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45th Anniversary Catalogue It is with great pride that I present to you the Heritage Book Shop 45th Anniversary Catalogue. It contains many high spots in science, literature, philosophy and Americana, including the earliest obtainable English edition of King Arthur. The catalogue includes important first editions of Vesalius, Locke, Darwin, Galileo, Newton, Jonson, Donne, Doyle, Twain, Dickens, Bronte, Milne and Rackham. Other interesting items are Webster’s and Johnson’s dictionaries in first editions, a first edition of McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes, the first American atlas printed in America by Carey, Blaeu’sAmerica , Ogilby’s America, Jeffery’s 1776 American Atlas, Smith’s Wealth of Nations with a scarce supplement and Vancouver and Duflot’s Voyages. Many of the items in this catalogue have never appeared on an internet site or in any of the past Heritage catalogues, and these items will not appear on the internet for the next few weeks in order to give Heritage clients an early opportunity to consider the books. Many of the items have come directly from discerning private collectors, which are reflected in the condition of the volumes. I have been building this collection over the past year to celebrate my forty- fifth year in the book business. I hope you enjoy reading this catalogue as much as I have enjoyed gathering its contents. Thank you for your patronage over the past four decades. As always, I will continue to provide you with many great books, and you can count on my continued service. Benjamin Weinstein First English Edition of One of the Most Important Works of Classical Political Philosophy 1. ARISTOTLE. Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. Translated out of Greeke into French, with Expositions taken out of the best Authors, specially out of Aristotle himselfe, and out of Plato, conferred together where Occasion of Matter treated of by them both doth offer it selfe: the Observations and Reasons whereof are illustrated and confirmed by innumerable Examples, both old and new, gathered out of the most renowmed Empires, Kingdomes, Seignories, and Commonwealths that ever have bene, and wherof the knowledge could be had in writing, or by faythfull report, Concerning the beginning, proceeding, and excellencie of Civile Government. By Loys Le Roy, called Regius. Translated out of French into English. London: Adam Islip, 1598. First English edition. Folio (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 285 x 192 mm). [32], 393, [4, table], [1, errata], [2, blank] pp. With numerous engraved initials, head and tale pieces. Translator’s dedication signed I.D.. With initial and final blank attached to the free endpapers. Bound to style in full brown sheep. Boards tooled in blind. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. ESTC S106844 . Pforzheimer 10. HBS 64356. $12,500 “The Earliest Work of any Importance Written in English About Wines” 2. BARRY, Sir Edward. Observations, Historical, Critical, and Medical on the Wines of the Ancients. And the Analogy between them and Modern Wines. With general Observations on the Principles and Qualities of Water, and in Particular on these of Bath. London: T. Cadell, 1775. First edition. Quarto. Engraved frontis and vignette on title-page. Brown contemporary calf, rebacked in brown morocco Gilt lettering on red morocco spine label. Edges of boards chipped. Overall very good. The “Directions to the Binder” erroneously call for an inserted plate between pages 160 and 161. This book has been described by wine critic Andre Simon as “The earliest work of any importance written in English about wines.” HBS 64337. $3,500 1 Guts.indd 1 11/13/08 11:07:40 AM Baum’s First Juvenile Book and the First Book Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish 3. BAUM, L. Frank. [PARRISH, Maxfield, illustrator]. Mother Goose in Prose. Chicago: Way and Williams, [1897]. First edition, first issue (composed of sixteen-page gatherings, except for the last two gatherings of eight and four pages respectively). Quarto 265, [3] pp.. Twelve plates (including frontispiece) by Maxfield Parrish. Original grey cloth pictorially stamped in color. Light spotting to front board. A near fine copy of this book rarely found in such beautiful condition. “Mother Goose in Prose was the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish [1870-1966]. By coincidence, it was also the first [juvenile] book written by L. Frank Baum [1856-1919], who later rose to fame as the author of The Wizard of Oz and other tales of the mythical country of Oz. The volume was not a collaboration in the true sense of the word, for the author and the artist never met…Imaginative in concept and executed with confidence and originality, the illustrations for Mother Goose in Prose brought Parrish immediate recognition as a young book illustrator of ability. An expression of strong individuality, the illustrations portray a bygone era that is the unique domain of the nursery rhyme or fairy tale…This series of black-and- white drawings illustrates Parrish’s mastery of complicated technique and his ability to combine several media to achieve the desired effect.” (Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish,p. 25). Baughman 44. HBS 64419. $8,500 “One of the Most Valuable of Modern Voyages” 4. BEECHEY, Captain F[rederick] W[illiam]. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N.…in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. In Two Parts. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 273 x 214 mm.) xxi, [1, errata], [1, directions to the binder], [1, blank], 392; vii, [1, directions to the binder], [393]-742 pp. Bound without the publisher’s advertisements ([2] pp.) at the end of Volume II. Three engraved maps, two of which are folding, and twenty-three engraved plates. Most plates with tissue guards. Contemporary half polished calf over marbled boards. “Beechey’s book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates to extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California. His book provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives his impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco. Beechey describes the Eskimos of the north and relates his meeting with John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty, who gave Beechey a lengthy account. In the course of this voyage, Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific” (Hill). Cowan, p. 42. Ferguson 1418. Hill I, p. 19. Howes B309. Lada-Mocarski 95. Sabin 4347. Zamorano Eighty 4. HBS 64741. $10,000 2 Guts.indd 2 11/13/08 11:07:43 AM Complete With Twenty-Three Hand-Colored Maps 5. BLAEU, Joan. America, Quæ Est Geographiæ Blavianæ Pars Quinta: Liber Unus. Volumen Unidecimum. Amsterdam: Ioannis Bleau, 1662. First edition of the eleventh and final volume of Blaeu’s Atls Major. Folio (20 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches; 522 x 326 mm). [2, blank], [1, title], [1, blank], 1-19, [2], 20-287, [1, blank], [2, index], [2, blank] pp. Complete with twenty-three double-page maps, all of which are beautifully hand- colored. Title-page with a hand-colored vignette. Text in Latin. Contemporary full speckled calf. Spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Internally very clean with maps brightly colored. Head and tail of the spine worn and boards slightly rubbed. Outer hinges along the head and tail of the spine cracked but firm. Overall a very good copy of this beautiful volume. A magnificently handsome volume from the work that Dutch cartographer and bibliographer H. de la Fontaine Verwey once called “the greatest and finest atlas ever published” (cited in Koemann, I, 199). In addition to its impressive scope, accuracy, and artistic preeminence, owing to its location at the leading edge of geographical knowledge and discovery, the Atlas Major also occupies a special place in cartographic history. The twenty-three maps of America -- including the justly famous general map of the continent with pictorial side panels -- were among the first accurate maps of the continent produced, and contained the first version of John Smith’s map of Virginia to be published in Europe. It is not hyperbole to suggest that this atlas of America helped to shape contemporary European views of this part of the world more than any other source. Phillips, Atlases, 3430. HBS 64772. $75,000 Captain Bligh’s Own Account of the “Mutiny on the Bounty” Uncut in Original Boards 6. BLIGH, William. 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, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with charts. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790. First edition. Large quarto (12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 314 x 248 mm). iv, [1]-88 pp. With a folding engraved plan (“A Copy of the Draught from which the Bounty’s Launch was built”) by Mackenzie and three folding engraved charts by J. Walker after W. Harrison, one printed on pale blue paper. With two pages of advertisements. Uncut in original drab blue-green boards, rebacked with quarter paper spine. A four-inch stain to the front board. Small professional repairs to outer margin of leaves C2, C3, L4 and top margin of B2. Ferguson, Australia, 71. Hill I, p. 26.

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