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347 ● ROOSEVELT, THEODORE; and H.D. Minot. The Summer Birds of the
Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y. 4 printed pages on one folded sheet. 8vo,
unbound; minor wear and soiling, glue stain in margin of page 3. In later 1/4 morocco slip-
case, moderate wear and sunning. Np, [1877?] [1,500/2,500]
ROOSEVELT’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, a catalogue of 97 species observed by Roosevelt (then
in his late teens) and Minot during the summers of 1874, 1875, and 1877. It was actually
reviewed in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Society, January 1878, which called it
“Very acceptable . . . the first list known to us of the birds of this ornithologically little-explored
region.” Only two other copies have been seen at auction since 1958. “Firmly established in
the hearts of collectors as being very desirable”—Cordingley, Extreme Rarities in the Published
Works of Theodore Roosevelt, page 22. Provenance: Sold by Edward Eberstadt to Thomas W.
Streeter; Parke-Bernet’s Streeter sale, 25 October 1967, lot 1763; Swann sale, 26 October
1995, lot 325, to Peter Scanlan. WITH—the 1923 facsimile offprint from the Roosevelt
Wildlife Bulletin, and a 1925 facsimile printing, #75 of 200.
348 ● ROOSEVELT, THEODORE; et al. The Deer Family. 7 maps, 25 plates. 8vo,
contemporary 1/2 morocco, minor wear; unopened. #10 of 100 on large paper.
New York: MacMillan, 1902 [250/350]
Roosevelt contributed the 166-page introductory section titled “The Deer and Antelope of
North America,” as well as a brief foreword: “This volume is meant for the lover of the wild,
free, lonely life of the wilderness, and of the hardy pastimes known to the sojourners therein.”
Cordingley, Extreme Rarities in the Published Works of Theodore Roosevelt, page 38.
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