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ROOSEVELT (THEODORE) African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front free endpaper "To A.L. Butler Esq with the thanks and regards of Theodore Roosevelt, Nov. 1st, 1910", WITH ONE AUTOGRAPH LETTER AND ONE TYPED LETTER INSERTED, BOTH SIGNED, plates, publisher's decorative cloth gilt, t.e.g., spine faded, lower joint slightly dampstained and split at foot, 8vo, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910 Fußnoten ROOSEVELT'S AFRICA EXPEDITION - PRESENTATION COPY TO THE ORNITHOLOGIST AND ZOOLOGIST A.L. BUTLER. Arthur Lennox Butler (1873-1939), who had one bird and four species of reptiles named in his honour, started out as a tea-planter in Ceylon, and then became Curator of Selangor State Museum, Malaya. It was during his spell as Superintendent of Game Preservation in Sudan (1901-1915) that he met the outgoing President as he led the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition in 1910. Roosevelt's 2-page autograph letter is written from Gondokoro (Southern Sudan) on 27 February 1910: "We have obtained white rhino, giant eland, buffalo, roan &c... Mohammed has proved excellent; just what we needed... I'll send you the 100 piastre you so kindly advanced as soon as I can get a check book". In the typed letter, dated 19 March 1910 and written on board the Ibis on the Nile, Roosevelt promises to send Butler all publications of the expedition, thanks him profusely ("for we owe more to you than we can possibly repay for the generous and kindly aid you have given us") and promises to send him a copy of his book "just as soon as it is out", a promise duly fulfilled later that year. Provenance: A.L. Butler, presentation inscription from the author; thence by descent to the present owner (see also lot 99).