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K.C.A.J. [Major General J.Burton Forster] |
The Sportsman's Vade-Mecum For The Himalayas, Containing Notes on Shooting, Outfit, Camp Equipment, Sporting Yarns etc
1891.
1st Edn,.
Horace Cox.
120 pages, 28 pages of sporting adverts and advert end papers, frontis illustration of hunter in shikar dress and numerous text line drawings of guns ammunition equipment required etc. Publishers cream cloth with title in red and black to upper cover with markor head in black, advert to rear cloth dust soiled, The first half of an excellent work details the equipment needed for sporting excursions including choice of firearms, the second half dwells on the authors experiences of hunting, Detailing the game the .450 and 500 express rifle etc. Czech 115
[18542] |
£220.00 |
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K.C.A.J. [Major General J.Burton Forster] |
The Sportsman's Vade-Mecum For The Himalayas, Containing Notes on Shooting, Outfit, Camp Equipment, Sporting Yarns etc
1891.
1st Edn,.
Horace Cox.
120 pages, 28 pages of sporting adverts and advert end papers, frontis illustration of hunter in shikar dress and numerous text line drawings of guns ammunition equipment required etc. Bookplate to blank verso of the front end paper ownership signature to upper blank margin of chapter 1. Publishers cream cloth with title in red and black to upper cover with markor head in black, advert to rear cloth dust soiled, The first half of an excellent work details the equipment needed for sporting excursions including choice of firearms, the second half dwells on the authors experiences of hunting,. Detailing the game the .450 and 500 express rifle etc. Czech 115
[23192] |
£180.00 |
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KEMPERS R.T.W. |
Eprouvettes A Comprehensive Study Of Early Devices For The Testing Of Gunpowder
1998.
1st Edn,.
Royal Armouries.
Leeds.
XVI 307 pages, 4to., colour and black and white illus from photographs + drawings, diagrams etc., small production fault to spine edges o/w fine in dj.
[16169] |
£28.00 |
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KENYA |
Kenya Its Industries, Trade, Sports And Climate
1924.
British Empire Exhibition Council.
XII + 187 pages, adverts, yellow printed paper covers, title in black, maps of Africa to upper cover, new spine matching the original.
[16761] |
£35.00 |
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KENYA SAFARI |
Photograph Album of a Safari In Kenya
1920.
Adam Charles Black.
No date circa 1920, landscape folio 50 dark green card pages. Approx. 270 photograph of various sizes many 10 cm x 7 cm + some panorama photos, there are a few small 6cm x 3cm, but these are of the return voyage not the safari. The photos are unfaded and of good quality pasted to the page in some case handwritten descriptive text below, the text is faint but readable when enlarged, the whole assembled in a neat format. Recently bound in a green cloth in the style of the original. The safari appears to be undertaken by a Captain Hamilton and Captain Burrell and accompanied by two ladies presumably their wives. The first 2 pages show the voyage out through the Suez Canal. Followed by photos of the rail station at Mombasa, later collecting a motor vehicle at Nairobi. Followed by camp scenes, natives, "the safari "assembled. Photos of shot buffalo, Rhino, Eland, plains game, zebra. Scenes of the water hole, natives and hunter's shot leopard and lion more buffalos including the largest buffalo shot with hunter and natives, 5 buffalo heads laid out, all interspersed with views of the areas and natives. A panorama of the Safari at Fort Hall (now Muran ga). Group photos of natives, trophy heads etc. At the end are 4 pages of general of photos there is mentions of the Cranworths and part photo of their property, there is an earlier photo before the safari started of Lady Cranworth. The last 6 pages cover voyage home stopping of in Egypt. There are photos of 2 lion cubs on board the ship with the ladies possibly to be pets! An excellent record of a personal safari in the vintage years in colonial Kenya, more research needed.
[22558] |
£680.00 |
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KER Donald L |
African Adventures
1957.
1st Edn.
Atackpole.
Harrisburg, USA.
viii 248 pages, illus in b/w from photographs, ownership inscription to FEP, publishers marbled patterned boards with antelope motif, vg in g+ dj, dj chipped to edges strengthened to verso now in removable sleeve. Ker one of the founders of Ker Donney Safaris recounts his life spent in Africa with emphasis on hunting lions, elephant, rhino and antelope species. Czech 159.
[21257] |
£60.00 |
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KINGSLEY-HEATH John |
Hunting The Dangerous Game Of Africa
1998.
Sycamore Island Books.
Boulder, Colorado.
xvi 471 pages, 4to., profusely illus in colour and b/w from photographs, drawings etc., + numerous maps signed by the author on the 1/2 title page. A fine copy in likewise dj, dj has no defects. the experiences of a hunter guide hunting the big five includes an incident when he was mauled by a lion. Czech 152
[21730] |
£200.00 |
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KINGSLY George H. |
Notes On Sport And Travel
1900.
VIII 544 pages, frontis portrait of the author, mark on front discolouring the cloth from removal of label, o/w vg-.
[9235] |
£40.00 |
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Kingston, William H G, Low, Charles Rathbone; New Edition by Latham, Edward |
Great African Travellers from Bruce and Mungo Park to Livingstone, Stanley, Gordon Cumming, Selous and Sir Harry Johnston
1914.
New.
Routledge & Sons.
xvi ? 541 pages,m with 100 full page and text illustrations, some spotting to end papers presentation bookplate to the front end paper. Neatly recased in the original pictorial covers.
[23183] |
£45.00 |
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KINLOCH Alexander A A |
Large Game Shooting In Thibet And The North West (2nd Series)
1876.
1st Edn,.
Harrison.
54 pages, 4to., frontis and 10 other plates from photographs, publishers green cloth with gilt yak head to upper board, vg. A continuation from Kinloch's 1869 volume includes yak, tahr, markhor, serow, goral, sambur and other big game includes natural history and observation with hunting. Czech 119
[19602] |
£235.00 |
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KINLOCH Bruce |
The Shamba Raiders Memories Of A Game Warden
1972.
1st Edn,.
Collins Harvill Ltd.
384 pages, illus with photos and drawings to chapter headings, map end papers, vg in dj. dj rubbed at head of spine and lightly dust soiled. Hunting for buffalo, elephant, lion and other game. Kinloch was chief game warden for 25 years in Uganda. Czech 152.
[21685] |
£20.00 |
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KINLOCH Bruce |
The Shamba Raiders, Memories Of A Game Warden
1988.
revised Edn,.
Southampton.
405 pages, illus in b/w from photographs + chapter heading drawings, fine in dj, presentation inscription on the FEP signed and dated by Bruce Kinloch. Kinloch was chief game warden for 25 years in Uganda, Tanganyka and Malawi, includes a great deal of hunting. Czech 152 , vg in dj, much on the East African.
[19513] |
£35.00 |
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KIRKLAND Caroline |
Some African Highways, A Journey Of Two American Women To Uganda And The Transvaal
1908.
1st UK.
Duckworth Co.
illus, map, publishers green cloth, titles in black includes chapters on the Uganda Railway, the people etc.
[19031] |
£20.00 |
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KLINEBURGER Bert |
This Is The Greatest Hunting Era
1986.
1st Edn,.
Trophy Room Books.
Encino, California, USA.
234 pages, 4to., illus throughout from photographs, vg in dj. Hunting experiences in Asia, Africa, America.
[14722] |
£80.00 |
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KOENIGSMARCK Count Hans Von |
The Markhor. Sport in Cashmere
1910.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd.
xv + 151 pages, frontis and 8 plates, inscription to front paste down "From the author June 1915", publisher's emerald green cloth with mountain scene with standing markhor in silver to upper board, a vg bright copy. A German officer, a guest of a British regiment enjoyed considerable sport in India, a third of the book described his hunts for Markhor near Punjal. Czech 122.
[20871] |
£450.00 |
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