Travel Literature and Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson
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TRAVEL LITERATURE AND SPORTING BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ARNOLD “JAKE” JOHNSON Tuesday, October 30, 2018 NEW YORK TRAVEL LITERATURE AND SPORTING BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARNOLD "JAKE" JOHNSON ONLINE ONLY AUCTION Soft Close Begins Tuesday, October 30 at Noon (EDT) Lots will close sequentially, one lot per minute, with a soft close. Should any bids be placed Doyle is pleased to auction the extensive collection of travel literature, Americana, in the final minute, bidding will remain open on that lot for an additional 1 minute. and sporting books assembled by Arnold “Jake” Johnson (1930-2017) of https://Bid.Doyle.com Bozeman, Montana. This remarkable collection will offered in an ongoing series of live and online auctions. Comprising over two hundred seventy books, the current auction is being presented as a timed online-only auction on Doyle.com. EXHIBITION Doyle, 175 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128 Bidding will close on Tuesday, October 30th beginning at Noon EDT. Friday, October 26, 10am–5pm The public is invited to the exhibition at Doyle on Friday, October 26th and Monday, October 29, 10am–5pm Monday, October 29th. A true bibliophile, Johnson was an inveterate collector of rare items related to PAYMENT Payment can be made by cash, check, credit card or wire transfer. angling, travel, expeditions in India and Africa, English sporting and color-plate, The final purchase price will include the successful Hammer Price plus 19th century big game hunting, and Western Americana. His collection comprises the Buyer’s Premium of 25% and any applicable sales tax. hundreds of rare books, hand-written accounts of hunting expeditions, striking examples of 19th century photographic travel albums, and elusive bibliographies and facsimiles of major works. SHIPPING Doyle can facilitate shipping using a third-party shipper. For details please contact [email protected] CONTENTS Books Lots 1-272 Glossary I Conditions of Sale II Terms of Guarantee IV Information on Sales & Use Tax V Buying at Doyle VI Selling at Doyle VIII Auction Schedule IX Company Directory X 1 5 8 10 13 17 AFLALO, F. G. [ALKEN, HENRY] and NIMROD ANDERSSON, CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON, CHARLES JOHN [APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES]=NIMROD AUSTIN, H. H. An Idler in the Near East. London: [=APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES] The Okavango River: A Narrative of Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Memoirs of the Life of the late John Among Swamps and Giants in John Milne, 1910. Publisher’s scarlet The Chace, the Turf, and the Road. Travel, Exploration, and Adventure. Discoveries, during Four Years’ Mytton, Esqre...Reprinted with Equatorial Africa. An account of cloth, spine lettered in gilt. London: John Murray, 1837. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861. Wanderings int he Wilds of South considerable Additions from the surveys and adventures in the 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; xvi, 279 pp.; |First edition. Publisher’s green cloth First edition. Publisher’s maroon Western Africa. London: Hurst and New Sporting Magazine. London: southern Sudan and British East frontispiece with tissue guard, gilt, preserved in a green cloth slipcase. pebbled cloth stamped in blind, Blackett, 1856. Second edition. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Africa. London and Bombay: George 39 plates. Light spotting to covers, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xx, 301, 8 pp., gilt spine. 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; Publisher’s purple pictorial cloth gilt. Ltd., [c. 1910]. Reprint of second Bell and Sons, 1902. First edition. some bumping to head of spine, with engraved frontispiece and plates half-title, additional engraved title 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; xviii, 546, [24] pp.; edition of 1837. Full red straight-grained Publisher’s red cloth, gilt-lettered endpapers renewed, foxing to after Alken with tissue guards. page with portrait vignette, engraved with folding lithographed map, morocco gilt by Riviere with gilt-tooled spine. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; xii, 353 pp.; tissue guard, with ink stamp to recto Spine sunned, a few pale stains, frontispiece, and 15 engraved plates. lithographed frontispiece, and turn-ins. 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches; [xi], half-title, folding map, photographic of frontispiece. extremities a bit worn, covers just Spine sunned, extremities a bit worn, numerous lithographed plates with 206, 8 pp., with hand-colored frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson pulling away from text block. slightly overopened with some interior tissue guards, as well as engraved engraved frontispiece and plates photographic plates. Extremities worn $50-70 Schwerdt I 36. toning, bookseller’s tickets to pastedowns. in-text illustrations. Spine and with printed tissue guards. Joints and with some loss, some pale staining to C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson “Andersson trekked through edges sunned, front joint starting, extremities slightly chipped, lightly and covers, expert repair to map, foxing 2 $200-300 Namaqualand and Damaraland in extremities worn with some loss, evenly toned throughout. throughout, bookplate to ALKEN, HENRY search of big game. While his descriptions foxing throughout, bookplate to front Schwerdt I 38; Abbey Life 385. front pastedown. Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man. 6 of the countryside are quite detailed, pastedown and booksellers ticket to C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson “The author surveyed the Sobat River London: E. and C. McLean, 1824. ALI, AKHTAR it is his sporting adventures that merit rear pastedown. $150-250 region and the border between the First edition. Quarter black morocco The Man-Eater of Dogadda. Garhwal: the most attention. There are encounters “This famous early volume of African Sudan and Abyssinia, then explored over marbled boards, wrappers bound Mansoor Prakashan, [c. 2001?]. with lion, kudu, giraffe, eland, travel and sport details the author’s 14 the area from Omdurman in the Sudan in. 9 3/4 x 12 inches; 7 hand-colored First edition. Publisher’s yellow pictorial rhinoceros and numerous hunts after expeditions to Ovampoland with [APPERLEY, CHARLES to Mombasa via Lake Rudolf. During aquatint engravings. Boards generally paper wrappers. 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; elephant. There is even a description Francis Galton, and then to Lake JAMES]=NIMROD the second of the two expeditions, a bit worn, printed wrapper possibly vi, 165 pp.; in-text illustrations. of the guano trade along the coast Ngami alone. His descriptions of the My Life and Times. Edinburgh and he enjoyed sport after gazelle, supplied in facsimile, some offsetting Wrappers lightly creased. of southwest Africa” (Czech). Czech countryside are particularly vivid, London: William Blackwood & Sons, cob, waterbuck, hartebeest and and foxing. “With a wide-ranging study of (Africa), p. 7 [listing only American and on more than one occasion, 1927. First edition thus, one of 250 hippopotamus north of Lake Rudolf. Tooley 47; Abbey Life 256. man-leopard conflicts the true, pictorial, edition]; Mendelssohn I, p. 42. he almost lost his life in the wild. copies. Publisher’s red cloth gilt in Near the Sacchi River, he bagged C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson sensational and adventurous story C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson There are numerous episodes of dust jacket. 10 x 7 1/2 inches; xviii, oryx, then contracted a virulent form $150-250 of the first ever man-eating leopard $200-300 hunting lion, leopard, rhinoceros, oryx, 341, [1] pp., with half-title, frontispiece of scurvy after leaving Lake Rudolf” trapped alive in history.” hippopotamus, ostrich, etc. and plates tipped in (3 in color, (Czech). Czech (Africa), pp. 11-12. 3 C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson 9 A cornerstone book of African hunting the rest plain). Cloth unevenly faded, C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson [ALKEN, HENRY and HEATH, WILLIAM] $30-50 ANDERSSON, CHARLES JOHN in the mid-19th century. The London extremities bumped, dust jacket spine $50-60 Real Life in Ireland... London: Printed Notes of Travel in South Africa. edition is more desireable with its sunned, pale stain to upper margin of by B. Bensley for Jones and Co., 1821. 7 London: Hurst and Blackett, 1875. large tinted plates and maps” (Czech). last third of text block. 18 First edition. Contemporary ANDERSON, ANDREW A. First edition. Publisher’s decorated Czech (Africa), pp. 6-7. C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson BAINES, THOMAS three-quarters brown calf over marbled Twenty-five Years in a Waggon in brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson $30-50 The Gold Regions of South Eastern boards. 10 x 6 1/4 inches; [viii], the Gold Regions of Africa. London: 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; xiii, 338, 16 pp.; $100-200 Africa. London: Edward Stanford and 296 pp., with 19 hand-colored plates Chapman and Hall, 1887. First edition. half-title, publisher’s Advertisements, 15 Cape Colony: J. W. C. Mackay, 1877. including frontispiece. Generally a bit Two volumes. Publisher’s blue cloth, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. 11 [APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES]=NIMROD First edition. Publisher’s dark green worn, occasional foxing throughout, gilt-lettered spine. 8 x 5 1/4 inches; Front hinge cracked, covers generally [ANON.] The Life of a Sportsman. London: cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. the Wilmerding copy with his bookplate [xi], 307; [vii], 253, 40 pp.; half-titles, worn, bookplate to front pastedown, The Ancient South River Club. A Rudolph Ackermann, 1842. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; mounted photo to the front pastedown, along with publisher’s Advertisements, frontispieces non-authorial inscription to half-title. Brief History. [Menasha, Wisconsin: First edition, second issue, with three portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, bookplate of Edward Henry Hill. and 12 engraved plates with tissue Inscription reads, “Given me by Sir Collegiate Press, George Banta mounted plates only. 3 mounted photographic plates, Abbey Life, 282; Tooley 201.