Sportsman Naturalist Canada Notes Natural by King Major Ross (9 results)

Paperbound. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of London Edition of 1866, pict. paper wraps, pp., xv, 334, illustrated, frontis.,5 full page b & w plates, wood engravings in text, index, Attractive reprint of a Canadian sporting classic Size: 8 Vo.,

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Facsimile Edition. 334 pp, 8 3/8" H. B&w drawings. One of the Coles Canadian Collection - a facsimile of the edition published by Hurst & Blackett, London, 1866. "Step into the boots of a touring English sportsman, travel across the ocean and up the St. Lawrence River. Ramble vast tracts of primaeval forest, game stocked prairies, and broad rivers, hunting, fishing, and sketching all the while. This comprehensive guide to British North America for the hunter and nature-lover of over a century ago takes us on such a tour, describing in exhaustive detail the game, game birds, and fishes of Canada. Full of all sorts of tips on successful hunting and nature watching, the author portrays Canada as a hunter's paradise and a nature-lover's nirvana. His enthusiasm is surpassed only by his wealth of information on every conceivable aspect of Canadian wildlife: each creature's habits and habitats, the hunting season, the various hunting methods, and tips such as warning on when not to approach a moose." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, small tear mark at bottom of spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. 334 pp, 8 5/8" H. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine and front board - one of the Coles Canadian Collection.B&w drawings. A facsimile of the edition published by Hurst & Blackett, London, 1866. "Step into the boots of a touring English sportsman, travel across the ocean and up the St. Lawrence River. Ramble vast tracts of primaeval forest, game stocked prairies, and broad rivers, hunting, fishing, and sketching all the while. This comprehensive guide to British North America for the hunter and nature-lover of over a century ago takes us on such a tour, describing in exhaustive detail the game, game birds, and fishes of Canada. Full of all sorts of tips on successful hunting and nature watching, the author portrays Canada as a hunter's paradise and a nature-lover's nirvana. His enthusiasm is surpassed only by his wealth of information on every conceivable aspect of Canadian wildlife: each creature's habits and habitats, the hunting season, the various hunting methods, and tips such as warning on when not to approach a moose." Very light wrinkle at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear, two tiny tears (archivally taped) and wrinkle at top of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles and decorations; 4to; 334pp; illustrated with 6 chromolithographic plates plus 13 wood engravings within text; yellow endsheets, errata slip tipped-in at contents page. With chapters on moose, caribou, wapiti and deer plus wild turkey, grouse, prairie chicken, woodcock, snipe, passenger pigeon and various waterfowl species. Fishing for trout, pike, muskellunge, black bass and salmon. "With a good quantity od sporting content in the section on salmon and trout, including 5 pages of data on salmon taken on the fly with three rods in the Godbout River in June and July, 1862 and 1863; and a list of recommended trout flies in addition to good accounts of fly fishing." (Heller #542) A bit of wear to the corners, light foxing mainly to the rectos of the color plates, hinges intact, bookplate of sportsman Windsor Holden White affixed to blank endpaper. A quite acceptable copy of an important North American sporting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. King, Major W. Ross. THE SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST IN CANADA, Or Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds and Fish of that Country. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866. 1st edn. Large format. xv + 334pp. 6 fine full-page colour lithographic plates, including frontispiece. Other woodcut illustrations. Original green decorative cloth, gilt. With moosehead on cover. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Near fine. Comments on moose, deer, caribou, ruffled grouse, the Canadian forest, salmon, etc., as encountered by the author in eastern Canada. Signed by Author(s).

Decorated Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original green cloth to boards and spine with hinges, outer corners, and head and tail of spine restored; contemporary endpages. Gilt decoration to front board and to spine. Full colour frontispiece and plates throughout [all present]. Some spotting and browning to outer page edges. Some modest staining or foxing occasionally to margins; verso of frontispiece foxed.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo (royal). First edition. Original green cloth, pictorially stamped with a moose head and lettered in gilt. B&W in-text engravings and six full page tipped-in water colour plates. One integral errata slip. Sporadic pencil and ink notations. Wear on edges, small tear to head of joint, hinges starting. Roughly trimmed edges. Removed label in top left corner of pastedown. Bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron on front pastedown. Previous catalogue entry pasted to front free endpaper. Light foxing near front. Precise and exact in-text engravings are of moose, caribou, deer, and regional scenery. Plates include wild turkey, prairie hen, Canada and ruffed grouse, white fish, musqualonge, black bass. Interesting topics include: the decrease of carnivores such as black bears; the variety of hares in North America and how to tell them from rabbits; moose compared to elk; caribou compared to reindeer; eagles and hawks, passenger pigeons; the extraordinary quantity of wild fowl; fisheries of Canada, etc. Misspelling of "Mississauga" in endpiece on page 164. Very good condition, a bright, clean copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Quarto. 33pp., illustrated with 6 full page chromolithographs and several woodcuts, original green pictorial cloth depicting a gilt moose head on upper boards; spine gilt, early bookplate; a very handsome copy showing minor wear; internally clean and bright; front end papers lightly foxed. The chromolithographs are of excellent quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Quarto, xv, 334 p. with errata, complete copy with the six full-page coloured plates.[verso frontis spotted], Woodcuts. Original green gilt design publishers cloth.[neat spine repair] Excellent 'Bright' Copy.