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1890 · 50043 — Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Co. 1890. Thick 8vo. 581 pp. plus 19 pp. illust. publ. ads. including those for Winchester rifles Smith & Wesson revolvers Lefever hammerless guns and Parker Bros. Hammerless Shot Gun the Northern Pacific Railroad and more. Frontisp. 26 plates numerous text illust. Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth over beveled boards gilt lettering & illust. of big horn sheep on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear very slight bumping to corners NF copy. First edition of this fascinating anthology of accounts on big game hunting including Elk Hunting in the Olympic Mountains Moose hunting in the Rocky Mountains the Columbia deer in the Pacific Northwest the Grizzly Bear the Polar Bear Big Horn Sheep in the Rocky Mountains Alligator hunting in Florida and many more. Rand, McNally & Co., hardcover