RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS & MAPS Wednesday, April 17, 2019 NEW YORK RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS & MAPS AUCTION Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, April 13, 10am – 5pm Sunday, April 14, Noon – 5pm Monday, April 15, 10am – 7pm Tuesday, April 16, 10am – 4pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF Printed & Manuscript Americana 1 - 50 Marian Clark Adolphson, CT Maps 51 - 57 Frances “Peggy” Brooks Autographs 58 - 70 Elizabeth and Donald Ebel Manuscripts 71 - 74 Elizabeth H. Fuller Early Printed Books 75 - 97 Robin Gottlieb Fine Bindings 98 - 107 Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson Automobilia 108 - 112 George Labalme, Jr. Color Plate & Plate Books Including 113 - 142 Peter Mayer Science & Natural History Suzanne Schrag Travel & Sport 143 - 177 Barbara Wainscott Children’s Literature 178 - 192 Illustration Art 193 - 201 20th Century Illustrated Books 202 - 225 19th Century Illustrated Books 226 - 267 INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Modern Literature 268 - 351 A Gentleman A Palm Beach Collector Glossary I A Maine Collector Conditions of Sale II The Collection of Rudolf Serkin 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 167 Printed & Manuscript Americana 1 4 AMERICAN FLAG A large 35 star American Flag. Cotton or linen flag, the canton [CALIFORNIA - BANKING] with 35 stars, likely Civil War era, approximately 68 x 136 inches or Early and rare ledger of the Exchange Bank of Elsinore. 5 1/2 x 11 feet (172 x 345 cm); the canton 36 x 51 inches (91 x 129 cm), August 1889-November 1890. Contemporary three-quarters tan likely entirely hand-stitched. Some minor repairs and a few punctures morocco over calf boards, the spine with gilt decoration, lettering or worn areas, some staining and detaching to stars, very well and thick raised bands, the foot with the imprint of the Kansas preserved overall though and with deep colors, accompanied by a ledger maker. The sheets 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 (42 x 35 cm); the ledger later triangular case, an attractive and decorative example, sold as is. with approximately 80 numbered ledger sections with folding flaps, these leaves interleaved with shorter ledger pages making West Virginia was admitted as the 35th state in June 1863, midway groupings of 6 leaves, thus there are approximately 480 leaves through the Civil War, and despite Southern sympathies it was accomplished in manuscript. Hinges strengthened, the pages separated from Virginia and admitted to the Union as a non-slave generally clean, the binding rubbed. state. Nevada was admitted as the 36th State officially in July 1864 rendering the period of creation and use of 35 star flags rather brief. In 1887, the Exchange Bank of Elsinore was founded and in This is a large and well-preserved example of a 35 star flag. April 1888 Elsinore, then part of San Diego County, became the C 73rd city incorporated in California, and the first city incorporated 1 7 $800-1,200 to Riverside County upon its creation in 1888. This large format See Illustration Following Page ledger from that early period lists hundreds of residents, businesses and institutions of the town and many of the people listed are quite important to the history of that region (including the Machado Co. 2 of the influential Machado family). Laid into the ledger is an ink [AMERICAN REVOLUTION] blotter, stamped with the name of “S.A. Stewart/Agent/Elsinore/ Printed broadsheet listing British casualties at the Battle of Long Cal.”, and the ledger could potentially be in his hand (he was later Island with similar lists of casualties at Lexington and Concord and named bank president). We trace few related banking items Bunker Hill. [N.p.: N.d. circa 1777 (?)]. relating to California in the auction record. One sheet of laid paper printed as a broadsheet on one side and C as two pages on the other, the visible area 15 x 8 1/2 inches $2,000-3,000 (28 x 22 cm); in a double-sided frame. Folds with one small visible See Illustration Following Page split, well preserved overall, unexamined out of frame. An interesting listing of British troops killed, wounded or missing from 5 three major early battles of the American Revolution, likely emanating [CANADA] from a contemporary English publication. The listing from the MAURAULT, JOSEPH P. A. Histoire des Abenakis depuis 1605 Battle of Long Island printed as a broadsheet within a decorative jusqu’à nos jours. [Sorel]: Gazette de Sorel, 1866. First edition. border and headed “A List of the killed, wounded, and missing of Contemporary three quarters black morocco gilt over marbled boards. His Majesty’s Forces, under the Command of his Excellency the 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); 631 pp. plus Table and Errata. Honourable General HOWE, in several engagements and skirmishes Small stamp to lower right corner of title and a short split at gutter, with the Provincials, from the taking of Long Island, August 27th, a few nicks to the binding, hinges strengthened. to the close of that campaign, the 8th of December, 1776.” The other side with two reports: “A List of the killed and wounded, A rare history of the Abenaki Native Americans of the and those made prisoners or missing, of His Majesty’s Forces, under Quebec region. Pilling 2519; Sabin 46948; TPL 4520. the command of Lt. Col. SMITH, of the 10th Reg. Maj. PITCAIRNE C Property of a Maine Collector of the Marines, and the brigade under Lord PERCY. At the Battles of $300-500 Lexington and Concord, April 19th, 1775” and “A List of the Killed and Wounded, of His Majesty’s Forces at the Engagement of 6 Bunker’s-hill. June 17th, 1775,” these reports signed in print by CATLIN, GEORGE Thomas Gage. North American Indians. Being Letters and Notes on Their C Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ $1,000-1,500 Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, See Illustration Following Page 1832-1839. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. First Grant edition. Two volumes. Publisher’s maroon pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, 3 preserved in slipcase. 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (25 x 16 cm); ix, [i], 298 pp.; folding map, 320 illustrations on 180 plates after BARTRAM, WILLIAM Catlin’s original paintings. Spine ends lightly bumped, slightly 2 3 4 Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West overopened, minor foxing to endpapers. With a few plates bound Florida, The Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the out of sequence: plate 12 is between plates 8 and 9; plates Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and Country of the Chactaws. 7 8 London: Re-printed for J. Johnson, 1792. First English edition. 14 and 15 are swapped; plates 17 and 18 are swapped; and plates Modern three quarters morocco over cloth. 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches 152 and 153 are swapped. Considered to be the best edition CARVER, JONATHAN CHILD, LYDIA MARIA . (21 x 12 cm); frontispiece, folding map and 7 plates (one folding), published after the first edition of 1841. Howes C241; McCracken Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the years An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Dublin: S. Price, et al, 1779. First Dublin Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First edition, inscribed on the front xxiv, 520, [12] pp. Generally clean internally but with some foxing to 8n; Pilling 689; Plains & Rockies IV:84:1; Raines, p. 46; Sabin 11536; 1766, 1767, and 1768. edition. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked to style in modern free endpaper: “To/The Rev. Doctor Sharp/With the best respects of/ title and frontis., occasion spots or minor stains throughout, one scuff Streeter Sale 1805; Wagner-Camp 84. leather. 8 1/4 x 5 inches (21 x 12.5 cm); folding map and 2 plates, [xiv], The Author.” Publisher’s cloth with paper spine label. 7 3/8 x 4 inches of blue to frontis. margin, very minor wear to joints. C Estate of Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson $500-800 508 pp. Repaired tear into map where mounted, some light toning and (18.7 x 10 cm); frontispiece and one in text illustration, [6] 232 pp. “Extensive travels, in the early years of the Republic, through the spotting, wear to contemporary boards. Ink stamp of the Newton Geological Institution to the title and small southern frontiers and among the Creeks and Cherokees. ink numerals to the copyright, foxing to frontis offset to title, minor The first Irish edition, reprinted from 1778 first edition: “Carver A work of high character well meriting its wide esteem” (Howes). underlining in red crayon towards end, a few chips and small losses penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer The map depicts the east coast of Florida. Sabin 3870; Howes B223. to spine tips and label, faint residue from former spine label. before the Revolution” and “stimulated curiosity concerning routes C Property of a Maine Collector to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark” Rare inscribed first edition of one of the most important early $1,500-2,500 (Howes). The book includes a fine map and plate of the St. Anthony abolitionist works. See Illustration Following Page Falls on the Mississippi. C Property of a Maine Collector C Property of a Maine Collector $700-1,000 $600-900 See Illustration 6 DOYLE • APRIL 17, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 9 11 CULPEPER, NICHOLAS [DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE] Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; Or, the London Dispensatory.