Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts

Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts

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California International Antiquarian Book Fair 2016 Americana: Items 1 - 26 Travel and Voyages: Items 27 - 47 Natural History: Items 48 - 72 Color Plate & Illustrated, including Photography: Items 73 - 88 Miscellany: Items 89 - 100 All purchases are subject to availability. All items are guaranteed as described. Any purchase may be returned for a full refund within ten working days as long as it is returned in the same condition and is packed and shipped correctly. The appropriate sales tax will be added for New York State residents. Payment via U.S. check drawn on a U.S. bank made payable to Donald A. Heald, wire transfer, bank draft, Paypal or by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover cards.

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[ALAMAN, Lucas (1792-1853)]. Memoria de la Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Relaciones Interiores y Exteriores, Presentada...en la de Diputados el Dia 7, y en la de Senadores el 8 de Enero de 1831. Mexico: Imprenta del Aguila, 1831. Small folio (11 x 8 inches). [2],53,[22]pp. Wood-engraved crest of Mexico on the title. Contemporary Mexican red morocco, covers with a decorative gilt roll-tool border, the flat spine divided into four compartments by gilt fillets and roll tools, the compartments with repeat decoration of a single small centrally-placed flower-spray tool, gilt turn-ins, green embossed silk pastedowns and free endpapers, gilt edges. An important official commentary on the state of the Mexican Republic, just prior to the Texas Revolution: here in a deluxe presentation binding.

This scarce annual report on the state of Mexico by Lucas Alaman (1792-1853), Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations, was issued during a time of unrest in the republic, particularly with the growing resentment among Texas settlers. Alaman was a controversial figure in 19th-century Mexico. A scientist, politician, historian, diplomat, and writer, he was conservative by nature and expressed a nostalgia for monarchic rule. He was an influential politician in the early years of the Mexican Republic and favored a strong central government. Alaman was also instrumental in the creation of the Mexican National Archives and the Natural History Museum in Mexico City. This report reviews foreign relations, and lauds the republic’s domestic tranquility, prosperity and freedoms. Palau 160863. (#23332)   $ 2,750

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[ARIZONA, Mining] - COPPER CREEK MINING CO. [A photographically illustrated typescript describing and depicting the operations of the Copper Creek Mining Company in Southeastern Arizona]. [Copper Creek, Arizona: [circa 1910-1915]. Small 8vo (approximately 7 x 4 inches). 39 gelatin silver print photographs (approximately 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches each), includes a couple duplicate images. The typescript 28pp, recto only. [With:] A blueprint assay map of the Old Reliable Mine. Period sheep three-ring binder. Early industrial photographs of mining operations in Arizona. The photographs show mine and town buildings, machinery, settlers, and views from the mountains of the settlement of Copper Creek in Pinal County, Arizona. Copper Creek, its mines and town are located in the Galiuro mountains in the South East corner of Pinal County near Arivaipa Valley. This area produced silver as early as 1863, when ore was hauled to Yuma and shipped to Wales for reduction. Despite the relatively rich ore, factors including the remoteness of the area, the cost of transporting the ore, and the threat of Indians combined to limit mining activity in Copper Creek. But at the turn of the century, as interest in extending railroads to other mines and towns in eastern Pinal County brought the potential of carrying ore by rail, interest in Copper Creek rose once again. The Copper Creek Mining Company was organized in 1903, and in its first two years of operation yielded 49,000 pounds of copper. A narrow gauge railroad was constructed in 1912, and one of the images depicts the small locomotive being hauled overland by a team of horses. The Company went bankrupt in 1914. The present notes accompanying the photographs are of a promotional nature, envisioning the future of the settlement, perhaps as a way of attracting investors. It would seem likely that the photographs and typescript were produced for some official Company purpose. An early example of American industrial vernacular photography, of the sort which would have profound influence on a host of artists and photographers of the New Objectivity Movement. (#28112)   $ 2,800

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CALIFORNIA - Eusebio Francisco KINO (1645-1711), cartographer; and Francisco Maria PICCOLO (1654-1729). Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres par quelques Missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus ... [including Piccolo’s report on California]. Paris: Le Clerc, 1724. Volume 5, 8vo (6 1/8 x 3 3/8 inches). 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Includes an important early Jesuit account of California, illustrated with a noted map by Father Kino. The fifth volume of the celebrated 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations, first published between 1702 and 1776 (the present example a second edition), include the Memoire touchant lestat des Missions, nouvellement establies dans la Californie, by Father Francisco Maria Piccolo, usually considered to be the first printed account of California. Piccolo was one of the first Jesuit missionaries in Baja California Sur, New Spain, now Mexico. His letters and reports are important sources for the ethnography and early history of the peninsula. The folding map, Passage par terre a la Californie decouvert par le Rev. pere Eusebe-Francois Kino, was engraved from a copy of Father Kino’s original 1701 manuscript (now lost). Kino, Jesuit missionary and traveler, visited Baja California in 1685. He was among the Seris and Pimas in 1690, after which he transferred to northern Sonora, where he remained until his death in 1711. His missionary work in Sonora included expeditions north and west to Arizona. This famous map, which was based on Father Kinos explorations effectively disproved the California as an island myth which had originated in the early years of the seventeenth century. Cowan (1933), p. 390; Howes L299; Sabin 40697; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 483: Spanish Southwest, 74a. (#30504)   $ 3,000

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CHEROKEE NATION. Laws of the Cherokee Nation: Adopted by the Council at Various Periods. Printed for the Benefit of the Nation ... [With:] The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation: passed at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 1839-1851. Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation: Cherokee Advocate Office, 1852. 2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches). 179; 248pp. (Faint dampstain in the upper corner to some leaves in the first volume). Expertly bound to style in uniform half black morocco over period marbled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, ruled on either side of each band, lettered in the second. The first Cherokee laws in Oklahoma: described by Hargrett as “perhaps the most important single volume in the fields of Cherokee law and history.” Each part appears with its own titlepage, and, as Hargrett notes, the two are often divided for that reason. “This important volume, which has often been incorrectly divided and sold as two, contains the constitutions of 1827 and 1839, a complete compilation of the acts and resolutions from 1808 through the annual session of 1851, and the laws of the Western Cherokee or Old Settlers” (Hargrett). These volumes bring together the earliest written laws of the Cherokees, all the constitutions, and the laws after Removal. Their publication represents the mending, at least on paper, of the huge rifts in the tribe brought about by the move to Indian Territory and the split over whether to go. Hargrett, Oklahoma 152; Hargrett, Laws of the American Indians 18; Foreman, p.36 (#29002)   $ 7,500

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FIGUEROA, José (1792-1835). The Manifesto, which the General of Brigade, don Jose Figueroa, commandant-general and political chief of U. California, makes to the Mexican Republic, in regard to his conduct and that of the Snrs. d. Jose Maria de Hijars and d. Jose Maria Padres, as directors of colonization in 1833 and 1834. San Francisco: Herald Office, 1855. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). 104,[1]pp. Contemporary purple calf, covers bordered with a gilt roll tool, upper cover lettered in gilt, flat spine with gilt rules. Provenance: booklabel on the front pastedown. The scarce first English-language edition of Figueroa’s defense of his conduct in a California colonization plan, following the extremely rare first edition of 1835, which was the first booklength imprint from Agustin Zamorano’s pioneer California press. Hijar and Padres planned a project of colonizing California in the early 1830s, which brought to California many families who played a prominent role in the development of the province. The Mexican government secularized the missions in 1833, and the expectation was that the families would take possession of the mission lands. Hijar and Padres themselves expected to given governmental positions of importance. Orders from Mexico countermanded the promises, and Figueroa, governor of California, refused to hand over the lands, for which he was criticized. This is Figueroa’s defense of his conduct. This edition is considered quite rare, and Howes affords it a “c” rating. Cowan, p.210; Graff 1320; Greenwood 562; Howes F122, “c.”; Streeter Sale 2784; Zamorano 80, 37 (note). (#29210)   $ 5,750

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[FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)]. Autograph manuscript, unsigned but entirely written in Franklin’s hand, titled “A new Version of the Lord’s Prayer”. [Philadelphia: circa 1768]. Caption title plus 9 lines, on 1 sheet (6 5/16 x 7 7/8 inches). Docketed on verso “Lord’s Prayer.” Written on laid paper with a Pro Patria watermark. (Old folds). Housed in a cloth chemise with silk lining and a burgundy morocco-backed slipcase. Newly-discovered and highly important Benjamin Franklin manuscript version of The Lord’s Prayer. Present manuscript (in full): Heavenly Father! may all revere thee / and become thy faithful Subjects. May / thy Laws be obeyed on Earth as they are/ in Heaven. Thy Goodness has hitherto / daily supported us, let it provide for us this Day also. / Forgive us our Trespasses, and / enable us likewise to forgive those that offend / us. Keep us out of Temptation, and / deliver us from Evil. Amen. A similar manuscript located in the Franklin Papers at the American Philosophical Society is annotated by Franklin, shedding light on his motivation for penning a new version of this central prayer and the reasons behind each of the changes. The present version differs slightly from the version at the APS, the latter likely an earlier draft and the present believed to be a more finished version. On the APS manuscript, Franklin writes that he has written a new version of the famous prayer so that it would be “more concise, equally expressive, and better modern English.” This reasoning, of course, typifies Franklin’s ethos of thriftiness in the constant strive for perfection. Waldstreicher suggests that Franklin’s version of the Lord’s Prayer is reflective of his Anglicanism and his Deist belief that one should “focus more on prayer and adoration than on religious sermons and the pronouncement of theological dogma.” Walters writes that Franklin’s motivation perhaps stemmed from a deeper guiding principle: “The ultimate editorial standard he invoked was his perspectival conviction that there is no one correct way of speaking about the divine that categorically excludes others ... no particular sect has a monopoly on God talk, no religious tradition a legitimately exclusivistic claim to designate its ‘chief object of worship’ God.” Franklin’s profound beliefs in tolerance, virtue and justice, were in fact reflections of his overriding belief in the power and goodness of God. It would seem, given the Revolutionary context of his attempt to edit the Lord’s Prayer, that Franklin’s version could further be seen as an attempt to Americanize the famous lines. Indeed, written in the wake of the repeal of the Stamp Act, which was brought about largely by Franklin’s passionate testimony before Parliament, a pro-Independence subtext can be read into this version of the Lord’s Prayer, entreating God to protect the colonies from oppression, to forgive their oppressors and “deliver us from evil.” Franklin would later argue, during the debates over the Constitution, that the convention should open with a daily prayer, recalling the daily prayer of the Continental Congress, and writing: “ I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.”

In a 7 July 1773 letter to pastor Samuel Mather (1706-1785, the son of Cotton Mather), Franklin refers to Mather’s version of the Lord’s Prayer and his own, writing: “I read [your version of the Lord’s Prayer] with most Attention, having once myself considered a little the same Subject, and attempted a Version of the Prayer which I thought less exceptionable. I have found it among my old Papers, and send it you only to show an Instance of the same Frankness in laying myself open to you, which you say you have used with regard to me.” It is unclear if the present version is the manuscript referred to by Franklin, or another. We find no other example of the Lord’s Prayer written in Franklin’s hand ever appearing on the market. Cf. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 15, p. 299 (for the APS draft); American Philosophical Society, Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 12, L(i), 4 and 5; Walters, Benjamin Franklin and His Gods, p. 146; Waldstreicher, Companion to Benjamin Franklin, 7.9; In God We Trust: The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers, edited by Norman Cousins (Harper & Brothers: 1958), pg. 21. (#26561)   $ 75,000

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GREGG, Josiah (1806-ca 1850). Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico. New York: Henry G. Langley [vol. 1]; ... London: Wiley & Putnam [vol. 2], 1844. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches). 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 4 plates. (Minor dampstaining at upper edge of vol. 2, scattered foxing as usual). Original publisher’s brown cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and gilt. (Minor wear). Modern cloth box. The first edition of a Western Americana classic and a cornerstone work on the Santa Fe trail. One of the landmark books of Western Americana. Gregg’s book is acclaimed by all sources as the principal contemporary authority on the Santa Fe Trail and trade, the Indians of the south plains, and New Mexico in the Mexican period. J. Frank Dobie calls it “one of the classics of bedrock Americana.” It gives a lively, intimate, and personal account of experiences on the prairies and in northern Mexico. The “Map of the Indian Territory Northern Texas and New Mexico showing the Great Western Prairies” is by far the best map of the region up to that time and referred to by Wheat as “a cartographic landmark.” “A cornerstone of all studies on the Santa Fe Trail in the early period, describing the origin and development of the trade, Gregg’s own experiences, and useful statistics for 1822- 43” (Rittenhouse). Second issue of volume 2, with the additional London imprint on the title. Wagner-Camp 108:2; Graff 1659; Howes G401; Rittenhouse 225; Streeter sale I:378; Streeter, Texas 1502; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West II: pp. 186-88; Dobie p.76; Flake 3716; Rader 1684; Raines, p. 99; Sabin 28712. (#28247)   $ 1,750

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HARLOW, Louis Kinney (1850-1913). Army Memories. New York: Koch, Sons, & Co, 1887. Folio (18 3/8 x 16 inches). Mounted on guards throughout. 12 mounted tinted (2) or chromo-lithographed (10) plates, the first plate with an integral title on a plain card mount, the 11 others with card mounts decorated with tinted lithographic vignettes, all 12 of the mounts with paper labels with captions laid onto the verso, each label printed in blue with the plate number, title, and sub-title or related text. All twelve plates signed by Harlow in pencil on the mount. Expertly bound to style in dark red half morocco over original dark green cloth-covered boards, the upper cover titled in gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Very rare: the deluxe issue of one of the great American chromolithographically illustrated works and a wonderful graphic representation of the Civil War. Harlow, who was born in Maine, lived in Boston and was both an etcher and painter. His subjects (unlike the present series) were usually landscapes, and he provided the colour lithographer Louis Prang with a stream of watercolour views of New England that were used in his illustrated works. The present series demonstrate Koch’s mastery of both the technical aspects of printing as well as the aesthetic problems presented in the design of the book. The subjects include generic views of army life as well as portraits of specific individuals: Grant at Vicksburg with Generals Sherman, Logan and McPherson; and a second portrait of General Sherman on horseback at the outset of his armies’ march to the sea. This copy the deluxe issue, one of an unspecified but limited number, with each plate signed by Harlow. (#26200)   $ 8,500

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[IDE, Simeon; and Sarah HEALY]. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies. (3000 miles over land), from the east to the Pacific coast. And what is claimed as the most authentic and reliable account of “the virtual conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear Flag Party”. [Claremont, N.H.]: Printed for the subscribers, [1880]. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). [2],239,[1] pp. Half title. Original purple morocco, covers stamped in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, rebacked at an early date, gilt edges. Provenance: E. Truman Ide (signature on half title and inked stamp on the final leaf). An Ide family association copy of a Bear Flag Rebellion rarity. “This Sketch contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide, recollections by his daughter of the family’s trip across the plains to California in 1845, and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849, and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which, as Ide died in 1852, must have been written within a few years of the event. [An] interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846...” (Streeter). The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman (Ide’s daughter, who at eighteen accompanied her father west in 1845), and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition, printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress, “was probably small.” A rare and important California book. Howes I4, “B”; Streeter Sale 2967; Tutorow 3466; Graff 2059; Zamorano 80, 45; Cowan 1914, p.118. (#28185)   $ 4,500

10 JAMES, Edwin (1797-1861). Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819, and ‘20 &under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & Lea, 1822-1823. 3 volumes (text: 2 vols., octavo [9 1/2 x 6 inches]; atlas: 1 vol., quarto [11 1/2 x 9 inches]). Atlas: 11 engraved plates and maps (2 double-page maps after S.H. Long by Young & Delleker; 1 double-page plate of geological cross-sections; 8 plates [1 hand-coloured] after S. Seymour [6], T.R. Peale [1] and one unassigned, engraved by C.G. Childs [2], Lawson [1], F. Kearney [2], W. Hay [1], Young & Delleker [1]). Text uncut and largely unopened. (Light foxing to text and atlas). Text: publisher’s paper-backed grey boards, original paper labels on the spines. Atlas: contemporary tree calf over blue paper covered boards, original paper label on the upper cover. (Some wear). Housed in blue morocco backed boxes. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (booklabel on the front pastedown of the atlas, pencil note on the front pastedown). Streeter’s copy of the first edition of one of the most important early western expeditions, here in original boards.

Edwin James was the botanist, geologist, and surgeon for this important government expedition, initially named the Yellowstone Expedition. Led by Major Stephen Long, the expedition added significantly to the earlier discoveries of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. In addition to his duties on the expedition, James subsequently served as the editor and compiler of this text, relying “upon his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say [who served as the expedition’s naturalist]” (Wagner-Camp). Appendices to the text comprise astronomical and meteorological tables and Indian vocabularies. In addition to Long, James and Say, the expedition included Titian Peale as draughtsman and assistant naturalist; and Samuel Seymour as landscape artist. The published plates depict Oto Indians, views of the Plains, and buffalo. Major Long was the principal proponent of government-sponsored exploration of the West following the War of 1812. He travelled farther than Pike or Lewis and Clark, and blazed trails that were subsequently followed by Fremont, Powell, and others. The expedition travelled up the Missouri and then followed the River Platte to its source in the Rocky Mountains before moving south to Upper Arkansas. From there the plan was to find the source of the Red River, but when this was missed the Canadian River was explored instead. Cartographically, the atlas contains the first maps to provide detail of the Central Plains. Upon returning to Washington from the expedition, Long drafted a large manuscript map of the West (now in the National Archives) and the printed maps in James’s Account closely follows. The “Western Section” map is particularly interesting as it here that the myth of the Great American Desert was founded by Long: a myth which endured for decades. The designation Great American Desert appears east of the single range of the Rocky Mountains, together with a two-line note: “The Great American Desert is frequented by roving bands of Indians who have no fixed places of residence but roam from place to place in quest of game.” Long’s map, along with that of Lewis and Clark, “were the progenitors of an entire class of maps of the American Transmississippi West” (Wheat). This set with the atlas from the famed Western Americana collection of Thomas W. Streeter, with his booklabel and pencil note on the front pastedown indicating the atlas was purchased from Edward Eberstadt in February 1944, and noting “This about the best copy of the atlas I have ever seen.” American Imprints 12942; Graff 2188; Howes J41; Sabin 35682; Streeter sale 3:1783; Wagner-Camp 25:1; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 353; see Nicholas and Halley, Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration (1995). (#27008)   $ 22,000

11 [JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826)]. An Account of Louisiana, laid before Congress by direction of the President of the United States, November 14, 1803. Providence, RI: printed by Heaton & Williams, [1803]. 12mo (6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches). 72pp. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper covered boards (minor losses at corners, not affecting text block). Housed in a dark red morocco box. One of the most important printed documents published in the period immediately following the Louisiana Purchase and a cornerstone of Western Americana. Based on material assembled by Jefferson, this publication provided information to an American public eager for news of the Louisiana Purchase. The work was the first real account of the vast new western territory to become available to the American people, and as such, the magnitude of its importance is obvious. The account gives details of geography, inhabitants, Indians, laws, agriculture and navigation. As the sub-title mentions, this work includes “An account of [the French territory of Louisiana’s]... boundaries, history, cities, towns, and settlements; of the origin, number and strength of the inhabitants; of its rivers, canals, mountains, minerals, and productions of soil; of the different tribes of Indians, and the number of their warriors; and of its navigation and laws under the Spanish government.” First published in Washington in 1800, the work was quickly reprinted across many of the states. The present example is a rare issue published in Providence, Rhode Island. Howes L493 (incorrectly dating the work to 1800); Sabin 42179; Shaw & Shoemaker 3619; Wagner-Camp 2b:10. (#29571)   $ 3,250

12 KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition. comprising a description of a tour through Texas, and across the great Southwestern Prairies, the Comanche and Cayuga hunting-Grounds, with an account of the sufferings... and final capture of the Texans, and their march, as prisoners, to the city of Mexico. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. 2 volumes, octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches). Folding engraved map, 5 engraved plates. Publisher’s brown cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine gilt. Provenance: Louisa Smith (inscription dated 1848). A fine set of the first edition of this classic work of western Americana, which includes the best contemporary account of a pivotal event in Texas history. Under the instigation of Mirabeau Lamar, the party set out to open a trade route which might lure away some of the lucrative Santa Fe Trail trade, and to extend greetings to the residents of New Mexico. The entire force was taken captive by a detachment under orders from Governor Armijo, and forcibly marched to Mexico City. Along the way they suffered great privation, and the events brought relations between Texas, Mexico, and the United States to a boiling point. The detailed map illustrates west Texas, New Mexico and northern Mexico. Howes K75; Sabin 37360; Streeter Texas 1515; Wagner-Camp 110; Wheat Transmississippi 483; Field 818 (#29557)   $ 900

13 KIP, Leonard (1826-1906). California Sketches, with Recollections of the Gold Mines. Albany: [Joel Munsell, Printers, Albany, for] Erastus H. Pease & Co., 1850. 12mo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches). 57pp. Publisher’s ad on verso of the upper wrapper. Publisher’s lettered wrappers. Provenance: Josiah Markle (period signature on upper wrapper). First edition of a scarce account of Gold Rush-era California. Leonard Kip’s work includes excellent first hand descriptions of San Francisco, Stockton, mining camps, and life in the diggings around the Mokelumne River area. His companions, however, suffered from dysentery, scurvy, low provisions, and little success, and consequently, his impressions of California are a touch gloomy. Predicting a bleak future for the state once the gold ran out, he writes: “It will readily be conceived that California can present few inducements to the settler.” According to the introductory notice, these recollections “were intended for one of the daily papers, but the friend to whom they were sent (in the absence of the author), has assumed the responsibility of publishing them in this form, for the benefit of those who are meditating a voyage to the El Dorado of the West.” His older brother, William Ingram Kip, went on to become a major figure there as the first Episcopalian Bishop of California in 1853. Scarce. Cowan p. 331; Graff 2343; Howes K174; Kurutz 379a; Sabin 37946; Streeter sale 2638; Bibliotheca Munselliana 474. (#28111)   $ 12,000

14 KNEELAND, Samuel (1821-1888) - [Martin Mason HAZELTINE, photographer (18071923)].

The Wonders of Yosemite Valley, and of California ... with original photographic illustrations, by John P. Soule ... Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871. 8vo (10 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Half-title, text bordered with red rules. 10 mounted original albumen photographs. (Scattered minor browning and staining). Original blue publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt and blind, recased into blue cloth, portion of original spine retained. First edition of a noted photographically illustrated early guide to Yosemite. A significant early guide book to the Yosemite Valley by a professor of Zoology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kneeland traveled across the continent on the newly opened transcontinental railroad and returned east via Panama. “Kneeland took pains to get reliable information and present it with more than ordinary care. The photographic illustrations are excellent and include some unusual views” (Farquhar). The source of the photographs in this work is the subject of some conjecture. Though John Soule is credited with the photographs on the title, he apparently never visited Yosemite. It is believed that he purchased negatives from Yosemite photographer Martin Mason Hazeltine, although some in the past have suggested Eadweard Muybridge as an alternative attribution. “...[O]ne of the better early guide books to the Yosemite Valley...” (Currey & Kruska). Cowan p.333; Currey & Kruska 225; Farquhar 10a. (#27875)   $ 1,500

15 LOCOMOTIVES, American. [Archive of 20 mounted albumen photographs of American locomotives]. [Philadelphia, PA; Paterson, NJ; and elsewhere: 1860s-1870s]. Each uniformly matted and housed in a black morocco backed box. Provenance: From the estate of Walton White Evans (1817-1886), an American civil engineer who constructed railroads and bridges in North and South America. Unique archive of rare large-format photographs of American locomotives in the golden age of their production, including images of the iron horses which opened the American west. 1) Anonymous. Baldwin Locomotive Works, M. Baird & Co., Philadelphia. [4-4-0 wheeled steam locomotive Crawford built for the Chicago & North Western Railroad]. Image size 10 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. 2) Anonymous. Baldwin Locomotive Works. M. Baird & Co., Philadelphia. [0-4-0 wheeled steam locomotive #67 built for the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Rail Road]. Image size 10 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. 3) Anonymous. Baldwin Locomotive Works. M. Baird & Co., Philadelphia. [2-6-0 wheeled steam locomotive E.A. Douglas built for the Thomas Iron Company in 1867]. Image size 10 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches. 4) Anonymous. Baldwin Locomotive Works. M. Baird & Co., Philadelphia. [2-8-0 wheeled steam locomotive Consolidation #63, built for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1866]. Image size 10 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. 5) Anonymous. Baldwin Locomotive Works. M. Baird & Co., Philadelphia. [4-6-0 wheeled steam locomotive #80 built for the Union Pacific Rail Road in 1868]. Image size 10 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. 6) J. Reid, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [4-4-0 wheeled steam locomotive Thomaston built for the Naugatuck Rail Road]. Image size 10 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches. 7) J. Reid, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [2-6-0 wheeled steam locomotive Talca built for the Southern Railway of Chile]. Image size 10 5/8 x 16 5/8 inches. 8) J. Reid, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [4-4-0 wheeled steam locomotive #106 built for the Missouri Pacific Railway]. Image size 10 3/4 x 17 inches. 9) J. M. Kemp, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [2-6-0 wheeled steam locomotive Chester built for the Morris & Essex Rail Road]. Image size 10 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. 10) J. M. Kemp, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [0-6-0 wheeled steam locomotive #21 built for the Georgia Rail Road]. Image size 10 7/8 x 17 1/4 inches. 11) J. Reid, photographer. Danforth Locomotive and Machine Company, Paterson, N.J. [06-0 wheeled narrow gauge steam locomotive Luisa G. de Dreyfus built for a South American railway]. Image size 10 5/8 x 16 5/8 inches. 12) A. Runkel, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [4-4-0 wheeled steam locomotive Madison built for the New Haven, New London & Stonington Rail Road]. Image size 12 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches.

13) A. Runkel, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. Bituminous coal burning freight locomotive. [2-6-0 wheeled steam locomotive Broadway built for the Morris & Essex Rail Road] 14) J. Reid, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [2-2-0 wheeled narrow gauge steam locomotive #9 built for the Lima & Huacho Railway Co. of Peru]. Image size 13 x 16 1/4 inches. 15) A. Runkel, photographer. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [2-4-4 wheeled Hudson’s Patent steam locomotive #2 built for the Skaneateles Rail Road]. Image size 11 x 17 5/8 inches. 16) A. Runkel, photographer. Danforth Locomotive and Machine Company, Paterson, N.J. [4-6-4 wheeled steam locomotive Yquique built for the Yquique & La Noria Railway Co. of Peru]. Image size 10 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches. 17) Anonymous. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [4-4-0 wheeled steam locomotive Bulnes built for the Southern Railway of Chile]. Image size 7 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches. 18) J. Reid, photographer. Leighton Bridge and Iron Works, Rochester N.Y. Iron Double Track Railway Bridge, Boston & Albany R.R. over the Connecticut River, at Springfield Mass. Designed by Chas. Hilton, Civil Engineer. 1873. Image size 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches. 19) Anonymous. Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, N.J. [2-2-0 steam engine]. Image size 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches. 20) Anonymous. Gilbert Car Manufacturing Company. [Passenger car built for the Southern Railway of Chile]. Image size 7 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches. (#29264)   $ 18,500

16 MARTYR, Peter (1499-1562). De rebus oceanicis et novo orbe, decades tres ... Item eiusdem, De Babylonica legatione, libri III. Et item De rebus Aethiopicis, Indicis, Lusitanicis, & Hispanicis, opuscula quaedam historica doctissima, quae hodie non facile alibi reperiunter, Damiana a Goes Equitis Lusitani... Cologne: Apud Gervinum Calenium & Haeredes Quentelios, 1574. Octavo (6 1/8 x 4 inches). [48],655,[30]pp. Decorative woodcut initials. Early vellum, rebacked at an early date, manuscript titling on spine. The collected Peter Martyr: the foremost chronicler of the New World in its earliest period, including all of his most important texts on New World discovery. An important edition, besides all of the chronicles Martyr wrote as official historian of the Indies from 1511 to 1534, it adds two important works: Martyr’s 1521 Basel letter, which contains the text of the lost first Cortés letter describing his initial landing and forays into Mexico; and Damiao de Goes’ work, originally published in 1544, included by Harrisse in Additions (144). The most accessible edition of one of the foundation works of New World history. Sabin 1558; European Americana 574/1; Medina 235; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 2; Bell A214; JCB (3)I:253. (#29704)   $ 7,500

17 PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun Rivers ... during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain ... in the year 1807. Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns, published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co. of Philadelphia, Somervell & Conrad of Petersborough. Bonsal, Conrad, & Co. of Norfolk, and Fielding Lucas Jr. of Baltimore, 1810. 8vo. Stipple-engraved mounted India paper proof portrait frontispiece of Pike by Edwin, 6 engraved maps (5 folding), 3 folding letterpress tables. Expertly bound to style in period tree calf, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, original red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment. One of the most important of all American travel narratives: the first edition of the report of the first United States government expedition to the Southwest, including an account of Pike’s exploration of the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, the sources of the Mississippi River, and the Spanish settlements in New Mexico.

Pike’s narrative stands with those of Lewis and Clark, and Long, as the most important of early books on western exploration and as a cornerstone of Western Americana. “In 1805, Pike was given the difficult assignment of conducting a reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi region. He was ordered to explore the headwaters of that river, to purchase sites from the Indians for further military posts, and to bring a few influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. The trip was only moderately successful as a mission to the tribes, but Pike was able to convey important geographical information to President Jefferson and other Washington officials. On Pike’s second expedition, 1806-1807, he was assigned to explore the head-waters of the Arkansas River, then proceed south and descend the Red River from its source ... Pike and his men were taken into custody by a Spanish patrol, and Pike was able to observe many areas in New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Texas ... His book created interest in the Southwest and stimulated the expansionist movement in Texas” (Hill). The maps were the first to exhibit a geographic knowledge of the Southwest based on firsthand exploration and are considered “milestones in the mapping of the American West” (Wheat). “The description of Texas is excellent” (Streeter, Texas). We have never encountered the work with the portrait in an India proof state. Bradford 4415; Braislin 1474; Field 1217; Graff 3290; Hill (2004) 1357; Howes P373; Jones 743; Rittenhouse 467; Sabin 62836; Streeter Sale 3125; Streeter Texas 1047C; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Wheat Transmississippi 297, 298, 299. (#24721)   $ 22,000

18 ROUQUETTE, Louis-Frédéric (1884-1926). Le Grand Silence Blanc. Roman vecu d’Alaska. Paris: J. Ferenczi, 1921. 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches). 256pp. Author’s manuscript corrections throughout. Publisher’s lettered wrappers bound in. Early tan morocco backed marbled boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Louis-Frédéric Rouquette (inscribed and signed on the upper wrapper, manuscript corrections throughout). The author’s annotated copy of the first edition of a classic novel set in the Klondike and Alaska. Le Grand Silence Blanc is Rouquette’s best-known and most popular novel: first published in 1921, its success ensured that it was much reprinted in both France (including several illustrated editions) and Canada and that an English translation was also produced. The novel takes the form of a series of episodic chapters, each describing events and people encountered by the author on his journey through the Klondike and Alaska during the Gold Rush. The work establishes a strong sense of time and place, and is rich in memorable characters: the wife of the Mountie; a Chinese trader, an Inuit, an Italian pianist, and adventurer and most importantly Tempest, the husky dog to whom the work is dedicated. The present example of the first edition is annotated throughout by the author, evidently preparing the work for a new edition, and is signed and inscribed on the upper wrapper by Rouquette: “Exemplaire revu et corrige.” (#29710)   $ 3,500

19 SAGE, Rufus B. (1817-1893). Scenes In The Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and The Grand Prairies or notes by the way, during an excursion of three years ... By a New Englander. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches). Large folding map. Publisher’s brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, rebacked with brown cloth at an early date. Housed in a red morocco backed box. First edition, second issue of one of the most important overland narratives: this copy complete with its important map. Sage set out from Westport in the summer of 1841 with a fur caravan, later visiting New Mexico, witnessing the disaster of the Snively expedition, and joining the end of the 1843 Fremont expedition. He returned to Ohio in time to take a vigorous if futile role in the election of 1844, supporting Henry Clay. He wrote this book in 1845. The story of the publication of this work and its subsequent sale is told by LeRoy Hafen in the introduction to the most scholarly edition of Sage, issued in two volumes by the Arthur H. Clark Co. in 1956. According to Hafen, the publishers of the original edition felt the addition of a map would cost too much, and it was only at the author’s insistence that a map was printed and sold with the book, at a higher rate. The map, based mainly on the 1845 Fremont map, is usually not found with the book. It is “one of the earliest to depict the finally-determined Oregon boundary...one of the earliest attempts to show on a map the evermore-heavily traveled emigrant road to California” (Wheat). It adds interesting notes on the country and locations of fur trading establishments. Howes notes that it is “the best contemporary account of Snively’s abortive land-pirate expedition” (Howes). Sage was certainly one of the most literate and acute observers of the West in the period immediately before the events of 1846. First edition, second issued (with page numbers 77-88, 270-271, and 302 correctly placed in outer margin). Preceded by a limited issue of 100 copies in wrappers published without the map. Cowan pp. 548-9; Field 1345; “Fifty Texas Rarities” 30; Graff 3633; Howes S16 (“b”); Mintz 402; Rader 2870; Sabin 74892; Streeter sale V:3049; Wagner-Camp 123:1; Wheat “Mapping the Transmississippi West” 527; Wheat “Maps of the California Gold Rush” 30; Raines, p. 181. (#26960)   $ 7,250

20 SMITH, Joseph (1805-1844). The Book of Mormon ... translated by Joseph Smith, Jun. First European, from the Second American Edition. Liverpool: Printed by J. Tompkins...for Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P. Pratt. By order of the Translator, 1841. 18mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches). [4],634,[637]-643pp. Expertly bound to style in full period sheep, period marbled endpapers and pastedowns, spine ruled in gilt, black morocco lettering piece. The fourth, and first European edition of the Book of Mormon. Published under the guidance of Brigham Young, who evidently was not aware of the 1840 edition at the time of publication, and so used the text of the Kirtland edition. “In this edition the testimonies of the witnesses, formerly at the end of the volume, were transferred to the front, as they now appear in all later editions, and an index was added at the end. This index is a revision of the one printed separately at Nauvoo in 1840, with a few corrections and added words. According to Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, the book was entered at Stationers’ Hall in London, February 8, 1841. The contract was for 5000 copies, but only 4050 were delivered. An agreement was made in April, 1841, for the printing of another edition of 950 copies to supply the deficiency, at the expense of the printer, but the agreement was not carried out by the latter” (Sabin). Flake 598; Howes S623; Sabin 83041; Crawley 98. (#29280)   $ 20,000

21 STRAET, Jan van der (1523-1605) [Johannes STRADANUS] - Adriaen COLLAERT, engraver (1560-1618).

Americae Retectio. Antwerp: Jan Galle, 1585 [printed circa 1638]. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 13 inches). Engraved title and 3 engraved plates, after Stradanus, engraved by Collaert. Each measuring approximately 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches, tipped onto larger sheets of 18th century blue laid paper. Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century russia over early 18th century marbled paper covered boards. A significant and early pictorial Americanum: including the earliest depiction of American fauna. “Americae Retectio is a rare continental picture atlas by Stradanus and Collaert commemorating the successive discoveries of America by Columbus, Vespucci and Magellan ... Designed to celebrate the first centenary of the discovery of the New World, Americae Retectio is one of the most important of these historical picture atlases” (Tooley). The plates designed and drawn by Stradanus consists of an engraved illustrated title and three engraved plates depicting Christopher Columbus, Americus Vespucci and Ferdinand Magellan aboard their respective ships, approaching the New World. Inscriptions beneath each engraving describes and praises the accomplishments of the explorer. The quality of engraving by old master engraver Collaert is superb. The title plate has a globe with allegorical figures of Flora (representing Florence) and Janus (Genoa), the coastline of Liguria and medallion portraits of Vespucci and Columbus. The Latin verse underneath translates: “Who has a Heart Mighty Enough to Fashion a Song Worthy of these Majestic Events and Discoveries?” Bottom right is a dedication to Luigi and Aloyzio Alamanni of Florence. On the second plate Columbus, in full armour, stands on the deck of his caravel, under the flag of Castille, holding the papal banner. Around him are Neptune in a chariot, Diana standing in the shallows (representing landfall) and various sea-monsters and mer-people. In front are three unnamed islands, probably Cuba, Jamaica and Hispanola, with an indistinct mainland behind. The verse translates: “Christopher Columbus of Liguria, Overcoming the Terrors of the Ocean, Added to the Spanish Crown with Regions of Almost Another World that he Discovered.” On the third plate Vespucci stands on his deck, holding a quadrant. Above his head is a pennant with his own emblem of wasps (Vespe). Around him are Hercules, holding some lilies (symbol of Florence); Mars riding a Tortoise drawn by four lions; and a pair of aquatic cannibals, holding severed limbs. The verse translates: “Americus Vespucci of Florence in a Portentious Expedition to the West and to the South Opened up Two Parts of the Earth, Larger than the Shores which we Inhabit and not Known to us Before, One of which by Common Consent of All Human Beings is Called by his Name America.” This plate constitutes the earliest depiction of American fauna, pre-dating John White’s drawings.

The final plate has Magellan in armour seated on deck, under the flag of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. On the left is Tierra del Fuego, on the right a Patagonian giant is shown swallowing an arrow. A monstrous bird flies overhead carrying an elephant in its claws. The verse reads “Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal Passing Through the Winding Straits Gave his Name to the Land of the South and his Ship, the First of All and the Last, Emulating the Passage of the Sun Over the Earth, Circumnavigated the Entire Globe.” The plates were designed by Stradanus, engraved by Collaert, and originally published by Philip Galle in circa 1592. There are three editions of Americae Retectio: the first and third were issued from the original plates, with the second edition, issued in the early 17th century, being re-engraved by Mateo Florimi and not equal in quality to the original. This is an example of the third edition, published from the original plates in 1638 by John Galle, the grandson of the original publisher Philip Galle, within his Speculum Diversarum Imaginum Speculativarum. Sabin adds that the “four plates were reengraved, reversed and on a smaller scale, for part 4 of De Bry’s Great Voyages” (Sabin). Sabin 92665; Tooley, “One of the Rarest Picture Atlases” in The Map Collector, 2 (March 1978), pp. 22-24; cf. Hollstein 467-470. (#27840)   $ 12,000

22 TEXAS, Provisional Government. Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington, March 1, 1836. Houston: National Banner Office -- Niles & Co., printers, 1838. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). 156pp. Expertly bound to style in half purple morocco over period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second. Provenance: Charles B. Stewart (signature). The ordinances of the Provisional Government of Texas up to the Convention of 1836, published in the midst of the Revolution: with provenance to a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. This rare, early Houston imprint includes all the ordinances passed by the Provisional Government of Texas from November 1835 to the beginning of March 1836 and includes a printing of the “Declaration of the People of Texas, in General Convention Assembled”, a declaration of causes for taking up arms against Mexico preliminary to the Texas Declaration of Independence. Also included are the twentyone articles passed by the Consultation creating the framework for a provisional government for Texas, as well as the articles creating the Texas army. The final ordinance printed are the opening resolutions of the Convention of 1836, just prior to their passage of the Texas Declaration of Independence; i.e. “the ad interim constitution enacted March 16, 1836 by the harassed convention while the enemy was literally thundering at the gates of the town of Washington, Texas” (Eberstadt). Includes a six-page index of the ordinances in the rear. This example with provenance to Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart (1806-1885), a member of the Convention from Austin and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Stewart is further noted as the designer of the Lone Star flag. Streeter Texas 246; Eberstadt 162:195; Howes T133; Gilcrease-Hargrett, p. 362; Rader 3056. Raines, p. 229. Sabin 94959 (#28919)   $ 8,500

23 THORNTON, Jesse Quinn (1810-1888). Oregon and California in 1848 ... With an Appendix, including recent and authentic information on the subject of the Gold Mines of California. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches). Hand coloured folding map by Colton, 12 wood-engraved plates. Publisher’s ads. (Foxing). Publisher’s brown cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt (restoration at top and tail of spine). Housed in a cloth clamshell box. First edition, complete with the large folding map, of a classic work on the California Gold Rush and the earliest account of the Donner Party. “Thornton was one of the real pioneers of Oregon and California, arriving in Oregon in 1846. He has always been considered a good authority, and this work is among the best of the times. The first printed account of the sufferings of the Donner party is found in this volume. The map accompanying Thornton’s work is the famous Colton map of the Western United States, including Oregon, California, and Texas” (Wheat). The twelve illustrations, all engravings, show scenes from Thornton’s observations on the Oregon Trail, and imaginative renditions of the demise of the Donner party. Wagner-Camp 174:1; Howes T224, “aa”; Mintz 466; Graff 4143; Sabin 95630; Streeter Sale 3155; Kurutz 632a; Zamorano 80, 74; Wheat Gold Rush 208; Cowan, p.638; Wheat Gold Regions 73; Mattes 204; Mintz 466; Rocq 16107; Wheat Transmississippi 593 (#28214)   $ 4,000

24 VISCHER, Edward (1809-1878). Views of California. The Mammoth Tree Grove, Calaveras County, California and its Avenues. San Francisco: Drawn and published by Edward Vischer [lithographed by Kuchel, printed by Nagel], 1862. Small folio (13 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches). 4pp. text, letterpress index mounted on rear pastedown as issued. Lithographed title on card (repeated and mounted on front pastedown as issued), 12 lithographed plates on card containing 25 mounted lithographed illustrations. Contents loose as issued. Publisher’s brown cloth portfolio, panelled in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt. (Spine worn). A rare lithographed edition of Vischer’s work on the giant sequoias of California. Edward Vischer (1808-1878) migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen, and worked with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond. Dispatched to California in 1842, he became enamored of the area and returned to San Francisco in 1847, working as a merchant and agent for foreign companies during the Gold Rush. A talented amateur artist, Vischer began to sketch the California scenery he encountered. “In 1861 he visited the Calaveras Big Trees ... In 1862 he published a portfolio of a dozen lithographed plates of sketches made on his trip” (Peters). This would be his first published work. Apparently unsatisfied with the way lithography captured his original drawings, Vischer republished the work with albumen photographs of his original drawings. Both versions are very rare. Currey and Kruska cite three issues of the lithographed version; the present example is their third issue, being the most complete with the maximum number of plates and text. Peters, California on Stone pp. 198-202; Cowan p 662; Currey and Kruska 376 (third issue); Farquhar 5; Howes V132 Streeter sale 2877. (#27686)   $ 18,500

25 WEST POINT. [Album of photographs of faculty and graduating cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point class of 1870]. West Point, NY: 1870. Large thick quarto (12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). 103 mounted albumen photographs of the academic board and graduating cadets, including one group photograph. Contemporary brown morocco, upper cover with a raised panelled border decorated and lettered in gilt, spine with raised bands, brass hinges and clasps, gilt edges. An 1870 U.S. Military Academy at West Point yearbook, illustrated with 103 mounted photographs, including notable officers who served in the Indian Wars of the West. Entering West Point in 1866, many of the cadets pictured here served in the Civil War before entering the Academy. The first 38 images depict members of the academic board of West Point, including the commandant Thomas Gamble Pitcher. The remaining images (save for an image of a trophy and one group photograph) depict the graduating cadets of the class of 1870. Included are portraits of a number of notable officers, including Edward S. Holden (noted astronomer and future president of the University of California), Robert G. Carter (Medal of Honor recipient for distinguished gallantry in action against Comanche Indians on the Texas frontier), Alexander Oswald Brodie (future Rough Rider and Governor of Arizona Territory), Edward John McClernand (Medal of Honor recipient for valor in action near Bear Paw Mountain, Montana), John Brown Kerr (Medal of Honor recipient for distinguished bravery against Sioux Indians in South Dakota), Winfield Scott Edgerly (served in the Seventh Cavalry and survived Little Big Horn) and more. (#29968)   $ 2,500

26 WHALING, Pacific - Bark Joseph Grinnell. Outfits for a Whaling Voyage [caption title]. [New Bedford: circa 1858]. 8vo (6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches). 3-48pp, plus printed mounted advertisement preceding the first text leaf for H. S. Kirby (dealer in ship chandlery and hardware), plus numerous blanks in the rear. Manuscript annotations throughout and with additional lists of supplies on the blanks in the rear. Contemporary calf-backed blue stiff paper wrappers. Provenance: Bark Joseph Grinnell (inscription on upper wrapper dated 1858). A printed list of supplies needed for a whaling voyage, annotated throughout by the shipmaster of the Bark Joseph Grinnell detailing supplies purchased for a Pacific sperm whaling voyage. Captained by William W. Thomas, the Bark Joseph Grinnell sailed from New Bedford on 24 June 1858 for the Pacific, returning in May 1863 with 1,050 bbls of sperm oil having caught 216 whales (see Starbuck, History of the American Whale Fishery, pp. 560-561). The annotations within this printed list of supplies are presumably in Thomas’ hand and include amounts of each item purchased as well as some accounting of prices paid. A copy of the logbook of the Bark Joseph Grinnell is located at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The printer of this list of supplies is not identified, but given the mounted advertisement for H. S. Kirby it was evidently sold to various ship chandlers for use in their shops. The list includes every conceivable necessity, including wooden and metal ship parts, cordage, chains, spare sails, numerous types of tools, flours, spices and other edible provisions, clothing, and much more. (#30421)   $ 2,250

TRAVEL AND VOYAGES

27 BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796-1856). Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 2 volumes, quarto (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches). 26 maps and plates (2 folding). Errata slip in vol II. (Scattered foxing to the plates). Contemporary half straight grain green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Provenance: Norcliffe Norcliffe (1791-1862, gilt stamp at base of spine). Rare large-paper Admiralty issue of the first edition of a classic narrative of Pacific exploration. Beechey was sent to the region in 1825 to provide relief to Parry’s third voyage and Franklin’s second inland expedition, although he never managed to rendezvous with either. It is a noteworthy account, however, for its descriptions of the northwest coast of Alaska, as well as content relating to Pitcairn Island, Hawaii and California.

“The so-called Admiralty edition, issued in a quarto format, preceding the octavo edition of the same year. Beechey’s book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California ... Beechey’s work provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives his impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco. Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay is named for his ship. Beechey also describes the Eskimos of the north. At Pitcairn Island, Beechey met with John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty, who gave Beechey a lengthy account” (Hill). Hill 93; Cowan p.42; Du Reitz 68; Ferguson 1418; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347. (#30270)   $ 6,500

28 BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821). Voyage de decouvertes dans la partie Septentrionale de l’Ocean Pacifique, fait par le capitaine W.R. Broughton, commandant la corvette de S.M.B. la Providence et sa conserve, pendant les annees 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798; dans lequel il a parcouru et visite la cote d’Asie, depuis le 35° degre nord, jusqu’au 52°; l’ile d’Insu, ordinairement appelee Jesso; les cotes Nord, Est et Sud du Japon; les iles de Likeujo et autres iles voisines, ainsi que la cote de Coree.

Paris: Dentu, 1807. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches). Half-title in each volume, 2pp. errata in rear of vol. II. [6], xxxii, 243, [1]; [iv], 341, [3] pp. 3 large folding engraved maps, 4 engraved plates (3 folding) and 5 folding tables. Period tan calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spine divided into six compartments, red morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth, the others tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. First French edition of a “scarce and exceedingly important work” (Hill). A foundation work for any collection of voyages, here with important surveys and accounts of Japan, Korea, China, the northwest coast of North America and including one of only a handful of 18th-century accounts of Hawaii. “In 1793 Broughton was made commander of the Providence, Captain Bligh’s old ship, and was sent out to the northwest coast of America to join Captain George Vancouver. He sailed to Rio de Janeiro, thence to Australia, Tahiti, and the Hawaiian Islands, and on to Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island. Finding that Captain Vancouver had left, Broughton sailed down the coast to Monterey, across the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands and on to Japan. For four years he carried out a close survey of the coast of Asia and the Islands of Japan. The ship was lost off Formosa, but the crew were all saved, and work continued in the tender. He arrived back in England in 1799 and, until his death, saw much further important service, for the most part in the Far East. This voyage was one of the most important ever made to the northwest coast of America. It is on this document that Great Britain based her claim to the Oregon Territory, in 1846” (Hill). The work was first published in London in 1804; the present French translation, which includes an additional appendix, followed. This copy with first state title pages. Cordier Japonica , p.457; Ferguson 440; Forbes 382; Hill 191 (first edition); Howes B821; Judd 28; LadaMocarski 59 (first edition); Sabin 8424; Kroepelien 135. (#27140)   $ 3,750

29 CHORIS, Louis (1795-1828). Vues et Paysages des Régions Equinoxiales, recueillis dans un voyage autour du Monde...avec une introduction et un texte explicatif. Paris: Paul Renouard, 1826. Folio (16 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches). Half-title. [6], 32pp. 24 handcoloured lithographic plates by F. Noel or F. Bové after Choris. Expertly bound to style in half red straight grain morocco over period red paper covered boards, spine gilt. Rare: one of only fifty large paper copies of this important series of views of the Pacific and the west coast of America. A large paper copy with the plates hand-coloured. This copy without the 2pp. letterpress letter to the “empereur de toutes les Russies”, dated 1827. According to Forbes this letter “does not appear in every copy. “In July 1815 Choris, at the age of 20, joined Otto von Kotzebue’s expedition on the Rurik as the official artist. This was the first Russian circumnavigation devoted exclusively to scientific purposes and several well-known scientists contributed greatly to its success. Choris made a great many drawings during this voyage. In 1822 he published Voyage Pittoresque autour du monde ... Despite his using many of his drawings in that work, Choris found 24 subjects among the remaining drawings which he published 4 years later in [the present work]” (Lada-Mocarski). The plates are of subjects from the Atlantic and Pacific and include five of the coast of Brazil, three in Chile, eleven in the South Pacific and Hawaii, and the remainder in Kamchatka, the Marianas, Manila, the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena. “Choris’ drawings are original and faithful pictorial representations of the subjects he drew” (Lada-Mocarski). Borba de Moraes pp.180-181; Forbes I, 632; Lada-Mocarski 90; O’Reilly & Reitman 786; Sabin 12885. (#28838)   $ 32,500

30 COLNETT, Captain James (1755-1806). A Voyage to the South Atlantic, and round the Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries, and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring births, in certain islands and coasts on those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted. London: printed for the author, by W. Bennett, 1798. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches). Stippleengraved portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee Sir Philip Stephens, by J. Collyer after William Beechey, 6 folding engraved maps, 1 plate of a sperm whale, 2 plates of coastal profiles. Contemporary calf, covers with an elaborate wide gilt border, panelled in gilt and blind with intricate cornerpieces comprised of small tools, expertly rebacked to style, spine with wide semi-raised bands in five compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Important and rare account of whaling in the Pacific. This account was privately printed for subscription, and is one of the rarest of Pacific voyage narratives. It offers a full description of Colnett’s second Pacific voyage in the Rattler, during which he opened up the South Pacific sperm-whale fields and made two visits to the Galapagos islands. He describes the voyage out via Rio de Janeiro, around Cape Horn, along the coasts of South America and Mexico, and into the Gulf of California. He did not stop at Hawaii on this visit, though the lengthy preface contains references to his first voyage, on which he made an extended stay in Hawaiian waters during the winter of 1787-1788. Colnett’s ship, Rattler, a Royal Navy sloop, was purchased from the Admiralty and altered to serve as a whaler. The voyage lasted from January 1793 until October 1794. In addition to the informative and lively text, this work is remarkable for the quality of the maps and plates. The folding plate within the text shows a diagram of a sperm whale, complete with scale and labelled segments, the two folding plates at the back show coastal profiles of six different locations. The large folding maps show the islands of Felix and Ambrose (on one map), the Pacific Coast of the Americas as far as California (one map), and individual maps of the islands of Revillagigedo, Cocos, the Galapagos, and Quibo. Colnett first visited the Pacific as a midshipman on Cook’s second voyage. Later he made several commercial voyages to the Northwest Coast, where in 1789 his brush with the Spanish commander at Nootka Sound instigated the “Nootka Controversy”. An account of that incident is also given herein, as is his meeting with the Spanish commander at the Sandwich Islands. “This narrative is particularly important for the part Colnett played in the dispute between England and Spain over claims to the Northwest” (Forbes). Forbes 280; Hill (2004) 338; Howes C604, “b.”; Sabin 14546; Strathern 120. (#30271)   $ 16,000

31 COOK, Captain James (1728-1779) and Captain James KING (1750-1784). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere ... performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. London: W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. 4 volumes. (Text: 3 vols., quarto [11 3/16 x 9 inches]; Atlas: 1 vol., large folio [23 1/2 x 17 inches]). Text: 1p. publisher’s advertisements at end of vol.III. 1 folding letterpress table, 24 engraved maps, coastal profiles and charts (14 folding), extra-illustrated with a duplicate folding engraved “Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia” which is also present in the atlas. Atlas vol.: 63 engraved plates, plans and maps (one double-page, one folding), uncut. Text: contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style, the flat spines divided into six compartments by double fillets enclosing a neo-classical roll, red/brown morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, green morocco label with onlaid disc of red/brown morocco with volume number, the remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with stylised foliage cornerpieces around various large centrally-place tools; Atlas: expertly bound to style in half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine elaborately tooled in gilt uniform to the text. A fine set of the first edition of the official account of Cook’s third and last voyage: a cornerstone among travel and voyage literature on the exploration of Hawaii and the northwest coast of America, Canada and Alaska. This copy particularly desirable with the plates in the atlas uncut. “The famous accounts of Captain Cook’s three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge” (Hill). “Cook’s third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives over a boat. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands” (Hill). Beddie 1543; Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography, 85; Hill (2004) 361; Lada-Mocarski 37; cf.Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Sabin 16250. (#21446)   $ 30,000

32 [COOK, James (1728-1779)] - [RICKMAN, John]. Journal of Captain Cook’s last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery; performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 ... Faithfully Narrated from the original MS. Dublin: Messrs. Price, Whitestone, [etc.], 1781. Octavo 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [4], xlvii, [1], 396pp. Engraved frontispiece and four plates, 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece. The first Dublin edition of the first published account of Cook’s last voyage: a work which preceded the publication of the official account by three years. The first edition of this work was published in London in 1781; a second London edition, with corrections, was published in the same year. The present Dublin edition, also published in 1781, is a reprint of the second London edition, with four of the plates (the frontispiece of the death of Capt. Cook; “Omai’s Public Entry on his first landing at Otaheite,” “Ounalaschkan Chief ” and “Representation of the Heiva at Otaheite”) being reverse images of those in the London edition, while the plate of “Omai’s Double Canoe, and the Ships approaching Hueheine” is included here in place of the image “The Ships Approaching York Island” found in the London editions. Rickman accompanied Cook’s voyage aboard the ‘Discovery’ until his transfer to the ‘Resolution’ in 1777. Of the London edition, Hill notes: “This anonymous journal, of Captain Cook’s third voyage, was once believed to have been written by John Ledyard, who had actually made liberal use of Lieutenant Rickman’s account; hence the confusion. This narrative anticipated the government’s authorized account by two years. All the journals kept on board were claimed by the Admiralty, thus the author remained strictly anonymous. The text, especially as regards details of Cook’s death, differs considerably from other accounts.” This Dublin edition is not in Hill. Howes R276, “aa.”; Forbes 36; Wickersham 6555a; Beddie 1608; Beaglehole I, pp.ccv-ccvi; Davidson, p.64; Kroepelien 1078; O’Reilly & Reiman 416; Holmes 38 (ref). (#30273)   $ 4,500

33 (COOK, James (1728-1779)) - ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich (1741-1805). Dernier Voyage du Capitaine Cook Autour du Monde, où se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort, publié en Allemande ... & traduit avec un abrégé de la vie de ce navigateur célebre, & des notes. Berne: Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1782. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches). xvi, 200pp. Later half calf over early French marbled paper boards. Provenance: Justin Godart (booklabel).

Scarce first edition in French of the rarest account of Cook’s third voyage, written by the coxswain aboard the Discovery and surreptitiously published. Heinrich Zimmermann, a native of Speyer, Germany, was coxswain on the Discovery, and “from the start of the journey he determined to keep a shorthand journal of the voyage and retain it, despite the instructions which, as he doubtless learned from those who had sailed with Cook on his first or second voyage, would in due course be forthcoming, demanding the surrender of all logs and journals” (Holmes). Reise um die Welt mit Capitain Cook was first published in Mannheim in 1781, but was suppressed in Germany at the request of the British Admiralty and is quite rare. It is notable both as one of the first published accounts of Cook’s Third Voyage, and, more specifically, one of the earliest accounts of Cook’s death. Zimmerman was a self-described lowly seaman and his account provides valuable “lowerdeck impressions of the character of Cook” (Beaglehole III, p ccvi). The present edition, published in the year following the first, is of interest not only as the first edition in French of Zimmermann’s account, but also for the addition of the ‘Abrege de la vie du capitaine Cook’ on pp. 118-172. This biographical sketch is a translation of an article in Gottingsches Magazin der Wissenschaften un Litteratur (1780), the accuracy of which was confirmed by Johann Georg Adam Forster (who accompanied Cook on the Second Voyage). This 1782 edition was followed by a slightly more common second edition in French published in Bern in 1783, varying from the first only in the reset type, new decorations, and the amendment of the imprint and a few typographic errors. Beddie 1629; Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 47; Holmes 44; Spence p.21; Sabin 106346 (citing the Bern: 1783 reprint of this edition); cf. Hill 1935. (#30274)   $ 13,000

34 DILLON, Peter (1788-1847). Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas, Performed by Order of the Government of British India, to Ascertain the Actual Fate of La Perouse’s Expedition. London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 1829. Two volumes, 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). lxxviii, 302pp. plus errata; [2], 436pp. Three lithographed plates (two folding, one hand colored), and a folding map of Mannicolo. Lacks half title in first volume. Uncut. (One plate reinforced along the folds on verso). Modern half blue morocco over blue cloth by Aquarius, spines with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Scarce narrative of the expedition which discovered the wrecks of La Boussole and L’Astrolabe, the two French frigates of the La Pérouse expedition. Forty years after the disappearance of La Perouse, Dillon, a sandalwood trader, was shown a sword hilt in the Solomon Islands which raised his suspicions about the fate of La Perouse. He organized an expedition in Bengal and sailed back via Tasmania, New Zealand, and Tonga. He was able to assemble enough evidence from natives, both in testimony and artifacts, to determine where La Perouse had grounded. One of the ship’s relics, a glass piece from a thermometer, became a native’s nose piece (depicted on a folding plate). Along the way Dillon was involved in a terrific legal row with the government of Tasmania, also reported in detail. He provides a scathing examination of the legal system of Tasmania and New South Wales, finally declaring Australia “a land of corruption and injustice.” For his efforts, France made Dillon a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his expenses were defrayed, and he was granted a decent pension. Hill, p.83-84; Ferguson 1336; Abbey 598; Hocken, p.44; Sabin 20175. (#28646)   $ 3,250

35 DIXON, Captain George (1755-1800). A Voyage round the World; but more particularly to the North-West coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. London: published by Geo. Goulding, 1789. Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches). 22 engraved maps, charts, plates and coastal profiles after Dixon, J. Hogan, William Lewin and others, by Barlow, P. Mazell and others (including 5 folding maps and charts, 2 folding coastal profiles, 1 plate of engraved music, 14 plates [1 folding, 7 of natural history subjects hand coloured]). Contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style, flat spine in six compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Viscount Palmerston (armorial bookplate). A deluxe large-paper, hand coloured copy of the first edition of this important account of an early exploratory voyage to Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest. “Dixon’s voyage is important as a supplement to Captain Cook and for its contribution to the natural history of the Pacific Northwest. The purpose of the expedition was to establish a trade in furs in North America, but the itinerary also includes the Isle of Guernsey, Cape Verde Islands, Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, Sandwich Islands (three times), Cook’s River, King George’s Sound, Prince William Sound, Macao, Canton, and St. Helena. The voyage was sent out by the King George’s Sound Company, which owned both the King George, commanded by expedition leader Captain Nathaniel Portlock, as well as the Queen Charlotte. The two ships sailed independently of each other for part of the expedition. Both Portlock and Dixon had served on Cook’s third voyage. The work previously done by Cook along the northwest coast of America was mapped more definitely by Dixon, who discovered the Queen Charlotte Islands, Port Mulgrave, Norfolk Bay, and Dixon Entrance and Archipelago while continuing down the coast and trading with the Indians. The accounts of this expedition relate largely to the geography, ethnology, and natural history of the American coast from Nootka Sound northward” (Hill). The bulk of the text is in the form of a series of letters from William Beresford (aboard the Queen Charlotte), but supplemented by tables and observations from Dixon himself, who also edited and corrected the whole work. Dixon was also directly responsible for a number of the maps, charts and plates which are engraved from his originals. The regular issue, published at 1£.1s, contains no hand coloured plates and is generally less than 10 1/2 inches in height; a small number of copies were printed on larger, thicker paper with the natural history plates hand coloured, as in the present copy. Forbes 161; Hill (2004) 118; Howes D365; Judd 53; Lada-Mocarski 43; Nissen ZBI 1120; Pilling Proof Sheets 1042; Sabin 20364; Streeter sale 3484; TPL 593; Wagner I, pp.207 & II, pp. 732-735; Wickersham 6574. (#30275)   $ 18,500

36 HARRIS, John (1667?-1719, compiler). Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers ... Now carefully revised, with large additions, and continued down to the present time. London: printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt [inter alia], 1744-1748. 2 volumes, folio. [12],xvi,[4],984; [10],1056,[22, Index and List of Plates]pp. Titles printed in red and black, 61 engraved maps, plans and plates (15 folding). 20th-century polished calf, gilt, leather labels. The second and best edition of Harris’s important compilation, edited by John Campbell, with Emmanuel Bowen’s important map of Georgia, the first English map of Australia and one of the earliest English accounts of Bering’s second expedition. “This is the revised and enlarged version of the 1705 first edition ...[This] edition, especially prized for its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities. Particularly valuable is the inclusion of Tasman’s original map and two short articles printed on the map ... To the original extensive collection [including Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, Schouten, Hawkins, Narbrough and Dampier] are added accounts completed since the first publication: Christopher Middleton to Hudson’s Bay, 1741-42; Bering to the Northeast, 1725-6; Woodes Roger’s circumnavigation, 1708-11; Clipperton and Shevlocke’s circumnavigation, 1719-22; Roggeveen to the Pacific, 1721-33; and the various travels of Lord Anson, 1740-44” (Hill). Two of the maps are particularly interesting. The first “A Complete Map of the Southern Continent” (facing p.325 in vol.I) is the first English map of Australia. The second, titled “A New Map of Georgia, with Part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana..” (facing p.323 in vol. II) covers from Charles Town to the Mississippi River and extends into Florida to Cape Canaveral. It was included as an accompaniment to a new chapter “The History of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Colony of Georgia” included for the first time in this edition. Besides being a spectacular image, much useful information is also included, particularly the coastal settlements, Indian villages and French and English forts. A distinction is made between tribes that are friendly and hostile to the English. The trading paths and main roads are marked, many shown here for the first time. The modern relevance and historical importance of this map was demonstrated when it was used in a 1981 Supreme Court case over the location of the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina at the mouth of the Savannah River. Arnot 23; Clancy 6.25; Cox I,p.10; cf. Cummings 267 (the Georgia map); Davidson pp.37-38; Hill (2004) 775; Perry p.60 & pl.29; Sabin 30483; Schilder map 87; Lada-Mocarski 3; European Americana 744/116. (#28611)   $ 14,500

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37 [KIDD, Captain William (ca.1645-1701)]. The Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of Captain William Kidd, for Murther and Piracy, Upon Six several Indictments ... who, upon full evidence was found guilty, receiv’d sentence, and was accordingly executed at Execution Dock, May the 23rd. London: J. Nutt, 1701. Folio (12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). 60pp. (Trimmed with minor losses to catchwords and page numbers). Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century russia over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine divided into compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. First edition of the trials of the infamous pirate Captain William Kidd. The transcript of the trial before Parliament covers the three principal charges against Kidd. The first is for the murder of a member of his crew on the ship Adventure off the coast of Malabar in the East-Indies; the second is the trial of Kidd and nine other pirates on charges of piracy and robbery on the ship Quedagh; and the third is on two more indictments of piracy committed on two ships off Calicut. The text transcribes the cross-examinations in their entirety, which gives detailed descriptions of many of Kidd’s seizures of ships and booty. Kidd was found guilty of all charges and executed by hanging on 23 May 1701. This official report and trial transcript is of great importance, as many have concluded that Kidd’s actions were in fact mere privateering and that it was the trial questioning before Parliament which resulted in his piratical reputation. The complete trial transcript is very rare; a more common abridged version was published in 1703. Howes K120; Sabin 37701. (#29047)   $ 8,750

38 KRASHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich (1711-1755) - James GRIEVE, translator (d. 1773). The History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, with the countries adjacent; illustrated with maps and cuts. Published at Petersbourg in the Russian language, by order of Her Imperial Majesty, and translated into English by James Grieve, M.D. Glocester [sic]: Printed by R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764. 4to (10 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches). 7 engraved maps and plates (four folding). Errata leaf. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Baron St. John of Bletsoe (armorial bookplate). First English edition of a noted work on Kamchatka and one of the earliest accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, by a member of Bering’s second expedition. “The Russian Krasheninnikov started out across Siberia with Gerhard Friedrich Mueller and Johann Georg Gmelin, and then made his own way to Kamchatka. When Georg Wilhelm Steller arrived in Kamchatka to supervise his work, Krasheninnikov left in order to avoid becoming Steller’s assistant, and returned to St. Petersburg. Krasheninnikov nonetheless was able to make use of Steller’s notes in the preparation of his own narrative, and the inclusion of Steller’s observations on America, made during his travels with Bering’s second voyage, are an important part of this work, and constitute one of the earliest accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Steller’s account was not published until 1793. This work details the customs, morals, and religion of the Kamchatka peninsula, and discusses the power exercised by the magicians. Also described are the differences between the dialects of the Kamchatkans and those of the Korsairs and of the Kurile islanders. This is the first scientific account of those regions” (Hill). Steller’s own account of the voyage with Bering was not published until 1793. The second part of Krasheninnikov’s narrative is devoted to the botanical and natural history aspects of the region, including many valuable observations, comprising what is generally considered to be the pioneering natural history work concerning Alaska and Kamchatka. The attractive plates are some of the earliest depictions of the natives and their habitat. Lada-Mocarski states that the first edition “is a very rare book and difficult to secure.” First published in Russian in 1755, the present first English edition was translated by James Grieve, at the time of the original publication serving as the personal physician to the Empress of Russia. The present scarce English edition was the first to be published outside Russia and would be followed by French and German translations. “Contains one of the earliest descriptions of Russian America and the Kurile Islands” (Howes). Sabin 38301; Hill 948; Howes K265; cf. Lada-Mocarski 12; Howgego K37. (#30478)   $ 4,500

39 KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (1770-1846). Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805 und 1806 auf Befehl seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät Alexander des Ersten auf den Schiffen Nadeshda und Newa. St. Petersburg: Schnoorschen Buchdruckerey, 1810-1812. 3 volumes, 4to (10 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches). [8],xx,353,[1]; [4],436; [4],iv,376,[2]pp. plus folding table. (Browning extending from the lower margin in front and rear of third volume). Contemporary half calf and marbled paper covered boards, flats spines ruled in gilt with red and black morocco lettering pieces. First edition in German of the text volumes to Krusenstern’s seminal account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Capt. Ivan von Krusenstern’s voyage was one of the most important post-Cook Pacific voyages, specifically aimed at obtaining more knowledge of the northern Pacific region, establishing diplomatic and commercial relations with Japan, and visiting the Russian trading posts in Alaska and on the west coast of America. It comprised the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe, under the command of Krusenstern, between 1803 and 1806. Sailing in 1803, the expedition touched on Brazil and rounded Cape Horn, visiting the Marquesas Islands, Hawaii, Kamchatka, and Japan. In Hawaii the expedition separated, with ships under Langsdorff and Lisianski sailing to the Northwest Coast, while Krusenstern himself undertook the delicate Japan expedition, returning via Macao and the Cape of Good Hope. “The importance of this work stems from its being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe, and form the discoveries and rectifications of charts that were made, especially in the North Pacific and on the northwest coast of America” (Hill). “In general, the German edition of the text volumes follows closely that of the earlier Russian edition” (Lada Mocarski). The primary narrative of one of the most important Pacific voyages; the famed atlas which accompanied these volumes was issued separately in 1813. Lada-Mocarski 62; Sabin 38327; Arctic Bibliography 9377; Howes K272, “c;” Borba de Moraes, pp.374-75; Hill 952 (ref); Forbes Hawaii 407; Nissen ZBI, 2310 (#30188)   $ 9,750

40 KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (1770-1846). Voyage round the World, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy ... Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London: Printed by C. Roworth ... for John Murray, 1813. 2 volumes in 1, quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). xxxii, [4], 314; [10], 404pp. Folding map, 2 hand coloured aquatint plates by Atkinson. Contempoary olive polished calf, bordered in gilt and blind, expertly rebacked to style, marbled endpapers and edges. Provenance: Sir William Douglas (armorial bookplate). First edition in English of the account of the first Russian voyage around the world and of particular importance relating to the North Pacific, Alaska and the Arctic regions. “Captain Kruzenshtern [or Krusenstern, 1770-1846], appointed to command the first Russian round-the-world expedition, had serving with him a brilliant corps of officers, including Lisiansky, Langsdorff, and Kotzebue. The expedition was to attempt to ‘open relations with Nippon and the Sandwich Islands, to facilitate trade in South America, to examine California for a possible colony, and make a thorough study and report of the Northwest coast, its trade and its future.’ Kruzenshtern was troubled by Russian dependence on England for naval personnel and training; he proposed this voyage as a means of forming a Russian-trained navy in the course of obtaining furs and trading them for Chinese goods. The importance of this work is due to its being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe, and the discoveries and rectifications of charts that were made, especially in the North Pacific and on the northwest coast of America ...The introduction is particularly important and interesting because of the information it contains respecting the state of Russian commerce during the eighteenth century, the Russian voyages and discoveries in the Northern Ocean, and the Russian fur trade. Kruzenshtern also took the first Russian embassy of Nikolai Rezanov to Japan; while not successful in establishing diplomatic or trading relations with Japan, the published knowledge of the Japanese was increased very much thereby” (Hill). First published in St. Petersburg between 1809-1814 (with an excessively rare atlas of plates), a German edition followed in 1811-1812, with the present first English edition based on that translation in 1813. Abbey, Travel, 1; Arctic Bibliography 9381; Borba de Moraes I, page 441; Forbes 443; Graff 2358; Hill 952; Kroepelien 693; Howes K272; Judd 97; Sabin 38331; Smith 2078; Streeter sale VI, 3505; Wickersham 6234; cf. Lada-Mocarski 61 and 62. (#30276)   $ 22,500

41 MAY, Lieutenant Walter William (1830-1896). A Series of Fourteen Sketches made during the voyage up Wellington Channel in search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the missing crews of H.M. Discovery-Ships Erebus and Terror; together with a short account of each drawing. London: Day and Son, 1855. Folio (14 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches). Letterpress title (verso blank), 4pp. text, 1p. List of Subscribers (verso blank). 14 tinted lithographed plates printed by Day & Son on 13 leaves (13 views after May on 12 plates, drawn on stone by by J. Needham [4], Thomas Goldworth Dutton [4] and others), 1 plate of “Franklin Relics brought [home] by Dr. Rae”). Publisher’s lettered stiff paper wrappers, rebacked to style with green cloth. Housed in a green morocco box. The principal visual record of the search for Franklin and a rare work of Arctic views. May, a trained marine artist, served as a lieutenant on Sir Edward Belchers expedition on the Assistance, which searched the Wellington Channel between 1852-54 for the missing Franklin. May’s Fourteen Sketches provides a spectacular record of this “last of the arctic voyages” containing accurate and atmospheric images covering many aspects of the expedition. The final plate is of particular interest and is often reproduced as it depicts the Franklin relics which Dr. John Rae bought from an Inuit who had found them at the mouth of the Great Fish River: i.e. the first firm evidence of the fate of Franklin and his men. Belcher was never really suited to command, and throughout his career accusations of his overbearing ways had followed him. May experienced Belcher’s bullying first hand, eventually responded in kind and was relieved of his duties by Belcher during the expedition. However, on the ship’s return to England, May was exonerated and promoted. Abbey Travel II, 646; Sabin 47083; Staton & Tremaine 3454. (#29122)   $ 16,000

42 PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (1748-1817). A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. London: Printed for John Stockdale, and George Goulding, 1789. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches). xii, 384, xl pp. 20 engraved plates, charts and maps (6 folding charts or maps, 2 engraved portraits, 12 engraved plates [the 5 ornithological plates with contemporary hand-colouring, as issued]). Contemporary speckled calf, covers with a Greek key scroll border, expertly rebacked to style, flat spine divided into six compartment, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Baron Ormathwaite (armorial bookplate). Rare deluxe issue with hand coloured plates of the first edition of a classic narrative of the early exploration on the Northwest coast. Portlock, a veteran of Cook’s third voyage, and Dixon were sent by the King George’s Sound Company to the Northwest coast of North America to investigate the economic possibilities of the fur trade there. En route, they had a long stay in Hawaii, and Portlock’s narrative of this visit is of particular interest since Portlock and Dixon were the first captains to visit the Hawaiian islands since the death of Cook. He gives an important account of the situation there, already much altered by European contact. The voyage then proceeded to the Northwest to survey the region. Portlock and Dixon separated, with Portlock exploring northward up the Alaskan coast and Dixon proceeding southward to Nootka Sound. Both Dixon and Portlock published accounts of the voyage, but Portlock is of greater value for his particularly vivid descriptions of the Native Americans and Russians in the region. In addition to the lively narrative, the work is well illustrated with 20 plates and maps: these include a fine large folding general map of the Northwest Coast, and five maps of particular harbours along the coast. In the regular issue, the five bird plates are uncoloured and the text is printed on laid paper. A contemporary advertisement announcing the publication offers “a few copies ... printed on fine paper, hot pressed and plates coloured.” These deluxe issues, as here, are considerably more rare than the usual uncoloured examples. Besides the obvious benefit of hand coloured illustrations, the paper used for the text of this deluxe issue is a higher quality paper. Forbes Hawaii 177; Judd Voyages 147; Hill (2004) 1376; Howes P487 “b.”; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Streeter Sale 3485; TPL 599; Wagner Northwest Coast 738-43; Wood p.523. (#30279)   $ 17,500

43 RICCI, Matteo (1552-1610); and Nicolas TRIGAULT (1577-1628).

Histoire de l’expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine entreprinse par les peres de la Compagnie de Iesus. Lille: Pierre de Rache, 1617. Small 4to (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. [12], 559, [5]pp. Contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, expertly recased (small repair at head of spine). Provenance: Franciscan Monastery at Weert (small inked stamp on title). Second edition in French of the most important work on China published in the first half of the 17th century. “In 1615, the French Jesuit missionary Nicolas Trigault published De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Suscepta ab Societae Jesu ... based on the reports and papers of Mateo Ricci, the Italian who carried the Jesuit mission in China beyond the Portuguese trading colony at Macau to the mainland. Ricci lived and worked in Canton and Nanjing, among other places, and died in Beijing in 1610. This chronicle about the Western mission in China from 1583-1611 also provided a systematic portrait of contemporary Chinese society as perceived by Ricci, who was fluent in Chinese and exhibited both a sympathetic interest in Chinese culture and an erudite perspective on the Jesuits’ accomplishments. De Christiana Expeditione was among the most important and widely read books on China published during the seventeenth century. French, German, Spanish and Italian translations quickly appeared, but not English” (China on Paper, p. 10). The first French edition was published in Lyon in 1616, translated by D. F. de RiquebourgTrigault (a nephew of Nicholas Trigault) with the present second edition following. All early editions are rare. The work “became the most influential description of China to appear during the first half of the seventeenth century ... [and] provided European readers with more, better organized, and more accurate information about China than was ever before available” (Lach and Van Kley). Cordier Sinica 809-810; Sommervogel, VIII, 240; Streit V:717; Lach and Van Kley, Asia in the Making of Europe, vol. III, pp. 512-513. (#28941)   $ 8,500

44 SOUTH AMERICA - [William M. HUNTER, 1st Lieutenant]. [A series of six watercolour views in Brazil and Chile, accomplished by an American naval officer, including two views of Rio de Janeiro, two views of Valparaiso and two unidentified views of the South American coast]. [South America: circa 1820-1825]. Pen-and-ink and gray wash, with white gouache highlights, on wove paper watermarked Hatman W. Balston & Co, sheets measuring approximately 12 1/2 x 18 1/8 inches each. Uniformly matted and housed in a dark blue morocco backed box. An important group of South American views by an American naval officer and talented artist aboard the USS Franklin, the flagship of the first American Pacific squadron. 1) [A View of Rio from Ilha des Cobras]. View from a sea-side path, one well-dressed male figure and a palm tree in the foreground, buildings along the right side, and across the bay 9 large ships at anchor, with the city beyond dominated with a central large church. Image size: 10 7/8 x 17 inches; sheet size: 12 1/2 x 18 inches. 2). [A View of Rio from the terrace of the church Nossa Senhora da Gloria]. View across the bay from the large terrace of the church, with the arched entrance to the church at the left, seven male figures standing or sitting on the terrace, across the bay a fort, church and city buildings, as well as the aqueduct. Image size: 11 7/8 x 17 5/16 inches; sheet size: 12 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches. 3) [View a hilly shore line from the sea]. At the far right two small ships are visible. Image size: 5 13/16 x 17 inches; sheet size: 12 3/16 x 18 inches.

4) [View a hilly shore line from the sea]. Two ships are centrally placed sailing toward a cove with buildings. Image size: 6 7/8 x 18 1/8 inches; sheet size: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches. 5) [View of Valapariso, Chile]. View of the town and harbour from a hill-top above the beach, buildings in the foreground, numerous large and small boats at anchor in the bay, buildings almost up to the waters-edge, a fort on a hilltop overlooking the bay, hills behind, a wooden flag signaling tripod on one. Image size: 11 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches; sheet size: 12 1/4 x 18 inches. 6) [View of Valapariso, Chile]. View of the town and harbour from a hill-top above the beach, looking across the bay from the opposite side of the above, buildings in the foreground, numerous large and small boats at anchor in the bay, buildings almost up to the watersedge, a fort on a hilltop overlooking the bay, numerous people, horses and carts, amongst the buildings below. Image area: 12 x 17 1/8 inches; sheet size: 12 5/8 x 18 inches. Attribution to Hunter is based on similar views found in the logbook of the USS Franklin located at the Huntington Library. The log book was kept by First Lieutenant William M. Hunter on board the ship, which departed from New York in October 1821, returning in 1824. The 74-gun American war ship, commanded by Charles Stewart, was the principal vessel of the newly designated American Pacific squadron, tasked with protecting American whaling vessels on South American coast amidst the ongoing independence movement. (#24014)   $ 19,500

45 STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard (1737-1801). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ... Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney. London: W.Bulmer & Co. for G.Nicol, 1797. 3 volumes (text: 2 vols, quarto [10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches], atlas vol.: large folio [22 1/2 x 17 inches.)] Text: 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, of Emperor Tchien Lung in vol.I and the Earl Macartney in vol.II, 1 plate, 26 vignette illustrations after William Alexander and others. Atlas: 44 engraved views, plans, plates, charts or maps (including a large folding world map, 3 natural history subjects and 25 views). Text: contemporary tree calf, flat spine divided into six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. (Expert repairs at top and tail of spine). Atlas: expertly bound to style in half calf over period brown paper covered boards, spine gilt uniform to the text. Provenance: Sir Thomas Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet (armorial bookplate in text). First edition of the official published account of the first British embassy to China, headed by the Earl Macartney: complete with the atlas of maps and plates.

George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was dispatched to Beijing in 1792 traveling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by Staunton, and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Staunton’s 11-year-old son who was nominally the ambassador’s page. On the embassy’s arrival in China it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to converse with the Emperor. The embassy, the first such to China, had two objectives: the first to register with the Emperor British displeasure at the treatment that the British merchants were receiving from the Chinese, the second to gain permission for a British minister to be resident in China. The first objective was achieved, the second was not. Macartney was twice granted an audience with the Emperor and in December 1793 he was sumptuously entertained by the Chinese viceroy in Canton, and returned to England via Macao and St. Helena, arriving in September 1794. Brunet V, 525; cf. Cordier Sinica 2381-2382; cf. Cox I, p.344; Hill (2004) 1628; Lowndes III, p.2502; Lust 545 & 547; cf. Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G.E.Morrison (Tokyo: 1924) I, 696-697; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 12.835. (#27884)   $ 27,500

46 TURNER, Samuel (1749-1802). - Samuel DAVIS (1760-1819, illustrator). An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet, containing a narrative of a journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet ... To which are added, views taken on the spot, by Lieutenant Samuel Davis; and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medical, by Mr. Robert Saunders. London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co, and sold by G. & W. Nicol, 1800. Imperial quarto (13 x 9 3/4 inches). Folding engraved map after Samuel Davis, 13 plates (1 aquatint by De la Motte after Stubbs, 1 double-page line engraving of script, 2 engraved views by James Basire after Turner, 1 engraved plan and 8 views by James Basire after Samuel Davis), 1 engraved illustration. Contemporary russia, covers bordered in gilt and blind, armorial stamp on the upper cover, expertly rebacked to style, spine with double-raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, period marbled endpaper and edges. Provenance: Sir Simon Richard Brisett Taylor (1783-1815, arms in gilt on the upper cover, armorial bookplate on the front pastedown). A rare large paper issue of the first edition of the official account of Turner’s embassy to Bhutan and Tibet: the first great western account of the region. Acting on Warren Hastings orders, Samuel Turner’s expedition was despatched with the aim of improving “trans-Himalayan trade after the Nepal war. Turner’s party, including the surgeon and botanist Dr Robert Saunders, set off from Calcutta in January 1783. Davis was to survey the route and record the topographical features of the country ... While in Bhutan during their first audience with the Deb Raja in his palace at Tassisudon, Turner explained to him that ‘drawing constituted in England a branch of education; and that we made unequal progress in the art, I could boast but little skill in it, but that my friend Mr. Davis had attained a great degree of perfection’ ... After four months in Bhutan waiting for permission to enter Tibet ... the three men were told that only Turner and Saunders could proceed. Turner believed that the authorities were suspicious of Davis’s drawing skills ... Leaving Davis behind in Bhutan ... Turner and Saunders departed for Tibet on 8 September 1783. Their travels were to last until March the following year” (Indian Life & Landscape p.194). The Table of Plates notes that the plates were all engraved from originals in the possession of Warren Hastings - including the image of the Yak. The Yak was one of a pair sent to Hastings, by his kinsman, Turner. Only one survived the journey, and it is this animal that was painted by George Stubbs from life. In the background, Stubbs incorporates Davis’s view of Punakha Dzong, the summer palace in Bhutan. Published at 2l. 2s in boards, contemporary advertisements reveal that a smaller number of copies were available in large paper, printed from the same setting of type as the smaller regular issue but in larger size and on better paper stock, at 4l. 4s. Cox I, 346; cf. J. Egerton George Stubbs, painter: catalogue raisonné 284; cf. P. Godrej & P. Rohatgi Scenic Splendours India through the printed image p.34; cf. Indian Life and Landscape p.194; Lennox-Boyd 140; Lowndes IV, p.2724; Lust 208; Yakushi T140. (#29380)   $ 6,500

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47 WEDDELL, James (1787-1834). A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,, 1825. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches). Uncut, small format errata slip after dedication, publisher’s advertisements at end dated Christmas 1825. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 4 uncoloured aquatint plates, 8 engraved maps (6 folding), 2 folding aquatint plates of coastal profiles printed in blue. Period blue paper boards, expertly rebacked to style with muslin, paper label. First edition of “the true starting point for an Antarctic collection” (Taurus). Weddell first sailed to the Antarctic in the brig Jane of Leith in 1819-1821 in order to open new sealing grounds near the newly-discovered South Shetland Islands. No printed record of this first voyage was issued. In 1822, Weddell undertook the present important second voyage aboard the Jane, accompanied by the cutter Beaufoy commanded by Matthew Brisbane. They explored the Cape Verde Islands, South Shetland, South Orkney and the South Georgia Islands. The expedition reached 74°15’ South -- farther south than any other ship to that point. Remarkably, Weddell reported the seas to be free of ice. The sea directly north of the present British Antarctic Territory identified on one of the present maps as “The Sea of George the Fourth” is now named in Weddell’s honour. Books on Ice 6.1; Rosove 345.A1; Sabin 102431; Spence 1246; Taurus Collection 4; Abbey, Travel 609; Hill 1843. (#25552)   $ 3,250

NATURAL HISTORY

48 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Ornithological Biography, or an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America; accompanied by descriptions of the objects represented in the work entitled The Birds of America, and interspersed with delineations of American scenery and manners. Vol. I: Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1832; vol.II: Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1835; vol.III: Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black [and others], 1835 [but with New York 1836 copyright slip pasted onto the half-title]. Volumes I-III (of 5), octavo (10 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches). Half-titles, 16pp. prospectus to ‘The Birds of America’ at the end of vol.I. (Some old dampstaining to volumes I and II). Uniform near-contemporary black half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spines in five compartments with semi-raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth compartments (extremities scuffed, inner hinges strengthened with cloth at an early date, vol.III lacking the front free endpaper). Provenance: Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838, each volume inscribed by John James Audubon and dated Boston, September 27th 1836); Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892, signatures). Very rare inscribed copies of American editions or issues of the first volumes of Audubon’s textual accompaniment to his ‘Birds of America’: the provenance is particularly important as it recalls the friendship between Audubon and Nathaniel Bowditch, another great self-made scientist. Volume I is the second issue of what Ellis describes as “a separate American edition of volume I of this famous work.” The first issue was published in 1831 with a different imprint. This issue is made up from the sheets of the first issue with an updated title. According to Zimmer, “it differs in some particulars from the Edinburgh edition. Some of the wording of the introduction is altered; that of the general text appears the same with minor changes in punctuation and the correction of at least one error ... The letterpress is parallel, to a considerable degree, line for line, but there are many places where differences exist ... The sixteen pages of advertising at the close of the volume consist of a prospectus of the folio, ‘Birds of America,’ with a list of the one hundred plates in vol.I of that work and the year of publication of each plate. Extracts from the reviews and a list of [180] subscribers are added’’ (Zimmer pp.19-20). Volume II was published in Boston, and described by Ellis as a “second edition of volume II ... the only American edition of that volume, and the only edition of any volume bearing a Boston imprint.’’ Volume III was published in Edinburgh, but marketed in the United States as the pasted-on copyright slip demonstrates. This is a close as it is possible to get to a US edition/issue of vols. III-V of the Ornithological Biography, as there were no US printed editions of these volumes. The provenance of these volumes is particularly appropriate. Both Audubon and Nathaniel Bowditch rose to the top of their chosen fields by their own efforts. Despite relatively humble beginnings, Bowditch showed a genius for mathematics and an interest in maritime trade, a combination which, when allied with a flair for business, translated into a successful and productive life in many fields. He is today perhaps best remembered for his The New American Practical Navigator (first published in 1802).

Audubon had evidently known Bowditch for some time before the present volumes were inscribed, but the probable background to the inscriptions is as follows. Audubon had arrived in Boston from New York on business, on 20 September 1836. His visit was productive: he procured a number of specimens, made contact with friends (including Nathaniel Bowditch), visited individuals and institutions in Boston (and nearby) who were potential subscribers, and met Daniel Webster and Washington Irving (both of whom gave him letters of introduction). On the 27th September 1836, the date of the inscriptions in the present volumes, Audubon recorded in his journal that John Quincy Adams delivered a eulogy on President Madison during the day, and that in the evening he (Audubon) attended a dinner hosted by the President of the Natural History Society, Dr. B.C. Green. It was possibly here that Audubon took the opportunity to inscribe the present volumes. The inscriptions are sincere and show Audubon’s admiration for Bowditch. There are slight variations between the three volumes, but the wording of the inscription in vol.III is typical: “To / Nathl. Bowditch Esq / with the best wishes and high / esteem of his friend & servant / John J Audubon / Boston Sepr. 27th 1836” Nathaniel Bowditch lived for only another 18 months, and these books subsequently passed into the possession of his son Henry Bowditch, who signed them on each title and again on each front pastedown. The style of the bindings, together with the fact that one of the original Audubon inscriptions is shaved suggests that it was possibly Henry who had the books bound. Dr. Henry Bowditch was also a figure of note, who is today best known as an ardent anti-slavery campaigner. Cf. Anker 18; cf. Fries Double Elephant Folio, Appendix F “Editions of Audubon’s Prospectus”, p.389; Mengel/ Ellis 98 & 99 (‘A separate American edition of volume I of this famous work’); cf. Howes A-389; Wood p.208; Zimmer p.19 (#24440)   $ 22,500

49 BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1887); Thomas Mayo BREWER (1814-1880); and Robert RIDGWAY (1850-1929).

A History of North American Birds ... Land Birds ... Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1875. 3 volumes, 4to (10 1/2 x 8 inches). 64 handcoloured lithographs and numerous illustrations. Extra-illustrated with 36 hand-coloured lithographs after Ridgway. Publisher’s purple cloth, coveres bordered in blind, upper covers and spine lettered in gilt (spines slightly faded). A rare deluxe, coloured and extra-illustrated edition of Baird, Brewer and Ridgway’s classic of American ornithology. “This work contains a description of the birds of North America north of Mexico, including Greenland and Alaska. The focus of this work is an account of the life history of the species, to which is added information about the geographical distribution of the birds and a brief description of the eggs and the individual species. Baird and Ridgway supplied the descriptive parts of the work, while Dr. Brewer dealt with the habits of the birds” (Anker). Little Brown & Co. advertisements confirm that their Land Birds was issued with 64 plates

(uncolored at $10 per volume, or coloured at $20 per volume). However, a letter from the librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia published in the October 1902 issue of the Auk reveals the existence of the present deluxe issue of the Land Birds, with additional hand-coloured plates after Ridgway: “While the existence of an edition of this work with these plates may be known to many ornithologists, yet there is no printed record of such, as far as the present writer is aware. No mention of these plates is made in Coues’s ‘Bibliography’ nor in the several reviews of the ‘Land Birds’ to which I have had access. Dr. C. W. Richmond informs me that Mr. Ridgway has never seen a copy of the work with these plates although he has some loose plates in his possession” (letter from William J. Fox published in The Auk, October 1902). Neither Nissen, Anker, Zimmer nor Sitwell mention this deluxe issue. A contemporary advertisement (in an 1882 edition of The Scientist’s International Directory), however, reveals that this deluxe extra-illustrated issue “beautifully colored by hand” was available for $75 in cloth (as here) or $95 in full morocco. “One of the great works on North American ornithology and for many years a standard reference ... the first major work on North American birds to supersede Audubon’s Ornithological Biography of 1831-39 as a comprehensive general source” (Ellis Collection). We have only once before encountered the deluxe, extra-illustrated hand colored issue. Nissen 63; Anker 25; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, page 75; Ellis Collection 137; Zimmer, p. 34. (#29928)   $ 8,500

50 BENTHAM,

George (1800-1884); and Henry Fletcher HANCE (1827-1886). Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hong Kong ... [Bound with:] Flora Hongkongensis ... A Compendious Supplement to Mr. Bentham’s Description of the Plants of the Island of Hong Kong ... Extracted from the Linnaen Society’s Journal. London: Lovell Reeve, 1861; [London: Linnaen Society, 1872]. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (8 x 5 1/8 inches). [3]-20*, 51, [1], 482pp., plus folding map; [4], [95]-144pp. Contemporary half green morocco over green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, tooled on either side of each band and lettered in the center three compartments, marbled endpaper and edges. The first comprehensive flora on any part of China and Hong Kong, bound with the separately-issued supplement. Bentham donated his impressive herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens in 1854, and shortly thereafter, with the sanction of the British Government, began preparing a series of flora of the indigenous plants of British colonies and possessions, beginning with the present work. “Bentham had made use of all the botanical materials then known from Hong Kong. In the determination of the plants he was aided by several distinguished botanists: Dr. J. Lindley, Sir W. J. Hooker, Dr. J. D. Hooker, Colonel Munro, Prof. . Oliver. Dr. Boott and others ... This remarkable book exhibits on every page the vast botanical knowledge of the author and serves as a model for accurate characteristic and at the same time popular descriptions of plants” (Bretschneider). In his work, Bentham identifies 1056 species of flowering plants, of which approximately 1000 were native. His monumental work is very rare. We know of only the Plesch copy selling at auction in the last forty years. Plesch sale 48; Pritzel 625; Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in Asia, pp. 401-403. (#29444)   $ 3,750

51 EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions ... To which is annexed Pomona, or, an Appendix concerning Fruit-trees in relation to cider ... Also, Kalendarium Hortense; or Gard’ners Almanac ...

London: Jo. Martyen and Ja. Allestry, 1664. 3 parts in one, tall 4to (12 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches). Title printed in red and black with engraved armorial vignette, with the Royal Society attestation leaf facing the title and the errata leaf in the rear. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, rebacked retaining the original spine and morocco lettering piece. Provenance: William George Porter (early signature on title). Rare first edition of Evelyn’s Sylva: the most important English work on dendrology of the 17th century. First published in 1664, this work was written by Evelyn at the request of the Royal Society in London, in an effort to address the problem of the fast disappearing forests and woodlands of England. “Arboriculture was an endless source of interest and delight to Evelyn. Throughout his life he was adding to his knowledge on the subject, from his own experience in the planting of trees, from observations made during his travels at home and abroad, and from other men’s writings. From 1664 until 1706 Evelyn published four editions of Sylva and on each occasion the work was expanded. It contains an enormous amount of information concerning the cultivation of the various kinds of forest trees, and the uses of their timber, together with facts and anecdotes obtained from books, both classical and contemporary. The work was a success from the start. Its publication gave a great stimulus to planting in Britain, Charles II setting the example with the replenishing of the Royal forests” (Henrey I, p.107). The first edition is rare. Bradley Bibliography IV,p.107; Henrey I,135; Keynes, G. John Evelyn, 40; ESTC R12326; Wing E3516 (#30596)   $ 4,250

52 GALE, William F. (florist and gardener); and George A. SOLLY (publisher). Designs for Flower Beds. Springfield, Massachusetts: George A. Solly & Son, 1887. Oblong 4to (7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches). 54 plates (9 chromolithographed). 1p. of ads in the rear. Publisher’s purple cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked to style. Scarce American designs for fancy flower beds, illustrated with chromolithographed plates. “The increased interest in ornamental gardening has induced us to put in book form a number of designs suitable for all kinds of grounds, park and cemeteries ... With many it is a difficult task to lay out a carpet bed, or fancy design on the lawn, and perhaps more difficult to choose the proper plants to harmonize, so as to give the best effects. The object of these drawings is to assist gardeners and amateurs, and to enable them to select the proper plants for their work. It is expected that this book will supply a long felt want, as it is the first and only publication entirely devoted to fancy flower bed designs” (Introduction). (#29524)   $ 2,850

53 GOULD, John (1804-1881). A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America. London: Richard & John E. Taylor for the Author, [November 1844 - March 1846 - November] 1850. Folio (21 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches). 1p. list of subscribers. 32 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates after Gould and H. C. Richter. Early half olive green morocco over green pebbled cloth covered boards, bound for Sotheran’s, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy of the first edition of Gould’s fourth monograph, in which he considerably enlarged the number of recorded species of the American partridge family. Besides the spectacular plates of American birds, this work is interesting for the light it throws on the all encompassing nature of science before specialization: Gould was inspired by the gift of an English Arctic explorer, received much useful information from a Scottish botanist and finally dedicated the work to the French ornithologist Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-1857) the author of American Ornithology. In this, Gould’s fourth monograph, he considerably enlarged the number of recorded species of the American partridge family. Gould was persuaded to undertake this project “by the sight of the beautiful Callipepla Californica, presented to the Zoological Society of London by Captain Beechey, in 1830. The graceful actions and elegant deportment of these birds inspired me with a desire to become thoroughly acquainted with the entire group of which they form a part; this desire was even strengthened by the details furnished to me by the late celebrated traveller and botanist, Mr. David Douglas, respecting species seen by him in California, of the existence of which we

had until then no idea ... In the course of my researches I have several times visited most of the public and many of the private collections of Europe, and have besides corresponded with various persons in America: the result is that I have had the pleasure of extending our knowledge of the group from eleven to no less than thirty-five species” (Preface). Anker 176; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.102; Nissen IVB 376; Sauer 13; Wood p.365; Zimmer p. 257. (#27929)   $ 20,000

54 GUALTIERI, Niccolo (1688-1744). Index testarum conchyliorum quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri Philosophi et Medici Collegiati Florentini, Regiae Botanices Florentinae Academiae Socii in Pisano Athenaeo Medicinae Professoris emeriti et methodice exhibentur tabulis CX. Florence: Caietani Albizzini, 1742. Folio (17 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches). Titles printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, portrait, 110 numbered full-page plates, 17 vignettes on section titles, 18 other vignettes and plates in text. Expertly bound to style in half period mottled calf and patterned paper covered boards. A lovely wide-margined first edition of this beautiful shell book, depicting the author’s famed collection of specimens. Niccolo Gualtieri (1688-1744) was a professor at the University of Pisa and physician to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Duke was a keen collector, whose cabinet of shells included 360 species sent to him by Rumphius. The present work shows Gualtieri’s collection, including examples given to him by Cosimo III. One of the most beautiful books on shells ever published, the plates are engraved by P.A. Pazzi after drawings by Giuseppe Menabuoni, which depict many of the shells standing on their apices. Gualtieri’s collection is extant and can be found in the Museo storia naturale in Pisa. Cobres p 110 n 23; Nissen ZBI 1736; Dance, p. 57 (#29889)   $ 15,000

55 [HILL, Sir John (1716-1775)]. Eden: or, a Compleat body of gardening, containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden ... compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the compleat body of husbandry. And comprehending the art of constructing a garden for use and pleasure; the best methods of keeping it in order: and the most perfect accounts of its several products. London: printed for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder & Co., and H. Woodgate, [1756-]1757. Folio (16 5/8 x 10 inches). Engraved emblematic frontispiece, 60 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, most plates unsigned but including work by C. Edwards & Darly, J.Hill, Boyce, Philips, B. Cole, Ed. Alton and others, after Edwards, J. Hill, Van Huysum and others. Early 19th century full dark green morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, contemporary marbled endpapers, marbled edges (expert restoration at joints). An exceptional example of the first edition of this important 18th-century gardening book: with very fine contemporary hand-colouring. The work was issued in 60 weekly parts between August 1756 and October 1757, and was available with plates uncoloured or coloured. The present example is truly exceptional: it is among the best contemporary coloured examples that we have seen. The plates are coloured by an assured and highly-talented hand, using a strong palate, and show oxidisation of the pigments which is a reliable indicator of early colouring. The work, intended as a companion to the Compleat Body of Husbandry (London, 1756), was designed along very unusual lines for the period: each weekly part includes information on what should be done in the garden during the following week together with descriptions of the plants that should be at their peak at that time. In the introduction, the author’s intentions are made plain: “We shall treat Gardens from their Origin, Design, and first Construction, to raising them to Perfection, and keeping them in that condition; and we shall consider, in our Course, their Products, whether of Use, Curiosity, or Beauty. These we shall describe in their several Seasons, suiting our Publications to the Time of their Appearance.” Henrey writes of Sir John Hill that “Not only was ... [he] industrious and energetic, but his writings show him to have been a man of real ability and genius” (vol. II, p. 91). Unfortunately, he was also conceited, eccentric and fond of self-advertisement: traits not conducive to winning friends, and various false starts in his search for wealth and recognition led him to pursue a number of careers: apothecary, practical botanist, actor, gardener (he apparently assisted in the laying out of a botanic garden in Kew, and was gardener at Kensington Palace) and, most productively of all, miscellaneous writer (the list of his works in the D.N.B. runs to five and a half columns). Bradley III, 109; Great Flower Books (1990) p.100; Henrey III 776; Hunt 559; Nissen BBI 880; Tongiorgi Tomasi An Oak Spring Flora 53 (second edition). (#29375)   $ 27,500

56 HOVEY, Charles Mason (1810-1887). The Fruits of America, containing richly colored figures and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in The United States. Boston & New York: [vol.I] Hovey & Co. and D.Appleton & Co. in New York, [vol.II] Hovey & Co., [1847-]1852-1856. 2 volumes, octavo (10 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches). Titles with wood-engraved vignettes. Lithographic portrait frontispieces of Hovey and William Sharp, 96 chromolithographic plates by William Sharp & Son, numerous woodcut illustrations of trees, flowers and fruit. (A few plates shaved as usual, some generally unobtrusive spotting). Contemporary near uniform maroon (vol. 1 spine) and black morocco gilt, covers with double-fillet and dot roll gilt borders, spines in six compartments with semi-raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others with repeat decoration, the same tools employed for the cornerpieces of each panel, but with different center tools to each volume, gilt edges, yellow endpapers. The most lavish ante-bellum work on the fruit trees of America, “the first major work executed entirely in chromolithography” (Reese). The 96 varieties featured include 93 fruit trees (53 pear, 20 apple, 7 cherry, 7 peach and 6 plum) and 3 strawberry varieties. The plates were all executed by the Boston firm headed by William Sharp and are accompanied by text which gives the history of each variety, a full description, its growing habit, flower and fruit, and advice on its cultivation. Each entry is headed by cross-references to the other standard European and American books and periodicals. The illustrations generally comprise a sketch of the growing habit of each tree, an outline of the fruit and occasionally an image of the flower. Charles Hovey was born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1810 and with his brother Phineas established a nursery there in 1832. By 1845 his huge collection of fruit trees included a thousand pear trees and four hundred apple trees. A keen plant breeder, he also produced a number of new varieties of Camellia. His literary output brought him to the forefront of horticultural writers with the American Gardeners’ Magazine (renamed the Magazine of Horticulture) which enjoyed great popularity between 1834 and 1868. The present work was intended by Hovey as an international show-case for what American pomologists had achieved, as well as an essential reference guide. It is his masterpiece and originally appeared in parts between 1847 and 1856 and is considered complete in two volumes with 96 plates. Arnold Arboretum/ Harvard p.354; Bennett p.59; BM (NH) II,p.881; Bunyard p.437 & 444; Mass. Horticultural Society p.148; McGrath p.112; Nissen BBI 941; Oak Spring Pomona 61; Reese 20. (#23092)   $ 7,500

57 KENNEDY, John (d.1790). A Treatise upon Planting, Gardening and the Management of the Hot-House ... [Bound with:] A Treatise on Planting, Pruning and on the Management of Fruit Trees. York: A. Ward for the Author, 1776; London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1777. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). xiii, [1], [2], 420; 88pp. First work includes list of subscribers and errata. Contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked to style retaining the original red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Baron Perryn (armorial bookplate). First editions of a pair of noted 18th century works on planting, gardening and the cultivation of fruit trees. The author, the gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne, to whom the first work is dedicated, writes in the Preface that “his intention in the following sheets is not to deliver himself systematically, but, in the most explicit manner, to lay before the Public facts that have been successfully reduced to practice by himself.” The present York 1776 edition is the first edition of the work, described by Henrey as a “well-produced book on good quality paper ... One half of the work is on matters relating to arboriculture, while much of the rest deals with the culture of vines, pineapples, mushrooms, and asparagus.” The second work, devoted to fruit trees, was first published as part of the London 1777 second edition of A Treatise upon Planting, Gardening and the Management of the Hot-House; the present issue is the first separate printing. Henrey, III: 893 and 892; Johnston 530 (#29426)   $ 2,750

58 KNORR, Georg Wolfgang (1705-1761). Vergnügen der Augen und das Gemüths in Vorstellung einer allgemeinen Sammlung von Muscheln und andern Geschöpfen, welche im Meer gefunden werden. Nuremberg: Knorr, 1757-1773. 6 parts in four volumes, quarto (9 x 7 1/2 inches). 6 hand coloured engraved titles, 190 fine hand-coloured engraved plates (the final 10 with a dark brown background) after Knorr, C. Dietzsch, Johann Conrad, C.N. Kleeman, Chr. Leinberger and J. C. Keller by Johann Adam Joninger, Jacobus Andrea Eisenmann, Paul Küffner, Andreas Hoffer, H.J. Tyroff, Valenton Bischoff, and Gustav Philip Trautner. Contemporary calf-backed speckled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, period marbled endpapers. Provenance: Dr. James Wood (armorial bookplate); William Edward Collins of Keithick (bookplate, signature and inscriptions). The first edition of one of the finest conchological works ever produced, and a superbly illustrated natural history book.

The plates are all beautifully composed and hand coloured, depicting nearly 1000 shells from the cabinets of the most important collectors of the period. Many of the plates include identification engraved below the image as to whose collection from which the specimen was drawn. The final ten plates, published after Knorr’s death, are done in white against a dark brown background, creating striking visual images. The present example with beautiful original hand coloring. As Dance notes, the plates “are all extremely well drawn and beautifully painted.” The early owner of the present set, William Edward Collins, has meticulously annotated the plates on facing interleaves, identifying each shell by its Linnaean name and cross referencing each by number to Lewis Weston Dillwyn’s A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells (London: 1817). The present set is the first edition, and as such is considerably more scarce than the later editions in Dutch and French. Nissen ZBI 2234; Dance p. 74 (#29938)   $ 14,000

59 LA QUINTINYE, Jean de (1624-1688); and John EVELYN (1620-1706). The Compleat Gard’ner; Or, directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry ... to which is added his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions. Made English by John Evelyn ... London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, 1693. Folio (12 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches). Title printed in red and black. [44], 1-15; 16-61; 62-183, 184-[188]; 1-77; 78-116; 137-204, [4]; [4]; 80pp. (errors in pagination as issued) Engraved portrait frontispiece of La Quintinye by William Elder after Florent de La Mare-Richart, 11 engraved plates (2 double-page), 7 illustrations (3 engraved, 4 wood-cut), 8 engraved head-pieces. (Old creasing to frontispiece). Contemporary panelled mottled calf, expertly restored and rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Sir Richard Price Puleston of Emral Hall, Flintshire, Wales (armorial bookplate and label). First edition in English, translated by John Evelyn, with additions by him not found in the first edition in French.

“It was about the year 1670 that Monsieur de la Quintinye, Chief Director of all the gardens of the French King [Louis XIV], visited Evelyn at Sayes Court and inspected his gardens ... The English King ... tried, by the offer of a pension, to induce de la Quintinye to stay in England as superintendent of the Royal Gardens. He preferred, however, to remain in the service of his own king, and after his return to Paris gratified Evelyn by sending him ‘some directions concerning the ordering of melons,’ which he translated into English and distributed to his friends. De la Quintinye wrote his great work on gardening some years later, but did not live to put the finishing touches to his book, and this, Evelyn conjectured, was the reason for the omission of his remarks on melons and for some repetitions ... the qualities of the book induced Evelyn to undertake the immense task of translating it ... and he made good the omissions by including translations of de la Quintinye’s ‘Treatise of Orange Trees’ and the notes on melons which had been sent” (Keynes). There is some question as to how much of the work was actually translated by Evelyn. Keynes, based on a letter Evelyn sent to his brother, writes that “It is evident ... that the responsibility for the translation was mainly Evelyn’s, and the style is his.” Henrey, on the other hand, notes that “In the opinion of Hiscock the translation, as a whole, was undoubtedly the work of the King’s gardener George London” who went on to publish the abridged version of this work in 1699. Henrey I, 218; Keynes 103; Wing L-431. (#29742)   $ 4,800

60 NEES VON ESENBECK, Theodor Friedrich Ludwig (1776-1858), editor. Horae Physicae Berolinenses Collectae. Bonn: Adolph Marcus, 1820. Folio (14 x 9 inches). 27 engraved plates (11 hand coloured). Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, flat spine in seven compartments, vellum lettering piece in the second compartment. Provenance: Anton Victor, Archduke of Austria (initials in gilt in the lower compartment of spine). Rare work featuring papers by Berlin natural historians, including a monograph on plants discovered in America on Kotzebue’s 1815-1818 Rurik expedition. This illustrated collection of eleven papers on natural history subjects by nine Berlin natural historians, is edited by Nees von Esenbeck, the noted botanist and scholar, Inspector of the Leiden Botanic Garden and Director of Bonn University Botanic Garden. The work includes a monograph by him (on the plants of the Canary Islands), as well as contributions by H. F. Link (on algae), C. A. Rudolphi (on parasitic worms), F. L. Schlectendahl (on the genus Cymbaria discovered by Pallas), F. Klug (on several species of praying mantis from Brazil), F. Otto (on rare plants), F. Hornschuch (on moss), C. G. Ehrenberg (on fungus and lichen) and others.

Perhaps the most significant monograph is by Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838), the botanist who accompanied Kotzebue on the Rurik expedition to the northwest coast of America in search of the northwest passage. Titled “Ex plantis in Expeditione Romanzoffiana detectis genera tria nova”, the work occupies pages 69-76 and comprises detailed descriptions of three plants discovered on the expedition, each with an accompanying plate: Romanzoftia unalachcensis (i.e. Alaska mistmaiden), Eschholzia californica (i.e. California poppy) and Euxenia grata (i.e. Syzygium antisepticum, a species of myrtle found in Chile). Nissen BBI 1437; Pritzel 7421; Stafleu & Cowan 6680 (#29556)   $ 6,750

61 PENNANT, Thomas (1726-1798). [Large paper proof impressions of the plates from his History of Quadrupeds]. [London: B. and J. White, 1793]. Folio (13 x 9 inches). 112 engraved plates, proof impressions before letters printed on laid paper, engraved by Mazell (i.e. 111 plates, plus the title vignette). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco by Kalthoeber, covers bordered in gilt, spine with double-raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: William Beckford (Sotheby’s London, 6 May 1817, lot 289); George Chetwynd (bookplate and Glendon Hall blind-stamp on first plate); H.J.B. Clements (bookplate); Robert Pirie (bookplate). Beckford’s copy of large paper, proof impressions of the plates from Pennant’s History of the Quadrupeds, elegantly bound by Kalthoeber. While large paper editions of many of Pennant’s works were available to purchase, albeit at significantly higher costs than regular issues, the present complete set of large paper proof impressions of the plates, printed before letters, was likely produced only for special patrons. The provenance of the volume to William Beckford, arguably the most influential patron of arts and letters in late 18th and early 19th century Great Britain, bears out that theory. The only other similar collection of large paper proofs we can trace was sold in 1803 in the Bibliotheca Woodhousiana, sold by Leigh and Sotheby, December 1803, lot 640. Dibdin chose the copy as one of the most valuable books in that collection. A Welsh naturalist and traveler, Pennant was one of the foremost zoologists of his time, frequently corresponding with the leading naturalists of Great Britain and Europe. The present work was first published in 1771 as Synopsis of Quadrupeds, but was enlarged to become the History of Quadrupeds, with editions published in 1781 (with 52 plates) and expanded again in 1793 (111 plates). The present proofs are from that final, most complete edition. “Pennant’s name stands high among the naturalists of the eighteenth century” (DAB) Nissen ZBI 3108; Dibdin, Bibliomania pp. 594-596. (#30508)   $ 24,000

62 POMET, Pierre (1658-1699). A Compleat History of Druggs [sic.] ... Divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts. London: printed for R. Borwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwinb, [etc.], 1712. 2 volumes in one, 4to (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches). Titles in red and black, 2pp. subscribers’ list. 86 engraved plates. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards. First edition in English of this important work by the Parisian apothecary Pierre Pomet, with additional information from Nicolas Lémery and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. The first volume is entirely on trees, shrubs and other smaller plants. The species are presented under headings that indicate their use in the maintainance of health: Of Seeds; Of Roots; Of Woods; Of Barks; Of Leaves; Of Flowers; Of Fruits; Of Gums; and Of Juices. The second volume is on animals and minerals but includes a fascinating 8pp. Catalogue of the seeds of several ... plants lately brought from the American Islands by J. D. de Surain, “a Physician of Marseilles, a Lover of Botany, and also Professor in America, being sent thither by the French King to promote Botanick Knowledge.” Bradley III, 240; Hunt 428; Wellcome IV, p.411. (#29892)   $ 3,000

63 PREVOST, Jean Louis (c.1760-c.1810). Collection des fleurs et des fruits, peints d’après nature. Paris: chez Vilquin ... de l’imprimerie de Gillé Fils, [1804-] 1805 [-1806]. Folio (20 1/2 x 13 inches). 48 stipple engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand (47 engraved by Louis Charles Ruotte and 1 by A. Chaponnier), after drawings by Prevost. Uncut. Contemporary French pink paper covered boards, expertly rebacked to style retaining the original morocco lettering piece, expert repairs at board edges. Housed in a green morocco backed box.

First edition of one of the greatest early nineteenth century French flower books. Contemporary with the work of Redouté, Collection des Fleurs is one of the earliest examples of stipple engraved and colour-printed books. The work was published between 1804 and 1806 in 12 cahiers of 4 plates each. The work was compiled to assist designers of china, toiles, and chintzes, with the plates showing flowers grouped together, often matched by season. Dunthorne describes it as, “a work of outstanding importance and interest ... issued for the specific purpose of maintaining the great French tradition for excellence of design and draughtsmanship. Perhaps no other prints are more worthy of carrying on the tradition of Jean Baptiste and van Spaendonck than these fine examples of Prévost. Whether bouquets or sprays of flowers or fruit, they possess a splendour and freshness amounting almost to fragrance, which is largely due to the quality of the colour printing” (Dunthorne, p. 33). “The forty-eight plates ... comprise a pleasantly varied series of floral bouquets, and arrangements of soft fruits on plates. Each work is skillfully composed and imbued with a transparent luminosity, culminating in the iridescent drops of water that seem about to roll off the leaves” (Oak Spring Flora). Nissen BBI 1568; Pritzel 7332; Great Flower Books p. 127; Dunthorne 229; Stafleu TL2 8319; Oak Spring Flora 55 (#29308)   $ 175,000

64 PULTENEY, Richard (1730-1801). Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants, of Dorsetshire. From the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchins’s history of that county. London: Printed by, J. Nichols, for the use of the compiler and his friends, 1799. Folio (14 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches). Text in two columns. [2],92pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper covered boards, flat spine tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers (expert repairs at spine). Very rare first edition of a rare catalogue of British birds, plants and shells. Richard Pulteney received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1764, before serving as the personal physician to the Earl of Bath. Following the Earl’s death, he resided and practiced in Blandford, Dorset. Besides membership in a host of medical societies, Pulteney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Indeed, he was an early promoter of Linnaean taxonomy, and authored the first English biography of Linnaeus in 1781. His cabinet of specimens, noted particularly for its shells, was donated to the Linnean Society following his death in 1801. This work is divided into three sections, viz. birds (pp. 1-22), shells (pp. 22-54) and plants (pp. 55-92), each with a prefatory note, and all preceded by a cancel title. Nissen and BM(NH) erroneously cite a portrait in this edition. Privately-published by Pulteney, few copies were printed; bookseller John Bohn cites fifty copies printed in an 1843 catalogue. Furthermore, it is believed that many printed copies were destoyed in the 1808 fire at Nichols’ warehouse. ESTC cites but 7 extant examples, with only one being in North America (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia). ESTC T140194; BM(NH) IV:p. 1622; Pritzel 7367; Nissen, ZBI 3250. (#29971)   $ 6,800

65 PULTENEY, Richard (1730-1801); and Thomas RACKETT (1757-1841).

Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants, of Dorsetshire. From the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchins’s history of that county ... With additions; and a brief memoir of the author. [London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1813]. Folio (19 1/2 x 12 inches). Text in two columns. iv, 110pp. Engraved portrait, 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets. Uncut. Contemporary boards, expertly rebacked to style with period paper. Large-paper issue of the first illustrated edition of a rare catalogue of British birds, plants and shells. Richard Pulteney received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1764, before serving as the personal physician to the Earl of Bath. Following the Earl’s death, he resided and practiced in Blandford, Dorset. Besides membership in a host of medical societies, Pulteney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Indeed, he was an early promoter of Linnaean taxonomy, and authored the first English biography of Linnaeus in 1781. His cabinet of specimens, noted particularly for its shells, was donated to the Linnean Society following his death in 1801. The first edition of 1799 was privately-published by Pulteney with few copies printed. An inscription in an extant copy by the editor of this new edition reveals that copies of the first edition were further destroyed by fire: “The first Impression of Dr. Pulteney’s Catalogues was printed in 1801 [i.e. 1799], but never published, the whole having been destroyed by the fire, at Mr. Nichols’s printing office [in 1808]. I have been enabled to make considerable additions in this second impression, from communication by various scientific friends, and from my own obervations.” Rackett’s revised edition was the first to be illustrated, containing a portrait of Pulteney, a plate depicting 17 shells titled Melbury Fossils (engraved by J. Cary after Mary Foster), and 23 engraved plates of shells on 12 sheets. The plates numbered I-XXIII are new engravings of those by De Costa in his Historia Naturalis Testaeorum Britanniae, with several additions, depicting over 200 species. The present copy is a very rare large-paper issue, printed on wove paper watermarked 1810 (the 1799 and regular issue of 1813 being on laid paper), with a variant title without imprint. This large-paper issue is not recorded by the usual bibliographies. BM(NH) IV:p. 1622; Pritzel 7367; Nissen, ZBI 3250 (#29972)   $ 4,500

66 SIEBECK, Rudolph (1812-1878); and Joseph NEWTON. Picturesque Garden Plans. A Practical Guide to the Laying-out, Ornamentation, and Arrangement of Villa Gardens, Town Squares, & Open Spaces ... Adapted to English Gardens, etc. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1864. Small folio (13 x 8 inches). Contents loose as issued. [2], iv, [28]pp. 24 hand coloured double-page plates. Publisher’s green cloth portfolio, upper cover titled in gilt, expertly rebacked to style. Housed in a green morocco backed box. Scarce English edition of Siebeck’s garden designs, with hand coloured plates. Siebeck served as the city gardener at Leipzig, the gardener to Baron Carl von Hügeland and later became the chief gardener of Vienna, designing the Vienna City Park, among others. His colorful garden designs were first published in large folio in Leipzig in 1853 and 1856; the present reduced in scale English edition, as well as a French edition followed. Adapted for British gardens by well known landscape designer Joseph Newton. “But little apology is required for introducing this work to an English public. It has been done in the hope that the various plans which it contains may be the means of improving, not only the villa residences of our wealthy citizens and others, but also our public squares and town inclosures ... The credit of the designs belongs to Dr. Siebeck, who has applied them to the improvement of villa gardens of from a quarter of an acre to four acres in extent in the suburbs of Vienna” (Preface). (#29741)   $ 2,750

67 SOWERBY, James de Carle (1787-1871); and Edward LEAR (1812-1888). Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles. Drawn from life. London, Paris and Frankfort: Henry Sotheran, Joseph Baer & Co., 1872. Folio (14 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches). iv, 16pp. 60 lithographed plates (57 hand-coloured), after Sowerby on stone by Lear and printed by Hullmandel. Publisher’s green morocco-backed green pebbled cloth covered boards, flat spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. A rare work, containing some of the finest known illustrations of tortoises and turtles, lithographed by Edward Lear and beautifully hand coloured. Sowerby and Lear first began working on the present plates in 1831, with forty plates published in the initial parts of Bell’s “Monograph Testudinata” (1831-1842). That work was never finished due to the publisher’s bankruptcy and the forty plates, together with twenty previously unpublished plates, were reissued in 1872 by Sowerby and Lear. The Introduction by John Edward Gray explains the complicated publication of this extraordinary work: “This series of Plates was made under the superintendence of Mr. Thomas Bell, to illustrated his Monograph of the Testudinata, a work in which the author intended to represent and describe not only all the known recent, but also fossil species. The publication of this extensive work was unfortunately interrupted (by failure of the publisher [in 1836]) when only two-thirds of the plates that had been prepared (which in themselves formed but a limited portion of the intended work) were published ... The unsold stock and unpublished plates were purchased at Mr. Highley’s sale by Mr. Sotheran, and the work has been in abeyance for many years. Mr. Bell has declined to furnish the text for the unpublished

plates. In this difficulty Mr. Sotheran applied to me, and feeling that it was much to be regretted that such beautiful and accurate plates should be lost to science, and considering that such minutely accurate and detailed figures would not require to be accompanied by a description, I agreed to add a few lines of text to each Plate ... Many of the specimens figured and the rest of Mr. Bell’s Collection of Reptiles are now to be found in the Anatomical and Zoological Museum at Cambridge” (Introduction) “Beginning in 1831 Lear worked with James de Carle Sowerby, a naturalist and painter, on Bell’s Monograph of the Testudinata, Lear drawing the lithographs at Hullmandel’s after designs by Sowerby. Bell wrote in the prospectus: ‘The joint talent of these excellent artists ... renders it unnecessary to say that the ability of the painter will only be seconded by that of the lithographer and colourist.’ ... Although Lear lithographed all the plates, his hand is most evident in the more eccentric-looking tortoises, especially the Testudo radiata and the Chelondina longicollis. Tortoises are not the most vivacious creatures, but they are shown in a great diversity of attitudes, sometimes emerging hesitantly from their armoreal carapaces” (Hyman). Nissen ZBI 1701; Hyman, p. 32; Wood 1872; Adler p. 35. (#29935)   $ 27,500

68 SPEECHLY, William (1734?-1819). A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant so as to render it abundantly fruitful. Together with new hints on the formation of vineyards in England. York: Printed for the author by G. Peacock, 1790. Quarto (11 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches). iii-xvi, [4], 224pp. 5 engraved plates (3 folding), after Speechly (3), Grimm and Rooke. With two unnumbered descriptive text leaves facing two of the folding plates, as issued. Includes 4pp. list of subscribers. Contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Thomas and James Backhouse (bookplate). First edition of the most important English work on the culture of the grape in the 18th century. From 1767 until 1804, Speechly served as the gardener to the Duke of Portland, to whom this work is dedicated. Following his success in 1779 with a treatise on the pineapple, Speechly, with the assistance of his benefactor and Alexander Hunter, published this seminal work on viticulture in quarto format, elegantly printed on fine paper. Within the work, Speechly describes some fifty varieties of grapes: “Of all the numerous sorts of fruits indulgent nature produces for the use of man, that of the grape must be esteemed her noblest gift” (Preface). This example with provenance to brothers Thomas and James Backhouse, noted York nursery and seedsmen who operated their business from 1816-1831, when the younger James Backhouse became a Quaker missionary to Australia. Henrey III:1376; Johnston 600; Raphael, Oak Spring Pomona 94; Simon 1410 (#29435)   $ 1,750

69 THUNBERG, Carl Pehr (1743-1848). Flora Japonica Sistens Plantas Insularum Japonicarum. Leipzig: Mueller, 1784. 8vo (8 x 4 1/2 inches). lii, 418, [2]pp. 39 engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum, morocco lettering piece. First edition of the first major work dealing with the flora of Japan. Although Kaempfer had visited Japan at the end of the 17th century, by the end of the 18th century little more was known about the flora of the tightly closed society. Only the Dutch were permitted as traders, and even then were limited in terms of travel and access. In 1771, a favorite pupil of Linnaeus, Swedish-born Thunberg was commissioned as a surgeon on a Dutch East India Company expedition to Japan. Sponsored by several wealthy Dutch plant collectors, Thunberg first stopped in the Dutch colony on the Cape of Good Hope for several years in order to learn Dutch and be able to pass himself as a Dutchman to the Japanese. He arrived in Japan in 1775, spending a year there collecting specimens, many received from Japanese students in exchange for lessons in western medicine. The present work, written on his return to Sweden in 1779, was the first major work dealing with the flora of Japan, and indeed among the principal primary sources on Japan in the 18th century. Styled on the title as a continuation of Linnaeus’ Plantarum, Thunberg compiled his Flora based on his own observations and specimens, as well as those of Kaempfer and several Japanese printed sources. Within the work, Thunberg identifies 21 new genera and hundreds of new species. Nissen BBI 1959; Stafleu & Cowan 14346; Pritzel 9257; Dunthorne 304; Johnston 554 (#29739)   $ 7,500

70 TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1628-1705). Elemens de Botanique ou Methode pour Connoitre les Plantes. Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1694. 3 volumes, 8vo (7 3/8 x 5 inches). Engraved additional titles to each volume, dedication in vol. 1 with engraved headpiece and initial, 451 engraved plates after Aubriet. Contemporary manuscript notes tipped into rear of vol. 2. Early half calf over speckled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands in five compartments, lettering pieces in the second. Provenance: Johann Jacob Harder (1656-1711, signature on titles). First edition of a milestone in botanical classification. “The Élémens and the Institutiones [i.e. first Latin edition of Elemens] are milestones in the history of taxonomy not only for the conceptual advances they reflect but also for the wholly new form in which they are cast. The text of the Élémens is in French, accompanied by a technical dictionary, and it is closely related to Aubriet’s illustrations. The result is a well-integrated and easily accessible whole that could not fail to produce a sensation. Thus, although Tournefort’s work disregarded the major biological discoveries of the seventeenth century, within its self-imposed limits it clearly outlined the avenues of study that led to the modern system of classification” (DSB)

“Claude Aubriet (1665-1742), a native of Châlons-sur-Marne, found his way as a young man to Paris, where he was engaged by Joubert to assist in the production of drawings for the royal collection. He soon attracted the attention of Tournefort, who commissioned him to make the engravings for his celebrated Elémens de Botanique (1694) which in its later Latin version, Institutiones Rei Herbariae (1700), had so far-reaching an effect on plant classification. These illustrations, made no doubt under Tournefort’s direct supervision, are remarkable for the accuracy of their dissections” (Blunt). “Tournefort’s significance lies in the fact of having classified all plants into genera. Hundreds of the generic names coined or accepted by him were later adopted by Linnaeus and are in use today ...” (Hunt) Tournefort’s genera have largely been retained (he accepted 725), by leading taxonomists of the 18th century. Almost one-third of the genera of French flora derive from Tournefort. His herbarium, 6.963 species is one of the treasures of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris. The present set with provenance to Johann Jacob Harder, a noted 17th century Basel professor of anatomy, medicine and botany. Rare, with only one complete copy of the first edition appearing in the auction records for the last thirty years. Pritzel 9423; Jackson pp. xxxv + 30*; Blunt p. 113; Nissen BBI 1976; Hunt 392; DSB XIII pp. 442-444; Stafleu & Cowan 14.780 (Counts as first edition of the Institutiones; in French); Johnston 296 (#29484)   $ 6,500

71 WILSON, Alexander (1766-1813). American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Illustrated with plates engraved and coloured from original drawings taken from nature. New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co. and Harrison Hall, 1828-1829. 4 volumes. (text: 3 vols., octavo [9 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]; plates: 1 vol. folio [14 1/4 x 11 inches]). Text: cxcix,[1],230,[1];456 [without a leaf number vii-viii, as usual];vi,396pp., 4pp. subscribers’ list at rear of vol.III. (Some light spotting). Atlas: 76 hand-coloured engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by A. Lawson (52), J.G. Warnicke (21), G. Murray (2), and B. Tanner (1), all after Wilson. . Expertly bound to style in half red straight-grained morocco over period marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spines divided into compartments with gilt rules, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. The second full edition of Wilson’s work, with plates in their most desirable form, and complete with the text. “Science would lose little if every scrap of pre-Wilsonian writing about United States birds could be annihilated” (Coues).

The first edition of Wilson’s life-work was published in nine volumes between 1808 and 1814. The present edition was prepared by Wilson’s friend and colleague, George Ord, who improved the work textually by re-arranging the work in a systematic order by species and by contributing an important “Sketch of the Author’s Life” (pp.vii-cxcix in the first text volume) as well as numerous additional textual notes. He also notes in his preface to the first text volume that he arranged for the plates to be “carefully examined and retouched” by Alexander Lawson (the original engraver of most of the plates). Reading between the lines of Ord’s preface, it is clear that he believed the plates in the present edition to be better than the first, and this is the current general view: it is noted in Fine Bird Books that “the plates [are] coloured better,” and Wood writes: “The hand-colored drawings in the atlas are from the original copper plates, colored anew by pigments which seem to have been better quality than those used by Wilson.” In addition to the coloring, better quality paper was used in this edition, thus avoiding the foxing which almost inevitably mars the first. Thus, this edition is more desirable than the first. BM (NH), p.2332; Fine Bird Books (1990) p. 155; Nissen IVB 992; cf. Sabin 104598; Wood p.630. (#28438)   $ 25,000

72 WIRSING, Adam Ludwig (1733-1797). Marmora et Adfines Aliquos Lapides Colorius Suis ... A Representation of Different Sort of Marble, ingraved and set out in their natural colours; also set forth with the Dutch, German, English, French and Latin names. Amsterdam: Jan Christaan Sepp, 1776. Quarto (12 x 9 1/2 inches). Titles and text in English, French, Dutch, German, and Latin, section titles; text leaves through plate 72 only. 98 (of 100) hand-coloured engraved plates, by Wirsing (numbered I-XIII, I-XII, I-V, I-VI, I-VI and 4398; lacking frontispiece and plates 99 and 100). Uncut. Expertly bound to style in period cat’s paw calf, covers bordered with a gilt roll tool, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. A very fine copy of this extremely rare expanded polyglot version of Wirsing’s spectacular work on the marbles of Europe: one of the greatest of all Sepp’s natural history publications. Sepp’s publication seems to have been an almost simultaneous re-issue of Adam Wirsing’s 1775 Nuremburg publication Marmora Et Adfines Aliqvos Lapides Coloribvs, which included the text in Latin and German only. For the present edition text in Dutch, French and English was added. As well as expanding his possible market by adding the additional text, Sepp also

clearly intended the work to be seen as a companion volume to his earlier publication on “inland and foreign wood”, Afbbelding van in- en uitlandsche houten by Martinus Houttuyn. Wirsing’s work is strictly complete with 100 plates and a frontispiece (according to Landwehr). It was issued periodically in ten parts including a supplemental part containing 6 plates, but is so rare that the present example with 98 plates is among the most complete extant. The chief glory of this work are the spectacular plates. Wirsing clearly took considerable care over the engraving of the plates, but it is the hand-colouring (which was probably carried out in Sepp’s establishment in Amsterdam) that lifts this work into a realm where each plate is an abstract work of art. Marble in the 18th century was used to describe any polished stone, so the 500 cross-sections shown here cover a much wider geological range than the titles appear to suggest. The samples are carefully grouped into 12 geographical regions and the plates in total offer a visual record similar to the trays of actual samples to be seen by a privileged few in one of the great Wunderkammers of the day. Anonymous. “Stone tome” inThe World of Interiors, Feb., 1994, pp.100-104; Brunet IV, 1243; Cobres Deliciæ Cobresianæ 1782: 2, 761-2; Landwehr Studies in Dutch Books 1; LKG: XVI 309; NUC: 4, 679 [NA 0090293]; Sinkankas Gemology Bibliography 1993: no. 7282. Cf. Sir John Soane Museum Library [copy with 66 plates]; cf. “Curtis Schuh’s Bioblibliography of Mineralogy” on The Mineralogical Record website. (#28280)   $ 29,500

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73 CASTRO, Casimiro, J.CAMPILLO, L.AUDA, & Y.G.RODRIGUEZ. Mexico y sus alrededores. Coleccion de Monumentos, Trajes y Paisajes ... seguna edicion, aumentada ... / Mexico et ses environs. Collection de Vues, Monuments et Costumes .. seconde edition, augmentee ... Mexico: Imprenta Lithografica de Decaen, 1864 [but circa 1867]. Folio (17 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches). Letterpress title and 70pp. letterpress text, in two columns in Spanish and French. Folding lithographed map of Mexico City, tinted lithographed title, and 46 lithographic views on 42 leaves (12 color lithographed, 34 tinted, many finished with hand colouring). Expertly bound to style in half red morocco over period black cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt. A highly significant Mexican lithographic production and a wonderful window on 19th century life in Mexico City. This example including the rare map of Mexico City and the Kikapoos Indians plate.

There are many issues of this work, with varying numbers and qualities of plates. The work was originally issued by subscription starting in 1855 and the first bound copies became available in 1856. It is almost certain that from the beginning the book was published as demanded by the marketplace, consequently there are no formal “editions” in the proper sense. Over the years individual plates were completely modified in accordance with physical changes to a site (as an example at one point the plate depicting the home of Emperor Iturbide changes completely to a different perspective). Copies are reported to have anywhere from twentyeight to fifty-two plates, and a very few examples (including the present) contain a map of Mexico. Three different dates can be found in some copies. In a recent study of Castro’s work, Casimiro Castro y su taller (1996), a census of copies of Mexico y sus alrededores is given, listing the various recorded combinations of dates. The present example is dated 1867 on the binding, 1864 on the letterpress title (where it is stated as the second edition) and 1863-1864 on the lithographic title. The plates are of the highest quality and depict scenes throughout the Mexican capital, including the cathedral of Guadalupe, Iturbide’s mansion, Mexican senoritas, the College of Mines, Paseo de Bucareli, the Alameda of Mexico (with an air balloon towering above), Paseo de la Viga, and the sumptuous interior of the national cathedral, among many other beautiful scenes. Of great importance in the present example is the color plate titled Indios Kikapoos, a rarely found image depicting 11 members of the tribe (including what appears to be a runaway slave) being presented at the court of the Austrian Archduke Emperor of Mexico Maximilian. The image presents a group of Kickapoo tribesmen and runaway Texas slaves being presented at the court of the Austrian Archduke Emperor of Mexico Maximilian in 1865. The Kickapoo sought to avoid involvement with the Confederacy or Union in the Civil War, and pleaded for asylum from Texans who were on the war path against them. The origin of the name Kickapoo, he moves about, certainly fits the history of these interesting peoples, who more than any other North American tribe have retained their cultural identity and practices despite geographic fluctuations and myriad alliances. The Kickapoo tribe is the only tribe that never surrendered to or signed any kind of peace treaty with the United States. They have been granted the right to cross the border at will. The present lithograph has been suggested as the first lithograph of the tribe made from a photograph in Mexico at the time. Close examination reveals the image to be a lithographic combination of realism and artistic imagination and the image was likely partially based on a photograph by François Aubert (1839-1900). Mathes describes this book as “the most important work illustrating Mexico City in the nineteenth century,” and it is certainly a landmark in the history of the lithographer’s art in Mexico. McGrath adds that “These are some of the finest and most famous architectural and costume plates done in the western hemisphere.” Cf. Abbey Travel II.672 (1855-7 edition); Colas 547; Lipperheide Md17; Mathes Mexico on Stone pp.29-30; McGrath pp.86-87; Monsivais et al. Casimiro Castro y su taller pp.135-155 et passim; Palau 167505; Sabin 48590 (1856 ed). (#29101)   $ 15,000

74 CATHERWOOD, Frederick (1799-1854). Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. London: F. Catherwood, 1844. Folio (21 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches). Chromolithographed title by Owen Jones printed in red, blue, and gold, 1 lithographic map printed in red and black, 25 tinted lithographic plates after Catherwood. Publisher’s green morocco-backed moiré cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt ‘Catherwood’s Views / in Central America / Chiapas and Yucatan’ on upper cover, flat spine titled in gilt, yellow endpapers. “In the whole range of literature on the Maya there has never appeared a more magnificent work” (Von Hagen). This beautiful and rare plate book was printed in an edition of 300 copies. It is seldom found in presentable condition, and is one of the first and primary visual records of the rediscovery of Mayan civilization. Until the publication of the work of Alfred Maudslay at the turn of the century, this was the greatest record of Mayan iconography. Frederick Catherwood was a British architect and artist with a strong interest in archaeology. These combined talents led him to accompany the American traveller and explorer, John Lloyd Stephens, on two trips to the Mayan region of southern Mexico in 1839 and 1841. These explorations resulted in Stephens’ two famous works, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan and Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. These immensely popular works, foundation stones in Mayan studies, were both illustrated by Catherwood and inspired him to undertake the larger portfolio.

The Views was produced in London, although issued with both London and New York titlepages. Catherwood recruited some of the most distinguished lithographers in London to translate his originals onto stone: Andrew Picken, Henry Warren, William Parrott, John C. Bourne, Thomas Shotter Boys, and George Belton Moore. The beautiful titlepage was executed by Owen Jones. Three hundred sets were produced, most of them tinted, as in the present copy (there is a coloured issue on card stock, which is exceedingly rare). The views depict monuments and buildings at Copan, Palenque, Uxmal, Las Monjas, Chichen Itza, Tulum, and several scattered sights. The work of Stephens and Catherwood received great praise, but neither lived to enjoy it long. Stephens died in 1852 of malaria contracted in Colombia, and Catherwood went down on a steamship in the North Atlantic in 1854. “Catherwood belongs to a species, the artist-archaeologist, which is all but extinct. Piranesi was the most celebrated specimen and Catherwood his not unworthy successor” (Aldous Huxley). Sabin 11520; Tooley (1954) 133 (gives a list of the plates); Von Hagen, Search for the Maya, pp. 320-24; Palau 50290; Groce & Wallace, p.115; cf. Hill 263. Not in Abbey. (#15972)   $ 58,500

75 COLLARD, Auguste Hippolyte (1812-1893). Pont Louis-Philippe et Pont St. Louis. Vues photographiques prises pendant l’execution des travaux en 1860, 1861, et 1862. Paris: [1862]. Oblong folio (17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches). 8 albumen photographs by Collard, each on a lettered mount, preceded by an engraved title and 2-page introductory text. The images measuring approximately 11x17 inches. (Minor fading to the images). Contemporary brown cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. Rare work, illustrated with mounted albumen prints, depicting the construction of bridges connecting the islands of the Île de la Cité with the Île Saint-Louis over the Seine. Specialized in industrial imagery of bridges, railroads, and aqueducts, Hippolyte-Auguste Collard established his first photography studio in Paris in January 1856, which he operated for some twenty years.The Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works was his most important and consistent patron, and from 1857 to 1870 Collard photographed bridges constructed in Paris by the ministry. Collard exhibited at the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle, winning several awards for his photographs. “A first album (1857) dedicated to the re-building of the Pont St. Michel marked the beginning of a 25-year-long collaboration with the “Administration des Ponts et Chaussees ... The process and outcomes of architectural construction have by then become the focus of the ‘Atlier Collard.’ Its prints span the major urban upheavals of these times, throughout the territory and not the least in Paris” (Enclyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography). Collard’s images are artfully composed, capturing the bridges and their workers from pleasing angles, with soft reflections in the Seine. Furthermore, his images are beautifully produced, with strong contrasts, perhaps in part to a toning bath solution he invented in 1860. Cf. After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography 44. (#29555)   $ 8,000

76 [COSTUME, Qajar School]. [Album of 28 watercolours of costume of peasants and merchants of Persia]. [Persia: circa 1820s-1840s]. Small 4to (9 x 7 1/2 inches). 28 watercolours, each mounted on card with a ink manuscript border surround. Period dark blue morocco backed blue velvet covered boards, patterned endpapers. Housed in a dark blue morocco backed box. Unusual album of Qajar School watercolours depicting Persian merchants of various trades as well as itinerants and beggars.

Among the most notable aspects of the Qajar Dynasty was the extraordinary growth in native art. Most of the portraiture of the period, however, was dedicated to images of Royal figures, making the present album of great interest. The images include not only laborers of the poorest class, but several images of women as well. Among the trades depicted are an egg seller, a wine seller, a hat maker, a bird fancier, a bird seller, a blind beggar, a book dealer and more. An album at the British Museum (ID: 2006,0314,0.1 through 2006,0314,0.28 or P&D 2001,0728.60), which also includes 28 watercolours, is clearly from the same source, with a few similar images, and many of same faces on different trades. (#26988)   $ 24,000

77 FOSSÉ, Charles-Louis François de (1734-1812, author). - Louis-Marin BONNET (17361793, engraver).

Idées d’un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées jeunes officiers dans la défense et l’attaque des petits postes. Paris: printed by François-Ambroise Didot l’ainé, published by Alexandre Jombert, jeune, 1783. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). Half-title, title with wood-engraved vignette, letterpress dedication with engraved armorial headpiece printed in colours. 11 engraved plates (10 folding) printed in colours “en manière de pastel” by Louis-Marin Bonnet “premier Graveur en ce genre”, each plate hinged to the upper margin of the relevant caption leaf, as issued. Contemporary tree calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spine divided in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers . The first edition of a work of great importance to the history of the development of colour printing.

One of the most successful eighteenth century experiments in colour-printing, this is the only book illustrated by Bonnet, the inventor of pastel manner engraving, or “gravure en maniere de pastel.” The crayon manner technique for reproducing chalk drawings in threecolour prints had been invented by J.C. François in 1757, and Bonnet was his pupil. Bonnet extended the technique to suggest tone and printed additional colours, calling his new method the pastel manner. This technically demanding process allowed Bonnet to produce colour prints of the highest quality and paved the way for the great French illustrated works of the late-18th and early-19th century. The text is the work of the French military engineer Charles-Louis de Fossé and divides naturally into two sections. The first dealing with the strategies to be employed when attacking (or defending) a small military outpost manned by between 30 and 300 men; the second dealing with the correct use of colour when drawing military maps and plans (and touching on perspective drawing as applied to military plans). This second part is illustrated using Bonnet’s plates. Apart from the colour printing, another unusual feature of this beautifully produced work is that the plates are all attached along the upper margin of the descriptive associated caption leaves: this allows for individual plans to be folded out whilst the relevant text in the body of the book is studied. Brunet II,1354; cf. V. Carlson & J. Ittmann Regency to empire: French Printmaking 1715 - 1814 (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1984); Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003-2004) no. 46; Jean Fürstenberg Das französische Buch im 18 Jahrhundert p. 121; Graesse II:620; Jacques Herold Louis-Marin Bonnet, catalogue de l’Oeuvre grav. (Paris: 1935) p.28; Joseph Marie Quérard La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants (Paris: 1829) III, p.173 (‘ouvrage estimé’). (#30521)   $ 5,000

78 GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903). Noa Noa: Voyage de Tahiti. [Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1926]. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). 204 pages. With mounted collotypye reproductions of Gauguin’s watercolors, drawings, photographs, and woodcuts. Publisher’s coarse raffia, upper cover and spine lettered, publisher’s dust jacket. Limited edition reproducing Gauguin’s original manuscript. “In 1903, Daniel de Monfried ... recovered the original manuscript [of Gauguin’s Tahitian journal] together with further woodcuts, watercolours and photographs which Gauguin had added. The complete manuscript was given to the Louvre, and was used for the facsimile published in Munich in 1926, a period when Gauguin’s reputation was secure and primitive works of art generally held in high esteem” (From Manet to Hockney). Four hundred copies of the work were published: 80 in yellow morocco and 320 in rafia, a type of course Tahitian straw. The dust jacket, present with this copy, was printed from a woodcut made by Monfreid after a design by Gauguin. “Noa Noa represents an important project in book-making by this major artist” (The Artist and the Book). The Artist and the Book 115; From Manet to Hockney 15 (#26374)   $ 3,250

79 [HARVEY, William Henry (1811-1866)]. Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries with an Introduction and Descriptive Lines by “Aleph”. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. 4to (10 1/2 x 9 inches). [8]pp., plus [4]pp. publisher’s ads in the rear. 12 chromolithographed maps, lithographed by Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son. Unbound, as issued. Publisher’s green cloth-backed pictorial boards portfolio. A complete copy of a rare atlas of anthropomorphic maps of European countries. The introduction describes these caricature maps as the work of a “young lady ... in her fifteenth year.” The introduction itself and accompanying four lines of verse beneath each map are ascribed to “Aleph” on the title-page, but the book was in fact a posthumous work by William Harvey, wood-engraver, illustrator and writer of verse for children. The 12 chromolithographed, anthropomorphic maps comprise: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Prussia, Germany, Holland & Belgium, Denmark and Russia. (#30496)   $ 4,500

80 HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885). Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition. New York: GP Putnam & Company, 1856. Folio (20 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches). 12 ff. letterpress text. 10 lithographic prints (one tinted portrait of Perry from a daguerreotype by P. Haas, nine views by Heine [two of these chromolithographed, seven printed in two colours on india paper mounted]), all printed by Sarony & Co. 20th-century maroon half morocco over paper-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine, original wrappers bound in. An important work recording Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan. William Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant-folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year the present volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, among the best lithographers in the United States at that time. “As artistic productions, the pictures speak for themselves ... none superior to them have been executed in the United States, and they have no cause to shun comparison with some of the best productions of Europe” (Introduction). Copies were produced tinted on regular paper as in the present copy and hand-coloured. The plates are numbered and titled as follows [1. portrait of Perry]; 2. Macao from Penha Hill; 3. Whampoa Pagoda; 4. Old China Street, Canton; 5. Kung-kwa at On-na, Lew-Chew; 6. Mia or road side chapel at Yokuhama; 7. Temple of Ben-teng in the harbor of Simoda; 8. Street and bridge at Simoda; 9. Temple of the Ha-tshu Man-ya-tshu-ro at Simoda; 10. Grave yard at Simoda Dio Zenge. Bennett describes the plates as “many times finer than those in the regular account of the Perry expedition.” His remarks on the work’s great rarity are confirmed by its absence from both of Cordier’s Japanese bibliographies. Bennett, p.53; McGrath American Color Plate Books 123. (#20647)   $ 34,000

81 (HERALDRY). [Album of 96 watercolour drawings of 16th-century German heraldry and armour]. [Great Britain: circa 1850]. Small folio (15 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches). Manuscript index leaf. 2 watercolours showing numerous coats of arms, 94 graphite, pen-and-ink and/or watercolour drawings of armour and heraldry. Expertly bound to style in half red morocco over period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Lovely album of original watercolours. Although unsigned, the artist was evidently both knowledgeable on the subject and skilled. The drawings are of a very high quality and accomplished on very fine paper. (#28829)   $ 4,750

82 HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859), and Aimé BONPLAND (1773-1858). Vues des Cordillères et Monumens des Peuples Indigènes de l’Amérique. Paris: [de l’imprimerie de J.H. Stône] chez F. Schoell, 1810 [-1813]. 2 volumes in one, folio (22 3/4 x 16 1/8 inches). Half title, 16pp. ‘Introduction’. Engraved dedication leaf, 69 engraved plates on 68 leaves (27 hand coloured, printed in colours or printed in colours and finished by hand [1 of these double-page], 4 printed in sepia). Expertly bound to style in red half morocco over contemporary red paper-covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt double fillets, lettered in the second compartments, the others with simple repeat decoration in gilt. A fine copy of one of the great monuments to scientific exploration, with superb colour-printed and hand-coloured aquatints: the most beautiful and interesting of all Humboldt’s works. This work is one of the most important publications to result from the expedition to the Americas in 1799-1804 of the great German scientist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt, and the botanist, Aimé Bonpland. During their extensive trip, the two gathered a mass of material relating to all aspects of the New World, and their work in the field and the subsequent publications set a new standard for scientific exploration and reporting. Humboldt and Bonpland set out to investigate the area’s geography, natural history, archaeology, and native customs, supplementing their field explorations with extensive research in Europe. The series of publications resulting from the expedition began in 1805 and took decades to publish, the present volume being the first major work from the series to appear. Vue des Cordillères... is most notable for its remarkable aquatint plates of scenes in South and Central America, particularly the magnificent double-page plate of the great volcano of Chimborazo in the Andean highlands. Most of these were made from Humboldt’s original sketches. His involvement in the publication was close, especially in checking the colouring, which was done under his personal supervision to insure accuracy. These plates beautifully illustrate views, native costumes, and antiquities. The work is equally important as the first extensive treatment of surviving pre-Columbian and immediately post-Columbian Indian codices. The first publication of any part of the famed Dresden Codex, the most extensive of surviving pre-Columbian codices, is found herein, again with superb colouring. There are also coloured prints of the Codex Mendoza and plates drawn from various other important codices. Humboldt’s treatment of them is a landmark in the rediscovery of the pre-Columbian civilizations. “Every class of Mexican, Aztec, and Peruvian Antiquity receives in this work the clearest philosophical analysis” (Field). The present copy includes the sixteen-page introduction by Humboldt, dated 1813, as well as the last twenty plates: all of which are frequently lacking. Field 739; Hill 839; Lipperheide 1630; Palau 117026; Pilling Proof-Sheets 1871; Sabin 33754. (#19286)   $ 60,000

83 PERKINS, John. Floral Designs for the Table; being directions for its ornamentation with leaves, flowers, & fruit. London: Wyman & Sons, 1877. Oblong 4to (5 1/4 x 13 inches). Title printed in red and black. 24 chromolithographed plates. Publisher’s green cloth, upper cover elaborately stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked to style. With chromolithographed plates of elaborate floral table-setting designs. Written by the long-time gardener to Lord Henniker of Thornham Hall, Suffolk, this unusual work details elaborate table settings for a variety of functions, each with thematically appropriate floral table decorations: from straighforward dinner and luncheon tables, to the wedding breakfast table, cricket luncheon table, harvest home dinner table, hunt breakfast table, Christmas dinner table and more. The work is, as far as we can determine, among the earliest written on the subject. Given the incredible numbers of fruits, branches and flowers on the tables in his designs, it is a wonder that there was any room left for the food. (#29893)   $ 1,750

84 POPE, Alexander, Jr. (1849-1924). Celebrated Dogs of America. [Boston: S.E. Cassino, 1879]. 10 parts in one [complete], oblong folio (14 x 19 inches). 20 mounted chromolithographed plates, each accompanied by a leaf of explanatory text. Publisher’s prospectus on green paper bound in. Without letterpress title as issued. Expertly bound to style in half dark brown morocco over original cloth covered boards, upper cover lettered in gilt. Housed in a dark brown morocco backed box. Provenance: Mrs. George W. Stevens (name in gilt on upper cover). Very rare American work on dogs, with chromolithographed images after Alexander Pope, Jr. Only two copies listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty-five years - the last copy in 1987. “The style of the present work is entirely original ... The pictures are painted from life by Alex. Pope, Jr., whose Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States, and wood carvings of Game Birds, have made him familiar to the sportsmen art lovers of this country ... The Celebrated Dogs of America will be issued monthly, in parts composed of two plates, 16 1/2 by 20, and accompanying letter-press. The series will be completed in ten parts, at $2 per part. The plates will be exact reproductions of the water-color paintings, and will be superior to anything heretofore produced of this nature ... The work will be sold only by subscription...” (prospectus). Bennett p.90; McGrath, p. 212; H.M. Chapin The Peter Chapin Collection of Books on Dogs (Williamsburg, Virginia: 1938) 1426. (#29276)   $ 15,000

85 SOLVYNS, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824). The Costume of Hindostan, elucidated by sixty coloured engravings; with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799. London: Edward Orme, [no date, plates watermarked 1830]. Large quarto (13 7/8 x 10 inches). Titles and text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured stippleengravings. Contemporary full straight grained purple morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind, spine with wide semi-raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, pink endpapers, gilt edges. Orme’s English edition of Solvyn’s great pictorial work on India. Solvyns was born in Antwerp and sailed for India in 1790. He first noticed the keen interest shown by the British in Indian costumes and way of life after completing the illustrations for a report on Kyd’s expedition to Penang and the Andaman Islands. In 1799 he published, in Calcutta A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings of the Manners, Customs, and Dress of the Hindoos. Unfortunately, the work was a financial failure largely due to the images being poorly executed by European standards. This first attempt did however attract the attention of the eminent orientalist Sir William Jones, and it was with his enthusiastic support that Solvyns pursued his aim of issuing a work that did justice to the subject. In 1803 he left India for France where he reworked and vastly improved the plates; he also prepared an enlarged text, in both French and English (translated by his wife Mary Anne Greenwood). This reworking and rewriting took years, and it was not until 1808 that the first part of his Les Hindous was published. Over the next four years it was issued in 48 parts with a total of 288 colour-printed plates. Jones was not the only one who had seen the potential in Solvyn’s work published in Calcutta. “Solvyn’s decision to prepare a new set of etchings from his drawings of the Hindus was also prompted by the publication of a pirated copy of his work in London. In 1804-05, the firm of Edward Orme brought out an edition of Solvyn’s etchings, acknowledging him, but without permission” (Hardgrave, p. 54). First issued in parts under the title The Costume of Indostan, the work was re-issued in 1807 with a changed title and a new printer (i.e. the first issue being done by Bulmer and the later issue by Hayes). The work was reprinted from the original plates into the 1830s. Brunet V, 433; Colas II, 2765; cf. Lipperheide Ld9 (1807 edition); cf. Abbey Travel II, 429 (1807 edition); Tooley 461 (#29969)   $ 6,750

86 STURGESS, John (fl. 1869-1903), illustrator - Henry Charles F. Somerset, Duke of BEAUFORT (1824-1899).

Driving ... [Volume 11 of The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. Large 8vo (9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches). Numerous illustrations, after G.D. Giles and J. Sturgess. Extra-illustrated with 15 original drawings by Sturgess. Number 242 of 250 large paper copies. Contemporary red morocco by Rivere & Son, arms of the Dukes of Beaufort on both covers enclosed by a single fillet with stirrups and hunting horns at corners and with a motif of horse shoes in the outer panel, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with sporting motifs in each compartment, gilt inner dentelles, blue paper endpapers, top edges gilt, other uncut, within a cloth slipcase. Rare large paper copy, beautifully bound by Riviere and extra-illustrated with original drawings by Sturgess for illustrations within the book. Dedicated to the Prince of Wales, The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, was a sporting and publishing project conceived and founded by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899). Between 1885 and 1896, it developed into a series of 28 separately published sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all the major sports and pastimes, with some additional volumes on new sports (including football and motoring) published subsequently. The work was issued in three forms: a standard trade edition bound in cloth, a deluxe edition identical to the trade edition but bound in half morocco, and the present large-paper deluxe edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Sturgess was a noted hunting and racing artist who worked mainly for the Illustrated London News between 1875 and 1885, and exhibited widely in the London galleries, including the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Hibernian Society in Dublin. His lively original illustrations, however, are seldom encountered. A lovely, unique copy of a noted sporting book. (#29635)   $ 2,750

87 TALBOT, William Henry Fox (1800-1877). The Pencil of Nature ... [Part No. 2]. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1844 [but January 1845]. Part II only, 4to (12 x 9 1/2 inches). 7 salt paper prints from calotype negatives, (comprising plates VI-XII), each mounted to card within a ruled border, each with accompanying letterpress leaves, and each plate numbered in ink on the mount. Publisher’s Notice to the Reader slip tipped to the first leaf: “The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without any aid whatever from the artist’s pencil.” (The images faded, as usual). [With:] An autograph letter signed from Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding (William Henry Fox Talbot’s mother), to Mrs. Cunliffe, sending the talbotypes, “Pray don’t think of returning the Talbotypes the sole motive of their publication was to diffuse a knowledge of the art more generally. You must not call them drawings which misleads, for my son can multiply these solar representations as easily as the original one, by the power of light...”. Publisher’s wrappers, upper wrapper with title within elaborate ornamentation, printed in red and black, expertly rebacked with period calf. Housed in a black morocco box. Provenance: Elizabeth Emma Cunliffe-Offley. An individual fascicule from the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs: a milestone in the art of the book. Published in six parts between June 1844 and April 1846, the present second part contained more images than any other fascicule (part I contained 6, and the remaining each contained 3), and was published in January 1845. Furthermore, this part includes among the most iconic images from the work, including The Haystack. The calotypes comprise: [Plate VI:] The Open Door [Plate VII:] Leaf of a Plant [Plate VIII:] A Scene in a Library [Plate IX:] Fac-Simile of an Old Printed Page [Plate X:] The Haystack [Plate XI:] Copy of a Lithographic Print [Plate XII:] The Bridge of Orleans “It is hard to imagine how giant a leap of faith - or naivete - was involved in this ambitious undertaking ... Conceptually and artistically, The Pencil of Nature - with its combination of images and text - allowed Talbot to express his faith in the potential of the photographic medium” (Taylor). According to Gernsheim, just 153 copies of the second part were published, though far fewer have survived, and most extant examples bear the same fading as the present images. “The Pencil of Nature is photography’s first manifesto - and a most eloquent one at that” (Parr & Badger). Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 6; Goldschmidt and Naef, The Truthful Lens, 160; Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, I:p.22; Taylor, Impressed by Light, pp. 19-21. (#29543)   $ 45,000

88 THOMSON, John (1837-1921). Illustrations of China and its People. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1874. 4 volumes, folio (18 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches). 222 collotype photographic illustrations on 96 plates. Publisher’s maroon moroccograin cloth, front covers with large pictorial designs and letters blocked in gilt, bevelled boards, expertly rebacked to style, blue endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in two red morocco backed boxes. Provenance: Ladyman (booklabel in vols II-III), Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899). Thomson’s China: the first large-scale photographic documentation of China and a visual encyclopedia of its lands and peoples. Born in Edinburgh in 1837, it is believed that Thomson learned the photographic arts in his school years in that city. He first travelled to the far east in the late 1850s or early 1860s to visit his brother in Singapore, settling in Penang in 1862 at the age of twenty-five and opening his first photographic studio. However, studio photography did not interest him nearly as much as travelling the streets and countyside to capture the peoples and places he encountered. Between 1862 and 1868, Thomson travelled in Singapore, Ceylon, India, Siam, Cambodia, and Vietnam. In 1868, he arrived in Hong Kong: “it was a new beginning both in his life and his work ... His fascination with the culture of China, the immense size of the country, and the opportunity it offered him to chronicle unexplored regions, all intensified his desire to travel there” (White, p. 17). Making four distinct journeys between 1870 and 1872, Thomson explored South China, Foochow and the River Min, Formosa, North China, Peking, Shanghai and the Yangtze. Returning to London in 1872, he shortly thereafter began work on the present work -- his most ambitious project. “My design in the accompanying work” Thomson writes in the Introduction, “is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impression of the country I traversed as well as of the arts, usages, and manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire. With this intention I made the camera my constant companion of my wanderings, and to it I am indebted for the faithful reproduction of the scenes I visited, and of the types of races which I came into contact.” The selected 222 images were published on 96 plates, being collotypes produced from Thomson’s original albumen photographs. “His imagery ranges from strict documentary to the picturesque, from an elegant straightforwardness to a photographic lyricism. His eye was that of the quintessential Victorian traveller, an incisive flaneur wandering the streets of exotic lands, and an educated geographer. His motivation for photographing was to capture the essence of these unforgettable and never-before-photographed regions, and to obtain permanent records for visual delectation, instruction and verification (White, p. 8). “This ambitious work ... was the first photographic survey of the Chinese nation, providing portraits, street scenes, monuments and landscapes. It was the first travel book to be successfully illustrated with photomechanical facsimiles of albumen prints replicated in the recently perfected collotype process” (Truthful Lens).

“The photographs taken on these journeys form one of the most extensive photographic surveys of any region taken in the nineteenth century. The range and depth of his photographic vision mark Thomson out as one of the most important travel photographers” (ODNB). Mixed issue, with the first two volumes identified on the title as the second edition, and the final two volumes being the first edition. Cf. Stephen White, John Thomson: A Window to the Orient (New York:1986); Goldschmidt & Naef, The Truthful Lens 168. (#29573)   $ 75,000

MISCELLANY

89 BARTSCH, Adam (1757-1821). Catalogue Raisonné de Toutes les Estampes qui Forment L’Oeuvre de Rembrandt, et ceux de ses Principaux Imitateurs. Composé par les Sieurs Gersaint, Helle, Glomy et P. Yver. Nouvelle Edition. Entiérement Refondue, Corrigée et Considerablement Augmentée. Vienna: A. Blumauer, 1797. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches). xliii, 302; 208pp. 5 engraved plates (3 folding). Contemporary tree calf, covers bordered with gilt rules, flat spine in six compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance: early owner’s collector’s stamp on the title. Rare early catalogue raisonné of etchings by Rembrandt and his circle. Bartsch is best remembered for his 21-volume catalogue of prints, Le Peintre-graveur (18031821), which established what has become the definitive numbering system bearing his name for Rembrandt etchings and the prints of many other old master artists. His numbers list the works by category, roughly following the contemporary hierarchy of genres, except that self-portraits come first, followed by biblical subjects, then subjects of saints, allegories, and so on. The plates in this early and rare catalogue raisonne devoted to Rembrandt, include portraits of Rembrandt and Livens engraved by Bartsch. Brunet I:pp. 684-5. (#30418)   $ 850

90 [BRASS FOUNDRY PATTERN BOOK, English 18th century]. [Early English trade catalogue of mostly rococo furniture hardware designs]. [Birmingham, England: circa 1765-1770]. 4to (11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches). 112 engraved plates (one folding), on laid paper, priced throughout in manuscript. (A few plates trimmed close at the fore-edge, original stab-stitch holes in the lower margin, two plates with small areas of loss repaired at an early date). Nineteenth century Italian purple morocco backed pebbled cloth covered boards, spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, marbled endpapers. A rarely encountered pattern book or trade catalogue of 18th century English furniture hardware, including drawer pulls, keyholes, hinges, locks, castors, bolts and more. By 1770, over thirty different brass foundries operated in Birmingham, England, making it the epicenter of furniture hardware design at the height of mid-Georgian and English rococo style. At roughly the same period, trade catalogues, like the present, began to be issued by both furniture and hardware makers alike. As with most of the brass foundry trade catalogues of this early period, the name of the foundry issuing the catalogue is not identified. It is believed that as most hardware was sold by middlemen, or agents which could have represented multiple foundries, that such books were largely bespoke and likely contained hardware from multiple foundries; furthermore, as the patterns were widely copied, it is believed that the same engraved plates were used by multiple makers; some have suggested that the agents selling the designs to prospective buyers would have removed such references to obscure the identity of their supplier. As with most such extant books, the plates are annotated at a period date with pricing for each piece. In all over 700 designs are shown on the 112 plates, from rather simple hinges and pulls, to incredibly ornate ones no doubt intended for large carved mahogany chests being designed for England’s grandest estates. Although no engravers’s names are identified, it has been suggested that the foundries themselves produced such plates, utilizing the talents of their own craftsmen, who by their very occupation would have been highly skilled at etching on metal. Such pattern books “illustrate the beginning of what was then a new movement in the conditions of the crafts, namely, the growth of the organised factory as a means of production and distribution, as compared with the earlier limitation of these functions to the efforts of individuals” (Young). Cf. Hummel, Charles F. “Samuel Rowland Fishers Catalogue of English Hardware.” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol 1 (1964): 188-197; cf. Symonds, R. W. “An Eighteenth-Century English Brassfounders Catalogue.” Magazine Antiques (Feb. 1931): 102-105; Young, W. A., comp. Old English pattern books of the metal trades: a descriptive catalogue of the collection in the V&A Museum. London: HMSO, 1913. (#28173)   $ 15,000

91 CARTER, William. School of Arts. Volume 1 ... [with:] ... Volume 2. Bethania, PA: Reuben Chambers, 1838. 2 volumes, 16mo (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches). 88; 69pp. Contemporary cloth. Provenance: Joseph Chambers. Extremely unusual American work on metalsmithing: one of only two known complete copies. The title of the first volume continues: “Treats of gold, silver, amalgamating, gilding, washing, separating, deadning, boiling, quickening, powdering, extracting, watering, adorning, embellishing, heightening, distinguishing, coloring, soldering, trimming, helling, silvering, converting, resembling, incorporating, melting, &c.” A note on verso of the title describes the purpose of the work: “This volume contains a Collection of very valuable and choice Experiments and Secrets for the use for Goldsmiths and gilders, silversmiths and silver platers, copper smiths and all who have occasion to work in the fine metals; also instructions how to discover mines, &c. and it will be very interesting and useful to mechanicks of other trades, and for private gentlemen who have a relish for the fine arts.” Volume two treats similar subjects for non-fine metals, including iron, steel, copper, brass, pewter, and lead, “for the use of Smiths, Cutlers, Pewterers and Braziers, and will be found to be very interesting and useful to those professing other mechanickal [sic] Arts...” Printing would seem to have begun in Bethania, Pennsylvania (in Lancaster County) in the early 1830s by the printer of this work, Reuben Chambers. The author would seem to have been a blacksmith, possibly William Carter (c.1805-1889) in nearby Pottsville, Pennsylvania. See the brief biographical sketch on Carter (which does not mention this work) in Wiley’s Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (1893). OCLC cites only one complete copy of this work at the Hagley Museum and Library (copies at Yale and Pennsylvania State University being volume one only). We find no copies in the auction records. (#30422)   $ 6,750

92 GALILEO, Galilei (1564-1642); - Thomas SALUSBURY (c.1625-c.1665). Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome in Two Parts. The first part; containing, I. Galileus Galileus His System of the World ... London: William Leyboun, 1661. 2 parts in 1, tall quarto (13 x 8 1/4 inches). [14], 503, [1], [24]; [14], 118, [6]pp. 4 engraved plates. Lacks the half-title and without the errata leaf found in some copies. (A few expert repairs to tears at edges of preliminary leaves). Expertly bound to style in period calf, covers bordered with a gilt double fillet, spine with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. First edition in English of Galileo’s Dialogo, his celebrated defence of the Copernican view of the solar system: a milestone in the history of science.

After years of being forbidden to teach the Copernican theory, in 1632 Galileo was given the opportunity to express these views by the new Pope, Urban VIII, his friend, admirer and patron for more than a decade. Urban granted Galileo permission to write a book about theories of the universe, “provided that the arguments for the Ptolemaic view were given an equal and impartial discussion” (DSB). Galileo’s formal use of the dialogue, casting the work as a hypothetical discussion, allowed him fully to explore the Copernican model within Urban’s parameters. The work “is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, wilfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics ... The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace” (PMM). In casting the Pope as the simple-minded Aristotelian Simplicius, Galileo brought upon himself arrest, trial by the Inquisition and life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to permanent house arrest, but the printing of any of his works was forbidden. In 1664, English historian Thomas Salusbury published the present English collection of Galileo’s work, including a translation of the Dialogo titled Systeme of the World, and followed by the short but important Epistle to the Grand Dutchesse Mother concerning the Authority of Holy Scripture in Philosophical Controversies (known today as the Letter to Christina), which was only the second work of Galileo’s to be published in England. Apart from the two works by Galileo, Salusbury included other translations in volume I of his Collections, including Italian mathematician Benedetto Castelli’s works on fluids in motion. In 1666, the Great Fire of London swept through the city, destroying many copies of this work and nearly all copies of the 1665 second volume containing the first book-length depiction of Galileo’s life. (The title-page to part two of volume I mis-states that it is ‘the second tome’, an obvious cause of some bibliographical confusion). Salusbury died at roughly the same time, perhaps, as some believe, in the Great Fire. Carli-Favaro 276; ESTC R19153; Wing S-517. (#28873)   $ 57,500

93 GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Versuch ueber die Metamorphose der Pflanzen. Gotha: Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1790. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). [6], 86pp. Contemporary marbled paper boards, expertly rebacked to style. Housed in a black morocco box. First edition, first issue: a milestone of both botany and science. In his first scientific treatise, the great German philosopher and writer explains his search for a unified organic theory that would explain all living botanical and zoological forms. Offered in opposition to Linnaeus’ static botanical classification, Goethe believed in a plant’s ability to adapt and change, detailing what he believed to be the homologous nature of leaf organs in plants. A pioneering work on plant metamorphoses, and in many respects a precursor to Darwin. Sparrow 86; Norman 913; DSB V, 241ff; Hagen 211; Osler 2767; Pritzel 3452; Kippenberg I, 368 (#29427)   $ 2,250

94 MERLY LIBRARY. A Catalogue of the well known and celebrated library of the late Ralph Willett ... And a very Choice Selection of Botanical Drawings by Van Huysun, Taylor, Brown, Lee &c. ... sold by auction, by Leigh and Sotheby ... London: 1813. 2 parts in one, 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches). [4], 103, [1]; [2], 103-119pp. Priced throughout with buyer’s names in a neat period hand. Expertly bound to style in speckled calf over period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the rest decoratively tooled in blind, period green endpapers. Provenance: Corset Collection (bookplate); Barnet Kottler (booklabel); J. O. Edwards (booklabel). Thick paper copy of the famed library of Ralph Willett, complete with the separatelyissued supplement of botanical watercolours. According to Windle & Pippin this is the large paper copy of the sale catalogue, printed on thick paper. It is possible that Dibdin was involved in the cataloguing of the sale, he certainly offered to look over the proofs for the early printed books (letter to Leigh & Sotheby dated Nov.1, 1813, now at Harvard) and some of the notes look like his work. “Willett’s library was remarkably rich in early-printed books and in specimens of blockprinting. Many works were on vellum, and all were in the finest condition. He possessed also an admirable collection of prints and drawings, while his pictures included several from the Orleans gallery and from Roman palaces. A description of the library was printed in octavo, in French and English, in 1776; it was reprinted by John Nichols, with twenty-five illustrations of the designs, in folio in 1785. A catalogue of the books in the library was distributed by Willett among his friends in 1790 ... His library was sold by Leigh & Sotheby on 6 Dec. 1813, and the sale occupied seventeen days. He had been a patron of Georg Dionysius Ehret [q. v.], who spent the summers of many years at Merly, its library containing a copious collection of exotics by him. The botanical drawings were sold by Leigh & Sotheby on 20 and 21 Dec. A list of the prices realised at this sale, nineteen days in all, was published in 1814, the total being 13,508l. 4s. His books of prints passed under the hammer on 20 Feb. 1814” (DNB). (#26889)   $ 2,750

95 PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro (1508-1579). La Sfera del Mondo, Libri Qvattro in Lingva Toscana ... de le Stelle Fisse ... Venice: Giovanni Varisco, 1566. 4to (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches). [12],252,48,25-93(foliated),[6] pp. including forty-seven woodcut star charts. (Minor foxing and staining). Contemporary vellum, manuscript titling on spine. A classic astronomical text and the first book to contain detailed maps of stars. Piccolomini was a noted scholar and ecclesiastic whose family library still survives in the Sienna Cathedral. The maps are striking, full-page woodcuts with stars shown in four magnitudes of brightness by size. First published in 1540, “...De le Stelle Fisse... represents the first printed star atlas, containing maps of the stars as opposed to simple pictures of constellations, and introducing the practice of identifying stars by letter, a method later adopted and expanded by Bayer” (Norman). A fundamental work of early astronomy, with implications for the developing art of navigation. Cf. Honeyman 2477; cf. Norman, Library of Science and Medicine 1696 (#30398)   $ 2,850

96 POUGET, Jean-Henri-Prosper (d.1769). Dictionnaire de Chifres et de Lettres Ornees, a l’Usage de tous les Artistes, Contenant les vingtquatre lettres de l’alphabet. Paris: Tilliard, 1767. Small 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches). Half-title, double-page letterpress table. Engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication, 9 engraved plates of script, & 240 engraved plates of ornamental letters and cyphers (13 hand coloured). Late 19th century green crushed morocco, bound by Lortic Frères, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Baron Raimondo Franchetti (1889-1935, morocco booklabel). Very rare first edition of this monumental work on ornamental cyphers, monograms and alphabets, by a noted French jeweler and decorator. A beautifully engraved work, this copy is bound in a lovely binding for a noted collector. The first edition is very rare, with only a single example appearing in the auction records in the last quarter century. BMC 20:790.13; Brunet V:p.848; Bonacini 1466; Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin 5322. (#29311)   $ 7,000

97 SALMON, William (circa 1703-1779). Palladio Londinensis: or, the London Art of Building. In three parts ... The Second Edition: Inriched with Fifteen additional Copper Plates, and sundry Alterations and Improvements, By E. Hoppus ... . London: Printed for A. Ward, 1738. Quarto (9 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches). [12], 132, [28]pp. 52 engraved plates (many folding, numbered I-XXXVII and A-P). Publisher’s ad on verso of terminal text leaf. (Some tears and separations to the folding plates). Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Sir Edward O’Brien (armorial bookplate, initials on title). Preferred second edition of an influential illustrated English builder’s manual. Originally published 1734, “for nearly forty years remained a standard builders manual and in that time saw more editions than any of the several other books of its kind” (Harris). The second edition is preferred due to the additional plates and text not found in the first edition. The book was designed to provide the builder with everything he needed to build and decorate a house. Interestingly, the work is one of the most important source books for studying the architecture in colonial America, particularly in Virginia. Indeed many noted examples of Palladian buildings in America can be traced to particular English patternbook plates, including those in this work, such as Drayton Hall in South Carolina, RandolphPeachy House (Williamsburg), Battersea (Petersburg), Brandon (Prince George County) and Mount Airy (Richmond) in Virginia. ESTC N11247; Harris, BABW, 794; Park List 75; Schimmelman 125; Wiebenson III-C-19; Archer 438.2; BAL, Early printed books, 2888--2890. (#30089)   $ 2,000

98 SECCHI, Pietro Angelo (1818-1878). Le Soleil ... Deuxième édition, revue et augmentée. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1875-1877. 3 volumes (2 vols. text, plus atlas), 8vo (9 3/8 x 6 inches). Text: 280 illustrations (including a few partially hand coloured), 13 plates (12 chromolithographed). Atlas: 6 folded charts. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled paper covered boards, morocco lettering pieces. A major illustrated work on the properties of the sun, including wonderful chromolithographed plates of solar spicules and flares. “A pioneer in the study of the physical characteristics of celestial bodies, Pietro Angelo Secchi, S.J., observed spectra of the stars, classified more than 4,000 of them according to a scheme he devised, and made important studies of the physical constitution of the Sun. His achievements, during the 1860s and 1870s, contributed to the rapid growth of astrophysics as a new way of studying the heavens” (Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, pp 103940). A major work on the use of spectroscopy to study the heavens. DSB XII, 266-70 (#29940)   $ 2,750

99 SOCIETY OF UPHOLSTERERS. The II.d Edition of Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste with an addition of several Articles never before Executed, by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-Makers, &c. containing upwards of 350 Designs on 120 Copper Plates. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, [circa 1765]. 8vo (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches). Engraved title, 120 engraved plates. Expertly bound to style in full period calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: early owner’s signature on title. A very rare 18th century English pattern book.

The title continues: “Consisting of China, Breakfast, Side-board, Dressing, Toilet, Card, Writing, Claw, Library, Slab and Night Tables, Chairs, Couches, Burjairs, French, Dressing and Corner Stools, Cabinets, Commodes, China Shelves and Cases, Trays, Chests, Stands for Candles, Tea Kettles, Pedestals, Stair-case, Lights, Bureaus, Beds, Ornamental Bed Posts, Corniches, Brackets, Fire-Screens, Desk & Book Cases, Clock Cases, Frames for Glasses, Sconce & Chimney-pieces, Terms, Girandoles, Lantorns, Chandeliers, Piers, Fretts, Fenders, Balconys, Signs * overdoors with variety of designs for Founders Brass-work, &c. & c.” Originally published in 1760 with 60 plates; the present second edition contains 120 plates. Robert Manwaring may have contributed most of the designs for chairs; the first 28 plates were reprinted in 1766 in Robert Manwarings Chair-makers guide. Other designs have been attributed to Thomas Johnson, Ince & Mayhew, Thomas Chippendale, and perhaps Matthias Darley. It has been stated that the designs are for mostly plain and modest looking furniture; Christopher Gilbert has suggested that their publication may have been directed at practicing craftsmen rather than prospective clients. NUC locates one copy in America; not in BLESTC. White, pp. 47-48; Ward-Jackson, pp. 51-52 (#29736)   $ 8,250

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TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915). The Principles of Scientific Management. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches. 77pp. Publisher’s dark green cloth, covers bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: William Sangster (signature dated 1911). First edition, first issue: the origin of modern management theory and a Printing and the Mind of Man classic. According to the statement on the title-page, this “special edition” was printed in February 1911 for confidential circulation among the members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers “with the compliments of the author.” It precedes the trade issue, published later the same year, which omits the Foreword and the Appendix. As an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel Works in Philadelphia, Taylor developed an organizational system that he called “scientific management,” later known as “time and motion study.” “His system was based on what he estimated to be a fair day’s work and the best means of ensuring such a standard of production.” He was interested in any factor that hindered or helped in attaining this end, and besides studying factory conditions and methods in great detail he was responsible for fundamental changes in machinery and machine tools. “The main lines of approach to increased efficiency were standardizing processes and machines, time and motion study, and payment by results...” (PMM). Norman Library 2059;Printing and the Mind of Man 403. (#30544)   $ 3,750

INDEX ALAMAN, Lucas 1 ARIZONA, Mining 2 AUDUBON, John James 48

LA QUINTINYE, Jean de 59 LEAR, Edward 67 LOCOMOTIVES, American 15

BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton 49 BARTSCH, Adam 89 BEECHEY, Frederick William 27 BENTHAM, George 50 BRASS FOUNDRY PATTERN BOOK 90 BREWER, Thomas Mayo 49 BROUGHTON, William Robert 28

MARTYR, Peter 16 MAY, Walter William 41 MERLY LIBRARY 94

CARTER, William 91 CASTRO, Casimiro 73 CATHERWOOD, Frederick 74 CHEROKEE NATION 4 CHORIS, Louis 29 COLLARD, Auguste Hippolyte 75 COLNETT, James 30 COOK, James 31 COSTUME, Qajar School 76 DILLON, Peter 34 DIXON, George 35 EVELYN, John 51, 59 FIGUEROA, José 5 FOSSÉ, Charles-Louis François de 77 FRANKLIN, Benjamin 6 GALE, William F. 52 GALILEO, Galilei 92 GAUGUIN, Paul 78 GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von 93 GOULD, John 53 GREGG, Josiah 7 GUALTIERI, Niccolo 54 HARLOW, Louis Kinney 8 HARRIS, John 36 HARVEY, William Henry 79 HEINE, Wilhelm 80 HERALDRY 81 HILL, John 55 HOVEY, Charles Mason 56 HUMBOLDT, Alexander von 82 HUNTER, William M. 44 IDE, Simeon 9 JAMES, Edwin 10 JEFFERSON, Thomas 11 KENDALL, George Wilkins 12 KENNEDY, John 57 KIDD, William 37 KINO, Eusebio Francisco 3 KIP, Leonard 13 KNEELAND, Samuel 14 KNORR, Georg Wolfgang 58 KRASHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich 38 KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von 39, 40

NEES VON ESENBECK, T.F.L. 60 PENNANT, Thomas 61 PERKINS, John 83 PICCOLO, Francisco Maria 3 PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro 95 PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery 17 POMET, Pierre 62 POPE, Alexander, Jr. 84 PORTLOCK, Nathaniel 42 POUGET, Jean-Henri-Prosper 96 PREVOST, Jean Louis 63 PULTENEY, Richard 64, 65 RICCI, Matteo 43 RICKMAN, John 32 RIDGWAY, Robert 49 ROUQUETTE, Louis-Frédéric 18 SAGE, Rufus B. 19 SALMON, William 97 SALUSBURY, Thomas 92 SECCHI, Pietro Angelo 98 SIEBECK, Rudolph 66 SMITH, Joseph 20 SOCIETY OF UPHOLSTERERS 99 SOLVYNS, Frans Balthazar 85 SOUTH AMERICA 44 SOWERBY, James de Carle 67 SPEECHLY, William 68 STAUNTON, George Leonard 45 STRAET, Jan van der 21 STURGESS, John 86 TALBOT, William Henry Fox 87 TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow 100 TEXAS, Provisional Government 22 THOMSON, John 88 THORNTON, Jesse Quinn 23 THUNBERG, Carl Pehr 69 TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de 70 TURNER, Samuel 46 VISCHER, Edward 24 WEDDELL, James 47 WEST POINT 25 WHALING, Pacific 26 WILSON, Alexander 71 WIRSING, Adam Ludwig 72 ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich 33