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 big-game African hunting books are very expensive.
This is a wonderful and beautiful set of books, far nicer than the leather used for the trade editions.
I have an original advertisement from the publisher: "Bound in top-grain cowhide and individually numbered, the deluxe version sells for $. The regular version of the book, also bound in genuine leather, sells for $... All books are printed on high-quality, acid-free paper, featuring hand-marbled end papers, gold stamping and raised hubs and spines." Also, with silken page marker.
Charles J. Andersson, Lake Ngami. xl, 545 pages. Illustrated, index, folding map. Lengthy Foreword by Dorothy Middleton.
Sir Samuel White Baker, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. xxxvi, 606 pages. Illustrated. New Introduction by Jim Casada.
Sir Samuel White Baker, Wild Beasts and Their Ways. xxxii, 455 pages. Illustrated. New Introduction by Jim Casada.
Abel Chapman, On Safari. xxxiv, 336 pages. Illustrated. Foreword by Mary Zeiss Stange.
The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter, 1864-1875. xxviii, 272 pages. Illustrated by noted artist W. R. Leigh. New Foreword by Paul Rundell. The original book was done in an edition of only 250 copies.
F. R. N. Findlay, Big Game Shooting and Travel in Southeast Africa. xxviii, 313 Illustrated, index. New Foreword by Jim Casada.
Edouard Foa, After Big Game in Central Africa. xxxiv, 326 pages. Illustrated. New Foreword by Jim Casada.
Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, A Hunter’s Life in S. Africa. xxvi, 352 pages. New Introduction by Gary Clendennen
William Cornwallis Harris, The Wild Sports of Southern Africa. xxxii , 359 pages. New Foreword by Tom Ofcansky.
Denis D. Lyell, The Hun ting & Spoor of Central African Game. Xxxvi, 225. Lengthy Foreword by John MacKenzie.
John Guille Millais, A Breath from the Veldt. xxviii, 345 pages. New Introduction by Frank R. Bradlow. Book in its original folio size. A gem, with the artwork by Millais being truly striking
Arthur Neumann, Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. xxxvi, 320 pages. Illustrated. New Foreword by Jim Casada
J. H. Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. xlii, 351 pages. Introduction by Tom Ofcansky, Foreword by Frederick C. Selous
A. Blayney Percival, A Game Ranger’s Notebook. [xxvi], 409 pages. New Introduction by John Mackenzie
Count Josef Potocki, Sport in Somaliland. xx, 136 pages. Folding map. New Foreword by F. Phillips Williamson. Full folio size of original.
W. H. Powell-Cotton, A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia. xxxvi, 521 pages. New Foreword by Jim Casada
Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails. xl, 559 pages. Illustrated. New Foreword by John Fair.
Frederick Courtney Selous, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences. xxxviii, 348 pages. Illustrated. Introduction by Jim Casada, Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt.
Frederick Courtney Selous, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa. xxxii, 455 pages. Illustrated, index. New Foreword by Jim Casada.
James Sutherland, The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter. xxxvi, 320 pages. Illustrated. Introduction by Jim Casada.
John Willoughby, East Africa and Its Big Game. xxviii, 303 pages. Illustrated, index. Foreword by Jim Casada.
W. D. M. Bell, The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter. xxviii, 188 pages. Illustrated, index. New Foreword by Thomas Altherr.
F. Vaughn Kirby, In Haunts of Wild Game. xviii, 567 pages. Illustrated. New Foreword by Jim Casada.
Denis D. Lyell, Memories of an African Hunter. xxx, 268 pages. Illustrated, index. New Foreword by Jim Casada.
With a hand-colored aquatint frontispiece to each volume, large hand-colored folding map and 10 additional hand-colored, aquatint plates.
John Campbell (1766-1840) was a Scottish missionary and traveler. He was passionate about Christian philanthropy, which led to his founding of the Magdalene Society in 1793 and the Missionary Magazine (Edinburgh) in 1796. He travelled to preach in neglected villages, promoting the establishment of Sunday schools. The Magdalen Asylum to help prostitutes in England and Glasgow, founded by Campbell, was one of several societies he created to help those in need. He opposed the slave trade and became involved in the Society for the Education of Africans. Through collaboration with James Alexander Haldane, he brought 30-40 African children to England to be educated. In 1812 he was sent by the London Missionary Society to inspect mission stations at the Cape. His account of the trip was published in 1815 on his return, titled "Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society". Campbell returned to the Cape in 1819, this time to improve those mission stations that had fallen into neglect. In 1820, he travelled north from Cape to Mosega in Barotseland and the Kaditshwene settlement near the Limpopo River. He left Cape for England in 1821 and published two further volumes covering his journey.
An unusually nice set, internally near pristine.
2 volumes. The 1878 American first printing of the first edition in the original Deluxe Half-Leather and Marbled Boards binding.
Numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including 34 full page plates and two very large folding maps in rear pockets of each volume.
In 1874, the New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph financed Stanley on another expedition to Africa. Stanley's ambitious objective was to complete the exploration and mapping of the Central African Great Lakes and rivers, in the process circumnavigating Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and locating the source of the Nile.Beautifully rebound by hand (so expect imperfections, not machine-perfect results) in full leather.
Charles John Andersson's first book, LAKE NGAMI, was published in London in a beautiful and expensive edition, but the American first edition published by Harper was less impressive in every way. This Hurst & Blackett London edition is in its original cloth, with some repair work.
This book is entirely free of foxing and the rare 1st edition!
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Rebound in half or 3/4-leather with marbled boards.
The true first edition from June 1850 (the second edition was published also in 1850, but in August).
Original cloth covers and spines bound in at the end of each volume.
Beautifully rebound by hand (so expect imperfections, not machine-perfect results) in soft full leather. Each volume has a frontispiece and engraved title page. Illustrated with steel engravings on plates and a folded map at the end of volume 1. The text pages are generally creamy white and for the most part free of foxing. The illustrated plates, as is common with this edition, have foxing.
A narrative of Steedman's travels during his ten years of residence in the Cape during which he explored most of the Cape Colony and Kaffraria. The work also gives an overview of many early expeditions in South Africa with sketches of native races and their history and wars, the pioneer colonists of Natal. Steedman was a keen collector and naturalist, his name being given to a species of meerkat: Cynictis Steedmanii. During his travels Steedman collected over 300 animals, including some that had not yet been described, as well as ethnographic specimens. In 1833 he returned to England and arranged an exhibition of his animals in the Colosseum, Regent's Park, London. The Appendices (213 pages) include a letter and journal by Mr. A. G. Bain, who accompanied Dr. (afterwards Sir A.) Smith's expedition into the interior as far as Philippolis, and gives an account of the journey, and much valuable matter respecting the Kat River and other settlements in Kaffraria, and the Kaffir outbreaks and wars up to this period. There is also an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor in 1782. The narrative contains much information respecting the wreck of the vessel, the expeditions in search of the survivors, the descendants of shipwrecked Europeans on the Caffrarian Coast, there is also a steel engraving of the disaster, from a painting by Smirke. (Mendelssohn, Royal Geographical Society of London)
Sir Samuel White Baker’s THE ALBERT N'YANZA
Beautifully rebound in a custom fine binding. 1866 first London edition published by Macmillan in 2 volumes. Some wear to outer hinges, edges, corners. Repair to large fold-out map.
This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.
Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers’ subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker’s THE ALBERT N’YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred after the events of Baker's THE NILE TRIBUTARIES (published a year later in 1867).
Sir Samuel White Baker’s THE ALBERT N'YANZA
Beautifully rebound in a custom fine binding. 1866 first London edition published by Macmillan in 2 volumes. Mild foxing to mainly early pages of first volume. Repair to large fold-out map.
This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.
Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers’ subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker’s THE ALBERT N’YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred after the events of Baker's THE NILE TRIBUTARIES (published a year later in 1867).
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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 he gave was later published . . . Dugmore had come as a child with the emigrants of 1820, and had shared fully in both the hardships and the achievement of the critical fifty years that followed . . . He was chosen to speak to them, because he had earned the right to speak for them"
Henry Hare Dugmore (1810 1896) was an English missionary, writer and translator. He was born in England to Isaac and Maria Dugmore and baptised in Birmingham on 5 June 1810. The family emigrated when his father was financially ruined after being forced to pay the debts of a relative for whom he had stood surety. The Dugmore family sailed to South Africa on the vessel Sir George Osborn in 1820 as part of the Gardner party of 1820 Settlers. In 1830 Dugmore became a committed member of the Wesleyan Methodist church, and began to study for ordination. In the late 1830s he was appointed as the successor to the missionary William Boyce, who ran a Wesleyan mission station in the rural Eastern Cape at Mount Coke, near King William's Town. Dugmore became fluent in the Xhosa language, and spent the next twenty years undertaking missionary work. He was jointly responsible for the first translation of the Bible into the Xhosa language, and composed a large number of Xhosa hymns, some of which are still sung today. In 1860, Dugmore moved to the town of Queenstown where he spent the rest of his life. He continued to write and became involved in a large number of clubs and societies. In addition, he became the focus of many visits by missionaries from Europe and North America, and he was noted for his oratory and public speaking on sacred and secular subjects in both English and Xhosa.
Facsimile reprints of the Tinsley Brothers, London, 1869 First Edition: 2 volumes: bound by hand in red leather, with hand-marbled papers. A handsome set, as-new and unread, well-made and ready for your reading pleasure and collection. Since the volumes are hand-made don't expect them to be machine-perfect. Facsimile of original decorated cloth cover tipped into each volume. Facsimile map with red routes tipped into each volume. Multiple facsimile illustrations tipped into the volumes.
The original first editions are very rare, and very expensive; so, these facsimile volumes are the next best thing.