Life in the Backwoods. From Original Photographs.
London: London Stereoscopic & Photo Company, Limited 106 and 108 Regent Street, [n.d., 1888].
First edition. With 40 photogravure illustrations (with printed captions opposite). [84] pp. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Original half brown morocco and decorated white paper covered boards, upper cover titled in gilt and gilt stamped animals, a.e.g. Some soiling of endsheets, title a little spotted, else fine Phillips p. 381. OCLC: 767797842, 9092733. Item #314447
Caribou, wild sheep, and bear hunting, trapping, ice-fishing, and outdoor life in the Rocky Mountains in Kootway, British Columbia, by J. Turner-Turner, author of Three Years Hunting and Trapping (1888), whose wife accompanied him on his travels (and who figures in several of the photographs). He later wrote The Giant Fish of Florida (1902).
Uncommon.
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