Sale 23SP01 | Catalogue

Sporting & Travel Books

Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 10am EST | New York

Sporting & Travel Books | Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 10am EST

Lot 1

CATLIN, GEORGE North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight...

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CODY WETMORE, HELEN. Last of the Great Scouts. The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill).

Lot 2

CODY WETMORE, HELEN. Last of the Great Scouts. The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill). Duluth, MN.: The Dul...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $94 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, General] A collection of six books by or about General G. A. Custer.

Lot 3

[CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, General] A collection of six books by or about General G. A. Custer. Comprises CUSTER, GENERAL...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, General Envelope addressed to Mrs. Genl. Custer, in his hand.

Lot 4

CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, General Envelope addressed to Mrs. Genl. Custer, in his hand. The envelope has two three-cent stamps aff...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 5

[COLOR PLATE] MATTHEWS, WASHINGTON. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History Volume VI. Publications of The Hyde Southweste...

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 6

[COLOR PLATE] Two copies of Third Annual Report of the Regents of the University on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural Hi...

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $100 - $200

Unsold

Lot 7

REMINGTON, FREDERIC. Two books.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 8

[ROOSEVELT, THEODORE] Banquet of the Hamilton Club of Chicago on the Thirty Fourth Anniversary of Appomattox Day The First Day...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 9

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE 14 titles, including first editions.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $600 - $800

Sold for $2,835 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 10

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Signature.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $504 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [ROOSEVELT, THEODORE] FRASER, JAMES EARL. Bronze wall plaque portrait of Theodore Roosevelt.

Lot 11

[ROOSEVELT, THEODORE] FRASER, JAMES EARL. Bronze wall plaque portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. A bronze wall plaque bas relief...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Typed letter signed on Outlook

Lot 12

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Typed letter signed on Outlook magazine stationery.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 13

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE African Game Trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $2,835 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - ROOSEVELT, THEODORE The Rough Riders.

Lot 14

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE The Rough Riders. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1899. First edition. Publishers cloth, rebacked in...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 15

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and On the Great Plains Comprising Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilder...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - ABBOTT, HENRY A complete collection of Abbotts Birch Bark Christmas gift books.

Lot 16

ABBOTT, HENRY A complete collection of Abbotts Birch Bark Christmas gift books. New York: privately printed, 1914-1932. M...

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $2,835 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [ALASKA - BEAR HUNTING] A group of five books about hunting bears in Alaska,

Lot 17

[ALASKA - BEAR HUNTING] A group of five books about hunting bears in Alaska, comprising EDDY, JOHN W. Hunting the Alaska Brown Bear....

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $500 - $700

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 18

[ALASKA - BIG GAME HUNTING] MACKAY, MALCOLM S. Cow Range and Hunting Trail.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $80 - $120

Sold for $100 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 19

[ALASKA] EDDY, JOHN W. Hunting on Kenai Peninsula and Observations on the Increase of Big Game in North America.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 20

[ALASKA-HUNTING] PALMER, J. FREDERICK. Kodiak Bear Hunt. Stalking the Giant Bears of Alaska.

Estimate: $40 - $60

Unsold

Lot image - [ALAKSA and the YUKON] A collection of nine books about hunting in Alaska and The Yukon.

Lot 21

[ALAKSA and the YUKON] A collection of nine books about hunting in Alaska and The Yukon. Comprises RADCLYFFE, CAPTAIN C....

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 22

[ALASKA-HUNTING] BOVET, LOUIS A. (Junior). Moose Hunting in Alaska, Wyoming, and Yukon Territory.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 23

[ALASKA - SIGNED BOOKS] A group of three signed and inscribed books about hunting in Alaska.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $113 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 24

BAILLIE-GROHMAN, W. A. Fifteen Years Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $80 - $120

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 25

[SPORTING] BRADLEY, J.R. Hunting Big Game in Far Northwest British Columbia.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $945 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BIG GAME HUNTING] CARPENTER, DONALD A. Hunting Big Game in the Sierras of Chihuahua.

Lot 26

[BIG GAME HUNTING] CARPENTER, DONALD A. Hunting Big Game in the Sierras of Chihuahua.[Mansfield, Ohio: M.A. Pollock, 1906 (p...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 27

[ALASKA-HUNTING] YOUNG, G.[EORGE] O.[RVILLE]. Alaskan Trophies Won and Lost.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $945 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 28

[ALASKA-HUNTING] CARPENTER, R. R. M. Game Trails in Idaho and Alaska.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 30

CLAFLIN, WM. H., Jr. Partridge Rambles, in Which the Author Sets Forth His Reasons Why He Prefers to Hunt That Noble Bird Without th...

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $598 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [HUNTING-NORTH AMERICA] COLEHOUR, FRANK E. My Travelogue.

Lot 31

[HUNTING-NORTH AMERICA] COLEHOUR, FRANK E. My Travelogue. Rockford, Illinois: Bliss Printing Company, 1940. Publishers pict...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $10 - $20

Sold for $6 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [SPORTING - BIG GAME] CORDIER, A. H. Some Big Game Hunts.

Lot 32

[SPORTING - BIG GAME] CORDIER, A. H. Some Big Game Hunts. Kansas City, Missouri: privately printed, 1911. First edition. Pub...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 33

[HUNTING] HORNADAY, WILLIAM T. Two works.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 34

[SPORTING - CALIFORNIA AND MEXICO] CUDAHY, JOHN. MananaLand. Adventuring with Camera and Rifle through California in Mexico....

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [SPORTING] DAVY, G. BURTON. Saga of the Rockies.

Lot 35

[SPORTING] DAVY, G. BURTON. Saga of the Rockies. Manchester, N. H.: Lew A. Cummings Co., [circa 1944]. Inscribed by the auth...

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [DERRYDALE PRESS] OCONNOR, JACK. Game in the Desert.

Lot 36

[DERRYDALE PRESS] OCONNOR, JACK. Game in the Desert. New York: Derrydale Press, [1939]. Copy #345 from a limited edition of...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [DERRYDALE PRESS] GRAY, PRENTISS N. [editor]. Records of North American Big Game.

Lot 37

[DERRYDALE PRESS] GRAY, PRENTISS N. [editor]. Records of North American Big Game. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. One o...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 38

[DERRYDALE PRESS] A group of three hunting books.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $300 - $400

Sold for $693 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 39

[DERRYDALE PRESS] GRAY, PRENTISS N. North American Big Game. Official Measurement Records Compiled... for the Boone and Crocket...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 40

[SPORTING - ALASKA] EDDY, JOHN W. Hunting on Kenai Peninsula and Observations on the Increase of Big Game in North America....

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - GREY, ZANE Tales of Lonely Trails.

Lot 41

GREY, ZANE Tales of Lonely Trails. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922. First edition, first state (code G-W). Publ...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $63 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 42

[AMERICA--DUCK HUNTING] HAZELTON, WILLIAM C. (Compiler). Wildfowling Tales from the great Ducking Resorts of the Continent.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $250 - $350

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 43

[AMERICA-HUNTING] HAZELTON, WILLIAM C. Three works written or compiled by him.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,071 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 44

HOLLAND, RAY P. Collection of manuscripts for many short pieces by the sporting author Ray P. Holland.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $504 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 45

HORNADAY, WILLIAM T. Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $80 - $120

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 46

[AMERICA - HUNTING] HORNADAY, WILLIAM T. Comprises two Hornaday titles in various early editions.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $200 - $400

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 47

KNAPP, EDWARD SPRING We Knapps Thought it was Nice.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 48

MERRILL, SAMUEL The Moose Book. Facts and Stories from Northern Forests.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $60 - $80

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - SHELDON, CHARLES A group of three first editions by the author about hunting in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska.

Lot 49

SHELDON, CHARLES A group of three first editions by the author about hunting in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska. Comp...

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $300 - $400

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 50

[HUNTING] Four works on hunting.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [HUNTING PHOTO ALBUM] Photographic album of life on a hunting camp, not identified, circa

Lot 51

[HUNTING PHOTO ALBUM] Photographic album of life on a hunting camp, not identified, circa 1890.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [SPORTING] SETON-KARR, HENRY. My Sporting Holidays.

Lot 52

[SPORTING] SETON-KARR, HENRY. My Sporting Holidays. London: Edward Arnold, 1904. Presentation copy, first edition. Publisher...

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $40 - $60

Sold for $44 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 53

[SPORTING CLUB] Manuscript record, apparently unique, of the proceedings of the Southbridge Rod and Gun Club of Massachusetts,...

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 54

[HUNTING - NORTH AMERICA] A group of three titles about hunting in North America.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [SPORTING] A miscellany of eight sporting Works.

Lot 55

[SPORTING] A miscellany of eight sporting Works. Comprising: 1) KENT, WILLIAM. Reminiscences of Outdoor Life. San Fran...

C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $157 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - STEARNS, MARSHAL Just Memories

Lot 56

STEARNS, MARSHAL Just Memories with Memories and Reflections.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 57

[AMERICAN HUNTING] STIMSON, HENRY L. My Vacations.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 58

[QUAIL] STODDARD, HERBERT L. The Bobwhite Quail. Its Habits, Preservation and Increase.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 59

[SHOOTING] Approximately ten trade catalogues for rifles, gunsights, ammunition etc., 1890s-1930s.

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 60

[SPORTING] TAYLOR, L. Hunting Big Game in North Western North America.

C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - WALPOLE, STEWART J. A series of three books of hunting memoirs.

Lot 61

WALPOLE, STEWART J. A series of three books of hunting memoirs. Comprises Scrapbook Selections.; Scrapbook Selectio...

C The Property of a New England Family

Estimate: $40 - $60

Sold for $37 (includes buyer's premium)