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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hard cover edition. Brown cloth with gilt titled/decorated front cover and spine. 15th Edition. Clean. Tight binding. Small crack at back top corner of spine. 264 pages.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1998). (1880) 1998 14th edition. Small 8vo (133 x 192mm). Ppx,246. B/w illustrations, zebra-patterned end-papers. Pictorial green bonded-leather gilt, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy. ".and containing methods of measurement and other valuable information pertaining to trophy hunting". Contains articles on big-game rifles by Malcolm Lyell and Jack O'Connor, tracks and tracking, notes on skinning, methods of measurement, etc. "The 14th edition is published in response to the continued demand and success of the 13th edition published in 1990. A new edition has become essential because certain sectors of the Handbook are over due for revision. .particularly .the List of Official Measurers, plus a vital change in the measurement of the Black Wildebeest and alterations to the chapter on 'Records of Big Game.' This was the first recent edition of the Handbook to return to the original, small format of the early editions. Chapters include: Big game rifles - The British double rifle, by Malcolm Lyell - American weapons, by Jack O'Connor; The sighting-in of rifles, ranges and bullet performance; The placement of shots, shooting, and related observations; The judgement of trophies in the field; Tracks and tracking; Notes on skinning and preparation of big game trophies in the field; Equipment for a safari; A glossary of hunting terms; The game fields of the world and illustrative plates of some typical game trophies; Records of big game; General instructions for taking and recording measurements; Official Measurement Form; Measuring materials; Methods of measurement for recording trophies; List of Official Measurers; Index to Records of Big Game; Publications for sportsmen by Rowland Ward. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No DJ. Fifteenth Edition. With a Wildlife Forever sticker on the half-title page, otherwise a fine 15th edition in leather binding with gold stamping, no DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. #812 of 1500 copies. Full cloth binding. xvii, 734pp. A clean crisp copy. Heavy book: NO international or priority orders. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1988). (1880) 1988 12th edition. Small 8vo (149 x 214mm). Ppviii,132. B/w illustrations, fold-out table to rear. Brown cloth gilt. Very good in torn but clean dust-wrapper. ".and containing methods of measurement & other valuable information pertaining to trophy hunting & Rowland Ward's 'Records of Big Game'." Chapters include; big game rifles; The British double rifle, by Malcolm Lyell; American weapons, by Jack O'Connor; The placement of shots, shooting and related observations. Notes on the skinning and preparation of big game trophies in the field; Records of Big Game; General instructions for taking and recording measurements; Official measurement form; Measuring materials; Methods of measurement for recording trophies; List of official measurers; Illustrative plates of some typical game trophies; Metric conversion table (back page fold-out). .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1995). (1892) 1995 24th edition. Large 4to (216 x 286mm). Ppxx,969. B/w illustrations by A. Olivier, maps. Foreword by Ian Mackenzie D.S.O. B/w tiger-striped end-papers. Red cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Issued without a dust-wrapper. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Bookseller's label to fep. Slight use but very good. No 871 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. This 24th edition was compiled by S.J. Smith and A.R.D. Halse. "Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game is known worldwide as the original Record Book. It was first published in 1892, and quickly became the standard among sportsmen and naturalists. It contains detailed descriptions of the various game species and their distributions, habitats, and sizes; it also contains the measurements of the finest specimens taken since the early 18th century, such as the number 1 and 2 elephants with tusks of 226 and 214 lbs. and 198 and 174 lbs., respectively." .…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. This most long-lasting work by British taxidermist Rowland Ward became a "who's who" of big game hunting among celebrities. This is the 27th edition of 2006, with both volumes numbered out of 1500. 11" x 8 ½". Brown cloth boards with gilt titles to front cover and spine, fun zebra endpapers. Volume I numbered 1254/1500 with 797pp, Volume II numbered 753/1500 with 366pp. Condition: Clean and unmarked inside and out. Just a light smudge to the bottom edge of pages on Volume I. Penny Meakin (illustrator).…

Lge 4to. 2 vols. Africa & Rest of the World. 797pp & 366pp. With portrait fronts and text illustrations by Penny Meakin to both volumes. Pictorial end papers In brown cloth with gilt titles. A very good clean set. Heavy volumes pleaase allow for significant extra postage when ordering.