Doyle RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS & MAPS INCLUDING
THE TRAVEL & SPORTING LIBRARY OF ARNOLD “JAKE” JOHNSON
Auction April 25
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E. H. SHEPARD, Original drawing for A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner, published on page 78. Sold with a first edition, number 284 of 350 copies, signed by both author and illustrator. Also offered are fine copies in dust jackets of the signed limited editions of 350 copies of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and Now We Are Six (1927). Estimate: $40,000-60,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Autograph letter signed comparing Logan, Tecumseh, and Little Turtle to the Spartans. Monticello: 15 February 1821. A very rare direct comment on these great Native American warriors. Estimate: $14,000-18,000
ROBERT NOBBES, The compleat troller, or, the art of trolling…. London: printed by T. James for Tho. Helder at the Angel in Little Britain, 1682. The first edition. Estimate: $1,000-1,500
WILLIAM COMBE, A History of Madeira … illustrative of the Costumes, Manners, and Occupations of the Inhabitants. Produced by Ackermann in 1821; with hand-colored aquatint title vignette and 27 plates, in original boards. Part of a substantial group of color plate books from the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. Estimate: $2,000-$3,000
JOHN WHITEHEAD, Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. Published in 1893 in London, this is an account of the expedition during which Whitehead reached the high point of Kinabalu in 1888. From the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. Estimate: $2,000-$3,000
ERIC TAVERNER, Salmon Fishing… One of 275 copies signed by Taverner, published in 1931, an immaculate copy, in the original box, with the tray of seven original flies in the rear. Part of an important group of angling and fly fishing books from the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. Estimate: $2,000-$3,000
ZANE GREY, Album containing approx. 94 large format photographs of Grey and party at Catalina Island, Arizona, and fishing in the Pacific. Circa 1922. Part of a substantial offering of Zane Grey books, manuscripts and photograph albums from the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. Estimate: $5,000-$8,000
BERNARD RATZER, Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767. London: Faden & Jeffreys, 1776. Engraved map on three sheets joined, overall 48 1/2 x 35 3/4 inches. A fine copy of “the finest map of an American city and its environs produced in the eighteenth century” (Manhattan in Maps, p. 73). From the New York Collection of Dr. Leo Hershkowitz, featuring many maps and rare New York imprints. Estimate: $80,000-100,000
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