Paddle and Portage, From Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook River, Maine by Thomas Sedgwick Steele - 2012-01-10

Estes and Lauriat, 1882. First Edition. hard cover. Good. Boston: Estes and Lauriat. 1882. First Edition. 148pp + 2pp adverts. Hardcover, no jacket.  Dark green boards, with stamped black and gilt titling/decoration. Illustrated with 63 b/w drawings. Ex-lib. Good condtion. Boards moderately worn with light  fabric  fraying at tips and top/bottom of spine, and bumps to the tips. An attractive book to hold as extensive decoration is still bright. Map at rear is present, with tears at folds. Some library markings and stickers. Scattered grime and age spots internally. Securely bound, though the rear hinge has a little play in it. The story of the author's canoe trip through Maine in 1880. (cfm)

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1882., 1882. 8vo. pp. 148. 63 text illus. (some full-page, incl. frontis.). large folding map. contemporary half chagrin (light wear to extremities, neat gilt institutional crest on upper cover & lower spine, map backed on linen, some foxing to linen & to outer leaves). First Edition of this account of Steele's canoe trip through the northern wilderness of the state of Maine in the remarkably dry summer of 1880. The work is illustrated from photographs taken by the author. The large detailed folding 'Map of the Headwaters of the Aroostook, Penobscot, & St. John Rivers, Maine', showing the canoe courses, measures twenty by thirty inches.. F. Hardcover.