Sothebys: The Sporting Library of Edward Sands Litchfield, N07736,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 29, 2001 - November 29, 2001
| 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 |
