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Arctic, big-game hunting
Elim Pavlovich DEMIDOV, Prince of San Donato. A Shooting Trip to Kamchatka. London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1904. 8° (226 x 157mm). Title in red and black, half-title, 9pp. publisher's advertisements. 5 photogravure plates, 2 folding coloured lithographic maps (one in pocket at end), numerous illustrations, largely unopened. (Map in pocket somewhat browned.) Original blue cloth gilt (slight discolouration of spine). First edition.
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E.P.DEMIDOV, Prince of San Donato. After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia. London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1900. 8° (225 x 160mm). Title in red and black, half-title, 8pp. publisher's advertisements. Coloured lithographic frontispiece, 1 folding coloured lithographic map in pocket at end, 20 half-tone plates, illustrations. Original light blue cloth gilt (spine and extremities lightly soiled and bumped). Provenance: A.Sconey Galtey (inscription dated 1901). First edition.
Harry WHITNEY. Hunting with the Eskimos. New York: The Century Co., 1910, 64 plates, 1 folding map. Original cloth giilt, top edge gilt. First edition; together with eight others (Agnes HERBERT & S.SHIKÁRI, Two Dianas in Alaska, London, 1909, second edition, 8°; Bassett DIGBY. The Mammoth and Mammoth-hunting in north-east Siberia, London, 1926, 8°; Ernest Thompson SETON. The Arctic Prairies, London, 1912, 8°; Caspar WHITNEY. On snow-shoes to the Barren Grounds, London, 1896, 8°; James Carnegie, 9th Earl of SOUTHESK. Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains, Edinburgh, 1875, 8°; Warbirton PIKE. Through the Subarctic Forest, London & New Yrok, 1896, 8°; Warburton PIKE. The Barren Ground of Northern Canada, London, 1892, 8°; E.Marshall SCULL. Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska, Philadelphia, 1914, 8°). (11)
Elim Pavlovich DEMIDOV, Prince of San Donato. A Shooting Trip to Kamchatka. London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1904. 8° (226 x 157mm). Title in red and black, half-title, 9pp. publisher's advertisements. 5 photogravure plates, 2 folding coloured lithographic maps (one in pocket at end), numerous illustrations, largely unopened. (Map in pocket somewhat browned.) Original blue cloth gilt (slight discolouration of spine). First edition.
[With:]
E.P.DEMIDOV, Prince of San Donato. After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia. London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1900. 8° (225 x 160mm). Title in red and black, half-title, 8pp. publisher's advertisements. Coloured lithographic frontispiece, 1 folding coloured lithographic map in pocket at end, 20 half-tone plates, illustrations. Original light blue cloth gilt (spine and extremities lightly soiled and bumped). Provenance: A.Sconey Galtey (inscription dated 1901). First edition.
Harry WHITNEY. Hunting with the Eskimos. New York: The Century Co., 1910, 64 plates, 1 folding map. Original cloth giilt, top edge gilt. First edition; together with eight others (Agnes HERBERT & S.SHIKÁRI, Two Dianas in Alaska, London, 1909, second edition, 8°; Bassett DIGBY. The Mammoth and Mammoth-hunting in north-east Siberia, London, 1926, 8°; Ernest Thompson SETON. The Arctic Prairies, London, 1912, 8°; Caspar WHITNEY. On snow-shoes to the Barren Grounds, London, 1896, 8°; James Carnegie, 9th Earl of SOUTHESK. Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains, Edinburgh, 1875, 8°; Warbirton PIKE. Through the Subarctic Forest, London & New Yrok, 1896, 8°; Warburton PIKE. The Barren Ground of Northern Canada, London, 1892, 8°; E.Marshall SCULL. Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska, Philadelphia, 1914, 8°). (11)
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