Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains. 55 plates, text illustrations. [1], xxiv, [5], 321, [1], viii, 476 pages. 4to, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth with morocco title labels, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down, minor wear; light marginal chipping to contents; signed by Roosevelt below the frontispiece, #384 of 1000, title page in red and black, uncut; Omaha Public Library markings including perforated stamps on title page and page 21. New York, 1899

Additional Details

A limited-edition printing of "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman'' and "The Wilderness Hunter." The plates are in a variety of formats, many by notable artists and engravers, including 4 etchings by Swain Gifford and a Frederic Remington engraving. Vail Checklist, page 1.