BIG GAME SHOOTING. The Badminton Library. By Clive Phillipps-Wolley, with contributions by many authorities. Two volumes.

1894 1st editions. Two-volume set. Small 8vo (135 x 195mm). Ppxvi,453,ad,x,443. Illustrated with b/w plates after paintings and text engravings by Charles Whymper, J. Wolf and H. Willink, and from photographs. Binding A. Half blue leather over orange cloth, top edge gilt, silk markers.

Volume One covers big-game hunting in Africa and North America. Volume Two covers Europe and Asia. Volume I, chapters include: On big game shooting generally; South Africa fifty years ago; Second expedition to South Africa; Later visits to South Africa; With Livingstone in South Africa; East Africa - battery, dress, camp gear, and stores; Game districts and routes; The caravan, headman, gun-bearers, etc; Hints on East African stalking, driving, etc; The elephant; The African buffalo; The lion; The rhinoceros; The hippopotamus; Ostriches and giraffes; Antelopes; The lion in South Africa; Big game of North America; Musk ox. Volume II, chapters include: Arctic hunting; The Caucasus; Mountain game of the Caucasus; Caucasian aurochs; Ovis argali of Mongolia; The chamois; The stag of the Alps; The Scandinavian elk; European big game; The large game of Spain and Portugal; Indian shooting; The Ovis Poli of the Pamir; Camps, transport, etc; A few notes on rifles and ammunition; Hints on taxidermy, etc; A short bibliography.