Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters.
New York. The Century Company. 1883. 1st Edition. Soft cover. thick4to. 28cm, first edition, 888p., frontis, 11 Japanese proofs illustrations on special tissue, 28 full page engravings, extensive text illustrations from wood engravings, index, decorated endpapers, full beveled edged leather with embossed decoration, gilt spine titles, front cover detached, text block sound and in fine condition, binding good only, as is (gar). ~ Extensively illustrated A collection of articles on hunting and angling that had appeared initially in "The Century Magazine." Authors include: Lew Wallace (A Buffalo Hunt in Northern Mexico); Earl of Dunraven (Moose Hunting in Canada); George Bird Grinnell (The Antelope); John Muir (The Wild Sheep of the Sierra); Frederick Schwatka (A Musk Ox Hunt); John Burroughs (The Halcyon in Canada); Howard Pyle (Among the Thousand Islands); A.G. Wilkinson (Salmon Fishing); Francis Endicott (Striped Bass) and many more. Artists include James C. Beard, W.M. Cary, Gurdon Trumbull, Henry Sandham, Stephen Parrish, Howard Pyle, and others. Item #38310
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