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The hunting grounds of the Old world / 1st series

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Description: "The following pages, descriptive in their different incidents in a Hunter's life, are selections from the journal of a wanderer over many lands, which, having excited a certain degree of interest amongst a class who have themselves participated in similar scenes, the Author has laid before the Public; in the hope that some of his comrades, many of whom are 'might hunters,' and abler with the pen than himself, will follow his example, and disseminate the knowledge they have acquired by experience during their sojourn in the 'pathless woods,' as their accounts cannot fail to be of intense interest to their brother sportsmen, and a great assistance to the uninitiated who may wish to follow in their footsteps"--From preface.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1860.
Call number: 656409
Creator: H. A. L (1828-1875)(Opens in new tab)
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Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005 This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, which was donated to The Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress.

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22 cm (8vo)

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Last, Jay T.,

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Saunders, Otley, and Co.,

William Clowes and Sons,

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