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Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava
by Hornaday, William T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Scribners, 1908 First Edition. xix,366,(4) pp. Original red cloth. Octavo. Gilt titles on spine and front board and a tipped in illustration front board. Coloured frontispiece, seven coloured plates, sixty-four plates and two maps. A fine clean copy with only the slightest fading on the spine. An account of Big Game hunting in New Mexico and Arizona. This a a desert sheep book and appeals to the Sheep hunters. Photographs by Daneil MacDougal, John Phillips and the author. Maps by Godfrey Sykes, geographer on the expedition. 4 pages of ads at the end advertising the authors other books. 1908
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144699
- Title
- Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava
- Author
- Hornaday, William T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scribners
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908 First Edition
- Keywords
- Big Game Hunting|Western Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
Biblio member since 2010
Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tipped In
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