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Grinnell, American Duck Shooting.

Grinnell, George Bird.

American Duck Shooting. With Fifty-eight Portraits of North American Swans, Geese and Ducks by Edwin Sheppard and numerous Vignettes in the text by Wilmot Townsend.

Twelfth Thousand. New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company, (1901) 8°. 628 pages. Original Hardcover with cover-illustration. Good + condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Binding shaky and starting to separate from bookblock. Bookblock still firm and clean – in collectable condition.

[Ray Riling’s Bibliography “Guns and Shooting” – No. 1521: “This Volume deals with duck shooting, past and present (the year 1901) and with the different ways in which the sport has been and is practised”]

George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life. Grinnell has been recognized for his influence on public opinion and work on legislation to preserve the American buffalo. (Wikipedia)

 

Grinnell, American Duck Shooting.