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Paperback. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Deaccessioned from a Harvard University library, originally the gift of Charles T. Brues, who is the author of several of the works in this collection and made one small manuscript correction in a footnote of one of his contributions; spine labels are black morocco leather with gilt lettering; binding has light wear and minor soil; spine is sunned; several margins have chip(s); tight, text clean. Includes: microsania -- chinese ants -- chalcid-fly parasitic -- two gynandromorphous ants -- fossil cynipidae -- aculeata -- nutritional study of insects -- paper-making crematogaster -- lordomyrma emery -- metapone forel -- respiratory apparatus of dipterous larvae -- a neotropical ant -- phoresy of antherophagus -- new species of american cynipidae -- life histories of american cynipidae -- phylogeny of cynipid genera -- classification of insects on characters of larva and pupa -- new tryphoninae -- selection of food plants by insects -- formicidae subfamilies -- psyllidae from philippines -- nitrates and reducing powers of bacteria -- intracellular bacteria -- parabiosis and ant gardens of british guiana -- fungus in fat body of pulvinaria innumberabilis -- gigantiops destructor and other leaping ants -- notes on hemiptera, new gerris -- pales weevil -- food habits in hymenoptera -- paraperipatus, other species of the genus from new guinea and ceram -- army ants in british guiana -- termitobracon -- two myrmecophilous phoridae from british guiana -- new england odonata. All 34 works are present and accounted for; article nos. 170, 171 and 178 were "omitted," according to the printed table of contents. Of especial note in this collection are the four contributions by young Alfred C. Kinsey, who later gained fame as a sexologist. Interesting provenance. Huge, heavy volume. [b 102].…