
2 volumes, large quarto, xxxii, 962 pp, 42 hand-colored lithograph plates after painting by Bruno Geisler, 3 plain lithograph plates, 7 hand-colored maps; contemporary quarter leather, bindings very worn and now in need of rebacking at the least; small, old hand stamp to the bottom margin of each title page, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: ornithology bids bzc
Item #: 1030959
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$1,896.35
A Handbook to the birds of British Burmah, including those found in the adjoining state of Karennee. In two volumes
Oates, Eugene William
/ London: R. H. Porter & Messrs. Dulau & Co. 1883
first edition; 2 volumes, 30, [1] (errata), [6], 431 xiii, 493 pp., folding map frontispiece in the first volume; contemporary quarter red leather & marbled boards, bindings worn, book plates to the paste down and free endpaper of each volume, library markings, book plates removed from the rear endpapers, closed tear to the map, foxing to the endpapers, else internally clean. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: birds ornithology burma myanmar bzc
Item #: 1030935
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$108.61
Across the Roof of the World: A Record of Sport and Travel Through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, The Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia. With map and illustrations
P. T. Etherton
/ Frederick A. Stokes Company 1911
first edition; xvi, 453 pp., frontis., plates, folding map; original illustrated green cloth, t.e.g., spine slightly frayed, tips rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: big game hunting travel exploration bzc
Item #: 1030916
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$289.22
Mit der Buchse in funf Weltteilen. Zweite Auflage
Paul Niedieck
/ Berlin: Paul Parey 1906
2nd edition, inscribed by Niedeck to naturalist William T. Hornaday; viii, 427 pp., plates, folding map; original illustrated brown cloth, bottom corner of the text is bumped, binding rubbed, book plate removed from the front paste down, hand stamp to the title page, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: big game hunting bzc
Item #: 1030915
$30.67
Kreuzfahrten im Beringmeer. Neue Jagden und Reisen. Mit 32 Tafeln, einer Karte und 100 Textabbildungen nach Originalaufnahmen
Paul Niedieck
/ Berlin: Paul Parey 1907
first edition, inscribed by Niedieck to naturalist William T. Hornaday; xi, 253 pp., frontis., plates, folding map in sleeve at the back, original gray cloth, small hand stamp to the title page, covers darkened, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: western americana alaska natural history bzc
Item #: 1028398
$33.97
The North Pole Aftermath. Speech of Hon. S. D. Fess. of Ohio, In the House of Representatives, Congress of the United states, Thursday, March 4, 1915
Fess, S. D.
/ [Washington] 1915
27 pp, original self wrappers, very good; Cook's claims have no basis in fact and are not worthy of Congressional investigation. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: geography travel Polar exploration wark bzc
Item #: 488953
$18.82