Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 329

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Mes Chasses en Afrique. Numerous plates. xi, 360, [4] pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; front hinge split; Theodore Roosevelt bookplate on front pastedown, and inscribed by the author on flyleaf, "To dear Mademoiselle Drolet, with the regards of her friend Theodore Roosevelt, Feb 8th 1911, as a reminder of Archie and Quentin and all of us!" Paris, 1910

Additional Details

The French edition of African Game Trails. The recipient, Regine Drolet (born circa 1878), was a French-Canadian woman who had served as governess to Roosevelt's children at the White House.