Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE; and H.D. Minot. The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y. 4 printed pages on one folded sheet. 8vo, unbound; minor wear and soiling, glue stain in margin of page 3. In later 1/4 morocco slipcase, moderate wear and sunning. Np, [1877?]
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roosevelt's first published work, a catalogue of 97 species observed by Roosevelt (then in his late teens) and Minot during the summers of 1874, 1875, and 1877. It was actually reviewed in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Society, January 1878, which called it "Very acceptable . . . the first list known to us of the birds of this ornithologically little-explored region." Only two other copies have been seen at auction since 1958. "Firmly established in the hearts of collectors as being very desirable"--Cordingley, Extreme Rarities in the Published Works of Theodore Roosevelt, page 22. Provenance: Sold by Edward Eberstadt to Thomas W. Streeter; Parke-Bernet's Streeter sale, 25 October 1967, lot 1763; Swann sale, 26 October 1995, lot 325, to Peter Scanlan. with--the 1923 facsimile offprint from the Roosevelt Wildlife Bulletin, and a 1925 facsimile printing, #75 of 200.