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Author: Quackenbos, John D
Title: Geological Ancestors of the Brook Trout and Recent Saibling Forms which it Evolved
Place: New York
Publisher: For the Anglers' Club of New York by Tobias A. Wright
Date: 1916
Item # : 169123
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   182
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 316
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Description:
50 pp. + plates. Illustrated with 10 color plates of various fish, plus a sepia frontispiece portrait from a photo of the author with his facsimile autograph; tissue-guards. 8¼x6, gilt-ruled green roan, lettered and ruled in gilt, photo plate inset on front cover. No. 293 of 300 hand-numbered copies printed by Tobias A. Wright. First Edition.
Nicely illustrated with eleven colorful plates, including "Family Tree of Salmonids." Spine title reads with "Ancestry" instead of "Ancestors." Bruns Q 1. Engraved bookplate of Robert Winthrop.
Condition:
Spine and extremities faded to brown, cracking to lower spine, shelf wear, corners showing; front hinge tender; else very good.
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