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JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Autograph manuscript, from Audubon's Ornithological Biography, recounting his meeting with Thomas Bewick

[Great Britain: 1830-1835]. 3pp. on two foolscap sheets. Expert repairs to separations at folds. Housed in a red morocco backed box.

Autograph manuscript by Audubon, on meeting Thomas Bewick.

(#34588) $ 15,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

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BROADSIDE

By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Captain General in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, and Vice-Admiral of the same. A Proclamation for a general Fast

Boston: Richard Draper, 1767. Letterpress broadside, 15 1/2 x 13 inches. Woodcut royal arms, signed in print by Bernard. Minor repairs at folds on verso.

Early American broadside.

(#34640) $ 1,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

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The American Gardener; or a treatise on the situation, soil fencing and laying-out of gardens; on the making and managing of hot- beds and green-houses; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers

London: C. Clement, 1821. 12mo (7 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches). 4 engraved plates. Publisher's boards, paper spine label. Provenance: W. H. Corning Collection (booklabel).

Rare first edition, in the original boards, by this famous Federalist pamphleteer and agrarian reformer

(#29522) $ 450 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FABIO COLONNA

Phytobasanos cui accessit vita Fabi ...

Florence: I. P. Aere ... P. C. Viviani, 1744. 4to (11 x 8 3/8 inches). Engraved title vignette, initials and headpieces. 38 etched plates. Uncut. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Housed in a green morocco backed cloth box. Provenance: A.N. (early ink stamp on title); Charles Atwood Kofoid ().

The second edition of Colonna's first published botanical work.

(#29505) $ 2,250 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

J. F. W. DES BARRES

[Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound]

London: J. F. W. Des Barres for The Atlantic Neptune, April 25, 1776. Large engraved chart from Des Barres' Atlantic Neptune on two sheets of laid paper, joined, each bearing "J Bates" watermark. 43x31 inches sheet size, nice margins; contemporary hand-color in outline; slightest offsetting, a superior copy. State 4 of 7.

Fine chart depicting the waters between New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard.

(#33412) $ 28,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

REMBERT DODOENS

A New Herbal, or Historie of Plants: Wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbes and Plants ... now first translated our of French into English by Henry Lyte, Esquire. Corrected and amended.

London: Edward Griffin, 1619. Small folio, bound in sixes (10 5/8 x 7 inches). Title within an elaborate woocut border. [22], 564, [30]pp. Title remargined at top and bottom at an early date, repaired tear to C1. 19th century smooth tan calf, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces.

Second folio edition of Lyte's English translation of Dodoen's herbal.

(#30406) $ 2,250 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

H. L. DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU

Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture; our Méthodes pour Multiplier et Élever les Arbres

Paris: Desaint, 1780. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches). Half title, Privilege leaf in the rear. Engraved headpiece vignette, 16 engraved folding plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, marbled .

An important dendrological work by Duhamel de Monceau, "one of the outstanding botanists of the eighteenth century" (Raphael).

(#28392) $ 1,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT

A Monograph of the Pittidae, or, Family of Ant Thrushes.

New York: D.Appleton & Co, [1861-]1863. Folio. 1p. to Philip Lutley Sclater, 1p. list of subscribers. 31 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, printed and coloured by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. Expert repairs at margins of frontispiece plate. Expertly bound to style in half dark green morocco and green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in seven compartment, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in gilt.

A fine copy of the first edition. A rare and spectacular ornithological work, the first book by Elliot with his own illustrations, and the scarcest of his major monographs.

(#34444) $ 22,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN ELLIS

An Historical Account of Coffee

London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774. 4to. [4],71,[1]pp, plus hand-colored engraved plate of Coffea Arabica, engraved by Miller. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece.

First edition of an "important early treatise on coffee" (Hunt).

(#34727) $ 4,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JAMES D. FEATHERSTONHAUGH

North American Boundary : Maps A and B, appended to the report of the British Commissioners, appointed in 1839, to survey and explore the Territory in dispute between the governments of Great Britain and the United States of America, under the second article of the Treaty of 1783.

[London]: Foreign Office, April 1840. Two maps engraved by James Wyld, dissected into 12 sections and mounted on linen as issued, partially colored in outline, edged in green cloth and housed in a period slipcase.

Rare case map of the boundaries of Maine.

(#24727) $ 8,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ULYSSES S. GRANT

The U.S. Instantaneous Photographic Co. Seven Mile Funeral Cortège of Genl. Grant in New York Aug. 8, 1885

Boston: The U.S. Instantaneous Photographic Co., [1886]. Oblong folio (13 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches). 99 mounted albumen photographs. 2pp. ads. Some minor browning and staining. Publisher's black morocco, covers panelled in blind and lettered in gilt, repairs to joints.

Rare published album of photographs depicting President Grant's final journey.

(#31662) $ 9,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

MASSY HARBISON

A Narrative of the Sufferings of Massy Harbison, from Indian Barbarity, giving an account of her captivity, the murder of her two children, her escape, with an infant at her breast, communicated by herself ... fourth edition, much enlarged.

Beaver, PA: William Henry, 1836. 12mo (7 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches). 192pp. Contemporary muslin-backed blue paper covered boards. Provenance: Moses Chess (early ink stamp on front blank).

A classic Indian captivity set on the Ohio-Pennsylvania frontier: the very rare Beaver edition, with additions not found elsewhere.

(#34466) $ 3,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

NATHANIEL HULME

A Safe and Easy Remedy proposed for the relief of the Stone and Gravel, the Scurvy, Gout, &c. and for the Destruction of Worms in the Human Body.

London: Printed by James Phillips, 1778. Small 4to. [8], 38, [2]pp. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, black morocco lettering piece.

First edition, with a on treating scurvy at sea.

(#34730) $ 2,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ARCHIBALD HUTCHESON

A Collection of Calculations and Remarks relating to the South Sea Scheme & Stock ... [bound with:] Some Computations relating to the Proposed Transferring of Eighteen Millions of the Fund of the South Sea Company ... [Bound with:] A Computation of the Value of South-Sea Stock.

London: 1720[-1721]. 3 works in one, folio. 119,[3],121-140; 11, [1]; 23, [1]pp. Contemporary marbled paper covered boards, rebacked to style with period smooth tan calf. Provenance: Kirkleatham Library (early booklabel).

Important collection of works regarding the South Sea Bubble, written by a noted early critic.

(#34676) $ 6,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JAMES JOYCE

Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress.

Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. Quarto (11 x 7 1/2 inches). Title and text printed in black and green. Signed by Joyce on the limitation leaf. Printed wrappers, original glassine. Small area of loss at lower spine, minor tear and losses to glassine along spine. Publisher's green slipcase, split at edges with some losses as usual.

First edition, deluxe issue: one of 100 signed copies.

(#30424) $ 16,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOSEPH JUKES

Excursions in and about Newfoundland, During the Years 1839 and 1840.

London: John Murray, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo. viii, 322; iv, 354, [2]pp. Large folding map. Publisher's ad in rear of second volume. Publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, spines faded.

First edition of a diary kept during the first geological survey of Newfoundland: complete with the map not found in all copies.

(#34369) $ 1,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN C. LETTSOM

The Natural History of the Tea-Tree, with Observations on the Medical Qualities of Tea, and Effects of Tea-drinking

London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1772. 4to. viii, 64pp., plus hand-coloured engraved plate illustrating the tea plant. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece.

First edition, complete with the hand coloured frontispiece.

(#34728) $ 2,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

COTTON MATHER

Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov- Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline prosessed and practised; in the churches of New- England. With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches

Boston: printed for S. Gerrish in Cornhill, 1726 . Small octavo, signed in 4s (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches). [2],iv,10,207,[3]pp., including contents leaf. H3 torn, lower margin of Ee4 clipped, upper corner of title torn with loss to a few letters supplied in old manuscript facsimile. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. Provenance: W. Cogswell (early signature).

Mather reviews church principles - a key work of New England church history.

(#34373) $ 4,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN

Notes on Democracy

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1926]. 8vo. Uncut on two sides. Publisher's vellum, covers decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Provenance: Sherman Kingsbury Ellis (bookplate).

First edition, signed by Mencken, copy number 11 of 35 copies printed on vellum.

(#33118) $ 1,200 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ANDRE MICHAUX

Histoire des Chênes de l'Amérique, ou descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de I'Amérique Septentrionale, considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage.

Paris: de l'Imprimerie Crapelet, 1801. Folio. Half-title. 36 copper-engraved plates after Pierre-Joseph Redouté (32) or Henri-Joseph Redouté (4), by Plée (33) or Sellier (3). Minor foxing. Twentieth century half green morocco and green cloth boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, panelled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges.

The first edition Michaux's magisterial monograph on all the known species of North American Oaks, illustrated by the best known botanical painter of all time.

(#34008) $ 9,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

THOMAS MORRIS

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.

London: John Ridgway, 1791. 181,[4]pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. (Light spotting in latter part of text, a few light dampstains to lower corner). Later marbled wrappers, chemise (inscribed by Frank T. Siebert "Dr. Rosenbach says the finest copy he has ever seen,") half morocco and cloth case.

With the Morris journal of the Pontiac War: the Herschel V. Jones-Rosenbach-C.G. Littell-Frank T. Siebert copy.

(#25223) $ 11,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER

Catalogue of a collection of American Birds belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater.

London: N. Trubner & Co., 1862. 8vo. Letterpress title with ornithological wood-engraved vignette by Pearson. 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after John Jennens, printed by M. & N. Hanhart. Some plates trimmed. Modern calf backed marbled paper boards.

First edition and apparently very rare: "Only 100 copies of the perfect work have been prepared" (note by Trubner & Co. on the wrappers of "The Ibis" for July and October 1862), and Wood and Zimmer record that only 100 copies with plates were published.

(#33128) $ 1,850 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

C. SHEPHERD

The Hon.ble John Hancock. of Boston in New- England; President of the American Congress. Done from an original picture painted by Littleford.

London: C. Shepherd, 25 October 1775. Mezzotint portrait. Wide margins. Minor creases. Image size (including text): 14 x 9 5/16 inches. Sheet size: 18 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches.

A British portrait of one of the leading American Revolutionary war leaders.

(#33629) $ 4,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SPAIN, CONSEJO DE INDIAS

Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre de Espana a Indias de 12. de Octubre de 1778.

Madrid: Pedro Maran, [1778]. Quarto. Title printed in red and black. Engraved armorial frontispiece. Contemporary red morocco, Spanish royal arms in gilt on the covers, spine with raised bands, green morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, gilded endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in an oatmeal cloth box with a leather label.

An important work, detailing commercial regulations between Spain and the Americas: in a contemporary red morocco binding with arms.

(#33317) $ 4,250 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ROBERT SWEET

Cistineae. The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose.

London: James Ridgway, 1 July 1825 - January 1830. 28 original parts, 8vo (10 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches). 112 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Hart, M. Hart, W. Hart and Mrs. Brown. Publisher's ads in parts 1, 2, 12, 13, 23, and 25; Sweet's change of address slip in part 20. Publisher's tan wrappers. Housed in a half green morocco box.

First edition in the very rare original parts of Sweet's highly decorative practical guide to the cultivation of the Rock- rose or Cistus: one of the most beautiful family of flowering plants then available.

(#34776) $ 5,250