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London: Gurney and Jackson, 1931. First edition. Illustrated with 12 colour plates, 14 black-and-white plates, 45 sketches, and one folding map of the Sudan. 8vo, original brick cloth, blind embossed lion on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. xix, 170. A fine copy with only light or occasional foxing. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. A beautifully illustrated and informative guide to Sudanese game animals authored by the game warden to the Sudan government, this book advocates early wildlife conservation with its encouragements of alternatives to hunting: “A good photograph of a wild animal in its natural surroundings is of more interest than all the heads, and is often a sign of great patience, courage, and skill in bushcraft. Record heads mean nothing and are purely luck. Above all, don’t kill just for the sake of killing!” [preface]. Features more humane hunting techniques and efficient skinning methods as well as descriptions of physical features and habits of a plethora of… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1948. 2 volumes. First edition, early reprint. With ten illustrations from contemporary sources. 8vo, publisher's gray/tan cloth, lettered on the spines in gilt within a brown field gilt ruled, and in the original dustjackets and slipcase. xvii, 332; 333-681pp. The text and cloth are fine and fresh and look nearly as new, the jackets with a bit of edge wear and chipping but still quite attractive, the slipcase also a bit toned and work but attractive as well. A HANDSOME SET RETAINING THE JACKETS AND SLIPCASE. "This book by David C. Mearns concerns the largest single privately owned collection of Lincoln papers, the owner of that collection, the custodians of it who used it in the writing of a ten-volume work they titled ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A HISTORY, others who wanted to use it and were refused access, and a variety of myths that arose around the collection" (-from Carl Sandburg's introduction).

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. First edition, second printing. With two maps and 18 illustrations from numerous sources on double-sided plates, decorative pilcrows in woodcut style, pictorially decorated half-titles. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth backed in red cloth, the spine with a black cloth label lettered in gilt, in the original pictrorial dustjacket. x, [1], 306pp. A fine copy, the jacket with a touch of crinkling to the tips and corners. A LIVELY PIECE OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP ON PIRACY. "The legends that die the hardest are those of the romantic outlaw, and those of the swashbuckling pirates are surely among the most durable... As the saga of the buccaneers unfolds, we see the impact on early modern life: social changes and Anglo-American politics... Best of all, Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates is an epic of adventure on the high seas and a tale of back-room politics on land that captures the mind and the imagination." - Dustjacket

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with over three-hundred photographic studies direct from the author's negatives, taken by day and night; and other illustrations. 8vo, Original brick-red cloth with gilt. Portraits of elephants stamped on colours on upper covers. xiv, 317; viii, 716 pp. A clean and handsome set. Interior pages are exceptionally clean and bright, only the very lightest toning to the prelims, and the lightest bit of age or shelfwear. FIRST EDITION. Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" (from the introduction). This is a fine and early text and survey of the fauna of the African continent.

London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. circa 1907. New edition in a single volume. Illustrated with over three-hundred photographic studies direct from the author's negatives, taken by day and night; and other illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Vignette portrait of elephants stamped in colours on the upper cover. xvi, 716, 2 ads. A bright, clean and handsome copy. Interior pages are exceptionally clean and bright, the binding with just a bit of mellowing at the spine panel. SCARCE. Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute "to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds" (from the introduction). This is a fine and early text and survey of the fauna of the African continent.

Salem, MA.: Marine Research Society, 1930, 1931. 2 volumes. First Edition of Each Volume, LIMITED ISSUE, EACH ONE OF 97 COPIES ON SPECIAL PAPER OF WHICH ONLY 87 ONLY WERE OFFERED FOR SALE, and being publication twenty-one of the Marine Research Society. Extensively illustrated with a colour frontispiece and more than 75 portraits of ships from either paintings or photographs and nearly 50 portraits of ship captains mostly from photographs. Large, thick 8vo, publisher's limited issue binding of marbled boards backed in black cloth, the spine gilt lettered, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, and in the original slipcase. xvi, 399, [1] pp. A very fine copy of each of the volumes of this scarce issue, the text-blocks are unopened in each volume and are as pristine, the bindings are solid, clean and very well preserved, the spine panels still rich and dark in colour, the slipcases also in fine condition but for that of the second volume which has some wear to the lower panel. FIRST EDITION OF EACH… Read More

London: Collins, 1947. First Edition. With 8 colour plates and 27 black and white illustrations. 8vo, bound in the original publisher's illustrated boards, and with the colour dustjacket. 47 pp. A copy in very fine condition, the jacket with just a touch of shelving evidence. FIRST EDITION. FROM THE BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES. A FINE COPY AND QUITE A PLEASING BOOK. There is history over a thousand years long of watermills in Great Britain, and one nearly as long for windmills. Many of the mills still standing in England today have been largely unchanged since Chaucer's time. The author had explored and sketched them extensively.

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. "Second Edition", but actually the second issue of the first edition, from the same sheets and identical but for the slug on the titlepage, same year as the first. With 22 illustrations and two folding maps. Large, thick 8vo, in the best publisher's binding of maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt pictorial decorations on the upper cover, t.e.g. This copy with the Baronial bookplate of Tredegar House, most likely from the time of Godfrey Morgan, 5th Baron and 1st Viscount of Tredegar. xix, 636pp. A beautifully preserved copy, quite uncommonly so, the cloth fresh and solid, the textblock firm and looking unread, only very minor age mellowing and minor bumping or rubbing to the tips and extremities. RARE AND ONLY THE SECOND ISSUE, RETAINING THE SIZE, FORMAT, AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THE FIRST EDITION. An exceptional copy in the best maroon cloth binding of a book normally found quite well used and rubbed. The author was Governor and… Read More

Ditchling Common, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1934. LIMITED FIRST EDITION SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED BY PEPLER, number 80 of only 250 copies hand-printed. Laid into this copy is also a schedule of Hilary Pepler's lecture schedule and a notice of the press. A copy with pleasing provenance. Illustrated with six reproduction pages and labels from earlier St. Dominic's Press books, and with woodblock engravings and drawings. 8vo, in the printer's binding of dark blue coarse-wove cloth covered boards with white band across both covers and spine lettered in black on the upper cover and spine. (iv), 79, (1) pp. A fine copy, internally essentially flawless and pristine, the cloth with no wear and only slight mellowing to the spine, the white band nicely aged to ivory. FIRST EDITION WITH ADDED MATERIALS LAID IN AND WITH FINE PROVENANCE. VERY SCARCE, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES PRINTED BY HAND, NO TRADE ISSUE WAS DONE. The work is an address given to the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago by… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. First Edition. Illustrated with eighteen plates taken from photographs by the author, and with a very large colour folding map (ca. 15 1/2" x 21"). Large octavo, handsomely bound in the publisher's original dark green cloth with gilt pictorial vignette of an African native on upper cover and author's signature in gilt, the spine gilt lettered and decorated with the bust of a rhinoceros in gilt. xii, 312 pp. including Index and 24 pp. catalogue of publisher ads. A good copy, the cloth still dark green and without fading, the gilt bright and well preserved, especially to the cover art gilt-work, the extremities a bit rubbed from shelving and wear, bookplate of R. Daniel, Jr., his ownership signature and stamp to endleaves, map tab loose from binding, a good thing as the map can be viewed without damaging it. FIRST EDITION OF A VERY WELL RESPECTED BOOK. Willoughby traveled from Zanzibar to the borders of the Masai. One of the first books to discuss the… Read More

Venezia: Agostino Zani, 1511. A Very Early Folio Illustrated Edition incorporating incunabular plates, of Caesar's Commentaries, a core classical text of the Roman period. Illustrated with incunabular woodcuts from plates used for the 1493 edition of Livy. The title page is printed in red and there is a very fine, large woodcut to the title leaf (92 x 120 mm) within an elaborate border printed in red and repeated on the first leaf of text, within an altogether different woodcut border printed in black. There is a woodcut of approximately the same size at f. 51; twelve smaller woodcuts (each approx. 56 x 74 mm) are placed at the beginning of each chapter. Folio (mm 314x210), contemporary Italian half goatskin over wooden boards, goatskin on the sides with blind-ruled geometric designs, a pair of scallop-shaped brass fore-edge catches on front cover, vellum half pastedowns cut from a 14th-century theological manuscript. A very handsome copy of this rare illustrated work. VERY RARE. ONE OF… Read More

Providence, Rhode Island: Matrix Publications, 1980. First Edition, First Printing Before Publication. A single page photographic production used for marketing purposes by the publisher prior to publication and release of the first edition of Callahan’s important work. Square folio sheets, the plate is housed individually in the publisher’s specially designed original printed wrapper. A pristine copy in mint condition. A beautiful pre-published print by one of the most popular photographs of the day. Multiple photographs are available and cover a wide range of his subjects and styles.

Providence, Rhode Island: Matrix Publications, 1980. First Edition, First Printing Before Publication. A single page photographic production used for marketing purposes by the publisher prior to publication and release of the first edition of Callahan’s important work. Square folio sheets, the plate is housed individually in the publisher’s specially designed original printed wrapper. A pristine copy in mint condition. A beautiful pre-published print by one of the most popular photographs of the day. Multiple photographs are available and cover a wide range of his subjects and styles.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. 2 volumes. First edition. With two large folding maps in volume one and a colour frontispiece in volume two and two illustrations within the text. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines, with black geometric design bordering the top and bottom of the upper covers and spines, and with a small gilt pictorial design of a nugget of gold in the center of the upper covers. Lower cover ruled in black at the top and bottom and with round black design in the center. xiv, 354, 32 adverts; vi, 381 pp. A very well preserved, clean, tight and handsome copy of this rare book. Some mellowing as would be expected, but an unusual survival in this condition. RARELY SEEN IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. AN IMPORTANT BURTON PIECE FOR ANY SERIOUS COLLECTION. Burton wrote this two volume work after leaving West Africa in utter defeat. In Nov. of 1881, he had set off for the Kong Mountains in quest of gold. He headed out despite a stated warning from… Read More

Nuremberg: Wolfgang M. Endters, 1718. The first edition to include Doppelmayr's work on field measurements. Title-page in red and black, illustrated with an impressive allegorical frontispiece displaying a personified Mathesis standing triumphantly above regret, ignorance, difficulty and contempt. Also with 60 engraved plates, many of which are folding, displaying concepts, tools and techniques in the geometric and other related sciences, and with many more woodcut diagrams within the text. 8vo, in full contemporary vellum over stiff boards, the spine labeled in manuscript. [21ff], 514 pp. A handsome copy in fully original state, the first few leaves only with faint evidence of long-ago dampness, the front endpapers with extensive scholarly notes in an early hand. FIRST EDITION TO INCLUDE DOPPELMAYR'S WORK ON FIELD MEASUREMENTS AND A VERY SCARCE MATHEMATICAL WORK, OCLC LISTS ONLY 9 INSTITUTIONAL COPIES, and there is no record of a copy sold at auction going back as far as the 1970s. This… Read More

London: Daniel O’Connor, 1922. First edition. With portrait frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs, and one colour folding map. 8vo, original publisher’s red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. xi,441 including appendices and bibliography. A very fine, bright copy. SCARCE FINE AFRICANA. A comprehensive study of West Africa with an eye to its further social, economic, and political development and exploitation. Newland describes in detail the lay of the land including its flora and fauna; the “ethnology and psychology” of the native people, including their customs, language, and religion; its main commercial resources including mining and agriculture; and its administration and modes of transportation and commerce. There is an interesting appendix on “How to Live and What to Wear---Particulars of British Colonial Service.” The text covers British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish West Africa.

London: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, 1804. First edition, first issue, with the uncorrected state of the headline on page 247. 4to, handsomely bound in antique three-quarter calf over marbled boards to style, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered in two compartments in gilt. xii, 339, ads. A very handsome and well preserved copy copy, the binding in very good order, the text clean but somewhat mellowed or lightly darkened by age as is typical with the paper used in the printing of the work. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION BY ONE OF THE EARLIEST TO ENTER THE CAPE UNDER THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF 1795. “Captain Robert Percival (1765-1826) was the first to enter Cape Town in 1795 and he remained there till 1797. Under General Craig, he led the attack on the fortifications of Muizenberg and was the first officer to reach Cape Town. His narrative affords considerable information respecting the state of the colony at the close of the eighteenth century, it was warmly received at the… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1934. 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs on glossy plates and several maps printed in black and red, as well as a fold-out map at the rear of volume one printed in black and blue. Large 8vo, in the original green cloth with gilt vignette of two zebras in chase on the upper covers, and gilt lettering on the spines, in the very scarce original dustjackets printed in black and red and also featuring the zebra vignettes on the upper covers. xxv, 437; ix, 439-779 pp. A bright, handsome and clean set, with almost none of the typical foxing, the green cloth bright with just some very minor age mellowing to the edges and extremities. The very rare jackets with mellowing, some edge-wear and a bit of chipping but still preserving the books well and remaining significantly complete and sound. FIRST EDITION AND AN EARLY COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF SOUTHWESTERN AFRICA’S “AMAZING VARIETY” OF MAMMALS. In this volume,… Read More

London: Horace Cox, 1913. Second Edition. Profusely illustrated with photographs on full page plates throughout. 4to, publisher's original green cloth blindstamped in an alligator skin pattern, gilt-lettered on the spine and upper cover, and with a black pictorial design of an African hunter on the top cover. xii, including errata, 310, including appendix and index, 8 ads pp. A handsome copy, sometime rebacked using the original spine panel and other materials, end-leaves renewed, clean and very well preserved internally, the binding strong and tight. SCARCE WORK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. This book is an attempt to record vanishing species of African wildlife, their habits, colouration, spoor and populations. Stigand considered that with civilization advancing at such a rapid pace, there would be little opportunity in the future to find and observe animals still undisturbed by the encroachment of humans on the landscape. Very scarce.

New York and Amsterdam: Da Capo Press / N. Israel, 1968. A fine facsimile of the original edition and the First Modern Reprint. Portrait frontispiece, 6 folding maps and charts, and 15 plates after the originals. 4to, bound in white polished parchment with royal-blue lettering labels gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very fine as pristine copy in original clear jacket. FIRST OF THE EDITION. Both Portlock and Dixon were employed by the "King Geoge's Sound Company" to secure furs on the Northwest coast of North America--Alaska, British Columbia, Vancouver, and Queen Charlotte Islands--which were to be sold in the China market. "In the furtherance of the trade the ships separated and worked independently of each other. Their voyages were important for the supplementary detail to be added to the geographical explorations of Cook.