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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE and HENRY DAVIS MINOT. The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y. [Salem, Mass.: the Salem Press for the Naturalists' Agency (Samuel E. Cassino), October 1877].
8vo, 236 x 154mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/16in.), 4-page leaflet, folding cloth chemise, quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION OF ROOSEVELT'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, AND THE FIRST PUBLISHED STUDY OF BIRDS OF THE ADIRONDACKS, caption title.
A very rare, privately printed list of 97 birds, most of which were observed during a two-week camping trip in the Adirondack region made by the 18-year-old Roosevelt and his Harvard buddy Harry Minot (already a respected ornithological authority) from June 22 to July 9 1877, during their first college summer vacation. In his introductory paragraph Roosevelt explains that Minot has "been with me only during the last week of June. Each of us has used his initials in making a statement which the other has not verified." The list was published by Samuel Cassino, a friend and frequent hiking companion of Roosevelt, in an edition intended for private distribution that probably did not exceed 100 copies. The list was favorably received in scientific circles, and as late as 1910 was incorporated in E. H. Eton's Birds of New York, who described it as the "first definite study of our Adirondack avi-fauna" (cited by Cordingley).
Nora E. Cordingley, "Extreme rarities in the published works of Theodore Roosevelt", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 39 (1945), pp. 22-24; J. H. Wheelock, A Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt, New York 1920, p. 12.
[With]:
[Portrait of President THEODORE ROOSEVELT]. Photograph inscribed and signed, 8vo, 262 x 157mm. (10 1/4 x 6 1/4in.), mat-burn crossing the inscription, single hard crease and slight crack, bearing copyright notice dated 1907, boldly inscribed in ink in the lower margin: "To Jan von Munkácsy with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt, 27 February 1908."
Provenance:
Jan Munkácsy, as above
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
8vo, 236 x 154mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/16in.), 4-page leaflet, folding cloth chemise, quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION OF ROOSEVELT'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, AND THE FIRST PUBLISHED STUDY OF BIRDS OF THE ADIRONDACKS, caption title.
A very rare, privately printed list of 97 birds, most of which were observed during a two-week camping trip in the Adirondack region made by the 18-year-old Roosevelt and his Harvard buddy Harry Minot (already a respected ornithological authority) from June 22 to July 9 1877, during their first college summer vacation. In his introductory paragraph Roosevelt explains that Minot has "been with me only during the last week of June. Each of us has used his initials in making a statement which the other has not verified." The list was published by Samuel Cassino, a friend and frequent hiking companion of Roosevelt, in an edition intended for private distribution that probably did not exceed 100 copies. The list was favorably received in scientific circles, and as late as 1910 was incorporated in E. H. Eton's Birds of New York, who described it as the "first definite study of our Adirondack avi-fauna" (cited by Cordingley).
Nora E. Cordingley, "Extreme rarities in the published works of Theodore Roosevelt", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 39 (1945), pp. 22-24; J. H. Wheelock, A Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt, New York 1920, p. 12.
[With]:
[Portrait of President THEODORE ROOSEVELT]. Photograph inscribed and signed, 8vo, 262 x 157mm. (10 1/4 x 6 1/4in.), mat-burn crossing the inscription, single hard crease and slight crack, bearing copyright notice dated 1907, boldly inscribed in ink in the lower margin: "To Jan von Munkácsy with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt, 27 February 1908."
Provenance:
Jan Munkácsy, as above
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).