Books and Manuscripts

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

1. Forester, Frank (editor)
Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches…
New York: Gould, Banks & Co. 1842. In two volumes. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's purple cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; in custom brown box with “Brooke Dolan 1940” stamped in gilt on front panel.

A near-fine set. The first of William Henry Herbert's books to use the pseudonym Frank Forester. 

2. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States…
London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; in custom light green box with “Brooke Dolan 1940” stamped in gilt on front panel. Westwood and Satchell, p. 115

3. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing in the United States…
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1850. First edition 8vo. Publisher's navy blue cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; book-plate of Henry C. Taylor on front paste-down. Together in a green box with Supplement to Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing… Same details as Fish and Fishing but with an ownership signature on front paste-down. Westwood and Satchell, p. 115

4. American Game In Its Seasons
New York: Charles Scribner, 1853. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial royal blue cloth, stamped in blind and in girl; all edges trimmed; contemporary ownership signature on front blank; with an autograph letter, signed by the author, dated October 26, 1857, mounted to front paste-down; in green cloth-covered box. Westwood and Satchell, p. 116 (later edition)

A beautiful copy. 

5. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing in the United States…
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1855. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. 8vo. Publisher's light green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed. Westwood and Satchell, p. 115

6. The Complete Manual For Young Sportsmen…
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1856. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial light green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed. Westwood and Satchell, p. 116

7. Wildwood, Will (editor)
Frank Forester's Fugitive Sporting Sketches…
Westfield, Wisconsin: Privately printed, 1879. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; contemporary ownership signature on front paste-down; in custom brown box with “Brooke Dolan 1940” stamped in gilt on front panel.

A beautiful copy.

8. The Dog. By Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson
New York: George E. Woodward, (ca. 1873). Complete and Revised Edition. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed.

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.