[Rarebooks] From the Delano family

[Edward Ripley-Duggan]

The volumes that follow come from the Delano family library, 
Roosevelt's predecessors. They pertain to the Arabian horse and 
Arabian travels. Warren Delano experimented in breeding Arabian with 
Norwegian (?) horses, and one volume bears his extensive notes. The 
five volumes (four titles) are uniformly bound and, despite light 
wear as noted, form an attractive set

(TRAVEL). Upton, D. B. Gleanings from the Heart of Arabia. London, C. 
Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. First edition. This copy comes from the 
library of Warren Delano, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grandfather, 
and bears his name and the date 1893. 19 cm., red three-quarters 
levant with marbled sides by Stikeman. viii, 399 pp. Light wear, but 
an attractive copy, bound without ads. Short tear to edge of final blank.
An interesting account of Arabian travels, a rather scarce posthumous 
work, unrecorded in the standard equestrian literature. Pages 269 to 
end pertain to Arab horses, of which Delano was an enthusiastic 
breeder. An interesting association copy.
$800

(TRAVEL). Upton, Roger D. Newmarket and Arabia. An examination of the 
Descent of Racers and Coursers. London, Henry S. King, 1873. First 
edition. This copy comes from the library of Warren Delano, Franklin 
Delano Roosevelt's grandfather, and bears his name with date, 
inscribed the year of publication. In addition, it bears his 
interesting notes, largely in pencil. 20 cm., red three-quarters 
levant with marbled sides by Stikeman. xi, 211 pp., 32 pp. ads, with 
a colored wood-engraved frontispiece of 'Arab Horses' by Upton after 
A. Dedreux, and 4 folding lithographed plates of pedigrees at rear. 
Some light wear to the binding.
A rare work, comparing English and American thorouhbreds, with an 
interesting and appealing provenance, given Delano's extensive 
breeding of Arab horses. Huth 212.
$900

(TRAVEL). Blunt, Lady Anne. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the 
Arab Race... Murray, London, 1881. Second edition, same year as 
first. Two volumes, bound as those above (an appealing binding, with 
Arts & Crafts touches), 19.5 cm. Some light wear to binding, one 
spine with two small scars, not especially noticeable. With Warren 
Delano's dated inscription.
$600

(TRAVEL). Blunt, Lady Anne. The Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. 
Harper, New York, 1879. First American edition. 21.5 cm, bound as 
above. Some light wear to binding. With Warren Delano's dated inscription.
$400

$2250 nett


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