Carolina Sports

by Land and Water. Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, &c by William Elliott

$3,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Publisher's cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. Red cloth chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Windsor Holden White bookplate ; F. P. Williamson bookplate First edition. William Elliott 1788-3 Feb. 1863 was a third-generation South Carolina planter, writer, and sportsman. He served in the state senate for nearly two decades, and was respected as one of the most gifted planters of the old South producing large crops of rice and sea island cotton. He wrote

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