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Bruin : the grand bear hunt

by: Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883; Zwecker, Johann Baptist, 1814-1876; Dalziel Brothers

Publication date: 1861

Topics: Bears, Voyages around the world, Hunting, Adventure and adventurers, Natural history, Brothers, Animal welfare

Publisher: Boston, [Mass.] : Ticknor and Fields

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

Frontispiece engraved and signed by Dalziel, drawn after J.B. Zwecker

A Russian nobleman, in an attempt to broaden their horizons, charges his two sons to travel east or west around the world and bring him the skin of every variety of bear with the only condition that they kill it with their own hands

"Stereotyped and printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co."--T.p. verso

Clothbound, embossed covers and spine, spine engraving and lettering in gold ; loose binding

Holograph inscription in pencil, front leaf: To Issac from his father, on his tenth birthday--July 14th, 1864

Purchased from James T. Hickey, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois 62706

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