L'Ile d'Anticosti. Whose Wild and Barbaric Charm has Attracted Ardent Fisherman from All the World

Schmitt, Joseph

Published by Privately printed, Hartford, Ct, 1940

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First edition thus, ONE OF 150 COPIES (50 in full calf, 100 in wrappers). Foreword by Eugene E. Wilson. 9 mounted color plates, large folding map of the Island in rear pocket. xvii, [3], 101, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Adaptation by Wilson of Schmitt's MONOGRAPHIE DE L'ILE D'ANTICOSTI (Paris, 1904), the first three chapters being translated by two scholars; the fifth chapter compiled by Wilson "from descriptions submitted by men who long have fished and loved Anticosti's streams" Bruns W-132 (giving erroneous date of 1939); Heller 2:577; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 119 Original full brown calf - one of 50 thus -- with gilt-stamped name "John Byrne" on upper cover. Spine slightly rubbed Foreword by Eugene E. Wilson. 9 mounted color plates, large folding map of the Island in rear pocket. xvii, [3], 101, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition thus, ONE OF 150 COPIES (50 in full calf, 100 in wrappers). Seller Inventory # 228759

Bibliographic Details

Title: L'Ile d'Anticosti. Whose Wild and Barbaric ...

Publisher: Privately printed, Hartford, Ct

Publication Date: 1940

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition