Author: SETON, Ernest Thompson
Title: Life-Histories of Northern Animals. An Account of the Mammals of Manitoba
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. hardcover. 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.

Keywords: Signed, Inscribed, Illustrated Books, Animals, Ernest T. Seton, Ernest S. Thompson, Modern Firsts, Boy Scouts, Modern First Editions, Natural History Signed Natural History Literature: American Illustrated Books


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