Sale 23SP01 | Lot 24

BAILLIE-GROHMAN, W. A. Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia.

Catalogue: Sporting & Travel Books
BAILLIE-GROHMAN, W. A.  Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia.

Lot Details

Lot 24
BAILLIE-GROHMAN, W. A. Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia.
London: Horace Cox, 1900. First edition. Period three-quarters brown calf. 9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches; xii, 403, [2] pp.; photogravure frontispiece, plates and in-text illustrations after photographs, three folding maps (in rear pocket in the issue binding) bound at rear. Binding a bit rubbed and worn, scattered foxing, joints worn and starting; together with DURGIN, GEORGE FRANCIS. Letters From Labrador. Concord, N.H.: Martha E. Durgin, 1908. First edition. Publisher's gilt lettered olive green cloth, top edge gilt. 8 x 5 1/2 inches; 117 pp., frontispiece and plates after photographs. Light rubbing to extremities, overall an attractive copy; and DAVIS, SAMUEL T. Caribou Shooting in Newfoundland: With a History of England's Oldest Colony from 1001 to 1895. Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing House, 1895. First edition. Cloth backed pictorial boards. 8 x 5 1/2 inches; photographically illustrated. Some wear.

The first work is Bruns B15; Heller 12; Phillips, p. 31; the second is a scarce memoir about Durgin's fishing trips to Labrador, posthumously printed by the author's mother. Not in Bruns. (3)


C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $80 - $120
Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $80 - $120
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