[Rarebooks] Elliott Coues' Copy of Tyrrell's Across The Sub-Arctics Of Canada, 1897

[Garry R Austin]

Just Discovered This Morning

Postpaid @$100 net to all

Elliott Coues' Copy

Tyrrell, J. W. Across The Sub-Arctics Of Canada, A Journey Of 3200 Miles By Canoe And Snowshoe Through The Barren Lands. Including A List Of Plants Collected On The Expedition, A Vocabulary Of Eskimo Words, A Route Map And Full Classified Index. Toronto: William Briggs, 1897.
First edition; octavo; pp; 280, index; With frontispiece plus sixty illustrations from photographs taken on the Journey and from Drawings by Arthur Heming, folding map; gilt lettered pictorial gray cloth with a caribou at center board, blue coated endpapers; Internally very good, all plates and maps present, externally fair, the binding is silver fished; Notably this copy is signed by Elliott Coues at the top right of the title page and dated April, 1898. A note below the imprint states; “N.Y. Nation Copy - review written June 6, 1898”. It appears that the noted ornithologist and western historian had reviewed this work for the “Nation”.


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