Books and Manuscripts

From The Sporting Library Of American Adventurer, Naturalist, and Sportsman, Brooke Dolan II

1. Keene, John Harrington
Fishing Tackle, Its Materials and Manufacture: A Practical Guide…
London and New York: Ward, Lock and Co, (ca. 1886). First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with four folding plates. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, stamped in gilt, blue, and yellow; all edges stained red. Sage, p. 122

2. Cholmondeley-Pennell, H.
Modern Improvements in Fishing Tackle and Fish Hooks
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, (1887). First edition. 12mo. Full blue levant lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; marbled endpapers; original cloth bound at rear; by A(braham). B(urtis). Baylis; book-plate of Baylis on front paste-down.

3. Marbury, Mary Orvis
Favorite Flies and Their Histories
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 32 color plates. Publisher's light green quarter cloth over darker green cloth, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, some pages unopened; gray endpapers; in custom light green box with "Brooke Dolan 1940" stamped in gilt on front panel. Sage, p. 134

4. Halford, Frederic M. 
Making a Fishery
London: Horace Cox, 1895. First edition. 8vo. Full blue levant, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; original cloth bound at rear; by A(braham). B(urtis). Baylis; book-plate of Baylis on front paste-down; book-plate of angling collector John Gerard Heckscher on front free endpaper.

5. Keene, J(ohn). Harrington
Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout, Bass, Salmon, Etc.
New York: Forest and Stream, 1898. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 12mo. Illustrated with two plates mounted with actual fly-tying materials, including feathers. Publisher's grey pictorial cloth, stamped in black and in gilt; all edges trimmed; decorated endpapers.

Lot also includes two vintage Hardy Bros. catalogues: Hardy's Anglers' Guide, 54th edition, 1934 and the 55th edition, 1937. Condition varies. Lot sold with all faults.

Brooke Dolan II (1908-45) was an American adventurer, naturalist, sportsman, and book collector. Educated at Harvard University and Princeton University, he later became a trustee of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. During the 1930s he led two notable expeditions to China and Tibet, collecting numerous specimens that he sent back for the Academy's collection. In 1942, during World War II, he was recruited to serve in the OSS (precursor of the CIA) and traveled to Lhasa with Ilya Tolstoy (grandson of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy), searching for supply routes to China for the Allied Forces. During this time they established contact with the Tibetan government and met the seven-year-old 14th Dalai Lama--the first Americans to ever do so. He then joined the Army Air Forces, and the United States Military Observer Group in Western China, behind Japanese lines near Mao’s headquarters. He died in 1945.