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ANSEL ADAMS CLICK THE MARY HUNTER AUSTIN TITLE
Taos Pueblo.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Folio (17 x 12 1/2 inches). [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text. 12 original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6 1/2 inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Publisher's tan morocco backed orange cloth, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom mor- occo backed slipcase.
From an edition of 108 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams.
(#36374) $ 80,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
AMERICAN REVOLUTION GERVASE BUSHE
Case of Great-Britain and America, addressed to the King and both Houses of Parliament ... Third Edition.
Dublin: James Williams, 1769. 8vo. [4], 43, [1]pp. Half-title. Uncut. Original stitched blue paper wrappers.
A pro-American pamphlet advocating self-government: a lovely uncut exam- ple in original wrappers.
(#35376) $ 1,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
CALIFORNIA HERBERT O. LANG, compiler
A History of Tuolumne County, California. Compiled from the Most Authentic Records.
San Francisco: B. F. Alley, 1882. xi, 509, 48pp., plus woodcut frontispiece and eleven other woodcut portraits. Later half calf and con- temporary sheep, gilt morocco spine label, edges sprinkled brown. Ownership inscription on front endpaper recto, scattered manuscript notations in pencil (several on portraits). Final contents page tipped in.
A rare history of Tuolumne County, California, covering a variety of topics.
(#31379) $ 1,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
ROBERT BENJAMIN HART
[Collection of five original watercolors of Pima Indians and their lands in Aravaipa Canyon, Arizona, made by Forty-niner Robert Hart on his journey to the California gold fields].
[Aravaipa Canyon, AZ]: late July 1849]. Five original watercolors on card stock, detailed below. Each matted and housed in a red morocco backed box.
An extraordinary group of watercolors made by a Virginian travelling the Southern Route to the California gold fields in 1849, among the earliest illustrations depicting the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, and showing their lands in the Aravaipa canyons.
(#27856) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
FERDINAND V. HAYDEN ANDREW JOSEPH RUSSELL
Sun Pictures of Rocky Moun- tain Scenery, With a Descrip- tion of the Geographical and Geological Features, and Some Account of the Re- sources of the Great West; Containing Thirty Photogra- phic Views Along the Line of the Pacific Rail Road, From Omaha to Sacramento.
New York: Julius Bien, 1870. Large 4to (12 x 9 1/2 inches). viii, 150pp. Half-title. Thirty mounted albumen photographs. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco over green cloth, spine gilt, edges gilt.
A classic photographically illustrated book on the American West, with albu- men photographs by A. J. Russell.
(#27937) $ 15,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
OVERTON JOHNSON WILLIAM H. WINTER
Route Across the Rocky Mountains, with a description of Oregon and California: their geographical features, their resources, soil, climate, productions.
Lafayette, In.: John B. Semans, printer, 1846. Octavo. 152pp. Original green drab boards with cloth spine. Cloth worn, hinges cracked but solid. Corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf. Some light foxing. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise, spine gilt.
A very rare key overland guide.
(#31373) $ 20,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
MICHAEL KRAFFT
The American Distiller, or, the theory and practice of distilling, according to the latest discoveries and improvements, including the most approved methods of constructing stills, and of rectification.
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1804. 8vo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches). [4], [1-9], 10-151, [22], 152-219pp. 2 folding plates. Includes errata leaf. Original full calf, spine flat with red morocco lettering piece, neat repairs to hinges. Within modern full morocco box.
The first book on distilling in America.
(#39487) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
ALFRED EDWARD MATHEWS
Gems of Rocky Mountain Scenery, Containing Views Along and Near the Union Pacific Rail- road.
New York: Published by the Author, 1869. Small folio (13 x 10 1/4 inches). 20 tinted lithographed plates after Mathews. Pub- lisher's purple cloth, covers decoratively blocked in blind, upper cover with a central stamp in gilt, expertly rebacked to style.
A rare work by an important western artist, with among the first illustrations of the Rocky Mountains made available to the public.
(#31318) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
SAMUEL A. MITCHELL
A Route-Book, Adapted to Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic; Comprising Tables of the Principal Rail-Road, Steam-Boat and Stage Routes, Throughout the United States.
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. 16mo. 46pp. plus large folding map, 25 x 34 1/4 inches, with full period color. Original blindstamped and gilt purple morocco, with original clasp.
Second edition, after the first of 1843, of this rare pocket map of North America, showing the United States west to Texas, Indian Territory, and Dakota Territory (i.e. 19° longitude west of Washington, D.C.).
(#31381) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
NATHANIEL MORTON
New England's Memorial: Or, a brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence, of God, manifested to the Planters of New-England in America.
Newport: S. Southwick, 1772. 8vo. viii, 208, [8]pp. List of subscribers in the rear. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands, upper cover detached, later red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: T. K. Thomas (early signatures); Society of May- flowers Descendants in Massachusetts (bookplate).
A New England cornerstone: the first comprehensive history of Plymouth colony.
(#35264) $ 850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOHN WILLIAM MURPHY
Outlaws of the Fox River Country. Story of the Whiteford and Spencer Tragedies, the Assassination of Judge Richardson, the Execution of John Baird, and the Mobbing of W.J. Young: criminal career of Frank Lane, the pseudo detective; Laura Sprouse and her lovers, and her Ohio rival; the Kansas Ex- pedition after John B. Glenn; the raid on St. Fran- cisville; Robbery of the Luray postoffice; confessions of Brady and Marmaduke; a Clark County cam- paign.
Hannibal, MO: Hannibal Printing Company, 1882. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 138pp. 7 full-page black and white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Housed in cloth box.
A very fine copy of this rare account of illegal acts in Missouri, Iowa, and Ohio in the 1860s and 70s, with illustrations of the crime scenes and perpetrators' portraits.
(#39488) $ 3,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
[THOMAS PAINE] R. WATSON
An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine ... Second Philadelphia Edition.
Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796. 8vo. 80pp. Disbound.
Watson's response to Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason, Part II."
(#36523) $ 100. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
CADWALADER RINGGOLD, surveyor
Chart of the Bay of San Pablo Straits of Carquines and part of the Bay of San Francisco California by ... Ringgold assisited by Simon F. Blunt ... Projected, constructed & drawn by Fred. D. Stuart ... assisted by A.H. Campbell.
Washington, D.C.: [circa 1850]. Lithographic map, by C.B. Graham from Ringgold's survey. Sheet size: 31 1/8 x 21 5/16 inches. In good condition, on later backing paper with a number of small re- paired marginal tears.
Rare unfolded thick paper issue of this important early chart of San Francisco bay and its environs by the 'Gold Rush Surveyor' (A.F. Houston).
(#19121) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
SAMUEL ROBINSON
A Catalogue of American Minerals, with Their Localities: Including All which are Known to Exist in the United States an British Provinces, and Having the Towns, Counties, and Districts in Each State and Province Arranged Alphabetically. With an Appendix, Containing Additional Localities and a Tabular View.
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co., 1825. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches). vi, 316pp. Original publisher's cloth-backed boards, morocco lettering piece.
First edition of an important early American mineralogical work.
(#39282) $ 450. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WILLIAM ROGERS
An Oration, delivered July 4, 1789, at the Presbyterian Church in Arch Street, Philadelphia ... Published at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati.
Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1789. 8vo (7 13/16 x 4 13/16 inches). 32pp. Later wrappers.
(#36527) $ 400. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
RUFUS B. SAGE
Scenes In The Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, Califor- nia, New Mexico, Texas, and The Grand Prairies or notes by the way, during an excur-sion of three years ... By a New Englander.
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches). 303pp. Large folding map. Map silked with repaired tears. Twentieth century polished calf bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine with raised bands in six com- partments, red morocco lettering piece, repeat decoration in gilt.
First edition, first issue of one of the most important overland narratives: this copy complete with its important map.
(#35258) $ 6,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WILLIAM WOODWARD W.S. VOSBURGH, editor
Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses, from the collection of William Woodward with Notes by W.S. Vosburgh.
New York: Privately Printed [for] Ernest R. Gee [by The Derrydale Press], 1929. Large 4to (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches). [8], 297pp. 68 engraved plates and 3 charts. Includes index. Pre- sentation inscription from Woodward to J.R. Sears on flyleaf. Full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt ruled covers with gilt title on front cover, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, top edge gilt, blue end- papers.
First edition, one of 300 copies, inscribed by Woodward to J.R. Sears.
(#39696) $ 3,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss n a t u r a l h i s t o r y DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
AXEL AMUCHASTEGUI
Some Birds and Mammals of North America ... text by Les Line.
[London]: Tryon Gallery in association with George Rainbird, 1971. Folio (20 7/8 x 14 inches). Title printed in brown and black, half title. 16 coloured lithographic plates by the Curwen Press after Amuchas- tegui. Original morocco-backed cloth by Zaehnsdorf, the flat spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges, cloth slipcase.
An excellent copy of this limited edition featuring the work of one of the greatest wildlife artists of the 20th century, here highlighting his paintings of the birds and mammals of North America.
(#19067) $ 1,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WILLIAM PAUL CRILLON BARTON
A Flora of North America, illustrated by coloured figures drawn from nature.
Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, 1821-1823. 3 volumes, quarto (10 11/16 x 8 1/2 inches). Half-titles in volumes II and III. To the Subscriber's leaf in vol. 2 present (often lacking). 106 hand- coloured engraved plates (two folding), including some par- tially printed in colours and finished by hand, from drawings by the author, by Cornelius Tiebout (29), G.B. Ellis (32), F. Kearny (23), J. Boyd (7), J. Drayton (6), C. Goodman (6), Jacob J. Plocher (2) and J.L. Frederick (1). Later half tan leather and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt.
Coloured issue of an important American flora, "magnificently illustrated" (DAB) with "plates [that] are clear, soft and lovely" (Bennett). The work includes the first successful use of stipple-engraving in the United States.
(#39147) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
GEORGE BENTHAM AND HENRY FLETCHER HANCE
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 Jour- nal.
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.
(#29444) $ 2,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WALTER E. BRYANT
A Catalogue of the Birds of Lower California, Mexico.
[San Francisco: 1889]. 8vo. [237]-320pp. Folding map. Publisher's green wrappers, minor tears and tape repairs. Provenance: Lyman Belding (inscription on upper wrapper); early owner's blindstamp on wrapper and title.
Rare separately-issued extract from the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.
(#30648) $ 750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WALTER LAWRY BULLER
Buller's Birds of New Zealand: a New Edition of Sir Walter Lawry Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1967. Quarto (14 5/16 x 10 inches). xviii, 261pp. Includes index. 48 plates. Quarter dark blue faux-leather, blue cloth boards with gilt image in gold on upper cover.
Reprint of this "notable contribution to science," with color reproductions of the renowned lithographs by J.G. Keulemans.
(#39711) $ 60. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WALTER E. COLLINGE, editor
The Conchologist ... The Journal of Malacology
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1891-1905. 12 volumes, 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary green cloth, spines gilt. Original part wrappers bound in. Provenance: John Brooks Henderson, Jr. (bookplate).
A complete set of this important quarterly magazine covering research in conchology and malacology.
(#39508) $ 1,875. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT
The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America.
New York: Published by the Author, [1866-]1869. 2 vols, folio. 1p. list of 71 subscribers. 73 hand-col- oured lithographic plates (including the additional "Parus occidentalis" plate; 1 plate by and after Elliot and Joseph Wolf, printed by D. McClellan & Bro- thers of New York; 72 printed and coloured by Bo- wen & Co. of Philadelphia, after Elliot [55], Joseph Wolf [15] or Edwin Sheppard [2], drawn on stone by Ch. P. Tholey (11), 'M.P.' (14), 'H.J.S.' (3) or 'L.H.' (1) and others), 21 wood-engraved vignette illustrations, on india paper mounted, by W.J. Linton after Edwin Sheppard. Contemporary 19th-century green half morocco over green cloth-covered boards.
A spectacular work, particularly on birds of the Am- erican West, with fine life-size hand-coloured litho- graphs of species not previously pictured by Wilson or Audubon, with an additional plate not recorded by standard bibliographies.
(#33108) $ 36,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
CLEMENT HOARE
A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine on Open Walls ... Second edition.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1837. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). vii, [1], [4], 210pp. plus 16pp. publisher's ads in the rear. Half-title. Contemporary brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt.
An influential 19th century work on the cultivation of the grape.
(#29723) $ 300. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOHN MATTHEW JONES
The Naturalist in Bermuda; A Sketch of the Geology, Zoology, and Botany, of that Remarkable Group of Islands; together with Meteorological Observations.
London: Reeves & Turner, 1859. 8vo (7 13/16 x 4 7/8 inches). xii, [2, blank], 200pp. Includes index. Illustrations throughout, 1 folding map. Green publisher's cloth rebacked, gilt decoration on front cover, yellow endpapers.
An early work on the natural history of Bermuda.
(#39600) $ 950. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOHN MEARNS
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, expert- ly rebacked to style with red straight grained morocco.
A rare little book on the cultivation of grapes in pots.
(#29491) $ 850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTÉ ETIENNE-PIERRE VENTENAT
Jardin de la Malmaison.
Paris: Crapelet for the author, 1803-[1805]. Folio, 2 vols bound in 1 (21 x 13 3/4 inches). Half-title. Dedication to the Empress Jose- phine. 120 fine stipple-engraved plates after Pierre-Joseph Re- douté, printed in colors and finished by hand by L.J. Allaias, J.B. Dien, P.F. Legrand, and others. Half calf, marbled boards, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the se- cond, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
A fine copy of the first edition of "the great opus of Redouté, among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be published" (Stafleu).
(#39346) $ 85,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
CHARLES REEMELIN
The Vine-Dresser's Manual, an Illustrated Treatise on Vineyards and Wine-Making.
New York: C. M. Saxton & Company, 1856. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). 3- 103, [1], 4pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Publish- er's ads in the rear. Publisher's cloth, covers decoratively blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt (fading and wear to spine).
Popular 19th century American practical winemaking manual.
(#29924) $ 225. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOSEPH ANTOINE RISSO PIERRE ANTOINE POITEAU
Histoire Naturelle des Orangers.
Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Hérrisant le Doux, 1818-[1820]. Small folio. Half-title, 2pp. dedication to the Duchesse de Berry, 109 fine stipple- engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand after Poiteau by V. Bonnefoi, Chailly, Dien, Gabriel, Legrand, T. Susémihl and Texier. Scattered minor foxing. 19th century full green morocco, co- vers bordered in gilt, spine with double raised bands in six compart- ments, lettered in the second and third compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a cloth box. Provenance: Barons of Brownlow, Belton House (armorial bookplate).
First edition of this beautiful work depicting sweet and bitter oran- ges, lemons, limes, citrons, and grapefruit.
(#33456) $ 25,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER
The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada with Special Reference to New England.
Cambridge, Mass.: published by the author [printed by W.H. Wheeler], [November 1888 - October] 1889. 3 volumes, quarto (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). 2pp. list of subscribers. 3 portrait frontispieces (1 chromolithographed, 1 printed in three colours, 1 uncoloured), 1 folding uncoloured map, 3 maps printed in three colours (2 fold- ing), 89 maps and plates (21 chromolithographs [10 of butterflies and moths, 4 of eggs, 4 of caterpillars and 3 of pupa], 15 distribution maps printed in two colours, 53 uncoloured). Later blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, blue and gold floral-patterned endpapers.
An important 19th-century colour plate book and American natural history work.
(#39447) $ 2,850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
MISS SMITH
Studies of Flowers from Nature Dedicated by Per- mission to Her Royal Highness, the Princess Eliza- beth.
Printed for & sold by Miss Smith, Adwick Hall near Doncaster, [c. 1820]. Folio (13 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches). Hand-colored lithographic title, three-page letter-press subscribers list at end, and 20 hand-colored lithographs, each in two states, hand-colored and uncolored, and each preceded by facing leaf of text in letter-press (lacking erratum slip). 19th-century green half morocco gilt over patterned cloth boards, all edges gilt (re- backed with original spine laid down), marbled endpapers.
A finely illustrated botanical work by the unidentified artist Miss Smith, rare in institutional collections.
(#39687) $ 9,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
THOMAS TIBBS
The Experimental Farmer: being strictures on various branches of husbandry and agriculture, drawn from a long series of practice in different parts of Great-Bri- tain; containing Observations on planting and Pre- serving Young Trees, with an approved method of thin- ning them, to become timber. Likewise, Plans for Lay- ing-out Land, on a five and four field system. Also, a new method to bring the most barren land into culti- vation, for meadows and sheep walks: and a variety of other useful information in every branch of this art ...
London: printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, [publisher's adver- tisements dated September 1820]. 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches). Half-title, 1p. errata, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated September 1820. Occasional wood-engraved decorations. Original boards, rebacked.
First edition, second issue, of this charming work, full of fascinating practical information on land management at the turn of the 19th cen- tury.
(#20177) $ 750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss M i s c e l l a n y DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking- Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan, 1866; 1872. 8vo (7 x 4 5/8 inches). Frontispieces and 90 illus- trations by John Tenniel. Both with original cloth covers bound at the rear. Uniformly rebound by Root & Son in crushed red morocco imitating the ori- ginal cloth designs with White Rabbit and Queen of Hearts in gilt on front co- vers, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, others with a repeat decoration in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
A fine pair of the greatest children's books of all time, handsomely bound by Root & Son, with their original cloth covers bound at the rear.
(#39697) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
SIR HENRY THOMAS COLEBROOKE
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. Period cloth-backed paper boards, rebacked with leather, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: College of Fort William (per- iod inscription on verso of title).
"The first European work to be based on the indigenous linguistic tradi- tion" (ODNB).
(#26698) $ 7,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
DECORATIVE BINDING
[18th-century French red morocco binding].
4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches). Gilt armorial stamped on covers, marbled endpapers.
(#39702) $ 600. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays: First Series.
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. 8vo (7 x 4 1/4 inches). [6], 303, [1]pp. Full brown morocco by Bennett, rebacked preserving original cloth spine and covers at rear, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth and sixth, repeating gilt decoration in the others, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
First edition of this series of Emerson's most famous essays on transcendent- alism, with the scarce original cloth preserved.
(#39494) $ 2,700. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
ANDRÉ FÉLIBIEN
Déscription de la Grotte de Versailles.
Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1679. Folio (19 1/4 x 13 inches). Letterpress title with large engraved printer's device and royal coat-of-arms; 20 engraved plates (including 3 double-page); 17 addi- tional plates depicting vases, herms, and sphinxes by Le Potre. Contem- porary French red morocco with elaborate gilt lozenge within gilt borders and crowned corners, spine in six compartments with raised bands, green morocco let- tering piece in the second and third, others with a repeat decor- ation in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance: David Li- onel Salomon (bookplate).
First edition of an important festi- val book, extra-illustrated with en- gravings by Le Pautre.
(#39691) $ 15,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
NICOLAUS GODONNESCHE
Médailles du règne de Louis XV.
Paris: [1734]. Folio (12 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches). Frontispiece engraved by Laurent Cars (1699-1771) after François Lemoyne (1688-1737). Engraved title, dedication leaf. 52 engraved plates. Contem- porary French red morocco, boards with arms and ruled bor- der, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, brown morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.
Early edition of this documentation of the medals issued under the reign of Louis XV between 1715 and 1736.
(#39703) $ 2,400. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
CLAUDE GROS DE BOZE
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Depuis son Establissement, avec les Eloges des Academiciens Morts depuis son Renouvellement.
Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1740. Three volumes, octavo (6 9/16 x 4 1/8 inches). En- graved frontispiece by Jean Daullé after An- toine Coypel; engraved title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Half-title in each volume. Contemporary French red morocco, arms of the Count of Maurepas on covers, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Provenance: Jean-Frédéric Phély- peaux, 1st Count of Maurepas (1701-1781).
The history of one of France's major learned academies, in a fine red morocco binding.
(#39685) $ 5,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
AXEL KEY MAGNUS GUSTAF RETZIUS
Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes.
Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner for Samson & Wallin, 1875- 1876. 2 volumes, folio. Half-titles. 75 fine plates after N. O. Björkman, Th. Lundberg and A. Rosengren (comprised of 57 lithographs [3 folding, 25 printed in two or more colours] by Schlacter & Seedorff (Stockholm), or J.G.E. N. Strassberger, J.G. Bach or E.A. Funke [all of Leipzig]; 18 uncoloured engravings by W. Grohmann [Berlin], Jenny Hansen [Copenhagen] or Thornam [Copenhagen]). Publisher's brown half morocco over cloth-covered boards, title in gilt on upper covers, spines in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, volume numbers in gilt in the third, gilt edges.
The first edition of this important and beautifully illustrated colour-plate book and landmark work in the history of neu- ropathology which established the reputations of its authors.
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PLATO
Opera quae extant omnia.
[Geneva: Henri Estienne], 1578. Folio, 3 volumes (14 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches). xxxvi, 542; viii, 992; viii, 416, 139pp. Titles ruled in red. 18th-century full calf, rebacked, boards with gilt border, spine lettered in gilt, in five com- partments with raised bands, marbled endpapers.
The "celebrated and magnificent" (Dibdin) complete edition of Plato.
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ROBERT POTTER
Retirement: An Epistle.
London: Paul Vaillant, 1748. Quarto. 23, [1]pp. Publisher's ad on verso of the terminal leaf. Trimmed close touching some letters at fore-edge. Disbound.
A work of poetry criticizing avarice, sycophancy, pedantry, among other issues.
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CHARLES ROLLIN
De la Manière D'enseigner et D'étudier les Belles-Lettres par rapport à l'esprit et au coeur.
Paris: chez la Veuve Estienne, 1740. 2 vol- umes, 4to. [20], lxxvi, 684, [8]; 676, [31]pp. Portrait frontispiece by C. Coypel and a woodcut vignette by LeBas representing the arts and sciences in volume 1. Text in French. 18th-century French red morocco, boards with arms and ruled border, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, others with repeat decoration in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Beautiful copy of this teaching manual, printed on large paper and bound for the Duke of Orleans, Louis Philippe (1725-1785), the French prince and member of the House of Bourbon, the royal dynasty that ruled France.
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ROYAL SPECTACLES MICHEL-JEAN SEDAINE, librettist EGIDIO DUNI, composer
Themire, pastorale en un acte, représentée devant Sa Majesté àFontainebleau le samedi 20 octobre 1770. [bound with:] Six other libretti by Anseaume, Favart, Fenouillot de Falbaire, Fusée de Voisenon, Masson de Pezay, and Sedaine for operas composed by Duni, Grétry, Kohaut and Monsigny.
[Paris]: Pierre-Robert-Christophe Ballard, 1770. 7 works in 1 volume, 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches). Contemporary French citron morocco gilt, red and green morocco titling pieces, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bookmark, with royal arms of France on sides. Provenance: Marchal (bookplate).
French opera libretti for performances for Louis XV and his court at Fontainebleau in 1770, beautifully bound in contemporary citron mo- rocco gilt.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice.
London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1632. Folio (12 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches). 163- 184pp. Expertly bound to style in panelled calf, covers tooled in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt.
From Shakespeare's Second Folio.
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EDMUND SPENSER WILLIAM KENT, artist
The Faerie Queene. With an exact Collation of the two original editions, published by himself at London in quarto, the former containing the first three books printed in 1590, and the latter the six books in 1596. To which are now added, a new Life of the Author, and also a Glossary ...
London: Printed for J. Brindley and S. Wright, 1751. Three volumes, quarto (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches). iii, xxxvii, lxiii, 453; ii, 450; ii, 440pp. 32 double-page engraved illustrations after designs by William Kent mounted on stubs; woodcut head- and tail-pieces (some occasional spots and light dustsoiling). Con- temporary English red morocco, possibly by John Brindley, gilt borders, spine in six compartments with raised bands, green morocco lettering piece in the second and fourth, others with a repeat decor- ation in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
First complete and first illustrated edition of Spen- ser's great English epic, in contemporary English red morocco.
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NICHOLAS LEONICUS THOMAEUS
De Varia Historia Libri Tres.
Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1555. 16mo (4 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches). 385pp. Woodcut printer's device on title [Baudrier 2bis], woodcut initials, italic type, guide-letters, 3 decorative initials. Includes 31pp index to rear. 18th century French green morocco boards with triple gilt borders, spine gilt with burgundy morocco morocco lettering pieces, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
The 1555 Gryphius edition first published in 1532.
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JOHN THOMSON AND ADOLPHE SMITH HEADINGLEY
Street Incidents.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 inches). [4], 45-100pp. 21 wood- burytypes, each with printed caption and red ruled bor- der. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt and black (expertly recased).
"The first photographic social documentation of any kind" (Gernsheim).
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JEAN FOY VAILLANT
Nummi antiqui familiarum romanarum perpetuis inter- pretationibus illustrati.
Amsterdam: G. Gallet, 1703. Two volumes, folio (14 1/4 x 9 inches). Half-title, engraved allegorical title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 152 engraved plates, and numerous engraved vignettes. Contemporary French brown morocco, with the arms of the Duc du Maine on covers, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duc du Maine (1670-1736; binding) Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929; bookplate).
Vaillant's major work on ancient Roman coins, bound for his patron the Duc de Maine, with fine engravings of copper coins.
(#39690) $ 4,000.