Sale 21JJ01 | Lot 128

[ANGLING & HUNTING] STEELE, THOMAS SEDGWICK. Canoe and Camera: A Two Hundred Mile Tour Through the Maine Forests.

Catalogue: Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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Lot 128
[ANGLING & HUNTING] STEELE, THOMAS SEDGWICK. Canoe and Camera: A Two Hundred Mile Tour Through the Maine Forests.
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1880. First edition. Publisher's pictorial gilt and black-stamped brown cloth over beveled boards. 8 x 5 3/4 inches; 139 pp., frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, 1 map,1 folding map in rear pocket. Light wear to extremities, one corner bumped and one loose leaf.
An account of the author's canoe expedition on Maine's remote rivers and lakes, detailing his adventures fly fishing, hunting, running rapids and photographing the scenery. The folding map in the first edition was especially made for this book by W.R. Curtis, C.E., and is reputedly one of the earliest maps published specifically for the use of recreational canoeists. Bruns S275, Wetzel p. 218, Williamson 9474.


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Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

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Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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