Ending Mar 7, 2024 12:56 EST
Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Two books by William T. Hornaday, including a presentation copy from the book's illustrator
HORNADAY, WILLIAM T.
Two works. including Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Presentation copy, with a charming ink inscription from the book's illustrator John M. Phillips to L. A. Robinson, dated 1911, on the front free endpaper, the inscription includes a drawing of a bear's head and a rabbit, with a laid in typed signed letter from Philips to Robinson about a grizzly bear dated 1913. Publisher's aqua ribbed cloth with mounted photographic illustration, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. 9 x 6 inches (22.75 x 15.5 cm); 353, [4] pp.; half-title, publisher's advertisements, photographic frontispiece with tissue guard, plates after photographs. Wear to cloth, rubbing to the photographic illustration on upper board, lightly soiled, front hinge cracked, a few leaves sprung, bookplate. Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Publisher's scarlet cloth with mounted illustration and gilt title. 9 x 6 inches (22.75 x 15.5 cm); 366, [4] pp.; color frontispiece with tissue guard, plates, many after photographs, some in color. Light wear, some fading and staining to spine, front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting.
Of the first: "With a plenitude of mountain sheep and goat hunting, and grizzly bear as well" (Heller). Bruns H165; Heller 165; Phillips, 183. And the second: "The first important work on sheep hunting in the American Southwest and in Mexico" (Heller). Heller 166; Phillips, p. 183.
Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200
Includes Buyer's Premium
HORNADAY, WILLIAM T.
Two works. including Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Presentation copy, with a charming ink inscription from the book's illustrator John M. Phillips to L. A. Robinson, dated 1911, on the front free endpaper, the inscription includes a drawing of a bear's head and a rabbit, with a laid in typed signed letter from Philips to Robinson about a grizzly bear dated 1913. Publisher's aqua ribbed cloth with mounted photographic illustration, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. 9 x 6 inches (22.75 x 15.5 cm); 353, [4] pp.; half-title, publisher's advertisements, photographic frontispiece with tissue guard, plates after photographs. Wear to cloth, rubbing to the photographic illustration on upper board, lightly soiled, front hinge cracked, a few leaves sprung, bookplate. Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Publisher's scarlet cloth with mounted illustration and gilt title. 9 x 6 inches (22.75 x 15.5 cm); 366, [4] pp.; color frontispiece with tissue guard, plates, many after photographs, some in color. Light wear, some fading and staining to spine, front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting.
Of the first: "With a plenitude of mountain sheep and goat hunting, and grizzly bear as well" (Heller). Bruns H165; Heller 165; Phillips, 183. And the second: "The first important work on sheep hunting in the American Southwest and in Mexico" (Heller). Heller 166; Phillips, p. 183.
Auction: Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, ending Mar 7, 2024
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Timed Auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Bidding Will Open on February 22 and Close on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold a timed online auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books closing on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am. Explore the world through a fascinating range of offerings featuring maps, Americana, travel, sporting books, literary sets and the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection of Africana.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018) was educated as a geographer and philosopher. He and his wife Chryssee had an enduring fascination with Africa, and settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in the mid-1970s. He wrote extensively, oftentimes in conjunction with his wife, publishing works including Zanzibar. Tradition and Revolution, Hamish Hamilton, 1978; Cargoes of the east. The ports, trade, and culture of the Arabian Seas and western Indian Ocean, Elm Tree Press, 1978; and many other works on African history and conservation. In the late 1970s, he began extensive research into the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, which included substantial stints incognito posing as a buyer of illicit wildlife products. For a while, he served as special envoy for rhino conservation for the United Nations.
For about thirty years, beginning in the mid-1960s, Esmond Bradley Martin assiduously collected books and manuscripts on Africa and its history, acquiring a phenomenal collection of letters by many of the major English explorers of the nineteenth century, as well as numerous rarities from earlier centuries. He was buying at a time when troves of such material surfaced frequently at English auctions. Doyle was privileged to offer the first selection from his collection in the November 7, 2023 auction. We are pleased to present this second offering of property from The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection.
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