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[HARTING, J.E., W. A. BAILLIE-GROHMAN, BUXTON, E.N. and others] American Hunting Trophies. Catalogue and Notes. [Wrapper title:] American Exhibition, London, 1887. Catalogue of the Hunting Trophies. New York and London: J.J. Garnett, and B.W. Dinsmore & Co., [1887]. Full burgundy pebbled morocco gilt over flexible boards, marbled endsheets, all edges gilt, retaining front printed wrapper. 9 1/8 x 7 inches (23 x 17.5 cm); 63 pp., [1] pp., 2 ff. lists of plates and photographs, with 15 engravings on india mounted on leaves with printed captions, 6 illustrations in text, and 14 mounted albumen prints with printed captions. Superficial traces of rubbing, occasional pencil underlining. Baillie-Grohman's copy, specially bound and retaining the front wrapper with the presentation inscription "With E.N. Buxton's compliments" and his signature "Wm. A. Baillie-Grohman" beneath. Both were members of the Trophies Committee for the Exhibition. The elaborate illustrated catalogue of hunting trophies exhibited at Earl's Court in London in 1887, with extensive notes on hunting in the Rocky Mountains, and remarkable provenance, from one of the lenders, William A. Baillie-Grohman of Kootenay, British Columbia, author of Camps in the Rockies (1882), etc., who lent a prize wapiti head as well as mule deer and bighorn. A very desirable big game hunting desideratum, illustrated with original photographs, of which only four copies are recorded in OCLC (the Yale copy lacks a leaf and has only 10 photographs). C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson