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Small quarto (9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches) London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1909. First Edition. xv, 252 + [4] pages of Publisher's Advertisements, "With 73 Full-Page Plates (on unnumbered leaves), a Map, and 56 Illustrations in the Text, Reproduced From Original Photographs."

The colored map is folded into a pocket attached to the rear pastedown. Original gray cloth binding with title and author on upper cover, and in gilt on spine; patterned end papers, appendix, and index. Very good condition (small blemish on lower margin of front pastedown, and front fly leaf, minimal shelf wear; none affecting contents).

A hunting expedition to Siberia and Alaska, originating in Japan, with ethnological observations on indigenous people, and descriptions of mining, and of the fisheries.

The Appendix is a "Synopsis of the Animals Collected by the Author During His Expedition" (that included mammals, birds, and invertebrates).

Quartos (each 12 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches) Los Angeles: Beinfeld Publishing, Inc.. First Editions. Hardcover. Very good condition.

Colt volume has 422 pages, and the Winchester volume has 402 pages; both are printed on coated stock, and profusely illustrated with black and white and color photographs including several fold out plates. There is a General Index, and a Model Index in each book.

The Colt volume, published in 1974, is bound in blue leatherette, with the title in silver on the front cover over the rampant Colt trademark; the Winchester volume, published in 1975, is bound in red leatherette, with the title in silver over the Winchester horse and rider trademark. The leatherette boxed slip case has minor nicks at the edges, and a few scratches, neither affecting either volume - which are both clean and bright.

Two scholarly and informative volumes about two famous American gun manufacturers and their engraving art. "The present volumes, one on the Colts, the companion book on Winchesters,… Read More