Books and Manuscripts

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

1. (Prime, William C.)
The Owl Creek Letters, and Other Correspondence
New York: Baker & Scribner, 1848. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down.

2. Norris, Thad
The American Angler's Book: Embracing The Natural History of Sporting Fish, and The Art of Taking Them…
Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co, 1864. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down; contemporary gift inscription on recto of frontispiece. Westwood and Satchell, p. 157

3. Roosevelt, Robert B. 
Superior Fishing; Or, The Striped Bass, Trout and Black Bass Of the Northern States…
New York: Carleton, 1865. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down. Westwood and Satchell, p. 179

4. Ubique (Gillmore, Parker)
Gun, Rod, And Saddle. Personal Experiences
New York: W.A. Townsend & Adams, 1869. First American edition. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, bevelled edges; all edges trimmed; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front free endpaper; contemporary bookseller's ad mounted on front paste-down. Westwood and Satchell, p. 211

5. Murray, W(illiam).H.H.
Adirondack Tales
Boston: The Golden Rule Publishing Co, 1877. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in black and in gilt, bevelled edges; all edges trimmed; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down. 

6. Wells, Henry P. 
The American Salmon Fisherman
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886. First American edition. 12mo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt; all edges trimmed; University Club library book-plate on front paste-down, “discard” rubber-stamped on title-page, University Club New York blindstamp on same; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front free endpaper.

7. Holberton, Wakeman
The Art of Angling How and Where to Catch Fish
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1887). First edition. 12mo. Publisher's limp brown cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down.

8. Clarke, Kit
Where the Trout Hide
New York, et al.: Brentano's, 1889. First edition. 24mo. Publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; decorated endpapers; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front free endpaper; armorial book-plate on front paste-down.

9. (Various Authors)
American Game Fishes…
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, (1892). First edition. 8vo. Publisher's light blue cloth, stamped in gilt, blue, and green, bevelled edges; all edges trimmed; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down.

10. Comeau, Napoleon A. 
Life and Sport on the North Shore of the Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf…
Quebec: Daily Telegraph Printing House, 1909. First edition. 8vo. Three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; by Stikeman & Co.; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down.

11. Hallock, Charles
An Angler's Reminiscences…
Cincinnati: Sportsmen's Review Pub. Co., 1913. First edition. Publisher's full brown limp leather, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; decorated endpapers; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down.

Lot also includes Brook Dolan's copy of the auction catalogue The Renowned Library on American Sport Collected by William Mitchell Van Winkle, offered by Parke-Bernet Galleries on December 4-5, 1940, and with his annotations.

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.