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BOOK CATEGORY: Fishing & Hunting Arthur R. Macdougall, Jr. Dud Dean Maine Guide: Tales of Hunting and Fishing Description: xi, 171 pp. Arthur R. Macdougall, Jr. is a clergyman and fly-rod expert. His love of the outdoors and the ability to tell a good yarn make this collection of stories a warm and humorous experience. Cooper, Gerald P A Biological Survey of Lakes and Ponds of the Androscoggin and Kennebec River Drainage Systems in Maine Description: Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game, Fish Survey Report No. 4. 238 pp. 29 b&w plates; many maps, one folding; tables and charts, 2 folding. A little wear at tail of spine, inked number on front cover. Cooper, Gerald P. and John L Fuller A Biological Survey of the Lakes and Ponds of Mount Desert Island, and the Union and Lower Penobscot River Drainage Systems. Fish Survey Report No. 7 to Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game Description: ix, 221 pp. Illustrated with 65 figures and 10 plates. Previous owner's name in ink on front cover. Hillman, Anthony Carving Miniature Shorebirds Description: Unpaginated. [32 pp] of patterns printed on oak tag one side only, plus [8 pp.] of text. Introduction and instructions with 10 figures. All decoys shown in color on the covers. Krohn, William B. Manly Hardy (1832-1910): The Life and Writing of a Maine Fur-Buyer, Hunter and Naturalist Description: 343 pp. This is a collection of Hardy's articles and essays on the Maine woods and its inhabitants. Includes a 78 page biographical sketch of Hardy, a Maine fur trader and father of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. With photographs, maps and illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Articles range from two long works about trips in the North Woods of Maine to shorter articles about caribou, cougar, lynx, moose, sea mink (extinct), and other wildlife species. Most were first published in Forest and Stream and Shooting and Fishing; others were first published in scientific journals. Includes annotated bibliography of Hardy's published works, footnotes, and index. Mosby, Henry S. and Handley, Charles O. The Wild Turkey in Virginia: Its Status, Life History and Management Description: xx, 281, [3] pp. Turquoise cloth, emblem of turkey on front panel in gilt. With 2 full-color plates by Fred Everett, numerous photographs, bibliography, tables, appendices, index. Folding map with tipped-in correction. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, light wear to corners, spine edges. Osbaldeston, George. Commentary by E.D. Cuming. Introduction by Theodore Cook Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography Description: lv, [ii], 260 pp. Edited, with Commentary, by E.D. Cuming. Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook. With 16 Illustrations in color,( 8 of the color plates from paintings by Henry Alkin,) and 75 in black and white, and a map. Includes index. Osbaldeston [1786-1866] worked at his "reminiscences" from 1856 through 1862, when he gave the manuscript to his step-son. Called "the best Sportsman of any age or Country" decades after his death, Osbaldeston was the larger-than-life exemplar of the Regency Buck, the Nonpareil and the Out-and-Outer. From the library of James Blackstone Taylor, "America's premier test pilot," with his book plate on the front pastedown. Taylor flew the first flight of the Navy's first monoplane in 1918 and was one of the first to fly scout planes from platforms built over the gun turrets of battleships. He also was one of the first pilots to test new types of landing and launching gear on the Navy's first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley. Taylor "tested more planes, prevented more deaths and air disasters than any man who ever walked this earth." Harry Bruno - Wings Over America. He died in 1942 while testing a new flap system on an XF4F-6 for the Navy. Tan cloth covers have light over-all soiling. The paper used in this edition is subject to foxing, but it is confined for the most part to the pastedowns and pages facing the plates. A few pages un-cut. A surprisingly readable text in an attractive binding. Prince, Professor E.E. Special Reports [Dominion Fishieries Commissioner] Description: vii, 40 pp. Contains 3 reports: 1. The Bait-freezer System in Canada. 2. The Fish-way Problem. 3. The Culture of Shad. Edward E. Prince was appointed the first Dominion Fishieries Commissioner in 1893. A fish embryologist, Prince developed a system of hatcheries, and became an international advocate for the protection of fish stocks against over fishing. original blue-green wrappers have yellowed at edges, with small chip missing on lower back edge, else very good. Read, Stanley E. Tommy Brayshaw: The Ardent Angler-Artist. Description: This edition is limited to two thousand numbered copies. With pen & ink drawings, photographs, and 22 color plates. With preface by Roderick Haig-Brown. Without dustjacket as issued. Reid, John Clyde-Style Flies and Their Dressings: With Some Hints on Their Use Description: 96 pp. This is the first English edition, published in Newton Abbot, Devon with an American imprint label pasted on the title page. Includes 2 color plates of flies, list of suppliers of Clyde-style Flies and index. From the library of angling author Bob Leeman, with a sheet of his stationary laid in. NF/NF Trudeau, Edward Livingston M.D An Autobiography Description: 322 pp. Trudeau was founder of Saranac and a pioneer in the open-air treatment of tuberculosis. What was called Saranac consisted of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium and the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis. Trudeau was an avid outdoorsman and wrote of hunting trips with friends and patients, including Robert Louis Stevenson. Original green cloth covers, title gilt, top edges gilt. Scarce in dustjacket, this cream-colored jacket has book description printed on front panel, with chipped top and bottom edges and usual soil for its age. Weiler, Milton The Classic Decoy Series Description: No. 839 of a limited edition of 1,000, signed on the limitation page by Milton C. Weiler. Introduction by Ed Zern, foreword by William J. Mackey, Jr. 24 full color plates of decoys. Each plate is laid in beside a letterpress description of the decoy's maker. The sewn portfolio is laced into publisher's stiff paper wrappers with brown ribbon. Green paper wrappers with title gilt on front. Slipcase with paper label on front has a few faint stains, and the green paper covering has uniform but slight fading on front panel. Portfolio is fine, in a very good slipcase. |
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