Ending Aug 15, 2023 11:20 EST

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

 
  Lot 81
 

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[BIG GAME HUNTING] HUTCHINSON, HORACE G., ed. Big Game Shooting.

Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family

[BIG GAME HUNTING]
HUTCHINSON, HORACE G., ed. Big Game Shooting.
London: "Country Life," Ltd. and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition. Two volumes. publisher's red cloth gilt. 9 x 5 5/8 inches; xiv, 301; x, 356 pp.; frontispiece and plates after photographs, in-text illustrations, vignette title pages, half-titles. Light wear, minor lean to spines, light foxing to fore-edge, bookplate of Nathanial Cushing Nash.

From the Country Life Library of Sport series. "Only volume 2 of this work concerns hunting in Africa, with H.A. Bryden contributing nine chapters on big game. There are sections on big cats, the pachyderms, buffalo and plains game. The information is rather general in terms of game description, habitat and hunting methods, but the photos are good" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 137.

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Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family

[BIG GAME HUNTING]
HUTCHINSON, HORACE G., ed. Big Game Shooting.
London: "Country Life," Ltd. and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition. Two volumes. publisher's red cloth gilt. 9 x 5 5/8 inches; xiv, 301; x, 356 pp.; frontispiece and plates after photographs, in-text illustrations, vignette title pages, half-titles. Light wear, minor lean to spines, light foxing to fore-edge, bookplate of Nathanial Cushing Nash.

From the Country Life Library of Sport series. "Only volume 2 of this work concerns hunting in Africa, with H.A. Bryden contributing nine chapters on big game. There are sections on big cats, the pachyderms, buffalo and plains game. The information is rather general in terms of game description, habitat and hunting methods, but the photos are good" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 137.

Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, ending Aug 15, 2023

  • Successful Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on August 15, 2023
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on August 15, 2023. Offered was a summer miscellany of sporting material, Americana, fine bindings, literature, autographs, maps and more!
 

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