knapp edward spring (1 Ergebnisse)

Privately printed, New York, 1940, #14 of 200 copies. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 8" x 10.5". 215 pp. Tan cloth, paper spine label, ink owner inscription from East Islip, dated 1941 and mark of bookplate removal on the endpaper, covers darkened. A history of the Knapp family, of Bayshore, Long Island, New York. 44 pages of the book "Pertains mainly to shooting" in the 1870s and 1890s, including shooting on Long Island for snipe, duck, geese, brant, grouse, quail, woodcock, dove, live pigeon shooting at Westminster Kennel Club, shooting prairie chicken in Iowa in the 1880s, a three page account of a trout caught by the author, four pages on the Southside Sportsman's Club, their hatchery and the guide Josh Verity, who "specialized on trout fishing and snipe shooting", etc. Scarce. Very good.