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Item Details
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| Author: |
Forester, Frank [pseud. of Henry William Herbert] |
| Title: |
Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces of North America |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Stringer & Townsend |
| Date: |
1849 |
| Item # : |
169091 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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90 |
| Sale Name |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 115 |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes. 360; 367, [1] pp. With 12 wood-engraved plates from drawings by the author, including frontispieces. 7¾x5¼, period half black morocco and grayish cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First American Edition. |
| The British edition published the preceding year did not include the engraved plates of drawings by Herbert. Van Winkle pp. 25-28. |
| Condition: |
| Mild rubbing and edge wear; hinges tender, light foxing, occasional stains (chiefly towards rear in Volume II), previous owner's signatures and rubberstamps on the front endpapers; else very good overall. |
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