Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books

Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books

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[AL-MARGHINANI, Burhan al-Din al-Farghani (1135-1197)]; - Charles HAMILTON, translator (1753-1792). The Hedàya, or Guide; A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: Translated by the Order of the Governor-General and Council of Bengal.

London: T. Bensley, 1791. 4 volumes, 4to (10 1/4 x 8 inches). lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, [2-errata] pp.; viii, 727, (1), [2-errata]; viii, 609, (1), [2-errata]; lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, (1), [2-errata]. Errata leaf in rear of each volume. Expertly bound to style in half calf over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine divided into six compartments with gilt roll tools, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat arabesque decoration in gilt. First edition in English of al-Hidayah: the authoritative guide to Islamic jurisprudence. Commonly referred to as al-Hidayah or The Guidance, this work originated as a 12th-century Hanafi work by Shaykh al-Islam Burhan al-Din al-Farghani al-Marghinani (1135-1197) and is considered an authoritative guide to Islamic law among Muslims throughout the world. The Hidayah presents a legal tradition developed over many centuries and represents the corpus of Hanafi law in its approved and preferred form. The primary reason for its popularity is the reliability of its statements and the soundness of its legal reasoning. It is arguably the most popular and important work in fiqh literature. Hamilton’s English translation is based on a Persian translation by Ghulam Ya Khan from the original Arabic version. Intended for a British audience, chapters relating to rituals were omitted; however his coverage of contracts, torts and criminal law is more complete. Hamilton explains in his preface: “The permanence of any foreign dominion (and indeed, the justification of holding such a dominion) requires that a strict attention be paid to ease and advantage, not only of the governors, but of the governed; and to this great end nothing can so effectually contribute as preserving to the latter their ancient established practices, civil and religious and protecting them in the exercise in their own institutes ... they must be infinitely more acceptable than anything we could offer; since they are supported by the accumulated prejudice of ages, and, in the opinion of their followers, derive their origin from the Divinity himself ” (Preliminary Discourse). The understanding of Islamic law was critical to the colonial administration of India, and Bengal in particular, which had a very large Muslim population, and this work was intended to enable English officials to understand local proceedings. A second edition of Hamilton’s translation was published in 1870, though the first edition is rare. (#29370)   $ 11,000

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ALBIN, Eleazar (c.1680-c.1742). A Natural History of English Insects, Illustrated with a hundred copper plates, curiously engraven from life, and exactly coloured by the author. London: William Innys, 1749. 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches). 100 hand coloured engraved plates. Later half calf over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: P. Lundwall (booklabel). A fine copy of Albin’s celebrated English insects: one of the most beautifully illustrated works of lepidoptery. “In the preface, Albin explains that several prominent society patrons who were obviously keenly interested in entomology, employed him to prepare drawings of butterflies, moths and larvae which they had collected” (Lisney). In 1720, the first edition of Albin’s insects was published, with each plate dedicated to a subscriber or patron. The present example is Lisney’s fifth edition, this being an issue without Derham’s notes and additions in the rear, as usual (and as per ESTC and BM(NH)). The text is entirely reset, though the plates are printed from the original copper plates and maintain their vivid hand colouring. Lisney 123; Nissen ZBI 58. (#29546)   $ 5,500

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ALBUMASAR [Ja’far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi] (A.D. 787-886). Introductorium in astronomiam. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 February 1489. Small 4to (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Translated from Arabic into Latin by Hermannus Dalmata. 70 leaves. Gothic letter. 46 woodcuts (2 half-page, the remainder smaller) mainly of zodiacal figures and including 6 astronomical diagrams, opening 8-line woodcut initial, 7-line and smaller initials throughout. Expertly bound to style in nineteenth century green straight grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, period brown paper endpapers. Rare first edition of this important illustrated work of a noted Arabian astronomer. Abu Ma’shar (787-886), born in Balkh, was the most renowned astrologer writing in Arabic in the 9th century, and was part of the group of intellectuals who served the Caliph alMa’mun (813-833) in Baghdad. The present work is a slightly abridged translation of his Kitab al-madkhal al-kabir ‘ala ‘ilm ahkam al-nujum (“Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology”), written in 849/850. The work was translated twice in the first half of the 12th century and was one of the earliest vehicles for the transmission of Aristotelian concepts into Latin before the actual translations of Aristotle. The work presents the philosophical and historical justifications of astrology, and a survey of the characteristics of the Signs, Planets, Sun and Moon, along with the Aspects (angular relations between them). The 15 cuts showing allegorical figures of the planets are reduced versions of seven woodcuts used by Ratdolt in Johannes de Thwrocz, Chronica Hungarorum (Augsburg: E. Ratdolt for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488, Goff T-361). The cuts include 12 large and 12 small zodiacal figures, 6 astronomical tables, and 15 planetary figures printed from 7 blocks. The whole is a beautifully composed book, set in a semi-Gothic font and with white on black initials from two alphabets. Albumasar’s work would gain considerable attention during the Middle Ages and have a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history. The present first edition, printed by Erhard Ratdolt in Augsburg in 1489, is scarce; a second edition followed, printed in Venice in 1506. A fine, large example. BMC ii, 382; Goff A-359; GW 840; Hain 612; Schreiber 3075. (#29214)   $ 35,000

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Edmund BURKE (1729-1797); and William PITT (17081778). [Sammelband of three important works by Edmund Burke and William Pitt, regarding American Independence]. London: 1775. 3 volumes in 1, quarto (10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches). Bound to style in half period russia and period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Francis Maseres (contemporary ink marginalia and signatures). An important association copy of three important works, including first editions of two famous speeches by the English orator Edmund Burke. The works included are as follows (in bound order): 1) Edmund Burke: The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. [4], 65pp. First edition. “Contains the famous sentence: “Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of government, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquest and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in a single life” (Sabin). Adams, Controversy 7517a; Howes B979, “b.”; Sabin 9296. 2) Edmund Burke. Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. On American Taxation, April 19, 1774. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. iv, 57, [1]pp. First edition. Burke’s famous argument for the repeal of the duty on tea. Adams, Controversy 75-16a; Howes B980, “b.”; Sabin 9295. 3) William Pitt. Plan Offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House of Lords, entitled, A Provisional Act, for Settling the Troubles in America, and for Asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1775. 14, [1]pp. First edition. William Pitt was one of America’s staunchest supporters before the Revolution. This was his grand plea for conciliation, presented in February 1775. Pitt argued for complete sovereignty of Parliament over the colonies, but at the same time requested the King to recall the troops from Boston. His plan was defeated. Rosenbach called the work rare in his seventh catalog in 1913. Not in Adams. Nebenzahl 12:136; Rosenbach 7:480, “rare”; Sabin 63071. The first two works bound in the sammelband are by Burke. The first, a masterful March, 1775 speech, urges a reconciliation with the colonies. In the second, on the subject of American taxation, Burke urges the Crown to repeal the tea tax. Both of these works are especially rare in their first editions. The third work is a plan put forth by former Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder, proposing the recall of British troops from Boston and a conciliatory policy toward the colonies. Both statesmen, in opposition to the prevailing English administration. hoped to prevent the war which was on the verge of breaking out; needless to say, their voices of reason did not prevail, but these speeches are among the most famous given by English statesmen of the period.

The half title of the first work is signed “F. Maseres. May 25, 1775,” and this first work includes some ink marginalia in his hand; the titlepages of the second and third works are signed “F. Maseres.” From 1766 to 1769, Francis Maseres was attorney general of the new British province of Quebec and was involved in colonial affairs in Quebec after the revolution. An important assemblage of three important conciliatory efforts by two of the most important American sympathizers of the pre-Revolutionary period, once belonging to an important British official in Revolutionary-era Quebec. (#29390)   $ 17,500

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AZARA, Félix Manuel de (1746-1821). Voyages dans l’Amérique Méridionale, par Don Félix De Azara ... depuis 1781 jusqu’en 1801. Paris: Dentu, 1809. 5 volumes (text: 4 volumes, 8vo [7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches]; atlas: folio [14 x 10 1/4 inches]). Text: lx,389; [4],562pp. plus three folding tables; [4],ii,479; [4],380pp. Atlas: [4] pp. Twenty-five engraved maps and plates. Atlas uncut. Text: contemporary tree calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spine in compartments with red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Atlas: publisher’s blue paper boards, printed paper label on the upper cover. The preferred First French Edition, with additional notes by Cuvier and Sonnini: the atlas here uncut and in original boards. An important work by Spanish naturalist Felix de Azara (1746-1821). Azara, a military officer, was part of a delegation to settle the boundary dispute between Spain and Portugal in the Rio de la Plata region. He was in the region for twenty years, from 1781 to 1801, documenting the wildlife, natives, and geography of the area. This work is the culmination of his time there, published upon his return to Europe. The atlas includes folding maps of South America, Paraguay and the Province of Buenos Aires, the Government of Buenos Aires, the Government of Paraguay and part of Chaco, and the Province of Chiquitos and Government of Matagroso and of Cuyaba; eight city plans and views, including a double-page plan and view of Buenos Aires, seven plates depicting animals, and four plates depicting birds. First published in Spanish in Madrid between 1802 and 1805, the work provides an important contribution to natural history, describing over 400 species of birds, many for the first time (see vols. 3 and 4 of the text). Interestingly, Darwin would read Azara’s work following his return from the second voyage and refer to it within his Voyage of the Beagle. Palau 20975; Sabin 2541; Field 62; Wood, p. 214. (#28591)   $ 12,000

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BARENGER, James (1780-1831); James SILLETT (1764-1840) and Charles TURNER (17741857). [British Feather Game]. London: R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 1810 [watermarked J. Whatman 1809]. Oblong folio (17 x 21 1/2 inches). 14 mezzotints, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Charles Turner after Barenger (10), Sillett (2) and Turner (2). Interleaved paper guards and endpapers renewed. Contemporary half red straight grained morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Modern slipcase. A contemporary bound and hand coloured complete suite of among the rarest English ornithological sporting prints. This series, issued as such without a title, was superbly mezzotinted in color by Charles Turner and published by Rudolph Ackermann. While we have seen individual, uncoloured plates from this series, we have never before encountered a complete suite, and never before seen any with period colouring. The plates comprise: 1) Partridges. After Barenger. 2) Pheasants. After Barenger. 3) Snipes. After Turner. 4) Woodcocks. After Turner. 5) Wild Ducks. After Barenger. 6) Widgeons. After Barenger. 7) Black Grouse. After Sillett.

8) Red Grouse. After Sillett. 9) Plovers. After Barenger. 10) Quails. After Barenger. 11) Bald Coot. After Barenger. 12) Teal. Afte Barenger. 13) Moor Hen. After Barenger. 14) Dab Chick. After Barenger.

A contemporary notice of this suite is given in the December 1811 issue of the Monthly Magazine: “This work consists of fourteen plates, published plain and in colours, and give excellent portraits of the most beautiful of the British feathered game. Each plate, which are big enough for furniture prints, consists of a picturesque group of one sort, and exhibit just portraits of the species. The series are partridges, pheasants, snipes, wood-cocks, wild ducks, widgeons, black grouse, red grouse, quails, plovers, teal, bald coot, dab chick and moorhen. The pheasants are of course the most beautiful but they all appear to possess the identity of individual portrait. The engravings by Turner are in his usual excellent style, which has given him the title of one of the best mezzotinto scrapers of the present day.” The plates are principally after James Barenger. He was born into an artistic family. His father exhibited paintings of insects at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1799, and his mother was the sister of William Woollett, the celebrated engraver. Barenger was well known as an animal painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1807 and 1831. He was a keen sportsman and had a natural eye for detail, which brought an appealing realism to his studies. From 1815 onwards he exhibited the majority of his pictures at Mr. Tattersall’s auction rooms in London, where they were well received by a diverse audience. Although Mr. Tattersall was his primary patron, Barenger earned a number of commissions from the Earl of Derby, The Duke of Grafton, and the Marquess of Londonderry. His work was widely engraved by some of the most fashionable engravers of the day and his attractive images remain highly desirable to sporting collectors. Siltzer, pp. 77-79. (#29550)   $ 60,000

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BEAUCLERK, Lord Charles (1813-1861). Lithographic Views of Military Operations in Canada under His Excellency Sir John Colborne ... during the late insurrection. From sketches by Lord Charles Beauclerk, Captain Royal Regiment. London: printed by Samuel Bentley, published by A. Flint, 1840. Folio (14 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches). Lithographic map, 6 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates after Lord Beauclerk, drawn on stone by N. Hartnell. Expertly bound to style in half blue straight-grained morocco, with early blue sugar-paper-covered boards, gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt. A rare color plate book, containing “the most comprehensive set of prints dealing with the Papineau Rebellion in Lower Canada” (Spendlove). There is an immediacy about this set of prints that is particularly compelling: Lord Beauclerk, the third son of the Duke of St. Albans, was an eye-witness to the events described, serving as an officer in the British army, and made on-the-spot sketches from which the images were drawn on stone by Hartnell. “The most valued account of the Rebellion of 1837 is the set of seven ... lithographs after sketches made by ... Beauclerk ... The views are attractive in both coloring and composition, and depict various actions in November and December 1837” (Mary Allodi, “Prints and Early Illustration”’ in The Book of Canadian Antiques p.304). Gagnon II, 124; Lande 1559; Sabin 4164; Spendlove p.85; TPL 2037 (#31025)   $ 12,000

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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

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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

10 BERMUDA, Photography. [Group of 13 albumen photographs of scenes in Bermuda]. [Bermuda: 1866-1869]. All mounted to larger sheets, most measuring 10 1/4 x 12 inches (two slightly smaller), disbound from an album. Ten images mounted within an ink ruled frame and with ink manuscript captions below dated 1866. Housed in a cloth box. Group of rare early images of Bermuda. 1) Town of St. George’s. Looking towards Ferry and St. George. Image size: 7 x 9 1/2 inches.1866. 2) St. George’s from Convict Bay / R.E. Tugboat Blue Bird. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. 1866. 3) The Ferry. St. George’s from the Main Land. Image size: 6 3/4 x 9 inches. 1866. 4) Town of St. Georges. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.1866. 5) Fort Catherine. North Shore. St. Georges Island. Image size: 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches. 1866. 6) View from Fort George. St. George’s Bermuda, Looking West. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.1866. 7) The Government Dock Yard, Ireland Island. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. 1866. 8) St. George’s from Mullet Bay / Road to Hamilton. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. 1866. 9) The Flatts / Looking West. Image size: 5 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches. 1866. 10) The Flatts / Looking East. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. 1866. 11) [Group of 5 men standing in a tropical setting, identified in caption as “Laird / Col. D. C. Thompson / 3 young Americans”]. Image size: 7 x 9 1/8 inches. Circa 1866. 12) [Floating dock, with the ship Urgent and a large group of men]. Image size: 7 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches. Circa 1869. 13) [Floating dock at Ireland Island]. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Circa 1869. (#29332)   $ 5,200

11 BIDA, Alexandre (1813-1895) & E. BARBOT (1798-1878). Souvenirs d’Egypte. Paris: Lemercier, [circa 1850]. Large folio (22 1/8 x 16 3/8 inches). Lithographed and mounted on cloth guards throughout: tinted title with integral vignette by and after Alexandre Bida, 24 tinted plates titled in French, Arabic and English (comprising: 12 views after E. Barbot drawn on stone by Eug. Ciceri with occasional help from C. Bour; 12 costume/character studies by and after Alexandre Bida), all printed by Lemercier. Contemporary brown half morocco over blue cord-grained cloth, upper cover titled in gilt “Souvenirs / d’Egypte”, spine in seven compartments with semi-raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with simple repeat decoration in gilt, cream/orange glazed endpapers. A spectacular and rare album featuring the work of two important French Orientalist artists. Only a single copy of this work is listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty-five years, and according to Chadenat this album was never sold commercially. The twenty four uniformly excellent plates include twelve topographical views after Barbot of Egyptian sights and cities from Philae to Cairo, ancient and modern, all peopled and bustling with life. Alexandre Bida’s contribution consists of twelve beautifully-observed character studies of the people he encountered in the region: an Albanian, a Copt, dancers, ladies, a donkey driver, a groom, etc. Bida, studied under Eugene Delacroix, and travelled extensively through Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Palestine. “E. Barbot” is Prosper Barbot (1798-1878), a pupil of Jules Coignet and Louis Watelet, who made two journeys to Egypt in 1844 and 1846 travelling from Cairo south across the desert. Colas I.326; Chadenat 761 (“Tres belle album non mis dans le commerce.”); Lipperheide I, Ma32 (#23182)   $ 15,000

12 BIGGS, Thomas Hesketh (1822-1905, photographer) - Theodore C. HOPE. Architecture at Ahmedabad, the capital of Goozerat, photographed by Colonel Biggs ... with an historical and descriptive sketch, by Theodore C. Hope ... and architectural notes by James Fergusson ... Published ... under the patronage of Premchund Raichund. London: John Murray, 1866. Quarto (11 x 9 inches). Half-title, tinted wood-engraved frontispiece, 2 lithographic maps (one printed in two colours), 22 wood-engraved illustrations (2 full-page). 120 albumen photographs by Thomas Biggs, on individual thin card mounts, the mounts with printed red single line borders with small decorative flourishes at each corner, numbers and captions, all printed in red. Original green pebble-grained cloth, covers elaborately blocked in gilt with a wide decorative border in the “Indian” style surrounding a central gilt vignette drawn from plate number 112 titled “Meer Aboo Toorab’s Tomb”, rebacked to style with green morocco, spine gilt extra, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. An important, early and rare photographically-illustrated record of the art and architecture of western India. “Like many military men in India, Biggs became fascinated with archaeology, but he soon discovered the difficulty and uncertainty of sending manual copies of stone inscriptions back to London. Biggs was furloughed on sick leave in England starting in 1850 ... he watched his brothers practicing photography and it struck him ‘that it would be a perfect method of copying the sculptures and inscriptions.’ ... Biggs took lessons from Samuel Buckle and then presented his plan to the directors of the East India Company, who were so impressed that they traded him a complete new photographic outfit in exchange for his first album. He was appointed ‘Government Photographer, Bombay’ and was the first person to officially assume that position” (Taylor, Impressed by Light, pp. 290-291). As a member of the Bombay Photographic Society he had been equipped with a set of Ross’s single and double lenses and a kit which allowed him to make 15 x 12 inch pictures. His task was to photograph the Muslim buildings, sculpture and inscriptions of Western India. The preface to the present work notes that “The Government of Bombay has at various times taken steps towards portraying ... the magnificent architecture with which the Presidency and the territories bordering it abound.” Biggs made over one hundred paper negatives of Bijapur, Aihole, Badami and other sites in Western India. The results were exhibited at the Photographic Society of Bombay and much admired, but the increasing unrest, which culminated in the Mutiny of 1857, forced him to hand over his work to surgeon and fellow photographer Dr. Pigou. The preface continues: “Subsequently, a series of plans and drawings of Beejapoor, which had been prepared under the superintendence of Captain Hart, were published for the Government under the editorship of James Fergusson.” In 1865, at the request of the Governor of Bombay a committee was set up and given the task of publishing the photographs of Biggs, Pigou and a third photographer A.C.B. Neilly “in the form of a comprehensive series of volumes on the Architectural Antiquities of Western India” (preface). The present work, published in London under Biggs supervision, was the first fruit of this ambitious enterprise and is believed to have been limited to forty copies. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 332. (#21869)   $ 17,500

13 (BLIGH, William (1754-1817)). An Account of the Mutinous Seizure of the Bounty, With the Succeeding Hardships of the Crew. To Which is added, Secret Anecdotes of the Otaheitean Females. London: Printed for Bentley and Co. And sold by H. D. Symonds, [circa 1792]. 8vo 8 x 4 3/4 inches. [4],[9]-76pp. Engraved frontispiece. Modern blue morocco backed cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: Paul Peralta-Ramos (small red inked ownership stamp on endpaper). First edition of this rare anonymous narrative. One of two Bentley variants published simultaneously, the other bearing an imprint to be sold by Bell and Taylor and others. According to Hill, Bentley based their publication on a slightly earlier account by publisher Robert Turner. “Following Bligh’s return to England in March of 1790, publisher Robert Turner recognized that the public had an insatiable interest in the story of the mutiny. Turner believed that he could capitalize on this interest by stealing the thunder from Bligh’s official account, then in preparation. Culling information from newspaper reports, Hawkesworth’s Voyages, and other recent works on Tahiti, Turner published the sensationalized version...An Account on the Mutinous Seizure of the Bounty ...The [later] Bentley version differed in its larger format, the inclusion of an engraving of Bligh in his nightshirt, and most importantly, as Stephen Walters points out, probably the first published clue to Fletcher Christian’s postmutiny whereabouts: the publisher reports information from a voyager that Christian and the mutineers had recently left Tahiti with promises to return, and concludes from this information ‘that they have turned pirates’” (Hill). This edition is not in Hill, who only owned a 1987 reprint edition. “An anonymous narrative. The account of the Mutiny is based on Bligh’s book; the ‘Secret Anecdotes of the Otaheitean Females’ are extracted from Hawkesworth” (Ferguson). This latter account of Tahitian women is sometimes wanting, likely by a censor’s hand. To account for the seeming mispagination at the beginning of the text, Ferguson notes that, “Apparently an error occurred in numbering the pages.” Ferguson 131; ESTC N29876; cf. Hill 1825; Howgego B107. (#28660)   $ 8,500

14 BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor ... in the East Indies. London: for George Nicol, 1790. Quarto (12 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches). 3 engraved charts (2 folding) after William Harrison, engraved by J. Walker, 1 engraved plan of the Bounty’s 23foot launch. Uncut. (Light scattered foxing). Later half dark blue crushed morocco over blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (armorial bookplate). First edition of Bligh’s account of the famous mutiny, and the incredible voyage which followed: a tall uncut copy. Although the mutiny is now the best known incident, the most remarkable part of the narrative is undoubtedly Bligh’s account of the voyage in the Bounty’s launch. His achievement of safely navigating an open vessel packed with 19 men a distance of 4,000 miles without serious mishap is almost without parallel in the history of ocean travel. He not only piloted the boat to safety but “In the course of this hazardous journey Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of New Holland as he passed along it” (Wantrup, p.128). The resulting chart of the “NE Coast of New Holland” was first published in the present work. Du Reitz p.44; Ferguson 71; Hill 132; Kroepelian 87; Wantrup 61. (#28656)   $ 12,500

15 BONNAFFÉ, A. A. Recuerdos De Lima Album Tipos, Trajes y Costumbres Dibujados y Publicados Por A.A. Bonnaffe En Lima 1856 [cover title] ... [With:] Recuerdos De Lima ... 1857 [cover title]. [Paris: 1856-57]. 2 volumes [all published], folio (17 5/8 x 12 inches; 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches). Without letterpress title or text, as issued. 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates (12 in each series) with printed captions, printed on various coloured paper, lithographed by Morin, Adam, Gaildreau and others, printed by Lemercier. Publisher’s near uniform green and brown cloth, covers bordered in blind and lettered in gilt on the upper covers, expertly rebacked to style. Together in a modern morocco backed box. Rare colour plate books depicting the costume of Peru. A collection of 24 brightly colored and handsomely produced plates depicting various costumes of the natives of Peru, each plate “signed” in the lower left corner AABffe (i.e. A.A. Bonnaffe, as noted in the cover title). The imprints on the plates read: “Dibujo. por A.A. Bonnaffe.” with various lithographers’s names, e.g. Julien, Didier, J. Gaildreau, De Moraine, etc. No letterpress title or text was issued with the plates and only these two parts were ever published. The plates are captioned as follows: [First series, 1856]: El Cholo Costenõ; La Chola Quesera; El Heladero; La Chola Frutera; El Biscochero; La Chola Rabona; La Tapada (de noche); El Indio de la Sierra; La Tapada; La Chola de la Sierra; La Tapada (Saya y Manto) [1]; La Tapada (Saya y Manto) [2, i.e. the same title as the preceding plate but an entirely different image]. [Second series, 1857]: La Zamacueca; La Zamba (a la procesion); El Capeador; Chorrillos. Traje de Bano; El Panadero; La Plazera; El Arriero; La Chichera; El Aguador; La Lechera; El Velero; La Caleza. Sets of both the first and second series are seldom encountered together. Hiler, p.101; Palau 32375; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful I:3. Not in Colas or Lipperheide. (#26145)   $ 18,500

16 BOWLES, Carington (1724-1792). Bowles’s Florist: containing sixty plates of beautiful flowers, regularly disposed in their succession of blowing, to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing and painting them according to nature. London: Carington Bowles, 1777. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches). 60 hand coloured engraved plates. Extra-illustrated with an 18th-century hand coloured decoupage of a potted chrysanthemum, mounted on verso of the title. Early nineteenth century half calf over purple morocco, spine with raised bands in five compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, patterned endpapers. A very rare hand coloured copy of a noted 18th century manual on flower painting. The work is organized in calendar fashion, with five plates for each month. The work “represents an early example of one of the pattern-books for drawing and painting flowers ... By drawing directly from nature, the author explains, one can avoid the stiff formality of the copied image. Regarding the use of colour, he recommends that the flowers be placed with the light falling from the left, casting the right half of the composition into shadow. He then adds a list of the paints necessary ... Further instuctions follow, regarding the best way to paint specific flowers: the hyacinth, cyclamen, crocus, snowdrop, anemone, almond blossom, auricula, daffodil, iris, rose, tulip, etc., many of which are depicted in the book.” The sixty plates “were intended not only to serve as models for the amateur artist; they could also be admired by flower lovers...” (Oak Spring Flora). The work by Bowles was originally issued in circa 1760 by his grandfather Thomas, under the title The Florist; in the present Carington Bowles issue, the plates have had the original engravers names and imprints removed and replaced with a Carington Bowles imprint dated 1774. The text would appear identical in both issues. Like the earlier version, Bowles issued the work coloured (1 guinea) [as the present] and uncoloured (6s). All editions are very rare, particularly coloured: only the Plesch and De Belder coloured copies appear in the auction records. Nissen BBI 1735; Dunthorne 46; Henrey 3.481; Johnston 529; Tomasi, Oak Spring Flora 88. (#29438)   $ 8,500

17 BOWLES, JOHN (1701-1779). Versailles Illustrated; or, Divers Views of the Several Parts of the Royal Palace of Versailles; as likewise of all the Fountains, Groves, Parterras, ye Labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens ... London: John Bowles, [circa 1740]. Oblong folio (12 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches). Engraved pictorial title and 29 engraved plates by Bowles, showing fountains, water falls, statues and gardens of Versailles. Publisher’s blue paper wrappers. Housed in a modern cloth case. An early English work depicting the famed gardens and fountains of Versailles. The plates depict the gardens and fountains of Versailles after Sebastien Le Clerc and others, engraved and issued by print and mapseller John Bowles. This edition is dated based on Bowles’s address “at the Black Horse, in Cornhill” at which he was active between 1733 and 1752 (after which the name of the firm changed to John Bowles and Son). The last seven plates depict the fountains in the labyrinth at Versailles, representing the Fables of Aesop. The “fable fountains” no longer exist and are now only known through engravings such as the present examples. These seven plates are each divided into six compartments. These contain a map of the Labyrinth giving the location of each fountain, a single compartment of engraved text describing the concept, a view of the entrance to the Labyrinth with its statue of Aesop, and 39 images of selected fountains, each of these latter images is accompanied by a verse translation of the fable above and a description of the sculpture below. Johnston 394; Lowndes, p. 2764 (1726 edition). (#29036)   $ 4,750

18 CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de (1778-1841). Plantes rares du Jardin de Genève. Geneva: J.Barbezat & Cie., 1829. Folio (14 1/4 x 11 inches). Half-title. 24 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Heyland (6), Anspach (5), Millenet (11), Bovet (1) and Bouvier (1), after Heyland (22) and Madmoiselle Car. Chuit (2), printed by Tattegrain (18) or Suardet (6). Stitched and uncut. Housed in a modern full green morocco box. A fine uncut, never bound copy of an important and rare record of the trees, shrubs and plants growing in the botanical gardens of Geneva under the directorship of de Candolle. The work recalls the early days of the Geneva Botanic Garden, which after a number of false starts, was finally laid out in 1818. The images include two excellent plates of the Pin des Canaries (Pinus canariensis), a native of Teneriffe and Grand Canary; a single plate of a

Cherry (Cerasus caproniana polygyna) showing a flowering branch, details of the flowers and depictions of the extraordinary multi-lobed fruits; the final plate is a fine compostion showing a flowering branch of pink-flowered form of a Horse-Chestnut (Æsculus rubicunda) which de Candolle supposes to have originated in the United States. According to the introduction, the plates were chosen from a collection of about 300 botanical drawings executed by various artists and given to the Botanical Garden by generous benefactors, all but two of the present plates are from original drawings by Jean Christophe Heyland (1792-1866), a German-born botanical artist who spent all of his working life in Switzerland. The original intention had been to continue to publish plates (with their descriptions) periodically. The present work was originally published in four fascicules between 1825 and 1826 or 1827; when it became clear that no more fascicules would appear, the present second issue was published, with the title dated 1829. Great Flower Books (1990) p.25; Nissen BBI 327; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1000. (#30316)   $ 12,000

19 CHINA - American Presbyterian Mission. Seeing China [Temple Hill cut-outs]. [Chefoo, China: Self-help Dept., Women’s Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, circa 1930]. Oblong folio (13 1/4 x 10 inches). 24pp. Eleven hand-cut chapter headings and approx. 90 hand-cut and mounted black cut-out illustrations, many with colorful silk inlays. Publisher’s 1p. letterpress explanation leaf mounted on inside front pastedown. Contemporary stitched pictorial silk covered flexible boards. Scarce hand-made album of elaborate cut outs by Chinese women at the Ai Dao Bible School in Chefoo. The introductory letterpress leaf explains: “The cut-outs of Temple Hill are an adaptation of figures of animals, plants, insects, dragons, etc. cut out by the women of Shantung for unknown generations.” It would appear that several versions of these books were produced. The present one, which is unrecorded by OCLC, is titled Seeing China and is divided into sections, including Travel and Transportation, Customs and Habits, Occupations, The Eight Immortals, Curios and Curiosities, Myths and Legends, Chow & How (including a leaf of letterpress with seven recipes), Chinese Children, Chinese Junks and The Magician. Although undated, the work includes a Chinese Birth-Year Cycle chart that encompasses the dates as early as 1864 up until 1935. (#29901)   $ 4,750

20 CHISHULL, Edmund (1670/71-1733). Travels in Turkey, and Back to England. London: W. Bowyer, 1747. Folio (13 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches). viii, [4], 192 pp. 4pp. list of subscribers. Expertly bound to style in half 18th century russia over period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. First edition of a scarce early English account of travels to the Levant. Chishull served as chaplain to the Levant Company in Smyrna from 1698 to 1702, visiting Ionia, Ephesus, and Constantinople during his stay. This publication of his journal during his time in the region was brought to press by his son, with the assistance of Dr. Richard Mead (1673-1754), the latter authoring the Preface and editing the journal. Sailing from England in the frigate Neptune on 10 February 1698, Chishull arrived at Smyrna on 12 November 1698. While resident there, he made a tour to Ephesus and visited Constantinople. He left Smyrna on 10 February 1701-2, taking his homeward journey by Gallipoli and Adrianople where he joined Lord Paget, who was returning from an embassy to the Sublime Porte. Travelling as a member of the ambassador’s household, Chishull passed through Bulgaria, Transylvania, Hungary, and Germany to Holland. At Leyden, he took leave of Lord Paget and returned to England. Blackmer sale 65. Not in Howgego. (#28790)   $ 7,000

21 COLEBROOKE, Sir Henry Thomas (1765-1837). A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language ... Volume 1 [all published]. Calcutta: Printed at The Honorable Company’s Press, 1805. 4to (9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Printed in English and Sanskrit types. xxii, 369, [1], [4]pp. 4pp. errata in rear. (paper toned). Period cloth-backed paper boards, rebacked with leather, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: College of Fort William (period inscription on verso of title). “The first European work to be based on the indigenous linguistic tradition” (ODNB). Colebrooke, a noted Orientalist, first arrived in India in 1782. After several government posts and a diplomatic mission, he devoted himself to the study of Sanskrit and was appointed an honorary professor of Hindu law and Sanskrit at Calcutta’s new Fort William College in 1801. Interestingly, the present volume was at one time part of the library of that institution. “[His] principal work ... was his Sanskrit Grammar. Though it was never finished it will always keep its place, like a classical torso, more admired in its unfinished state than other works which stand by its side finished, yet less perfect” (Thomas E. Colebrook, The Life of Henry Thomas Colebrook, London: 1872). “Colebrooke’s volume stands as a monument marking the beginning of the study of traditional Sanskrit linguistics (vyakarana) by non-Indians, and in due course that study was to bring vyakarana into the global development of linguistics” (ODNB). Brunet 11742 (#26698)   $ 7,800

22 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

23 COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779). A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. 2 volumes, quarto (11 x 9 inches). Engraved portrait of Cook by J. Basire after Wm. Hodges, 63 engraved plates, maps and charts (15 folding, 16 double-page), 1 folding letterpress table. (A few plates trimmed close, as usual). Contemporary calf, covers with decorative borders tooled in blind, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red and black morocco labels in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. First edition of Cook’s second voyage on which he was directed to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to search for any southern continent.

“Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century” (Printing and the Mind of Man p.135). “The success of Cook’s first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents ... the men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, and a number of smaller islands. Rounding Cape Horn, on the last part of the voyage, Cook discovered and charted South Georgia, after which he called at Cape Town, St. Helena and Ascension, and the Azores ... This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy” (Hill p.123) “This, the official account of the second voyage, was written by Cook himself ... In a letter, dated June 22nd, 1776, to his friend Commodore William Wilson, Cook writes: - ‘The Journal of my late Voyage will be published in the course of the next winter, and I am to have the sole advantage of the sale. It will want those flourishes which Dr. Hawkesworth gave the other, but it will be illustrated and ornamented with about sixty copper plates, which, I am of the opinion, will exceed every thing that has been done in a work of this kind; ... As to the Journal, it must speak for itself. I can only say that it is my own narrative ...’” (Holmes pp.3536). Beddie 1216; Hill (2004) 358; Holmes 24; Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Rosove 77.A1. (#25578)   $ 7,500

24 [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

25 [COTTON, Charles (1630-1687)]. The Compleat Gamester: or, Full and Easy Instructions for Playing at above Twenty several Games Upon the Cards; with variety of diverting fancies and tricks upon the same, now first added. As likewise at all the Games on the Tables. Together with the Royal Game of Chess, and Billiards ... The Fifth Edition, with Additions. London: Printed for J. Wilford, 1725. 12mo (6 x 3 1/2 inches). Engraved frontispiece. [12], 224pp. With 2pp. Explantion of the Frontispiece and 2pp. publisher’s ads. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Provenance: Roland Winder (booklabel). Rare expanded fifth edition of the earliest English book on the subject of games, sports and gambling. First published in 1674, Cotton’s anonymous work on gaming was frequently reprinted and augmented in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. As the title suggests, the work includes sections devoted to various card games, backgammon, billiards, chess and much more. The present edition is divided into sections: card games (23 different chapters), games with tables (8 chapters) and games without tables (3 chapters). These are followed by chapters on chess and billiards, with a supplement on card tricks. The work concludes with a five chapter section on “Gentleman’s Diversions”, viz. riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting and bowling. “The Compleat Gamester neither teaches the rules of the games it discusses, nor treats strategy ... Much of the book teaches how to detect cheating...Of course such cautions can equally be read as a manual on how to cheat.” (David Levy, “Predecessors of Hoyle” blog entry for 15 August 2011, on Edmond Hoyle, Gent.) The author is, of course, better known for his friendship and collaboration with Izaak Walton, and also for the verses which were valued by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lamb. ESTC T64305 (#31308)   $ 2,400

26 COVERTE, Robert. A True and Almost Incredible Report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good Ship called the Assension in Cambaya, the farthest part of the East Indies) travelled by Land thorow many unknowne Kingdomes and great Cities. With a particular Description of all those Kingdomes, Cities, and People: As also, a Relation of their commodities and manner of Traffiqne, and at what seasons of the yeere they are most in use. Faythfully related: With a Discovery of a Great Emperour called the Great Mogoll, a Prince not till now knowne to our English Nation. London: Printed by I[ohn] N[orton] for Hugh Perry, 1631. Small 4to (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). [vi], 68, [1] pp. Printer’s colophon leaf in rear. (Title and A4 on stub guards). Full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers bordered with a gilt triple fillet, spine in six compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: early ink and pencil marginalia throughout.

A very rare early account of an overland journey through India and the Middle East. The author and his men left Plymouth in March 1607 aboard the Ascension and were among the first Englishmen to see the Cape of Good Hope, arriving there in July 1608. Coverte eventually reached Gujarat, where the ship ran aground while approaching Surat. Not granted permission to remain in Surat, the crew departed to various destinations. Coverte and others set out overland for the Moghul Court at Agra via Burhanpur (describing the important military post as larger than London), arriving at Agra in December 1609. Although asked by the emperor Jahangir to serve in his military service, Coverte and other crew members left Agra in January 1610 “with the intention of making their way back to the Levant by the overland route. Travelling by way of Kandahar, Esfahan, and Baghdad, they reached Aleppo in December 1610 and from the coast of the Levant sailed for England. They subsequently arrived home in April 1611” (Howgego). An absorbing account presented in the form of a travel diary, Penrose described this work as a “vigorous narrative. It relates its author’s reception by the Emperor Jahangir, and his ... journey across India, Afghanistan, and Persia, and ... is one of the best examples of a travel journal that the period produced.” The work was first published in 1612, with a second edition appearing two years later before the present third edition: all English editions are rare and desirable. Two German translations followed and the account was further published in compilations of discovery and exploration, including those published by De Bry, Hulsius, and van der Aa. Howgego C211; Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, p. 324; Oaten, European Travellers in India, pp. 158-161; STC 5897. (#25255)   $ 10,000

27 DALRYMPLE, Alexander (1737-1808). An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Nourse and T. Payne, 1770 [-1771]. 2 volumes in one, quarto (10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches). xxx, [2], 32, 24, 204, [4]; [4], 124, 20, [12], [40] pp. Half-titles, first with advertisement on verso. Volume one title and dedication as cancels. 16 engraved maps and plates (4 folding maps, 12 plates [6 folding]). 3pp. errata at end of first volume. Contemporary sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked retaining the original spine, flat spine divided into six compartments, red and black morocco labels in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet and Lord Minto (1722-1777, treasurer of the Navy, armorial shelf label). A rare, early work arguing for the existence of a great Southern Continent and reviewing the early Spanish and Dutch exploration of the South Pacific, illustrated with fine maps and plates. “This important work, issued before the return of Captain Cook’s expedition, is the result of Dalrymple’s strong belief in the existence of a southern continent” (Hill). In it, the author translates and reviews twelve foreign accounts of voyages which he believed supported its existence, including the Spanish voyages of Magellan, Mendana’s voyage to the Solomon Islands in 1595, and that of De Quiros in 1606. The second volume comprises the Dutch

accounts including those of Le Maire, Schouten, Tasman, and Roggeveen. All are preceded by a valuable introduction, a section explaining the sources for his Chart of the South Sea, as well as chapters on the Solomon Islands, including a comparative vocabulary, and the “natural curiosities at Sooloo.” Although Dalrymple’s thesis on the existence of a southern continent would be disproved by Cook, Hill refers to Dalrymple as a cartographer “without peer” and as “a latter-day Hakluyt.” Dalrymple made his career as a hydrographer to the East India Company. Originally offered the command of the Endeavour voyage to observe the transit of Venus, the command would be given instead to Cook, partly because of Dalrymple’s insistence on being given an Admiralty commission. His disappointment and anger at the Admiralty is brought forth in the remarkable “dedication” of this work, in which he critiques previous British explorers of the region. Dalrymple would be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1771 and would later become the Hydrographer to the Board of Admiralty. In that capacity, Dalrymple would be responsible for preparing for publication the maps from the expeditions of Vancouver, Colnett and others. Two issues of the work were published. “[The] first issue of 1769 is exceedingly rare, and there are only a few copies extant. The regular trade edition was issued in 1770 [as the present copy]. The second volume, printed in 1771, is exactly the same in both sets. However the two issues of the first volume have different title pages and preliminary materials” (Hill). Among the changes to the dedication are variant dates (April 1, 1769; Jan. 1, 1769), along with amended text to the attack on Captain Samuel Wallis (“who left the arms of a calypso”; “who, infatuated with female blandishments, forgot for what he went abroad”). In the latter issue, both the title and dedication are present as cancels. This copy with the rare leaf following the vol. 1 introduction, headed “Monthly Review for May, 1769” (frequently lacking). Davidson, A Book Collector’s Notes, pp. 36-7; Hill 410; Holmes (first issue) 32; Kroepelien 245; Spence 264. (#24593)   $ 16,000

28 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Origin of the Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1860. 8vo (7 5/8 x 5 inches). Half-title. 1 folding lithographic diagram. Early owner’s newspaper clipping mounted on verso of front endpaper. Original brown grained cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine in gilt, brown endpapers (expert repair at head and tail of spine). Housed in a full black morocco box. Provenance: Joseph H. Wilby (early owner’s booklabel). The first American edition of one of the most influential books ever published. Freeman calls Darwin’s magnum opus “the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman), whilst Dibner writes that it is “the most important single work in science” (Heralds of Science). “What the dropping of the first atomic bomb was to the twentieth century, the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was to the nineteenth century. Battle lines were drawn on both religious and scientific grounds” (Heirs of Hippocrates). “As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.” (Introduction p.12). The first edition of On The Origin of Species was published in London on 24 November 1859. In total 1250 copies were printed, but after deducting presentation and review copies, and five for Stationers’ Hall copyright, around 1,170 copies were available for sale. The second edition of 3,000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, the present first American edition followed and a third English edition was published in 1861. The book went through a further four editions during Darwin’s lifetime and has remained in print ever since. The present example is the first issue of the first American edition, with two blurbs on verso of the half-title. Freeman 377. (#30649)   $ 6,500

29 DAVIDSON, Charles James C. Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India, from Bareilly, in Rohilcund, to Hurdwar, and Nahun, in the Himmalaya mountains, with a tour in Bundelcund, a sporting excursion in the kingdom of Oude, and a voyage down the Ganges, by C. J. C. Davidson ... late Lt.-Colonel of Engineers, Bengal. London: Henry Colburn, 1843. 2 volumes, octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches). Contemporary calf bound for the Northern Light Board, covers with a border built up from fillets ruled in gilt and blind, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, green morocco in the third, the uppermost compartment tooled in gilt with Northern Light Board stamp, the others with repeat panelling in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Provenance: Northern Light Board, Scotland (binding). A very fine copy of the first edition of this charming and surprisingly rare work. As the title suggests, the work is in fact made up of a series of narratives describing various trips made by the author. The first volume is in three parts. The first part, “Travels from Bareilly, in Rohilcund, to Hurdwar and Nahun,” ends abruptly on p.168. On the following page, whilst bewailing the loss to the “literature of the age”, the author explains that “a vile thief entered my tents at night, and robbed me of my second volume ... In this manner did I lose my carefully-written account of the sub-Himalayan range, which cost me fully eight months’ labour while in the hills.” The second part in the first volume is on Bundelcund, and the volume ends with the first section of the author’s “Journal of a Voyage [started in December 1839] from Allahabad to Calcutta, via Dacca and the Soonderbunds.” Volume two is made up of the concluding part of the “Journal of a Voyage...”, followed by “A Sporting Tour [undertaken in 1836] in the Kingdom of Oude”. The writing style of the author, which manages to be both humorous and bombastic at the same time, allied with his obvious deep knowledge of the country and the people are what give this work its period charm. The work is quite rare, with no other copies listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty five years. A fine copy of a delightful gem which deserves a place in any serious collection of books on the Indian sub-continent. (#23862)   $ 2,350

30 [DEZALLIER translator).

D’ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765)] -- John JAMES (d.1746,

The Theory and Practice of Gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens commonly called pleasure-gardens, as parterres, groves, bowling-greens, &c. ... The Second Edition. With very large Additions and a New Treatise of [sic] Flowers and Orange-Trees. London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1728. Quarto (10 x 7 3/4 inches). Title in red and black. 38 folding engraved plates. 3pp. publisher’s ads in rear. Contemporary calf, covers bordered with gilt double fillet, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. The expanded second edition in English of this important work, described by Henrey as the “first important book on garden design to appear in England in the eighteenth century” and by a contemporary critic as the best work on gardening “that has appeared in this or any other language.” “The first important book on garden design to appear in England in the eighteenth century is The theory and practice of gardening, a translation of the French La théorie et la pratique du jardinage ... it is especially valuable as a record of the manner of gardening as practised by [André] Le Notre. The original French work appeared anonymously in Paris in 1709, and in the opinion of [M.L.] Gothein: ‘Never before did a book lay down the principles of any style so surely and so intelligibly in instructive precepts’ ... The translator [of the present English version] was the noted London architect John James (d. 1746) ... he tells us that he endeavoured to make his translation ‘as plain and intelligible, as possible’, and he certainly succeeded in this ... [The present work] deals fully with the design and formation of fine gardens ... and with the making of parterres, mazes, garden buildings, and ornaments of every kind. It also deals with the making of fountains, basins, and cascades ... [It includes a description] for the first time in England [of] the use of a fosse or deep ditch as an invisible division between the garden and the landscape beyond, a device now known as a ‘ha-ha’ and especially associated with the English landscape school” (Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, II, p490-495). This second English edition includes additional text and plates not found in the first. Bradley Bibliography III, p.112 (under ‘Le Blond’); Harvard,Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum p.416 (under ‘Le Blond’); Hunt II, 471; Henrey III, 1426; Nissen BBI 1136. (#29566)   $ 3,750

31 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835 -1915). A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of the Hornbills. [New York]: printed by Taylor & Francis of London, published for the subscribers by the author, 1877-1882. 1 volume bound from the ten original parts, folio (14 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches). 60 lithographic plates printed by M. & N.Hanhart (comprising: 57 plates by and after John Gerrard Keulemans, all hand-coloured by Mr. Smith, 3 uncoloured plates by and after Joseph Smit), occasional uncoloured illustrations. Near-contemporary green half morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third, date in gilt at foot of spine, original brown paper wrappers to all ten parts bound at the back, top edge gilt. A fine copy of the first edition of this “comprehensive treatment of the entire family of hornbills” (Zimmer) from one of the best known American ornithologists of the second half of the nineteenth century, with illustrations by Keulemans, the most popular ornithological artist of the period. This is the important first monograph on this widely scattered family of extraordinary birds. “The Bucerotidae are pretty equally divided at the present day between the Ethiopian and Oriental Regions, the first having twenty-seven and the latter twenty-nine species, while but a few... are scattered about the islands of the Malay archipelago” (introduction). Hornbills are extraordinary not only for their physical appearance but also for their behavior - the most noteworthy shared trait amongst the species is the male’s habit of “enclosing the female in the hollow of some tree, firmly fastening her in by a wall of mud, and keeping her close prisoner until the eggs are hatched” (introduction). The male will feed the female through a slit in the wall whilst she incubates the eggs. She will only break through the wall of mud and leave the nest once the young have hatched, at which point the wall is rebuilt and remains in

place until the young are ready to fly. The bizarre beauty of this species is here ably captured by Keulemans highly accurate and beautifully observed plates. Keulemans was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1842, but worked and lived chiefly in England, working on most of the important ornithological monographs and periodicals published between about 1870 and his death in London in 1912. He was “undoubtedly the most popular bird artist of his day as well as being the most prolific. He was gifted with a superb sense of draughtsmanship and revealed his considerable versatility in capturing the significant subtleties of color, form, and expression in the birds... represented in his various illustrations” (Feathers to brush p. 47) BM(NH) I,p.522; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.95; T. Keulemans & J. Coldewey, Feathers to brush... John Gerrard Keulemans, 1982, p.61; Nissen IVB 297; Wood p.331; Zimmer p.207. (#16801)   $ 21,000

32 ELLIS, John (1711-1776). Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle des Corallines, et d’Autres Productions Marines du Meme Genre. The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1756. 4to (10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches). xvi, 125, [3]pp. Engraved frontispiece and 39 engraved plates (5 folding), hand coloured throughout at a period date. Publisher’s ad leaves in the rear. Contemporary manuscript annotations. Contemporary mottled calf, covers with a gilt border and corner pieces, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt. Very rare hand coloured copy of the first edition in French of a noted illustrated treatise on the marine plants of Britain. Ellis (1711-76), an Irish-born merchant and naturalist, was proclaimed by Linnaeus as “the main support of natural history in England.” The present work, first published in London the year prior, is an extensive illustrated treatise on corals, sponges, and marine plants from the coasts of Britain. The work includes a depiction and description of a microscope in the final chapter. The work, either in its first English or the first French edition, is seldom seen with period hand colouring, as in the present example. Nissen, BBI 590; Stafleu & Cowan 1661; cf. Henrey, II, p. 283. (#29737)   $ 4,750

33 EMPSON, Charles (1794-1861). Narratives of South America; illustrating Manners, Customs, and Scenery. London: Printed by A. J. Valpy ... and published for the author by William Edwards, 1836 [plates watermarked 1836]. Small folio (14 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches). 15 hand-coloured plates (14 being watercolour over etched line after Empson, 1 engraved plate printed in sepia and handcoloured after Sowerby). Later three quarter crimson crushed morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. One of very few large-paper, deluxe copies with all the plates beautifully hand-coloured: among the rarest South American colour plate books.

In 1824, Charles Empson, at the age of 29, left England for South America, exploring the northern section of the continent in what is now Columbia. Empson’s preface gives some indication of his motivations for travelling abroad: “The glorious descriptions of Humboldt had induced many persons who had no other motive beyond that of beholding Nature in all her majesty, to explore these regions so gorgeously clothed in primaeval vegetation and so abundant in every production interesting to mankind.” The text, divided into twelve “narratives,” discuss the geography, natural history and natives of the region. The plates, after drawings by Empson himself, aptly portray the grandeur of the scenery he describes. Three issues of this work seem to have been produced: 1) an octavo text (containing two natural history plates) and a separately-issued portfolio of 14 plates (12 being coloured etchings, and 2 being coloured lithographs), with the plates trimmed and mounted to card, produced and sold by Ackermann [e.g. Abbey 702]; 2) a large-paper text bound with the 14 plates, all uncoloured [e.g. Tooley 210, incorrectly referring to his as a later issue]; and 3) a deluxe issue, as in the present copy, with a large-paper text with 15 plates entirely hand coloured (14 being watercolour over etched line [the two lithographed plates from the portfolio issue being substituted for superior etched plates], and a hand-coloured, colour-printed engraving [one of the natural history plates from the octavo text, but printed in colours on large paper and hand-coloured]). This final issue is the rarest and was likely produced in only a handful of copies. Cf. Tooley 210; cf. Abbey, Travel 702; cf. Sabin 22548; cf. Bobins, The Exotic and the Beautiful 808. (#26327)   $ 30,000

34 FADEN, William (1750-1836). [A New General Atlas]. [London: William Faden, circa 1808, maps dated 1778-1808]. Large folio (22 7/8 x 17 ½ inches). Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress contents leaf. 55 engraved maps or charts, hand-coloured, hand-coloured in outline or with touches of hand-colouring, by Faden, Laurie & Whittle, L.S. de La Rochette, Henry Roberts and others (1 on a single

page, 38 double-page, 16 folding). (The four hemisphere maps and the map of the western Mediterranean shaved with slight loss to imprint or image area, 2 others with marginal tears). Contemporary binding of marbled paper over pasteboard, rebacked and cornered to style using 18th-century diced Russia, the flat spine gilt in eight compartments delineated by rolltools, lettered in the second compartment. A fine example of Faden’s atlas: The atlas includes four hemispheric maps, a Mercator-projection world map (including the tracks of Captain James Cook’s discoveries), a number of interesting charts giving depth soundings for the Baltic, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Bay of Biscay and the seas around the Iberian peninsula, two folding maps of the Mediterranean which could be combined to form one large four-sheet map, two folding maps of Italy that could be similarly combined and a larger scale single-page map of the Dutch Colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Additional maps of note include A Map of the Northern Part of France.. (1795); Plan of the Bay, Rock and Town of Gibraltar... (1783); a folding map of Bengal... (1786); a two-sheet map of the Peninsula of India ...(1800); and an important map of The United States of North America with the British Territories and Those of Spain according to the Treaty of 1784. (Feb. 11, 1796) .The US Territory is here bounded in yellow, with the trans-Appalachian portions of that territory noted as having been assigned to the aborigines. Western land grants are named and bounded in yellow (“Wabash Company” &c.) “Indiana” shows the influence of Thomas Hutchins. Faden’s “contribution to the development of cartography was considerable, commissioning new surveys and publishing the work of mapmakers throughout Europe” (Tooley). (#2603)   $ 32,500

35 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

36 GARNIER, Marie Joseph Francis (1839-1873). Voyage d’exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867, et 1868 par une Commission Française présidée par M. le Capitaine de Frégate Doudart de Lagrée. Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1873. 4 volumes in three (text: 2 vols., large 4to [12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches]; atlas: 2 volumes in one, folio [20 1/8 x 15 1/2 inches]). Text: titles in red and black, half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, 1 plate of medals, 12 maps and charts (5 coloured, 5 tinted), numerous illustrations (39 full-page); atlas: 12 maps, (2 double-page); 9 plans (2 doublepage); 1 tinted lithographic aerial view; 48 plates on 40 sheets (6 double page, 2 engraved, 10 hand-coloured lithographs, 1 chromolithograph, 27 tinted lithographs). Expertly bound to style in crimson morocco-backed original pebble-grained cloth (text) and crimson half morocco over original pebble-grained crimson cloth-covered boards (atlas), the spines of all three volumes gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Rare complete set of the first edition of the official printed record of the most important 19thcentury exploratory expedition into Indochina. This first edition was limited to just 300 copies. The maps are after Garnier himself, whilst the views are taken from sketches by the expedition artist Louis Delaporte. These views, in conjunction with the fine illustrations in the text volumes, form a valuable and remarkably wide-ranging visual record of Indochina as a whole, with the depictions of the ancient capital of Laos at Viet Chan and Angkor in Cambodia being particularly impressive. Garnier was part of the French expedition under Captain Ernest Doudard de Lagrée which set out from Saigon in 1866 to explore the valley of the Mekong River in the hopes of finding a navigable route into south-western China. Garnier took command of the mission when de Lagrée died and he safely led the expedition to the Chinese coast via the Yangtze River. The expedition traversed almost 5,400 miles travelling through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, mapping over 3,600 miles of terrain previously unknown to Europeans, and becoming the first westerners to enter Yunnan by a southern route. Subsequently, Garnier returned to France a hero, fought in the Franco-Prussian war, and finished the present account of the expedition before eventually returning to Indo-China to establish a colony in Tonkin. Cordier Sinica 329; Cordier Indosinica 1012. (#18660)   $ 45,000

37 GOULD, John (1804-1881); and Nicholas Aylward VIGORS (1787-1840). A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains. London: [for the Author], 1831. 2 volumes, folio (21 3/8 x 14 1/2 inches). 80 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Elizabeth and John Gould, printed by Charles Hullmandel. (Scattered minor foxing). Text: contemporary half morocco and marbled paper covered boards, spine with wide semi-raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Plates: contemporary full red morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, spine uniform to the text volume, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, Earl of Wharncliffe (armorial bookplate); Sir Giles Loder (armorial bookplate). John Gould’s first work and an important contribution to the ornithological literature on the region: the rare first issue, with the backgrounds uncoloured. By 1825 Gould had moved to London to pursue his career as a taxidermist. In 1827, shortly after the foundation of the Zoological Society of London, he was appointed Curator and Preserver at the Society’s museum in Bruton Street. The present work came about as a result of this appointment. Whilst working on a collection of ornithological specimens from the Himalayas he procured for the British Museum, Gould realised that they formed the first significant collection from the area to reach Europe and that there would therefore be a ready

market for a large-format work on the subject which depicted hitherto unfigured birds. He persuaded his friend and mentor, N.A. Vigors, Secretary of the Zoological Society, to provide the accompanying text. Working from her husband’s sketches, Elizabeth Gould produced the eighty plates using the relatively new technique of lithography. Failing to come to terms with a publisher, Gould undertook to publish the work himself, issuing the work by subscription. The list of subscribers suggests 300 copies to have been published, and includes such eminent ornithologists as John J. Audubon, Prince Bonaparte, P. J. Selby, William Jardine, Baron Cuvier, John Latham and others. Published in twenty monthly parts, with four plates to a part, Gould established a format of publishing that he was to successfully continue for the next fifty years, becoming arguably the most significant British ornithologist of the 19th century. The present set is bound in two volumes, separating the text and plates; the latter is complete with all the plates, and with the list of subscribers bound in the rear; the former includes the preliminary Advertisement leaf, sometimes lacking. Two issues of the first edition have been identified, the present being the first issue with the backgrounds of the plates uncoloured and with the title page dated 1831. Sauer 1; Anker 168; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.101; Nissen IVB 374; Wood p.364; Zimmer p.251 (#30514)   $ 32,500

38 HARRIS, Sir William Cornwallis (1807-1848). Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, delineated in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports. By Captain W. Cornwallis Harris... drawn on stone by Frank Howard. London: printed by Green & Martin and H.W.Martin, published for the Proprietor by W.Pickering, and to be had of P.& D.Colnaghi and T.Cadell, 1840[-1842]. Folio (21 1/8 x 14 1/4 inches). Lithographic additional title with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Frank Howard after Harris, 30 uncoloured lithographic vignette illustrations. Minor foxing to the text . Contemporary red half morocco over cloth boards, bound by Hammond, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, black moroccolettering-piece in the second, the others with an animal decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy of the large paper issue of “one of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna” (Mendelssohn). The work was issued in five parts between 1840 and 1842, either on Colombier paper with tailpieces [i.e. large paper, as here] or on smaller Imperial paper without tailpieces. It was reissued in 1844 by Richardson and again in 1849 by Bohn. The present copy is in the work’s most desirable form, with both titles in their first states, dated 1840. Captain Harris, an officer in the East India Company’s Bombay Engineers, was invalided to the Cape for two years, from 1835-1837. In 1836, after conferring with the naturalist Dr. Andrew Smith, he and Richard Williamson set out from Algoa Bay, by way of Somerset and the Orange River and travelled in a north-easterly direction until they reached the kraals of the famous Matabele chief Moselikatze. He proved friendly and allowed them to return via a previously closed route. The first published account of the journey appeared in Bombay in 1838 (Narrative of an Expedition in Southern Africa), octavo, with a map and 4 plates); encouraged by the favourable reception, Harris went on to publish the present work which was based around his sketches of the game and wild animals he had encountered in his travels. In 1841 he was sent to open up trade relations with the ancient Christian kingdom of Shoa (Shwa, now the southern-most part of Ethiopia). His success was such that he received a knighthood in 1844, in the same year he published his account of this second journey. He returned to India in 1846 where he died in October 1848 (DNB). Abbey Travel I, 335; Mendelssohn I, p.688; Nissen ZBI 1843; Schwerdt I, p.231; Tooley 247. (#31264)   $ 17,500

39 [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

40 HEPPLEWHITE, George (1727-1786); and Alice HEPPLEWHITE.

The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide; or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the newest and most approved taste. London: I. and J. Taylor, 1788. Folio (13 1/2 x 9 inches). [6], 24pp. 126 engraved plates after designs by George Hepplewhite (numbered 1-125, plus 78 bis; number 124/125 being a double-page plate). (Expert restoration). Twentieth century crushed morocco gilt, bound by Wood of London, coveres paneled in gilt and black, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt and black, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, housed in a quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: John Davis (early signature on title). First edition of Hepplewhite’s famed pattern book of furniture design. “In 1788, Hepplewhite’s widow published the Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer’s Guide. Its aim was ‘to follow the latest and most prevailing fashion’ and to adhere ‘to such articles only as are of general use.’ The intended audience included both the cabinetmaker or upholsterer and the client (the ‘mechanic’ and ‘gentleman’ as Alice Hepplewhite put it). There followed a slightly revised edition in 1789 ... Hepplewhite’s Guide was the first major pattern book of furniture to be published since the third edition of Chippendale’s Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director ... Hepplewhite’s designs most closely compare with [Robert and James] Adam’s drawings of the late 1780s, sharing their fashionably attenuated quality of design. The furniture is slender, and most of the decoration inlaid or painted rather than carved” (Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts). The first edition is complete with 126 plates; the 1789 edition included an additional bis plate (9) and the 1794 third edition included yet another additional bis plate (40*), as well as new engravings of several others. The first edition is considerably rarer than those issued subsequently. Brunet III, 105; Millard, British 30 (third edition). (#29959)   $ 6,000

41 (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

42 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817-1911). The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country, by Joseph Dalton Hooker... Edited by Sir W.J. Hooker ... Second Edition. London: Reeve, Benham, & Reeve, 1849-1851. 3 parts in one, folio (19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches). Title with tinted lithographic vignette, 1p. list of subscribers, sectional titles to parts 2 and 3. Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece and 29 fine plates, drawn on stone by John Nugent Fitch from drawings by J.D. Hooker, printed by Reeve, Benham & Reeve (12), Frederic Reeve (4) and Reeve & Nichols (14). Original parts upper and lower wrappers bound in. Expertly bound to style in full green morocco, covers bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, brown paper endpapers.

A very fine copy of the rare second edition of this beautifully illustrated work on the Rhododendron family - “An important work for both the botanist and horticulturalist since it contains descriptions and plates of many of the best Rhododendron species...and an account of their discovery” (Great Flower Books). This copy with the original wrappers bound in. The Rhododendrons of the Himalayas amply demonstrate the adaptable nature of the plant kingdom: the species described vary from ground hugging ‘alpines’, to small shrubs, climbers, large shrubs and trees. For example: of the thirty-two species illustrated and described by Hooker in this important monograph, eight are described as trees by Hooker and vary in height from the ‘Rhododendron lanatum’ (a small tree), to the magnificent ‘R. Campbelliae’ and ‘R. barbatum’ at around 40 feet. The beautiful plates are amongst the best examples of the work of Walter Hood Fitch (18171892), one of the greatest botanical artists of the nineteenth century. Fitch had attracted the attention of Sir William Hooker (1785-1865) when he was working as an apprentice to a Glasgow firm of calico designers. `When Hooker was appointed Director of Kew Gardens, he carried his protégé south with him. That was in 1841: for the next fifty years Fitch remained at Kew, and his career is inseparably associated with those of Sir William and his son Joseph.’ (Great Flower Books 1990, p.46). ‘Fitch had the greatest competence of any botanical painter who has yet appeared in drawing the rhododendron’ (Great Flower Books). ‘In his lithographs he has captured the exuberant form and colour of these flowering shrubs.. Sometimes at the base of the plate, magnified views of the pistils, stamens and sections of the ovaries are presented. The first plate is unusually attractive because the plant... is shown in its native habitat, growing among the trunks of fallen trees against a hazy background of blue mountains.’ (Oak Spring Flora). Fitch remained the chief (and usually sole) artist for the Botanical Magazine for forty-three years, producing over 9000 drawings including some of the most memorable images of his age. The plates are all based on J.D. Hooker’s original drawings. Hooker spent several years exploring Sikkim, as well as parts of Nepal and Tibet. His field notes were sent to England from India to his father, Sir William Hooker, who edited the text for this work and contributed a preface giving an interesting overview of the discovery of the genus by western science. In addition to the many botanical discoveries that J.D. Hooker made during his exploration of the region, his ‘observations on the geology and meteorology of Sikkim are still fundamental, and he explained the terracing of the mountain valleys by the formation of glacial lakes.’ (DNB). A great many of the species of Rhododendron discovered and described here by Hooker were subsequently successfully introduced to western cultivation Cf. Blunt & Stearn The Art of Botanical Illustration p.264; cf. Bradley Bibliography II, p.676; Desmond The European Discovery of the Indian Flora p.144; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.101; cf. Nissen BBI 911; cf. Oak Spring Flora 104; cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2969. (#29320)   $ 19,500

43 J., S. The Vineyard: a Treatise shewing I. The nature and method of planting, Manuring, Cultivating, and Dressing of Vines in Foreign Parts. II. Proper Directions for Drawing, Pressing, Making, Keeping, Fining, and Curing all Defects in the Wine. III. An Easy and Familiar Method of Planting and Raising Vines in England, to the greatest Perfection ; illustrated with several useful Examples. IV. New Experiments in Grafting, Budding, or Inoculating ; whereby all Sorts of Fruit may be much more improved than at present; particularly the Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, Plumb, &c. V. The best manner of raising several sorts of compound fruit, which have not yet been attempted in England. Being the observations made by a gentleman in his travels. London: D. Browne, 1732. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). [16],192pp. Engraved frontispiece. Minor staining. Expertly bound to style in eighteenth century russia and period marbled paper boards, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: William Wilson (early signature on title). Scarce early English treatise on cultivating vines and wine making. A reissue of the edition of 1727, with a cancel titlepage. The preface is signed S.J. (not in Halkett and Laing), though the work is attributed by some to Richard Bradley. Henrey 871; ESTC T123774; Bitting p.616. (#30857)   $ 3,500

44 JACKSON, Sir Keith Alexander (1798-1843). Views in Affghaunistaun ... from sketches taken during the campaign of the Army of the Indus. London: published by W.H. Allen & Co. and T.M’Lean, [1841]. Folio (14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches). Tinted lithographed title, uncoloured lithographed dedication “To The Chairman and Directors of the Honble the East India Company,” hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, engraved map and 26 tinted lithographed plates after Jackson by W. L. Walton, T. Allom and others. Publisher’s moire cloth boards, lettered in gilt on the upper cover, expertly rebacked to style, original yellow endpapers. A fine and rare record of the first Afghan War. An army of 21,000 troops under the command of Sir John Keane set out from the Punjab in December 1838 with orders to take Kabul and replace the emir Dost Mohammad with Shah Shuja. By late March 1839, the British forces had reached Quetta, crossed the Bolan Pass and begun their march to Kabul. They advanced through rough terrain, crossed deserts and 12,000-foot-high mountain passes, but made good progress and took Kandahar on April 25, 1839. On July 22, in a surprise attack, they captured the until-then impregnable fortress of Ghazni, which overlooks a plain leading eastward into the North West Frontier Province: the British troops breached the defenses by blowing-up one of the city gates and, following some fierce fighting, marched into the city. In taking this fortress, they suffered 200 men killed and wounded, while the Afghans lost nearly 500 men. 1,600 Afghans were taken prisoner, and an unknown number were wounded. Following this, the British achieved a decisive victory over Dost Mohammad’s troops, led by one of his sons. Dost Mohammad fled with his loyal followers across the passes to Bamian, and ultimately to Bukhara. This first and most successful stage of the war ended in August 1839, when, after almost thirty years, Shuja was again enthroned in Kabul.

The present work records this period in words and pictures and was published before the setbacks which led to the eventual decision by the British to withdraw from Afghanistan. Following the completion of this first campaign, Jackson, a Captain in the 4th Light Dragoons, was granted leave to return to Britain and was able to arrange for the publication of the present work. Although including some historical information and topographical description, the chief attraction of this fine work are the fine lithographed views. These include images referencing specific military engagements (enhanced by Jackson’s eye-witness descriptions), as well as general views of “Caubul” and other cities, forts and mountainous passes. Although some images show British officers, most include depictions of locals in native dress. A contemporary reviewer, in the Literary Gazette, writes: “A great dandy of Affghaun and a great gun of Ghuznee, as frontispiece and vignette, introduce us to these views, which embrace a variety of objects of Oriental interest-scenery, fortifications, storming attacks, ruins, minarets, travelling, costume, cities, navigation, tombs, and, in short, the most remarkable features in the territories lately invaded by the British army. They are executed on a large scale, and with a combined aspect of fidelity and spirit which strongly recommends them to our approbation. We should say, from comparison with other Eastern works of the same kind, that they are accurate in relation to truth and clever in relation to art” (Literary Gazette, 12 June 1841). Abbey Travel II, 506; Bobins The Exotic and the Beautiful I, 259. (#26764)   $ 12,000

45 JUDAICA, American. Sefer Tehilim. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce Cum Notis Selectis Ex Editione Francisci Hare S.T.P. Espiscopi Cicestrensis: Et Cum Selecta Lectionum Varietate Ex Ed. Vet. Test. Heb. Benj. Kennicott S.T.P. Cambridge, MA: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1809. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 inches). [2],495pp. Contemporary sheep, expertly rebacked to style retaining the original black morocco lettering piece. Housed in a cloth box. Provenance: Samuel Augustus Binion (signature on title dated 1891). The first printing of any part of the Bible in Hebrew in America. This Psalter represents the first printing in America of any part of the Bible in Hebrew and its publication engendered an interest in printing a complete Hebrew Bible in America, a task completed five years later. The Hebrew text is above, with the Latin translation below, and under that the commentary notes. This copy with provenance to noted Jewish author, translator and traveller, Dr. Samuel Augustus Minion, best known for his works on Egyptology, including the illustrated folio Ancient Egypt or Mizraïm (New York: 1887). Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 1; Rosenbach, American Jewish Bibliography 152 (locating only his own copy); Shaw & Shoemaker 17004; O›Callaghan p.96; Wright, Early Bibles in America, p. 22; Sabin 66455. (#30420)   $ 16,500

46 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

47 LAFOSSE, Philippe Étienne (1738-1820). Cours d’hippiatrique, ou traité complet de la médecine des chevaux. Paris: Edme, 1772. Folio (19 3/4 x 13 1/8 inches). Engraved frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after Sullier, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Baptiste Michel after Harguinier, engraved title vignette by and after Prevost, engraved arms of Charles-Eugene de Lorraine on dedication, 56 hand-coloured engraved plates by B. Michel Adam [femme Fessard], F.A. Aveline, C. Baquoy, Benard, Ch. Beulier, L. Bosse, Prevost and others after Harguinier, Lafosse, Saullier (19 folding), and 7 engraved headpieces by Delaunay, Hubert, Levilain, Lucas, Mlle Massard, Mesnil, Michel after Le Carpentier, type-ornament headpieces, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary calf, covers bordered with gilt double fillet, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt retaining the original red morocco lettering piece, period marbled endpapers. Deluxe hand coloured first edition of the best 18th century French work on equine medicine and the anatomy of the horse.

Cours d’hippiatrique is distinguished not only by Lafosse’s anatomical skill and knowledge of equitation, gained through both study and practice of the subject, but also by the excellence of its execution: “Ce livre est un veritable monument eleve a l’Hippologie. Papier, impression, dessin, gravure, sont egalement signes” (Mennessier de la Lance). The vivid colouring of the anatomical plates elevates this hand coloured issue far beyond the regular black and white edition. “Ouvrage fort bien execute et qui a ete longtemps le meilleur que l’on eut sur cette science” (Brunet). Brunet III, 765; Cohen-de Ricci col.587; Huth p.46; Mellon Books on Horses and Horsemanship 61; Mennessier de la Lance II, pp.20-21; Nissen ZBI 2360. (#30530)   $ 24,000

48 LAHDE, Gerhardt Ludwig (1765-1833). Das tägliche Leben in Kopenhagen oder characteristische Figuren. Copenhagen: C. Steen, [circa 1820]. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Letterpress title and list of plates. 35 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates. 19th century red morocco, by Charles de Samblanx, covers elaborately panelled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Jules Albert Baudoin Marie Ghislain, Vicomte de Johnghe (armorial bookplate). Lovely example of a rare Danish color plate costume book of the local trades and military. “Civil and military costumes of Denmark, street vendors, small merchants. Colas states there was an edition dated 1818 [the present edition undated and without watermarks] ... The plates in this work were also issued as part of Lahde’s Kjobenhavns Klaederdragter” (The Exotic and the Beautiful). The present example in a lovely binding by noted Belgian binder Charles de Samblanx. Colas 1721; Lipperheide 1044; The Exotic and the Beautiful II:407. (#29947)

  $ 7,000

49 LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761-1842). A Description of the Genus Pinus, with directions relative to the cultivation, and remarks on the uses of the several species: also descriptions of many other new species of the family Coniferæ. London: Messrs. Weddell, 1832. 2 volumes, octavo (10 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Stippleengraved portrait frontispiece of the author with integral engraved caption beneath incorporating hand-coloured Lambert family arms, 75 engraved plates (72 hand-coloured, 1 printed in green, 2 uncoloured, 11 folding) with at least 41 of these plates laid down onto backing sheets (as issued). Expertly bound to style in red straight-grained half morocco over contemporary green/grey paper-covered boards, the flat spines divided into six compartments by single gilt fillets, lettered in gilt in the second, third and fourth compartments, gilt. Provenance: Edward Duke (armorial bookplate); William Russell Grace (1832-1904, armorial bookplate). A fine copy of the first octavo edition of Lambert’s great work on the pine trees of the world. The earliest edition of Lambert’s important monograph was published in two large folio volumes between 1803 and 1824. It then appeared in various formats with varying numbers of plates, including the present octavo edition, until the Bohn folio issue of 1842. Lowndes notes that the fine plates in the octavo edition are made up from “sections of some of the plates” from the larger folio work and new versions of other plates. The fine plates retain much of the power of their larger folio cousins. Stafleu tacitly agrees with Great Flower Books assessment of this book as one of the most bibliographically complex of all natural history works when he notes that “All copies show differences”: this copy in addition to having three or four more plates than the accepted norm, is also (like the de Belder copy) without the appendix leaves which are found at the end of some copies. Irish-born William Russell Grace, co-founder of W.R Grace and Co., was an American success story who rose from relative poverty to be one of the richest men in the country. He was also a noted philanthropist and served two terms as Mayor of New York. Henrey III, 923; Great Flower Books (1990) p. 111; Harvard Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum p.409; Lowndes II, p.1302; Nissen BBI 1126; Pritzel 5010; Stafleu & Cowan II, 4146. (#22765)   $ 8,250

50 LE BRUYN, Cornelius (1652-1727/28) [or Le Brun]. Voyages ... par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Chez les Freres Wetstein, 1718. 2 volumes, small folio (13 x 8 inches). Halftitle in volume II, titles printed in red and black. Vol 1: engraved portrait of the author by G. Valck after G. Kneller, engraved allegorical frontispiece by B. Picart, dedication with engraved headpiece, 3 engraved double-page maps, 111 engraved plates (numbered 1-110, plus 1 unnumbered) on 52 sheets (29 double-page, 7 folding), 24 engraved illustrations within the text (illustration on p. 164 pasted on slip as issued). Vol 2: 162 engraved plates (numbered 111-262, plus 10 unnumbered) on 56 sheets (33 double-page, 9 folding), 20 engraved illustrations within the text. (A few plates shaved at margin, some plates bound out of order). 18th-century calf, nicely rebacked retaining the original lettering pieces, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, lettering pieces in the second and third compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Thomas Lennard Barrett, Lord Dacre of the South, of Belhus, Essex (1717-1787, armorial bookplate). First edition in French of Le Bruyn’s important illustrated account of his voyage to Russia, Persia, India and Java. In his first expedition of 1674, Dutch traveller and painter Cornelius Le Bruyn remained in the Levant for seven years, travelling principally in Asia Minor, Syria, the Holy Land and Egypt. On his return, he published his Voyages au Levant, and encouraged by its success, undertook a second, more far-reaching expedition. “In 1701, Le Bruyn started on the second of his journeys taking a ship to the country of the Samoyeds ... and then proceeding to Moscow. Travelling by way of Asia Minor, he arrived in Persia where he remained for the years 1704-05. Leaving Persia he proceeded [by ship] to India [stopping at Cochin], Ceylon and the East Indies [i.e. Batavia]. He returned by much the same route, residing in Persia between 1706 and 1707 and describing the ruins of Persepolis and Pasargades” (Howgego). The numerous finely engraved illustrations include large folding panoramas of Moscow and Isfahan, views of Astrakhan, and the antiquities at Persepolis and many of the forts

encountered on his journey, as well as portraits of native peoples, and depictions of the flora, fish, birds, animals etc. Of particular note are Le Bruyn’s description and images of the Samoyeds and their country, among the earliest for the region. Le Bruyn also gives an account of an encounter with William Dampier in Batavia, and describes the route taken by Everard Ysbrants Ides, the Danish Russian ambassador to China. Brunet III:911 (calls for 262 plates based on the numbering of the plate list which does not include the unnumbered plates); Chadenat II, 5085; Chahine 2078; Cohen-de Ricci 610; Lipperheide Kaa 6 (calls for 128 plates and 45 engraved illustrations); Howgego B177. (#25534)   $ 14,000

51 LE GOUZ DE LA BOULLAYE, François (1623-1668/9).

Les Voyages et Observations... Où sont décrites les Religions, Gouvernemens, & situations des Estats & Royaumes d’Italie, Grece, Natolie, Syrie, Perse, Palestine, Karamenie, Kaldée, Assyrie, grand Mogul, Bijapour, Indes Orientales des Portugais, Arabie, Egypte [etc.] ... Nouvellement reveu & corrige par l’Autheur & augmente de quantite de bon aduis ... Paris: François Clousier, 1657. Three parts in one, small 4to (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches). Woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Full-page woodcut portrait of the author, 33 woodcut illustrations (17 full-page). (Very minor scattered worming in gutter margin). Early vellum, early morocco lettering piece. Provenance: M. Delaloge (early signature); M. de Plumerey (early signature). Rare corrected and expanded second edition of a noted mid-17th century narrative of travels in Persia, India, Egypt and the Levant. “La Boullaye le Gouz began his travels shortly after 1643, when he fought in the English civil war as a member of the French forces defending Charles I. Using the name Ibrahim Bey, he eventually made his way to Goa via Greece and Turkey; on the return journey he visited Egypt ... The illustrations include the castle of Amasia, a plan of the Seraglio and a view of Mt. Ararat, in addition to many cuts of natural history subjects and Indian wall paintings, as well as a portrait of the author in Oriental dress ... There is a long bibliography of the works of earlier travellers at the beginning of the volume...” (Atabey). “The work is notable for its information on northern India and its relation to Persia, and for its inclusion of a summary of Ramayana” (Howego). First published in 1653, Atabey erroneously asserts that the portrait of the author does not appear in the second edition; it is present, as issued, in this copy. Brunet III:718; Atabey 645 (first edition); Howego L4. (#27696)

  $ 5,950

52 [LE HAY] - Charles de FERRIOL (1652-1722). Recueil de cent estampes représentant differentes nations du Levant. [With, part two:] Explication des cent estampes qui représentent les costumes des differentes nations du Levant. Avec de nouvelles estampes de ceremonies turques qui ont aussi leurs explications. Paris: Le Hay and Duchange, 1714; Jacques Collombat, 1715. Folio (19 3/4 x 13 inches). Engraved title, 102 engraved plates (comprising 100 numbered plates and 2 unnumbered, 3 double-page), one leaf of engraved music. Contemporary red morocco, covers ruled in gilt, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, black morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers (expert restoration to the joints). Provenance: Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (armorial bookplate on verso of the title). A lovely copy of Le Hay and Ferriol’s famous work depicting the costume of the Levant: this copy bound in 18th century red morocco.

The plates are based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis de Ferriol. In 1707, Ferriol commissioned Jean Baptiste van Mour to paint one hundred pictures of different officials and races in their costumes: the chief eunuch; a Turkish man cutting himself to show his love for his mistress; a Jewish woman taking goods to Turkish harems; a Greek bride; a Turkish women at leisure; Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Persians and Arabs. When the paintings were complete, Ferriol helped le Hay to publish the present engravings of the pictures. Le Hay’s work was an instant success and the plates quickly became the principal source of turqueries for artists and publishers throughout Europe. In recognition of van Mour’s talents, he was granted the unique post of `Peintre ordinaire du Roi en Levant’ in 1725. Atabey 429; Blackmer 591; Colas 1819-20; Brunet III, 947-8; Cohen-de Ricci 392l; Lipperheide 413, 414 (#15885)   $ 29,500

53 LE PRINCE, Jean Baptiste (1734-1781). [Works of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince]. [Paris]: 1764-1774 [but circa 1820, paper watermarked 1818]. 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches). Engraved throughout. 87 engraved or aquatint plates, including engraved titles. Modern morocco backed boards. Provenance: G. M. O. Barclay (morocco booklabel). A fine collection of engraved and aquatint plates of Russian costume by a noted 18th century French engraver. Includes plates from the following suites: Divers Ajustements et Usages de Russie; Divers habillements des Femmes de Moscovie; IIe. Suitte d’habillement des Femmes de Moscovie; Divers habillements des pretres de Russie; Les Strelits; Premier suite de cris et divers marchands de Petersbourg et de Moscou; 2me suitte de divers cris de Marchands de Russie; IIIe. suitte de divers cris de Marchands de Russie; Habillements de diverses nations; Suite de divers Habillements des peuples du nord; Vue des Environs de St. Peterbourg; Diverses vues de Livonie; IIe Suitte d’habillements de diverses nations; and others. In 1758 Le Prince journeyed to Russia to work for Catherine the Great at the Imperial Palace, St. Petersburg. He remained in Russia for five years and also travelled extensively throughout Finland, Lithuania and even Siberia. When Le Prince returned to Paris in December, 1763, he brought with him an extensive collection of drawings which he employed as the basis for a number of fine paintings and etchings. Le Prince’s graphic art of Russia and its peoples is significant in that he based his compositions entirely upon his own designs, lending a much more realistic portrayal to his views than other eighteenth century contemporaries. Cf. Colas 1838-1850; cf. Hiler p. 539; cf. Cohen/de Ricci 625-626. (#28846)

  $ 2,750

54 LINTON, Anthony. Newes of the Complement of the Art of Navigation. And of the Mightie Empire of Cataia. Together with the Straits of Anian. London: Felix Kyngston, 1609. Small quarto (7 x 5 1/2 inches). [2],44pp. (Minor paper loss to the lower outer corner of the title not affecting text). Contemporary vellum. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps (with his shelfmark on the inner front cover). Navigation to the Straits of Anian: the Sir Thomas Phillipps copy of one of the earliest English books dealing with navigation in the Pacific Ocean. A rare and important early navigational work and Americanum, with a discussion of Drake, Gilbert, “Sir Thomas Candish” (i.e. Cavendish) and other navigators who came to America. Linton was chaplain to Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, who served as High Admiral from 1585 to 1618, and he pays special attention to the travels of English explorers. Linton himself had just returned from a voyage to the north of Asia, and notes that he has added “50 or 60 degrees of good discoverie, unto the alreadie known longitude, comprehended between the Westerne coast of America...on the one side, and the Vaygatz, or Ile van Oranges, upon the North of Nova Zemla.” “The great part of the book is taken up with instructions how to find the longitude of any place ‘without the help of any Eclipse’” (Church). Linton also includes a summaries of various works on the art of navigation written to that time. Of particular note are his comments relating to Edward Wright and his critique of Plancius’ world map for failing to document Drake’s discovery and English claim on New Albion (i.e. present-day California). “A very rare piece” (Sabin). European Americana 609/69; Church 343; JCB II, 63; Sabin 41385; STC 15692. (#23582)

  $ 75,000

55 LUSIGNANO, Steffano di (1537-1590). Description de Toute l’Isle de Cypre, et des Roys, Princes, et Seigneurs, tant Payens que Chrestiens, qui ont commandé en icelle ... [Bound with:] Histoire contenant une sommaire description des Genealogies, Alliances & gestes de tous les Princes & grans Seigneurs, dont la pluspart estoient François, qui ont iadis commadéés es Royaumes de Hierusalem, Cypre, Armenie, & lieux circonuoisins. Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1580 [first work]; Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1579 [second work]. 2 volumes in one, 4to (8 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Titles with woodcut device, woodcut headpieces and initials. [10], 292, [xviii]; [iv], 72 ff. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, manuscript titling on spine. Provenance: Artus de Prunier, Comte de Clermont, la Seigneurie de Virieu en Dauphine (period inscriptions and signature); Nicolas de Prunier (armorial bookplate). Very rare first edition in French of a noted early history of Cyprus and account of the Ottoman Empire conquest of 1571. This work is sometimes mistaken to be simply a French translation of the Italian 1572 work by Lusignano titled Chorograffia: et breve historia universale dell’Isola de Cipro, though is in fact here considerably augmented and corrected. Though published following that work, it was begun earlier in the convent of the Jacobins at Paris on 9 May and completed on 22 November 1568. Furthermore, this work includes a translation of Calepio’s account of the Turkish conquest of Cyprus. It is believed that Lusignano, a descendant of the famed Cypriot family of that name, was hopeful that his work would induce the French to drive the Turks from Cyprus, and restore the island to his compatriots. Rare: we know of only two other copies of the first work in commerce in recent years (Sotheby’s London, 13 May 2004, £18,000; Christie’s Paris, 2 June 2005, €7800). This copy with important provenance. Artus Prunier de Saint-André and his family owned an important library which was started by Artus I and was completed by his grand-son, Nicolas (1628-1692), himself president of the parliament of Grenoble from 1679 to 1692. Afterwards the library passed into the family of Saint-Ferriol until its dispersion. On the Prunier library, see A. Masimbert: Artus Prunier de Saint-André. Sa bibliothèque et son bibliothécaire, in Petite Revue des Bibliophiles Dauphinois, 2e série, n° 4, 1928, pp. 1-15. Brunet III, 1239; BM French 293; Cobham-Jeffery p.35. Not in Atabey. (#27702)

  $ 17,500

56 LUYNES, Honoré T. P. Joseph d’Albert; Duc de (1802-1867) - Charles NÈGRE (1820-1880, photographer).

Voyage d’Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, imprimerie de E. Martinet, [1868-74]. Atlas only, large 4to (14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches). Half-title. 2 folding coloured maps, engraved plate of the expedition’s vessel, 64 photogravure plates by Charles Nègre after Louis Vignes (illustrating the Luynes expedition and numbered 1-64, 1 double-page); 4 maps or plans (one double-page), 14 tinted lithographed plates by Ciceri after photographs by Vignes and Sauvaire (illustrating the Mauss expedition, with the maps numbered 1-18); 14 plates from the text volumes (8 lithographed plates of shells, 2 engraved plates of elevations, 4 chromolithographed geological maps). Expertly bound to style in half dark purple morocco over period purple cloth covered boards. An incunable of photomechanically-illustrated books and among the earliest published photographs of Jordan and the Dead Sea basin. The Duc de Luynes inherited enormous wealth and spent his life on scientific, archeological and artistic pursuits. Among those was this 1864 private expedition to the Dead Sea basin and interior of Jordan to examine the region’s ancient ruins and perform geological and scientific observations. Luynes was accompanied on the expedition by Lieutenant Louis Vignes, who served as the expedition’s photographer, as well as noted geologist Louis Lartet. Arriving to the region in the early spring of 1864, the party travelled by way of Galilee and Samaria to Jerusalem, from whence they embarked on a month-long boat excursion on the Dead Sea, before ascending the right bank, travelling toward Lake Tiberias, before returning to Jerusalem via the Ammon and Moab mountains. From Jerusalem, the party returned back to the Dead Sea, turning south as far as Akabah and returning northward via Petra. In a second expedition, commanded by Vignes between September and October of that year, the party travelled from Tripoli, across the Golan to the sources of the Jordan River, travelling as far inland as Palmyra, before returning by way of Hamah to the coast. Nearly a decade prior to this expedition, in 1856, Luynes had sponsored a contest with the Societe Française de Photographie to discover the best and most practical system of photomechanically reproducing photographs. This seminal event is credited with launching the development of the photobook. Among the participants in the contest was Charles Nègre. Although Nègre did not win the 7000 franc prize, Luynes selected him in 1865 to reproduce Vignes’s photographs in this official account of the expedition, paying him 23,250 francs for the commission. Albumen prints made from the original negatives show the original photographs by Vignes, taken no doubt in harsh conditions, were over-exposed. “It is remarkable how Nègre was able to open up the shadows and fill them with light, detail and space [not evident in the original negatives]. But undoubtedly the main reason the Duke chose Nègre to perform this task lay in the quality of the prints Nègre was capable of producing ... for he had achieved a control over his process which resulted in prints of rich tones, fine detail, transparency and effect” (Borcoman). Luynes died before the work would be published, leaving the task to his son and Le Comte

de Vogëé. The volumes of text (not present here) were published over several years, the first volume containing Luyne’s account, the second volume comprised of Vignes’s memoir (coupled with an account of a separate expedition by Mauss to Karak also sponsored by Luynes), with the final volume of geological observations not appearing until 1874. While the archaeological and scientific observations within the text were groundbreaking at the time, the work is today best appreciated for its stunning atlas of photogravure plates. “To the small but vitally important field of nineteenth-century photomechanical process, Nègre brought not only technical expertise but also the eye of a master photographer. The book ... remains one of the finest photomechanically printed books of the era” (Parr and Badger). Rohricht 2824; Truthful Lens 109; Parr & Badger I:p.33; James Borcoman, Charles Nègre 1820-1880 (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1976) pp. 45-46; Foster et al., Imagining Paradise, p.105; Jamme, Art of French Calotype, p. 222. (#26937)   $ 17,000

57 MacPHAIL, James (b. 1754). A Treatise on the Culture of the Cucumber: shewing a new and advantageous method of cultivating that plant. London: Printed for the Author; and sold by T. Cadell, 1794. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches). Engraved folding frontispiece plate. Contemporary calf backed marbled paper covered boards with vellum tips, flat spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with overall decoration in gilt. Provenance: George Thomas Leaton-Blenkinsopp (armorial bookplate, arms on the spine). A lovely copy of MacPhail’s work on the forced cultivation of cucumbers. MacPhail (fl. 1786-1805), the gardener to Lord Hawkesbury in Surrey, here advocates his controversial system of cultivating cucumbers in a brick bed. “This is the first edition of the work which introduced MacPhail’s cucumber forcing frame which achieved considerable popularity” (Johnson). Scarce. Henrey III:999; Johnson 624 (#29432)

  $ 2,200

58 MANDELSLO, Johann Albrecht von (1616-1644); and Adam OLEARIUS (1603-1671) Abraham de WICQUEFORT (1606-1682), translator.

Voyages Celebres & remarquables, Faits de Perse Aux Indes Orientales ... Conentant une description nouvelle & très-curieuse de l’Indostan, de l’Empire du Grand-Mogol, des Iles & Presqu’Îles de l’Orient, des Royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, &c. ... Nouvelle Edition revûe & corrigée exactement, augmentée considerablement ... Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Céne, 1727. 2 volumes in 1, small folio (12 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches). Titles printed in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 44 engraved maps, plans and views (31 folding), 19 in-text engraved illustrations. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. A lovely copy of a noted illustrated work on Asia, including maps and views of India, China, and Japan.

“Johann von Mandelslo was a friend of Adam Olearius and a former page of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. Together Mandelslo and Olearius were sent by the Duke on an embassy to the Russian Czar and to the Shah of Persia [for the purpose of initiating trade relations with Russia, Tartary and Persia]. Mandelslo was authorized to leave the embassy in Persia and to continue his travels to the Far East. He went to Surat, Agra, and Goa in India, where he received great kindness from the English merchants, and he also visited Ceylon. He gives long accounts of the other parts of the Far East, which he did not visit personally. His return was made to England by sea via the Cape of Good Hope, which he visited in 1639” (Hill). Madelslo’s narrative contains substantial information on the Far East. “Before his death, Mandelslo had entrusted his rough notes to Olearius, who subsequently published them bound with his numerous official accounts of the embassy” (Howgego). Following the first publication, Olearius added additional information to subsequent editions. A new edition in French translated by Wicquefort included still more additional material, including an account of the travels of Henri de Feynes to China, Formosa and Japan. The present edition published in Amsterdam in 1727 is a re-issue of the Van der Aa edition of 1719 (published in Leiden); both are celebrated as the best editions, being the most complete and with the largest number of illustrations. The plates include views and plans of London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Capetown, Goa, Surat, Jedo (Tokyo), St. Helena, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, Java, Congo and elsewhere. Cordier Japonica 367-368; Cordier Indosinica 883; Cordier Sinica 2076-77; Lust 342; Brunet IV, 178; cf. Hill 1073; Howgego M-38. (#30277)   $ 7,800

59 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

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60 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

61 MEARNS, John. A Treatise on the Pot-Culture of the Grape. London: W. S. Orr & Co., 1843. Small 8vo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches). viii, 96pp. 2 plates, illustrations. Contemporary pebbled cloth covered boards, expertly rebacked to style with red straight grained morocco. A rare little book on the cultivation of grapes in pots. Mearns served as the gardener to the Duke of Portland, following nearly a quarter century as the gardener for Lord Bateman. A fellow to the Royal Horticultural Society, the author was the botanical curator of the Leeds Zoological and Botanical Garden. In the work, Mearns proves “that grapes of superior quality can be produced in pots, and ripened at a comparatively early period” (Preface). (#29491)   $ 850

62 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

63 MIDDLETON, Christopher (d. 1770). To the King, This Chart of Hudson’s Bay & Straits, Baffin’s Bay, Strait Davis & Labrador Coast &c. is most humbly Dedicated & Presented by His Majesty’s most obedient & faithful Subject & Servant C. Middleton. London: C. Middleton, 1743. Double-page engraved map, engraved by R. W. Seale, wide margins. Printed date of 1691 altered in ink to 1619 at an early date. (Old fold, faint soiling). Sheet size: 21 x 28 1/8 inches. A very rare separately-issued map depicting Middleton’s discoveries in Hudson Bay in 1742: a cartographic milestone in the search for the Northwest Passage. Christopher Middleton had been an officer in the Royal Navy and a captain in the Hudson’s Bay Company. His belief in the existence of a Northwest Passage attracted the attention of Arthur Dobbs, a landowner and influential member of the Irish House of Commons. In 1741, Middleton, under the auspices of the Royal Navy, commanded the first naval expedition to leave England in search of the famed passage. Middleton searched for several months. After wintering in Hudson’s Bay, he proceeded on board his ship the Furnace as far north as Repulse Bay, but was there turned back by the existence of a frozen strait, ultimately convinced that no passage existed.

Following his return to London, controversy ensued when the delusional Dobbs accused Middleton of poor leadership, the taking of bribes, falsifying data and other failures on the 1741-1742 expedition, arguing that Middleton had deliberately failed to define a Northwest Passage in order to maintain the monopoly of the Hudson’s Bay Company. A pamphlet war between the two lasted for several years, resulting in Parliament issuing a reward for the discovery of the northwest passage which engendered exploration of the region into the 19th century. The present chart published by Middleton before the eruption of the controversy is of great importance as the first attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay and the only reliable printed cartographic record of his discoveries. In addition to charting his own expedition, the map provides historical annotations of earlier discoveries dating back to Davis (1587), Baffin (1613, 1622 & 1624), and John Munk (1691). Middleton’s charting of Repulse Bay established the fact that it did not provide access to a Northwest Passage, an assertion that would eventually be vindicated by Parry’s expedition in 1821-23. The separately-issued map is extremely rare, with only three recorded copies in U.S. institutions and only two other examples sold at auction in past 40 years (both trimmed to or within the image). Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p.188; Schwartz, The Mismapping of America (2003), pp. 9091; Streeter sale 3635. (#29572)   $ 27,500

64 MILTON, John (1608-1674); - John MARTIN (1789-1854, illustrator). The Paradise Lost of Milton with illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin. London: Septimus Prowett, 1827. Imperial quarto (14 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches). 24 mezzotint engraved plates by John Martin. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spines in five compartments divided by double-raised bands, lettered in the second, third and fourth compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Thomas Clarke, F.S.A. (armorial bookplate). Imperial quarto Prowett edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with the larger size masterful illustrations by John Martin: one of the “most significant series of British book illustrations ever to have been produced” (Campbell). This notable edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost was published simultaneously in both imperial quarto (as here) and imperial octavo editions. In addition, fifty copies of large-paper, deluxe issues of each edition were available with India proof plates (i.e. 50 copies of large-paper imperial quarto and 50 copies of large-paper imperial octavo, the latter often confused with the present imperial quarto edition as it is similar in sheet size but not image size). Suites of the plates and individual plates, without text, were also issued separately. “This book was one of the great publishing enterprises of the age ... The apocalyptic romanticism of his conceptions had many sources: the monumental buildings of London, the engravings of Piranesi, published volumes of eastern views, even incandescent gas, coalpit

accidents, and Brunels new Thames Tunnel. The resulting illustrations may be heterogeneous, but they are also unforgettable” (Ray). “Martins illustrations to John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost represent a turning point in his career. The vast majority of Martins most famous works ... were based upon either Miltonic or biblical subject matter. The Paradise Lost series are of particular importance both as one of his chief bodies of designs and as the focal point for the beginning of his career as a mezzotint engraver. Begun by early 1824, this series of engravings was the result of a commission from a little known American publisher, named Septimus Prowett ... To appreciate the impact which Martin’s designs had upon his public, one must realize the extent to which these extraordinary visions represented an entirely new conception of approach to the art of illustration. Not only were they original in the truest sense of the word, designed directly on the plates without the aid of preparatory sketches, they were some of the earliest mezzotints to have been made using soft steel rather than copper, and they were the first illustrations of Milton’s epic work to have been made in the mezzotint medium ... The greatest significance of Martin’s illustrations, however, was in their spectacular visionary content ... Martin laid before his public the spectacular settings of the epic tale, the open voids of the Creation, the vast vaulted caverns of Hell vanishing into the utter blackness of Chaos, the daunting scale of the city of Pandemonium, and the sweeping beauty of Heaven itself. These images have no serious counterpart and are the very essence of the sublime in Romantic art. They are without doubt one of the most significant series of British book illustrations ever to have been produced” (Campbell). Lowndes IV, p.1560; Allibone, p. 1300; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 69; Campbell, John Martin, Visionary Printmaker, pp. 38-41. (#26789)   $ 9,500

65 MINGAUD,

François (1771-1847). - John THURSTON (translator and publisher). The Noble Game of Billiards wherein are exhibited extraordinary & surprising strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the Sovereigns of Europe, by Monsieur Mingaud, formerly Captaine d’Infanterie in the service of France ... Translated & Published by ... Thurston. London: published by John Thurston, 1830. Imperial octavo (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). Engraved title, folding uncoloured aquatint frontispiece, 1 engraved introductory plate, 40 hand-coloured engraved diagrammatic plates of various plays, extra-illustrated with a smaller-format (10 x 6 1/4 inches) 1p. letterpress prospectus tipped-in at the front. Original dark red half roan over marbled paper-covered boards, upper cover mounted with original green glazed-paper label with engraved title, the flat spine divided into compartments with double gilt fillets. A fine copy of the rare first English edition of this highly-influential work, here with the very rare original prospectus. François Mingaud is variously credited with the invention of the modern leather cue tip or, more narrowly, with the rounded leather cue tip. His skill as a player and as an innovator and introducer of controlled spin to the game of billiards is universally acknowledged. He first shared many of the secrets of the techniques that he developed in his publication, Noble Jeu de Billard published in Paris in 1827. The present work is the first English edition of Mingaud’s original: it was translated from French into English and published by the London billiard table manufacturer, John Thurston, who also had engraved plates prepared from the lithographic originals. In the preface, Thurston vouches for Mingaud’s assertion that he had come up with “the most brilliant discoveries of modern times ... Fully impressed with the great merits of M. Mingaud’s Illustrations, the Translator has felt anxious to lay them before the British Public. He is aware that, to the novice, many of the strokes in the work, may appear impracticable. He has, however, not only had the satisfaction of seeing them performed on his own tables, at his Ware-rooms ... by M. Mingaud himself; but has been surprised to perceive, how readily the results have followed, when attempted, according to the rules laid down, by gentlemen who boasted no superiority of skill.” The popularity of Mingaud’s work in England can be judged from the fact that it was re-issued in 1831, a second edition was published in 1833 and a third in 1836: all are now rare (there is only one other record of the present edition having sold at auction in the past thirty five years). Abbey, Life 391 (#25167)

  $ 2,200

66 MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne. Edition nouvelle, trouvée après le décès de l’Autheur, reveue & augmentée par luy d’un tiers plus qu’aux précédentes impressions. Paris: Abel Angelier, 1595. Small folio, bound in sixes (12 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches). 3 parts in one. [24], 1-209, [1, blank]; 211-523, [1, blank]; 1-231, [1] pp. Large woodcut printer’s device to title [Renouard, Marques Typographiques Parisennes 551], woodcut vignettes and initials. Errata on verso of terminal leaf. Nineteenth century red morocco, bound by TrautzBauzonnet, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt the second and third, red morocco pastedowns elaborately panelled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. First complete edition of Montaigne’s Essays, enlarged and edited by his adopted daughter Marie le Jars de Gournay. This works comprises all three parts (two parts only had been previously published in Bordeaux in 1580), complete with Montaigne’s final additions and corrections from his unpublished manuscripts, as well as Montaigne’s ‘Au Lecteur’ dated 1580 and Gournay’s preface. The latter does not appear in the simultaneous Paris edition by Michel Sonnius.

Montaigne’s Essays are justly celebrated as the essence of humanist thought during the French Rennaissance and the progenitor of the personal essay as a literary genre. His work, and its focus on the nature of man and his search for self knowledge via life experience, would have a profound influence on writers as varied as Descartes to Emerson to Nietzche and on the fields of philosophy, psychology, education and more. In his final essay, On Experience, Montaigne, who suffered from kidney stones, writes eloquently on health, medicine and suffering in the 16th century. This copy bound by noted 19th-century French bindery Trautz-Bauzonnet. Adams M-1622; Graesse IV, 579 (“La principale édition de Montaigne, pour authenticité du texte”); Tchemerzine VIII, 408; STC French Books, pg. 317 (#29021)   $ 24,000

67 MONTULE, Edouard de. Recueil des Cartes et des Vues du Voyage en Amerique en Italie en Sicile et en Egypte fait pendant les annees 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819. Paris: Chez Delaunay ... et Chez Belon, 1821. Atlas only, oblong small folio (9 1/2 x 13 inches). Fifty-nine lithographic plates including lithographic titlepage, plus folding map of the United States and folding map of Egypt. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine decoratively tooled in gilt. The atlas to Montule’s travels in America: a significant and early visual tour of the United States. The very rare atlas to Montule’s Voyage depicts his travels in North America and the Caribbean, and also in Italy, and Egypt in the late 1810s. The atlas contains many American views, and though it was intended to accompany the author’s text, it was also issued separately and is not often found with the text volumes. The wonderful lithographic plates depict scenes from Montule’s travels in North America, and were made from the author’s own drawings. This atlas is not mentioned by Monaghan, Sabin gives the wrong number of plates, and Clark describes it as one of Montule’s “other” works, adding that it is “now quite rare.” The attractive plates depict New York harbor, the mastodon skeleton at the Philadelphia museum, “Encounter with a Rattle Snake” near the Ohio River, the port of St. Domingo, Niagara Falls, and a view of St. Thomas. Other plates include a view of the Philadelphia hospital, Quaker costumes, “Costume des Negresses de St. Thomas,” a country estate in Kingston (Jamaica), a church in New Orleans, “Sauvages du Mississippi,” and several other views, mostly of Italian and North African scenery. The folding map shows the United States, including the Missouri and Northwest territories, as well as parts of the Caribbean. Howes M750, “B”; Sabin 50230; Clark II:47; Lane, Impressions of Niagara 55,56; Monaghan 1085 (text only); Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 698; Lande S1620; Ragatz, p.230. (#29943)   $ 10,000

68 MORDEN, Robert (d. 1703). Geography Rectified: or, a Description of the World, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, ... &c. As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy six maps. The second edition, enlarged with above thirty sheets more in the description, and about thirty new maps. London: printed for Robert Morden and Thomas Cokerill, 1688. Small quarto (7 3/4 x 6 inches). Title-page printed in red and black, complete with the Catalogue of the maps bound facing the title as issued (often lacking). 78 copper-engraved maps, printed within the text, including the cancel leaf inserted between pp.544 and 545 with the map and description of Bermuda (as issued). Early 18th century panelled calf, spine with raised bands in five compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment. Provenance: George Whichcote (early signature and inscription on title, shelf mark on spine and front endpaper). Second expanded edition of Morden’s charming atlas, including important mappings of America. The first edition (published in 1680) contained 62 maps, compared to the 78 in the present work. The section on the Americas starts at p.512 and runs to the end: the maps in this section include a general map of America (in Burden’s ‘State 3’, with California still shown as an island). The others delineate various regions: Terra Magellanica; Chili and Paraguay; Brazile; Castilla del Or Guiana Peru the country of ye Amazones; The Western Islands; Insulae Jamaicae; Barbados; Aestivarum Insualae ac Barmudas; Mexico or New Spaine; New Mexico; Florida and ye Great Lakes of Canada.; Carolina; Virginia [with Maryland]; New Jarsey and Pensilvania; New England and New York; North West part of America. Cf. Burden 519 - 524; Sabin 50535; Shirley British Library T.MORD-2C; Wing M-2620. (#28342)

  $ 9,850

69 MORRIS, Robert (1701-1754). Architecture Improved, in a Collection of Modern, Elegant and Useful Designs ... in the taste of Inigo Jones, Mr. Kent, &c. London: Sold by Robert Sayer, 1755. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches). Title printed in red and black. XIVpp. 50 engraved plates, engraved by Parr, Roberts and others after Morris. Woodcut headpiece. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, spine a bit darkened. Provenance: Sir Edward O’Brien (armorial bookplate, inked stamp on title). Rare 18th century architectural pattern book for designs of follies and mantelpieces. In addition to his works of architectural theory in support of the English Palladian movement, Morris authored two important pattern books, Rural Architecture (1750) and the present work. First published in 1751 under the title The Architectural Remembrancer, both editions are very rare (a third edition was published in 1757). The work, containing a preface and 50 engraved plates, supplied designs consistent with his theories promoting classical proportions, symmetry and simplicity. Of particular note are the designs for mantelpieces and small symmetrical garden follies. Morris’ theories would prove influential in Colonial America, particularly on Thomas Jefferson’s interest in polygonal architecture. ESTC cites but five examples of this 1755 edition. ESTC T150587; Berlin Catalogue 2284; Colvin, p. 558. (#30090)

  $ 3,500

70 MOUNT & DAVIDSON (publishers). The English Pilot. Describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson’s Bay to the River Amazones [sic.]. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein ... also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, east and west New Jersey, Dellawar [sic.] Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. London: Mount and Davidson, 1794. Folio (18 3/4 x 12 inches). Letterpress title (verso blank), text pp.[3-]66 with numerous illustrations (including 1 half-page ‘Draught of the Bay of Homda’, 4 three quarter-page engraved maps or charts, and about 250 wood-cut coastal profiles and harbours). 22 engraved maps and charts. Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century russia over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine with gilt rules, lettered in the second compartment. Rare final edition of the fourth book of the English Pilot, the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, in five separate books, was the first major sea-atlas published in England. The ...Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689, by John Thornton and William Fisher, the Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions. “The Fourth Book of the Pilot is of special interest to American carto-bibliographical description because it was the first great atlas of wholly English origin to deal exclusively with American waters; because its production involved some of the most noted map makers and publishers of the time; and because through successive editions its maps illustrated the unfolding geographical knowledge of the American coast within a century of exploration and settlement” (Verner, p. vii) The present 1794 edition of the Fourth Book contains important material not found in the earliest editions: Andrew Hughes’s A Draught of South Carolina and Georgia, added in 1778, is one of the best sea charts of these regions of the late 18th century; Edmund Halley’s A New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans, in its various editions, is one of the landmarks of English cartography; the revised 1775 edition of Cyprian Southack’s famous A Map of the Coast of New England is the first to contain the large inset of Boston based on John Bonner’s great map; the unattributed A Chart of New York Harbour is a significant addition to the cartography of that city. The charts in this edition, comprise: 1.) [Edmund HALLEY (1656-1742).] A New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans Shewing the Variations of the Compass According to the latest and best Observations. London: Sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page on Tower Hill. Folding (25 x 22½ inches), flanked by panels of separately-printed pasted-on text titled “The Description and Uses of a New

and Correct Sea-Chart of the Western and Southern Ocean, Shewing the Variations of the Compass.” This folding chart precedes the title-page. It is a corrected edition of Edmund Halley’s landmark 1701 chart with the same title. Peter Barbour hailed that chart as the “most significant cartographic achievement of Williamite England” (The Age of William III & Mary II, plate 106.) It was one of the earliest thematic maps, and the first to show lines of equal magnetic variation which was an important advance for navigation. A version of Halley’s chart was added to the Fourth Book in 1721, but was discontinued in favor of this revised version in 1749. As noted in the flanking text, there is a “perpetual though slow Change in the Variation almost everywhere, which as made it necessary to construct [the chart] anew from accurate Observations, made by the most ingenious Navigators.” 2.) A New and Correct Chart of the North Part of America from New Found Land to Hudsons Bay. London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Double-page (19 x 23 inches) 3.) A New Generall Chart for the West Indies of E. Wright’s Projection. London: sold by W. and J. Mount and J. Page. Double-page (19 x 23 1/8 inches). 4.) Emanuel BOWEN (d.1767). A New and Accurate Chart of the vast Atlantic or Western Ocean. [London:] sold by J. Mount & T. Page. Folding (26 1/4 x 31 3/4 inches). This fine general chart was a recent addition to the Fourth Book, first appearing in the 1778 edition. 5.) [Captain Cyprian SOUTHACK (1662-1745).] The Harbour of Casco Bay, and Islands Adjacent. London: sold by J. Mount & T. Page. Double-page (19 x 23 inches). Cf. William P. Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, p. 42. 6.) A New and Correct Chart of the Coast of New Foundland from Cape Raze to Cape Bonavista. [with inset of Chebucto Harbor]. London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Folding (19 x 41 inches).

7.) A Chart of the South-East Coast of Newfoundland. [London:] printed for Mount and Page. Folding (19 7/8 x 24 3/4 inches). Added to the Fourth Book in 1780. 8.) Captain Henry BARNSLEY. A New and Correct Chart of the Sea Coast of New-England from Cape Codd [sic] to Casco Bay. London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Folding (22 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches). 9.) Captain Cyprian SOUTHACK. A Map of the Coast of New England, from Staten Island to the Island of Breton; as it was actually Survey’d by Capt. Cyprian Southack. London: sold by I. Mount, T. Page & W. Mount. Folding (26 x 32 inches). This is a reduction of the 8 sheet chart that made up The New England Coasting Pilot (London, 1729-34), by Southack, one of New England’s most knowledgeable and experienced pilots. This reduction was added to the Fourth Book in 1775, and replaced an earlier version of the chart that had first appeared in the 1737 edition. The present new version is distinguished by two new insets that do not appear on any other edition of Southack’s chart. One of these, a large plan of ‘The Town of Boston in New England,’ is an unattributed reduction of John Bonner’s famous map, “the earliest and most important engraved plan of Boston” (Cf. Wheat & Brun 224; Deak 79). Cf. Reps, American Maps and Mapmakers, pps. 221-222; Krieger & Cobb, Mapping Boston, pps. 43-44. 10.) A Chart of New York Harbour with the Banks Soundings and Sailing marks from the most Accurate Surveys and Observations. [No place: no publisher’s imprint]. Folding (25 1/4 x 22 3/4 inches). A fine sea chart of New York Harbor which replaced Mark Tiddeman’s outdated Draught of New York, which had appeared in early editions of this work since 1732. 11.) [John THORNTON.] Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey. [London:] sold by Jno: Mount & Thos. Page. Folding (23 1/4 x 32 1/4 inches). A classic chart of the Chesapeake Region, originally published in 1689. It is a close copy of Augustine Herrman’s map. The delineation of Delaware Bay and New Jersey includes additional data, probably from the Holme map of Pennsylvania. Verner describes this chart as Thornton’s most notable contribution to Maryland-Virginia cartography. Morrison, On the Map, fig. 36. 12.) Mark TIDDEMAN. A Draught of Virginia from the Capes to York River and to Kuiquotan or Hamton in James River. London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Double-page (19 x 22 7/8 inches). The first printed map to show Williamsburg. Trimmed close as usual. 13.) Andrew NORWOOD. A New Mapp of the Island of St. Christophers being an Actuall Survey taken by Mr. Andrew Norwood Surveyr. Genll. [with insets of Guadeloupe and Martinique]. [London:] sold by W. Mount & T. Page. Double-page (19 x 23 inches). 14.) Andrew HUGHES. A Draught of South Carolina and Georgia from Sewee to St. Estaca. [with lengthy integral engraved text entitled ‘Instructions for the Coast of South Carolina Georgia and the Coast of St. Augustine.’] London: sold by W. Mount and T. Page. Folding (19 x 33 1/8 inches). This is one of the finest 18th century sea charts for the coasts from Sewee River to St. Augustine, and an important recent addition to the Fourth Book. It was first added to the 1778 edition. 15.) A Correct Chart of the Caribbee Islands.London: sold by Mount & Page. Double-page (19 x 23 1/4 inches).

16.) C. PRICE, C. A Correct Chart of Hispaniola with the Windward Passage. London: Jno. Mount & Tho. Page. Folding (20 1/8 x 24 /8 inches). 17.) A Draught of the West End of the Island of Porto Rico and the Island of Zachee.... A Draught of the Island of Beata...[etc. five charts on one sheet]. [No place: no publisher’s names] Folding (19 5/8 x 24 1/2 inches). 18.) A New & Correct Chart of Cuba, Streights of Bahama, Windward Passage, the Current through the Gulf of Florida [with an inset plan of Havana.] [London:] sold by Mount & Page. Folding (21 1/4 x 26 1/8 inches). First added to the atlas in 1767. 19.) R. PEARSON. A New and Correct Draught of the Bay of Matanzas on ye North Side of ye Island Cuba.... [No place: no publishers]. Half sheet (18 7/8 x 12 inches). 20.) A New & Correct Chart of the Island of Jamaica, with its Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Soundings &c. [London:] sold by J. Mount & T. Page. Folding (21 1/8 x 27 1/4 inches). 21.) R. WADDINGTON. A Chart of the Coast of Guyana. [with two insets of the Orinocco and Surinam rivers]. [No place: no publishers]. Folding (19 1/4 x 25 inches). 22.) A New and Correct Chart of the Trading Part of the West Indies. London: sold by I. Mount & T. Page. Folding (19 x 32 3/8 inches). This is a general chart of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, showing the entire United States Gulf Coast. Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689); . (#26778)   $ 45,000

71 [OTTOMAN-VENETIAN WAR] - Balthasar JENICHEN (engraver). Warhafftige Co[n]terfettung der Turckischen Armata von Balleenn und andern Schiffen Dreihundert wie solche dess 1570 Jars in Ordnunge wider die Venedische Lendt ist aussgefahren. [Nuremberg: circa 1571]. Engraving, printed on two sheets of laid paper joined. Engraver’s monogram at the lower left. Early manuscript caption in English in the lower margin. Plate mark: 11 x 16 inches. Sheet size: 14 5/8 x 18 3/8 inches. (Tear extending from the right margin closed with small void in excellent facsimile, small worm hole within the image). Very rare German news-sheet map depicting the Turkish fleet invasion of Cyprus in 1570. Exceptionally scarce engraved German broadside map depicting the Ottoman fleet sailing to Venetian-controlled Cyprus in 1570. The early English manuscript caption in ink just below image reads: “The representation of the Turkish Navall Army in ye year 1570 going forth to meet the Venetian fleet.” Cyprus, then under Venetian rule, was a strategic point for controlling shipping and trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottomans, ruled by Sultan Selim II, had long desired the island. Following a series of warnings and demands, the Ottoman fleet, commanded by Müezzinzade Ali Pasha and Lala Mustafa Pasha sailed for Cyprus in late June 1570. Depicted here, the Turkish fleet was composed of an estimated 350-400 ships and upwards of 100,000 men. Following sieges and massacres at Nicosia, Kyrenia and Famagusta, the island was taken by August 1571. Although the invasion was long-heralded, the Venetian fleet failed to prevent the invasion or the subsequent fall of Cyprus to the Turks. However, they subsequently raised the support of the “Holy League” of the Catholic maritime states in the Mediterranean, and defeated the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571 off the western coast of Greece. The victory of the Holy League prevented the Ottoman Empire expanding further along the European side of the Mediterranean, though did not end their possession of Cyprus. Jenichen, who signed the map with his monogram ‘BI’, was the leading German publisher of news-sheet maps. Jenichen and compatriot Matthias Zündt took particular interest in the conflict and produced views and maps of it that equaled and surpassed those of their Italian counterparts. Given their ephemeral nature, all are rare and desirable. We can locate only one other example of this engraving appearing at auction in recent times (Sotheby’s London, 29 April 2014, lot 157, £60,000). Hollstein XL B, 128; G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten v. 1, p. 818-819; Andresen II, Nr. 276; Drugulin II, 364; s.a. Meurer, Jenichen S. 50. (#28345)   $ 75,000

72 PARKINSON, Sydney (1745?-1771). A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship the Endeavour. London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. Quarto (12 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches). xxiii,212,[2] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Parkinson by James Newton, 26 engraved plates (1 plate after Alexander Buchan, 2 plates after S.H. Grimm and 24 after Parkinson). Contemporary marbled boards with vellum corners, rebacked in calf, retaining original red morocco lettering piece. Large-paper copy of Parkinson’s important illustrated account of Cook’s first voyage: “Parkinson was engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany him and Captain Cook in the Endeavour to the South Seas, as natural history draughtsman ... After exploring Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and the Great Barrier Reef, the expedition reached Batavia. On leaving for the Cape of Good Hope, Parkinson succumbed to fever and dysentery and was buried at sea. Banks spoke highly of his ‘unbounded industry’ in making for him a much larger collection of drawings than he had anticipated. His observations, too, were valuable, and the vocabularies of South Sea languages given in his journals are of great interest. Upon Banks’

return to England, Stanfield Parkinson, Sydney’s brother, claimed all the drawings made by his brother in his spare hours, as well as journals and collections, under a will made before Sydney Parkinson left England. Following the dispute, his writings were lent to Stanfield Parkinson, who transcribed them and prepared them for publication, but an injunction was obtained ... to restrain him from publishing until after the appearance of ... Hawkesworth’s official account” (Hill). Parkinson’s drawings stand as one of the chief visual sources for the voyage: he produced a large number of magnificent botanical, natural history and ethnographical drawings of Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. At the time, these drawings offered Europe its first view of life in the South Pacific. The work contains extensive descriptions of Australia and New Zealand, and is the first work to properly identify the kangaroo by name. A major journal for Cook’s first voyage. Beddie 712; Hill 1308; Holmes 7; Sabin 58787; Davidson, A Book Collector’s Notes, pp. 54-6; NMM I:564; O’Reilly & Reitman 371; Kroepelien 944; Cox I, p.58 (#28619)   $ 12,000

73 PASSERI, Giovanni Battista (1694-1780). Picturae Etruscorum in Vasculis nunc primum in unum collectae. Rome: J. Zempel, 1767-1770-1775. 3 volumes, folio (16 x 10 3/4 inches). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. 3 engraved frontispieces, 2 engraved dedications (one handcoloured), 301 hand coloured engraved plates (31 double-page, numbered I-CCC, plus CCLVbis) by G. Cassini and others, plus one uncoloured plate and 4 tables (one folding). Engraved title-vignettes, head- and tail-pieces and initials all hand-coloured, the initials finished with gold. Expertly bound to style in half calf over period Italian marbled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands, morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt. A beautifully hand coloured set, complete with all plates, of the important precursor to Hamilton’s Vases. Giovanni Battista Passeri (1694-1780) was a noted archaeologist and antiquary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. These three finely illustrated volumes depicting specimens from forty collections throughout Italy and even beyond the Alps, reflect his abiding belief in the superiority of Etruscan over Greek civilization. The work is rarely found complete, and the present example with the initials hand coloured and finished with gold is exceptional. Blackmer 1265; Cicognara 2615; Brunet IV,418 (#28211)

  $ 30,000

74 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

75 PHIPPS, Constantine John (1744-1792). A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty’s Command 1773. London: printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Quarto (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches). Half-title, 15 folding or double-page engraved maps and plates (12 plates after John Cleveley, P. d’Auvergne, Barnes or W. Pars, 3 maps), 11 letterpress tables (3 folding, 8 doublepage). Contemporary green morocco, covers with a gilt border composed of small tools, expertly rebacked to style, flat spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth, overall decoration in gilt in the remaining, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Robert John Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke (armorial bookplate); Dr. Elisha T. Sterling (inscription on verso of the terminal leaf). A fine copy of the first edition, here in an unusual and very beautiful contemporary green morocco binding. “First edition of the official account written by Captain Phipps, later Lord Mulgrave. This expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass, undertaken for the purpose of discovering a route to India through the northern polar regions, was blocked by pack ice north of Spitzbergen. The valuable appendix gives geographical and meteorological observations, zoological and botanical records, accounts of the distillation of fresh water from the sea, and astronomical observations. The voyage is perhaps best remembered for the presence of young Horatio Nelson, as midshipman aboard the Carcass, and his encounter with a polar bear” (Hill). The expedition had been proposed by the Earl of Sandwich and was the first serious British attempt to reach the North Pole since the early 17th century. The voyage was sponsored by the Royal Society and received encouragement from King George III. The two expedition ships were commanded by Phipps (aboard the Racehorse,) and the Carcass commanded by Captain Lutwidge. The expedition was stopped by ice just north of Spitzbergen, but, in addition to numerous scientific observations, carried out a number of interesting experiments using innovative equipment including a thermometer designed by Lord Cavendish for measuring the temperature of water and Dr. Irving’s successful apparatus for distilling fresh water from the sea. This first edition was quickly followed by a Dublin edition in 1775, a French translation published in the same year. A German translation was published in 1777, and an American edition was published in Philadelphia in 1810. The present copy, in a unusual and beautiful green morocco binding, was from the library of Robert John Verney, the 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1809-1862), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. The green morocco covers, however, are contemporary to the book’s publication in 1774. The book was subsequently owned by Dr. Elisha T. Sterling, an eminent surgeon and naturalist from Cleveland, Ohio. On the verso of the final table, Sterling has penned an account of the capture of a 50lb. muskellunge on the Cuyahoga River and includes two small pen-and-ink sketches of scenes on Lake Erie. BM(NH) IV, p.1570; HBS 55366; Hill (2004) 1351; Nissen ZBI 3163; Sabin 62572; Stafleu & Cowan IV, p.1570. (#25553)   $ 5,850

76 PLUMIER, Charles (1646-1704). Description des Plantes de l’Amerique. Avec leurs Figures. Paris: de l’Impremerie Royale [pars les soins de Jean Anisson], 1693. Folio (16 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches). Half-title, title with engraved arms. Engraved headpiece and initial on A1. 108 engraved plates. Contemporary French red morocco, Royal arms of France in gilt on both covers, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: C.B. Lengrich (bookplate); Andrés Sperry (bookplate). Rare first edition of an important botanical Americanum: this copy bound in contemporary red morocco with arms. Among the most celebrated botanists of the second half of the 17th century, Plumier is best remembered for his three botanizing voyages to the Americas. “Le Pere Plumier, a monk of the order of St. Francesco di Paula, was an important botanical traveller. Tournefort and he became friends and they herborized together throughout the Midi. After that, Plumier’s travels included the Antilles and several long voyages to other islands in the West Indies and to America, where he discovered, drew, and described hundreds of new plants, many of which are shown in his own books” (Hunt). After his death in Cadiz in 1704, Plumier left behind a voluminous collection of manuscripts and drawings. The present work is Plumier’s first publication, which records the results of his first of three voyages to the Americas. Plumier discovered, drew, and described hundreds of new species in the French Antilles, including many accurate descriptions and depictions of plants not previously identified. The plates, all after drawings by Plumier himself, principally comprise ferns, but also include Arum, Aroideae, clematis and passion flowers. Plumier’s published works, coupled with his impressive corpus of original drawings, form one of the most important archives on American botany. Many of Plumier’s own drawings would later serve as the taxonomic type specimens by Linnaeus and others, making the illustrations of considerable nomenclatural importance. The present example is sumptuously bound in contemporary red morocco with the arms of France on the covers, most likely a deluxe or presentation copy. Alden & Landis 693/137; Hunt 389; Nissen BBI 1544; Sabin 63455; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8066. (#31300)   $ 24,000

77 POOLE, Burnell (1884-1933). Yacht Etchings [cover title] [i.e. a bound collection of 22 prints of famous yachts including several America’s Cup participants]. 1929-1933. 4to (13 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches). 22 aquatints with etching (21 signed). Contemporary dark blue morocco by James MacDonald & Co., covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, each panelled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance: C. Hayward Murphy (name in gilt on upper cover). Noted collection of wonderful aquatints, limited to 35 copies, depicting famous American yachts by a noted marine artist. Burnell Poole (1884-1933) would become among the most accomplished marine artists of the first half of the 20th century, noted for his work during WWI in the North Atlantic depicting the ships of the U.S. Navy. This collection of prints by Poole includes among the most famous yachts of the first half of the 20th century, including Vanderbilt’s Reliance (1903 America’s Cup defender), Walter’s Resolute (1914 America’s Cup defender) and Lipton’s Shamrock IV (1920 America’s Cup challenger). 1) Flying Cloud (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 2) Aloha (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 3) Medora (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 4) Atlantic (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil)

5) Windward (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 6) Resolute and Vanitie (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 7) Reliance (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 8) N.Y.Y.C. 40s (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 9) Shamrock IV (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 10) Corsair (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 11) Advance (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 12) Vanitie (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 13) Viking (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 14) Shamrock II (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 15) Nina (signed, titled and numbered 28/35 in pencil) 16) Nourmahal (proof before Poole’s printed monogram with title and date, signed and titled in pencil) 17) Guinevere (proof before Poole’s printed monogram with title and date, signed and titled in pencil) 18) Migrant (proof before Poole’s printed monogram with title and date, signed and titled in pencil) 19) Intrepid (proof before Poole’s printed monogram with title and date, signed and titled in pencil) 20) Enterprise (signed and titled in pencil) 21) Shamrock V (signed and titled in pencil) 22) Weetamoe (unsigned and untitled) (#26632)   $ 12,000

78 QUEBEC, Laws and Statutes. Ordinances made for the Province of Quebec, by the Governor and Council of the said Province, since the establishment of the Civil Government. Quebec: Brown & Gilmore, 1767. Folio (12 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches). [2], 3-81, [1, blank]Title in English and French (recto and verso of the same leaf), text in English and French throughout. Woodcut royal arms on the titles. 9pp. period manuscript index in French in the rear. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards. Provenance: Jean Ariail (1735-1800). Very rare first collected edition of the provincial statutes of Quebec and among the earliest Canadian imprints, published on Quebec’s first press. William Brown, following an apprenticeship to William Dunlap in Philadelphia and a brief period of printing in Barbados, began printing in Quebec in 1764 on the first press in the province and among the earliest in all of Canada. Brown’s press is described by Tremaine as “the most important printing office in eighteenth century Canada both in the amount and variety of its production and as a source of supplies and personnel for other printers.” Printed in French and English, the work includes the text of twenty-seven statutes passed between 14 September 1764 and 27 January 1767, comprising all the ordinances since the establishment of the Province. The work was advertised in the Quebec Gazette on 1 December 1766, explaining that the work would print the ordinances “which have hitherto been printed in this [news]paper, as those printed separately during its intermission”; i.e. a six-month period in which the Quebec Gazette did not publish due to the Stamp Act. Four hundred and fifty copies of these collected ordinances were printed, including two hundred for the use of the Government. This example with provenance to Jean (John) Ariail, a French merchant in Quebec, who would leave the British Province for Massachusetts in 1774; Ariail has signed the title (subsequently crossed out) and included a manuscript index in French in the rear. We trace only the Brinley copy at auction of this rare early Canadian imprint, selling for $17 in 1879. Tremaine 116; Fleming & Alston Early Canadian Printing 116; Sabin 67029. (#28901)

  $ 14,500

79 QUIN, Edward (1794-1828). An Historical Atlas; in a Series of Maps of the World as known at different periods; constructed upon an uniform scale and colored according to the political changes of the period. London: Printed for R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1830. Folio (16 1/8 x 12 7/8 inches). Engraved title, 21 hand coloured engraved maps with aquatint by Sidney Hall (6 doublepage). Contemporary half brown morocco and marbled paper covered boards, letterpress lettering piece printed in brown and black on the upper cover, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt. First edition of among the most unusual atlases of the 19th century. Intended to cartographically depict political change from the time of creation to the year 1828, this rare atlas depicts the world from the perspective of the heavens, with parts unknown shaded with black clouds which recede through the course of history, revealing the enlightened world in the midst of the Industrial Revolution. The Preface explains: “[The atlas] consists of a succession of maps exhibiting the state of the known world at more than twenty periods. Its peculiarity consists in exhibiting every thing in its real dimensions and just proportions, and in adhering to the scale in all successive delineations ... By rapidly passing the eye, therefore, over the engravings the student, always the same territory in the same part the map, sees by the changes of colour the empires which succeed each other. Like the watchman on some beacon-tower, he views the hills and peopled valleys around him, always the same in situation and in form, but every changing aspect of the hours and seasons ... In thus exhibiting the state of the world at different periods, it became necessary, in order to preserve consistency and truth, to exhibit in the earlier stages of the review only

very small portion of the earth’s surface ... The only course left to us seemed to be, to bring the appearance of a cloud over the skirts of every map, exhibiting at each period only the known parts of the globe, and lifting up or drawing off this cloud as the limits of the known world gradually extended. Every successive map thus combines, at a single glance, the geography and the history of the age to which it refers; exhibiting by its extent the boundaries of the known world, and by its colours the respective empires into which that world was distributed.” Divided into twenty-one periods beginning with “B.C. 2348 The Deluge “ to “A.D. 1928 At the General Peace” the clouds fully disappear at the nineteenth period: “A.D. 1783 At the separation of the United States of America, from England.” William Goffart, Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870, p. 343. (#31394)

80 REDDING, Cyrus (1785-1870). French Wines and Vineyards; and the Way to Find Them. London: Houlston and Wright, 1860. 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches). xv, [1], 240pp. Publisher’s cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked. Provenance: William R. Smith (ink stamp on title). First edition of a noted early English work on French wine. Following the success of his A History and Description of Modern Wines, Redding published the present work focused on French wines. Besides general remarks on French vineyards, specific chapters are devoted to specific wine making regions. The work includes an alphabetical table of French vineyards with their corresponding departments. Gabler, Wine into Words, page 221, G33930; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography page 391 (#30859)   $ 900

  $ 12,000

81 REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818). An enquiry into the change of taste in Landscape Gardening. To which are added, some observations on its theory and practice, including a defence of the art. London: printed for J. Taylor, 1806. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 inches). viii, 174pp. Expertly bound to style in green straight grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, flat spine gilt, marbled endpapers. First edition of this rare work by Repton, laying out his theories of landscape gardening Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot “Capability” Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The present work is based on the text of his Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (London: 1794), as Repton explains in the Advertisement: “In compliment to the present possessors of ... [the Sketches ...], I have determined never to publish another costly edition of it with plates; but rather to extract from it such matter as may not infer the [proposed] quarto volume, incorporating it with such further observations on the Theory and Practice of the Art, as have occurred from more recent practice; to which are added, answers to the attacks made on the art by some late publications” (pp.iv-v). The final sentence refers to works by the theoreticians Payne Knight and Uvedale Price, both of whom had written disparagingly of Capability Brown’s work and Repton here answers their arguments. Henrey III, 1263; RIBA III, 2731 (#29467)

  $ 2,350

82 REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818). Designs for the Pavillon [sic.] at Brighton. Humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. By H. Repton ... with the assistance of his sons, John Adey Repton, F.S.A. and G.S. Repton, architects. London: printed by Howlett & Brimmer for J. C. Stadler, sold by Boydell & Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, [etc.], [1822] [text watermarked 1821-1822; plates 1822]. Folio (21 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches). Emblematic frontispiece hand-coloured, 1 hand-coloured plan, 7 aquatint plates (one tinted with a sepia wash, six hand-coloured [one with an overpage, one doublepage with two overslips, one folding with two overslips, one single-page with two overslips, one single-page with one overslip]), 11 aquatint illustrations (seven uncoloured, one with a sepia wash, three hand-coloured [two of these with a single overslip]), all by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Uncut. Expertly bound to style in half red morocco over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, original paper letterpress label affixed to the upper cover, spine in eight compartments with semi-raised bands, bands tooled in gilt, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. A fine uncut copy of Repton’s fascinating proposal for a royal palace at Brighton. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot “Capability” Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He was particularly noted for his Red Books. These were produced for each individual client and were made up from a manuscript description of his proposed improvements bound with

Repton’s own watercolour drawings of the grounds, with his proposed alterations displayed on an overlay. His proposal for Brighton pavilion was no different and the present work “was based directly on the original Red Book, which was sent to the publisher and engraver, J.C. Stadler, of 15 Villiers St., Strand. The drawings, by Repton and his sons, were sumptuously reproduced in aquatint, mostly in color, complete with their overslips and slides. Stadler himself took on the financial responsibility” (Millard, British p. 245). “Repton was first summoned to Brighton by the Prince of Wales in 1797. Payments were made to him over the next five years for works in the garden of the Prince’s still modest marine villa... Then, in October 1805, Repton was requested to attend on the Prince in Brighton... The Prince and Repton met on 24 November. By 12 December Repton had returned to Brighton with a sheaf of drawings showing possible improvements... The prince was intrigued and asked for a design for an entirely new house. Repton presented his scheme in February 1806 in the form of [a]... Red book, now in the Royal Library at Windsor... By then the prince’s initial enthusiasm had dulled; he was beset with financial difficulties and had laid aside all elaborate schemes for the enlargement of the pavilion” (Millard op.cit. pp.243-244). Repton’s designs were inspired directly by the wonderful Indian architecture so ably pictured in Thomas and William Daniell’s Oriental Scenery (1795-1808). First published in 1808, the present issue dates from 1822 and may mark an attempt to take advantage of the interest generated when architect John Nash completed his work on the Pavilion for King George IV. Between 1815 and 1822 Nash redesigned and greatly extended the Pavilion, and it is the work of Nash which can be seen today. The pavilion as it was finally completed still owed a huge debt to Indian architecture but was in a form which reinterpreted the Indian ideal in a fashion more suitable to both English tastes and climate. Abbey Scenery 57 (1822 watermarks) and cf.55; Millard British 66 (2nd edition); cf. Tooley p.207; cf. Prideaux p.349. (#25450)   $ 13,000

83 REY DE PLANAZU, François Joseph. Ouevres d’Agriculture. Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Grangé, 1787 [part 1, 23-26]; Troyes: De l’Imprimerie de la Veuve Gobelet, 1786 (parts 2-11, 13-16, 18-19, [21-22]); Compiegne: De l’Imprimerie de Bertrand (parts 12, 17, 20). 26 parts in one, 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches). 30 engraved plates, printed on blue paper and all (except allegorical plate in part 23) with period hand colouring. Parts 21 and 22 without text or imprint, as issued. Signed by the author and with his stencil monograph on most titles and plates. Contemporary French calf, bound by Derome with his ticket, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Very rare complete set of an illustrated series of privately-printed essays on agricultural inventions, with beautiful hand coloured plates. In 1786, scientist Rey de Planazu was invited to various estates in France to advise the landowners on new technological ideas designed to improve agricultural production. The results of these were published in a series of privately-printed pamphlets (published by three different printers in various towns) which provide details and illustrations of innovative farming inventions. Each part was dedicated to various members of the French nobility, with each bearing the relevant coat-of-arms. The author, Rey de Planazu, calls himself a member of the Société Physique et Economique of Zurich and is obviously the originator of the great variety of suggestions for the rationalization of agriculture and also the inventor of the machines and tools described and depicted on the plates. The subjects of the beautifully hand coloured plates treated include improved ways of sowing, threshing, raising poultry, culturing bees, a new device for the artificial hatching of chicken eggs, for cutting turnips, straw, leaves; an early silo, etc.

The sections comprise: 1. Traité sur les causes de l’état de langueur et d’engourdissement de l’agriculture en France. 2. Traité sur les moyens simples de composer un engrais des plus économiques et des plus avantageux. 1 plate. 3. Tableau de la division des terres en douze sols de façon qu’il n’y en ait jamais d’incultes, en repos ou jachères. 1 plate. 4. Traité sur la pomme de terre avec un moulin pour en extraire la farine. 1 plate. 5. Traité sur l’usage des différentes herses, avec la description d’une herse à cylindre propre aux terres argileuses. 1 plate. 6. Traité sur les différentes manières de semer, avec la description d’un semoir nouveau de son invention. 1 plate. 7. Traité sur les moyens de cultiver toutes sortes de fourrages de prairies. 5 plates. 8. Description d’une machine servant à découper les turneps et autres racines en terre pour servir d’engrais. 1 plate. 9. Description d’un levier simple et peu dispendieux à l’usage des habitans de la campagne qui ne peuvent se procurer les secours et la ressource du cric. 1 plate. 10. Traité sur les boeufs. 1 plate. 11. Description des différentes sondes à échappemens pour rechercher la nature et la qualité des terres à diverses profondeurs. 1 plate. 12. Machine à battre les grains. 1 plate. 13. Traité sur la culture des turneps et sur l’avantage de cette nourriture pour les bestiaux, avec la description d’une machine pour les hacher. 1 plate. 14. Description d’un charriot propre à transplanter de grands arbres. 1 plate. 15. Description et explication d’une machine pour conserver les fruits à pépins pendant l’hiver. 1 plate. 16. Machine hydraulique. 2 plates. 17. Description d’un moulin à manivelle pour hacher les pailles et les feuilles.1 plate. 18. Traité sur toutes espèces de volaille ou oiseaux de basse-cour. 1 plate. 19. Recueil contenant différents procédés d’économie rurale. 20. Machines pour découper les gazons. 1 plate. 21. Méthode facile de planter par le moien d’un double cordeau. 1 plate. Without text, as issued. 22. Machine pour égluier le seigle. 1 plate. Without text, as issued. 23. Spectacle de la nature considérée dans les produits de l’agriculture et de l’économie rurale. Engraved dedication, engraved allegorial plate. 24. Description d’une herse pour arracher le chaume. 1 plate. 25. Description de deux machines dont l’une sert à ouvrir des sillons pour semer à des distances égales, et l’autre recouvre les semences après qu’elles sont semées. 1 plate. 26. Traité sur les abeilles. 2 plates. The work is seldom found complete with all twenty-six parts and with all plates. Not cited in the usual bibliographies. (#31304)

  $ 15,000

84 RHODE, Johann Christoph (1713-1786). Partes confines Trium Magnorum Imperiorum Austriaci Russici et Osmanici. [Berlin: Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences], 1785. Engraved case map, full period hand colouring, dissected and linen-backed as issued. Housed in period green morocco backed case, with armorial bookplate of the Borghese family. Sheet size: 38x54 inches. Highly-detailed 18th century large-scale map of the Black Sea region: fine example from the celebrated library of the Borghese family. Centered on the Black Sea, this map depicts the region from the Ionian Sea in the west, to as far eastward as the western edge of the Caspian Sea, as far south as Cyprus and as far north as just above Tsaritsyn (i.e. Volgograd), taking in much of southeastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, etc.), all of Turkey, Georgia and parts of Ukraine and Russia. Rhode served as geographer of the Royal Russian Academy of Sciences from 1752 until his death. The present map was accomplished in the midst of the Austro-Turkish and RussoTurkish wars, between the Austrian and Ottoman Empires. On the slip case is the engraved bookplate of the library of the Borghese Princes, with their coat of arms: “Ex libris M. A. Principis Burhesii.” Camillo Filippo Ludovico (1775-1832), Prince Borghese and son of Marco-Antonio III (1730-1800), married Napoleon’s sister, Pauline, in 1803. (#29908)   $ 4,500

85 ROBERT, Nicolas (1614-85). Diverses oyseaux dessignées et gravées d’après le naturel. Paris: F. Poilly excudit, [no date, but 1673]. Folio (14 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches). Engraved throughout, 31 plates (the first plate captioned with the title and imprint). Expertly bound to style in 17th century mottled calf, covers with a gilt double ruled border, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Very rare suite of 17th-century ornithological engravings from the greatest natural history artist of his age. This spectacular and very rare suite is reminiscent of the original ornithological watercolours on vellum that Nicolas Robert produced for Gaston d’Orleans and Louis XIV of France. From 1666 onwards, Robert was required (in his role as “Peintre ordinaire du Roi pour la miniature”) to supply a minimum of fifty-four original natural history watercolours on vellum a year. Most of Robert’s ornithological subjects came from the Ménagerie at Versailles, but he was not tied to working exclusively for the king. He continued to engrave and publish his own work in collaboration with other artists: the present work being a major example.

The compositions show some significant improvements on the vélins that Robert produced for the French King: the subjects are shown within fully-realised landscapes and most of the plates include more than one subject, often including both the male and female or showing the bird in a number of characteristic poses: this gives the plates a vivacity that is often lacking from ornithological work where only a single bird or pose is shown. The birds shown are a mixture of the familiar and the exotic. The birds are clearly all drawn from actual specimens. They are always identifiable, and the plates include integral engraved titles which give the bird’s name in Latin and French. Sometimes these identifications appear strange to the modern viewer: the turkey vulture is bizarrely identified as a ‘Pelican’, but the identification of the great auks as ‘Pinguins’ can be explained: the large flightless birds from the northern hemisphere were originally known as ‘Pinguins’ or penguins, and when large flightless birds were found in the southern hemisphere they were given the same name. Brunet IV, 1326; Graesse VI1, 136; Nissen, IVB 787 & SVB 411; Ronsil 2599; Ronsil L’Art 19, 97; Yale/Ripley 242. For Robert see Thieme/Becker XXVIII, 423; A.-P. de Mirimonde “Un peintre de la realité, Nicolas Robert” in La Revue des Arts (1958) VIII.2. (#24931)   $ 12,500

86 ROGERS, Captain Woodes (d. 1732). A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finished in 1711... Containing a journal of all the remarkable transactions...an account of Alexander Selkirk’s living alone four years and four months on an island. London: printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). 5 engraved folding maps. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked retaining the original red morocco lettering piece, endpapers renewed. First edition of an important early Pacific voyage and a British buccaneering classic. Rogers, who was accompanied by William Dampier as his pilot, went out via Cape Horn, rescued Alexander Selkirk from the island of Juan Fernandez (making this the source book for Robinson Crusoe, with an account of his experiences), and then attacked Spanish shipping on the west coast of South America and Mexico, succeeding in taking the Acapulco galleon in 1709, as well as other prizes. The expedition went as far north as California, and put into various ports in South America. The maps show the voyagers’ track around the world and the South Sea coast of America from the island of Chiloe to Acapulco. The sources for some of these maps include manuscripts taken from the Spanish on the expedition. Rogers’s eyewitness account of his adventures provides an important contemporary source for its vivid descriptions of buccaneering life on the high seas. European Americana 712/194; Cowan p.194; Cox I, 46; Hill (2004) 1479; Howes R421, “b.”; Sabin 72753; Streeter sale 2429; Wagner Spanish Southwest 78; Borba de Moraes, p. 744 (“very rare”); NMM, Piracy & Privateering, 472. (#31037)   $ 4,500

87 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

88 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

89 SOCIETY OF PRACTICAL GARDENERS. Rural Recreations; or the Gardener’s Instructor ... [vol. I] ...[With:] Rural Recreations; or, I. The Modern Farmer’s Calendar ... II. The Elements of Botany ... By a Farmer ... [Vol. II]. London: Printed for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806. 2 volumes, 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). 17 engraved plates (6 folding). Uncut. Publisher’s printed blue paper boards. Housed within a modern green cloth box, morocco lettering piece. First combined edition. The two volumes here were first issued separately in 1802, this being the first combined edition with cancel titles. The first work is organized monthly with suggestions for kitchen, flower and fruit gardens, and includes an additional treatise on the management of bees as well as a catalogue of trees and shrubs. The first part of the second volume is similar in format, but is focussed more generally on the farm; the second part of the second volume includes its own title, which identifies the author of the Linnaean explanation as the work of a Dr. R. Hall. The plates include designs for fruit-specific hot-houses. (#29719)   $ 950

90 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

91 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

92 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

93 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

94 [THOMSON, John (1837-1921) and Adolphe SMITH HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)]. Street Incidents. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. 4to (10 5/8 x 8 inches). [4], 45100pp. 21 woodburytypes, each with printed caption and red ruled border. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt and black (expertly recased). “The first photographic social documentation of any kind” (Gernsheim). Thomson’s photographs in Street Life in London and the present Street Incidents, and the commentary upon the images by Thomson and Adolphe Smith, depict a London in which life is a harsh and continuous struggle. The characters on view here are familiar to us more from Dickens’ novels or from an idea of the Whitechapel of Jack the Ripper than from any nostalgic image of a strait-laced or patrician Victorianism. Thomson and Smith are, however, sympathetic to the objects of their study and seem intent on cataloguing the variety of types to be found rather than attempting any Barnum-like freakshow. As Thomson himself writes: “The precision and accuracy of photography enables us to present true types of the London poor and shield us from the accusation of either underrating or exaggerating individual peculiarities of appearance.”

It is “a pioneering work of social documentation in photographs and words ... one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium’s history” (Parr & Badger). This copy the second abridged issue, with variant title (i.e., renamed Street Incidents) and complete with 21 plates and text leaves numbered 45-100. The history of the production of this issue is not well known. However, internal evidence, when compared to the first edition of Street Life, which contains 36 photographs and text leaves numbered 1-100, reveal that Street Incidents comprises everything from Street Life, both text and photographs, following page 44. The only changes would appear to be additional plate numbers below the captions, as well as page numbers above the images. It would seem likely that the publisher had a remainder of the latter portion of Street Life, and re-issued what was available with a new title, without credit to Thomson, as a new work. The images in Street Incidents comprise: A Convict’s Home; The Wall Worker; Covent Garden Labourers; Halfpenny Ices; Black Jack; The Cheap Fish of St. Giles; Cast-iron Billy; Worker’s on the “Silent Highway”; The Street Fruit Trade; The London Boardmen; The Water-cart; “Mush-Fakers” and Ginger-Beer Makers; November Effigies; “Hookey Alf ” of Whitechapel; The Crawlers; Italian Street Musicians; The Street Locksmith; The Seller of Shell-fish; Flying Dustmen; Old Furniture; The Independent Shoeblack. Cf. Hasselblad 42; cf. Gernsheim, p. 447; cf. Truthful Lens 169; cf. Parr & Badger I:p.48. (#28775)

  $ 12,500

95 TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708). A Voyage into the Levant ... Containing the Antient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia and Asia Minor. London: Printed for D. Browne [et al.], 1718. 2 volumes, quarto (9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Folding map by Senex, 152 engraved plates (6 folding), plus duplicates of two plates in vol. 1. (Foxing, scattered minor worming and staining). Contemporary panelled calf (some wear at joints). First edition in English of Tournefort’s travels through Greece, the Black Sea and Asia Minor. A noted botanist, Tournefort undertook these travels between 1700 and 1702 with a commission from the Comte de Pontchartrain and the sponsorship of Louis XIV. Principally a botanizing expedition (over 1300 specimens were collected), Tournefort travelled, along with Claude Aubriet and Andreas Gundelsheimer, through the Greek islands, to Constantinople, and the borders of the Black Sea, Armenia and Georgia. The plates, after drawings by Aubriet, depict the botany of the regions visited, as well as costume of the inhabitants and views of the principal ports and cities. Following his death in 1708, his work was published in Paris in 1717; the present first edition in English, translated by John Ozell, followed. Howgego T58. Not in Blackmer or Atabey. (#29568)

  $ 2,750

96 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

Item 97

Item 96

97 VAN KAMPEN, Nicholas and Son, florists. The Dutch Florist: or, True Method of managing all sorts of Flowers with bulbous roots ... translated from the original. Newcastle upon Tyne: Isaac Thompson, 1763. 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches). [8], 95, [1], 7, [1]pp. . Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century russia and period marbled paper covered boards. Rare first edition in English of a manual on growing hyacinth, tulips and ranunculus, by a noted Dutch florist. Translated from the original in French, “Trait des fleurs à oignons” (Harlem:1760) by Robert Harrison. “Appended to The Dutch florist is a translation of an unknown work (pp. 7), entitled The monthly catalogue” (Henrey). The work was reissued with a cancel title in London the same year, and a second edition followed in 1764. Scarce. ESTC T92142; Henrey III:888; Johnston 464 (#30727)

  $ 1,750

98 VIRGINIA. An Abridgement of the Publick Laws of Virginia, in force and use, June 10. 1720. To which is added, for the ease of the Justices and Military Officers, &c. Precedents of all matters be issued by them, peculiar to those law and varying from the precedents in England. London: F. Fayram and J. Clarke, 1722. 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches). [8],184,[16]pp. Expertly bound to style in period calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second. Early laws of Virginia. A rare compilation of English laws governing colonial Virginia. Church contends that perhaps Robert Beverley was the compiler of this volume, as the second edition of his History and Present State of Virginia was also printed by Fayram and Clarke in 1722, in a similar format. A rare work, with only seven copies listed in OCLC. Church 884; Sabin 100382; OCLC 2931401, 181880478. (#28943)

  $ 9,500

99 WALCOTT, John (1755-1831). Flora Britannica Indigena: or Plates of the Indigenous Plants of Great Britain. Bath: Printed for the Author, by S. Hazard, 1778. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches). Engraved frontispiece and 168 engraved plates, engraved by Collyer, Hibbert and others. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine divided into compartments by gilt roll tools, morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. First and only edition of a scarce botanical work. The scarce work was published in parts, and ceased after 168 plates. The author was an Irish-born naturalist living in Gloucester, later the author of a work on fossils found near Bath and his Synopsis of British Birds (London:1789-92). The descriptions follow Linnaean classifications from his Systema Naturae, with the addition of English names, as well as localities and times of growth. As the preface suggests, the work was published in octavo format “to make it more portable” for the use of the naturalist in the field. Henrey 3.1472; Nissen 2093; Pritzel 337; Dunthorne 324; Johnson 533 (#29506)

  $ 1,500

100 ZUBER, Jean, & Co. (publishers) - ENGELMANN, père & fils (lithographers). Collection d’Esquisses des principaux articles de décoration exécutés en papier peint dans la manufacture de Jean Zuber et Compagnie à Rixheim près Mulhausen, dept. du haut-Rhin. [Mulhouse, Alsace, France: Engelmann père & fils for Jean Zuber, circa 1850]. Folio (19 1/4 x 14 inches). Lithographed throughout: uncoloured title, 73 images by Engelmann after P.A. Mongin, J.J. Déltil, J.M. Gué, Zippélius, Ehrmann, Fuchs and others on 41 sheets (15 sheets with fine contemporary hand-colouring, 4 of these heightened with gum arabic, including two images in both coloured and uncoloured state). (The final sheet cut dwon and loosely inserted, the 4th and 5th torn with marginal paper loss not affecting the images, the 8th sheet torn in half with neat old repair). Contemporary French blue reversed leather-backed blue/green paper-covered boards, upper cover with red morocco label panelled and lettered in gilt, extremities rubbed. Provenance: H. Cresch (early inscription “H. Cresch / sellier / Masevaux”). A magnificent album: an iconography of the work of the greatest of all the 19th-century producers of ‘papier peints’, and a spectacular example of the lithographer’s art. Despite its large format and exuberant use of high-quality hand-colouring, the present album was designed as no more than a sample book to be used by salesmen or agents of Alsace-based producers of wall and ceiling treatments: Jean Zuber et Cie. The heavy usage such albums usually received has ensured that they are now much rarer than many of their pampered drawing-room contemporaries: the Grand Tour views of Rome or Paris survived into the 20th century in huge numbers, albums such as these did not. After ten years learning his trade, Jean Zuber, the founder of the company, began manufacturing under his own name in 1802. He employing a number of artists: P. A. Mongin can be said to have set the style for the firm, working for Jean Zuber & Cie. up until 1825. The popularity of Mongin’s designs can be judged by the fact that a number of them were still being offered for sale in the present album produced about 25 years after he stopped working for the firm. J.J. Deltil succeeded to the mantle of chief designer and the spectacular three sheet panorama “Vues du l’Amerique du Nord” (1834) is one of the better known designs of his that is in the album: - the panorama of New York City, West Point, Boston, Virginia and Niagara Falls is here seen on two uncoloured and one coloured sheet, the 32 sheet full-sized work so delighted Jackie Kennedy that she had it installed in the “grand salon ovale de la Maison-Blanche” (according to Le Monde du Papier Peint, p. 113). Deltil was also responsible for the “Vues du Brésil” (1830) and the “Décor Chinois” (1832). It is however the image of a section of “El Dorado” which enables us to date the album to the middle of the century, since it was not produced until 1848, a date confirmed by the “Conquete de Mexique” which purports to show scenes from the war of 1846-1848. In addition to the examples of papier peint there are numerous plates showing designs for decorative papers for a variety of other schemes, including faux panelling (in a variety of styles), ceilings, ceiling roses, chimney breasts, etc. Some of these are designed to reproduce plaster, some woodwork, and some again fabric, but all are of the highest quality with particular attention paid to the fine detail: as is to be expected from an album printed by Engelmann and intended to sell wall-paper that is on a much larger scale.

The individual plates are titled as follows: 1. Devant de Cheminées (4 images - 2 “framed”) 2. Devant de Cheminées Echelle de 3 Pieds (4 images) 3. [Devant de Cheminées] (4 images - 2 “framed”) 4. [Devant de Cheminées] (4 “framed” images) 5. [Devant de Cheminées] (5 images - 2 “framed”) 6. Sujets en hauteur (6 images) 7. Sujets de fleurs et de chasse (7 images) 8. [Sujets de fleurs et de chasse (6 images) 9. Paysage colorié L’Helvétie, sur 20 lés de 26 pouces (particularly fine hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum arabic, enclosed within an elaborate gold frame) 10. Paysage colorié L’Italie sur 20 lés de 26 pouces (particularly fine hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with gum arabic, within an elaborate frame, with classical columns to either side, and an elaborate freize to top and bottom) 11. Conquète du Mexique (hand-coloured lithograph) 12. Paysage à Chasse (Première moitie) en colorié 32 lés de 18 pouces (fine hand-coloured lithograph) 13. Paysage à Chasse (Deuxième moitie) en colorié 32 lés de 18 pouces (uncoloured lithograph) 14. Jardins français Paysage colorié de 25 lés de 20 pouces (1re partie No. 1 à 12) (fine handcoloured lithograph, heightened with gum arabic) 15. Jardins français Paysage colorié de 25 lés de 20 pouces (2de partie No. 13 à 25) (uncoloured lithograph) 16. Vues de l’Amérique du Nord (1r au 10e lé) (uncoloured) 17. Vues de l’Amérique du Nord (10me au 21me lé) (coloured) 18. Vues de l’Amérique du Nord (22me au 32me lé) (uncoloured) 19. Vues du Brésil 1e feuille (fine hand-coloured lithograph)

20. Vues du Brésil 1e feuille (uncoloured lithograph) 21. Vues du Brésil 3e. feuille (uncoloured lithograph) 22. Paysage colorié L’Italie sur 20 lés de 26 pouces (uncoloured lithograph, within an elaborate frame, with classical columns to either side, and an elaborate freize to top and bottom) 23. Les courses des chevaux Paysage en camayeux 32 lés 18”. 2e feuille (uncoloured) 24. Les courses des chevaux Paysage en camayeux 32 lés 18”. 1e feuille (uncoloured) 25. Les courses des chevaux Paysage en camayeux 32 lés 18”. 3e feuille (uncoloured) 26. Les Jardins Espagnols 25 lés de 20 pouces (fine hand-coloured lithograph, with ms. title beneath) 27. [Jardins] (fine lithograph view with elaborate decorative border) 28. Paysage en camayeux. Les Vues d’Ecosse sur 32 lés de 18 pouces (uncoloured lithograph with elaborate neo-gothic style borders at head and foot) 29. El Dorado Décor colorié en 24 lés No. 4201 à 4224 (elaborate finely hand-coloured image, divided into three sections by richly decorative border, this also hand-coloured) 30. Décor chinois. No. 2911-2914 (5 lés de 20”) (particularly fine detailed and delicately hand-coloured lithograph) 31. Décor de l’Alhambra de Paysage Isola Bella (No. 3551) Echelle d’un Mètre (particularly fine detailed and delicately hand-coloured lithograph, the image divided into three by a fine highly elaborate frame in the moorish style, this too hand-coloured) 32. Décor à fleur (particularly fine detailed and delicately hand-coloured lithograph, the image divided into two panels surrounded by a floral border, with a final plain border around the whole) 33. Décor Florentin particularly fine detailed and delicately hand-coloured lithograph, the image divided into three panels with an extremely elaborate border, this too hand-coloured) 34. Décor Louis XV (particularly fine detailed hand-coloured lithograph, the image divided into two panels, with a richly detailed & coloured border, the lower section of which is painted to resemble paneling) 35. Décor à rideau No. 2864 1/20 [with] Décor etrusque No. 2866 1/20 (uncoloured lithographs) 36. No. 2052. Rosace pour plafond, à ornemens coloriés sur fond irisé. No. 2430. Le milieu seul sur fond irisé, et avec une guirlande de fleurs. (single image, uncoloured lithograph) 37. No. 2203. Rosace pour plafond executée surfonds irisés, les ornemens en grisaille ou teinte d›or, le Tors Légèrement colorié. No. 2203½. La même rosace executée en rond sur un diamêtre de 7 pieds avec un autre milieu sur fond Irisé (single image, uncoloured lithograph) 38. No. 2201. Rosace pour polafond en octagone exécuté sur fonds irisés en colorié. No. 2202. Le milieu seul avec amour, sur fond ciel irisé (single image, uncoloured lithograph). 39. No. 1806. Plafond à voute en grisaille. No. 1883 le milieu seul (single image, uncoloured lithograph). 40. 2341 Rosace en gris ou en colorié (single image, uncoloured lithograph) 41. Revolution Italienne (loose, fine hand-coloured lithograph heightened with gum arabic, with manuscript title to upper margin) F. Curie. «Jean Zuber (fils)» in the Revue d’Alsace, 1855, pp 21-22 & 51-83; E. Dollfus. “Notice nécrologique sur M. Jean Zuber fils.” in the Bulletin S.I.M.,1853, tome XXV, pp.111-129; G. Gayelin, fils. Notice historique sur la manufacture de papiers peints Jean Zuber et Cie à Rixheim. (Strasbourg, 1912); C. Grad “Les industries de lAlsace, fabrication du papier peint.” in the Revue d’Alsace, 1876, pp. 331 -345; B. Jacqué “Les débuts de lindustrie du papier peint à Mulhouse (1790-1794)” in the Revue dAlsace, 1979, n°105, pp.137-150; B. Jacqué. “Papiers peints panoramiques et jardins: l’oeuvre de P.A. Mongin chez Jean Zuber et Cie.” in Nouvelles de l’Estampe, 1980, n°49, pp. 6-11; F. Teynac, P. Nolot & J-D. Vivien Le Monde du Papier Peint (Paris: 1981) pp. 107-117. (#18539)   $ 27,500