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.
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.Click here to be taken to our other website to see the webpage dedicated to AFRICAN HUNTING
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.
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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.