Sportsmans Portfolio Of American Field Sports

$3,000 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Boston, MA : M.M. Ballou, 1855. First edition a second edition was issued by the Derrydale Press in 1929 , originally published serially in Gleason's . Oblong 4to. Engraved title-page with vignette, 20 plates of sporting subjects, each with a facing page of descriptive text as called for in the index, with an additional plate on the verso of the final leaf. This book may be described as the most profusely illustrated early sporting book published in

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