Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Guidebooks of Lucius Lee Hubbard

Hubbard, Lucius Lee, Hubbard’s Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine, Williams Co, 1882, 1889, 1893. Some copies of the 1889 4th ed. have the cover title as "Summer Vacations" but list "Hubbard's Guide" as the title on the title page; other copies of the 1889 4th ed. have "Hubbard's Guide" in both locations. There are minor variations in the advertisements between these two different versions of the 4th ed. The 1893 5th ed. says "Fifth" on the cover but says "Fourth" on the title page.

1882 guide

Hubbard, Lucius Lee, Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake and Vicinity: A practical guidebook for tourists, describing routes for the canoe-man over the principal waters of Northern Maine, with hints to campers and estimates of expense for tours, Williams Co, 1879, 1880.

summer vacations 1879

Hubbard, Lucius Lee, Woods and Lakes of Maine, J R Osgood, 1883/4, 1883/4. This is a narrative of Hubbard's travels, rather than an actual guidebook. However it was issued with one of Hubbard's maps, so I included it here. The first edition bears two different dates 1883 and 1884 within the same volume. The second edition is difficult to distinguish, but bears the date 1888 in one place.

woods and lakes of maine

Hubbard, Lucius Lee, Some Indian Place Names in Northern Maine with Explanations Derived from the Indians and a Cross-index, J R Osgood, 1884. This booklet was also published as an appendix to Woods and Lakes of Maine (above), but was also published seperately in a press run of just 50 copies. This book was published with one of Hubbard's maps. I have never seen a copy.

2 comments:

  1. Notably, the 1880 2nd edition of Summer Vacations seems to be the rarest.

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  2. Well, of all the above items, by far the rarest is the separately published "Some Indian Place Names." Only 50 copies were printed and six of those are accounted for in WorldCat.

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