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PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD Hunting Expeditions of Oliver Hazard Perry of Cleveland Verbatim from His Diaries. Cleveland: For Private Distribution, 1899. Limited edition, no. 55 of 100 copies, presentation copy from the publisher. Original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt. 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; viii, 246 pp.; frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, vignette title page, half-title. Extremities lightly rubbed, slight overopening noted at page 169, but overall a lovely copy of this very scarce work. Presentation slip mounted to half-title/limitation page: "Compliments of Mr. Charles William Bingham to Geo. W. Gardner. Nov. 1899." With the bookplate of Daniel Webster Evans laid in . A cornerstone work on hunting in Ohio and Michigan during the first half of the nineteenth century, handsomely printed at the estimable Marion Press of Frank Hopkins. Perry frequently suffered extraordinary hardships in his pursuit of game, travelling the backcountry for months at a time with minimal provisions, all the while enduring great privations with apparent equanimity. "Contemporary accounts, here first printed, of hunting expeditions in Ohio and Michigan, 1836-1855" (Howes). "Very reliable, interesting and valuable, since it contains his hunting of elk and turkeys in Michigan" (Phillips). Casada 535 (for the 1994 reprint only); Graff 3258; Howes P-250 ("b"); Phillips, p. 292; Streeter sale 4116. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson