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The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds, and Wild Fowl of America
by Lewis, Elisha J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Original green stamped spine and blind stamped pictorial cloth. Bookplate Draper Hall Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Almost fine
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. Later edition. Frontispiece aquatint. Engraved aquatint title page and numerous text illustrations designed by George G. White-Engraved by Louderback & Hoffmann. xxix, [30-510 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green stamped spine and blind stamped pictorial cloth. Bookplate Draper Hall Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Almost fine. Later edition. Frontispiece aquatint. Engraved aquatint title page and numerous text illustrations designed by George G. White-Engraved by Louderback & Hoffmann. xxix, [30-510 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Phillips p. 225; Heller 2:703 (First edition); Henderson pp. 162-163
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 234041
- Title
- The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds, and Wild Fowl of America
- Author
- Lewis, Elisha J
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece aquatint. Engraved aquatint title page and numerous text illustrations designed by George G. White-Engraved by Loud
- Book Condition
- Used - Original green stamped spine and blind stamped pictorial cloth. Bookplate Draper Hall Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Almost fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott & Co
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- Hunting / Shooting | Americana
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The Old Mill Bookshop
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey
About The Old Mill Bookshop
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
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