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Lot 54
[HUNTING - NORTH AMERICA] A group of three titles about hunting in North America.
Comprises SHIELDS, GEORGE OLIVER, editor. The Big Game of North America. Its Habits, Habitat, Haunts, and Characteristics; How, When, and Where to Hunt It. Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally, & Company, 1890. First edition. Publisher's brick-red cloth pictorially gilt. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm); 581, 17 pp. ads.; plates. Very light wear, name in ink on title page, but in all a handsome copy. Bookplate of Thomas Barbour; together with North American Big Game. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Plates, in-text illustrations, vignette title page. Publisher's cloth, small puncture on spine, moderate wear; and 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. Publisher's green cloth. 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). Binding a bit faded, endpapers toned (that at the rear chipped), rear hinge cracking at endpaper, name in ink on endpaper. (3)
C The Property of a New England Family
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