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Title: 10 volumes of hunting and sporting adventures Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 10 classic titles on sporting adventures, most illustrated. Includes; Bates, Frank. A. Stories of Lake, Field & Forest. Rambles of a Sportsman-Naturalist. Illustrated. (8vo) original tan cloth. Spine darkened. Braintree, MA: Frank A. Bates, Scientific and Historical Books,1899. Bishop, Nathaniel H. Four Months in a Sneak Box. A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Along the Gulf of Mexico. Illustrated. (8vo) brown cloth with gilt design and spine. Hinges cracked. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879. First Edition. Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. 2 volumes. (8vo) embossed cloth, gilt spine. Cloth very worn, spine of vol, 1 peeling away, rear cover detached, large portions of last two pages torn away, foxing throughout; about fair. New York: Harper & Bothers, 1854. Hammond, S. H. Hunting Adventures in the Northern Wilds; or a Tramp in the Chateaugay Woods, over Hills, Lakes and Forest Streams. With color frontispiece. (8vo) embossed cloth, gilt spine. New York: J.C. Derby, 1856. First Edition. Linn, William Alexander Rob and His Gun. Illustrated. (8vo) decorative green cloth, gilt spine. Binding shaken, dampstains on a number of pages at front of volume. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Murphy, John Mortimer Sporting Adventures in the Far West. Illustrated. (8vo) decorative green cloth, gilt spine. Small wormhole to endpapers. New York: Harper & Bothers, 1880. First Edition. Murray, William H.H. Adventures in the Wilderness; Or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks. (12mo) decorative brown cloth, gilt spine. Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. First Edition. Watson, B. A. The Sportsman's Paradise; or, the Lake Lands of Canada. Illustrated. (4to) decorative green cloth. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1888. First Edition. Vachell, Horace Annesley. Life and Sport on the Pacific Slope. Illustrated. (8vo) green cloth with gilt title and spine. Spine cloth peeling away, back cover nearly detached, frontispiece detached; fair. London: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1900. First Edition. Whitehead, Charles E. Wild Sports in the South; or, the Camp-Fires of the Everglades. (8vo) blindstamped brown cloth with gilt title and spine. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860. First Edition. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear, soiling, and rubbing to bindings; some hinges cracked, toning, occasional foxing, owner's signatures and pencil marks, etc. a few volumes just fair, most very good. Item number: 275454a