Sale 21JJ01 | Lot 161

[CANADA-HUNTING] [FRAZER, JOSHUA] Shanty, Forest and River Life in the Backwoods of Canada.

Catalogue: Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
[CANADA-HUNTING]  [FRAZER, JOSHUA]  Shanty, Forest and River Life in the Backwoods of Canada.

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Lot 161
[CANADA-HUNTING] [FRAZER, JOSHUA] Shanty, Forest and River Life in the Backwoods of Canada.
Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1883. First and only edition. Publisher's decorative gilt and black stamped blue cloth. 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 361, [9] pp.; frontispiece and plates by "Geo. Bishop & Co. Photo. Lith. Montreal" signed in the plate Wm. Brymer 1882, 4 leaves of ads at rear. Shelf wear, stain to rear board, very occasional foxing to contents; together with McDOUGALL, JOHN. Pathfinding on Plain and Prairie: Stirring Scenes of Life in the Canadian North-West. Toronto: William Briggs, 1898. First edition. Publisher's pictorial gilt and black stamped green cloth. 7 x 4 3/4 inches; ix, [10]-277, [1] pp.; early ownership inscription; frontispiece and 11 plates; 1 p. of publisher's ads at rear. Shelf wear, occasional manuscript notes in pencil in the margins of the text; and PATTILLO, T. R. Moose-Hunting Salmon-Fishing and Other Sketches of Sport Being the Record of Personal Experiences of Hunting Wild Game in Canada. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1902. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, gilt spine title. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; viii, 299, [1] pp.; frontispiece after photograph, bookseller's label of Thornburn & Abbott Limited, Ottowa on rear pastedown. Shelf wear, spine sunned, hinges starting.
A group of three Canadian hunting and fishing memoirs, all published around the turn of the century.


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Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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