Winter and summer, Canada has been a destination for outdoor sport and recreation since the mid-nineteenth century. This list covers a long period of time and a lot of territory, from the records of the Dwight Wiman Sporting Club and accounts of hunting in the Canadian Rockies to a rare photographic expedition to New Brunswick, a curious dialect dictionary, and classics of the literature of salmon fishing.
London: Morris & Co., 8 Philpot Lane, 1885. First Edition. The rarest of the Anticosti books. Only copy we have seen. "...gives a concise and interesting account of the physical features, public works, natural resources, industries, minerals, and general condition of this island, which lies in the mouth of the..... Read More about The Settler and Sportsman in Anticosti
Price: $1,500
New York: Mail and Express Job Print, 1904. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed opposite the title “Compliments of the author J.R. Bradley” Big Game hunting by the author and his friend T.T. Reese in the Stickeen (sic) River Country. The trials of traveling consume the first 28 pp., after which are..... Read More about Hunting Big Game in Northwest British Columbia
Price: $3,250
London, Canada: June 1968. Private edition (i.e., second edition). RARE. A rare privately printed Canadian salmon title. “The author was the Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario … he fished the Restigouche and it is probably that river he refers to in The Fly Leaf. … This little book..... Read More about The Fly Leaf
Price: $1,000
N.p: [Privately printed by Tinlings of Liverpool], August 1964. First edition, signed by Freddie and Mar Lou (Guingand, Freddie's daughter). Rare privately printed memoir of the author’s friendship with Jane Engelhard (spanning three decades) and trips to Camp Chaleur on the Grand Cascapedia. The camp had been built by the..... Read More about "Camp Chaleur"
Price: $6,500
![Item #316590 A Canadian Expedition [Caption title]. Victor Elting](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/316590.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669654068)
N.p. [Chicago?]: n.d. [1933]. First edition, privately printed. Unrecorded. Inscribed on front flyleaf "Merry Christmas from Victor, 1934." Victor Elting and his friend McPherson left Chicago July 29, 1933 and arrived at a station in Northern Canada called Ombabika in the Thunder Bay District on the 31st. They spent three..... Read More about A Canadian Expedition [Caption title
Price: $2,000
New York: [privately printed], 1901. First edition, perhaps 100 copies printed. RARE. "Hunting big game in the Similkameen country." Philips. Read More about Good Hunting! A Record of certain occurrences in British Columbia, during the Summer of 1888. By...
Price: $4,000
[Montreal: Atwater Press, 1987]. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed by the author, “ To G— & C— Remembering many happy times, June 1987 EJ Exworth, Max. First organized as the Tidioute fishing club, which sold the leases to a group of Montrealers in 1935. The Sunnyside Fish and Game Club changed..... Read More about The Fishing Club in Retrospect. The Story of Lac du Cap Fish and Game Club
Price: $50
![Item #316070 What and Why is Tabusintac Club? [Drop title]. Levi P. Greenwood](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/316070.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669653951)
[Boston, Massachusetts: Atlantic Printing Company, c. 1920]. First edition. Evocative prose account of a visit to the Tab or Tabusintac Club in New Brunswick. With a presentation letter from the author's daughter (Eleanor G. Hornblower) to Dr. Phillips, i.e., sportsman, author, and bibliographer John Charles Phillips. Read More about What and Why is Tabusintac Club? [Drop title
Price: $750
[N.p: Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman], [1938]. First edition, one of a very few copies known. Rare. Salmon fishing during four days in the first part of July, 1938, by a party of six, who styled themselves the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fishermen..... Read More about Salmon Fishing on the Restigouche. July, 1938
Price: $8,000
Baltimore: Privately Printed [at the Lord Baltimore Press], 1923. One of 7 copies. Privately printed account of a camping and fishing trip to Lake Algonquin in northern Ontario, with canoeing on the Vermilion River, written in mock Chaucerian style, with three tales from Canadian folk lore. OCLC records copies at..... Read More about Babes in the Bush and Canadian Tales
Price: $2,250
New York: Frank Walters, Grand Central Palace, 1933. First edition, no. 3 of 75 copies printed on Fine Paper, bound uncut and autographed by the author; with a fulsome inscription from the author on the half title. Read More about Sheep and Bear Trails. A Hunter's Wanderings in Alaska and British Columbia ... Introduction by...
Price: $1,750
[Privately printed, n.d., ca. 1910]. With application for membership laid in. Read More about Kedgemakooge Rod and Gun Club of Nova Scotia, Ltd
Price: $1,500
C.1880. RESTIGOUCHE. Charles Lanman (1819-1895) trained under Asher B. Durand and at 28 became an elected associate of the National Academy of Design in 1846. Lanman made sketching trips to every state east of the Rockies, many of which were published in American magazines. Washington Irving called him "the picturesque..... Read More about Pencil drawing of "View of the Restigouche River."
Price: $1,250
[New York: 1937]. First edition, no. 26 of 150 copies. Inscribed to Mary Akeley. Inscribed on the title page, "To an adventurous and courageous lady, Mary Akeley, with appreciation of the accomplishments and friendly Greetings Herbert S. Connell 1934." This is the same Mary Akeley of African fame. Read More about Moose Hunting in the Laurentians
Price: $750
[np]: Privately Printed, [1933]. First edition, one of 100 copies. Signed by the author “F.W. Lowery” on the title page. Account of a salmon fishing trip on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island, by Douglas, McCloy, Ward, Belknap, the president of Consolidated Paper, and the author (who remains anonymous throughout his..... Read More about History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B
Price: $1,750
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Privately Printed for Charles Wood III, 2003. Deluxe edition, no. 10 of 50 copies printed by the Ascensius Press on handmade paper. Reprints Lady Agnes Macdonald's account of fishing the Restigouche from Murray's Magazine, 1887, with an introductory essay by Peter Thomas, author of Lost Land of Moses..... Read More about On a Canadian Salmon River. Lady Agnes Macdonald's Account of Fishing the Restigouche in 1887....
Price: $1,200
![Item #311411 Fishing Record 1886 [Cover title]. Micmac Salmon Club, J. H. Baxter](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/311411.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669653058)
[Quebec]: 1886-1888. Record of three seasons at the Micmac Salmon Club on the Matapedia where it joins the Restigouche river with 178 records of daily weather and river conditions, participants and pools fished, salmon and grilse caught (as well as the ones that got away), weights, flies used, and other..... Read More about Fishing Record 1886 [Cover title
Price: $10,000
![Item #245759 [Moose Hunt] Collection of 35 Photographs recording a moose hunt, hunting camp, and...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/245759.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651259)
N.p: n.d. [ca. 1910?]. Images from a successful moose hunt, including 3 photos of hunters in the party standing with the trophy, other photos of moose and caribou racks, and a sledge of antlers beside a rail line. The photos also show camp tents, several lean-tos and log huts, forest..... Read More about Moose Hunt] Collection of 35 Photographs recording a moose hunt, hunting camp, and other outdoor...
Price: $750
New York: Privately Printed, 1953. First edition. A Morgan's Recollections of a Noted Sporting Club. Long Point, Ontario, is a twenty-two mile land formation jutting into Lake Erie; it is one of the greatest duck marshes in the world and home to this exclusive sporting club. The Long Point Company..... Read More about Further Recollections of Long Point
Price: $1,750
Grand Rapids, Michigan: James Bayne Co, [c. 1900]. Illustrations depict views of the lakes, surrounding landscape, resorts, and architecture, as well as scenes of boating, fishing, hunting, golf, tennis, etc., in the Muskoka region of northern Ontario. A rare promotional guide. OCLC reports only a copy at the Toronto Public..... Read More about The Muskoka Lakes. A Place of Health and Pleasure. The Sportsman’s Paradise
Price: $500
[Lunenberg, Vt: Privately printed at the Stinehour Press], Christmas 1973. First edition, one of 20 copies printed. Recollections of salmon fishing and life at the Engelhard camp on the Grand Cascapedia during the summer and fall of 1973. Includes a history of Lorne Cottage, built in 1878, and a chapter..... Read More about Indian Summer
Price: $6,500
Forest Grove, Oregon: Champoeg Press, [1978]. First edition, number 280 of 2000 copies. A fine copy of this beautifully produced volume, the first from the press. Read More about Lee Richardson's BC. Tales of Fishing in British Columbia ... with a preface by F. S. Auger
Price: $250
[Philadelphia: ca. 1966]. First edition, printed in a limited number of copies for private distribution. Largely devoted to Salmon fishing - the Miramachi, Restigouche, Upsilquitch, Patapedia, etc., with a chapter on trout in Pennsylvania, Canada, and Alaska. Heller writes “Books of this type normally are not so bountiful with fishing..... Read More about Pleasant Places
Price: $750
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1888. First edition, no. 78 of 105 copies, initialed by the Publisher. A book of almost legendary beauty, rarity, and importance, recounting the author's adventures at Camp Harmony on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick, and drawing upon his long experience fishing the river. Dean Sage's contributions..... Read More about The Ristigouche and Its Salmon Fishing. With a Chapter on Angling Literature
Price: $27,500
Toronto: Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited, 1913-1917. Author' Edition. First edition, Number 848 of 875 Impressions on All-Rag Watermarked Paper, signed by the Publisher. Read More about Canada and Its Provinces. A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions by One Hundred...
Price: $2,500