1. America / USA – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

United States [of America] with Vignettes and illustrations of the Buffalo Hunt, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, Washington’s Monument, Portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin and a very early depiction of the american flag.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 32.8 cm x 24.6 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Beautifully Framed !

2. Andrews, James / Bland, Clifford T. / Blockey, Robert / Farmiloe, Robin / Harrison, Robin / Inge, John / Lee-Elliott, Christopher / McArthur, Alastair / Service, Douglas / Shepard, Michael.

Wildfowling. With sixty-three Illustrations (49 Plates and 14 Text Illustrations).

London, Seeley, Service & Co., (1950). 15 cm x 22 cm. 352 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Very good condition. Name of the preowner on the endpaper. [The Lonsdale Library Vol. XXIX]

3. Bell, W.D.M.

Karamojo Safari.

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. XI, 298 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original salmon cloth] with lettering on spine / without the dustjacket. Design on front board. Mapped endpapers showing ‘Route of Author’s Safari Through Karamojo.’ Very good- condition. Signs of external wear. Boards and spine show significant fading and discoloration from wear. Binding is still firm and strong. Interior is bright and clean.

4. Bell, W.D.M.

The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter.

Second Edition. London, Neville Spearman & The Holland Press, 1958. 18 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, VII, 188 pages. 58 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine is faded. Front board carries faint hint of staining. Some very occasional light spotting to an otherwise bright and clean interior with sharp corners.

5. [Churchill, Robert] Hastings, Macdonald.

Churchill’s Game Shooting – The Standard Text Book on the Successful Use of the Shotgun.

A New, Revised Edition. London, Michael Joseph, 1971. Octavo. 252 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

6. Du Chaillu, Paul.

My Apingi Kingdom: With Life in the Great Sahara. And Sketches of the Chase of the Ostrich, Hyena, &c. Numerous Engravings.

New York, Harper & Brothers, no year (c.1870). 12.5 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece with tissueguard, VIII, 254 pages. 33 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Gilt pictoral on front board. Blind stamp to rear board. Coloured pastedowns and endpapers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean with sharp corners. Tissue guard in very good condition. Preowner details on front endpaper: “James Hill – Westell Farm – Kewell, Read 1916”.

7. Dugmore, A. Radclyffe,

The Vast Sudan [With Notes on the Distribution, Appearance, Peculiarities and Habits of the Game of the Sudan (Water-buck, Black Rhinoceros, Buffalo, Reedbuck, Hartebeest etc.) / With a List of the More important Animals found in the Sudan – Some of the More Important Birds Found in the Sudan].

London, Arrowsmith, 1924. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, 312 pages. 19 excellent photographic illustrations including frontispiece. One fold-out map showing ‘Anglo-Egyptian Sudan’. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind tooling and design to front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only one of two fold-out-maps present (the small Africa-Map-missing). Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong.

8. Durnford, Earle.

Manufacture of Nitro-Lignin and Sporting Powder. Outlined by Earle Durnford.

First Edition. London, Whittaker & Co., 1912. 14 cm x 22 cm. 84 pages with a photographic frontispiece showing an image of Sulphite Wood Pulp (Disintegrated). Original Hardcover with gilt lettering. This publication was recently fully restored and repaired. Extremely rare !

9. Folkard, H.C.

The Wild – Fowler ; A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild – Fowling, Historical and Practical.

Second Edition. London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1864. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. XXII, 398 pages with 13 steel engravings and 5 woodcuts. Original Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering and illustration) in protective Mylar. The binding a little scruffy and the Frontispiece nearly detached. Pages 137 cleanly detached and one more illustration also starting to detache. More importantly, the bookblock in firm condition with the endpapers completly in tune with the binding. A very rare and important book in a still collectable and very much acceptable condition.

10. Fox Hunting – Sartorius, John Nost / Peltro, J. / Neagle, J. (1759-1828).

Hunting – Plate III – At Fault.

Original hand-coloured engraving. London, John Deeley, [c.1790]. Plate Size: 61 cm x 46.5 cm. Frame Size: 77 cm x 63 cm. In very good condition. Some minor traces of browning and paper imperfections to outer margins only.