SOMERSET, H[enry Charles] Somers [Augustus]. The Land of the Muskeg. With a Preface by A.Hungerford Pollen. 8vo. pp. xxxi, 248. with half-title. 4 partly coloured lithographed maps (2 folding), title vignette, frontis. portrait & 109 text illus. from sketches by A.H.Pollen & instantaneous photographs (5 full-page). A near fine copy, uncut in original gilt-stamped cloth (spine bit darkened, slight lean to spine). bookplate of Frank Pidgeon, Omemee, designed by Leslie Victor Smith. London: William Heinemann, 1895.
First Edition of this account of a hunting and exploring excursion in British Columbia. Setting out from Edmonton, the party travelled by the Athabasca to Fort Dunvegan on the Peace River, crossed the Rockies via the Pine and Misinchinka Rivers to Fort McLeod, and then proceeded south-east to Quesnel via Fort St. James and the Stuart River. The journey, particularly from Fort Dunvegan to Fort McLeod, was a harrowing one; it was exceptionally rainy, game was scarce, and the sportsmen had to resort to eating one of their packhorses.
Lowther 1177. Smith 9656. Story p. 773.