How to Hunt and Trap Together with Chapters upon Outfits, Guns Etc. Abounding in Information Generally for Sportsmen
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1882. Hardcover. Very good. Item #17942
New edition. 12mo. 226pp plus 3pp of index, Publisher's cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and gilt vignette with black decoration on the upper board, the decoration motif repeated in blind on the lower board. Brown coated endpapers. Illustrated with engravings, many full page. Small closed tear to the title page, some staining and age-toning to the text block, binding rubbed especially at the edges; else a very good copy. Samuel Kingan's copy, with his signature and "Bought in Pittsburg (sic) April 10 1884" on a preliminary blank. Kingan was born in Pittsburgh, educated at the University of Michigan and in 1891 came to Tucson where he established his law practice (Kingan & Dick, later Kingan & Wright.) Kingan was one of the 5 Pima County members of the Arizona Constitutional Convention in 1910. Laid in are two bills of lading. The first, stamped Ogden, Sept. 16, 1890, consisted of books and other items to be transported to Mrs. Bee Kingan of Charleston, Ill, via Council Bluffs. It bears the signature of S. L. Kingan. The second is a receipt from Mrs. Bill Kingman (sic) dated Charleston, Oct. 4, 1890 for the same goods.
Price: $300.00