A scarce guide to resorts and recreation opportunities around Maine’s Rangeley Lakes, published during the region’s golden age of sporting tourism. This booklet, apparently the third edition published by the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway, provides an overview of accommodations and recreation around the Rangeley Lakes, as well as transportation.....
First edition, later printing (but same year). This work is based on Barker's time as a steamboat captain, sporting camp owner, river driver, etc. in Maine’s Rangeley Lakes region. Chapters include “The Indian Chief Metalluk,” “First Experience in Logging,” “Guiding Days,” “Camp Bemis and the Birches,” “Experiences on the Ice,”.....
![Item #7534 Celebrated Horses of America [spine and cover title] [actual title from wrappers (not...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7534_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667860564)
An exceptionally rare color-plate folio of American racehorses, with handsome chromolithographs based on paintings by Henry Stull, Edwin Forbes, Scott Leighton, Harry Hall, and Maurice Scanlan. The horses portrayed include Volunteer, St. Julien, Parole, Ten Broeck, Maud S., Harold, Luke Blackburn, Nevada, Daniel Lambert, Smuggler, Leamington, Bonnie Scotland, Iroquois, Foxhall.....
First edition of Hubbard’s guide to Moosehead, later published under the title Hubbard’s Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine. Includes folding map in pocket at rear entitled Map of Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine, Embracing the Headwaters of the Penobscot, Kennebec and St. John Rivers and is supplemented (evidently.....
Second edition, revised, with no date on the title page, a copyright date of 1883 (the date of the first edition) on the copyright page, and a preface dated 1888. Hubbard notes in the introduction that his intent is to offer “a true and circumstantial delineation of the camper’s life.....
A rare and impressive promotional album advertising twenty-four first-class resorts and hotels located predominately in the Northeast, featuring related postcards offered for sale by the compiler. Accomplishing both promotion and self-promotion, the present album was compiled and assembled by salesman and publisher George W. Ketchum, who maintained offices at the.....
![Item #5853 The Log Book of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club 1934. [cover-title]: Cavern and Fell...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5853_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591046230)
A very fine and unusual typescript journal of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club of Yorkshire, including typescript accounts of spelunking adventures and sixteen striking original photographs. This remarkable journal consists of lists of the officers of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club (est. 1928); a list of over a......
First edition. One of Steele's two classic accounts of canoe expeditions through the Maine wilderness, the other title being Canoe and Camera (NY, 1880). Includes one of the first maps published specifically for the use of recreational canoeists, Map... of the Headwaters of the Aroostook, Penobscot & St. John Rivers.....
First edition. One of Steele's two classic accounts of canoe expeditions through the Maine wilderness, the other title being Paddle & Portage (NY, 1882). Canoe & Camera describes outings on Moosehead Lake, the West Branch of the Penobscot River, Chesuncook Lake, and elsewhere. Included here is one of the first.....