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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. Cartwright was one of four English business men engaged in Labrador in the 1770s. Trading and trapping was the game. READ more about : fox traps, Rundlestone, power-loom, Black's Head Inn, skiff, Hinchingbrook Bay, Egg Harbour, Temple Tickle, snow-blind, seals, Indian devil, phrippers, spruce-game, shalloway, and River Exploits. A few b/w images accompany text. These 385 pages are a replica of the 1911 Dana Estes edition. INDEX at back. Cond : White paper wrapper with brown decoration including a portrait of Cartwright (and his dog) in working gear. Volume in ALL senses is clean and bright and square. No names nor marks. Giftable !! QUote (p. 142) : " ._._. respecting the manner of these birds changing colour; I tppk particular notice of those I killed, and can aver, for a fact that they get at this time of the year a very large addition of feathers at the same time ._._._. . ". B/W Plates (illustratore). …