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��[APPERLEY, Charles J.]. The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod. With pictorial title-page and 37 hand-colored engraved plates by Henry Alken. (The usual 36 and 2 additional plates after pp. 70 & 178). Includes the 4 mounted plates with titles be-neath — as in all 1st issue copies. vii, [ii], 402 pp. 8vo, London: Rudolph Ackerman Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street, 1842. First edition, first issue. Bound in crimson morocco with triple gilt fillet border, spines with five raised bands, richly gilt, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g., by Lloyd. Joints rubbed (front joint tender). Very good, plates fine and bright, internally clean. Tooley 65.“Considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sport-ing book in the 19th century” (Tooley). The added plates are two comic domestic scenes by Alken, “The first attempt at the Coach-Box” and “The Début or first attempt at the Brush.”$2,500

unique on vellum��[BARKER, Thomas]. Barker’s Delight: Or, the Art of Angling. Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation. 2 title-pages dated 1657 and 1659, 3-page publisher’s catalogue at end. 12mo, London: J. H. Burn, 1820. Second edition, reprinted from the original edition of 1657. PRINTED ON VELLUM. Bound in con-temporary straight-grained green morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, maroon watered silk endpapers, a.e.g. Fine. Preserved in morocco-backed solander box. For an extensive commen-tary on this work, see Westwood & Satchell, pp. 21-23.The only copy of this edition printed on vellum. “One copy of the reprint by Burn was on vellum and is now in the Denison collection” (Westwood & Satchell). It reappeared in the Davis sale at Sotheby’s on 26 November 1900, lot 16 (sold for £15.15.0), and again in the same rooms on 20 March 1967, where it was purchased by Thorp. According to an inserted note from John Simpson, it was probably originally the Corser copy, sold at Sotheby’s in July 1868.$13,500

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superb copy��(BASEBALL) Spalding, Albert G. America’s National Game. Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution, Develop-ment and Popularity of Base Ball with Personal Reminiscences of Its Vicissitudes, Its Victories and Its Votaries. Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport. Portrait, frontis, illustrations, photo-graphs and plates (some folding). xix, [1], [1]-542 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1911. First edition. Bright blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt, and with gilt depiction of Uncle Sam at bat on the upper cover. Front hinge with nearly imperceptible conservation repair. An unusually fresh, tight copy of a book most often seen in deplorable condition.One of the key works in the literature of baseball, by one of the prime movers in its codification and development. In ad-dition to his pitching career (which began in 1865), Spalding helped organize the National League, co-founded the Spald-ing sporting goods company, and published the first official rules guide for the game. This book was published four years prior to his death.$3,750

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twenty years of the “blue and buff”: with the badminton pack��(BEAUFORT HUNT) Henry, Frank [Lt.-Col. Francis I.]. Hunting Register [cover title]. 18 Seasonal Diaries,1877-1898, recording Hunt Meets with the Beaufort Hunt and others. Dated manuscript entries in ink in copies of Spiers and Son’s Hunting Register, with holograph lists of Horses in Stable, various directions to binder, occasional inserted ephemera. 18 volumes bound in two. Oblong folio, [Elmestree, Tetbury, Gloucs.: 5 October 1877 to 23 March 1898]. Contemporary half navy blue morocco, cloth sides, spines titled in gilt. Some minor rubbing, superficial traces of damp-staining to cloth, else fine and internally clean.Significant group of sporting diaries recording the participation of Lt.-Col. Francis Henry (d. 1931) at the meets of the Beaufort Hunt during a twenty-year period. Henry A.W.F. Somerset (1847-1924), ninth duke of Beaufort, was one of the great sportsmen of the nineteenth century, and the Badminton pack hunted a wide country with legendary energy. Hunstman Will Dale recalled that one season the pack hunted 186 days “and I was the only one of the firm who went the whole lot.” It was under the ninth duke that the Badminton Sporting Library series was produced (1885-1902). Frank Henry hunted with the Beaufort from 1866-7, served as Honorary Secretary for the hunt for more than two decades, and compiled the Members of the Beaufort Hunt Past and Present (privately printed, May 1914, see below), which includes a substantial historical appendix. His diaries record hunts with the Beaufort (the Dukes as he called it), as well as the Quorn, Lord Suffolk’s Harriers, Vale of the White Horse, the Cottesmore, and others. His residence at Elmestree, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is still at the center of hunt country and adjoins Highgrove, the country residence of the Prince of Wales. Entries (October to April of each season) include date, pack, fixture (place of the meet), hack ridden to meet, hunter ridden, coverts drawn; foxes found, killed, or run to ground; weather; and usually a few lines of narrative summary of the day’s events. At his most active, Henry was hunting four and five days a week. With an 1890 autograph letter, signed (“Beaufort”), from the ninth Duke, on mourning stationery; and several newspaper clippings. A sporting manuscript of outstanding interest.With a copy of: [HENRY, Frank, compiler]. Members of the Beaufort Hunt Past and Present. Printed in blue on buff paper. 80 pp. Cirencester: Standard Printing Works [for Private Circulation], 1914. The historical appendix, compiled by Henry, gives highlights, including Henry’s accounts of his best days with the Badminton pack, and the presentation to Henry of a portrait by John Bacon, R.A. in 1912. Henry noted that “Farmers and foxhunting go hand in hand” and that during his tenure as secretary subscriptions rose from 91 to 291 members.$3,500


first american golf poet prepares material for publication��BONNELLE, Frank J. Golf. Poetical Putts. [Mock-up of unpublished book]. [With:] [Archive of Golf Poetry and related materials]. 4to and smaller, [Boston: n.d., ca. 1905]. Overall very good. Not in OCLC or Donovan & Murdoch.Frank J. Bonnelle (1850-1921), a longtime editor at the Boston Herald, contributed a large number of occasional poems to that newspaper and was the first contributor of poems to The Golfer, a periodical published in Boston at the turn of the 20th century (though not recorded on OCLC or in Donovan/Murdoch, the U.S.G.A. Library holds a run of The Golfer, 1895-1903) and the first American periodical devoted exclusively to the sport. The Massachusetts Historical Society holds a small collection of Bonnelle family correspondence that includes some material involving Frank J. Bonnelle. 1. Golf: Poetical Putts. Mock-up for an unpublished book. Portrait frontispiece, printed title-page, 31 of Bonnelle’s long poems, each with a golfing theme, some illustrated, clipped from a periodical and mounted to the rectos of album leaves, 20 more golf-ing poems (clips, typescripts, or small printed broadsides), laid in; some of the poems have manuscript corrections, additions, or deletions. Spine perished. Titles of the poems include “On the Links,” “Her Caddie,” “The Unsuccessful Golfer,” “Hazards,” “The Golfer Who Loved and Lost,” “Fore!,” “A Ghost on the Green,” “Belinda of the Links,” “St. Nick and the Golfer,” “Caddie Macree of Lynn,” “A Sonnet to Golf,” “Poetical Putts,” and “Ye Ancient Boston Golfer,” among others. With additional material from the papers of the first regularly published golfing poet in the United States: 2. Golf in Verse: A Series of Poetical Putts. [Boston, n.d., ca. 1910]. Original manuscript (carbon typescript; a typed and revised version of Golf: Poetical Putts?). 4to. [35] pp., rectos only, title-page, table of contents page, and 30 of Bonnelle’s long poems, each with a golfing theme; laid in are small printed broadsides (proofs?) of 15 of the poems included in the collection, a manuscript list of titles for inclusion, and two Bonnelle golfing poems clipped from a periodical. Very good. Original brown printed wrappers (spine worn). 3. Manuscript statement by Bonnelle (un-signed) concerning his work in the print-ing trade and newspaper business from apprenticeship at 15 in Iowa to his desk at the Boston Herald (8vo, six pages), on Boston Herald stationery. 4. Manuscript, signed, of Bonnelle’s golfing poem “A Reformed Golfer” (4to, one page, five stanzas of four verses each), edgeworn. 5. Manuscript, signed, of of Bonnelle’s poem “An Ornithological Outing” (4to, five pages, 12 stanzas of four verses each, small illustrations for each stanza, all in purple ink). 6. Letter of recommendation for Bonnelle from L.W. Myers, editor and proprietor of the Wapello, Iowa, Republican, 12 April 1871 (8vo, two pages), given as Bonnelle left the Midwest to pursue his career in the East. 7, Notebook (4to, 192 pp.), posthumous compilation of Bonnelle’s non-golfing poems mounted on both sides of sheets of paper, mostly arranged by topic, e.g., Christmas, Thanksgiving, other holidays, journalism, etc., and including clips from periodicals, typescripts, several signed manuscripts, small printed broadsides, etc., comprising hundreds of examples.$2,750

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��(BOXING) 6 hand-colored prints of Regency boxers including: Wm. Eales, James Ward, Jack Randall, E. Baldwin, Joshua Hud-son, J. Goodman. Folio (16 x 10-¼ in., sight). Frame: 23-½ x 18-½ inches, London: S. Fores, Piccadilly, 1819-1820. Framed and glazed, some wear to frames. Prints slightly faded.$4,000


��(BOXING) [Badcock, John]. The Fancy; or The True Sports-man’s Guide: Being Authentic Memoirs of the Lives, Actions, Prow-ess, and Battles of the Leading Pugilists, from the Days of Figg and Broughton, to the Championship of Ward. By an Operator. With 57 plates, including 47 mostly stipple-engraved portraits, colored pictorial title-page in each volume, and 8 plates of sporting scenes (2 colored, 2 folding). [i]-xv (contents), [i] – iv (introduction), [5]-680, [iii] – vi, [1, notice]; [i]-xii (contents), [1] – 743, [1, binder’s directions] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Published by J. McGowan and Son 16 Great Windmill Street, 1826. First edition. Bound in full crimson morocco, with gilt-stamped boxing scene on upper covers, t.e.g. by Root. Almost fine. Magriel 35 (calling for 46 portraits); Hartley 1514; Cohn 302; Plimpton, Foreword to Selections from The Fancy, 1977.Substantial history of boxing and chronicle of sport in Eng-land, with portraits of pugilists, including Bitton, the Jew, and Tom Molineux, a black man from Maryland. The other plates illustrate bull baiting, duck hunting, a rowdy scene in London, and other sporting topics. The first copy we have had; only one copy in the auction records of the last three decades. There is evidence to indicate that John Bee ( John Badcock) was responsible for at least the first 16 numbers of the work. Very rare and valuable (Cohn’s valuation was at £30; only

the wrappers, not present here, were by Cruikshank). It was started in parts in 1821 and ran to 55 numbers. Some of the miscellaneous essays at the end of volume II are by Pierce Egan and are exact reprints of these same essays from his book Sporting Anecdotes (1825). RARE.$6,000

the first world title bout: the heenan-sayers fight of 1860��(BOXING) The American Boxer! or, Guide to Self-Defence. Portait of J. Heenan, The Benicia Boy as title-page vignette and on front wrapper. 16 pp. 8vo, [London: Wilkes, Farrah, & Dunbar, 47, Holywell Street, n.d., ca. 1860]. Orange wrap-pers, some soiling, chip at bottom corner of front cover (with small loss). Very good. Label of Ed. L. Wenrick, Rare Horse Books and Prints, 123 W. 62nd St., New York. Hartley 90 (“Little is known about this book”); OCLC records copies in the British Library and Chicago History Museum.Ephemeral boxing publication issued on the eve of the legendary Heenan-Sayers fight. The verso of the title-page includes capsule biographies of the Irish American John C. Heenan (“born in Troy, State of New York, in May 1835,” i.e., 1834) and English boxer Tom Sayers (born 1826). Heenan came to England in January 1860 and the two faced off on 17 April 1860 near Farnborough. Heenan’s Irish heritage added

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to the rivalries and portents of the fight. After two hours and twenty minutes, at the end of the 37th round, the police broke into the inner ring and ended the meeting. Each fight-er’s many partisans maintained their champion had come off best (see the account partial to Sayers in Pugilistica 2:423 ff.; or “The Most Memorable Fight” in Wignall, The Story of Boxing, pp. 165-188). The bout provoked discussions in Parliament and was widely reported throughout the newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. The fight was deemed a draw and both men were presented with championship belts in May 1860. The cover and title-page feature a woocut portrait of Heen-an, the Benicia Boy. The imprint is taken from the cover, the title of which varies slightly from the title-page: The American Boxer: with New Rules and Regulations in the Art of Self-Defence. Page 14-16 comprise these rules. RARE.$1,500

��(BOXING) Rowbotham, J.B. and J.B. Mackrell. “The Great Contest between Sayers & Heenan for £200 a Side & the Championship. The Fight lasted 2 H. 6 M. and resulted in a Draw. Fought near Farnborough on the 17th of April 1860.” Colored Lithographic Print. Engraved by J.B. Mackrell and J.B. Rowbotham. The Photographs by G. Bonner. 24 x 19 in., [London]: Published by C. Roker, 9 Cross Street, Old Kent

Road, S.E, c. 1860. Framed. Not in Magriel.John Camel Heenan, called “The Benicia Boy,” was born in Troy, NY. He was 6’2” and weighed 192 pounds. His ring career is curious, as he was one of the best American heavyweights, yet never won a championship fight. He as-sumed the title Champion of America after John Morrissey announced his retirement and with his title challenged the British champion, Tom Sayer. This match, depicted here, was one of the best fought in ring history and although declared a draw, Heenan won considerable renown. For a time Heenan was married to the infamous Adah Isaacs Menken, but re-fused to acknowledge it. He died at the age of 39. Sayers’ career was outstanding. Although he weighed only 160 pounds he fought and beat all comers for 12 years. His fight with Heenan, who outweighed him by 30 pounds made him one of Britain’s most popular figures of his time. Obitu-aries compared him to Wellington! This contest was the first important international match.$1,250


��BOYER, Ralph L. “Fathers of American Sport.” The complete set of ORIGINAL STEEL-faced copper PLATES with a suite of the six aquatint portraits. Image size is approx.10-¼ x 8 in., each plate measuring appprox. 13-½ x 9-½ in., including margins, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Fine condition. In six custom blue half morocco folding boxes. Ordeman, pp. 24-25 & p. 56.The six portraits, each set in an appropriate background, are of: SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ., Foxhunter, first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club, America’s oldest; COL. WILLIAM RANSOM JOHNSON, “Napoleon of the Turf ”; COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Foxhunter; COMMODORE JOHN COX STEVENS, Yachtsman, owner of the America and a founder of the New York Yacht Club; THADDEUS NORRIS, ESQ., Angler, author of The American Angler’s Book, who did much to elevate and advance the art of fly fishing; HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, ESQ., “Frank Forester,” the father of American sporting literature. Published in an edition of 250.UNIQUE SET OF THE ORIGINAL printing PLATES For ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS SPORTING PRINTS SERIES.$9,000

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boyer’s originals��BOYER, Ralph L. “Fathers of American Sport.” The ORIGINAL SIX WATERCOLORS of this famous Derrydale Press set, signed by the artist “R.L. Boyer.” Together with a set of PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS, with what is evidently the artist’s modelling and coloring, each signed by him in pencil (one, unsigned, is in print state, with legend engraved in lower margin). Image size of the prints is approximately 10 x 8 in., the plate measuring 13 x 9-½ in., with additional margins. Each plate is archivally matted; the paint-ings measure 12 x 9-½ in., and are docketed and captioned in pencil in the lower margins, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Ordeman notes that “it is rare that one finds a complete set today.” The watercolors are handsomely and uniformly matted in fine French mats; the proofs in a more simple uniform matting; a few of the watercolors show faint foxing, but both sets are clean, bright, and highly attractive. Custom half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Ordeman, The Aquatints, Drypoints and Etchings of The Derrydale Press, p. 24-5, et seq.An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits, each set in an appropriate back-ground, are of: SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ., Foxhunter, first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club, America’s oldest; COL. WILLIAM RANSOM JOHNSON, “Napoleon of the Turf ”; COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Foxhunter; COMMODORE JOHN COX STEVENS, Yachtsman, owner of the “America” and a founder of the New York Yacht Club; THADDEUS NORRIS, ESQ., Angler, author of The American An-gler’s Book, who did much to elevate and advance the art of fly fishing; HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, ESQ., “Frank Forester,” the father of American sporting literature. Boyer’s watercolors, done in larger size, were reduced to edition dimensions of approximately 10 x 8 inches. The proof prints before letters have been reworked by Boyer, who has signed each one, and show a depth and richness of modelling that the pub-lished edition, for all its beauty, does not. This set was one of the finest productions of The Derrydale Press Sporting Print Series. We believe the set of proofs to be unique, and the original paintings are, of course, unquestionably so. Both have survived in prime condition to delight the collector and historian of the American sporting scene. A UNIQUE TREASURE OF AMERICAN SPORTING ART.$15,000

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original illustrations for the medchester club��BROADHEAD, W. Smithson. Complete set of eight original illustrations for The Medchester Club, by Kenneth Brown. Pencil and charcoal, heightened with white, on illustration board, each signed. Images about 15 x 9-½ in., plus margins bearing various print-ers’ instructions in pencil, n.p: n.d., ca. 1938. Fine condition. Half morocco folding box. With a copy of the published book in half morocco slipcase and chemise. Siegel 134; Frazier B-16-a. Provenance: Duncan Andrews.The Medchester Club, by Kenneth Brown, is a collection of short stories of country life and sport. Seven of Broadhead’s finely executed drawings deal with equestrian subjects, and one is on a golfing theme; these were Broadhead’s only Derrydale Press illustrations.$8,000

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the derrydale polo prints — paul brown at his peak��BROWN, Paul. “American Polo Scenes.” Hand-colored aquatint engravings. “Down the Field”; “On the Boards”; “The Save”; & “The Goal.” Signed lower left by the artist. Image size 13 x 20 in., New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. One of 175. Matted. In half red morocco binding. Ordeman, pp. 33-36, 103; Biscotti, p. 114.Ordeman says these “are among the most sought after and expensive Derrydale prints.” A superb presentation of these lively, carefullly observed sporting scenes.$6,500


deluxe issue, with spectacular paul brown drawing��BROWN, Paul. Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present. Illustrated by the Author and from photographs. Introduction by Henry G. Vaughn, M.F.H. xxi, [iii], 191 pp. 4to, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Deluxe issue, no. 8 of 50 copies, signed by Brown on the half-title and with a large, elaborate pen-and-ink drawing signed and dated by Brown. Bound in full red morocco with gilt-stamped emblematic tooling. Laid into a half red morocco drop box with Derrydale logo on spine in gilt and on upper leather label. Siegel 35; Frazier B-17-D; Podeschi, p. 375.The magnificent deluxe issue of this classic of steeplechasing. The original large-format drawing (12 x 18 inches) appears in the printed book as a plate opposite p. 9 (much reduced), with the caption “Six horses down at one time.” Rare and spectacular.$7,500

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��BROWN, William Robinson. The Horse of the Desert. Color plate after Harrington Bird and hitherto unpublished work of Henry Alken, many black and white half-tone. [2, half-title, verso blank], [i, title]-[iv], v-xxvii, [xxviii-xxx], 1-218 pp. Large 4to, New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 44 of 75 large paper copies signed by the author. Full blue morocco with emblematic gilt tooling. Faintest traces of rubbing at extremities. Fine. Custom half morocco folding box. Siegel 25; Frazier B-19-D.“Everything about this Deluxe Derrydale makes it a regal example of Connett’s art” (Frazier).$7,500


��CLARK, Roland. [Album of 6 etchings and aquatint engravings from the personal collection of Eugene V. Connett, III]. 3 etch-ings, 3 aquatint engravings colored by hand, each signed or inscribed by the artist. Folio, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1927-1939. Each print of a small limitation, as noted. Recent half red morocco album, printed title leaf, each print window-matted in heavy card mounts, by Aquarius. Fine. Ordeman, To Keep a Tryst with the Dawn, pp. 107-8; Siegel 139; Frazier C-7.A beautiful presentation of Roland Clark prints from the personal collection of Eugene V. Connett, III, publisher of the Derrydale Press. Comprising: 1) “Home Waters.” Drypoint etching, first proof impression of a scene of nine ducks in flight, used as the frontispiece to the large-format Derrydale retrospective Roland Clark’s Etchings with the title “The Morning Flight.” The published etching includes Clark’s monogram in lower left (added subsequent to this proof ). Ordeman does not note a proof impression in his discussion of the published book. This print is signed and inscribed by the artist “First Proof — to Gene Connett June 10, 1938”; in the foreword to the book, Connett writes “My friend, Roland Clark, has asked me to write a short foreword to this book of his etchings, and, as I obviously admire his work, it is a great pleasure for me to accede to his request … That his art has received widespread recogni-tion in this country is common knowledge; but it is not so well known that a large number of his etchings have been sold abroad where the quality of his work is highly appreciated.” The foreword is dated June 14, 1938. A unique state of this print, with a fine and meaningful association. 2) “Bluebird Weather.” Drypoint etching, first proof impression, 1938. 3) “The Alarm.” Hand-colored aquatint, 1937. Edition of 250. Copy no. 1. 4) “The Scout.” Hand-colored aquatint, 1938. Edition of 250. Copy no. 1. 5) “Winter Marsh. Canvasback.” Hand-colored aquatint, 1937. Edition of 250. Copy no. 1. 6) “A Memory.” Drypoint etching of twelve ducks in flight above a marsh, 1928. Edition of 75. Inscribed to Mrs. Connett. Roland Clark’s Etchings (1938) no. 29.$12,500

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A selection of the fine sporting prints of Roland Clark, published by Frank Lowe, continuing the series of prints published by the Derrydale Press from 1937 to 1942.

��CLARK, Roland. “Pintails Coming In.” Aquatint etching, hand-colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1942. Number 231 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. $750

��CLARK, Roland. “Fair Haven.” Aquatint etching, hand colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 inches, on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1943. Number 150 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. Inscribed by the artist to Harold E. Herrick, Jr.$750

��CLARK, Roland. “Fair Haven.” Aquatint etching, uncolored state. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1943. Unnumbered, edition of 250. Faint toning. Near fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. An uncommon proof example, uncolored.$500


��CLARK, Roland. “Open Water.” Aquatint etching, hand-colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1943. Number 125 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. $750

��CLARK, Roland. “The Raider.” Aquatint etching, hand-colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1944. Number 163 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman, (2005) pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. $750

��CLARK, Roland. “The Rendez-Vous.” Aquatint etching, hand-colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1944. Number 39 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. $750

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��CLARK, Roland. “Seclusion.” Aquatint etching, hand-col-ored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1945. Number 35 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. $750

��CLARK, Roland. “Visitors.” Aquatint etching, hand-colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1945. Number 8 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. Inscribed by the artist to Edmund Mudge, Jr.$750

��CLARK, Roland. “Journey’s End.” Aquatint etching, hand-colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1946. Number 11 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. Inscribed by the artist to Edmund Mudge, Jr.$750


��CLARK, Roland. “Tranquility.” Aquatint etching, hand-col-ored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1946. Number 55 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. $750

��CLARK, Roland. “Up and Away.” Aquatint etching, hand-colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 18-¾ x 14 in., on a larger sheet, New York: Frank Lowe, 1947. Number 143 of 250 copies. Faint toning. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 37-48 and 104; Reuter, pp. 142-3. $750

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��(COACHING CLUB) Meet of the Coaching Club, Newport, 20th August 1892. [With:] Meet of the Coaching Club, Newport, 19th August 1893 [cover titles]. 1892 album: 11 large (9-½ x 13-¼ in.) and 15 small (4-¼ x 6-½ in.) sepia-toned silver print photographs. 1893 album: 18 large (9-½ x 13-¼ in.) sepia-toned silver print photographs (2 of which are hand-colored). Both albums with contempo-rary newspaper clippings identifying some of the participants. 2 vols. Oblong folio, [Newport, RI: 1892-1893]. Original green mo-rocco with titles stamped in gilt on the upper covers. Spines worn. Albums from 1894, 1895, and 1899 are recorded at the Redwood Athenaeum (OCLC: 77280378).Photograph albums documenting two of the annual summer meets of the New York Coaching Club in Newport, R.I. Many of the photographs in the 1892 album are captioned with excerpts from newspaper articles identifying the participants — who included Governor George Peabody Wetmore, Nathaniel Thayer and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. In addition to the images of the coaches in procession are scenes from an outdoor dance and social gathering which followed the meet.$7,500


inscribed by hemingway��CONNETT, Eugene V. (Ed.). American Big Game Fishing. With color plates by Lynn Bogue Hunt, and illustrations from photo-graphs, drawings and maps. 251 pp. Folio, New York: The Derrydale Press, (1935). First edition, one of a total edition of 906 copies, this one of 850 regular copies. Original blue cloth, gilt, minor wear, else a very nice copy. Laid into a half purple morocco drop box, with leather label with Derrydale logo on the upper cover. Hanneman B18; Siegel 86; Frazier C-13-a.A splendid compilation, with contributions from S. Kip Farrington, Van Campen Heilner, and others, including Ernest Heming-way, who wrote “Marlin Off Cuba,” which had appeared in a slightly different version as “Marlin Off the Morro” (Esquire, Autumn, 1933). He also appears throughout this famous anthology. A Hemingway letter detailing the taking of the largest Atlantic sailfish is excerpted at length (pp. 49-51) and a full-page photograph of him with the fish, in the spring of 1934 appears on page 1. Two other photos of Hemingway, including one with the American bullfighter Sidney Franklin, are opposite pages 75 and 79. A GREAT PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED: “TO MICHAEL AND HELEN LERNER WHO ARE GOOD SPORTSMEN, GOOD FISHERMEN, GOOD FRIENDS, WITH MUCH AFFECTION ERNEST HEMINGWAY.” New York businessman Michael Lerner was a renowned fisherman and friend of Hemingway. Hemingway and his wife Pauline spent a month at Lerner’s Bimini summer home in 1935 while he fished from his boat, the Pilar. In Hemingway: the 1930s (Norton, 1997), Michael Reynolds prints several photographs of Hemingway and Lerner. Helen Lerner was as accomplished a fisherman as her husband and held the world record for blue marlin set in July, 1935.$10,000

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richly extra-illustrated and beautifullly bound��(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) Walton, Izaac, and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler. Edited by Edward Jesse. Illustrated with 207 woodcuts and an additional 26 full-page engravings on steel. Extra-illustrated with numerous views, portraits, and other items of Waltoniana. One volume bound in 3. 8vo, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856. First Jesse edition, the issue with the additional plates. Full green levant extra gilt, Cosway style binding with miniature oval portrait of Walton inset in upper cover of vol. I, spines gilt, turn-ins gilt, watered silk endsheets, t.e.g., by Bayntun (Riviere). Half-title with publisher’s presentation inscription dated June 1856. Fine in cloth slipcase. Bookplate. Westwood & Satchell, p. 232; Coigney 71; Heckscher 2071.This edition was originally produced in two forms: “with 203 [actually 207] Engravings on Wood, price 5s, or with the addition of 26 Engravings on Steel, 7s 6d.” The present copy is abundantly extra-illus-trated with portraits, views of places mentioned in the text (several folding, some hand-colored), plates from earlier editions, angling scenes, plates of fish-es (some hand-colored), an original pencil drawing of anglers at streamside, and much Waltoniana, including a ticket of the Lea Bridge Fishery, trade card of the Izaak Walton Anglers Coffee Rooms in Newman St., London, as well as Gosden’s facsimile of the 1653 title-page and his other Waltonian il-lustrations. A superbly bound set, rich in the visual history of this landmark of angling and of English literature.$10,000


��[COX, Nicholas]. The Gentleman’s Recreation, In Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing. Wherein these Generous Exercises are largely Treated of … Collected at first from antient and modern authors and now … corrected and enlarged. Engraved frontispiece (signed W: Sherwin fe.) and 4 folding engraved plates (signed W Dolle fe.). Hawking, Fowling, Fishing each with sectional title. Laws printed in black letter. [10], 1-158, [2], [159]-254, [4], 1-78, 89-95, [2], 1-78, [12, Table] pp. Pagina-tion irregular. Complete. Folio, London: Printed by J.C. for N.C. and are to be sold by Tho: Fabian at the Bible in Paul’s Church-yard, the corner-shop next Cheap-side, 1677. Second edition. Full red morocco gilt, corners and spine semé with open dots, points, horseshoes and bits, a.e.g. Joints rubbed, slightly tender, else fine. Four bookplates. Custom half morocco folding box. ESTC R30278; Wing C-6703; Westwood & Satchell, p. 67; Harting 37; Schwerdt I, pp. 122-23 (for first edition); Swift, Bibliotheca Accipitraria II 129.02.“Cox’s book is well composed, comprehensive, and compact. It fills a space in the not overcrowded list of old English hunt-ing and hawking books and certainly compares favourably with John Ray’s additions to the ‘Ornithology,’ which deal with fowling and hawking” (Schwerdt I, p. 123). As for the angling section, “Nicholas Cox is of the superstitious, astro-logical, necromantical order of angling writers. He makes us acquainted with divers miraculous streams and unaccount-able fishes.” (See long note in Westwood & Satchell, pp. 68-69). Cox’s work was reprinted regualrly through the early eighteenth century. A choice copy of the second edition. Uncommon.$2,250

sherwin copy of a rare and beautiful book��[CRAWHALL, Joseph]. The Compleatest Angling Booke, That Ever Was Writ. Engraved title-page, 32 engraved plates (most on India-proof paper, several hand-colored), other wood-engraved plates, music and illustrations, many hand-colored, original double-page watercolor of a trout, woodcut device at end. 4to, [Newcastle: Joseph Crawhall, 1859]. First edition, limited to 40 copies. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, titled on the spine “Angling,” t.e.g. Minor rubbing, else fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin. Westwood and Satchell, p. 69-70.“A very curious and original work and one of the chief rari-ties of the angling bibliophile’s collection. It was both printed and illustrated by the author … only forty copies were struck off for private circulation” (Westwood & Satchell).$10,000

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only copy bound in morocco��CRAWHALL, Joseph. The Compleatest Angling book that euer was writ, being done out of ye Hebrewe and other Tongues, by a person of Honor. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts, etchings, hand-colored ornaments, etc., by the author. 4to, [Colophon:] “Newe Castle upon Tine”: by Andro Reid for yee author.“ 1881. Second edition, one of 100 copies printed. Publisher’s blind-stamped mo-rocco gilt, t.e.g. Finely rebacked, preserving original spine. Fine. Cloth slipcase. Westwood & Satchell, p. 70.The much-enlarged edition of one of the most curious and beautiful books in all of angling literature, printed for “those who have, in vain, searched for the Edition of 1859,” of which only 40 copies were printed. “With one or two exceptions the volume contains all the old plates and nearly as many new ones, all displaying the humorous feeling and the artistic skill which give Mr. Crawhall’s works ‘a place apart’ among angling books” (Westwood & Satchell). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE: “For my beloved wife Margaret B. Crawhall, June 27th, 1881.” John Simpson noted that this is the only copy that he has seen bound in morocco (all other copies in black calf to the same pat-tern).$9,000


“there is no pastime better than cycling”��(CYCLING) Ansell, J.F.C. Travelogs and Anecdotage, 1920-1921. Manu-script in ink on paper. [xv], 400 pp. Heavy paper stock and colored paper mounting sheets for 18 watercolors by the author, original photographs and ink drawings, as well as approximately 300 other illustrations: postcards and plates in both color and black & white, and magazine cuttings. Includes a list of plates, table of contents and an index at the end. Folio, [London: 1924]. Original half leather over green cloth, decorated endpapers. Shaken, edges worn with boards showing, some soiling to the covers; some mild browning and soiling to text pages, mounting sheets have faded and have some split edges. A massive volume. Solid, overall very good.A manuscript travel journal describing travels across England and Wales by bicycle and motorcycle, entirely written in Ansell’s care-ful and frequently elegant manuscript hand. The volume features historiated initials and decorated section headings that show a careful and dedicated effort to produce a polished and attractive book—An-sell writes early on that he would like to set his memoir into print, expressing thoughts on the ideal typeface for his work, while also lamenting the difficulty of incorporating the images that he has included. The text is illustrated with a variety of color postcards, illustrations, and clippings depicting the landscapes, architecture, and monuments in the places he visits, as well as more generic views of two-wheeled travelers in picturesque scenes. Among the notable illustrations are photographs of Ansell’s wife and their traveling tent as well as a detailed drawing of the tent, its construction, and best methods of use for protecting both travels and their motorcycle. The author has mounted 18 original watercolor paintings in the volume as well, most of which are signed “JFC Ansell.”Ansell’s manuscript travel journal details two types of journeys through England, one by bicycle, one by motorcycle, during 1920-1921. The journal begins with a bicycling tour north from London into the Fens and East Anglia, departing Easter day, 1920. Ansell’s cycling adventures were inspired by the Wayfarer, Walter MacGregor Robinson, who wrote for Cycling magazine after World War I, thus connecting him to the increasing popularity of cycling activity in the UK after 1919. Following his bicycle tour, Ansell turned toward another form of two-wheeled transport, a Triumph motorcycle with a Paragon folding sidecar, so that his wife could accompany him. Ansell details the challenges of leaning to operate and accommodate his new mode of transportation and summarizes his itinerary during the summer of 1920 of nearly 9,000 miles of touring, before relating extensive details, observations, and anecdotes of his journey. The locations, mileage, and direction of travel are carefully documented, and a hand-drawn map is included (p. 206).Ansell’s book “sets out to deal with such varied subjects as ancient monuments, history, topography, and biography, as well as being autobiographical all the time” (introduction p. [iii]), and the volume

is replete with his colorful and subjective observations of not only historic monuments, architecture, and local color, but also the character, behavior, and demeanor of shop attendants, local inhabitants, and the various persons he encounters on his travels. There are contemplative passages describing landscapes indicative of the solitary traveler and watercolorist Ansell was, making his manuscript a significant social document for the post-WWI generation.$4,500

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“the original mss”��DALY, James [pseudonym of Frank S. GRAY]. For Love and Bears. A description of a recent hunting trip with a romantic finale. A True Story. By “James Daly” — profusely illustrated by pencil sketches also a cabinet photograph of Grace Horton. Illustrated with original albumen photograph, numerous facsimiles, maps, illustrations in text, music. Duplicated typewriting, printed rectos only. 139, [6, ads] ff. 4to, Chicago: Frank S. Gray, Publisher. McCormick Block, 1886. First edition. Origi-nal tan printed wrappers, stapled. Spine defective, covers detached. Small closed tears in title (no loss), some soiling, a very good copy of a fragile book. Dark green cloth folding box and chemise. Phillips, p. 93; Howes D41; not in Wright, Heller.Account of a hunting trip after deer and bear in the Pend d’Oreille region of Idaho, with humorous aspects, includ-ing its presentation on the cover as “The Original MSS” as rejected by Messrs Harper Century Scribner, with a letter (on letterhead) declining to publish a work “so representative of the ‘rowdy west.’” Samuel Clemens is universally regarded as a pioneer in being the first author to have a manuscript typed on a typewriter (Life on the Mississippi, 1882). Yet he was not the only one. In addition to its place in Western Americana and sporting his-tory, For Love and Bears is of interest for demonstrating how quickly the notion of a typewritten “original manuscript” took hold, and in being an early example of a published work

with the appearance of a typescript. Howes states that the author was Frank S. Gray; James Daly is noted in Wright III (1383) as the author of The Little Blind God on Rails. A Romaunt of the Gold Northwest (Chicago, 1888), but the present work is not cited there. Decidedly uncommon. ABPC records only a rebound copy in 1992.$1,750

��DENISON, Alfred, translator. A Literal Translation into Eng-lish of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492 [Dit Boecxken leert hoe men mach voghelen vanghen metten handen]. Illustrated with woodcuts. 4to, N.p.: Privately Printed for Alfred Denison, 1872. Limited to 25 copies. Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g. In felt-lined morocco-backed solander box by Aquarius. Westwood & Satchell, p. 78.$4,000


��(FALCONRY) Burton, Richard. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. 4 plates. xvi, 107, [108, blank], [8, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Van Vorst, 1852. First edition. 500 copies printed. Original brown pebbled cloth, spine titled in gilt, boards stamped in blind. Slight fad-ing of spine and edges, else a fine, fresh copy. With two bookplates on front pastedown. Penzer, p. 41; Spink 6; Abbey Travel 479; Harting 66; Schwerdt I, p. 90; Swift 99.01.A first-person narrative account of Burton’s falconry experiences in the Sind province of northern India, where he was accompa-nied and instructed in the sport by picturesque and patient mentors. Several kinds of birds are studied, and Burton is careful to point out where the details of his experience differ from the wisdom of the West. (“Our author-falconers notably err when they assert that hawks are not susceptible of attachment to their keeper. The bird is not an affectionate one, but it has affection.”) A work of considerable historic and technical interest, and a significant item in the Burton canon. RARE.$8,000

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��FINDLAY, Frederick Roderick Noble. Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-East Africa. An Account of Shooting Trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza Divisions of Portuguese South-East Africa and in Zululand … with chapters by Olive Schreiner and S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner. With frontispiece, folding map, and numerous illustrations from photo-graphs. 8vo, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. First edition. Original blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, upper board stamped in blind, t.e.g. Spine faded, some soiling to upper board, private library bookplate and stamp. Very good. Mendelssohn I, pp. 545-546.Wide-ranging and authoritative survey of sport in South-ern Africa. Includes Olive Schreiner’s important contribu-tion, “Waste Land in Mashonaland,” in which she advocates the establishment of a vast preserve “on a colossal scale”; together with the text of the Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds, and Fish in Africa, signed in London in 1900.$1,000

��FROST, A.B. Complete set of four sporting prints: “Chance Shot while Setting out Decoys”; “October Woodcock Shoot-ing”; “Grouse Shooting in the Rhododendrons”; “Coming Ashore.” 4 aquatint engravings, hand colored. each 13-¾ x 19-½ in., on a larger sheet, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933-4. Edition of 200. Minor soiling in outer margins, else fine. Ordeman, pp 48-52, 105.Fine suite of the A.B. Frost shooting scenes published by Connett, aquatint engravings produced from original paint-ings borrowed by Connett. Frost’s palette displays a limited range of color, almost verging on the monochrome; the Derrydale prints were colored from models painted by John Frost, the artist’s son, who was a friend of Connett. On “October Woodcock Shooting” the printed legend be-neath the title reads “Flushing Flight Bird in the Birches near Morristown, New Jersey, where the artist lived.”$4,000


colorist’s model for maryland marsh��FROST, John. [“Maryland Marsh”]. Original colorist’s model of the Derrydale Press sporting print. Aquatint engraving, from a proof before letters, trimmed, fully colored by the artist, marked in pencil “Model OK.” With an example of the published print: hand-colored aquatint engraving, signed by the artist in pencil lower left. 19-½ x 13-¼ in. on a larger sheet, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. Published in an edition of 150 (unnumbered). Trimmed. Some soiling in outer mar-gins, short chips along left edge, archival tape repair on verso of lower left corner (torn, no loss). Ordeman (2005), pp. 52-4 (illustrated), 105. Provenance: J. Ordeman, M.L. Biscotti;, F. Teroerde.The original watercolor model prepared by the artist for the use of the colorist of the Derrydale sporting aquatint of a rail bird shooting scene. John Frost (1890-1937) was the son of American artist A.B. Frost (1851-1928) and a friend of Eugene V. Connett, publisher of the Derrydale Press, whose personal collection included “Maryland Marsh,” the original painting commissioned by Connett in 1934. John Frost is known to have been closely involved in painting the colorists’ models for the Derrydale prints of his father’s paintings (published in 1933-4) and would have produced the color model for the published editon of the print. UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT SURVIVAL.$5,000

��GARGA, D.P. (of Mahishadal). From My Big Game Diaries. Illustrations from photographs, plates. x, [6], 90 pp. 8vo, Cal-cutta: The Book Company Ltd, [1944]. First edition. Cream cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. Czech Asia, p. 84. OCLC (2 copies: BL, Monash Univ.).With a foreword by Mr. Jagat Prasanna Mukherjee of Gobardanga. The last three chapters are the contributions of Kumar S.P. Garga and Kumar Bhupal Prasad Garga. Czech: “After several basic chapters on the game of India and how to hunt it, Garga provides plenty of Shikar details. With most of his hunting confined to Central India, he provides expert descriptions of hunting bear, ti-ger, bison, chee-tah, sambur, and other game. His brothers con-tribute chapters on their hunting experiences.” No copy in U.S. institutional holdings.$900

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rare and unrecorded derrydale��GEE, Ernest R. A Catalogue of Books and Prints: Many are quite rare. Including English Literature, Sport, Books with Coloured Plates, Furniture, Engravings, etc. … Number 10. [Foreword by E.R.G.] Frontispiece and 4 sectional vignettes. [viii], 39, [1] pp. 220 entries. 8vo, New York: Ernest R. Gee 35 East 49th Street [Printed by The Derrydale Press, 1927 or 1928]. Tan printed wrappers. Very good plus. Half brown morocco slipcase with Derrydale logo on the spine, matching cloth chemsie. Not in Siegel or Frazier. Provenance: Don Frazier.Gee’s Catalogue 10. According to Frazier’s notes he dates this to 1927 or 1928, on the basis of the announcement of the 1928 edition of the annual Famous Horses of the British Turf (“just ready”). On the verso of the title-page is the imprint “The Derrydale Press / New York.” Rare and unrecorded by Siegel and curiously omitted from Frazier’s work. His earliest note is dated 5/83 which is four months prior to his dated intro-duction of his bibliography.$5,000

a manuscript page of the silver horn��GRAND, Gordon. Page of the original manuscript for The Silver Horn, believed to be the only surviving portion of the manuscript. 4to, [Millbrook N.Y.: Ca. 1931]. Published in The Silver Horn, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. Written in black ink on a ruled sheet of yellow paper 10-¾ x 8 in.; tape and glue residue at top of upper margin, well away from text, else fine. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. Tally-Ho! 96; Siegel 65; Frazier G-6-a. Provenance: Duncan Andrews.This page contains the title “The Crest of Athelling Hill,” the first two paragraphs, and a portion of the first sentence of the third paragraph of this fine Colonel Weatherford story, Chapter XIV of the book. Apart from one word (“weight” instead of “thought”) the text is as published; the spelling of one word has been corrected in pencil, and another word has been lightly circled, as though the author contemplated making a change. This item was bought in 1967, along with a considerable amount of other original Derrydale material; at the time it was taped to the back of one of the original drawings for The Silver Horn. The source of this material stated unequivocally that this page was the only surving portion of the book’s manuscript, the remainder having been destroyed. The origi-nal purchaser has made an extensive search over the ensuing quarter-century, and has found no evidence that any other portion of the manuscript has, in fact, survived; nor have we.A UNIQUE FRAGMENT OF ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST BE-LOVED CLASSICS OF AMERICAN SPORTING FICTION $1,250


haig-brown on the challenges of conservation, flyfishing clubs, and english poetry��HAIG-BROWN, Roderick. [Autograph manuscript of a speech on flyfishing and conservation, given to the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, at a dinner in the Biltmore Hotel, New York, 16 March 1968]. Blue ink on paper, on 27 3 x 5 in. index cards (numbered 1-13, 13A-26), 11 lines in neat block letters, occasional points of emphasis designated in red underlining, approximately 1250 words. Last card with note in another hand: “(speech of Roderick Haig-Brown).” [N.p.]: 1968. First card a bit toned, with a few tiny rust stains from clip, last card with an old fold, otherwise fine. Custom half morocco folding box.Autograph manuscript of a thoughtful and wide-ranging speech given by angling author and pioneering conservationist Roderick L. Haig-Brown at the annual dinner of the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, on flyfishing and conservation and the role of flyfishing clubs in promoting conservation. “Forty years ago on the Pacific coast, I had it pretty good — forests everywhere, clean streams coming through them & out of them, lots of fish. Not too many people. I worried, but my worries were for the future. I didn’t worry enough. I had no idea how fast it could all change or how badly it could be handled.” Haig-Brown notes the rise of fly clubs all across North America as the most encouraging development. He warns of pollution, calls for its reducation and for cleanup of existing pollution, and adds his voice to a growing call for the end to the use of DDT “that barbarous pesticide” (its use was not banned in the US until 1972). He advocates careful stream management, and concludes with a look back to the English poets John Gay and James Thompson. The vast Haig-Brown archive at the University of British Columbia records a two-page pen draft of excerpts of this speech (box 55-7), and notes for Haig-Brown’s speeches are also preserved (box 55A). Because so much is preserved in the archive, very little Haig-Brown manuscript material is ever seen on the market. RARE AND INTERESTING AND EVIDENTLY UNPUBLISHED.$7,500

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��HARRIS, Captain William Cornwallis. The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, Through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn. Illustrated with hand-colored lithographic title, 26 hand-colored plates, folding map. 4to (in 8s, 9-¾ x 6-¾ in.), London: William Pickering, 1841. Third edition (with two additional chapters and fully illustrated). Original publisher’s green cloth, gilt stamped. Occasional toning to versos of plates (not affecting plates or text). Full green buckram slipcase and chemise. Bookplates of L.M. Thomas-Le Marchant, E. Hubert Litchfield, and his nephew Edward Sands Litchfield. A fine copy with distinguished provenance. Abbey Travel, 334; Schwerdt I, pp. 231-2; Litchfield, p. 26; Czech, p. 71 (“wonderful color plates of African game and scenery”).Harris’ classic account of his journey from the Cape of Good Hope to the Tropic of Capricorn, first published in Bombay in 1838 under the title Narrative of an expedition into southern Africa (four lithographic plates and a map); the second edition (L., John Murray, 1839) contained only 8 plates. This enlarged edition, with additions to the text and 26 hand-colored plates, is much to be preferred.$5,500


��HERBERT, Henry William. The Warwick Woodlands, or Things as They Were There, Ten Years Ago. By Frank Forester. [i]-iv, [5]-168 pp. 12mo, Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co, 1845. First edition. Green morocco, spine titled in gilt, sporting vignette on upper cover, gilt rule borders, t.e.g., turn-in with gilt horse head, stamped “Bound in England.” Bookplate. Spine toned, else fine. Van Winkle, pp. 13-14; Phillips, p. 175; Gee “Sportsman’s Library” 75; BAL 8085; Grolier American 54; Wright I, 1181; White, pp. 52-53; Bruns H-167: “Rare.”The book that established English expatriate H.W. Herbert as “Frank Forester,” the pre-eminent American sporting and outdoors writer. A rare book, and a cornerstone to any nineteenth-century sporting collection.$2,500

one of 8 copies��HIDY, Vernon S., and James E. LEISENRING. The Leisen-ring Color & Materials Book for Fly Tying. A Pocket Reference for Fly Fishermen. Designed by James E. Leisenring 1878-1951. Feathers, Furs, Herls & Quills from the Leisenring Collection. Assembled under the direction of V. S. Hidy. 16 pp. Manuscript book with inserted samples: Colors, 2-5; Yarns & Wools, 6-7; Spun Bodies, 8; Hackles, Quills and Feathers, 9-15; Index to hackles, 16. 12mo, [Unpublished], 1966. Copy 2 of 8 (so stated on title-page). Pigskin wallet binding, stitched. Fine, in card slipcase. Bruns L75 (noting 12 copies); Lindley Eberstadt sale, Sotheby’s 1981, lot 157 (noting 7 copies); Charles Wood sale, Swann, 1986, lot 389 (rejecting Bruns count).Facsimile of Leisenring’s fly-tying materials reference book, made by his friend V.S. Hidy, to whom Leisenring recounted The Art of Tying the Wet Fly (1941). Bruns notes 12 copies pre-pared; note in Swann catalogue for Chas. Wood sale (1986) indicated only 8 copies. The present copy unequivocally indicates “Copy 2 of 8” at the foot of the title-page.$10,000

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��KING, Edward. “The Aiken Drag.” Proof before letters, the marked colorist’s model for this hand-colored lithograph, with a copy of the finished print. 16-¼ x 9 in., New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. Edition of 80. Half green morocco album, printed title, each print window-matted in heavy card mounts. Fine. Ordeman (2005), p. 60.The original colorist’s model for King’s scene of this South Carolina hunt in full cry through a field on the edge of a pine forest. An early Derrydale sporting print, issued in one of the smallest limitations ( just 80 copies). With a fine example of the finished print (unsigned).$3,750

��KIRMSE, Marguerite. “The Fox” Proof after letters. “First Impression Final State” pencil notation in the hand of Eu-gene V. Connett at lower left margin. Uncolored. 12-½ x 17 in. on a larger sheet (16 x 24 in. overall), New York: The Derry-dale Press, [1931]. Published in an edition of 250 prints. Some scattered foxing. Fine. Custom half morocco box. Ordeman, The Derrydale Prints (2006), pp. 69-73, 107. Provenance: Eugene V. Connett, III, publisher of the Derrydale Press; his son, Eugene V. Connett, IV.“The finest we have published” (Connett, cited in Ordeman). Connett’s own retained copy, the first impression of the final state after letters. A beautiful image, with choice provenance.$4,000


��KIRMSE, Marguerite. [“The Fox”]. Proof in red before letters [and:] [“The Hound”]. Proof before letters [and:] The Hound. Uncolored proof after letters. Each print 12-½ x 17 in., New York: The Derrydale Press, [1931]; 1933. Published in an edition of 250 prints. Fine (some short marginal tears repaired on verso, “Fox” slightly trimmed, lettered print of “Hound” with old crease). Custom half morocco box. Ordeman, The Derrydale Prints (2006), pp. 69-73, 107.A beautiful set of proofs, with a superb example of “The Fox” in red.$10,000

��[LOWERY, F.W.] History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B.]. [viii], 130 pp. 8vo, [np]: Privately Printed, [1933]. First edition, one of 100 copies. Signed by the author, “F.W. Lowery,” on the title-page. Brown cloth spine and brown boards. Owner signature on the flyleaf. Small marginal soiling to bottom margin, minor shelf wear. Fine. Pickering, “Books by Ourselves,” Anglers’ Club Bulletin, 17:3 (Oct. 1938), p. 22; Bruns, p. 283, “The history of a fishing trip to the Gaspé and Anticosti Island”; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 109.Account of a salmon fishing trip on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island, by Douglas, McCloy, Ward, Belknap, and the author (who remains anonymous throughout his narrative except in the record of catches at the end). Includes an account of their visit to Château Menier. Lowery was a member of the Anglers’ Club.$1,750

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the schwerdt — gloucester copy��[LOWTH, Robert]. Billesdon Coplow, A Poem, Descriptive of a Remarkable Day’s Sport in Leicestershire, on Monday, February 24th, 1800 … to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author; also The Billesdon Coplow and Cottesmore Hunting Songs. Folding hand-colored lithographic frontispiece after C. Loraine Smith (W. & J. Swinford, Lith.), with the participants identified in ink in a con-temporary hand along the lower margin, a few wood-engraved text vignettes. Plate slightly rubbed; silked. 36 pp. 8vo, London: Ackermann … and H. Johnson …, 1845. Original full red mo-rocco, gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Bookplate of the renowned collector Carl Schwerdt and the later bookplate of the Duke of Gloucester. Title-leaf reinforced at inner margin, corners a bit rubbed, otherwise fine. Schwerdt I, p. 323.A lovely copy in the original publisher’s binding, of one of the classics of foxhunting literature, a now-legendary run, when the Quorn Hounds covered 28 miles in two hours and fifteen minutes, from Billesdon Coplow across the Soar, by Whitstone, to Enderby Warren. The poem was an immediate success from its first appearance in 1800, prompting the Sporting Magazine to remark: “‘Billesdon Coplow’ will only cease to interest when the grass will grow in winter in the streets of Melton Mowbray!” With a frontispice of the hand-colored lithograph of the painting by Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835), “amateur, a first-class man to hounds, an M.P. and a magistrate” (Siltzer), and one of the participants on the original run.$1,750

��[LOWTH, Robert]. Billesdon Coplow, A Poem. Monday, February 24, A.D. 1804. 12 pp. 12mo, Montreal: Printed by J. Brown, 1809. First Canadian Edition. Facsimile wrappers; name trimmed from top of title-page, very minor sporadic foxing, else fine. Manuscript corrections in text. In quarter blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Not in Schwerdt, NUC, TPL, BMC or any of the standard biblio-graphical references.“The author of ‘Billesdon Coplow’ … was a good sportsman. While resident in Hampshire he was a member of the ‘H.H.’ and often attended Hunt Cup days at Winchester and the Hamble-don Hunt Races. It was on a visit to Melton, when Mr. Meynell hunted the Quorn country, that Lowth was an eyewitness of the celebrated run from Billesdon Coplow (in 1800, misdated on title-page 1804) which he describes in a poem full of point and imbued with the spirit of the true foxhunter. Billesdon Coplow ‘will only cease to interest when the grass will grow in winter in the streets of Melton Mowbray’ was the comment of the ‘Sporting Maga-zine’ on its appearence …” (Schwerdt). This edition is the first sporting book published in Canada and is unrecorded in any of the standard references, although one other known copy exists, in the Legislative Library in Quebec City. The first edition gives the year of the great hunt as 1800, our copy has the misprinted date given as 1804.$2,750


��MANIERRE, Franny. The History of the Clow Deer Hunt. Illus-trations from photographs. [2], 22 pp. 8vo, N.p.: 1938. Brown wrappers, titled on upper cover. Minor toning. A fine copy of a scarce book. Heller 234. OCLC: 22528626.Privately printed account of a family deer hunt at Bent’s Camp in northern Wisconsin near the border with the Upper Peninsual of Michigan, with anecdotes of people and deer hunting spanning forty years (the first hunt was in 1898). Among the guests was Denton T. Young. “We will have to dwell for a moment on ‘Cy’ Young” — beginning a four-page string of recollections and stories, a generous account of the famed baseball player. OCLC records 5 copies (Yale, Lake Forest Library, Chicago History Mus., Wisconsin Hist. Soc., Library of Michigan). RARE.$900

r.b. marston’s copy��(MARSTON, R.B.) First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forest of the State of New York. Numer-ous chromolithographic plates after Sherman F. Denton on heavy card, photographic plates, other illustrations. [10], iv, [5]-376 pp. 4to, [Albany, New York: Fisheries, Game and

Forest Commission, 1896]. Original pebbled morocco, upper cover tiled in gilt with “Robert Bright Marston” below, a.e.g. Rebacked, preserving upper portion of original spine, some minor edge wear, very good, internally fine. Inscribed on first blank, “Robert B Marston with best wishes from his friend A. Nelson Cheney.” Bruns N38.“Some of the top names contribute to this report, including the Englishman Marston, and Nelson Cheney” (Bruns). The Englishman Marston (1853-1927) was founding editor of the Fishing Gazette; his chapter is on The Brown Trout; Cheney, New York State Fish Culturist, wrote chapters on Food for Fishes, Mascalonge and Pike, and Shad of the Hud-son River. With a two-page autograph letter, signed, from Cheney to Marston, noting that “a copy of the report in morocco was finally sent off to you by express, and I presume it is now in your hands …” He discusses a Sportsman’s Exposition at Madison Square Garden and being a judge at the fly cast-ing. He closes, “Hardy is making me a rod and I am looking for someone who is coming over to bring it for me.” With a three-quarter length portrait photograph of Cheney, in-scribed on the back, “R.B. Marston from A.N. Cheney.”$1,500

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rare sporting map of the meadow brook hunt��(MEADOW BROOK HOUNDS) Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hounds. [Cover title:] Fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hounds. Folding map (“Places of Meeting of the Meadow Brook Hunt”) (9 x 16-½ in. on a 12 x 18 in. sheet), backed with cloth and folded. Pastedown with printed text within floral border with riding helmets and crossed whips. Fox mask vignette on title-page; standing hound as tailpiece. [8] pp. Square 32mo, From Harry & Madeline Atherton, Christmas 1926. Red satin wallet binding, upper cover printed in gilt. Minor edge wear, text and map fine and fresh.A finely detailed map of sporting Long Island, depicting roads and forests and fields, with owners of the estates names, and identifying 18 fixtures of the Meadow Brook Hunt. The map stretches from Old Westbury to the estate of R.C. Thomas just over the Suffolk County line.$1,750

��NEUMANN, Arthur H. Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. Being an Account of Three Years’ Ivory Hunting under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains Including a Trip to the North End of Lake Rudolph. With numerous illustrations, color plate. Large folding map (loosely inserted). xx, 455, [1, imprint], [8, ads] pp. Large 8vo, London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. Modern three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, preserv-ing bookplate of sportsman and author Harry Snyder. Fine. Czech Africa, p. 207.A justly famous work, based on the author’s three years of ivory-hunting throughout British East Africa, 1894-96, during which he also collected a large number of rare butterflies.$1,500

deluxe edition, one of 19 copies��(NORWAY) Dalrymple-Hamilton, Col. Sir North. Alten. Red Letter Days. The Salmon Fishing Diaries of … Edited and Compiled by Roy Flury. Illustrated. 106 pp. 4to, Cambridge: Privately printed [at the Ascencius Press] by Charles B. Wood III, 2009. Collectors’ edition, no. 17 of 19 copies on large pa-per. Quarter reddish-brown morocco, spine gilt, paste paper over boards with french tips, by Gray Parrot. As new in cloth folding box with morocco spine label. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 13.Finely printed and well illustrated edition of the salmon fishing diaries of Col. Dalrymple-Hamilton on the sporting waters of the Alten river in northern Norway, leased to his friend the Duke of Roxburghe. The diaries cover the years 1913, 1920-1923, and 1929, with a chapter on subsequent trips. The diaries have been edited by Roy Flury, author (with Theodore Dalenson) of Alten (1991) and Alten Reflections (1993). Another superb pro-duction by Charles B. Wood.$1,500


��PHAIR, Charles. Atlantic Salmon Fishing. Illustrated with 42 plates: 7 by Ogden M. Pleissner after watercolor paintings (6 in color), 2 in black and white after Robert Nisbet, and one in black and white after Walter M. Brackett, 26 plates of black and white photo-graphs, 6 plates of figures, 2 maps. 2 vols. Large 4to, New York: Derrydale Press, 1937. First Edition, Number 38 of 40 numbered deluxe copies, signed by the author with the second oversize volume housing 14 display mounts of flies and the materials neces-sary for their tying. Quarter green morocco gilt by James Macdonald, green cloth slipcase. Spines and corners toned to brown as usual. In modern half green morocco drop box by European Bookbinders. Siegel 110; Frazier P-5-D; Bruns P72; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 167. Provenance: Pennsylvania private collection.Twelve of the display mounts show 14 complete salmon flies, each with the material used in tying the flies; the final 2 feature a selection of salmon hooks and gut leaders. Siegel records that Connett’s copy of the book (at Princeton) contains his handwritten note, “I wrote most of this one.” One of the great productions of the Derrydale Press, in its rarest and most desirable state.$40,000

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Sporting prints by American artist and sports-man Ogden Pleissner (1905-1983), famed for his oil and watercolor paintings of outdoor scenes.

inscribed to rudy coigney��PLEISSNER, Ogden M. “Dawn on the Duck Marsh,” print depicting two hunters at a duck blind. 16 x 26 in. (image size), New York: The Crossroads of Sport, 1978. Edition of 280. Matted, framed, and glazed. Signed by the artist in pencil on the mount, “Ogden M. Pleissner.” Bergh, p. 107 (no. 22).Inscribed on the mount: “To my friend ‘Rudy’ Coigney with best wishes — Ogden.”$1,500

��PLEISSNER, Ogden M. “Fishing the Au Sable.” Color photo lithograph print, signed by Pleissner in the lower right corner. 31 x 22 in., Challenge Chapter, Trout Unlimited, 1979. Edition of 275. Fine, tiny chip at left white margin. Bergh, p. 107 (no. 24).Inscribed to Rudy Coigney by the artist, “To my friend ‘Rudy’ with best wishes Ogden Pleissner” in lower left.$1,000

��PLEISSNER, Ogden M. “Hendrickson’s Pool, Beaverkill,” depicting a trout fisherman standing in a river. 16-½ x 24 in., “Published jointly … by The Crossroads of Sport, Inc. and The Orvis Company, Inc, 1980. Edition of 275. Matted, framed, and glazed. Signed by the artist in pencil on the mount, “Ogden M. Pleissner.” Bergh, p. 107 (no. 25) Inscribed on mount at lower left: “With best wishes to Rudy [Coigney] a great angler / Ogden.”$1,500

��PLEISSNER, Ogden M. “June Trout Fishing.” Signed lower right in pencil by the artist. Embossed stamp of TGF. Printed by Frost & Reed, Ltd., Bristol and London, England. 22-⅞ x 30-¾ in., New York: Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, 1967. One of 350 signed prints. Matted. Some toning at the mat edge. Bergh, p. 107 (no. 16).$1,100


��PLEISSNER, Ogden M. “Leaping Sea Trout,” depicting a fisherman reeling in a trout from a rowboat. 16-⅝ x 25 in., (sight), “Published in 1957 by Frost and Reed Limited, Bristol and London, England. Copyright in all Countries including U.S.A. (Printed in England),” 1957. One of 300 copies. Mat-ted, framed and glazed. Signed by the artist in pencil on the mount, “Ogden M. Pleissner,” Bergh, p. 107 (no. 8).$1,750

��PLEISSNER, Ogden M. “Setting up on Horseshoe Pond – Delta Marsh,” print depicting two hunters with decoys in a boat. 17 x 26-½ in. (image size), North American Wildlife Foundation – Delta Project, 1981. Edition of 275. Unframed. Signed by the artist in pencil on the mount, “Ogden M. Pleissner.” Bergh, p. 107 (no. 27).$750

��PLEISSNER, Ogden M. “The Battenkill at Benedict Cross-ing.” Signed lower right by the artrist in pencil. Printed by the Triton Press. 16-1⁄2 x 22 in., New York: Crossroads of Sports and The Orvis Company, 1978. Edition of 270. Fine. Bergh, p. 107 (no. 21).$750

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finest copy seen��POLLARD, H.B.C. and Phyllis Barclay-Smith. British & American Game-Birds. With a chapter on shooting in America by Eugene V. Connett. Twenty plates in color by Philip Rickman. 48 pp. Folio, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. No. 34 of 125 copies, signed by the artist, and with a signed pencil remarque of a mallard duck beneath the mounted color fron-tispiece. Original brown cloth, tan pigskin spine with brown morocco label, t.e.g. Fine copy in original cardboard slipcase. Siegel 145; Frazier P-11-a.A handsome work, produced in England for The Derrydale Press. Rickman’s plates are exceptional.$1,750

early sport in burma and india��POLLOK, Lt. Col. [Fitz William Thomas]. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills. With Notes of Sport in the Hilly Districts of the Northern Division, Madras Precinct … Eight chromolithographic plates, two lithographic plates and one folding map. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. Original brick cloth stamped in black. Faintest bumping at spine ends, a few spots of foxing, else fine. Bright, fresh copy. Czech Asia, p. 164 (“one of the earliest works to describe sport in Burma”).$1,100

��REEVES, Richard Stone. Thoroughbreds I Have Known. With foreword by Whitney Tower and commentary by Juno Cole Weyer. With 52 full color plates and other illustrations by the author. 4to, New York: A.S. Barnes, 1973. No. 32 of 60 deluxe copies, signed by the author with a portfolio of four signed col-lotype reproductions. Original full burgundy morocco, gilt borders and ornaments on upper cover, panelled spine with emblematic devices, t.e.g., A FINE COPY in publisher’s original morocco-backed folding box.A splendid collection of thoroughbred portraits by America’s foremost painter of horses.$2,500


��ROSS, Gordon. Proof portrait of Joseph B. Thomas, used as the frontispiece for the deluxe Derrydale edition of his Hounds and Hunting through the Ages, with his elaborate inscription to Eugene V. Connett. Engraved portrait, proof before letters, uncolored state. 14-½ x 11 in., New York: done for The Derrydale Press, 1928. Fine condition. From the collection of Eugene V. Connett, III, proprietor of The Der-rydale Press. In quarter red morocco slipcase and chemise. Siegel 15; Frazier T-2-D.A rare uncolored proof before letters, printed on heavy wove paper, of Ross’s portrait of Joseph B. Thomas, M.F.H. When used as the frontispiece in the deluxe edition of Thomas’s Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages it was printed on thin, laid paper, with Thomas’s name engraved underneath; we have not seen a proof before letters before.WITH A WARM INSCRIPTION BY THOMAS TO EUGENE V. CONNETT, III: “To Eugene V. Connett / En souvenir of many sunny hours of work together without a single storm / Joseph B. Thomas.” A RARE DERRYDALE WORK, OF MATCHLESS ASSOCIATION.$1,000

one of 100 copies��SAGE, Dean, C.H. TOWNSHEND, H. M. SMITH, and William C. HARRIS. Salmon and Trout. The American Sports-man’s Library. Edited by Caspar Whitney. Illustrated by A. B. Frost, Tappan Adney, Martin Justice, and others. x, 417 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition, number 74 of 100 copies printed on large paper. Bound in three quarters olive morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine toned to brown as usual, else fine. Bookplate. Bruns S5; Hampton’s Angling Bibliography p. 245.A classic of American sport, comprising chapters by Dean Sage on Atlantic Salmon, C.H. Townsend & H.M. Smith on the Pacific Salmons, and William C. Harris on the Trouts of America.$1,000

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��SALLEY, A.S., Jr. The Happy Hunting Ground. Personal Experi-ences in the Low-Country of South Carolina. Illustrated with frontispiece and four plates from photographs. x, 83 pp. 8vo, Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1926. First edition. Brown cloth spine, illustrated brown paper over boards. Very good in very good dust-jacket. Bookplate of Francis Fretwell. Heller 338; Biscotti 383 (“Rare”).Recollections of hunting deer, waterfowl, wildcat, and turkey in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, on the Asheppo and Edisto rivers.$2,000

frazier copy��SIEGEL, Henry A. and Harry C. Marschalk, Jr., Isaac Oel-gart. The Derrydale Press, A Bibliography. With photoengraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title-page specially produced by Richard Benson with calligraphy by Stephen Harvard, and illustrations printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. 8vo, Goshen, CT: The Angler’s & Shooter’s Press, 1981. Letter C of 26 copies of the large paper deluxe edition on handmade Crown & Sceptre paper. Original full black morocco with a six-color morocco onlay on upper cover, panelled spine with gilt title, t.e.g., others uncut, by Gray Parrot with his label on rear pastedown. Very fine in original morocco-backed folding case.Inscribed by Siegel on the half-title-page to Don Frazier, and signed by Marschalk. The ultimate association copy of the bibliography.$6,500


��(SKIING) Palmedo, Roland (Editor). Skiing, The Interna-tional Sport by Adolf Attenhofer, Count De Baillet Latour, H.P. Douglas, Richard Durrance, Dr. H. Hoek, et al. Original signed etching frontispiece by Frederick B. Taylor. Illustrated by Jacques Charmoz, Wayne Davis, Carl Von Diebitsch, W. Rus-sell Flint, Edwin Henel, Max Märtens, A. Sheldon Pennoyer, Toni Schoenecker, Dwight Shepler, Frederick B. Taylor and with photographs. 4to, New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. Deluxe edition, no. 21 of 60 copies. Original publisher’s deluxe binding of full red morocco gilt, raised bands, slalom skier in gilt on front cover, t.e.g., others uncut, by James MacDonald, some minor wear, both joints neatly rehinged. Housed in a custom burgundy morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Siegel 124; Frazier P-3-D.“A big and very beautiful Derrydale” (Frazier); Siegel notes “binding unsigned,” but this copy clearly bears the MacDon-ald bindery stamp on verso of front free endpaper. A lush, elegant volume.$12,000

with original flies tied by jim nice��(SKUES, G. E. M.) Overfield, T. Donald. G. E. M. Skues. The Way of a Man with a Trout. With 20 original nymphs tied by Jim Nice to Skues patterns. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Ernest Benn, 1977. One of 150 copies, signed by the author and fly dresser Jim Nice (fewer than 100 copies were in fact produced). Pub-lisher’s green morocco gilt. t.e.g. Slipcase.$8,500

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��SOLLEYSELL, Le Sieur de. The Compleat Horseman: discover-ing the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults, and imperfec-tions of Horses: The Signs and Causes of their Diseases, the true method both of their preservation, and cure: with reflections on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. Also the art of shoeing.together with the best method of breeding colts. To which is added a most excellent supplement of riding. Made Eng-lish from the Eighth Edition of the Original by Sir William Hope, Kt. Deputy-Lieutenant of the Castle of Edinburgh. The Whole Illustrated with copper cuts curiously engraved. Frontispiece, plates, many folding. xlv, [i], 324; [ii], xvi; 300, [4, table] pp. 2 parts in one. 4to, London: Printed for R. Bonwick J. Tonson et al, 1717. The second edition corrected from many errors in the former edition. Contemporary speckled panneled calf, neatly rebacked, nice copy some toning to text. Initiled “G.H.G.” on title-page. Huth, p. 22; Mellon/Podeschi 41.$2,500

��The Sportsman’s Portfolio of American Field Sports. Vignette title-page, 20 full-page wood-cut illustrations, one other in text. Small oblong 4to, Boston: M.M. Ballou, corner of Trem-ont and Bromfield Street, 1855. First edition. Original printed wrappers with woodcut vignettes on front and rear covers. Front cover with wear to corner (marginal losses), chipping to corner margins of first few leaves, back cover detached. Half brown morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Don Frazier. Phillips, p. 355; Henderson, pp. 228-229; Goodspeed, p. 350; Van Winkle Sale 710; Wetzel, p. 217; Bruns G-36; Biblio-theca Salmo Salar 215.One of the rarest of early American illustrated sporting books, exceedingly rare in the original wrappers. As of the Van Winkle Sale only two copies were known with the wrappers; and Ernest Gee, in his introduction to the Derrydale facsimile of 1929, stated that he was able to trace only three copies, adding: “It may be described as the most profusely illustrated early sporting book published in America, as it contains twenty superb woodcuts delineating the various Field Sports practised at that time …” The plates, accompanied by a leaf of letterpress with often humorous comments by the anonymous author, include: Trout Fishing, Woodcock Shooting, Grouse Shooting, Moose Hunting, Duck Shooting, Salmon Fishing, Grouse Shooting, Bass Fish-ing, Bison Hunting, etc. NUC locates 6 copies, few presum-ably with wrappers. During the firm’s history, we have had only two other copies complete in wrappers, and two copies lacking most or all of the wrappers.$2,750


surtees’ first book��SURTEES, R[obert] S[mith]. The Horseman’s Manual. Being a Treatise on Soundness, The Law of Warranty, and Generally on the Laws Relating to Horses. xii, 132 pp. 12mo, London: Alfred Miller, 137, Oxford Street, 1831. First edition. Full tan polished calf, triple fillet borders, spine gilt with red morocco letter-ing pieces, a.e.g. by Wood. Contemporary ink presentation, “With the Publishers Compts.” Ormond Blyth, Kenneth Baker Schley bookplates. A few stray traces of foxing. Fine. Podeschi 141 (Butterworth imprint, noting title-page with blank verso); Huth, p. 117; Loder 260; The Book Collector (1968), Bibliographical Queries 231, 492q.Surtees’ first book, and the only one to bear his name; it was written when the novelist-to-be was, somewhat off-handedly, practicing law in London. The Horseman’s Manual is rich in incident and anecdote, and deals in a straightforward way with the laws of horse-dealing and soundness, a subject close to Surtees’ heart and one which appears often in his novels. The author would have appreciated the fact that this youth-ful work is probably the most bibliographically disputed book in the literature of sport — the point of controversy being the priority of the Miller or Butterworth imprint. The sheets of both issues are otherwise identical, and conjecture has been rife for a century. Both issues are extremely rare. Prior evidence tended towards Butterworth, a law publisher, but, despite lengthy briefs on both sides, the issue remains in doubt. The present copy, with the Miller title-page, bears the printer’s imprint on the verso of the title-page, beneath a rule, “M. A. Pittman, 18, Warwick Square.” as well as the imprint at foot of p. 132, beneath a long rule, “Printed by M. A. Pittman, Warwick-square, London.” Steedman, in The Book Collector (1968), reports examining a presentation copy dated 27 Nov. 1830 (preceding the year printed on the title-page), and the copy inscribed by Surtees to his father; both these bear the Miller imprint. “The Eng-lish Catalogue of Books announced publication of this book: Miller, Nov. 30th 1830. It is unlikely that the Butterworth issue appeared earlier.” A FINE COPY OF A RARE AND SIGNIFICANT BOOK.$2,000

��[SURTEES, R.S.]. The Analysis of the Hunting Field; Being A Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters that Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season, 1845-6. With numerous illustration by Henry Alken. Hand-colored frontispiece, pictorial title, and 5 other colored plates, dated Nov. 19, and 43 woodcuts. 4to, London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition, first issue (preface dated 1846). Original red pebbled publisher’s cloth. Bookplate of John Edge and Joshua Crane, Jr. (at the back). Very good plus. Tooley 470.Tooley calls the red cloth a later binding, but notes copies in red that conform to the first issue text, as here.$1,000

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��[SURTEES, Robert Smith]. Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. [In the original 12/13 parts]. 13 hand-colored etched plates, numer-ous wood-engraved illustrations in the text after John Leech. 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition in the original parts. Original printed orange wrappers, slightly soiled, repairs to spines, one plate creased, otherwise a very good set. In full crimson levant morocco pull-off case with chemise. Tooley, pp. 380-381; Podeschi 187.All wrappers as per Tooley, except: Part III & IV supplied (upper cover in facsimile); Part VII without inserted slip for Allsop’s Ale; In addition, Parts XII & XIII contain inserted material not present in Tooley: Inserted slip “Household Words”; inserted leaf “The Field”; slip for “Punch’s Alma-nack”; inserted slip for “Handley Cross.”$1,750

fine copy in original parts��SURTEES, Robert Smith. “Plain or Ringlets?” [In the original 12/13 parts]. With 13 hand-colored etched plates and numer-ous wood-engraved text illustrations after John Leech. 13 parts in 12. 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. First edition, in the original parts. Original printed wrappers, three parts expertly rebacked, overall a fine set, without the inserted ads. Cloth folding case with the armorial bookplate of Lord Nathan of Churt. Schwerdt II, 238.$2,000

��WOOD, Arnold. A Bibliography of the Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Being a Chronological arranged List of the Several Editions and Reprints, from the First Edition MDCLIII until the Year MCM. Portrait of Walton as frontispiece, signed in pencil, lower right “T. Johnson,” and 86 reproductions of title-pages. 204 pp., with errata leaf. 4to, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900. First edition, one of only 18 on Impe-rial Japanese paper (of an edition of 120 in total, 102 on Van Gelder). This is copy no. 6. Printed by the De Vinne Press in the Month of September, 1900. Bound in full blind-stamped vellum, spine stamped in gilt, yapped edges, green silk ties lost, else fine.sold


��(WOODWARD, William) Lloyd, Thomas Ivester; Stainforth, Martin. “Gallant Fox” [with:] “Omaha” [and:] “Johnstown.” Three sporting aquatint engravings, the first finely hand-colored, the others in uncolored state. Oblong folio (24 x 37 in.), [New York: privately printed by The Derrydale Press, 1937-1939]. “Gallant Fox” state without jockey. Size of editions unknown, each print produced in very limited quantities. Half red morocco album, red morocco label gilt on upper cover, printed title-leaf, each print window-matted in heavy card mount, by Aquarius. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 96-7, 108; Siegel, p. 234. Beautiful presentation of an exceedingly rare Derrydale sporting print commissioned by William Woodward, New York banker and owner of the Bel Air Stud in Maryland, who also commissioned two of the most desirable books of the press, Gallant Fox A Memoir and Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses. With the finest possible association, inscribed lower left “To Eugene V. Con-nett from William Woodward.”With two further examples of the privately printed thoroughbred portraits commissioned by Woodward, “Omaha” and “John-stown,” after paintings by the noted artist Martin Stainforth, who painted eleven equestrian portraits for Woodward. Connett’s records indciated that only 10 copies of Omaha were produced (Ordeman).$8,500

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woodward’s gallant fox – thoroughbred portrait by ivester lloyd. only known example with the jockey up��(WOODWORD, William) Lloyd, Thomas Ivester. Gallant Fox. Bay Colt 1927 (By Sir Galahad III – Marguerite) … Winner of the Flash, Junior Champion, Wood, Preakness, Kentucky Derby … World’s Greatest Money Winner in 1931 total winnings $341,365. Property of William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Color lithographic print after the oil painting by Lloyd. Signed by the artist in pencil at lower right. 17-¾ x 13-¾ in. (plate size), [N.p.: 1937?]. With Jockey “Earl Sands” up. Matted and framed. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 96-7, 108 (not seen); Siegel, p. 234.Beautiful specimen of the rarest issue of a sporting print commissioned by William Woodward, New York banker and owner of the Bel Air Stud in Maryland, who also commissioned the two most sought-after books of the press, Gallant Fox A Memoir and Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses. In his survey of the sporting prints of the Derrydale Press, John Ordeman recorded the known prints produced for William Woodward, including two portraits of “Gallant Fox”: the 1937 aquatint produced by Eugene V. Connett, III, and an entry for a print with rider up, conjecturally assigned the same date although Ordeman did not see a copy (private communication). The present print is a color lithograph, produced by the same process as Woodward’s print of the painting of Brown Betty by T.P. Earl (known in two examples).$7,500


william woodward’s winners’ circle��(WOODWARD, William) Stainforth, Martin; Megargee, Edwin; Earl, T.P. [Thoroughbred Portraits: Album of 9 equestrian portraits by Stainforth and others]. 8 aquatint engravings, hand colored, and 1 color print. Image size 12-¾ x 17-½ in. on larger sheet. Large oblong folio (23 x 36-½ in.), [New York: privately printed at the Derrydale Press, etc, 1935-1948]. Privately printed in editions of very limited quantities. Half red morocco gilt, red morocco label on upper cover, printed title-leaf, each print window-matted in heavy card mount, by Aquarius. Fine. Ordeman (2005), pp. 96-98; Mitchell, British Equestrian Artists, (“Stainforth’s detail and accuracy in likeness were very fine and very natural. He avoided the pitfalls of flatness and photographic stiffness so often found in this type of work”). Provenance: descendant of the Loew family (see note at “Marguerite”).Superb presentation of a distinguished group of thoroughbred portraits by Martin Stainforth, T.P. Earl, and Edwin Megargee, comprising: 1. “Faireno. Bay Colt 1929 by Chatterton-Minerva; Winner of the Victoria Stakes, Junior Champion, Belmont Stakes, Shevlin, Dw-yer, Lawrence Realization, Saratoga, Hawthorne, Empire City, Merchant’s & Citizens, Rochambeau and Havre de Grace Handi-caps. Champion 3 – year old of 1932. Winner of $185,140 in stakes and purses. Bred and owned by William Woodward, Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons.” Hand colored aquatint, signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: “To William G. Loew from William Woodward.” 2. “Brown Betty. by Friar Marcus-Garpal 1930; Winner of the 1000 Guineas 1933. Richemount Stakes (Hurst Park) 1933, The Rous Memorial & Cheverly Park Stakes (Newmarket) 1932, Nottingham Breeders’ Foal Stakes Champion Breeders’ Foal Plate (Derby) 1932, Total winnings 11,637 Pounds Sterling. Ridden by Joe Childs. The Property of William Woodward, Esquire. Trained by Capt. Cecil Boyd Rochfort.” Color print, signed in the plate by the artist and pencil signed by the artist “T.P. Earl” lower right. Inscribed in pencil: “To Wm Goodby Loew from William Woodward.” This print not noted by Ordeman. 3. “Omaha. Chesnut Colt 1932 by Gallant Fox-Flambino; Winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, Dwyer, Classic, and other races; Champion 3 – year-old of 1935. Winner of $146,105 to the end of his 3 – year-old year. Jockey W. Saunders, up. Bred and owned by William Woodward, Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons.” Hand-colored aquatint, signed in the plate by Stain-forth. Inscribed in pencil: “To Florence B. Loew from William Woodward.” 4. “Granville. Bay Colt 1933 by Gallant Fox-Gravita; Winner of the Belmont Classic, Kenner, Travers, Lawrence Realization Stakes, The Saratoga Cup and other races; Champion Horse of 1936. Winner of $111,820. Bred and owned by William Woodward, Es-quire. Ridden by J. Stout. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons.” Hand-colored aquatint, signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: “To W. Goodby Loew from William Woodward.” 5. “Johnstown. Bay Colt 1936 by Jamestown-La France; Winner of the Belmont, Kentucky Derby, Withers, Dwyer, Wood Memo-rial, Paumonok, Breeders Futurity and seven other races and $169,315. Owned by William Woodward, Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons.” Hand-colored aquatint, signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: “To W. Goodly Loew from William Woodward.” 6. “Marguerite … Property of William Woodward Esquire”, a fine portrait of the “premier producing mare of the world.” Hand-

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colored aquatint, signed in pencil “Edwin Megargee.” at lower right. Provenance: from the collection of Eugene V. Connett, III, with a greeting card, “Merry Christmas William Woodward.” 7. “Fenelon. Bay Horse 1937 by Sir Galahad III-Filante; Win-ner of Travers Stakes, Lawrence Realization, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Whitney Stakes, Brooklyn, Empire City, New York, Merchant’s & Citizens, Manhattan, Endurance Handi-caps and other races, and $152,545. Bred and owned by Wil-liam Woodward, Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons.” Hand-colored aquatint, signed in the plate by Stainforth. 8. “Apache. Bay Colt 1939 by Alcazar-Flying Song; Winner of 22 races and $169,515 including the Toboggan, Paumonck, Carter Wilson, Fleetwing, Bay Shore, Edgemere, Yonkers, Empire City, and Remsen Handicaps and Stakes establishing five track records from five and one half furlongs to one mile and three sixteenths. Bred and owned by William Woodward, Esquire. James Stout, up. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons.” Hand-colored aquatint, signed in the plate by Stainforth. 9. “Black Tarquin (at 3). Bay Colt 1945 by Rhodes Scholar-Va-grancy; Winner of the St. Leger Stakes 1948, and of the Gim-crack, Royal Lodge, Derby Trial, St James Palace, Chippen-ham, Burwell and White Rose Stakes; and of 32,192 Pounds Sterling Bred and owned by William Woodward, Esquire. Edgar Britt, up. Trained by Capt. Cecil Boyd Rochfort.” Hand-colored aquatint, signed in the plate by Stainforth. A choice group of the sporting prints commissioned by William Woodward, owner of the Belair Stables. “Brown Betty” by T.P. Earl (1874-1947) is previously unrecorded and never seen by Ordeman, whose 2005 book collected prior knowledge on the prints. One other print by British artist T.P. Earl (“Flares”) is noted by Ordeman, date unknown, but

in personal communication he reports that his information comes at second hand and has never seen “Brown Betty.” The print is, however, in the collection of the Belair Mansion Museum (established after Woodward’s death at his Mary-land residence). Brown Betty won the 1933 1000 Guineas race, and the painting by T.P. Earl that Woodward commissioned is dated 1933 in the plate. The paper and production of this color print differ from the aquatint horse portraits commis-sioned from Connett and Frank Lowe. Given the date of the portrait, we conjecture that Woodward commissioned the print in London, and thus it may predate and be the point of origin for the series of prints commissioned from Connett. In recent conversation, Ordeman advanced a similar hypothesis. The Megargee print, “Marguerite,” with her colt Gallant Fox, is from the collection of Derrydale Press publisher Eugene V. Connett, III. Rare and important.$30,000

��(WOODWARD, William) [Manuscript thoroughbred pedi-gree for the horse Gallant Fox]. Linen-backed paper, neatly written in a fine hand in multicolored inks. 21 x 80 in., [N.p.: n.d., 1930s]. Some toning, about fine. Rolled.Pedigree of the celebrated thoroughbred race horse Gallant Fox, foal of Marguerite and Sir Galahad III, back 17 genera-tions, with calculations of consanguinity, and extensive notes on prior generations back to Matchem, Eclipse, the Godol-phin Arabian, etc. Dense with information and beautifully presented. Unique document of one of the greatest Ameri-can prewar race horses, bred by William Woodward, whose Belair Stud was one of the most importance forces in racing


in America during the interwar years (for example, Woodward and his horses figure throughout Hervey’s history of Racing in America 1922-1936). Woodward was a former chairman of the Jockey Club.

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(WOODWARD, William) Shipman, Evan. William Woodward’s Views on Racing [Articles published in the Daily Racing Form, April–May 1951]. Newspaper portrait of Woodward as frontispiece, newspaper portraits of Sir Galahad III and Gallant Fox, tipped in photograph of Belair. [11] leaves. 8vo, [Plandome, N.Y.: G. Alan Chidsey, Book Designer, 1951]. One of a few copies prepared for William Woodward. Red pebbled morocco, titled in gilt. Some toning of clippings, else fine. OCLC: 35302231 (one copy, N.Y.S. Capital District Library). Provenance: a close family associate of Woodward, and by descent.Attractive souvenir book assembling the clippings of an extended interview with William Woodward on racing topics, conducted by Evan Shipman and published in three issues of the Daily Racing Form (19 & 28 April and 2 May 1951).

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(WOODWARD, William) [Map of Prince Georges County Maryland and surrounding areas.] Signed, “Property of William Woodward, February 9, 1909.” Manuscript key map on front pastedown. Printed map in 27 sections, backed with linen. 12mo, N.p. [Belair plantation, Bowie, Maryland]: 1909. Red cloth. Faded.William Woodward’s Belair plantation house is marked in ink, as are the historic houses of Goodwood, Tulip Hill, and Cedar Park. The signature dates from just about the time when William Woodward inherited the Belair properties from his uncle. Un-der Woodward’s stewardship, the Belair Stud would later become one of the most importance forces in racing in America during the interwar years.$7,500

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