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Pamphlet. Condition: Average. Third Edition. . 54 pages. A modern English catechism based on the "Shorter Catechism".

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2020). (1892) 2020 30th edition. Large 4to (220 x 287mm). Ppxiv,824. Colour and b/w photographs, colour and b/w illustrations, maps, bibliography, list of museums, zebra-pattern end-papers, blank card record notebook in pocket to rear paste-down. Zebra-pattern cloth, black titles to upper board and spine. Issued without a dust-wrapper. Fine new copy. Issued without a dust-wrapper. "Established in 1892 in London, Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game is the oldest record-book series in the world and this new edition is its best ever!" "Many significant historical photos and a great deal of measurement data were unearthed, all of which have been featured in the new edition." "In order to create an 'entirely new' record book, this one on African game animals, . we have included photos of the highest scoring heads, based upon a strict policy of ethics and aesthetics; we have made the book 'user friendly' by completely reorganizing the layout of the book according to traditional methods used by naturalists and hunters as well as by biological kinship; we have created . 83 new maps featuring over 200. African game animals that illustrate accurate, current game distributions in great detail and full color; and, finally, we have completely reshaped the table of contents and index to make the search for a specific species easy." "In addition to our internally scanned and paper records, this edition also contains information from two significant private archives [which include] old albums, measurements, articles, photos, notes and ledgers by James Rowland Ward, and notes from Richard Lydekker, the most eminent biologist of the Victorian era." "In all, the archives yielded over 325 images, making this edition the best illustrated ever. Some other photos never seen before include the world-record northern white rhino; the Nos. 1 and 3 southern white rhinos; Frederik Selous's southern white rhino; the Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 5 black rhinos; 5 of the top-twenty elephants, including the world record; 5 of the 15 largest mountain nyalas ever recorded; 2 top-ten leopards; 2 top-ten lions; and 4 top-fifteen Cape buffaloes. (Look for our new ranking method for the three larger buffalo varieties in Africa - Cape, Nile, and Central African; we now add the sum of the two bosses and the spread.)" "The Africa volume of Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game now lists in excess of 40,000 records dating back to 1840.This new edition also includes 14 new world records in these categories: zebra duiker, Damara dik-dik, Bates pygmy antelope, Harar dik-dik, common nyala, common waterbuck, Cape eland, Shoan bushbuck, blue wildebeest, island sitatunga, water chevrotain, brown hyena, mountain nyala, and southern impala. In addition there is a new No. 3 Nile buffalo as well as dozens of new top-ten heads." "You'll find several new elephant entries with tusks in excess of 130 pounds per side, and, while these were not shot in recent times, they had never previously been recorded. Also newly recorded is a lesser kudu of more than 33 inches that was shot in Tanzania. Of great interest to hunters will be our recovery of long lost photos of very large heads from the past: four elephants with tusks of over 150 pounds per side; a mountain nyala with 44-plus-inch horns; and James C. Rous's much-debated greater kudu. This kudu was shot in 1916 but photographed, with the hunter and the mounted head, amazingly only after World War II." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 2005). 2005 1st edition. 4to stapled magazine (211 x 297mm). Pp32. Colour & b/w photographs, colour & b/w illustrations, advertisements. Slight use but a very good second-hand magazine. This is the first and possibly only issue of the house magazine of Rowland Ward's Guild of Field Sportsmen, a South African club for the keen big game hunter. Articles include: The Guild of Field Sportsmen, aims and objectives, code of conduct; Rowland Ward, the history; A Naturalist's Life Study - an extract; South Africa's hunting-led conservation revolution; Campfire - the African conservation success story; So wild creatures have a sixth sense too; First protect the soil; Selous Has an Accident - an extract; Fiona Claire Capstick - an interview; The Greater Kudu - shot placement, rifles and calibres, Method of Measurement No. 8, Greater Kudu entries; Are 'Peace Pacts' part of jungle law?; Rowland Ward sportsmen around the world; Rowland Ward news. .

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2007). 2007 1st English language edition. 8vo (171 x 247mm). Pp182. Colour and b/w photographs, end-paper maps. Brown boards titled in gilt. New unread copy in dust-wrapper. Memoirs of a German big game hunter of great experience. Elephant, eland, buffalo and many others, principally in Kenya and Tanzania. This book was originally published in German in 2003. Chapters include: Africa!; Buffalo; Big tuskers; Elephant hunting; Black magic; Missionaries, slaves and ivory; Potent medicine; Brian Stronach; From Bynes Kilanga to Martha Gelhorn; Ugolo and Pombe; Leopards and crocodiles; Tandala; Almost a world record; Buchengera and Lake Tanga; Unakula kila siku?; Beautiful antelope; Tazama nyoka!; Kuchinja; Primitive ways; Live-savers; Malagarasi ahoy!; Buffalo from Lake Manyara; Unimog causes irritation; Saa ngapi?; Simba ananguruma; Lake Tanganyika; On safari in Somalia; The Sudan; Undeserved luck; The Okavango; In conclusion. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2005). 2005 1st English edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,167,ill. B/w photographs, colour map end-papers. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Autobiography and safari exploits over thirty-five years. Spanish Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Australia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Persia. The author is wife and hunting companion of Tony Sanchez-Arino. "This is the remarkable story of Isabel who left a privileged life in Valencia in the 1960s and followed the man of her dreams, Tony Sanchez Arino, to Africa. Enduring harsh conditions, she became an elephant hunter." Orignally published in Spanish. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 2005). 2005 1st edition. 8vo paperback (151 x 230mm). Ppiv,506. B/w vignettes. Paperback with flaps. Fine unread copy. A novel of post-war Africa. "Few countries have felt the tumult of the winds of change more than Kenya, Congo and the country once known as Rhodesia. And long before Harold Macmillan made those words famous in Cape Town in February 1960 when he addressed the South African government, Gil Freeman had already felt the full force of their violence. On a farm at the foot of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya, his parents and his sister were slaughtered by the anti-government disciples of Mau Mau in February 1953. He was seventeen years old. From a volunteer in the government security forces responding to the brutality of the Mau Mau offensive, to professional hunter, to game warden, Gil remains in Kenya for the next decade, moving on in due course to the Congo and then Rhodesia. Following his mixed fortunes [this book] is a major novel of a fast-changing Africa that covers 25 years of colonial history when those winds wreaked havoc on people and wildlife alike. In a blend of fact and fiction, of real life, disguised and invented characters in three countries, this historical novel, whilst harrowing, is also insightful and hauntingly beautiful, written by a person whose knowledge and love of Africa bleeds through every page. Woven into the story is the eternal triangle, the consequences of which evolve against the background of one of the most explosive periods of African history." "Anyone who has experienced war, terrorism or insurgency set in the grandeur of the African bush, the Africa of then and now, will feel a pang of nostalgia and recollection which can only be conveyed by a talented author such as Keith Meadows, who has been there, seen it and done it!" Capt. John H. Brandt (Ret.). .

Heijden, Elise Van Der (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2004). 2004 1st edition. Large 4to (220 x 280mm). Ppxii,244. Colour & b/w photographs, b/w illustrations by Elise van der Heijden, map end-papers. Black bonded leather, spine titled in gilt. Fine in dust-wrapper. "Fred's hunting career nearly came to an end when he was shipped off to Great Britain for the sake of an education and when he learned his father had drowned while hunting elephant in southeastern Tanganyika. Devastated that his mother had sold her husband's guns, he embarked, at age eighteen, on life with his father's all-important last real gift, a .375 H&H Magnum Mauser. Fred's descriptive prose vividly brings to life his wanderings and twists of fate as he evolved from his early years assisting game-control scouts in the Selous Game Reserve in Tanganyika to becoming a licensed professional hunter. Along that path in his long career he hunted for ivory at a time when a 110-pound per side tusker was worth four-month's pay as an assistant game ranger, and he describes the personalities, guns, and game encountered. In a feat that would be impossible today, Fred's perpetual lucky streak landed him highly coveted "real jobs" that led to great adventures. As regional game warden of Nyasaland, he was called in to hunt down thirteen man-eating lions, including the notorious Kasupe lion that had killed seventeen women, nine men, one child, and had mauled another eight people. We find Duckworth in 1972 in the Coptic Christian Empire of Ethiopia, where he was responsible for "reorganizing" the barely existing big-game hunting safari industry. In the meantime, in the Danakil he met his future wife - the beautiful, adventurous Dutch artist, Elise." .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to, i-x, 227 pp, very well illustrated with coloured and black and white photographs. A fine second hand copy in a similar dust wrapper.

10th edition, enlarged. 8vo. xxiii + 303pp. + adverts. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Head edge of front e.ps. marked by damp. Rubbed original gilt illustrated lim leather lettered in gilt. Upper board and front e.ps. detached, with dampstaining to head. Lacks spine. US$22.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st English edition. The dust jacket and the boards are a bit edge worn and marked. Minor marks. Still in a very good condition, excellent binding and internally clean. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Bibliography, index. List of ordained ministers from 1800s to 1989. Erratum slip pasted in. 750gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 568 pages.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2005). 2005 1st edition. 8vo paperback (151 x 230mm). Ppiv,506. B/w vignettes. Paperback with flaps. Fine new copy. A novel of post-war Africa. "Few countries have felt the tumult of the winds of change more than Kenya, Congo and the country once known as Rhodesia. And long before Harold Macmillan made those words famous in Cape Town in February 1960 when he addressed the South African government, Gil Freeman had already felt the full force of their violence. On a farm at the foot of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya, his parents and his sister were slaughtered by the anti-government disciples of Mau Mau in February 1953. He was seventeen years old. From a volunteer in the government security forces responding to the brutality of the Mau Mau offensive, to professional hunter, to game warden, Gil remains in Kenya for the next decade, moving on in due course to the Congo and then Rhodesia. Following his mixed fortunes [this book] is a major novel of a fast-changing Africa that covers 25 years of colonial history when those winds wreaked havoc on people and wildlife alike. In a blend of fact and fiction, of real life, disguised and invented characters in three countries, this historical novel, whilst harrowing, is also insightful and hauntingly beautiful, written by a person whose knowledge and love of Africa bleeds through every page. Woven into the story is the eternal triangle, the consequences of which evolve against the background of one of the most explosive periods of African history." "Anyone who has experienced war, terrorism or insurgency set in the grandeur of the African bush, the Africa of then and now, will feel a pang of nostalgia and recollection which can only be conveyed by a talented author such as Keith Meadows, who has been there, seen it and done it!" Capt. John H. Brandt (Ret.). .

60 pages, tables, index : an update of African big game measurements recorded since the first publication 2 years earlier (SEE PREVIOUS ITEM); hardback vg+ africa general african big game african animals safari big game hunting.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. shelf wear on the wraps a bit marked. ownership inscription. sound binding. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. light shelf wear on the wraps. a bit marked. ownership inscription. otherwise internally neat and presentable. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The wraps are shelf rubbed with very small creases around the edges, but they remain tidy overall. Binding is secure. The pages are neat with no markings, inscriptions or annotations. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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: Good. No Jacket. The authors first book. This very useful little book affords all requisite information for the traveller who wishes to preserve specimens of natural history, more especially large animals. The process of skinning quadrupeds & birds is so well explained, and so copiously illustrated by characteristic woodcuts, that the merest tyro would soon learn the art. The best modes of preserving reptiles, fishes & insects are also given & then follow instructions for the setting up of trophies, for mounting birds & fishes, & for dressing skins of large animals. This was edited by J. B. Burlace & has illustrations. /// This is a cloth bound 11th edition hardback in good condition-the spine & boards cloth are a little faded & marked / the back 'end-paper' has been torn out. (75 pages & 10 pages of introduction & plus a 16 page supplement & 13 pages of advertisments). The author was a British taxidermist and founder of the taxidermy firm Rowland Ward Ltd. Of Picadilly. The company specialized in, and was renowned for, their work on big game trophies, but their output covered all aspects of taxidermy. The authors father Henry Ward travelled with John James Audubon, collecting and preparing specimens for the artist which were later used in Birds of America. (Originally published in 1880).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 264 page hardcover pocket nature guide for African large mammals, with color illustrations. Unmarked, tight and clean.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. Large 4to (220 x 282mm). Ppxii,227. Colour and b/w photographs, maps, photograph end-papers. Dark blue faux leather boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine in dust-wrapper. "Don Cowie is a knowledgeable naturalist who knew the names of all the trees and birds before he left school. He began his working life as an officer with the Southern Rhodesian Department of Customs and Excise, stationed at the Beitbridge border post. Already an experienced hunter, he soon became sought-after by the surrounding cattle ranchers who needed his assistance with problem animal control. There Don gained considerable experience in the hunting down of problem dangerous big game. These were cattle-killing big cats, elephant that damaged water installations, and thirsty buffalo that created right of ownership problems at the drinking troughs. Although the cropping and marketing of the game products like meat and skins for profit was perfectly legal in Southern Rhodesia, sport hunting for profit was not and that include safari hunting. When the Henderson brothers started their own safari company in Botswana, they hired Don as their professional hunter during the six-month safari seasons. During the off-season Don returned to the ranch to continue his game cropping and marketing. This changed in 1967 when sport hunting on a game-ranching permit finally became legal in Zimbabwe after a long fight with the government. At that point the Hendersons moved their safari operation to Southern Rhodesia".subsequently teaming up with Brian Marsh to form Henderson & Marsh Safaris. Chapters include: My early days; Hunting the Limpopo Valley; Preservation or conservation; The nitty-gritty of game ranching; Some game ranching tales; Interesting times; Botswana; Reptilian encounters; My first safari; Behind the scenes; The Art and Sam Weller safari; A tragic suicide; Sitatunga hunting; The most dangerous animal in Africa; Rhinos and orphans; Matabeleland game safaris; The last of Hazel's big five; The advent of Henderson and Marsh safaris; The saga of Henrietta; Farewell to Doddieburn. The book was edited by Brian Marsh who has also contributed the foreword. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Extraordinary first hand account from Selous of events in Rhodesia. Well illustrated with plates, all present and correct, and fold-out map to rear. All in VG internal order, with light toning to stock and very occasional marking, but once past prelims, this minor. No inscriptions. Red cloth rather marked, patchily faded, a little worn to edges and dulled to spine. 8vo. xxvii, [1] 290pp + publisher's ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint . Classics of Exploration. Time Life Books. Reprinted 1984. Publication of 503 pages. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Leather /Leatherette binding. There is bright gilt on the spine and the front of the book, as well as around the block of the book. There are 6 raised bands. Frontispiece. The boards are in near fine condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket is rubbed and marked.Internally clean.Tightly bound.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. vi, 274 pages. Illustrated with photographs, 6.5 X 8.5 inches. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper with light edge creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2007). 2007 1st English language edition. 8vo (170 x 248mm). Ppxvi,336. Colour and b/w photographs, maps, end-paper maps. Full blue bonded leather, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Fine in dust-wrapper. "Giorgio Grasselli is a well-known professional hunter. But, as the author emphasises, this is not purely a hunting book. It is also the story of his life in Africa, written with honesty, humour and often with irony. The threads that bind his story, include his love of nature, its big wild animals in particular, his interest in the indigenous people among whom he has lived and the close bond of affection he feels towards the old white people of Africa. The author is a connoisseur of Africa (he hates the word expert, so often used and abused of these days) and some of these "expert" problems emerge forcibly from the pages of this book. From an early age, Giorgio knew he was destined to live in Africa. He was attracted to hunting because of its association with adventure and it was this search for adventure that drove him to live in vast, untamed wilderness areas. Some of the countries he lived and hunted in were Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Zambia, CAR and Sudan. .Enriched by more than 130 photographs, mostly in colour, many of which are extraordinary and have never been published." "Not kill and kill some more, but rather they are highlights of a most fascinating life - one that comes from decades of living and hunting in various African countries." This book was first published in Italian as Tramonti africani: Storie di una vita avventurosa, Bizzocchi 2005. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Volume 14 only. The boards are tidy with little edge rub. The binding is excellent. Ink inscription from a previous owner on the back of the front end page. No other inscriptions or annotations. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Condition: As New. A like new hardcover copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean and bright. Black colored hardcovers and dust jacket are like new (clean, no creasing, no edge wear). Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Shipped in 100% recyclable material.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Eleventh Edition, very nice copy in original cloth,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Gift inscription written by the previous owner. 12th edition, 1988. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.