The complete American trapper; or, The tricks of trapping and trap making. A trapper's repository, containing all the "tricks" and valuable bait recipes of the profession ... Also an extended chapter on life in the woods.

Date:

1876.

Author:

Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH G451 C6 LOCAL

Publisher:

J. Miller

Physical Description:

xvi, 300 pages illustrations, plates 18 cm

Notes:

New ed. published in 1881 under title: Camp life in the woods and the tricks of trapping and trap making. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

George Routledge and Sons (London & NY), n.d., printed by Savill, Edwards (London), engraved by the Dalziel Brothers [GS&A imprint flourished in 1870's, text first appeared in German in 1856 as Der kleine Wallfischfänger, 1st English translation in 1857 as The Little Whaler, and in 1858 as The Young Whaler]; includes catalog of Routledge juvenile books dated August 1875; spine and front cover tiltes and some rulings stamped in gold on red cloth, spine decorations stamped in gold and printed in black, front cover decorations printed in black, back cover decoration blind-stamped

Subjects:

Trapping, Camping, Camping, and Trapping