Fifteen Years' in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia. With a chapter by Mrs Baillie-Grohman.
London. Horace Cox. 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. tall8vo, 24.5cm, The First Edition, xii,403,[2]p., (reviews), index, with a photogravure frontis portrait, and 77 plate illustrations, many text illustrations, 3 folded colour maps in rear pocket, in the original olive green linen, with gilt block decorated titles on the spine and upper cover, and floral black stamped decoration in the spine panels, bevelled boards, t.e.g., some fading at the outer and spine edges of the boards and on the inner dentelles, the laid paper endpapers are quite acidic, hinges shaken but holding, good to very good. Note. The copies on line would all seem to be in a later, (perhaps remaindered), plain cloth. Lowther #1458. Heller #12. Phillips p31. Bruns B-15. Hunting big game on the Pacific Slope and British Columbia, pioneer life in the Kootenay area of British Columbia, with a chapter on Chinese servants by Mrs. Baillie-Grohman. Item #39539
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