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ALBUM AMICORUM
CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB RÜDIGER
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Late eighteenth century album amicorum keptby a Prussian physician or medical student.
Mostly Breslau: 1785-1807.Oblong 8vo. 42 entries, mostly inGerman, including 7 water-colours and an embroideredscene. Contemporary light bluesilk, covers tooled in gilt.Provenance: Astrik L. Gabriel(bookplate). Eighteenth century PrussianAlbum Amicorum. (#38777) $ 900.
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HENRY ALKEN
How to Qualify for a Meltonian;Addressed to all Would-Be Melto-nians ... by Ben Tally-Ho.
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1820. Oblong folio. 3pp.letterpress text. 6 hand-colored etched platesafter Alken. Original gray wrappers bound in,paper-backed. Later full red morocco, title ingilt on upper cover, covers gilt-ruled, double giltrules to turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Second edition of "one of the finest of Alken'ssets produced during the great period of theLeicestershire hunts" (Schwerdt). (#38572) $ 5,500.
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HENRY ALKEN
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Comparative Meltonians, As TheyAre and As They Were ... by BenTally-Ho.
London: Thomas Mclean, 1823. Oblong folio. 6 hand-colored etched plates by G. Hunt after Alken. Plates 4 and 6 with repairs to shortmarginal tears. Original printed pink wrappers, upper wrapper with title, motto and imprint, lower wrapper with publishers’ adver-tisements, rebacked and recornered. Housed in a black morocco backed clamshell box. Provenance: Joseph Widener (morocco label;his sale, Parke Bernet, 28 Nov. 1944, lot 21); Joel Spitz (collection stamp and bookplate; his sale, Christie's London, 27 May 2015, lot 110). The Widener-Spitz copy. (#38576) $ 8,500.
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
GREAT BRITAIN
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[The Stamp Act] ... An Act for granting and apply-ing certain Stamp Duties, and other Suties, in theBritish Colonies and Plantations in America.
London: Mark Baskett, 1765. Folio. [2], 279-310pp. 5 George III,cap. XII. [With: 3 related 1766 Acts of Parliament:] An Act to repealan Act ... for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties. [2], 243-244pp. 6 George III, cap. XI. An Act for the better securing theDependency of His Majesty's Dominions in America. [2], 247-248pp. 6 George III, cap. XII. An Act for indemnifying Personswho have incurred certain Penalties inflicted by an Act of the lastSession of Parliament, for granting certain Stamp Durites in theBritish Colonies and Plantations in America. [2], 823-826pp. 6George III, cap. LI. Disbound. Housed in black chemises andblack morocco backed slipcase. Very rare first official printing of the Stamp Act: an exception-ally important document in American history. (#37747) $ 27,500.
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JOST AMMAN AND
JOHANN FEYERABEND
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Kunstbüchlin, Darinnen neben Furbildungvieler Geistlicher vnnd Weltlicher Hohes vndNiderstands Personen so dann auch derTurckischen Kayser.
Frankfurt am Main: R. Beatus fur J. Feyerabend, 1599. Smallquarto. Title in red and black. 293 full-page woodcuts. Late18th-century blue straight grain morocco, bound by RogerPayne, covers bordered in gilt and blind, blue endpapers, giltedges. Provenance: Henry Huth (arms in gilt on covers,morocco booklabel); Huth sale (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge,November 15, 1911, lot 166). First complete edition of this model book for painters,designers, copyists and other craftsmen. (#38210) $ 15,000.
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Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 February 1490; [Basel]: JohannAmerbach, 1490. Two volumes in one, folio. [De CivitateDei:] 268 leaves. [De Trinitate:] 86 leaves. Contemporary fullblind-tooled calf over wooden boards by the monks at theBenedictine Abbey of Saints Peter and Paul in Abdinghof atPaderborn in Westphalia, rebacked, with leaves from a 15thcentury large-format liturgical manuscript on parchmentused as a pastedown; ornate blind tooling distinctive of theabbey bindery used on both boards, including theirMadonna and Child tool, IHS stamps, lamb and griffinstamps, and their signature eponymous tool depictingSaints Peter and Paul. Provenance: Monastery of SaintsPeter and Paul at Abdinghoff. Incunable editions of two of St. Augustine's most importanttheological works: the Sexton copy, in a noted monasticbinding. (#37360) $ 27,500.
De civitate Dei ... [with commentaries ofThomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet] ... [Boundwith:] De Trinitate.
AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS
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Paris: Chereau, 1761-[1767]. Two parts in one, folio (17 x 11 inches). Engravedtitles to each part, engraved dedication and 101 engraved plates (numbered3-104; seven folding). With two additional folding plates of the interior ofthe Basilica de S. Pietro at the Vatican after Piranesi and the interior of St.Paul's Cathedral in London after Mueller, with numbering out of sequencefrom the above. Together, 106 engraved plates. Contemporary calf-backedpaper covered boards, with green vellum edges, worn with some loss topaper covering and splits at joints. Provenance: Edmond C. Lincoln(booklabel). Early folio edition of a classic 18th French work of architecture. (#38428) $ 2,750.
Livre Nouveau ou Regles des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture ...[Bound with:] Recueil des plus Beaux Edifices anciens etModernes.
GIACOMO BARROZI DA VIGNOLA
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New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. 12mo. 180pp. Half-title. Expertlybound to style in dark purple morocco and light purple clothcovered boards, spine with raised bands, tooled in gilt on each band,salmon endpapers, red endpapers. Provenance: N. M. Terry (earlysignature). First edition of the first book by the first female physician in theUnited States. (#38166) $ 8,500.
The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physi-cal Education of Girls.
DR. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
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The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry ... by J. B.Gent.
London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, 1675. Two parts inone, 8vo. [8], 159, 158-246; 136, [16]pp., with errors inpagination as issued. Two engraved illustrated additionaltitles. Publisher's ad on verso of the terminal leaf. Earlymanuscript receipt for horse feed to prevent costiveness onverso of the first engraved title and other manuscriptreceipts for cures to various horse ailments on the rearendpaper. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style. Scarce English 17th century work on husbandry. (#35335) $ 2,750.
JOSEPH BLAGRAVE
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The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, NightThoughts.
London: R. Noble for Richard Edwards, 1797 [watermarked J.Whatman 1794]. Large quarto (16 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches). 4engraved section titles and 39 pages with engraved borderillustrations by William Blake, with the letterpress Expla-nation of the Engravings leaf. Uncut on the fore-edge andlower edge. Minor offsetting as usual. Later half darkgreen morocco and green moire cloth boards, by Riviere &Son, spine with raised bands in seven compartments,lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeatdecoration in gilt, burgundy glazed endpapers, top edgegilt. A spectacular work illustrated by Blake. (#37372) $ 15,000.
WILLIAM BLAKE
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Péhriska-Rúhpa. Moennitarri Warrior in theCostume of the Dog Danse.
[Tab. 23]. [Leipzig: Schmidt and Guenther, 1922]. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by René Rollet after Bodmer.Sheet size: 25 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the originalcopper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from theLeipzig edition are more scarce than, and comparefavorably to, the first edition (David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmerand the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 85, p.18). (#38049) $ 8,000.
KARL BODMER
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[Paris: 1856-57]. 2 volumes [all published], folio (17 5/8 x 12 inches; 191/2 x 13 1/2 inches). Without letterpress title or text, as issued. 24hand-coloured lithographed plates (12 in each series) with printedcaptions, printed on various coloured paper, lithographed by Morin,Adam, Gaildreau and others, printed by Lemercier. Publisher's nearuniform green and brown cloth, covers bordered in blind andlettered in gilt on the upper covers, expertly rebacked to style.Together in a modern morocco backed box. Rare colour plate books depicting the costume of Peru. (#26145) $ 15,000.
Recuerdos De Lima Album Tipos, Trajes y CostumbresDibujados y Publicados Por A.A. Bonnaffe En Lima1856 [cover title] ... [With:] Recuerdos De Lima ... 1857[cover title].
A. A. BONNAFFÉ
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[Early English trade catalogue of brassfurniture hardware designs].
[Birmingham, England: late 18th century (water-marked 1797)]. Oblong 4to (7 1/2 x 11 inches). 143engraved plates (13 folding), on laid paper, pricedthroughout in manuscript. Period calf-backedmarbled paper covered boards. Provenance: W. G.& Co. (inscription on front end-paper). A rarely encountered pattern book or tradecatalogue of 18th century English furniturehardware, including drawer pulls, keyholes,hinges, locks, castors, bolts, watch stands andmore. (#28174) $ 13,000.
[BRASS FOUNDRY PATTERN BOOK
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ENGLISH, 18TH CEN-
TURY]
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A Sequel to the North-West Passage, and thePlans for the Search forSir John Franklin.
London: E. Stanford, 1860. 8vo.[4], 3, [1], 62, [6]pp. Map and fold-ing plate. Publisher's blue cloth,covers blocked in blind and gilt,yellow endpapers. Rare separately-issued accountof the Franklin search expeditionof the Fox under McClintock. (#38082) $ 3,600.
JOHN BROWN
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A True Picture of Emigration; or FourteenYears in The Interior of North America; beinga full and impartial account of the variousdifficulties and ultimate success of an Englishfamily who emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet,near Leeds, in the year 1841.
London: G. Berger, [1848]. 12mo. [3]-62pp. Publisher's pinkpaper lettered wrappers. First edition: a woman's account of pioneer life on themidwestern frontier. (#38551) $ 300.
REBECCA BURLEND
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
St. Louis: Compton & Co, 1876. Oblong folio (14 1/16 x 19 3/4 inches). Lithographic decorative title with integral vignette, frontis-piece after Dry, key plate (printed in two colours), view of the city as it was in 1832 on one sheet (after a painting by L.D. Poma-
Pictorial St. Louis the great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley A topographical survey drawn inperspective A.D.1875.
RICHARD J. COMPTON AND CAMILLE N. DRY
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rade), 110 plates numbered from 1-110after Dry, each plate with letterpress texton the verso. (Occasional small repairs tomargins). Half-black morocco to style,and russett pebbled cloth boards, uppercover blocked in gilt. An important American lithographically-illustrated work as well as "what is by farthe most important city view of St. Louis... No other American city view cameclose to matching this in its carefuldelineation of almost every feature of theurban landscape" (Reps). (#29843) $ 12,000
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The Federalist: containing some Stricturesupon a Pamphlet, entitled, "The Pretensions ofThomas Jefferson to the Presidency, examined,and the Charges against John Adams, refuted."Which Pamphlet was first published in theGazette of the United States, in a Series ofEssays, under the Signature of Phocion.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1796. 8vo. 48pp. Uncut.Stitched. Scarce Election of 1796 campaign pamphlet. (#38189) $ 2,500.
TENCH COXE
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A Collection of Flowers drawn after Nature,& disposed in an Ornamental & PicturesqueManner.
London: 1783-1798. Folio (19 1/16 x 13 1/4 inches). Engravedthroughout. Stipple-engraved and mezzotint decorativeallegorical title with mounted oval paper lettering slip andmanuscript imprint dated 2 January 1798, 79 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by Edwards. Expertly boundto style in contemporary mottled calf, covers with a Greekkey scroll border, spine gilt with raised bands in sixcompartments, red morocco lettering piece. A fine copy of an Edwards' masterpiece. (#38271) $ 35,000.
JOHN EDWARDS
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Maison Rustique, Or, The Countrey Farme ...Now newly Reviewed, Corrected and Aug-mented, with divers large Additions.
London: Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull, 1616. Smallfolio, bound in sixes (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Woodcut illus-trations in text, ornamental headpieces and woodcutinitials. [18], 732, [22]pp. Expertly bound to style to fullperiod calf, covers with central gilt device, spine withraised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in thesecond, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Prove-nance: Bridgewater Library (armorial bookplate on frontendpaper). First edition of Markham's revised English translation ofCharles Estienne and Jean Liebault's important late 16thcentury work on husbandry, gardening and country living. (#36516) $ 7,500.
CHARLES ESTIENNE AND
JEAN LIEBAULT
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Ouevres de Sculptures en Bronze, ContenantGirandoles, Flambeaux, Feux, Pendules, Bras,Cartels, Barometres, et Lustres.
Paris: Chereau, [circa 1780]. Quarto. Engraved title and 48engraved plates, by C. Colinet and Augustin Foin. Contem-porary blue paper wrappers. Provenance: Eug. van Herck &Fils (early ink stamp). Classic series of Louis XVI designs. (#38121) $ 5,750.
JEAN FRANÇOIS FORTY
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A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of aCorps of Discovery under the command ofCapt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the army ofthe United States from the mouth of the riverMissouri through the interior parts of NorthAmerica to the Pacific ocean, during the years1804, 1805 & 1806.
Pittsburgh: Printed by Zadok Cramer, for David M'Keehan,Publisher and Proprietor, 1807. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 inches).262pp. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper coveredboards. Housed in a dark blue morocco box. The first edition of the earliest published firsthand accountof the Lewis and Clark expedition: "one of the essentialbooks for an Americana collection" (Streeter). (#38133) $ 15,000.
PATRICK GASS
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Historiae Animalium. Liber I. De Quadrupedibus vivipartis.
Zürich: Chr. Froschauer, 1551. Folio. [40], 1104, [12]pp. 80 woodcut illustrations, plus woodcut printer's devices on title and colophonleaves. Early calf, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, lettered direct in the second, the others with a repeat decorationin gilt. Provenance: Seventeenth century inscription on the title; James Fairfax (booklabel). First edition of the first part of the greatest zoolo-gical encyclopedia of the sixteenth century and the arguably the birth of zoo-logical illustration. (#38413) $ 7,500.
CONRAD GESNER
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Parrots in Captivity.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-87. 3 volumes, large 8vo.x, 144; xiv, 111, (2); viii, 144pp., plus 81 hand-finished chromo-xylographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in giltand blind, spine gilt, blue endpapers, minor spotting tocovers and wear to top and tail of spines. A groundbreaking, ornithological masterpiece. (#38776) $ 1,850.
W. T. GREENE
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks;or, an Account of some Statical Experiments onthe Sap in Vegetables ... Vol. I. ... Third Edition,with Amendments ... [With:] Statical Esays:Containing Haemastaticks; or, an Account ofsome Hydraulick and HydrostaticalExperiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals ... Vol. II.
London: W. Innys and R. Manby [et. al.], 1738-1733. 2 vol-umes, 8vo. [6], x, [4], [2], 376; xxii, [26], 361, [1], [22]pp. 19engraved plates. Contemporary speckled calf, covers ruledin gilt, spines with raised bands, red morocco letteringpiece. Provenance: Sir William Foulis (armorial bookplate). A classic of experimental science. (#38701) $ 2,200.
STEPHEN HALES
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Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, delineated in their native haunts, duringa hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837 ...London: printed by Green & Martin and H.W.Martin, pub-lished for the Proprietor by W. Pickering, and to be had of P.&D.Colnaghi and T.Cadell, 1840[-1842]. Folio (21 1/8 x 14 1/4 inches). Lithographic additional title with hand-coloured vignette, 30hand-coloured lithographic plates by Frank Howard after Harris, 30 un-coloured lithographic vignette illus-trations. Contemporary red half morocco over cloth boards, bound by Hammond, spine in seven compart-ments with raised bands, black mor-occo-lettering-piece in the second, the others with an animal decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy of the large paper issue of "one of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna" (Mendelssohn). (#31264) $ 17,500.
SIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS HARRIS
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Dessins et Peintures d'Asie. Exécutés au coursde l'Expedition Citroen Centre-Asie. Deuxièmemission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil.
Paris: Jules Meynial, 1934. Folio 15 1/4 x 11 inches.Illustrations throughout, with 50 colour plates numbered 1-50 (including one double-page). Publisher's stitched paperwrappers, within publisher's portfolio lettered in Chinese.Some wear to portfolio. One of 500 numbered copies: Iacovleff's magnificent seriesof portraits of the peoples and landscape of central Asia. (#38158) $ 4,800.
ALEXANDER IACOVLEFF
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Constitution and By-Laws of the AmericanJewish Publication Society. (Founded on the9th of Heshvan, 5606). Adopted at Philadel-phia, on Sunday, November 30, 1845, Kislev 1,5606.
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. 12mo. 11, [1]pp. Pub-lisher's plain wrappers. Provenance: Leeser Library HebrewEducation Society (inked stamp on title). The founding of the American Jewish Publication Society:the first Jewish organization in the United States dedi-cated to the advancement of Jewish Culture and Religion. (#38176) $ 1,200.
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AMERICAN JUDAICA
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London: Sampson & Low, 1887. Octavo. xx, 668pp., foldingmap, 75 illustrations in the text. Publisher's pale blue picto-rial cloth, custom slipcase. Provenance: Franklin Brooke-Hitching. The very fine Franklin Brooke-Hitching copy of a classicnarrative of a journey through Siberia, Turkistan, Samar-kand, Bokhara and Khiva. (#35164) $ 700.
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Through Central Asia, with a map and appen-dix on the Diplomacy and Delimitation of theRusso-Afghan Frontier.
HENRY LANSDELL
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Voyage en Abyssinie exécutépendant les années 1839, 1840,1841, 1842, 1843 ... HistoireNaturelle Zoologie ... Atlas ...[Bound with:] Voyage enAbyssinie ... Album historique,ethnologique et archeologique... [And with:] Tentamen FloraeAbyssinicae ... Icones.
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1847-1851. 3 vol-umes bound in 2, folio. 203 plates, mounted on guards, comprising: [Atlas Zoologie:] 40 hand-coloured engraved plates of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, and insects, 1 plate of fossils bound at end; [Album Historique, Ethnologique et Archéologique:] 59 lithographed plates (33 colored, 3 folding); [Atlas Botanique:] 103engraved plates. Contemporary green morocco-backed marbled boards, flat spines in compartments with wide black bands, letteredin gilt, marbled endpapers. The complete atlas volumes to an important 19th century French exploration of Ethiopia. (#37438) $ 22,500.
THEOPHILE
LEFEBVRE
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Philadelphia: J. Maxwell for Bradford & Inskeep and Abm. H. Inskeep of New York, 1814. 2 volumes, octavo. Five maps and charts.Large folding map in expert facsimile. Text toned as usual. Bound to style in contemporary tree calf, covers bordered with a gilt rolltool, flat spine divided into six compartments by Greek key roll tool, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, redmorocco lettering piece with volume number in the fourth compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. The first edition of the "definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent" (Wagner-Camp). Acornerstone of Western Americana. (#36339) $ 18,000.
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History of the Expedi-tion Under the Com-mand of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down theRiver Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
LEWIS &
CLARK
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The Case of Jane Marie, exhibiting the Crueltyand Barbarous Conduct of James Ross, to aDefenceless Woman. Written and Published bythe object of his cruelty and vengeance andaddressed to the Public of Philadelphia and theWhole of Pennsylvania.
[Philadelphia: Duane], Sept. 1808. 8vo. 28pp. Printing flaw topage 3. Disbound. Scarce narrative accusing a politician of attacking a Pitts-burgh woman. (#38172) $ 250.
JANE MARIE
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London: William Miller, 1800 [plates watermarked 1802].Quarto (13 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches). Titles and text in English andFrench. 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates byDadley after Pu-Qùa of Canton, each with accompanyingtext leaf. Contemporary diced russia, covers bordered in giltand blind, spine with raised bands in seven compartments,lettered in the second and sixth, the others with a repeatdecoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy of Mason's famous illustrated survey of thecostume of China. (#32497) $ 5,800.
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The Costume of China, Illustrated with SixtyEngravings: with explanations in English andFrench.
GEORGE HENRY MASON
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Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum: olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero.Thomaque Pennio inchoatum: tandem Tho. Moufeti Londinâtis operâ sumptibusq[uæ] maximisconcinnatum, auctum, perfectum: et ad vivum expressis iconibus suprà quingentis illustratum.
London: Thom. Cotes, 1634. Folio,bound in sixes. [20], 285, 296-326,[4] pp. Title illustrated with bees ina hive surrounded by a border ofdifferent insects, 535 woodcutillustrations of insects and 4pp. ofwoodcuts in rear. Contemporaryvellum. Provenance: Petri de Man(inscription); Bibliotheca Paterna(inscription); Henri de Saussure(inked collector's stamp on frontendpaper). A noted early illustrated work oninsects, including the firstdepiction of an American butterfly. (#38645) $ 7,500.
THOMAS MOFFETT
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[Berlin: Gedruckt bey C.L. Kunst, 1757]. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches).Without letterpress title or text, as issued. 10 hand-colouredengraved plates after Hopfer, engraved by Glassbach or Sauerbrey.Plates with captions in Latin and German. Expertly bound to stylein half calf and period speckled paper. Rare mid-18th century German botanical work. (#35612) $ 4,500.
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[Species plantarum secundum vegetationis et fructi-ficationis partes ad vivum delineatæ et Latina acGermanica dictione determinata descriptae. Decasprima...].
JOHANN GOTTHILF MÜLLERAND JOHANN BERNHARDGOTTFRIED HOPFER
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The Book of Common Prayer,According to the Use of theChurch of England, Translatedinto the Mohawk Language ...Ne Kaghyadouhsera NeYoedereanayeadagwha ...
Hamilton, Ontario: Ruthven's Book andJob Office, 1842. 8vo. English andMohawk text on facing pages. viii,456pp. Contemporary blue calf, flatspine ruled and lettered in gilt. A fine copy of a scarce Book of CommonPrayer in Mohawk. (#38683) $ 5,000.
ABRAHAM NELLES
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Excerpta Quædam eNewtoni PrincipiisPhilosophiæ Naturaliscum Notis Variorum.
Cambridge: J. Bentham for T.& J.Merrill [and others], 1765. Quarto.In Latin throughout. ix, [1],180pp. 12 engraved folding plates.List of subscribers following thetitle. Bound to style in full calf,covers panelled in blind, spinewith raised bands. Beautifully printed excerpts fromNewton’s Principia. (#38780) $ 1,800.
ISAAC NEWTON
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Philadelphia: [circa 1865]. Broadside, with a table of the rates of fare on verso.Woodcut illustration of a locomotive. Sheet size: 19 x 8 inches. Extraordinary survival: a railroad broadside advertising a route to America'sfirst oil boom. (#38685) $ 3,500.
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Philad'a & Elmira Rail Road Line! "Catawissa Route." To AllPoints West. Direct Route to the Oil Regions! of Pennsylvania... and all Places in the West'n & North-Western States ... N.Van Horn, Ticket Agent.
PENNSYLVANIA OIL REGIONS
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Notes on Some Figures of Japanese Fish takenfrom recent specimens by the artists of the U.S.Japan Expedition.
Washington: 1856. Quarto. 36pp. Publisher's corrigenda slipinserted following the title. 10 hand-coloured lithographedplates (numbered III-XII, as issued). Early half morocco andmarbled paper covered boards. Provenance: Samuel HoustonMacFarland (bookplate). Scarce separately issued offprint on the fish encountered onPerry's Japan Expedition. (#38754) $ 1,500.
PERRY EXPEDITIONJAMES CARSON BREVOORT
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Department of State, July 31, 1794, The Secretary of State requests the [blank] to permitany persons interested and inquiring for the List at the foot hereof, to see the same ...
[Philadelphia]: 1794. Folio (13 x 7 3/4 inches). 4pp. Signed in print by J. Wagner, Clerk. Contemporay manuscriptnotations on each page tallying the number of vessels. Unbound. A contemporary official printed list of American vessels with spoliation claims, issued by the Secretary of Statein the midst of the negotiations over Jay's Treaty. (#28826) $ 850.
EDMUND RANDOLPH
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Conchologia Systematica, or Complete Systemof Conchology: In which the Lepades andConchiferous Mollusca are described andclassified according to their natural organi-zation and habits.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1841-1842.2 volumes, quarto (11 3/16 x 8 1/2 inches). [6], 195pp.; [2],338pp. Folding letterpress table and 300 hand-colouredengraved plates. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth,glazed yellow endpapers. Provenance: Frederick du CaneGodman (bookplate). First edition, with beautiful illustrations of shells. (#37434) $ 8,750.
LOVELL AUGUSTUS REEVE
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Specimens of the Flora of South Africa By aLady.
London: printed by W. Nicol, 1849 [but March 1850].Broadsheet (22 1/2 x 18 inches). Hand-coloured lithographictitle, 8 mounted hand-coloured plates, lithographed by P.Gauci after Arabella Roupell. Large hand-colouredbotanical tail-piece. 1p. list of subscribers (103 namessubscribing for 111 copies). Publisher's full purple morocco,covers with decorative border tooled in gilt and blind, theupper cover with central gilt vignette with the titlesurrounded by flowers and foliage, gilt edges gilt.Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate). A beautiful copy of this rare work, beautifully illustratedwith large scale images of the exuberant flora of theCape of Good Hope. (#37443) $ 9,500.
ARABELLA ELIZABETH
ROUPELL
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Mecheti Samarkanda ... Les Mosquées de Samar-cande. Fascicule I. Gour-Emir [all published].
St. Petersburg: Expédition pour la Confection des Papiers d'État,1905. Elephant folio. Illustrated title in Russian and French print-ed in red and black, dedication to Empress Alexandra Feodo-rovna printed in red and black, 4pp. text in two columns inRussian and French with illustrations as head-piece and tail-piece, 1p. list of plates, 18 plates (num-bered I-XVIII, 12 chromo-lithographed, 2 double-page, one folding), after A. Shchusev, P.Poryshkin and A. Minenko. Expertly bound to style in half blackmorocco and period cloth covered boards. First edition, large paper en plano (i.e. unfolded) issue of animportant illustrated Imperial Russian work on Islamicarchitecture. (#34999) $ 15,000.
RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARCHAE-
OLOGICAL COMMISSION
NIKOLAIL VANOVICH
VESELOVSKII and others
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London: T. Osborne, 1747. 2 volumes, 8vo. [8], xvi, xlii, [12],[2], 422; 576pp. Half-title and list of subscribers in vol. 1.Contemporary mottled calf, spines with raised bands, redmorocco lettering pieces. First edition: a classic of pre-Industrialization Britishpolitical economy. (#38635) $ 1,950.
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Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale; or,Memoirs of Wool, &c. Being a collection ofHistory and Argument, concerning the WoolenManufacture and Woolen Trade in general.
JOHN SMITH
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Rerum geographicarum libri septemdecim.
Basel: Henrich Petri, August 1571. Folio (13 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches).Text in two columns in Greek and Latin. Woodcut initials,printer's woodcut device on title-page, smaller device onverso of last leaf, 27 double-page woodcut maps bySebastian Munster, 6 smaller maps in the text by JohannHonter and others, one woodcut text diagram. 17th centurymanuscript inscription on verso of title. Contemporary limpvellum, manuscript title on the spine. Early edition of Strabo's Geography. (#38227) $ 8,000.
STRABO
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Cistineae. The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose.
London: James Ridgway, 1 July 1825 - January 1830. 28 original parts, 8vo(10 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches). 112 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Hart, M.Hart, W. Hart and Mrs. Brown. Publisher's ads in parts 1, 2, 12, 13, 23, and25; Sweet's change of address slip in part 20. Publisher's tan wrappers.Housed in a half green morocco box. First edition in the very rare original parts of Sweet's highly decorativepractical guide to the cultivation of the Rock-rose or Cistus: one of themost beautiful family of flowering plants then available. (#34776) $ 5,250.
ROBERT SWEET
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
[Trade catalogue for John Slater's patented steam kitchen].
[Birmingham: circa 1800-1810]. Oblong small folio. 16 engraved leaves. With 4 small letterpress explanatory handbills mounted(one on front pastedown, the others on verso of first three plates). Contemporary manuscript annotations, including prices. Con-temporary calf-backed marbled paper wrappers. Provenance: Elizabeth David (booklabel). Rare early illustrated trade catalogue for steam ovens. (#34841) $ 2,800.
TRADE
CATALOGUE
JOHN
SLATER
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Letters from His Excellency General Washing-ton, toArthur Young ... containing an account of his hus-bandry, with his opinions on various questions in agri-culture; and many particulars of the rural economy ofthe United States.
Alexandria, Virginia: Cottom and Stewart, 1803. 8vo. 128pp. Uncut. Laterdark blue crushed morocco, bound by Bradstreet's. Provenance: FrankC. Deering (morocco booklabel). Scarce first American edition of Washington and Young's correspon-dence on agricultural matters. (#38192) $ 2,750.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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