Hunting from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989) 0312032749. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. Translated from the French by Frederic Lees. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + xxvii + (i) + 330, incl. index; plates; some photographs in text. Dustwrapper a little… Read more about this item

(Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1997) 1571570748. 4to; cloth-backed green pebbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 173; plates. Some minor foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper; earlier owner's name signed on title page. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 6 [Nairobi edition of 1946]) "One… Read more about this item

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986) 0312401582. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. Text facsimile of the Macmillan edition of 1913, excluding the chart which appeared in the original. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) +… Read more about this item

(Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1994) 1571570586. 8vo; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 300, incl. index; plates; line drawings in text. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel and narrow adjacent band of upper panel; trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p.… Read more about this item

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919). First edition. 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. xii + 298 + (i); plates. Cloth somewhat mottled, with light wear to spine extremities and small bump to bottom edge of lower board; a little foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting… Read more about this item

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991) 0312054637. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 186; plates. Trace of foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good to near-fine condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa, 1980) 0869540807. 4to; pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 180, incl. index; detailed drawings of the various species, with distribution maps, tables and spoor illustrations. Some foxing to reverse of dustwrapper and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Very good condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game… Read more about this item

(London: Horace Cox, 1909). 4to; green cloth resembling crocodile skin, over bevelled boards; lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; warrior device blocked in black to upper cover; decorative endpapers; pp. x + (ii) + 310, incl. index, plus adverts.; numerous plates. Wear to spine extremities, upper joints and corners of boards; moderate foxing throughout. Good condition. (Czech: Bibliography… Read more about this item

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986) 0312510101. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + [vii-xx] + (ii) + 346; photographs; map. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn; some foxing to edges and to reverse of dustwrapper. Very… Read more about this item

(London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894). Two crown 8vo volumes; original brown pictorial cloth, backstrips with gilt lettering and maned lion and moose emblems; pp. xvi + 453 + adverts., x + 443; profusely illustrated with plates and drawings in text, including work by Charles Whymper. Cloth a bit rubbed; bookplate of R. E. Skyring Thomas to front pastedown and… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Struik, 1974) 086977042X. Translated from the original Swedish edition of 1899 and annotated by Ione and Jalmar Rudner. 8vo; original brown boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xiv) + 216, incl. index; plates; folding route map. Dustwrapper a little foxed; trace of silverfish attention to head of spine and adjacent part of upper board's top edge; some foxing to… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: The Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa, 1948). First edition, December 1948. 8vo; original green cloth gilt; no dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (xii) + 313 + (iii), incl. index; frontis. portrait; plates and illustrations in text. Cloth rather worn and gilt dull; darkened backstrip frayed at head and tail; upper hinge split, with cloth tape reinforcing; earlier owner's… Read more about this item

(London: Rowland Ward, 1908). Royal 8vo; original red buckram, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; decorative endpapers; pp. xix + (i) + 484, incl. index; publisher's catalogue; plates; illustrations in text. Cloth a little stippled and rubbed, with trace of wear to extremities of sunned spine; some foxing to endpapers and outermost leaves. Good condition; very good internally.… Read more about this item

(Tulsa, OK: Winchester Press, 1979) 0876913168. 8vo; original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt antelope's head to upper board; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xx + 236; photographs. Dustwrapper somewhat foxed and edgeworn, a little tanned on spine panel; earlier owner's book plate to front free endpaper; foxing to edges, endpapers, and very occasionally elsewhere. Good condition. (Czech: Bibliography… Read more about this item

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924). First edition. With illustrations from drawings by the author, by H. R. Millais, and from photographs. Royal 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. x + (ii) + 254, incl. index; map; fifty plates. Some silverfish attention to cloth; backstrip a little frayed at head and tail; earlier owner's… Read more about this item

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988) 0312021496. A volume in the Peter Capstick Library. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiii + (i) + 270, incl. index; plates. Spine very slightly cocked; trace of foxing. Very good condition. "This represents an accumulation of letters spanning thirty years the author received from big game… Read more about this item

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918). First edition. Demy 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. xi + (iii) + 387, incl. index; frontis. portrait; several plates after photographs and the author's own artwork. Corners bumped and cloth rubbed; binding slack; scattered, moderate foxing; contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf. Good only. (Czech,… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Rowland Ward, 2005) 0958459053. 4to; original charcoal rexine boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. xii + 268; numerous photographs in text. Fine condition. "Paul Grobler is a man of many parts - successful tobacco and stock farmer, doyen of ivory hunters, business entrepreneur and safari operator, skilled pilot and fine golfer, linguist and… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1968). Illustrated by C. T. Astley Maberly. 8vo; original grey boards; no dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. viii + 348; line drawings in text. Sunned on backstrip; boards a bit bowed; damp stain to upper board; earlier owner's name signed on half-title verso; ripple and trace of damp-stain to several leaves; some foxing. Good reading… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Struik, 1967). 8vo; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xii + 268, incl. index; plates. Trace of foxing. Very good condition. (Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 262) "Major Stabb was an officer of the 32nd Regiment (Duke of Cornwall's) Light Infantry, stationed… Read more about this item