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Item Details
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| Author: |
Roosevelt, Theodore |
| Title: |
Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains: Comprising "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" and "The Wilderness Hunter" |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Date: |
1899 |
| Item # : |
169741 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
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187 |
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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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$ 3450 |
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| Description: |
| xxix, 323, viii, 476 pp. Illustrated with 55 plates after various artists including: Remington, Frost, Beard, Sanford and others, most engraved in wood, but includes 4 original etchings by R. Swain Gifford, with printed tissue-guards; plus photogravure frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt in a Rough Riders uniform. 11x8, period half brown morocco and marbled boards (possibly by the publisher), ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced with green cloth, top edge gilt. No. 408 of 1000 large paper copies, hand-numbered with Putnam's Sons facsimile autograph. |
| Signed by Roosevelt beneath the frontispiece image. Printed photo plate from another source showing a sailing vessel and titled "Endymion" on verso. Riling 1478. Engraved bookplates of Charles MacA. Willcox and Thomas Fleming Jr. |
| Condition: |
| Morocco faded, rubbing, small chips to spine ends, joints starting to split, corners bumped and showing; occasional slight foxing; internally fine, exterior very good. |
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