Pêche

1897 · 55282 — Boston: Samuels & Kimball 1897. Tall 8vo. 540 pp. Photo frontisp. over 150 photo illustrations text illustrations illustrated ads. Pictorial burgundy-coloured cloth gilt illust. of hunting and fishing on front cover gilt lettering on spine a.e.g. gilt decorated endpapers minor rubbing edgewear slightly shaken still VG copy from library of Major F.H. Briggs Centerville Mass. w/ ownership stamps on title. First edition of this informative work on fishing and hunting in New England and Canada at the close of the 19th century. The author has included extensive sections on fly fishing trout salmon fishing hunting caribou otter fox ducks and more. In addition there are substantial fishing & hunting memoirs appended to Samuels’ work including Caribou hunting in New Brunswick by Frank Risteen Salmon fishing by Archibald Mitchell Deer-stalking in the Maine forest by J. Parker Whitney and even early history of New England fish and game conservation associations and clubs. Samuels & Kimball, hardcover