A HUNTER'S EXPERIENCES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS WHICH ARE THE OBJECTS OF CHASE IN THOSE COUNTRIES. By Captain Flack ('The Ranger')

[SAINT John, Percy Bolingbroke]

Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1866

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[7],359,32pp. Half title. Original blue publisher's blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Worn at spine ends and corners. Bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. This is the Litchfield copy, with the bookplate of Edward Sands Litchfield on the front pastedown. An interesting book of travel and hunting in the American South, by Percy Bolingbroke St. John, the pseudonymous "Captain Flack." Included are accounts of hunting in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, with much on American quadrupeds, fish, and reptiles, as well as a chapter on "bee-hunting." "The outstanding merit of this rare and fascinating book is the author's meticulous attention to detail, based upon his wide range of activity and his particular flare for recording realistically and vividly his pursuit of the fauna of the American South" - Clark. HOWES S32. SABIN 24639. CLARK III:314. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.122. LITCHFIELD, p.45 (this copy). DYKES, RANGERS ALL 1061. Seller Inventory # WRCAM54202A

Bibliographic Details

Title: A HUNTER'S EXPERIENCES IN THE SOUTHERN ...

Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co., London

Publication Date: 1866