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Estes and Lauriat, 1882. First Edition. hard cover. Good. Boston: Estes and Lauriat. 1882. First Edition. 148pp + 2pp adverts. Hardcover, no jacket.  Dark green boards, with stamped black and gilt titling/decoration. Illustrated with 63 b/w drawings. Ex-lib. Good condtion. Boards moderately worn with light  fabric  fraying at tips and top/bottom of spine, and bumps to the tips. An attractive book to hold as extensive decoration is still bright. Map at rear is present, with tears at folds. Some library markings and stickers. Scattered grime and age spots internally. Securely bound, though the rear hinge has a little play in it. The story of the author's canoe trip through Maine in 1880. (cfm)

Publisher: Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1882. (8" x 5.75"), pictorial gilt and black- stamped brown cloth, with author's signature in gilt to the lower cover. [8], 148 pp., [2] publ. ads in rear., 63 b&w illus., folded map printed in blue (with two vignettes) in pocket at rear, 21" x 30". First edition, first printing. One of Steele's two classic accounts of canoe expeditions through the Maine wilderness, the other title being 'Canoe and Camera'. About fine in lovely condition with just tiny signs of ownership. Attractive moose on forrested pond Owner bookplate inside front cover (Nathaniel Cushing Nash) and his printed name (N.C.Nash) on opposite end paper in, looks like, pencil. Bruns S-276.BOOKPLATE OWNER: Nathaniel C. Nash, Jr., was educated at Noble & Greenough School, Harvard University (1907), and Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1911). He practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts, and served in the Ordnance Department of the Massachusetts National Guard,… Read More

8vo. pp. 148. 63 text illus. (some full-page, incl. frontis.). large folding map. A nice bright copy in original black & gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (small stain on rear cover).
First Edition of this account of Steele’s canoe trip through the northern wilderness of the state of Maine in the remarkably dry summer of 1880. The work is illustrated from photographs taken by the author. The large detailed folding ‘Map of the Headwaters of the Aroostook, Penobscot, & St. John Rivers, Maine’, showing the canoe courses, measures twenty by thirty inches.