Bruin
Subtitle: the grand bear hunt
By: by Captain Mayne Reid
Contributors: Zwecker, Johann Baptist, 1814-1876; Dalziel Brothers
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Bears -- Juvenile fiction.; Voyages around the world -- Juvenile fiction.; Hunting -- Juvenile fiction.; Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction.; Natural history -- Juvenile fiction.; Brothers -- Juvenile fiction.; Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: Grand bear hunt; Bruin :
Description: A Russian nobleman, in an attempt to broaden their horizons, charges his two sons to travel east or west around the world and bring him the skin of every variety of bear with the only condition that they kill it with their own hands.
Notes: Frontispiece engraved and signed by Dalziel, drawn after J.B. Zwecker.

"Stereotyped and printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co."--T.p. verso.

Clothbound, embossed covers and spine, spine engraving and lettering in gold ; loose binding.

Holograph inscription in pencil, front leaf: To Issac from his father, on his tenth birthday--July 14th, 1864.

Purchased from James T. Hickey, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois 62706.