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63841London: Published by “East Africa†East Africa Ltd. 1928. Tall 8vo. xvi 318 pp. Frontisp. map with numerous photo plates. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear edgewear rubbing w/ printed dark brown d.j. minor scuffing edgewear couple closed tears tidemarks at couple corners still VG-/G copy. First edition of this very scarce follow-up to this African adventurer’s “King of the Wa-kikuyu†and relates his adventures as an elephant ivory poacher in the Lado Enclave of East Africa and travels through British East Africa Uganda Belgian Congo and Ethiopia. He was the first Eurocaucasian trader to travel from Addis Ababa Ethiopia to the capital of Kenya. Boyes 1874-1951 first arrived in East Africa when Nairobi was largely uninhabited made friends with the Kikuyu was admitted to their blood brotherhood became their uncrowned king and later settled down as a coffee grower and dairy farmer. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Published by “East Africa,†East Africa, Ltd., hardcover
190455454London: Rowland Ward Ltd. 1904. Tall 8vo. xvi 292 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 44 photos and plates 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine simulated Zebra skin endpapers minor bumping to corners edgewear slight spotting on the spine still VG copy. First edition of this excellent early account of hunting on the Kenai Peninsula including descriptions of Alaskan Native Americans salmon cannery operations and more. Radclyffe had acquired a permit from the Bureau of Biological Survey with the USDA in order to collect big game specimens for the British Museum and the account was dedicated to a longtime fellow hunter and friend Theodore Roosevelt. The author details his experiences with hunting Alaskan Brown Bears Grizzly Bears Moose Dall Sheep and running afoul of the zealous US Deputy Marshal Sexton a stickler for the new game regulations instituted on the Kenai in 1903 not to mention destroying the distilling operation of Alaskan hunter & miner Andrew Berg. He managed to survive a charging bear sow after being abandoned by his guide as well as the Alaskan courtroom but his companions were not so lucky as the judge ruled that the permit did not extend to the hunting party. Radclyffe returned later to hunt Alaska on the Kenai in August 1910 employing Andrew Berg as his head guide. See: Catherine Cassidy Alaska’s No. 1 Guide: The History and Journals of Andrew Berg 1869-1939 pp. 28-29 38. Rowland Ward Ltd., hardcover
194163851New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1941. Tall 8vo. 277 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Brick-red publisher’s cloth blue lettering pictorial map endpapers slight shelfwear 2 pp. w/ soiling a few leaves at rear w/ ragged fore-edges from poor opening w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by George Salter 1897-1967 and one of his earliest for the American book market minor creasing light dustsoiling to back cover 1 very small closed tear First edition stated & signed of this rousing autobiographical memoir of how this Texan rose from raw beginnings as a bellhop in a Chicago Hotel to become one of the most well-known 20th-Century adventurers. He has interspersed this account with tales hunting animals in Burma Sumatra Tibet Borneo Malaysia Singapore New Guinea and other places around the globe for sale to zoos complete with the uncommon dustjacket. Robert M. McBride & Co., hardcover
175591No place.: 永楽屋. Eirakuya. No date. Meiji. Very attractive colour woodblock printed game with original pictorial colour envelope 36.5 x 49.5cm original paper envelope 18 x 12.5cm. An usual game in very good condition Tosenkyo 投扇興 is a Japanese traditional game for 2 people who throw an opened fan at a target on a raised platform. The game was very popular in the late Edo period but its popularity gradually declined during the Meiji period. However in recent years the game has regained some popularity and there are various circles that enjoy the game. Each player earns points according to the way the three items fan target and platform are placed after a throw. This chart shows 54 different combinations with their scoring points with illustrations. Each combination has a title from the 54 volumes of the Tale of Genji. <br> <br>This colourful wood block print shows 54 different combinations with their titles and scores. On the lower right corner the instructions for the game instruction are printed. The original envelope is beautifully illustrated with fans with different patterns. . 永楽屋. [Eirakuya]. unknown
175724No date. Late Edo. Complete set of 200 delicately coloured handpainted cards flecked with gold and silver. Each card 8 × 5.4 cm. Two patterned silk cases one for the text and the other the portraits of the poets with washi paper linings are held within a black wooden lacquer box 16 ×11 ×15 cm. Some light signs of use but overall a very attractive set. This famous and much beloved Japanese card game is based on the classic anthology of 100 poems by 100 different poets. The anthology known as both Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and Hyakunin Isshu brings together waka usually now called tanka poems which were written between the 7th and 13th centuries. It was compiled by the famous 13th century critic and poet Fujiwara no Sadaie more often known as Teika. Hyakunin Isshu showcases all of the most important poets from the late Heian period in Japan. <br> <br>It is difficult to give an appropriate English language parallel to the enormous influence of the Hyakunin Isshu but possibly the closest would be the influence Shakespeare has had in the English speaking world. Many educated Japanese are able to recite many of the poems and this close association with and knowledge of these poems have to a great extent come through this card game. Playing the card game of Hyakunin Isshu is a very popular New Year holiday pastime. The first to win is the person with the largest number of cards collected. To achieve this goal you must be very familiar with the poems so that you can quickly take the card on which is written the last two lines of the poem being read out before your opponent does! A game of great knowledge and speed. . unknown
191060826New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1910. Tall thick 8vo. xv 1 529 1 pp. Photogravure frontisp. numerous plates photos some photogravures maps text photos & illusts. Khaki-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on front cover & spine gilt elephant silhouette profile decorations t.e.g. very slight sunning to spine also very slight bumping to foot of spine NF mostly uncut & unopened copy. First edition of this famed work on African big game hunting chronicling the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition to collect specimens for the new Natural History Museum. The 11400 specimens shipped back from the expedition took Smithsonian naturalists over eight years to catalogue. Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
189459978London: Longmans Green and Co. 1894. Two. vols. xvi 453 1; x 443 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Frontisp. both vols. illustrated title pages plates text illustrations photo illustrations throughout both vols. Pictorial brown publisher’s cloth white & black lettering front covers & spines gilt illust. on spines of lion & moose some minor soiling rubbing minor bumping to a few corners slight fraying head & foot of spines still VG- set from the library of Joseph Anderton w/ armorial bookplate on front pastedowns Non Flectimus. First editions of these volumes in The Badminton Library featuring extensive hunts in South Africa and East Africa in vol. I with chapters on elephant buffalo lion rhinoceros hippopotamus ostriches giraffes lion and musk ox; while vol. II details hunting in the Arctic the Caucasus Alps and substantial portion for hunting in India. Longmans, Green, and Co., hardcover
199452970Agoura CA: Trophy Room Books 1994. 8vo. xiii 1 238 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo illustrations plates maps. Blue simulated leather boards gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. NF/NF copy signed on limitation page by Woods and again on ffep. to John P. Archer Jr. 1924-2016 noted Maryland farmer big game hunter and a member of the Safari Club International. First edition signed & numbered 76 of 1000 copies presented to John P. Archer. This work offers excellent details on tracking and hunting the African leopard as well as shooting advice skinning details and more. Trophy Room Books, hardcover
193862103New York: William Morrow & Co. 1938. 8vo. 352 pp. Photo frontisp. photo plates throughout 1 map. Blue publisher’s cloth blue lettering & decoration on spine very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art photo scuffing & rubbing to foot of spine edgewear still a NF/VG copy. First American edition issued undated using the Collins sheets of this outstanding account of hunting lions & leopards and exploration across Darfur Sudan and Libyan desert with his wife Vi Henriques prior to World War II. Henriques 1905-1967 had completed an earlier Big Game hunting expedition from the Blue Nile to Dinder River in 1928 as well and later during World War II was lent to General Patton’s staff participated in the Casablanca North Africa Campaigns and the landing assaults on Sicily with the US armed forces. Scarce in original dustjacket. William Morrow & Co., hardcover
195453794London: William Kimber 1954. 8vo. ix 1 282 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Green cloth gilt lettering on spine minor dustsoiling & slight foxing to fore-edges of textblock minor shelfwear w/ d.j. vivid cover art by Sanford with depicting elephants zebras giraffes and more in grays black white & yellow minor dustsoiling slight foxing still VG/VG copy. First edition of this scarce big game hunting memoir with the author documenting his experiences in hunting lions elephants the dik-dik buffalo rhinoceros leopard zebras and more. William Kimber, hardcover
195762102New York: Oxford Univ. Press 1957. Three works in one vol. 8vo. xiii 1 233 1; 188; 197 1 pp. With illust. title photo plate tables charts. Orange tweed boards tiger paw print on front cover pictorial map endpapers minor shelfwear slight rubbing w/ d.j. cover art of tiger stalking minor scuffing edgewear price-clipped still VG/VG copy. First American omnibus edition of this extraordinary trilogy recounting Corbett’s experiences as big game hunter of Man-Eating Tigers in his lifetime career in India. He hunted down eight man-eating tigers and two man-eating leopards and in The Chowgarh Tigers he records his year-long quest from 1929-1930 to hunt and ill a female tiger that killed over 64 people in her five-year rampage. Corbett was a meticulous hunter expert tracker and persistent in preparation and often carried his favorite rifles - an M98 bolt-action Rigby-Mauser and a .450-400 Double Barrel Nitro Express. Oxford Univ. Press, hardcover
193363863Edinburgh & London UK: The Moray Press 1933. Thick 8vo. xi 1 279 1 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Tipped-in colour frontisp. 7 tipped-in colour plates all mounted on thick black paper numerous photo plates. Red publisher’s cloth white lettering on spine minor shelfwear minor rubbing to lettering minor soiling slightly cocked w/ d.j. printed on thick orange paper stock edgewear creasing dustsoiling couple minor closed tears still VG-/VG- copy. First edition of this gripping memoir of how a tea planter in India became a noted hunter of man-eating tigers after being mauled and losing a right arm and left leg below the knee while managing a tea plantation for Finlay Muir & Cowas in Goombira. He lost his job with the company and subsequently became a tiger hunter and artist. See: Mr. Strachan: Tea Estates and Tiger Attacks Scottish Business Archive University of Glasgow Archive Services Working Archive June 10 2013. The Moray Press, hardcover
193162097New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1931. Tall 8vo. 288 pp. Photo frontisp. 45 photos on plates 1 map. Orange publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine very minor shelfwear slight foxing at fore-edges w/ d.j. striking Art Deco cover art of Lioness on front cover minor chipping head & foot of spine wear at corners couple minor nicks & closed tears old tape repairs on verso still NF/G copy. First American edition stated of this well-written narrative devoted primarily to the hunting of African Elephants spears and firearms Hippo’s lion hunting along with chapters on African Witchcraft the Dinka peoples Sudan and night photography. The pair are perhaps best-known for their 1927 Cape to Cairo automobile travel memoir by Stella Court Treatt who with her then husband Major Chaplin Court Treatt headed the Court Treatt Expedition the first to drive a motor vehicle from Cape Town South Africa to Cairo Egypt. Traveling in two Royal Flying Corps surplus Crossley BGT1 Light Trucks from Sept. 13 1924 to Jan. 24 1926 they covered 12732 miles in sixteen months across the African continent through South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Kenya Uganda Sudan and Egypt. Scarce in original dustjacket. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., hardcover
195559604New York: Simon and Schuster 1955. 8vo. xxviii 354 pp. Numerous photo illust. Half-green cloth over white boards w/ d.j. cover art of tusked elephants by Paul Bacon couple minor closed tears slight scuffing edgewear still NF/VG copy. First edition 1st printing of this biography of Taylor professional big-game hunter and one of the last ivory hunters on the African continent. Simon and Schuster, hardcover
59980London & New York: Witherby & Co. Charles Scribner’s Sons 1907. 8vo. 400 pp. Title in red & black. Photo frontisp. 64 plates. Green publisher’s cloth embossed gilt illust. of moose front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear dustsoiling slight fraying to rear outer hinge still VG copy. First edition of this noted big game hunter’s expeditions hunting moose near Lake Kippewa and portage to Lake Bois Franc; caribou in Newfoundland and St. John’s Lake; moose sheep & lynx in the Yukon Klondike and along the Macmillan River with specific mentions of hunting with Indigenous Peoples. Witherby & Co., Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
193862095London: Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd. 1938. Tall 8vo. 287 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates with 56 photo illustrations. Scarlet-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear minor bumping to couple corners slight foxing to fore-edges 1 sunned spot from d.j. tear on spine w/ d.j. cover art of tribesman hunting with bow & arrow by R.W. Bellmer edgewear minor tear to spine lower fore-edge front cover minor creasing still VG-/G copy from the library of J.R. Brocklebank The United Africa Co. Ltd. and was member of the Royal African Society with printed card laid-in. First edition of this rousing anthology of reminiscences from the prolific author on his hunts and travels through South Africa West Africa and Zanzibar. Included here are sections on lion hunting in Northern Rhodesia diamond hunting on the Vaal River driving across the Kalahari and more. Uncommon in dustjacket. Stanley Paul and Co., Ltd., hardcover
195962583London: Robert Hale Ltd. 1959. 8vo. 191 1 pp. Numerous photo plates. Burgundy-coloured publisher’s boards gilt lettering on spine minor foxing & dustsoiling to upper fore-edge of textblock occasional light foxing w/ d.j. cover art of Tiger by Val Biro slight dustsoiling shelfwear still a VG/NF copy. Second printing of this authoritative work on tiger hunting in the Game Departent of Gwalior State Madyhya Pradesh and Jaipur Rajasthan relating his sagas of tiger hunts hunting and killing cattle-stealing tigers man-eating tigers terrorizing villages as well as organizing hunts of the Maharaja’s along with King George V Lord Reading and Lord Mountbatten. Robert Hale, Ltd., hardcover
191260617Toronto: The Copp Clark Co. Ltd. 1912. 8vo. xvi 246 pp. Photogravure frontisp. by Carl Rungius 3 photogravure plates by Rungius numerous photo plates 5 maps 1 folding. Publisher’s blue-green cloth gilt illust. of Grizzly Bear & lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear slight rubbing occasional light spotting still VG bright copy. First Canadian edition of this well-illustrated and documented account of hunting and observing on Vancouver Island Montague Island Queen Charlotte Islands and includes a chapter of his wife Louisa Walker Gulliver Sheldon’s b. 1880 experiences bear hunting on Admiralty Island. Sheldon 1867-1928 trekked by steamboat canoe pack horse and on foot with other explorers and hunters such as Frederick Selous William H. Osgood and Carl Rungius hunting caribou grizzly bears moose and other big game as well. The Copp, Clark Co., Ltd., hardcover
191160616New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1911. Thick 8vo. xxi 1 354 pp. Colour frontisp. 3 colour plates numerous photo plates 4 maps 1 large folding in colour. Publisher’s green cloth gilt illust. & lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear slight rubbing occasional light spotting still VG bright copy. First American edition of this well-illustrated and documented account of hunting and observing bighorn sheep in the Yukon Territory recording two years of travels from 1904 to 1905. Sheldon 1867-1928 trekked by steamboat canoe pack horse and on foot with other explorers and hunters such as Frederick Selous William H. Osgood and Carl Rungius hunting caribou grizzly bears moose and other big game as well. Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
192663787St. Louis MO: C.V. Mosby Co. 1926. 8vo. 207 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 114 photo text illustations 1 map. Red publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this memoir of travel and big game hunting primarily for man-eating tigers through French Indo-China Cambodia and India between-the-Wars drawn from letters initially serially published in The Kansas City Star and subsequently assembled here. C.V. Mosby Co., hardcover
191362084London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1913. Thick 8vo. xvi 2 216 1 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 23 photo plates. Pictorial green linen publisher’s cloth gilt illustration front cover of tiger attacking elephant and hunter gilt lettering front cover & spine very slight bumping to couple corners minor shelfwear slight foxing to fore-edges w/ d.j. dark gray-green paper illust. repeated on front cover in blue blue lettering VG/NF copy w/ “Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge†prize bookplate on front pastedown to F.H. Giltrap of Mountjoy School in 1914. Second edition of this informative memoir drawn from personal interviews experiences and notebooks of big game hunter and late Inspector General of Police Bombay Digby Davies as well as the author’s own sporting experiences. At the time he had been specifically requested to eliminate all personal names and references in the incidents with Davies whom Gouldsbury would specifically mention in the follow-up “Tiger Slayer by Order†1915. Gouldsbury writes of numerous encounters with tigers in his own adventures hunting from elephant back and machans as well as leopards and maruading elephants with additional references to bison ibex and others. Davies relates his time serving during the Sepoy Mutiny work as a sporting inspector and specifically hunting down tigers elephants and others endangering villagers and livestock. One chapter specifically mentions hunting a 419 lb. tiger stretching over 10 feet 7 inches from nose to end of tail and standing 3 1/2 feet which had terrorized villagers killing cattle across Bengal. Very rare in original dustjacket. Chapman & Hall, Ltd., hardcover
189764124New York: Longmans Green & Co. 1897. Tall 8vo. 8 195 1 pp. Six plates. Pictorial green publisher’s cloth cover art of moose by Decorative Designers gilt lettering front cover & spine slight rubbing & scuffing to lower right fore-edge very minor dustsoiling still VG bright copy. First American edition of this excellent work incorporating big game hunting accounts of Lions in South Africa Hippopotamus Giraffe & Zebra hunting as well as Grizzlies in the Rocky Mountains and Moose. Longmans, Green & Co., hardcover
196659977New York: New American Library 1966. 8vo. 333 3 pp. Numerous photo plates illust. endpapers. Half blue & black cloth gilt lettering & illust. of Rhino on front cover minor dustsoiling edgewear very faint soiling front cover w/ d.j. very faint tide mark upper fore-edge front cover hint at foot of back cover VG-/VG- copy. First edition 1st printing stated of this classic work on Big Game Hunting. New American Library, hardcover
182017762Amsterdam: Steendrukkerij van C. Goos 1820. The cards are kept in the original publisher's marbled slipcase ca. 4.8 x 7.2 cm with 2 engraved labels one with the title and imprint and one with the rules of the game. Set of 42 lithographed miniature playing cards 21 for Cloris printed in grey and 21 for Roosje printed in blue. Most charming set of miniature playing cards for use of a somewhat daring party game between young people of both sexes. The 42 cards each with an illustration of a couple and a four-line verse are either titled "Cloris" or "Roosje". The Cloris cards were divided between the boys and the Roosje cards between the girls. One of the young men would "propose" by reading the verse of one of his cards and one of the young ladies would answer by reading hers. The verses were full of love and desire but since the cards were read at random Roosje's reponse would not always be the logical answer to Cloris' proposal leading to hilarious situations.The name of the game most likely refers to De bruiloft van Kloris en Roosje which was a Dutch farce written by Dirk Buysero at the end of the 17th century. The play became incredibly popular. It was performed yearly throughout most of the 18th century and still widely known in the 19th century.The slipcase is scuffed and partly torn around the edges and corners. Otherwise in good condition.l Cat. De Koning 617; Gumuchian 3223. Steendrukkerij van C. Goos, unknown
1930177813Japan. Circa1930. 16 colour cards with black and white illustrations on reverse 8 black and white cards 4.5 x 7cm cardboard box with sliding cover 7.5 x 5.5cm. Colour cards have the same black and white illustrations on reverse. Set of small cards with delightful images of mischievous boys and girls having fun. . unknown