RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS & MAPS Wednesday, April 25, 2018 NEW YORK RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS & MAPS AUCTION Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 10am EXHIBITION Friday, April 20, 10am – 5pm Saturday, April 21, 10am – 5pm Sunday, April 22, Noon – 5pm Monday, April 23, 10am – 3pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalogue: $35 CONTENTS Printed & Manuscript Americana 1-53 The Estate of Howard Kaminsky 1-19 The Estate of Leo Hershkowitz 20-53 Maps 54-57 Autographs 58-67 Children’s Books & Original Illustration Art 68-76 INCLUDING PROPERTY Literature 77-104 FROM THE ESTATES OF Art, Applied Art & Photography 105-124 Japanese Textile and Textile design 125-145 Leo Hershkowitz Early Printed Books & Manuscripts 146-159 Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson Howard Kaminsky The Sporting Library Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman of Arnold “Jake” Johnson 160-605 Color Plate 160-199 Angling, 17th-20th Century 200-220 Tarpon fishing 221-227 INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Fly fishing, primarily 19th Century 228-253 Fly fishing, 20th Century 254-281 A Beekman Place Apartment Zane Grey, Books, The Collection of Nancy Susan Reynolds Photographs & Manuscripts 282-303 The Rhinelander Stewart Family Derrydale Press 304-318 Miscellaneous 19th & 20th Century Sport 319-342 Big Game Hunting 343-365 Travel & Hunting in Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific 366-411 Travel & Hunting in the Himalayas 412-420 Travel & Hunting in India 421-447 Travel & Hunting in the Arctic 448-493 Travel & Hunting in Northern Latitudes 494-501 Americana, including Travel & Hunting 502-605 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 XI Absentee Bid Form XII Lot 132 4 BURNHAM, FREDERICK RUSSELL (MAJOR) Scouting on Two Continents. Los Angeles: Ivan Deach, Jr., 1934. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “To my pioneer friend Ethan Le Munyon with best wishes of yours sincerely, F.R. Burnham, 1941.” Publisher’s cloth, in original dust jacket with quote from Theodore Roosevelt to spine. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (20 x 13 cm); plates. Two clippings to pastedown have offset to inscribed leaf, ownership stamps of Ethan Le Munyon, losses to jacket at extremities affecting the top word on spine and closed tear into the title on front panel, a good example of a rare jacket. Burnham’s entertaining memoir, quite scarce in jacket. Burnham was an early instructor and friend of Boy Scouts founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell, fought in Rhodesia, and served with the English during the Boer War. Ethan Le Munyon was an early automotive pioneer and the first to cross the Gobi Desert in an automobile. C $400-600 5 7 BYRD, RICHARD EVELYN Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole. New York: Putnam’s 1930. First trade edition, second printing, inscribed on the half-title, the verso of the frontispiece, and annotated within by Henry Harrison, aerologist of the expedition (see note). Publisher’s gilt stamped cloth, top edge blue. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (24 x 16 cm); 422 pp., plates, 2 folding maps. Upper hinge cracked, spine slightly darkened and soiled, an unrelated contemporary inscription to foot of half-title. 1 3 Henry Harrison (d. 1991) was a meteorologist who accompanied Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd on his first Antarctic expedition in 1929-30. He has inscribed this volume at a later date “ ... from Henry Harrison, Aerologist BAE I 1928-1930 ... I am one of 5 survivors of the Winter Party of Printed & Manuscript Americana 42 at Little America in 1929” and has listed the names of each of the five men in block letters. Harrison has also annotated several pages and photographs within the book where he is mentioned (about 10 times) 1 2 including a near-miss during an avalanche in which Byrd recalled [AMERICAN REVOLUTION - SCHUYLER, PHILIP] [AMERICAN REVOLUTION] “High up on the Barrier was a man clinging to a thread of rope, his feet Proceedings of a General Court Martial, held at Major General LOTTER, MATTHEW ALBERT. A Map of the Provinces of New-York dangling helplessly in empty space. I recognized him as Harrison.” Lincoln’s Quarters, near Quaker-Hill, in the State of New-York, by and New-Jersey, with a part of Pennsylvania and the Province of C order of His Excellency General Washington, Commander in Quebec. Augsburg: Lotter, 1777. Hand-colored engraved map on $400-600 8 Chief of the Army of the United States of America, for the trial of two sheets joined. Plate marks (although with wide margins) 8 [COLT, SAMUEL] Major General Schuyler, October 1, 1778. Major General Lincoln, 30 1/4 x 22 5/8 inches (77.5 x 58 cm); framed. Some old tape 6 President. Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers, 1778. First edition. residue to corners of upper margin and lower fold, otherwise CARTER, JIMMY Lithophane Portrait of Samuel Colt holding a revolver. Circa 1855. Modern red morocco gilt, the original blue paper wrappers marked a very fresh example. Farewell Address of President Jimmy Carter. [Winston-Salem:] Rare KPM die-pressed oval porcelain plaque with portrait of Samuel “Genl. Schuyler” in manuscript bound-in, housed in a folding blue Palaemon Press, [1981]. Number 20 of 300 signed copies. Publisher’s Colt seated holding a revolver in his right hand and a compass in his Lotter’s war-date map, a smaller version of Claude Joseph Sauthier’s morocco box. 13 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (33.7 x 19.5 cm); 62 pp. The cloth, slipcase. 10 x 6 inches (26 x 15 cm). Volume fine, light stain left. 7 x 5 3/4 inches (18 x 15 cm); stamped on the verso with the KPM map of 1776, shows the main theater of action at the beginning of wrappers extended with tissue at gutter and lightly soiled, the title to slipcase; Together with Keeping Faith, 1982, first edition, one mark over KPM/460/Z. Lightly soiled. the war. Of note is the League of Six Nations, depicted west page lightly dust soiled around extremities and with the faint pencil of 2500 signed copies, full leather in slipcase, with certificate, fine. of Pennsylvania. In 1855, Colt is known to have commissioned about 111 examples of notation “No. 2” at head, the contents clean, wide and unmarked. C From the Collection of Nancy Susan Reynolds C this lithophane bearing his portrait to be used in the windows of his $400-600 In March 1777, Philip Schuyler, Commander of the Northern Department $500-800 mansion, Armsmear, and likely planned others for presentation as gifts. of the Continental Army at Fort Ticonderoga, requested an additional The image, the only known of Colt holding a revolver (here an 1851 7 Navy model), was made a from a photograph taken of Colt in Germany 10,000 troops to defend against the possible attack of British General 3 [CLAY, HENRY] in 1855. This example formerly owned by Charles Leonard Frost Robinson Burgoyne. The request denied, as Burgoyne approached with nearly AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES COLTON, CALVIN. The Life and Times of Henry Clay. New York: (1874-1916), president of Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company in 8000 men in July 1777, the force of only 2000 Continentals abandoned The Birds of America. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. One of A.S. Barnes, 1846. The second edition, extra-illustrated with Hartford from 1911 to 1916. Only a small number of this rare lithophane Fort Ticonderoga, a vital point of defense previously considered 350 sets of this fine facsimile edition comprising 4 large elephant 8 autograph letters from Clay, 10 letters from others, and numerous appear extant today. See Herbert G. Houze, Samuel Colt’s Porcelain impregnable, much to the chagrin of the Continental Congress. folio plate volumes housed in the original baize lined oak case with portraits including engravings and CDV sized photographs of Clay Transparencies in The Magazine Antiques, April, 2006. This action caused great public alarm and both Schuyler and General sliding shelves and 7 text volumes. All volumes in the original gilt and Andrew Jackson after Brady. Two volumes. Early three-quarters C St. Clair were court-martialed and ordered to Philadelphia. Both were decorated green morocco. The folios 39 1/2 x 26 inches (100 x 67 cm); green morocco gilt over marbled boards by Blackwell, the top $2,500-3,500 acquitted but neither reached such high military posts again in the the text 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (26 x 18 cm); with 435 color plates, edge gilt. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 14 cm); 504, 504 pp., plates, the letters See Illustration War. A very rare revolutionary imprint believed printed in no more an additional proof plate “Carolina Parrot” laid-in. Some very minor affixed to thick inserted sheets along the left edge. Spines faded to than 100 copies at the behest of Schuyler, this document prints the rubbing to spines, a few scratches to case, brown and rubbed, the cover to vol. II nearly detached, ink ownership accusations and much correspondence related to the Canadian fine overall. 9 campaign. We trace only four copies at auction and none since 1981. signatures to titles, clean internally, old auction listing affixed to [COLT, SAMUEL] The present copy is very similar in presentation to two of The magnificent Abbeville facsimile of Audubon’s monumental rear endpaper, letters with folds and some repair. Armsmear: the Home, the Arm, and the Armory of Samuel Colt. A Memorial. those copies: the Henry F.