Sothebys: The Sporting Library of Edward Sands Litchfield, N07736,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 29, 2001 - November 29, 2001
Page Size: 143 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Abbott, Henry A complete collection of Abbott's 'Birch Bark' Christmas gift books

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 5,700.00
2 (Adirondacks) 'Journal of a Hunting Excursion to Louis Lake 1851.' (New York)

(ca. 1851)

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 14,400.00
3 (Adirondacks)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 10,200.00
4 Agassiz, Louis Histoire naturelle des poissons d'eau douce de l'Europe centrale. Neuchatel

(1839-) 1842

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 5,400.00
5 Aldam, W. H. A Quaint Treatise on 'Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making' London

1875

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,700.00
6 Aldam, W. H. A Quaint Treatise on 'Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making,' London

1876

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 4,500.00
7 Alken, Henry The National Sports of Great Britain. London

1821

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 34,100.00
8 (American Angling)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,900.00
9 American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine. Baltimore

USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 13,200.00
10 (Angling) The North-Country Angler, or the Art of Angling as Practised in the Northern Counties of England. London

1789

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,600.00
11 Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette London

1822-1828

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 1,800.00
12 Ascham, Roger Toxophilus, the Schole, or partitions of Shooting. London

1571

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 4,500.00
13 Audubon, John James The Birds of America. New York & Philadelphia

1840-1844

USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 69,750.00
14 Audubon, John James, and John Bachman The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York

1845-1848 (atlas); 1846-1851 (text volumes)

USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 269,750.00
15 Audubon, John James, and John Bachman The Quadrupeds of North America. New York

1849-51-54

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 24,900.00
16 Baigent, William A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

[ca. 1941]

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 6,000.00
17 [Barker, Thomas] The Art of Angling. London

1653

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 5,400.00
18 (Bavaria) Das Buech der gemeinen Landpot, Landsordung, Satzung und Gebreuch des Furstennthumbs in Obern und Nidern Bairn Im Funftzehnhundert und Sechtzendem Jar aufgericht. (Munich)

(1516)

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 35,250.00
19 Beebe, Charles William A Monograph of the Pheasants. London

1918-27

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 3,600.00
20 Blacker, William Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing. Comprising the Most Essential Information. London

8 December 1843

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 9,000.00
21 Blome, Richard The Gentleman's Recreation. London

1686

USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 4,200.00
22 Bowdich, Sarah The Fresh-water Fishes of Great Britain. London

1838

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 49,625.00
23 Bowlker, Richard The Art of Angling Improved in all its Parts, Especially Fly-Fishing. Worcester

[?1746]

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 4,200.00
24 Bradley, William Arnold Fly-Fishing Reminiscences (With Illustrations) of My Early Years (1908-1916) at the Beaverkill Trout Club. PlacePrinted [Pleasantville, New York]

[1929]

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 14,400.00
25 (Canada) George Head. Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds of North America;

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 4,200.00
26 Cartwright, George A Journal of the Transactions and Events, during a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador. Newark

1792

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,300.00
27 Catlin, George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. London

1844 [or 1845]

USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 110,000.00
28 Caucci, Al, and Bob Nastasi Hatches. A Complete Guide to Fishing the Hatches of the North American Trout Streams. New York

1982

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 5,100.00
29 (Chetham, James) The Angler's Vade Mecum. London

1681

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 4,800.00
30 (Cincinnati Angling Club) Proceedings of the Cincinnati Angling Club. Cincinnati

1831

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 4,500.00
31 Clinton, De Witt Account of the Salmo Otsego, or the Otsego Basse. In a Letter to John W. Francis, M. D. New York

1822

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 3,600.00
32 Colden, Cadwallader R., editor New York Sporting Magazine and Annals of the American and English Turf. New York

March 1833-February, 1834; July-December, 1834

USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 14,400.00
33 Colden, Cadwallader R., editor The United States Sporting Magazine. New York

November, 1835-August, 1836

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 7,800.00
34 [Crawhill, Joseph] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, being done oute of ye Hebrewe and Other Tongues by a Person of Honor. (Northumberland)

(1859)

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 13,200.00
35 (Crockett, David) 'Go Ahead!' Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports of the West, and Life in the Backwoods.

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 54,800.00
36 (Cuttyhunk Club) Incorporation and By-Laws of the Cuttyhunk Club, 1870. New York

[1870]

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,700.00
37 Davis, Edmund W. Salmon-Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia. [New York]

1904

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 3,600.00
38 Davis, Edmund W. Woodcock Shooting. N.p.

1908

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,800.00
39 (Doughty, John, and Thomas Doughty) The Cabinet of Natural History and Rural Sports. Philadelphia

1830-1833

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 6,600.00
40 D'Oyly, Charles, Sir Indian Sports. (Patna)

(1829)

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 8,400.00
41 (Derrydale Press) Connett, Eugene V. Magic Hours. Wherein We Cast a Fly Here & There As We Wade Along Together. New York

1927

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 18,000.00
42 (Derrydale Press) Connet, Eugene V. Feathered Game. From a Sporting Journal. New York

(1929)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 9,600.00
43 (Derrydale Press)Barber, Joel. Wild Fowl Decoys. New York

(1934)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 6,600.00
44 (Derrydale Press)Jennings, Preston J. A Book of Trout Flies. New York

(1934)

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 23,750.00
45 (Derrydale Press) Connett, Eugene V., ed. American Big Game Fishing. New York

(1935)

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 7,800.00
46 (Derrydale Press)Phair, Charles. Atlantic Salmon Fishing. New York

1937

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 14,400.00
47 (Derrydale Press) Pollard, H. B. C. and Phyllis Barclay-Smith. British and American Game Birds. New York

1939

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 5,100.00
48 (Eastern and Midwestern Trappers) Jeptha R. Simms. Trappers of New York, or a Biography of Nicholas Stoner & Nathaniel Foster.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,600.00
49 Edmonds, Harfield H., and Norman N. Lee Brook and River Trouting: A Manual of Modern North Country Methods. Bradford

[1916]

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 9,600.00
50 Ellsworth, Lincoln The Last Wild Buffalo Hunt. New York

1916

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 5,100.00
51 Estienne, Charles, and Jean Liebault Maison rustique, or, the Countrey Farme London

1616

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,700.00
52 (Florida and the South)

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 15,600.00
53 [Francis, Charles Spencer] Sport Among the Rockies. A Record of a Fishing and Hunting Trip in North-Western Montana. Troy, New York

1889

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 29,500.00
54 Franck, Richard Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland...to which is added the Contemplative and Practical Angler. London

1694

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 9,600.00
55 Frost, A. B. Shooting Pictures. New York

1895

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 26,050.00
56 Frost, A. B. Sports and Games in the Open. New York

1899

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 2,700.00
57 Gibbs, Oliver, Jr. Lake Pepin Fish-chowder in Letters to General Spinner. New York

1869

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,300.00
58 Giovio, Paolo De romanis piscibus libellus. Rome

August, 1524

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 9,600.00
59 Goode, George Brown, and A. S. Kilbourne Game Fishes of the United States. New York

1879

USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 15,600.00
60 Gould, John A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America. London

[1844-1846]-1850

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 18,000.00
61 [Goury de Champgrand, Charles Jean] Traite de venerie, et de chasses. Paris

1769

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,440.00
62 Griswold, Frank Gray An extensive collection of the privately printed works of Frank Gray Griswold,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,000.00
63 Halford, Frederic M. Floating Flies and How to Dress them: A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods for Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling. New York

1886

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 3,300.00
64 Halford, Frederic M. Dry Fly Entomology: ... London

1897

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 7,200.00
65 Halford, Frederic M. An Angler's Autobiography. London

1903

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,000.00
66 Halford, Frederic M. Modern Development of the Dry Fly: The New Dry Fly Patterns, the Manipulation of Dressing them, and Practical Experiences of their Use. New York

(1910)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 7,200.00
67 Harris, W. Cornwallis Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa,... London

1840

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 14,400.00
68 Harris, W. Cornwallis The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; ... London

1841

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 2,400.00
69 Harris, William Charles The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line. New York

1898

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,400.00
70 Harrop, Rene (et al.) A Book of Small Flies. Arlington, Vermont

1983

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 6,600.00
71 Herbert, Henry William Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches;

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 4,200.00
72 Hind, Henry Youle Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition ...

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,800.00
73 Holbrook, John Edwards Ichthyology of South Carolina. Charleston, S. C.

1860

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 2,160.00
74 Houghton, William British Fresh-water Fishes. London

[1879]

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 720.00
75 Houston, George The Farmer's, Mechanic's, Manufacturer's and Sportsman's Magazine. New York

1826-27

USD 500.00 - 750.00 360.00
76 Howitt, Samuel, et al Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c &c London

1814

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 10,200.00
77 [Howlett, Robert] The Anglers Sure Guide: or, Angling Improved, and Methodically Digested. London

1706

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,800.00
78 [Hunting] An Essay on Hunting. By a Country Squire. London

1733

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,900.00
79 Kelson, George M. Tips. London

1901

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 19,150.00
80 The Kentish Angler; ...

USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 13,200.00
81 [Kester, Jesse Y.] American Shooter's Manual, ... Philadelphia

1827

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 480.00
82 Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book -- The Second Jungle Book. London

1894-1895

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 8,400.00
83 La Branche, George M. L. The Salmon and the Dry Fly. Boston and New York

1924

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 4,200.00
84 Lamb, Dana S. On Trout Streams and Salmon Rivers. Barre, Massachusetts

1963

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 4,500.00
85 Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents &c in the First Half of the Century of the Republic. By a Native Georgian. Augusta

1835

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 9,600.00
86 M[ascall]., L[eonard] A Booke of Fishing with Hooke & Line, ... London

1590

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 98,500.00
87 Massachusetts Shooting Club Constitution and By-Laws. Boston

1848

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,280.00
88 New York State. Forest, Fish and Game Commission A group of 15 annual reports for the years 1895-1909, [Albany

[1896-1910].

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 4,500.00
89 North, Roger A Treatise on Fish and Fish-Ponds. London

[ca. 1824; plates and text watermarked 1821-24]

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 6,600.00
90 Ogilvie-Grant, W. R., Arthur Acland Hood, J. G. Millais, et al The Gun at Home and Abroad. London

1912-1915

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,400.00
91 Parker, Amos A. Trip to the West and Texas. ... Concord, N.H.

1835

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 2,280.00
92 Percy, Alice, and Algernon Heber Percy Journal of Two Excursions in the British North West Territory of North America, ... 1877 & 1878. Shropshire

n.d.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 18,000.00
93 Phillips, John Charles A Natural History of the Ducks. London

1923-26

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,800.00
94 (Piscatorial Poetry)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 4,500.00
95 Pope, Alexander, Jr., and Ernest Ingersoll Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States. New York

1878

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 15,600.00
96 Pringle, J. J. Twenty Years' Snipe-Shooting. New York

1899

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 5,100.00
97 Quinlan, James Eldridge Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer: and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink. Monticello, New York

1851

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 4,800.00
98 Rafinesque-Schmaltz, Constantine Samuel Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and Its Tributary Streams. Lexington, Ky.

1820

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 13,200.00
99 Rawthorne, Lawrence Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game. London

1837

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 2,040.00
100 Ronalds, Alfred The Fly-Fisher's Entomology. London

1836

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 3,900.00
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
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