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 (first edition) (Trapping Guide)

Batty, Joseph H.

Published by Albert Cogswell, Publishers, New York, 1878

About this Item

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo, 220 pgs, (xv) pgs. With index and publisher's advertising added, text illustrations. First edition with gilt decorative cover and gilt titled spine on terracotta colored cloth. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor rubbing to edges, corners and spine ends. Interior has bookplate of former owner, else pages are age toned; binding is tight. EXCELLENT CONDITION of a highly collectable early American sporting book. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: First 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; Phillips, p.36. Seller Inventory # 0223020

Bibliographic Details

Title: HOW TO HUNT AND TRAP: Containing Full ...

Publisher: Albert Cogswell, Publishers, New York

Publication Date: 1878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition