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Boston: Privately Printed by The Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd., 1915. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 7"), xvi & 410 pages, with frontis & 92 illustrations from photographs on 16 plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt, with a photographic illustration applied to the front cover. Laid-in is a signed form letter on the author's letterhead with "My Esteemed Boy Scout" as salutation.
Spine gilt dull, binding lightly soiled, brief wear at corners, text toned in the margins, otherwise a very good or better copy.
An uncommon book in which the author presents in two sections the diaries of his hunting trips in Africa. The first excursion, in 1911, was to the Guaso Nyero region of British East Africa, the second, in 1913, to northwestern Rhodesia. An appendix following the text provides a "resume of game killed" which includes elephants, baboons, lions, etc. The laid-in letter, addressed to "My Esteemed Boy Scout," advocates "learning the principles of hard work, economy and Scotch… Read More

Brattleboro, Vermont: Published by Geo. H. Salisbury, 1845. sextodecimo (6.5" x 4"), 324 pages, profusely illustrated from wood engravings. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt.
Binding rubbed & soiled, gilt dull, margins sunned, shallow losses at spine extremities, foxing & toning throughout (heavy at times), about good & still quite useful.
Illustrators include Thomas Brown, George Loring Brown, & John Downes.
"In the following pages no scientific arrangement has been pursued. It has been our object to collect a large number of interesting anecdotes and sketches of animals, rather than embarrass the young reader by scientific distinctions and details ..."
 ~Excerpted from the introduction.

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, printed by Wright & Potter, April 4, 1881. First edition. Original folio broadside measuring approximately 15 inches by 9.5 inches printed recto only on medium paper. Not found in OCLC as of 3/30/2024.
Old folds, Moderately toned & soiled, edge wear including creasing & a one inch tear, otherwise good or better & still quite attractive.
"The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals asks the attention of all good citizens to the law of the Commonwealth for the protection of our small birds and their nests, and it invites their co-operation in the enforcement of the same. The penalty is ten dollars for killing each bird, and for wilfully destroying, disturbing or taking their nests or eggs, the same sum; one-half of the fine goes to the complainant, and one-half to the city or town where the offense is committed …" ~Excerpted from the text.

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, no date (ca. 1886). First editions. Octavos (8.75" x 5.75"), single sheets folded once vertically forming 4 pages each, illustrated. OCLC records narrow holdings for numbers 1. 3, & 4 only as of 4/7/2024
Moderately toned & soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good.
George Thorndike Angell (1823 – 1909) founded the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1868 & in 1889 founded the American Humane Education Society. Both organizations continue to this day.

[Lewiston: Central Maine Fair Association, 1907]. Folio broadside measuring 19 inches by 8 inches printed recto only on thin paper, with photographic illustration of a Pit Bull in spiked collar. Text in three columns. Not found in OCLC as of 4/6/2024.
Old folds, slightly soiled & toned, offsetting on the verso, otherwise very good.
"The management of the Central Maine Fair Association announce a grand showing of Maine dogs to be made at their fourth annual exhibition September 10, 11 and 12 …"