HOW TO HUNT AND TRAP: Containing Full Instructions for hunting the Buffalo, Elk, Moose, Deer, Antelope.In Trapping tells you all about steel traps, How to make home-made traps (Trapping Guide)

Batty, Joseph H.

Published by Excelsior Publishing House, New York, 1892

About this Item

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo, 226 pgs, (xiv) pgs. With index and publisher's advertising added, text illustrations. Later edition with stamped designed black cloth cover and gilt titled spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor rubbing to edges, corners and spine ends. Interior pages are age toned; binding is tight. EXCELLENT CONDITION of a highly collectable early American sporting book originally published in 1881. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Later edition of a classic American hunting and trapping guide. Batty was a life-long hunter; raised in Massachusetts in the Connecticut River valley, he migrated to the Rocky Mountain west and hunted and trapped. Very scarce in this first edition / first printing published by Cogswell. REFERENCE: Riling #1025 (first edition); Phillips, p.36 (various editions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HOW TO HUNT AND TRAP: Containing Full Instructions for hunting the Buffalo, Elk, Moose, Deer, Antelope.In Trapping tells you all about steel traps, How to make home-made traps (Trapping Guide)
• Publisher: Excelsior Publishing House, New York
• Publication Date: 1892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fur Trade
  • Hunting, Fishing, Shooting
  • Hunting, Fishing, Sporting