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Complete 20-volume ASIAN SERIES: Hunting Trips in the Caucasus, Across Asia’s Snows and Deserts, After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia, Innermost Asia, Across the Roof of the World, Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir, Shooting Trip to Kamchatka, Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya, Sport and Folklore in the Himalaya, Big Game Hunting Diary, Summer in High Asia, Through the Highlands of Siberia, By Mountain, Lake and Plain, Hindu-Koh, Shooting in the Himalayas, Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet, Cruises in the Bering Sea,
by Paul Niedieck, Major G. Burrard, Fred Markham, Donald MacIntyre, Swayne, Alexander Kinloch, Hugh Whistler, Adair, Apponyi, Haughton, Kennion, S.J. Stone, Demidoff, Etherton, Cobbold, Morden, Darrah
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Original decorative bindings, with slip-cases, as issued
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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SGD 4,111.33
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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.
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Complete 24-volume African Collection: Lake Ngami, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Wild Beasts and Their Ways, On Safari, Big Game Shooting and Travel in Southeast Africa, After Big Game in Central Africa, A Hunter’s Life in South Africa, The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, The Hunting and Spoor of Central African Game, A Breath from the Veldt, Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, A Game Ranger’s Notebook, Sport in Somaliland, A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia, African Game Trails, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa, The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, East Africa and Its Big Game, The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, In Haunts of Wild Game, Memories of an African Hunter, The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter
by Charles John Andersson, Sir Samuel White Baker, Abel Chapman, William Finaughty, F. R. N. Findlay, Edouard Foa, Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, William Cornwallis Harris, John Guille Millais, Arthur Neumann, J. H. Patterson, A. Blayney Percival, Count Josef Poto
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Original decorative bindings, with slip-cases, as issued
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SGD 5,482.23
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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 Item Price
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Complete 24-volume African Collection: Lake Ngami, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Wild Beasts and Their Ways, On Safari, Big Game Shooting and Travel in Southeast Africa, After Big Game in Central Africa, A Hunter’s Life in South Africa, The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, The Hunting and Spoor of Central African Game, A Breath from the Veldt, Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, A Game Ranger’s Notebook, Sport in Somaliland, A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia, African Game Trails, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa, The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, East Africa and Its Big Game, The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, In Haunts of Wild Game, Memories of an African Hunter, The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter
by Charles John Andersson, Sir Samuel White Baker, Abel Chapman, William Finaughty, F. R. N. Findlay, Edouard Foa, Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, William Cornwallis Harris, John Guille Millais, Arthur Neumann, J. H. Patterson, A. Blayney Percival, Count Josef Poto
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Original decorative bindings, with slip-cases, as issued
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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SGD 4,111.33
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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 Item Price
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SPORT AND WAR
by Major-General Bisset (John Jarvis)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Facsimile Edition
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- Beautiful Half-Leather Binding
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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SGD 178.20
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Beautiful Facsimile reprint of the First Edition, which was originally published in London by John Murray in 1875.
Bound in leather by hand, with sewn page-gatherings for durability. Facsimile of original front board decoration tipped-in at front, and a color facsimile map has also been tipped in. This is a nice facsimile reprint.
THIS IS A VERY RARE BOOK
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A Narrative of Four Journeys Into The Country of The Hottentots, and Caffraria. In The Years One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven, Eight, and Nine
by William Paterson
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- Used - Fine
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- Facsimile Edition
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- Beautiful Half-Leather Binding
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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SGD 274.17
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Hand-crafted facsimile reprint of the 1789 edition published in London by Johnson
William Paterson's "A Narrative of Four Journeys Into The Country of The Hottentots, and Caffraria. In The Years One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven, Eight, and Nine"
This is a very scarce book because the copper-plate illustrations are so sought-after. The 1789 edition is expensive (over $1200), so this… Read more about this item Item Price
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TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA
by James Chapman
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- As New
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- Facsimile Edition
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- 1868
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- Beautiful Half-Leather Binding
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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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
Facsimile reprint of the 1868 Bell & Daldy, London, First Edition: 2 volumes: bound by hand in half-leather, marbled end papers. A handsome set, as-new and unread,… Read more about this item Item Price
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TEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA
by Lieutenant J.W.D. Moodie
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- Facsimile Edition
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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SGD 274.17
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Facsimiles of the Richard Bentley, London, 1835 First Edition: 2 volumes: bound in navy blue, marbled end papers. A handsome set, as-new and unread, well-made and ready for your reading pleasure and collection.
******** The original first editions are extremely rare, and as of this listing, I could not find any sets available for sale anywhere. ********
Dictionary of South African Biography,… Read more about this item Item Price
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(RARE 1863 first edition) AFRICAN HUNTING
by William Charles Baldwin, Esq., F.R.G.S.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- n/a
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- First edition, First printing
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- 1863
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- Rebound in half leather
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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SGD 959.62
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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 Item Price
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King Solomon's Mines (FINE BINDING)
by Sir Henry H. Rider Haggard
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- Used - Near Fine
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- n/a
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- First Edition, later printing
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- 1886
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- Rebound retaining original front/rear cloth
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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SGD 520.93
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THE VERY FIRST ALLAN QUATERMAIN NOVEL
1886, CASSELL, LONDON, WITH DATE-CODE OF 20.286 (FEBRUARY 1886) AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAST PAGE, AND ADS WITH THE DATE-CODE OF 1.86 (JANUARY 1886).
From my research, I believe this is the 8th printing, one of the 16th thousand copies.
REBOUND, LEATHER SPINE, ORIGINAL CLOTH FRONT AND REAR PANELS RETAINED. FRONTISPIECE MAP WITH CLOSED TEAR.
THIS NOVEL… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Reminiscences of an Albany Settler (RARE 1st edition)
by Henry Hare H. H. Dugmore
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition, first printing
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- 1871
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SGD 205.62
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A rare first edition beautifully rebound.
An account of the 1820 Settlers in Albany South Africa by one of the emigrants and one of the few survivors in 1870. Mendelssohn I, 491.
"When the Jubilee of the British Settlers was celebrated in Grahamstown in 1870, the Rev Henry Hare Dugmore was chosen to tell the story of the Settlement, and the lecture… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa (RARE 1st edition)
by Captain Alfred W. Drayson (A.W. Drayson, Alfred Wilkes Drayson)
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- Used - Very Good
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- n/a
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- First Edition
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- 1858
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- Rebound in half-leather fine binding
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SGD 274.11
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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 Item Price
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