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Lot 33
[HUNTING] HORNADAY, WILLIAM T. Two works.
Comprises Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First edition. Publisher's scarlet cloth with mounted illustration and gilt title. 9 x 6 inches (22.75 x 15.5 cm); 366, [4] pp.; color frontispiece with tissue guard, plates, many after photographs and some in color. Very light wear, rubbing to front label, in all a near-fine copy; together with Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. Publisher's aqua ribbed cloth with mounted photographic illustration, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. 9 x 6 inches (22.75 x 15.5 cm); 353, [4] pp.; half-title, publisher's advertisements, photographic frontispiece with tissue guard, plates after photographs. Very light wear, rubbing to front label, in all a near-fine copy. Bookplate.
Of the first: "The first important work on sheep hunting in the American Southwest and in Mexico" (Heller). Heller 166; Phillips, p. 183. And the second: "With a plenitude of mountain sheep and goat hunting, and grizzly bear as well" (Heller). Bruns H165; Heller 165; Phillips, 183.
C The Property of a New England Family
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