The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada: or Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds, and Fish of the North Country

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Green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles and decorations; 4to; 334pp; illustrated with 6 chromolithographic plates plus 13 wood engravings within text; yellow endsheets, errata slip tipped-in at contents page. With chapters on moose, caribou, wapiti and deer plus wild turkey, grouse, prairie chicken, woodcock, snipe, passenger pigeon and various waterfowl species. Fishing for trout, pike, muskellunge, black bass and salmon. "With a good quantity od sporting content in the section on salmon and trout, including 5 pages of data on salmon taken with the fly and three rods in the Godbout River in June and July, 1862 and 1863; and a list of recommended trout flies in addition to good accounts of fly fishing." (Heller #542) A bit of wear to the corners, light foxing mainly to the rectos of the color plates, hinges intact, bookplate of sportsman Windsor Holden White affixed to blank endpaper. A quite acceptable copy of an important North American sporting title. N° de ref. del artículo 002730

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