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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. 142pp.Bound in Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine Within an unclipped dust-wraooer illustrated with a photo of a Brahma Female on the upper cover. Coloured frontis from an oil painting and numerous black and white photos throughout. A very smart copy.…

Decorated Green Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket as Published. In Trapping. Tells you about steel traps; how to make home-made traps, and how to trap the bear, the wolf, wolverine, fox, lynx, badger, otter, beaver, fisher, marten, mink etc; birds of prey; poisoning carnivorous animals; with full directions for preparting pelts for market etc, 220pp, 3pp index, 11pp publisher adverts, additonal illustrated title page, illustrated with engravings, both full-page and in text, spotting to endpapers and to occasional pages, glazed green cloth, gilt spine lettering and decoration, upper board has black decorative border and gilt vignette, lower board has blind-blocked border. Size: 7.75 x 5 Inches. Hunting.…

First American Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's original bottle green embossed cloth ruled and decorated in black with titles and decorations in gilt to spine and front board. 220pp.; [3] index to rear. Light bumping to corners and some siftening at the spine ends, otherwise extremely bright and pretty; internally clean and fresh, plain endpapers, illustrated throughout. An almost weirdly lovely copy, clean, bright and extremely handsome. An expansive and authoritative treatise on all aspects of game hunting, penned by a hunter and professional taxidermist with detailed descriptions of the various traps and trappings methods required, and how to prepare pelts for market once they have been obtained.…