![[HARTING, J.E., W. A. BAILLIE-GROHMAN, BUXTON, E.N. and others] American Hunting Trophies. Catalogue and Notes. [Wrapper title] American Exhibition, London, 1887. Catalogue of the Hunting Trophies.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/2020-06-17/1405529.jpg?itok=Z4oHde0p)
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Lot 98
[HARTING, J.E., W. A. BAILLIE-GROHMAN, BUXTON, E.N. and others] American Hunting Trophies. Catalogue and Notes. [Wrapper title] American Exhibition, London, 1887. Catalogue of the Hunting Trophies.
New York and London: J.J. Garnett, and B.W. Dinsmore & Co., [1887]. First edition, signed on the front wrapper by Baillie-Grohman, also "with E.N. Buxton's compliments. Publisher's wrappers. 9 1/8 x 7 inches (23 x 17.5 cm); 63 pp., [1] pp., 2 ff. lists of plates and photographs, with 15 engravings on India mounted on leaves with printed captions, 6 illustrations in text, and 14 mounted albumen prints with printed captions. Binding wear, occasional underlining in text, some of the photographs with the mounts trimmed. Baillie-Grohman's copy, with his bookplate; from the markings, likely a working copy. Both were members of the Trophies Committee for the Exhibition.
The elaborate illustrated catalogue of hunting trophies exhibited at Earl's Court in London in 1887, with extensive notes on hunting in the Rocky Mountains, and remarkable provenance, from one of the lenders, William A. Baillie-Grohman of Kootenay, British Columbia, author of Camps in the Rockies (1882), etc., who lent a prize wapiti head as well as mule deer and bighorn. A very desirable big game hunting desideratum, illustrated with original photographs, of which only four copies are recorded in OCLC (the Yale copy lacks a leaf and has only 10 photographs).
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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