[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Seton LIFE-HISTORIES OF NORTHERN ANIMALS with 2 Original Drawings

[Charles Agvent]

SETON, Ernest Thompson. LIFE-HISTORIES OF NORTHERN ANIMALS. An Account 
of the Mammals of Manitoba. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. 
First Edition. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10-1/4") volumes in brown buckram 
with decorations on the front covers and gilt-lettered leather spine 
labels. The first volume is about Grass Eaters and the second about 
Flesh Eaters. Illustrated with 68 maps and 560 drawings by Seton. 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page of the first volume "To 
James Carleton Young/These two volumes are my attempt to/tell everything 
that is known about the/home life of the 59 Species treated./These are 
the facts on which my stories/are founded -- Cordially yours/Ernest 
Thompson Seton." He has followed his signature with two DRAWINGS: a 
small bear track and a larger bear head. According to Seton's preface, 
60 species, not 59, are treated. Paper splitting to the front joint of 
the second volume; rubbing to spine labels. Near Fine with a superb 
inscription.

James Carleton Young (1856 - 1918) was a bibliophile who collected 
inscribed books and who was known as "the King of books." This set was 
lot 840 in the 1916 Anderson Galleries sale of his collection. 
(#019952)        $1,000

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