Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books

Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books

Donald Heald Rare Books 124 East 74 Street New York, New York 10021 T: 212 · 744 · 3505 F: 212 · 628 · 7847 [email protected] www.donaldheald.com California 2017

Americana: Items 1 - 34 Travel and Voyages: Items 35 - 58 Natural History: Items 59 - 80 Miscellany: Items 81 - 100

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1 ADAMS, Ansel Easton (1902-1984) and Mary Hunter AUSTIN (1868-1934).

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 (minor fading to the leather).

From an edition of 108 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams. Possibly the most famous of modern photographic works on the West, Taos Pueblo was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Adams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams’ photographs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular of photographers of the American West.

“It was at Taos and Santa Fe that Ansel Adams first saw the Southwest. The time was the spring of 1927... His visit resulted in a Grabhorn Press book now of legendary rarity. It includes Ansel Adams’ photographs and Mary Austin’s essay on Taos Pueblo. Genius has never been more happily wed. Nowhere else did she write prose of such precise and poetical authority ... Their Taos Pueblo is a true and beautiful book by two consummate artists” (Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest, 1970, p. xxv).

Produced in a small edition, the book is difficult to obtain today. This example is signed by both Austin and Adams and is in beautiful condition. One of the greatest books produced by the Grabhorn Press and featuring beautiful photographs by Ansel Adams, it is a landmark of American photographic depiction of the Southwest.

Heller & Magee, Grabhorn Bibliography 137; Roth, The Book of 101 Books 58.

(#29693) $ 85,000 2 BANCROFT, H. H.

Bancroft’s Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.

San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft, 1864. Folding pocket map, printed on two sheets joined, full original hand colouring. Within an ornamental border. Folds into publisher’s blindstamped cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, publisher’s ad on the front pastedown. (Minor separations at folds expertly repaired, very minor losses at intersecting folds). Sheet size: 32 1/4 x 38 inches.

First edition, first issue of a rare early pocket map of California.

An “important large scale map ... The map shows the Emigrants Road to California, Overland Mail Route, and proposed routes for the Southern Pacific Railroad in California and for the Central Pacific” (Streeter). The map shows California and Nevada, plus western Utah and Arizona on the impressive scale of twenty-four miles to the inch. Bancroft shows these western areas with the most accurate detail possible; completed railroads, proposed railroads, and wagon roads are carefully laid down.

“All of California and Nevada are shown, along with the western parts of Utah and Arizona ... This is the scarcest of the editions of this map. A second issue was published in the same year, with a different border (interlocking leaves as opposed to interlocking Coltonesque metal strips in this copy)” (Rumsey).

Rumsey 4819; Wheat Transmississippi 1219; Streeter sale 3915; Wheat 1093

(#28571) $ 4,500 3 BOLLER, Henry A.

Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West: 1858-1866. Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake.

Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1868. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches). 428pp. Folding map. Publisher’s red cloth, expertly rebacked to style.

First edition of a rare narrative of travels of a fur trader in the far west: complete with the folding map.

Boller entered the fur trade on the Upper Missouri in 1858, in the service of the American Fur Company. Most of the book deals with his experiences with the Indians in Montana as a trader for the Company. His account is one of the most vivid and well written narratives of the trade, and one of the few relating to the period it addresses. At the end of his sojourn in the West, Boller spent some time in Utah among the Mormons. Wheat describes the map as notable for the places located and described in the text. It shows Montana and the Dakotas, with parts of Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

Field 147; Graff 341; Howes B579; Sabin 6221; Streeter Sale 3079; Flake 582; Wheat Transmississippi 1180.

(#31316) $ 4,500 4 CALIFORNIA - De Pue & Company, publishers.

The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, Cal. Containing a history of California from 1513 to 1850, a history of Yolo County from 1825 to 1880, with statistics of agriculture, education, churches, elections, lithographic views of farms, residences, mills &c., portraits of well-known citizens, and the official county map.

San Francisco: De Pue & Company ... Jos. Winterburn & Co., printers, 1879. Folio. 65 lithographed maps and plates (50 numbered lithographed plates showing farms, buildings, ranches, towns, etc. [11 double-page]; 9 unnumbered lithographed plates with multiple portraits of citizenry; 6 hand-colored lithographed maps [5 double-page]), lithographed by Galloway of San Francisco. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco and original cloth covered boards, upper cover blocked in gilt.

Scarce California county atlas.

A lovely county atlas of the rural communities in Yolo County. The principal residents and ranches are all depicted, as well as the local farming-related businesses. Of particular note is an image of the J.E. Card Nursery and the thoroughbred stock farm of Theodore Winters. The history of California within the work is written by Frank T. Gilbert.

As with most 19th century county atlases, the work was published strictly by subscription. Given the relatively small size of the county in terms of population, the atlas would not have been published in a large print run, resulting in its rarity today. “Despite their limitations and inaccuracies, nineteenth-century county atlases nonetheless preserve a detailed cartographical, biographical, and pictorial record of a large segment of rural America in the Victorian age” (Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 424).

Phillips, 11503; LeGear. Atlases of the United States, L482; Rumsey 2146.

(#33140) $ 3,750 5 CAREY, Mathew (1760-1839).

Carey’s General Atlas, improved and enlarged: being a collection of maps of the world and quarters, their principal empires, kingdoms, &c.

Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1814. Folio (17 x 11 inches). Mounted on guards throughout. Letterpress title and 2pp. of prefatory remarks, 1p. certification leaf with two columns of letterpress text below a three quarter page engraved plate made up of seven small maps. 58 engraved maps (56 with period full hand-colouring [47 of these double page], 1 folding and hand coloured in outline). Early manuscript ink annotations (circa 1821, see below). Expertly bound to style in half dark blue straight grain morocco over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, flat spine divided into six compartments with gilt rules, lettered in the second compartment.

The landmark third edition of Carey’s General Atlas, among the earliest commercially available atlases to include maps depicting the expansion of the U.S. following the Louisiana Purchase and with information derived from Lewis and Clark. This copy with extraordinary full period hand colouring: “the first atlas made in the United States to employ standard color on the maps” (Rumsey).

Mathew Carey published the first American Atlas in 1795 (containing 21 maps) and the first General Atlas in 1796 (containing 45 maps). He republished the 1796 General Atlas in 1800, 1802 and 1804 and would publish a “second edition” of the atlas in 1811. That second edition was substantially the same as the preceding, containing the maps from the 1804 General Atlas with the addition of a map of Louisiana from his 1805 pocket atlas. In 1814, Carey published this “third” edition of the General Atlas, the first major revision of his famed atlas and considered by many to be the most desirable. The atlas contains 32 entirely new maps, and many of the remaining 26 maps underwent substantive changes to the plates to update the cartography. Significantly, this edition of Carey’s atlas was the first indigenous atlas to cartographically depict the westward expansion of the United States following the Louisiana Purchase and was the first commercially available atlas to include information derived from the Lewis and Clark expedition.

The maps of America which appear in this edition for the first time include maps of Mississippi Territory (number 23), The State of Ohio with part of Upper Canada (number 24), The Upper Territories of the United States (i.e. one of the first maps to show Illinois as a U.S. state) (number 25), Louisiana (number 26) and Missouri Territory formerly Louisiana (number 27).

This final map is among the most significant in the atlas, and among the most significant maps of the American West published prior to the Long expedition. “Once federal explorations of the West were underway, it was only a matter of time before their newly uncovered wealth of information found cartographic expression. One of the earliest commercially issued maps to incorporate data from the famed 1804 transcontinental expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark appeared in an atlas issued by Philadelphia publisher Matthew Carey in 1814. The map ... drawn by Samuel Lewis, depicts the Missouri Territory Formerly Louisiana, which was organized in 1812, the year that the first state Louisiana was created out of the Louisiana Purchase area...” (Library of Congress, Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase, online exhibition).

Wheat writes of this map: “Lewis and Clark’s influence is apparent on the Upper Missouri and also along the Columbia. Missouri Territory extends west to the Pacific Coast, its probable northern and southern boundaries being shown by colored dotted lines. The northern line runs easterly from Mt. Ranier and includes most of the Columbia watershed, thence north of the Missouri drainage and including that of the Assiniboin (with its large lake), thence east to Lake of the Woods and south to the head of the Mississippi, which then forms the eastern boundary. The southern line leaves the coast just north of F.S. Francisco (whose Bay is not shown), thence easterly and slightly north of the headwaters of the Rio Grande, following south along the ridge east of that stream, southeast to the head of the Colorado (of Texas) and down that stream to the Gulf of Mexico at St. Bernardo B. The State of Louisiana (admitted 1812) appears near the mouth of the Mississippi.”

In the present copy, Carey’s significant cartographic updates to the maps in this atlas were furthered in manuscript by an early owner. On 11 of the maps (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland), the owner has added to the margins, in a calligraphic hand, information including the square mileage of each state, a brief description of the state’s topography, as well as comments on the mineral deposits to be found in the region. On the verso of the map of Virginia, within an ink frame, the owner has begun in pencil a rough map of Washington D.C. On the map of Mississippi Territory (number 23), the owner divides the region into the states of Mississippi and Alabama, with annotations in the margins concerning those states’s admission. On the map of the United States (number 5), as well as on the map of Missouri Territory (number 27), the owner has added the boundary of and has named the state of Missouri (thus dating the annotations to circa 1821). In addition, on the same map, the owner has added the following line of text along the border of the United States and Mexico, referring to the Adams-Onis Treaty: “Boundary line between the United States and the Spanish Territories agreed to by the Treaty of 1819.”

Among the most extraordinary features of the 1814 Carey Atlas is its hand colouring. Although Carey atlases prior to 1814 were available coloured, i.e. with outline colour, they are seldom encountered. Indeed Rumsey writes: “...we have never seen any copies of a pre- 1814 Carey atlas with original color - they may exist but would be rare...” Carey, however, issued his 1814 atlas with standard outline hand-colouring, which makes the atlas according to Rumsey “the first atlas made in the United States to employ standard color on the maps.” The present, copy, however, includes absolutely period full hand colouring. No copies of this atlas with full hand colouring appear in the auction records, and no copies with full color are held by the famed Rumsey or Baskes collections.

An American cartographic milestone, here with beautiful and highly unusual full hand colouring and with interesting early manuscript annotations.

Phillips Atlases 722; cf. Sabin 10858; Streeter Sale 82; Wheat Transmississippi West 315; Rumsey 4577.

(#24635) $ 45,000 6 CARMAN, Bliss (1861-1929).

[Small archive comprised of an autograph manuscript draft of the poem A Mountail Trail, an autograph manuscript of the same poem and a typescript of the poem with autograph corrections].

[California: January 1906]. [Autograph draft:] Written recto only on 19 sheets (12 in pencil, 7 in ink; some sheets on California Club stationery). [Autograph Manuscript:] Written recto only in ink on 16pp. [Corrected typescript:] 7pp. Housed together in a blue chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (morocco booklabel; Christie’s New York, February 21, 1989, lot 1738).

California in the eyes of a noted Canadian poet.

The poem, under the title A Mountain Trail: San Gabriel Range California, was published in the February 1906 issue of Sunset Magazine, the promotional magazine of the Southern Pacific Railway.

(#33329) $ 6,500 7 CASTRO, Casimiro, J.CAMPILLO, L.AUDA, & Y.G.RODRIGUEZ.

Mexico y sus alrededores. Coleccion de Monumentos, Trajes y Paisajes ... seguna edicion, aumentada ... / Mexico et ses environs. Collection de Vues, Monuments et Costumes .. seconde edition, augmentee ...

Mexico: Imprenta Lithografica de Decaen, 1864 [but circa 1867]. Folio (17 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches). Letterpress title and 70pp. letterpress text, in two columns in Spanish and French. Folding lithographed map of Mexico City, tinted lithographed title, and 46 lithographic views on 42 leaves (12 color lithographed, 34 tinted, many finished with hand colouring). Expertly bound to style in half red morocco over period black cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt.

A highly significant Mexican lithographic production and a wonderful window on 19th century life in Mexico City. This example including the rare map of Mexico City and the Kikapoos Indians plate.

There are many issues of this work, with varying numbers and qualities of plates. The work was originally issued by subscription starting in 1855 and the first bound copies became available in 1856. It is almost certain that from the beginning the book was published as demanded by the marketplace, consequently there are no formal “editions” in the proper sense. Over the years individual plates were completely modified in accordance with physical changes to a site (as an example at one point the plate depicting the home of Emperor Iturbide changes completely to a different perspective). Copies are reported to have anywhere from twenty- eight to fifty-two plates, and a very few examples (including the present) contain a map of Mexico. Three different dates can be found in some copies. In a recent study of Castro’s work, Casimiro Castro y su taller (1996), a census of copies of Mexico y sus alrededores is given, listing the various recorded combinations of dates. The present example is dated 1867 on the binding, 1864 on the letterpress title (where it is stated as the second edition) and 1863-1864 on the lithographic title.

The plates are of the highest quality and depict scenes throughout the Mexican capital, including the cathedral of Guadalupe, Iturbide’s mansion, Mexican senoritas, the College of Mines, Paseo de Bucareli, the Alameda of Mexico (with an air balloon towering above), Paseo de la Viga, and the sumptuous interior of the national cathedral, among many other beautiful scenes. Of great importance in the present example is the color plate titled Indios Kikapoos, a rarely found image depicting 11 members of the tribe (including what appears to be a runaway slave) being presented at the court of the Austrian Archduke Emperor of Mexico Maximilian.

The image presents a group of Kickapoo tribesmen and runaway Texas slaves being presented at the court of the Austrian Archduke Emperor of Mexico Maximilian in 1865. The Kickapoo sought to avoid involvement with the Confederacy or Union in the Civil War, and pleaded for asylum from Texans who were on the war path against them. The origin of the name Kickapoo, he moves about, certainly fits the history of these interesting peoples, who more than any other North American tribe have retained their cultural identity and practices despite geographic fluctuations and myriad alliances. The Kickapoo tribe is the only tribe that never surrendered to or signed any kind of peace treaty with the United States. They have been granted the right to cross the border at will. The present lithograph has been suggested as the first lithograph of the tribe made from a photograph in Mexico at the time. Close examination reveals the image to be a lithographic combination of realism and artistic imagination and the image was likely partially based on a photograph by François Aubert (1839-1900).

Mathes describes this book as “the most important work illustrating Mexico City in the nineteenth century,” and it is certainly a landmark in the history of the lithographer’s art in Mexico. McGrath adds that “These are some of the finest and most famous architectural and costume plates done in the western hemisphere.”

Cf. Abbey Travel II.672 (1855-7 edition); Colas 547; Lipperheide Md17; Mathes Mexico on Stone pp.29-30; McGrath pp.86-87; Monsivais et al. Casimiro Castro y su taller pp.135-155 et passim; Palau 167505; Sabin 48590 (1856 ed).

(#29101) $ 15,000 8 CATHERWOOD, Frederick (1799-1854).

Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan.

London: F. Catherwood, 1844. Folio (21 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches). Chromolithographed title by Owen Jones printed in red, blue, and gold, 1 lithographic map printed in red and black, 25 tinted lithographic plates after Catherwood. Publisher’s green morocco-backed moiré cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt ‘Catherwood’s Views / in Central America / Chiapas and Yucatan’ on upper cover, flat spine titled in gilt, yellow endpapers.

“In the whole range of literature on the Maya there has never appeared a more magnificent work” (Von Hagen).

This beautiful and rare plate book was printed in an edition of 300 copies. It is seldom found in presentable condition, and is one of the first and primary visual records of the rediscovery of Mayan civilization. Until the publication of the work of Alfred Maudslay at the turn of the century, this was the greatest record of Mayan iconography.

Frederick Catherwood was a British architect and artist with a strong interest in archaeology. These combined talents led him to accompany the American traveller and explorer, John Lloyd Stephens, on two trips to the Mayan region of southern Mexico in 1839 and 1841. These explorations resulted in Stephens’ two famous works, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan and Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. These immensely popular works, foundation stones in Mayan studies, were both illustrated by Catherwood and inspired him to undertake the larger portfolio.

The Views was produced in London, although issued with both London and New York titlepages. Catherwood recruited some of the most distinguished lithographers in London to translate his originals onto stone: Andrew Picken, Henry Warren, William Parrott, John C. Bourne, Thomas Shotter Boys, and George Belton Moore. The beautiful titlepage was executed by Owen Jones. Three hundred sets were produced, most of them tinted, as in the present copy (there is a coloured issue on card stock, which is exceedingly rare). The views depict monuments and buildings at Copan, Palenque, Uxmal, Las Monjas, Chichen Itza, Tulum, and several scattered sights.

The work of Stephens and Catherwood received great praise, but neither lived to enjoy it long. Stephens died in 1852 of malaria contracted in Colombia, and Catherwood went down on a steamship in the North Atlantic in 1854. “Catherwood belongs to a species, the artist-archaeologist, which is all but extinct. Piranesi was the most celebrated specimen and Catherwood his not unworthy successor” (Aldous Huxley).

Sabin 11520; Tooley (1954) 133 (gives a list of the plates); Von Hagen, Search for the Maya, pp. 320-24; Palau 50290; Groce & Wallace, p.115; cf. Hill 263. Not in Abbey.

(#15972) $ 58,500

9 CATLIN, George (1796-1872).

[Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. From Drawings and Notes of the Author, made during Eight Years’ Travel amongst Forty-Eight of the Wildest and most Remote Tribes of Savages in North America].

[London: Chatto & Windus, circa 1875]. Large folio (23 3/8 x 17 inches). 31 tinted lithographs after Catlin and McGahey. Without title or list of plates, found in few copies. Contemporary dark blue morocco backed marbled paper covered boards, morocco lettering piece on the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt (expert repairs to joints).

The Indian Portfolio in the rare 31-plate tinted issue.

This issue of Catlin’s famous work on American Indians includes the rare six unnumbered lithographs, comprising two portraits, a group portrait of Ojibways, two tribal dance scenes, and a hunting scene. These six plates were evidently executed on lithographic stones in 1844 when Catlin envisioned a whole series of “Indian “Portfolios,” but were not printed and issued until Chatto & Windus acquired Henry Bohn’s stock of, and copyright for, Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio in 1871. This copy does not have any title or text leaves, as usual for this issue.

Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio contains the results of his years of painting, living with and travelling amongst the Great Plains Indians. In a famous passage, Catlin describes how the sight of several Indian chiefs in Philadelphia led to his resolution to record their vanishing way of life: “the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian.” From 1832 to 1837 he spent the summer months sketching the western tribes, finishing his pictures in oils during the winter. He painted around 600 highly realistic and powerfully projected portraits of Indians, carefully recording their costume, culture and way of life. Catlin then exhibited his Indian Gallery in London beginning in 1841. Encouraged by his warm reception, he planned a series of four portfolios, with a total of 100 plates, to illustrate Indian life. By the time the first Indian Portfolio appeared in late 1844, Catlin had desperately overstrained his budget, and was forced to sell the entire project, lithographic stones and all, to the preeminent English publisher of color plate books, Henry Bohn.

Research by William Reese has demonstrated that Henry Bohn issued the Indian Portfolio in several variant versions while he controlled the copyright, from 1845 until his retirement in the late 1860s. In 1871 he sold the copyright and working materials for a number of his books to the firm of Chatto & Windus. According to the surviving Chatto & Windus records, they acquired the original lithographic stones made in 1844, including an additional six, never printed, which must have been prepared for Catlin’s next projected Indian Portfolio. Thus, the extra six plates only appear here. The thirty-one-plate issue is far rarer than any of the twenty-five-plate issues, by a ratio of about four to one. Reese located fifteen other copies of this issue (out of 165 copies in his census on copies of the Indian Portfolio).

The plates are as follow: 1) “North American Indians.” 2) “Buffalo Bull Grazing.” 3) “Wild Horses, at Play.” 4) “Catching the Wild Horse.” 5) “Buffalo Hunt, Chase.” 6) “Buffalo Hunt, Chase.” 7) “Buffalo Hunt, Chase.” 8) “Buffalo Dance.” 9) “Buffalo Hunt, Surround.” 10) “Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves attacking a Buffalo Bull.” 11) “Buffalo Hunt, Approaching a Ravine.” 12) “Buffalo Hunt, Chasing Back.” 13) “Buffalo Hunt, Under the White Wolf Skin.” 14) “Snow Shoe Dance.” 15) “Buffalo Hunt, on Snow Shoes.” 16) “Wounded Buffalo Bull.” 17) “Dying Buffalo Bull, in Snow Drift.” 18) “The Bear Dance.” 19) “Attacking the Grizzly Bear.” 20) “Antelope Shooting.” 21) “Ball Players.” 22) “Ball-Play Dance.” 23) “Ball Play.” 24) “Archery of the Mandans.” 25) “Wi-Jun-Jon an Assiniboine Chief.” [unnumbered] “Joc-O-Sot, the Walking Bear.” [unnumbered] “Mah-To-Toh-Pah, The Mandan Chief.” [unnumbered] “O-Jib-Be-Ways.” [unnumbered] “Buffaloe Hunting.” [unnumbered] “The War Dance.” [unnumbered] “The Scalp Dance.”

Wagner-Camp 105a; Howes C243; Field 258; Abbey Travel 653 (ref); McCracken 10; William S. Reese, “The Production of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, 1844-1876,” issue 11.

(#31625) $ 58,000 10 CORTÉS, Hernan (1485-1547) & Francesco Antonio LORENZANA (1722-1804).

Historia del Nueva-España, escrita por su escalarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes.

Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770. Folio (10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches). Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece bound following the title, 2 engraved folding maps, 33 engraved plates (1 folding), plus engraved title vignette and engraved initial on the dedication leaf. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (expert restoration at head and tail of spine). Provenance: Father Faustino Arevalo (1747-1824, signature on front pastedown); Jesuit ink stamp on verso of title.

First edition of this “important and highly esteemed work” (Sabin), containing the celebrated letters of Cortez to the Emperor Charles V, illustrated with important engravings and two influential maps: a cornerstone on the Spanish colonial conquest of Mexico and the early exploration of southern California.

Father Lorenzana, the Archbishop of Mexico from 1766 to 1772, here publishes three of Hernando Cortés’ letters to Emperor Charles V, with numerous annotations which provide reliable information on the early civilization of Mexico and its conquest. Besides the allegorical frontispiece showing Cortes presenting the world to the Emperor, the plates include a depiction of the Mexican calendar, a folding view of the great temple of Mexico, and 31 plates depicting an Aztec codex representing the tributes paid by the different towns in Mexico. The maps include a general map of Mexico showing Cortes’ route, by José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez; the second map is an important depiction of the northern Pacific coast of Mexico, the Baja peninsula and southern California, after Domingo del Castillo, being the first map to establish definitively that California was in fact a peninsula and not an island.

“Pages 322-328 contain an account of the voyage of Cortes to the peninsula of California and notices of later expeditions to 1769. The map of Castillo was inserted to illustrate this account, which Lorenzana states was copied from the original in the Archives of the Marquesado, that is, of the Cortes family. Since that time the original has never appeared, so we are still at a loss to know whether Castillo or Lorenzana put the name ‘California’ on the map” (Wagner).

Wagner, Spanish Southwest 152; Sabin 42065; Palau 63204; Medina V, 5380.

(#30269) $ 13,500

11 [DUBOS, Jean Baptiste (1670-1742)]; and Juan de URTASSUM (1666-1732), translator.

Interesses de Inglaterra Mal Entendidos en la Guerra Presente con España.

Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1728. Quarto. [32], 196pp. Woodcut arms on dedication leaf, title within elaborate typographic border. Contemporary limp vellum.

First edition in Spanish and the first edition published in the Americas.

Written in the midst of the War of Spanish Succession, the work was first published in French in 1703, falsely claiming to be a translation of an English work. The author represented the French at The Hague in peace negotiations and here anonymously (and posing as an Englishman) reviews English trade in Europe and the West Indies and, to better encourage his counterparts at The Hague to end the war, argues that the conflict greatly benefitted Great Britain’s commercial interests. Of particular note is Dubos’s prophesy that once the American colonies learned that they could operate independently from their mother country, that there would be a revolution. The work wasn’t published in Spain until 1741 and never published in England.

Sabin 98172; Medina 3030; Palau 346110.

(#33315) $ 1,400 12 FRIAS, Simon de.

Tratado Elemental de la Destreza del Sable.

Mexico : Imprenta de Arizpe, 1809. Small 4to 7 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches. 13 engraved plates (2 folding). . Contemporary Mexican sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering piece (minor wear to head and tail of spine).

The first illustrated work on fencing published in Mexico.

The Mexican author was a master of arms in New Spain. Dicc. Porrúa notes that his birth and death dates are unknown, but he is known to have taught self defense by 1787. Of engraver Manuel Aráoz, Mathes comments: “Manuel Aráoz, instructor in engraving, produced thirteen excellent plates of fencing and fighting maneuvers using the saber for Simón de Frías, Tratado elemental de la destreza del sable, Imprenta de Arizpe. The artist, who signs his name P. Patiño or P.P., may be sculptor and artist Pedro Patiño Ixtolinque.”

The earliest book on any form of fencing published in Mexico, the work is a thorough guide to the formal sport of fencing with sabers, complete with accurate, detailed illustrations. The author includes descriptions of various attacks, defenses, proper foot work, posture, and equipment, including detailed descriptions of the fencing sword.

Leguina 65; Medina 10252; Palau 95016; Thimm, p. 108; Pardoel 989; Garritz 362

(#31038) $ 4,750 13 GARRETT, Pat F.

The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, the Noted Desperado of the Southwest, whose deeds of daring and blood made his name a terror in New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico.

Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing and Publishing Co., 1882. 8vo. 137pp. (pp.113-128 mispaginated 121-136). Six plates (including standing portrait frontispiece of the Kid). Includes the errata slip only sometimes found tipped to foot of p.121. Original pictorial wrappers, some wear and minor paper losses at edges of rear wrapper. Housed in a modern chemise and full black morocco box.

One of the most famous landmark works in all Western Americana, here in the rare original wrappers.

The most famous western outlaw book, and one of the rarest, the life of Billy the Kid by the man who killed him. Probably actually written by Ashmun Upson with the close collaboration of Garrett, this book is the foundation stone of the Billy the Kid legend. Dykes enumerates at length some of the inaccuracies of the narrative, and Adams is even more critical of particular points; but as Dykes’ work admirably demonstrates, the whole point of the Kid legend is not so much to preserve the facts of the case, but to grow the legend itself, and it is from this book that the legend springs. “First genuine biography of America’s most spectacular example of juvenile delinquency” (Howes). “Exceedingly rare” (Adams).

Howes G73, “B”; Dykes, Kid 13; Adams Six-Guns 807; Graff 1515; Rader 1541; Streeter Sale 4287; Saunders 2916

(#30587) $ 35,000

14 HEAP, Gwinn Harris (1817-1887).

Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1854. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 136pp. Thirteen lithographed plates (some tinted), folding map. 46pp. of ads in the rear. Publisher’s cloth, covers bordered in blind, flat spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt (repairs at the joints).

Complete with the elusive map.

E.F. Beale and Gwinn Heap were greatly influenced by Senator Benton in their choice of a route across Colorado and Nevada. The party travelled from Westport (Kansas City) southwest on the Santa Fe trail to Bent’s Fort, then to the short-lived Fort Massachusetts, the Rio Grande Valley, the Grand River, and then to the Uncompahgre. They returned to Taos for supplies, and then continued southwest via Utah to California. The map, which is present here, was issued with only a few copies. Wheat lauds the map and spends several pages discussing the journey, saying that it has received less attention than it deserves. He notes that it is the earliest published map to show the middle Rocky Mountain region, through what is now southern Colorado, the first to depict several streams and rivers, and the first attempt to chart a route through Death Valley. This book is one of the first detailed examinations of the “Central Route” from Missouri to the Pacific, and a basic piece of Western Americana.

The present copy of Heap’s work includes forty-six pages of advertisements at the end, more than the usual complement of thirty-two.

Cowan, p.273; Howes H378; Mintz 562; Sabin 31175; Wagner-Camp 235; Flake 3934; Rittenhouse 290; Wheat Transmississippi 808; Streeter Sale 3177

(#33152) $ 5,000 15 JOHNSTON, William. G. .

Experiences of a Forty-Niner...A Member of the Wagon Train First to Enter California in the Memorable Year 1849.

Pittsburgh: 1892. 390pp. plus plates and folding blueprint map, Laid in. Original gilt cloth.

With the blueprint map: from an edition limited to fifty copies.

This copy contains the scarce folding blueprint map, showing the route of the forty-niners from Independence, Missouri to Sacramento, California, and the political subdivisions of the West in the mid-19th century. This is one of the most important and readable of all the forty-niner overland narratives. Jim Stewart served as the guide for the author’s party. They left Independence in April and travelled through Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City, arriving in Sacramento in late July. Johnston gives an excellent account of his life in the mines, early Sacramento, and San Francisco, and of his return journey by sea. This work is high on the list of desirable post-Wagner-Camp overland narratives.

Howes J173, “b”; Streeter Sale 3198; Graff 2229; Mintz 261; Mattes 511; Cowan, p.316; Wheat Gold Rush 113; Kurutz 364a; Howell 50:556; Eberstadt Modern Overlands 25.

(#32673) $ 3,000 16 JOUTEL, Henri (1640-1735).

A Journal of the Last Voyage perform’d by Monsr. de La Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the mouth of the Missisipi [sic.] River; containing an account of the settlements he endeavour’d to make on the coast of the aforesaid bay, his unfortunate death, and the travels of his companions for the space of eight hundred leagues across that inland country of America, now call’d Louisiana (and given by the king of France to M. Crozat,) till they came to Canada. Written in French by Monsieur Joutel, a commander in that expedition; and translated from the edition just publish’d at Paris. With an exact map of that vast country, and a copy of the letters patents granted by the K. of France to M. Crozat.

London: Printed for A. Bell, B. Lintott and J. Baker, 1714. 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches). [2], xxi, [9], 205, [5]pp. Engraved folding map. Expertly bound to style in period speckled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition in English of this first-hand account of La Salle’s ill-fated expedition, and Joutel’s subsequent incredible journey north to Quebec, through Texas, Arkansas, the Mississippi, and Illinois.

Of the three major narratives of the journey, this record, by La Salle’s closest subordinate, is the most valuable. The party embarked in 1684, ostensibly to establish a French base at the mouth of the Mississippi as a headquarters for operations, but also to push as far as possible into the region in order to gain a foothold against the Spanish. In fact, through a conscious deceit, the base was established at Espiritu Santo Bay, in Texas, from whence the party spent two years making excursions into the surrounding territory. When promised reinforcements failed to appear, La Salle and his men determined to return to Canada via the Mississippi; however, one of the company assassinated La Salle when they reached the Trinity River, and the party split up. Some of the survivors, including Joutel, pressed on, reaching Canada by way of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers.

“Most reliable eye-witness account of La Salle’s two-years wanderings in Texas” (Howes).

Field 808; Howes J266; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 114; Raines pp. 130--131; Wagner Spanish Southwest 79 a; Greenly p. 21; Streeter sale 1:112; Church 859; Jones Adventures in Americana 150; Jones 399; Bell p. 274; Harrisse 750; Waterston p. 7; European Americana 714/70; Sabin 36762; Keynes p. 164; Clark Old South I:14; Field 808; Graff 2252.

(#29987) $ 12,500

17 KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867) and Carl NEBEL.

The War between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts ... with a description of each battle.

New York & Philadelphia: Plon Brothers of Paris for D. Appleton & Co. and George S. Appleton, 1851. Folio (21 3/4 x 17 inches). 12 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, by Bayot (11) or Bayot & Bichebois (1) after Nebel, printed by Lemercier in Paris, 1 lithographed map. Expertly bound to style in half dark green morocco over publisher’s green cloth covered boards, upper cover lettered in gilt.

A first-hand report, in words and pictures, of the first offensive war fought by the United States: the first and only edition, with superb hand-coloured lithographed plates of one of the most important pictorial works relating to the Mexican-American War.

Kendall was America’s first great war correspondent, and an ardent proponent of the necessity of America’s war with Mexico. When hostilities broke out, he went at once to the Rio Grande where he joined with the Rangers, and later attached himself to the Scott expedition. For this work he keyed his text to the individual plates and the combination affords a detailed illustrated account of each battle.

The plates are the work of the German artist, Carl Nebel, who painted each of the twelve major clashes of the war. Kendall notes in his preface that “Of the twelve illustrations accompanying his work... the greater number were drawn on the spot by the artist. So far as regards the general configuration of the ground, fidelity of the landscape, and correctness of the works and buildings introduced, they may be strictly relied upon. Every reader must be aware of the impossibility, in painting a battle scene, of giving more than one feature or principal incident of the strife. The artist has ever chosen what he deemed the more interesting as well as exciting points of each combat... in the present series of illustrations the greatest care has been taken to avoid inaccuracies.”

The authors of Eyewitness to War wrote approvingly that the present work “represents the climax of the confluence of journalism and lithography on the prints of the Mexican war” and that Nebel’s images are “the eyewitness prints that must be compared against all others.” For the text Kendall drew on “the official reports of the different commanders and their subordinates,” but “was present at many of the battles” and “personally examined the ground on which all save that of Buena Vista were fought” (for information on this he relied on a Captain Carleton).

The plates are titled: Battle of Palo-alto; Capture of Monterey; Battle of Buena Vista; Bombardment of Vera-Cruz; Battle of Cerro gordo; Assault of Contreras; Battle of Curubusco; Molino del Rey - attack upon the molino; Molino del Rey - attack upon the casamata; Storming of Chapultepec - Pillow’s attack; Storming of Chapultepec - Quitman’s attack; Gen. Scott’s entrance into Mexico.

It is interesting to note that while the work was published by D. Appleton in New York and Philadelphia, the lithographs were produced in Paris. Both Kendall and Nebel felt that the Paris lithographers alone were qualified to do justice to their images and they both spent some time in Europe overseeing the production of the work, for which Kendall and Nebel shared all the costs.

A contemporary reviewer described the work as follows: “We have never seen anything to equal the artistic skill, perfection of design, marvelous beauty of execution, delicacy of truth of coloring, and lifelike animation of figures ... They present the most exquisite specimens ever exhibited in this country of the art of colored lithography; and we think that great praise ought to be awarded to Mr. Kendall for having secured such brilliant and beautiful and costly illustrations for the faithful record of the victories of the American army” (review in the New Orleans Picayune, 15 July 1850).

Bennett, p. 65; Haferkorn, p. 47; Howes K76; Raines p,132; Sabin 37362; Tyler, Prints of the West, p.78

(#28793) $ 30,000 18 LEWIS, James Otto (1799-1858).

[The Aboriginal Portfolio].

[Philadelphia: Lehman & Duval, 1835-1836]. Folio (17 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches). Three letterpress advertisement leaves. 72 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Lewis by Lehman & Duval. Expertly bound to style in dark purple morocco over purple cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands, tooled in gilt and blind on either side of each band, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, marbled paper endpapers. First edition. Scarcer than McKenney and Hall’s ‘History of the Indian Tribes’, Prince Maximilian’s ‘Reise in das Innere von Nord-America’ or Catlin’s ‘North American Indian Portfolio’, Lewis’ work records the dress of the Potawatomi, Winnebago, Shawnee, Sioux, Miami, Fox, Iowa and other tribes at treaties of Prairie du Chien, Fort Wayne, Fond du Lac and Green Bay.

The Aboriginal Port Folio was published in Philadelphia by lithographers George Lehman and Peter S. Duval. It was issued in ten parts, with each part containing eight plates. Given the size of the undertaking the first nine parts were issued remarkably quickly, and appeared monthly between May 1835 and January 1836. The reason for this haste is probably that Lewis was aware that the imminent appearance of the first part of McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America would adversely affect his subscriber-numbers. The evidence of the surviving copies suggests that his fears were well-founded as there are a number of sets made up from eight parts (with 64 plates), but very few with nine parts (72 plates) and ten-part sets with the full complement of a frontispiece/title-leaf and eighty plates are virtually never found: only the Siebert copy is listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years, and there are only about a half dozen or so other recorded sets (the Siebert set, and one other, are the only two examples to include the title page).

James O. Lewis was born in Philadelphia in 1799, moved west as a teenager, and had become an engraver and painter by the time he was living in St. Louis in 1820. In 1823 he moved to Detroit, and painted the first of his Indian portraits at the request of Gov. Lewis Cass of Michigan. He accompanied Cass on four Indian treaty expeditions in the Great Lakes region in 1825-27 and painted Indians during the course of each. Virtually all of the originals of the images published here were executed by Lewis in this period. Subsequently, many of the Lewis portraits were copied by Charles Bird King, and some appeared in the King versions in the McKenney and Hall portfolio. All of the Lewis originals were destroyed in the Smithsonian fire of 1865.

Bennett, p.68; Eberstadt 131:418; Field 936; Howes L315; Sabin 40812; Reese Stamped with a National Character 23; Reese James Otto Lewis and his Aboriginal Portfolio, New Haven: 2008

(#26712) $ 95,000

19 [LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838)].

History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6...

Dublin: J. Christie, 1817. Two volumes, 8vo. [12],xxvii,[1],588; [2],xii,[3]-643pp. plus engraved folding map, five engraved maps and plans, and one engraved view. Contemporary russia, expertly rebacked to style retaining the original morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers and edges.

The very rare Dublin edition of Lewis & Clark

First Dublin edition, the rarest of the early editions of the Lewis and Clark narrative. The engraved plates present here are far cleaner than encountered in the original edition, further enhanced by the presence of an additional plate depicting the principal cascades of the Missouri River.

The folding map closely resembles that in the 1814 Philadelphia edition, and Coues notes that the typography and line spacing make this Dublin edition easier to read than the Philadelphia edition.

This is the most famous of all western travels, and the cornerstone of any collection of Western Americana. Described by Wagner-Camp as “the definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent,” this work finally appeared in print nearly eight years after the journey’s completion, and then with the initial help of Nicholas Biddle, and ultimately under the editorship of Paul Allen. The expedition itself, the brainchild of Thomas Jefferson, was the final grand attempt to find a water route across the continent. While the search was unsuccessful, Lewis, Clark, and their companions were the first white men to cross the western half of North America. In total, the expedition covered some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months. They brought back the first reliable information about much of the area they traversed, made contact with the Indian inhabitants as a prelude to the expansion of the fur trade, and advanced by a quantum leap the geographical knowledge of the continent. The biography of Meriwether Lewis by Thomas Jefferson was omitted from the London edition, though present in the first American printing. “Of all of the reissues this one is the best, being nearest the original, of which it is a faithful and literal reprint” - Coues.

A rare copy of an early printing of the account of Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Only two complete copies of the Dublin edition have been offered at auction in the last twenty-five years.

Wagner-Camp 13:6; Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 5a.6; Howes l317, “c;” Graff 2482; Sabin 40831.

(#33312) $ 45,000

20 MATHEWS, Alfred Edward (1831-1874).

Gems of Rocky Mountain Scenery, Containing Views Along and Near the Union Pacific Railroad.

New York: Published by the Author, 1869. Small folio (13 x 10 1/4 inches). 20 tinted lithographed plates after Mathews. Publisher’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.

A pioneering creator of city and country views in the American West, Alfred Mathews’ works ranks only behind Bodmer, Catlin, Moran, and Warre as illustrated depictions of the opening of the West. The present work was issued following the success of his famed Pencil Sketches of Colorado (1866) and Pencil Sketches of Montana (1868).

Mathews states in his “Introductory” notice: “The Lithographs embodied in this work are selections from a series of sketches made by the artist while sojourning in Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah, from the fall of 1865 to the winter of 1868. During this time he made many excursions of more or less duration, from Denver in Colorado, Helena and Virginia City in Montana, and Salt Lake City in Utah ... These expeditions were performed, excepting during one summer, entirely alone, and principally with ponies; but on two or three occasions on snow-shoes and in a small boat ... The pictures represent actual localities; and as they have been drawn on stone from the sketches by the artist himself, have lost none of their original truthfulness.”

Organized geographically, the tinted lithographs comprise twelve views in Colorado, two in Idaho Territory, two in Montana, and four in Utah; each view is accompanied by a descriptive text leaf. The final Appendix leaf includes endorsements by President Grant and others. “Mathew’s famous lithographs were among the first true representations of the Rocky Mountains to be made available to the public” (Streeter).

Eberstadt 106:207; Graff 2708; Howes M411; Sabin 46823; Streeter sale 2109.

(#31318) $ 17,500

21 MOHUN, Edward.

Map of the Province of British Columbia.

Victoria, B.C.: 1884 [lithographed by J. Bartholomew, Edinburgh, published by Dawson Brothers, Montreal]. Wall map on four sheets, unjoined, printed in colours. Inked library stamps on lower left sheet, minor chip at one edge. Sheet size: 39 7/8 x 48 inches.

Rare wall map of British Columbia published in the midst of the Alaskan Boundary Dispute, showing the nearly completed Canadian Pacific Railway.

This large map depicts British Columbia from Flathead Lake in Montana in the southeast, to Athabasca Lake in the northeast, to Bering Bay, Alaska in the northwest and the Juan de Fuca Straits in the southwest. Mohun was a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railway and a civil engineer in Victoria. The Alaskan Boundary Dispute and the soon to be completed Canadian Pacific Railway route necessitated such a detailed map of the region, here showing the western boundary of the province as per the 1825 convention between Great Britain and Russia. Drawn on a scale of approximately 25 miles to the inch, a much reduced version of this large map was published within the atlas to accompany the reports of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, as well as an additional pocket map version. This first issue, as a separate wall map, however, is quite rare.

(#25874) $ 4,500 22 MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard James (1830-1904).

Panorama of San Francisco from California St. Hill.

[San Francisco]: Morse’s Gallery, 1877. Folding albumen photographic panorama mounted on eleven panels, (7½ x 87¼ inches overall), backed with cloth, caption title, photographic credit, and publisher’s imprint printed on center panel. (Old staining to the panels below the photographic prints). Original gilt cloth binding (some old dampstaining to the lower edge of the covers), cloth chemise, half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

Perhaps the most famous early view of San Francisco.

One of the landmarks of 19th-century American photography, and an iconic image of San Francisco. This remarkable panorama dramatically shows the growth of San Francisco nearly thirty years after the onset of the Gold Rush. In the 1870s, San Francisco audiences were hungry for panoramic displays, and the rest of the country was intrigued by San Francisco, the largest city in the West. Muybridge satisfied all appetites by providing a 360° degree view of the city, creating what Rebecca Solnit calls “an impossible sight, a vision of the city in all directions, a transformation of a circular space into a linear photograph.” David Harris calls Muybridge’s San Francisco panorama “one of the supreme conceptual and technical achievements in the history of architectural photography.”

Eadweard Muybridge took the photographs that make up this panorama from a vantage point on the central tower of the unfinished Nob Hill residence of railroad baron Mark Hopkins, then the highest point in the developed portion of the city. The work was done in June or July, 1877, and took some five hours to complete, based on the shifting shadows seen in the image. Muybridge began in the late morning with a view toward the southwest (the tenth plate in the panorama) and proceeded in a clockwise direction, moving his camera away from the sun from one image to the next. Muybridge’s view is from some 380 feet above the sea level, and the view reaches some fifty miles into the distance and encompasses a width of fifteen miles. Despite the great scope of the work precise details of the city are visible throughout, and one can clearly see hanging laundry, ships in the harbor, shop signs, and a clock on a tower in the fifth panel reading quarter to two (other copies of the panorama show the clock reading nearly five-thirty). San Francisco spreads throughout the panorama and the dynamism of the city is clearly evident, as many unfinished buildings and roads under construction are also seen. Muybridge’s panorama was advertised as being for sale in July 1877, offered for eight dollars rolled or ten dollars accordion-folded and bound, as in the present copy. Buyers could buy the panorama directly from Muybridge, or through Morse’s Gallery.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was one of the great photographic innovators of the nineteenth century. Born in England, he came to San Francisco in 1855 and built his reputation on photographs of San Francisco, Yosemite, and other western locales. The year after he produced his San Francisco panorama, Muybridge, at the behest of another railroad magnate, Leland Stanford, produced a sequence of photographs of a galloping horse that proved that all four of the animals hooves were off the ground at the same time. Muybridge’s work in sequential photography, in which he photographed animals and humans in motion, laid the groundwork for motion pictures.

A remarkable view of San Francisco, and a high point in the photographic representation of the West.

David Harris, Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880, catalogue item 31, and pp.37-53; Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West; Paul A. Falconer, “Muybridge’s Window to the Past: A Wet-Plate View of San Francisco,” in California History (Summer 1978), pp.130-157.

(#25241) $ 48,000 23 [NORTON, George Frederick (1876-1917)].

[Album of photographs of a hunting expedition in the American West].

[Np: circa 1900]. Oblong quarto (6 3/4 x 11 inches). 117 silver print photographs (63 measuring approx. 5 x 6 3/4 inches; 54 measuring approx. 2 3/8 x 3 3/8 inches), mounted within an album. Some fading and silvering to the images, a few of the mounts detached. Contemporary cloth. Housed in a black morocco backed box.

A hunting expedition to the far west.

George Frederick Norton (1876-1917), born in Kentucky, attended the Lawrenceville School and served as a partner at the brokerage Ex Norton & Co. However, his life’s passion was travel, adventure and big game. Norton made numerous trips to the west and Alaska on private hunting expeditions, including the one depicted in the present album, and collected and donated specimens (with a particular emphasis on bear skulls) to the American Museum of Natural History the Smithsonian and other institutions. Indeed in 1910, the Department of Agriculture granted him a permit to capture and ship Alaskan brown bears in excess of the bag limit. In 1901, he journeyed around the world and in 1908 he helped finance the final Peary expedition to the North Pole, accompanying him aboard the ship Eric as far north as Etah, Greenland. During World War I, Norton would serve in the American Field Service, and would be killed in action in France.

The present album, dating from circa 1900, shows Norton along with several companions on a hunting expedition. Given the terrain and the fauna (moose, mountain lion, pronghorn antelope, elk), the expedition depicted in these images was likely to Montana, Idaho or Wyoming. However, given Norton’s many expeditions farther north, some of the images may also be from Alaska. Subjects include landscape, as well as poses with killed game, field dressing, various camps, the party with its pack animals on the move on the plains and high country, moving through the snow, party members on horseback, etc.

The album is accompanied by four typed letters, dated 1910-1917, concerning Norton’s collections of Alaskan bear skulls.

(#32768) $ 6,000 24 OGILBY, John (translator and publisher, 1600-1676) - [Arnoldus MONTANUS (1625?- 1683)].

America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World ... Collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations and adorn’d with maps and sculptures, by John Ogilby.

London: Printed by the Author, 1671. Folio. Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 56 maps, plates and portraits (6 single-page portraits, 31 double-page or folding views and plans, 19 folding maps), 66 engraved in text illustrations. Expert restoration to the map of Carolina and the list of plates. Nineteenth century smooth tan calf, arms of the Marquess of Bath on the upper and lower covers, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, tan morocco label in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Beriah Botfield, Marquess of Bath (gilt arms).

A very fine, large copy of Ogilby’s first edition of this important work: a rare issue including Moxon’s First Lords Proprietors map of Carolina, the first large-format map of the newly established colony of Carolina.

The work is an English translation of Arnold Montanus De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, but with a number of additions concerning New England, New France, Maryland and Virginia The work is divided into three books or sections and an appendix: the first gives an overall survey of the most important voyages and expeditions to the Americas, the second book offers a description of Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Bermuda and North America, the third deals with South America and the appendix includes a miscellany of information including notes on the ‘Unknown South-Land’, the `Arctick Region’ and the search for the North-West passage.

The present copy is unusual in that it contains the so-called Lords Proprietors map by Moxon titled A New Discription [sic.] of Carolina By Order of the Lords Proprietors - a map that was commissioned by Ogilby for this work, but which was not included in the earlier issues of the book as it was apparently not available until 1672. The present complete copy is the second issue of the first edition, without the Arx Carolina plate or the Virginia pars Australis & Florida map, but with the Lord Proprietors map and a map of Barbados, and retaining the first issue list of plates.

The first three issues of the first edition are as follows: 1. dated 1671, with both the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis map 2. dated 1671, with the Lord Proprietors map of Carolina map replacing both the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis map, with the addition of a map of Barbados, with the plate list as in the first issue still listing Arx Carolina and Virginia pars Australis but not listing the Lords Proprietors Carolina or Barbados 3. dated 1671, the plates as the second issue, but with a reset, cancel list of plates that no longer includes either Arx Carolina or Virginia pars Australis

The Moxon map is the first large format map of the newly established colony of Carolina, preceded only by the much smaller and relatively simple maps by Robert Horne (1666), John Lederer (1672) and Richard Blome (1672). The Ogilby-Moxon map, published to promote colonization in the region, would come to be known as The First Lords Proprietors Map, with a second Lords Proprietors Map appearing in 1682.

The map covers the region of North and South Carolina from the James River in present- day Virginia to St. Augustine in present-day Florida and includes an inset of the site of Charleston on the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. Cartographic elements include sea banks or shoals, soundings, some topographical details, degrees of latitude, compass rose, scale, and location of rivers and settlements. Recently established counties in the Carolinas are shown here for the first time. Decorative cartouches include scenes with native Americans wearing furs and feathered headdresses, and holding spears, club, and bow.

Prior to this map, only the small map by Robert Horne of 1666 had focused on the Colony. Moxon’s map was a significant improvement over the Horne map, both in size and the accuracy of its depiction of the Colony. The Albermarle and Pamlico Sounds are corrected, based upon information from and unknown source. The Cape Fear region is drawn from Horne’s map. The map also relies heavily on Lederer 1672 for information concerning the interior, and it was chiefly through this popular map that Lederer’s misconceptions became so quickly disseminated and so widely copied. Hilton’s and Sandford’s reports of the coast are also used. The inset is based on Ashley-Cooper 1671 manuscript, with some names taken from Culpeper 1671 manuscript and represents the earliest printed map of the region which would become Charleston. The map would serve as the model for a number of later derivatives, most notably A New Description of Carolina, engraved by Francis Lamb for the1676 Bassett & Chiswell edition of John Speeds’ s Prospect of the Most famous Parts of the World, published in London in 1676.

Arents 315A; cf. Baer (Md) 70A-C; cf. Borba de Moraes II, 626; Church 613; cf. European Americana 671/204- 207; cf. JCB III, 227-228; Sabin 50089; cf. Stokes VI, p.262; K.S. van Eerde John Ogilby and the Tate of His Times p.107; Wing O-165. References for the Carolina map: Cumming Southeast in Early Maps 70; Degrees of Latitude 13.

(#31668) $ 37,500 25 PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

Manuscript ship’s log of the Boston Clipper Ship Triton on a circumnavigation trading voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, by way of the Sandwich Islands and Canton, China.

At sea (including the coasts off Hawaii, Alaska and Canton): August 1826 - July 1828. Tall 4to (12 x 7 1/2 inches). Written recto and verso on 41 unnumbered leaves. 1p. list of Northwest Coast native vocabulary and 1p. list of vessels on the Northwest Coast and Sandwich Islands, in the rear. (One leaf clipped along fore-edge with loss to text; at least one leaf lacking covering the period December 6, 1826 to January 20, 1827 while at sea near Cape Horn; newspaper clippings previously mounted within the journal removed but with some resulting residue; several leaves detached). Period calf-backed marbled paper covered boards ledger-style binding. Provenance: Anderson Galleries, December 3, 1923, lot 678 (selling for $325).

An extraordinary, newly re-discovered log of an American ship on the Alaskan Northwest Coast in the 1820s: a primary source on the maritime fur trade.

In the eighteenth century, Russian merchants dominated the maritime fur trade on the Northwest coast of America, trading goods to the native tribes in exchange for furs (predominantly otter skins), which in turn were sold in China for silks, porcelain, tea, spices and other valuable commodities. Following Captain Cook’s voyages, British and American ships began entering the trade, largely on the coast between the Columbia River and Sitka. Of the American ships operating in those waters, the trade was largely based out of Boston, and the wealth accumulated by the owners of such trading vessels contributed greatly to the industrialization of the New England economy. Between 1788 and 1826, American merchant ships made over one hundred voyages between the United States, the Northwest Coast and China. However, very few primary sources relating to those voyages, such as the present log, have survived.

Owned by the trading firm founded by John Bryant and William Sturgis, the Clipper Ship Triton, captained by the owner’s son William Bryant, departed Boston on 25 August 1826, en route to the Sandwich Islands. The present log of that voyage, written by an unnamed officer on board, includes almost daily entries while at sea, recording weather, bird, ship and land sightings, and describing the status of the sails and rigging. Rounding Cape Horn in December of that year, the Triton reaches the Sandwich Islands on 23 January 1827, sighting Mauna Kea: “It is one of the grandest and noblest sights I had ever seen. The immense height and size of this mountain struck every one with astonishment.” Reaching Woahoo [O’ahu] two days later, a pilot brings the ship into the harbor: “No idea can be found of the great number of canoes that are filled with natives, paddling in every direction. They are of strange model and the natives are perfectly harmless. Their huts are made of straw and of strange model.”

The ship stays in port at O’ahu until March 1, when the journal resumes with the voyage to the Northwest Coast. On March 29th, the Triton reaches the northwest coast [at Sitka? Fort Ross?]: “A pilot soon came off in a skin canoe, also two Russian boats, the latter to assisting us in towing our ship into the harbor. At 4 o’clock came to anchor in a river, well defended from every wind by mountains of great height and filled with trees and bushes. The tops of the mountains are covered with snow. This river is not more than 400 feet wide and is filled with fish and fowl of all description ... From all appearances it is one of the finest places in the world for fish & fowl. The river is filled with small fish and they are caught in great numbers by the savages who use a long pole filled with nails by which the fish are hooked. Their canoes are of strange model and they will paddle them with great swiftness through the water ... The Russians have a settlement here. They have a strong fort, also 9 or 10 armed brigs anchored in the river to defend the place. They have a place of public worship. Also a boat building and a lumber sawing establishment, a light house...”

The Triton spends the next five months traveling among the islands of the Alexander Archipelago on the southeast panhandle of Alaska, visiting Queen Charlotte Island, Tumgass Harbor [i.e. Port Tongass], French Harbor [on Prince of Wales Island], Hannegar Harbor, “Cue You” harbor [Coyah’s Harbor?], Dominus Harbor, and Norfolk [Sitka] Sound. The log carefully notes the other ships sighted, and often travels with other American ships, presumably for safety. An April 18 entry at Queen Charlotte Islands notes: “It is death for a white man to be found on shore. We had no communication with the shore, kept our boarding netting up all the time we lay here and kept a sharp lookout for savages, who appear to be a stout, strong gang of wretches in human form...”

A May 5 entry describes friendlier natives at French Harbor: “30 or 40 canoes filled with savages in sight and coming to us. They have their canoes filled with every thing, viz. dogs, cats, women, children, men, skins, guns, pistols, knives, casks of powder, the frames of their huts ... they paint their faces all manner of colors and the females have wooden lips.” The following day is spent trading with the natives: “Captain B. retailing out rum, rice & mollases by the quart and cloth by the yard and piece, also guns, blankets, powder, shot and every other little trifling article.” By mid-September, the Triton departs the coast to return to the Sandwich Islands, anchoring at Owhyee on October 4. The journal begins again on December 17, with the ship departing the Sandwich Islands for Canton, China. Reaching the Whampoa River in mid-January, the log describes the numerous ships and long waits for pilots, reaching as far up river as they are allowed on January 24, 1828. The final part of the log resumes on March 17 with the ship’s departure from Canton en route home to Boston. Travelling across the Indian Ocean, the ship passes the Cape of Good Hope on June 2 and finally reaches Boston on July 28, 1828: “So ends a 23 month voyage & we are once more free from Ship Triton. I have once doubled the Noted & Blustering Cape Horn. I have once doubled the Cape of Good Hope and I have four times crossed the Line and so ends my journal, so ends, so ends.”

The penultimate page of the journal lists approximately 25 Northwest coast native words with their English equivalents, as well as five Hawaiian words. The final page lists seven Boston ships, including the Triton, operating on the Northwest coast, as well as eleven ships seen at O’ahu.

The rarity of such logs from this period of American commercial activity on the Northwest coast cannot be overstated. Bancroft cites only 14 such ships reaching the Northwest coast between 1819 and 1827. The present log last appeared on the market at auction at Anderson Galleries on 3 December 1923, selling for $325.

Coupled with Lewis and Clark’s expedition and the inland fur trade then developing, the maritime fur trade on the northwest coast in this early period proved an influential force in American westward expansion. cf. James R. Gibson, Otter Skins, Boston Ships and China Goods (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992)

(#29983) $ 30,000 26 PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de (1600- 1659).

Al excelentissimo señor don Garcia de Avellaneda i Haro conde de Castrillo, Señor de las villas de Valverde, Alcubilla de la Pinilla, Alcoba de la Torre, Quintanilla de Nuño Pedro, i de Villalva, alcayde perpetuo de Alàma, de Molina, i de Atiença, Alguazil mayor i primer regidor de Aranda de Duero, Patron de San Geronimo de Espeja, del Colegio de la Veracruz, i Monasterios de los Valles, i San Bernardo de Aranda, comendador de la obreria, i de argamasilla, en la orden de Calatrava, gentil-hombre de la camara de su Magestad, de sus consejos de estado, castilla, i camara, i preseidente en el Real y Supremo de las Indias; El Dean i Cabildo de la Santa Iglesia de la Puebla de los Angeles.

[Puebla de Los Angeles, Mexico]: [circa 1645]. Quarto. [12], 206 leaves. Contemporary vellum, manuscript titling on the spine.

The first major publication in the controversy between Juan Palafox y Mendoza and the Jesuits: among the earliest works printed at Puebla, Mexico.

The work concerns the attack on Palafox as bishop of Puebla, the administration of the Church, and the possession of tithes, together with the reply of Palafox to the charges levelled against him. Palafox (1600-1659) was appointed bishop in 1639 and achieved notoriety within the Church by his efforts assert episcopal authority over the Jesuits. In this he met with uncompromising hostility from the Jesuits, and laid formal complaints against them at Rome in 1647 and 1649. He was removed to the minor see of Osma in Castilla la Vieja in Spain in 1653.

Just the third place of printing in Latin America following Mexico City and Lima (and the fourth in the entire western hemisphere, including Cambridge), printing in Puebla began in 1640. Although the work contains no imprint, it is ascribed to Puebla by Palau; JCB suggests Madrid. The work is quite rare, with only four examples cited by OCLC.

Medina BHA 8369; Palau 209626 (ascribing printing date of 1644). Not in Medina, Puebla.

(#33314) $ 3,800 27 PALOU, Francisco (1723-1789).

Relación Histórica de la vida y apostólicas tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra, y de las misiones que fundó en la California septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos del Monterey.

Mexico: Imprenta de Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, calle del Espiritu Santo, 1787. Small quarto. [28], 344pp. 1 engraved portrait, 1 folding engraved map. (Abrasion on top edge of text block). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly rubbed, ties lacking). Housed in a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

A primary source for information on the history of early California.

An outstanding book on early California. Palou was a disciple of Father Junipero Serra (1713- 1784) for many years, and his work is still the principal source for the life of the venerable founder of the California missions. “The letters from Father Serra to Father Palou [provide] interesting details on the various Indian tribes and their manners and customs, together with descriptions of the country...This work has been called the most noted of all books relating to California” (Hill).

“Both a splendid discourse on the California missions, their foundation and management, and an intimate and sympathetic biography of the little father-present. Better, by long odds, than the bulk of lives of holy men, written by holy men” (Libros Californianos).

The map shows the locations of nine missions (of an ultimate total of twenty-one) and also the presidios at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco. “[The map] is of interest here because it seems to be the first on which a boundary line was drawn between Lower and Upper California” (Wheat). The plate is a portrait of Serra.

First edition, second issue, with “Mar Pacifico” printed on the map (see Wagner). This is also the issue of the text with “car” instead of “pro” at the end of the index and with the phrase “a expensas de various bienhechores” preceding the imprint on the titlepage.

Barrett 1946; Cowan, p.472; Graff 3179; Hill (2004) 1289; Howes P56, “c”; LC, California Centennial 34; Libros Californianos, pp.24,67; Wagner Spanish Southwest 168; Weber p.77; Wheat Transmississippi 208; Zamorano 80, 59

(#25092) $ 18,500

28 ROSS, Alexander (1783-1856).

The Fur Hunters of the Far West; A Narrative of Adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches). Lithographed view, lithographed portrait, folding map. Contemporary half smooth purple dyed calf and purple cloth boards, covers stamped in gilt with Glasgow’s coat of arms, spines with raised bands in six compartments, green and brown morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Provenance: George Blackwood (High School of Glasgow prize, bookplate).

First edition of a Western Americana and Pacific Northwest fur trade classic.

“Ross worked in the organization of John Jacob Astor at Astoria until the post was sold to the North West Company. He remained in the Pacific Northwest under the new owners and wrote the only extended account of the operations of the latter company in the Snake River country under Donald Mackenzie. In volume II, Ross goes on to tell of his experiences as leader of the Snake Country Expedition in 1824 and of his return to the Red River settlements in 1825, in company with Governor Simpson” (Wagner-Camp).

The “Map of the Oregon” covers the area from north of Vancouver to Mount Shasty and the appendix contains a Nez Perce vocabulary.

“The book has been rightly described as a principal source for all writing on the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest during the period of activity of the North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company” (Streeter).

Howes R449; Wagner-Camp 269; Smith 8785; Hill, p. 260; Field 1326; Sabin 73327; Tweney 89, 67 (note); Graff 3578; Pilling 3382; Streeter Sale 3719; Wheat Transmississippi 859

(#31320) $ 2,000 29 SAGE, Rufus B. (1817-1893).

Scenes In The Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and The Grand Prairies or notes by the way, during an excursion of three years ... By a New Englander.

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches). Large folding map. Foxing. Publisher’s green cloth, covers decoratively blocked in blind, expertly rebacked to style retaining a portion of the original spine with lettering.

First edition, second issue of one of the most important overland narratives: this copy complete with its important map.

Sage set out from Westport in the summer of 1841 with a fur caravan, later visiting New Mexico, witnessing the disaster of the Snively expedition, and joining the end of the 1843 Fremont expedition. He returned to Ohio in time to take a vigorous if futile role in the election of 1844, supporting Henry Clay. He wrote this book in 1845. The story of the publication of this work and its subsequent sale is told by LeRoy Hafen in the introduction to the most scholarly edition of Sage, issued in two volumes by the Arthur H. Clark Co. in 1956. According to Hafen, the publishers of the original edition felt the addition of a map would cost too much, and it was only at the author’s insistence that a map was printed and sold with the book, at a higher rate. The map, based mainly on the 1845 Fremont map, is usually not found with the book. It is “one of the earliest to depict the finally-determined Oregon boundary...one of the earliest attempts to show on a map the evermore-heavily traveled emigrant road to California” (Wheat). It adds interesting notes on the country and locations of fur trading establishments. Howes notes that it is “the best contemporary account of Snively’s abortive land-pirate expedition” (Howes). Sage was certainly one of the most literate and acute observers of the West in the period immediately before the events of 1846.

First edition, second issued (with page numbers 77-88, 270-271, and 302 correctly placed in outer margin). Preceded by a limited issue of 100 copies in wrappers published without the map.

Cowan pp. 548-9; Field 1345; “Fifty Texas Rarities” 30; Graff 3633; Howes S16 (“b”); Mintz 402; Rader 2870; Sabin 74892; Streeter sale V:3049; Wagner-Camp 123:1; Wheat “Mapping the Transmississippi West” 527; Wheat “Maps of the California Gold Rush” 30; Raines, p. 181.

(#31321) $ 9,000 30 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.

This Reglamento ended Cadiz and Seville’s monopoly of trade with Spanish America, freeing other cities to participate. Also of note are the concessions granted to Louisiana.

Palau 255843; Sabin 68890.

(#33317) $ 4,250 31 TANNER, H.[enry] S.[chenck] (1786-1858).

United States of America.

Philadelphia: published by Henry S. Tanner, 1829. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, in sections backed onto linen and edged with green silk, sheet size: 49 3/4 x 62 7/8 inches, engraved by H.S. Tanner, assisted by E.B. Dawson, W. Allen, and J. Knight, with integral decorative title vignette after J.W. Steel, the map surrounded by numerous small panels including 2 extensions to the area covered by the map, 6 more-detailed maps of environs of various eastern cities, 8 city plans, a number of elevation profiles of railroads and waterways, and 2 tables of statistics. Fine condition. Loose as issued within contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards portfolio, titled in gilt on spine, linen ties.

[With:] H.S. TANNER. Memoir on the Recent Surveys, Observations and Internal Improvements, in the United States, with brief notices of the new counties, towns, villages, canals, and rail-roads, never before delineated. By H.S. Tanner. Intended to accompany his new map of the United States. Philadelphia: published by the Author, 1829. 12mo (7 x 4 1/4 inches). 8pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt.

A fine copy of the first edition of Tanner’s spectacular and very beautiful large-scale map from “the Golden Age of American Mapmaking,” here accompanied by the explanatory text.

The map and text are described in Tanner’s list of “Maps, Chart, and Geographical Works” at the back of the text volume: “No. 69 A new and elegant Map of the United States on a scale of 30 miles to the inch [actually 32 miles to the inch, or 1: 2,000,000] - 5 feet 4 inches long, and 4 feet 2 inches high. price of the map with the accompanying Memoir on the materials used in its construction, $10.00.” The Memoir was also sold separately for $1.00.

The 1829 first edition of this map is described by Rumsey as “one of the best early large maps of the United States and the premier map for its period” (Rumsey 975).

The present map shows the United States from the Atlantic ocean to what today is western Kansas (noted as “Kanzas” on map). To the west of Michigan Territory and Missouri large areas of land include the locations of numerous Indian tribes but are designated as “Districts” rather than Territories: District of Huron, Sioux District, Mandan District, Osage District and Ozark District. Also included are canals, railroads, “McAdamized” roads and proposed canals and railroads. One of the most attractive and interesting aspects of the map are the numerous insets: these include 16 inset city and regional maps (Environs of Albany; Environs of Boston; Environs of New York; Environs of Philadelphia and Trenton; Environs of Baltimore and Washington; Cincinnati; Charleston; New Orleans; South Part of Florida; Washington; Baltimore; Philadelphia; New York; Boston; Pittsburg & Environs; Oregon and Mandan Districts [8 x 13 1/8 inches, with a further inset ‘Outlet of Oregon River’]) the border of the main map also includes 14 profiles of portages, canals, and railroads and 2 tables in the lower right corner: Statistics of the Western Districts, and Statistics of the United States.

According to Tooley, H.S.Tanner is “thought to be the first native-born American to devote his career to publishing,” and he is responsible for some of the most important maps of the United States to be published in the nineteenth century: an idea of his output can be garnered from the 80 items listed in the catalogue at the back of the Memoir. Tanner acknowledges the assistants who helped him complete this major undertaking, and the fine vignette title is also fully attributed as being the work of James W. Steel (1799-1879), a Philadelphia line engraver (cf. Mantle Fielding).

American Imprints 40603; cf. Phillips, America, p. 885; Rumsey 975; Streeter Sale 3835; Howes T28; Ristow American Maps & Mapmakers pp. 191-198; Sabin 94318; Schwartz & Ehrenberg p. 253 (“Twice as detailed as Melish’s map of 1816.”); Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West II, #390 & p. 94 (illustrated), p. 96.

(#27096) $ 18,000 32 TRIGGS, J.H.

History and Directory of Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, Comprising a Brief History of Laramie City From Its First Settlement to the Present Time...Including a Minute Description of a Portion of the Mining Region of the Black Hills. Also a General and Business Directory of Laramie City.

Laramie City: Daily Sentinel Print, 1875. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches). 91pp., including numerous pages of ads included in pagination. Publisher’s lettered blue wrappers. Housed in a blue chemise and morocco backed slipcase.

First edition: “This exceedingly rare imprint gives a frank history of Laramie in its turbulent days and reign of violence” (Adams, Six-Guns).

“A history of the region from the day of first settlement in April of 1868. It has long been recognized by students of western history as probably the most honest, outspoken, and vivid account of the early and turbulent days. Laramie was famous for its disorder, crime, and rapid growth. Triggs describes the horde that first came in, as made up of one-fifth honest and daring men, the balance ‘were gamblers, thieves, highwaymen, robbers, cut-throats, garroters, prostitutes, and their necessary companions.’ The narrative describes the ensuing mass-meeting to form a government; its organization and collapse; the reign of violence; the formation of the Vigilance Committee and the hangings; its degeneration into a Reign of Vengeance; the final creation of legal government; the battles between the Vigilantes and the new police, and succeeding events, until finally the Territorial legislature in desperation, took away the citys charter, and put the community under the jurisdiction of the Federal courts” (Eberstadt 136:667).

Despite its violent and ugly beginnings, described in detail in the first few pages, Laramie by this time is represented as a well-ordered and prosperous city. This work includes in its latter part a fascinating “general directory” of the populace.

Adams, Six-Guns 2239; Adams, Rampaging Herd 2332, Graff 4191; Howes 351; AII, Wyoming Imprints 23

(#31390) $ 5,000 33 WHITNEY, Josiah Dwight.

The Yosemite Book; A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California....

New York: Julius Bien, 1868. Large quarto. 116pp. plus twenty-eight mounted albumen photographs, each 6 x 8 inches, and two folding maps. Repairs to maps, text moderately foxed in places, photo mounts lightly so, but the photos themselves clean and bright. Three-quarter morocco, publisher’s green cloth, title stamped in gilt on front board, neatly re-backed, with original gilt morocco spine preserved, gilt edges.

Twenty-eight Mounted Photographs of Yosemite

An important photographically illustrated piece of Western Americana, containing twenty- eight original albumen photographs, the first twenty-four produced by Carleton T. Watkins in 1866 and the final four by W. Harris the following year. The Yosemite Book... was assembled by the office of the California State Geologist, headed by J.D. Whitney. The text was based mainly on the field survey work done by Clarence King in the 1866 season, supplemented with material from other sources. The whole was intended as a lavish guide to Yosemite. Only 250 copies were issued with photographs, as in the present copy. The rest were done on a smaller format to serve more practically as a guide book. The maps are the best of the Yosemite region produced up to that time. Whitney was justifiably proud of the work, which appeared early in 1869, although completed in December 1868. Currey & Kruska conclude that it is “one of the major contributions to Sierra Nevada literature.” This work is now scarce. It was notably absent from the DeGolyer Library exhibition devoted to photographically illustrated western books (although it is listed in the appendix). Important and visually impressive.

Cowan, p.699; Currey & Kruska, Yosemite Bibliography 60; Farquhar 7a; Graff 4646; Howell 50:929; Howes W389, “aa”; Kurutz, California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs 88; ROCQ 5170;Truthful Lens 896; Zamorano Select 32

(#31427) $ 18,500 34 WYCKOFF, Richard D.

How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds.

New York: The Magazine of Wall Street, 1922. 8vo (7 3/8 x 5 inches). Portrait frontispiece, 13 plates. Publisher’s flexible dark blue morocco, upper cover titled in gilt, rebacked with the original spine laid down. In a cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase.

First edition of a classic work on securities analysis and investing.

The author, the editor of The Magazine of Wall Street, spent thirty-three years on Wall Street trading stock and bonds.

(#32085) $ 1,200 TRAVEL AND VOYAGES

35 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 36 BLIGH, William (1754-1817).

A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.

London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. Quarto (12 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Bligh by J. Condé after J. Russell, 7 engraved plates, charts and plans (comprising: 1 plate of a breadfruit, 2 folding plans, 4 charts [3 folding]), uncut. Expertly bound to style in half 18th century russia and contemporary marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt in 6 compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition of the full official account of the Bounty expedition, the famous mutiny and Bligh’s miraculous navigation to safety: a fine uncut copy.

This work “includes a revised version of the text of Bligh’s narrative of the mutiny, previously published in London in 1790 ... This account was based upon Bligh’s journal but was written, edited and seen through the press by James Burney, under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks, during Bligh’s absence from London while on his second breadfruit voyage on the Providence” (Hill [2004] p.48). The most remarkable part of the narrative is undoubtedly Bligh’s account of the voyage in the Bounty’s 23-foot 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. This copy is a lovely, wide- margined example.

Cox, II p 305; Du Rietz 93; Ferguson 125; Hill (2004) 135; Mendelssohn II, 1117; Sabin 5910; Wantrup 62a.

(#33091) $ 12,000 37 BYRON, George Anson (1789-1868).

Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824-1825.

London: Murray, 1826. 4to. x,[1],260pp. 15 maps and plates (2 folding). Uncut. Minor foxing. Contemporary green cloth, morocco lettering piece, green endpapers (spine faded, minor wear).

First edition of a classic early voyage to Hawaii: a large, uncut example.

While on a state visit to London, King Kamehameha II and his queen Kamamalu died of measles to which they had no immunity. The present voyage was undertaken by the British government specifically to return their bodies to Hawaii. Captained by the cousin of George Gordon, Lord Byron, the Blonde was in Hawaiian waters from May 3 through July 18, 1825.

“The work contains a history of the late king’s visit to London, a résumé of the discovery of and visits to Hawaii by British explorers, as well as the main narrative, compiled by Maria Graham from the journals kept by the naturalist (Bloxam) and from official papers. The Hawaiian portion of text contains an interesting account of events in Honolulu and travels to Hilo, the volcano, Kealakekua, and Laihana” (Forbes). The work is also critical of the American missionaries, who at this time were still relatively new to the islands.

Forbes lists thirteen plates, which include two maps, aquatint views, and engraved portraits after Robert Dampier. This copy, however, has fifteen plates, all of which are listed in the binder’s instructions. A rare early Hawaiian work.

Forbes 630; Abbey 597; Hill 231; Judd 76; Sabin 100816.

(#33092) $ 1,950 38 [CHINA, East India Company Press] - DAVIS, John Francis (1795-1890) and Robert MORRISON (1782-1834).

San-Yu-Low: or the Three Dedicated Rooms. A tale translated from the Chinese ... [Bound following:] Translations from the Original Chinese with notes.

Canton [but Macau], China: Printed by order of the Select Committee; at the Honourable East India Company’s Press, by P. P. Thoms, 1815. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). [Translations:] [2],42 [numbered without pages 9-10, as issued]; [San-Yu-Low:] [2], 56pp. Signature B in the second work inverted. Stitched together, plain yellow rear wrapper (upper wrapper lacking).

The first two works published at the East India Company press at Macau, bound together: a milestone in the history of Western printing in China. These works mark an important step in the history of printing in China, being the first works to employ moveable type printed in China since the two or three works printed by the Jesuits at the end of the sixteenth century.

“The Chinese authorities at Canton were strict to the point of fanaticism in all that represented the introduction of new thought into China. They might not have opposed the introduction of Christianity, as a religion, but what they feared was the introduction of the new ideas which were part of this religion - ideas that would have conflicted with all the age-old traditions, the classical system of learning and their customs and usages, so closely associated with their system of government. Thus, they would never, at that time, have permitted a printing press run by foreigners at Canton or elsewhere in Chinese territory, and it was kept therefore at [the Portuguese outpost at] Macao. Owing to the friendly relations subsisting between the senior members of the East India Company’s staff and the Portuguese officials at Macao, the latter decided to behave generously and to close an eye, since they could not give their formal consent, all printing in the Portuguese overseas territories being, as has been shown, absolutely prohibited” (Braga). So as not to present their Portuguese hosts any trouble for this allowance, The East India Company press omitted the name Macau from their earliest imprints there, and instead added a false Canton imprint, as on these two works.

Davis, the translator of San-Yu-Low, a story from an anthology by Lu Yu, would accompany Lord Amherst on his 1816 Embassy and would later serve as the Governor of Hong Kong. The Morrison work, published prior to his famed dictionary, are “translations of edicts and memorial from the Peking Gazette (Ching pao), including items dealing with sect outbreaks” (Lust). This copy of the Morrison work the presumed first issue, without the subsequently published pages 43-50, found only in the Lowendahl copy and in one (of four) copies held by the British Library.

These two works are both very rare, with only the Philip Robinson copies appearing at auction in the last thirty years.

Braga, “The Beginnings of Printing at Macau”, in Studia (Revista Semestral), No. 12 (July 1963), pp. 56-61; Cordier 1769-1770 and 538; Lust 1099 and 477; Lowendahl 799 and 783.

(#31593) $ 7,250

39 COCKBURN, John.

A Journey over Land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South Sea. Performed by ... Cockburn, and five other Englishmen... containing, variety [sic.] of extraordinary distresses and adventures, and some new and useful discoveries of the inland of these almost unknown parts of America: as also, an exact account of the manners, customs, and behaviour of the several Indians... To which is added, a curious piece, written in the reign of King James I. and never before printed, intitled, A Brief Discoverye of some things best worth noteinge in the Travells of Nicholas Withington, a Factor in the East-Indiase.

London: printed for C. Rivington, 1735. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches). 3pp. publisher’s advertisements at back. Folding engraved map. Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia-backed contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. First edition with the rare folding map. This work, which was much re-printed, was, for many years, assumed to be fictional due to the severe nature of the descriptions of the ‘extraordinary distresses and adventures’.

The map, titled ‘A Map of that part of ye kingdom of Mexico travers’d by Jno. Cockburn & his Companions’ depicts Central America and the Gulf of Honduras. ‘Cockburn and several other pirates were set ashore ... at Puerto Caballos in 1730. After escaping from jail in San Pedro Sula, they crossed the Isthmus to San Salvador and thence traveled to Panama overland ... The account is valuable, as few foreign observers visited Central America in the early eighteenth century’ (Griffin.) The Withington, with its own titlepage, makes up the final eighty-five pages of this work.

Field 336; Griffin 2530; Sabin 14095

(#19158) $ 3,250 40 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.35- 36).

Beddie 1216; Hill (2004) 358; Holmes 24; Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Rosove 77.A1.

(#25578) $ 7,500

41 COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779) and James KING.

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.

London: printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. 4 volumes (text: 3 volumes, quarto [11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches]; atlas: 1 volume. large folio [21 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches]). Text: Titles with engraved medallion vignettes. 2 large engraved folding maps [usually found in the atlas, here bound into the text at a contemporary date], 24 engraved maps, coastal profiles and charts (13 folding), 1 folding letterpress table. Atlas: 61 engraved plates, charts and maps [complete]. Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia and period marbled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands in compartments, red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

A fine set of the second and best edition of the official account of Cook’s third and last voyage, during which he explored Hawaii and the west coast of America, Canada and Alaska.

“Cook’s third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands” (Hill).

The typography of the second edition text of the third voyage is generally considered superior to the first (Hughs took over the printing from Strahan and re-set all the text). Contemporary support for this view is reported by Forbes who quotes an inscription in a set presented by Mrs. Cook to her doctor, Dr. Elliotson, which notes that “the letter press of the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letter press.”

A pleasing set of Cook’s third voyage, with the plates in the atlas free of any foxing and with strong impressions of the plates, and with an unusually large set of the text.

Beddie 1552; Forbes 85; Hill (2004) 361 (first edition); cf. Lada-Mocarski 37; cf. Sabin 16250.

(#28739) $ 25,000

42 [COOK, James (1728-1779)] - John LEDYARD (1751-1789).

A Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West Passage, Between Asia & America performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779.

Hartford: printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783. 8vo (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches). 208pp. (Without the folding map, as usual). Small areas of expert restoration to two leaves. Expertly bound to style in full tree calf, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece.

First edition of the first American book on Hawaii and the northwest coast of America, and the only American account of Cook’s third voyage.

John Ledyard was the only American to serve on Cook’s third voyage, aboard the Resolution, as a Corporal of marines, and witnessed Cook’s death in Hawaii as he was one of the oarsman of the boat Cook took ashore. On the expedition’s return, all the journals were retained by the British Admiralty, but, after he returned to his family in Connecticut, Ledyard was persuaded to rewrite his journal from memory, which was then published. Although believed by some to be based partially on Rickman’s narrative, Ledyard’s journal contains information not available elsewhere, including the first published description of the Russian settlement at Unalaska.

“Ledyard is an important figure in the history of American contacts in the South Seas. Not only was he the first New Englander in the Pacific, but he went there with the great Captain Cook, and was with him when Hawaii was discovered. Ledyard visualized in the minutest detail the northwest coast China trade” (Hill). Ledyard went on to carry out some remarkable overland journeys, before accidently killing himself in Cairo by drinking vitriol.

Ledyard’s Journal is a noted rarity and copies with the map are almost unknown in today’s market (and possibly not issued with all copies).

Beddie 1603; Evans 17998; Forbes I, 52; Hill (2004) 991; Howes L181; Lada-Mocarski 36; Sabin 39691; Streeter Sale 3477; Wickersham 6556; Davidson, pp 64-5; Judd 108.

(#30272) $ 15,000

43 (COOK, James (1728-1779)) - Johann Heinrich WIEDMANN.

Leben und Schicksale des Capitains James Cook.

Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther, 1789. 8vo. [14], 384 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Cook by I.C. Bock. Contemporary paper boards, manuscript titling on spine.

First edition of the first significant German biography of Cook.

Wiedmann’s biography covers Cook’s first and second voyages; an additional volume was published a year later dedicated to the third voyage.

Beddie 1969; Du Reitz 1346; Henze I, 174; not in Forbes.

(#33391) $ 3,000 44 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 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches). Two volumes bound in one. [iii]-xxx,24,24,204,[4]; [4],124,20,8,12,40pp. 16 engraved maps and plates (4 folding maps, 12 plates [6 folding]). Lacks both half-titles and the leaf after the Introduction in volume one (c4, often lacking). (Minor foxing). Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt (rebacked with original gilt spine laid down. Provenance: Earl of Derby (armorial bookplate); Paul Peralta-Ramos (small red inked ownership stamp on endpaper).

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: from the library of the Earls of Derby.

“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.

Davidson, A Book Collector’s Notes, pp. 36-7; Hill 410; Holmes (first issue) 32; Kroepelien 245; Spence 264; Sabin 18338

(#28601) $ 15,000 45 DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste (1674-1743).

Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l’Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie.

Paris: Le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes, folio (17 x 11 inches). Titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot, half-titles. 65 engraved maps and plates (including 1 page of engraved sheet music) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, and Fonbonne after d’Anvillee, Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier and others, 4 engraved head-pieces after Humblot, occasional engraved initials. Moderate age toning. Contemporary French mottled calf, spines with raised bands in seven compartments, red and block morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers (repairs at joints and head and tail of spines).

The first edition of Du Halde’s celebrated and comprehensive history of China and the most important cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth century. The work is further noted as a cornerstone of northwest Americana, as it contains the earliest printed record of Bering’s first expedition with the earliest map of any portion of present-day Alaska.

In 1685, seeking to capitalize on failing relations between China and the Portuguese (i.e. papal) missionaries over the rites controversy, Louis XIV sent six French Jesuits to China as scientific emissaries. These early French missionaries would launch incredible interest in France for all things related to China. In 1735, Jesuit priest and historian Jean Baptiste Du Halde was given the monumental task of collating and editing the published and manuscript accounts of Jesuit travellers in China into a single work. Du Halde prominently cites the names of twenty-seven missionaries who served as his primary sources, including Martini, Verbiest, Bouvet, Gerbillon and others. The range of the work is impressive. Not only does du Halde cover the geography, history, culture and religion of China proper, but geographically he extends the coverage of the work to include neighboring countries.

The important maps within Du Halde’s work are by Royal geographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782). Based on surveys conducted by French Jesuits at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsiand, the work constitutes the first scientific mapping of China and forms the most important cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth century. The work also contains the first separate printed map of Korea and the first detailed survey of Tibet.

The first volume of Du Halde’s history comprises a general description of China, describing each province as well as each historical dynasty; the second volume encompasses government, law, commerce, art, literature, etc.; the third volume treats religion and science; the final volume expands the work to include neighboring regions (Mongolia, Tibet, Korea, etc,) and with accounts of late 17th century expeditions.

Within the final volume (pp.452-458), although not listed in the Contents, appears “Relation succinte du voyage du capitaine Beering dans la Sibérie” -- the first published account of Bering’s first expedition through the straits that now bear his name. The text is accompanied by an attractive map, titled “Carte des pays traversees par le Capne. Beering depuis la ville de Tobolsk jusqu’ Kamtschatka”, considered the first printed map of any portion of present-day Alaska (i.e. St. Lawrence Island).

Lada-Mocarski writes: “The first French folio edition of 1735 is the most desirable and significant. Its importance lies in the Relation succinct ... which is, in abbreviated form, Bering’s report of his first expedition. It had not been published previously and the history of its getting into Du Halde’s hands is interesting. On Bering’s return to St. Petersburg in March 1730 he brought with him a brief report accompanied by a map. This map (and presumably the report) was sent to the king of Poland as a suitable present. The Polish king, in turn, gave the documents to the Jesuit Du Halde with permission to use them as he saw fit. Thus, the first printed report of Bering’s 1725-28 expedition burst upon the world in the French work herein described. It was not until much later that a more complete narrative of this historical event was published in Russia.”

De Backer & Sommervogel IV:35; Brunet II:870; Cordier I:45-8; Cox I:355; Lust 12; Lada-Mocarski 2; Wickersham 6099; Löwendahl 394.

(#31324) $ 37,500

46 FRITH, Francis (1822-1898).

Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described.

London: James S. Virtue, [1858-1859]. 2 volumes, small folio (17 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches). 76 mounted albumen photographs. Extra-illustrated with 3 additional images by Frith in the rear of vol. 2, dated in the negatives 1873-1875. Foxing, principally to the mounts. Contemporary half green morocco and green pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt with raised bands. Provenance: Arthur G. Soames (armorial bookplate).

Frith’s Egypt and Palestine: “one of the most renowned nineteenth century photobooks” (Parr & Badger).

By the mid 1850s, Frith had sold his grocery and printing businesses to devote himself full time to photography. Between 1856 and 1860, he made three expeditions to Egypt, Sinai, Ethiopia, and Jerusalem, photographically documenting Middle Eastern architecture and culture. “On the first, he sailed up the Nile to the Second Cataract, recording the main historic monuments between Cairo and Abu Simbel. On the second, he struck eastwards to Palestine, visiting Jerusalem, Damascus and other sites associated with the life of Christ. The final expedition was the most ambitious, combining a second visit to the Holy Land with a deeper southward penetration of the Nile. His photographs of the temple at Soleb, 800 miles south of Cairo, represent a genuinely pioneering achievement. Unlike many travel photographers of this period, Frith used the wet collodion process in preference to the more convenient paper- based calotype. Because it involved chemically sensitizing the glass plates on site, this process posed particular problems in a climate dominated by heat, dust and insects. Commenting sardonically on how his chemicals often boiled on contact with the glass, he nevertheless produced negatives that are remarkable for their consistently high technical standard ... Frith photographed most of the key monuments several times, combining general views with close studies of their significant details and broader views of their landscape environment. The clarity of his images proved to be of immense value to archaeologists. The photographs are also often powerfully composed, revealing an understanding of the poetic qualities of light that gives them lasting aesthetic value” (McKenzie, Grove Art).

The present work was the first published fruit of these travels, originally published in 25 monthly parts, with three images per part, between 1858 and 1859, with the parts re-issued upon completion in two volumes (as here). Although most famous for his much larger photographs (Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem, 1862-63), Parr and Badger praise the artistry of the present images: “With the 9 by 7 inch view camera, Frith was liberated not only from the technical difficulties, but also from the aesthetic responsibilities of making a grand statement.”

Depicting landscapes, monuments and views, Frith’s photographs of Egypt and the Holy Land established his reputation as one of the most important photographers of the 19th century. “It is for good reasons that Firth’s views of Egypt and Palestine were the star attractions of the 1858 exhibition of the Photographic Society ... ‘His subjects in Palestine and Egypt impress us with a consciousness of truth and power which no other art production could produce’” (Truthful Lens, p. 30).

Many of the negatives, first printed here, were reused by Frith in later publications, including his deluxe edition Queen’s Bible, and his four-volume set printed by Mackenzie in 1863.

Blackmer 1942; Gernsheim 88; Truthful Lens 61; cf. Parr and Badger I:p.28.

(#31436) $ 12,500 47 HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885).

Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition.

New York: GP Putnam & Company, 1856. Folio (20 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches). 12 ff. letterpress text. 10 lithographic prints (one tinted portrait of Perry on india paper mounted from a daguerreotype by P. Haas, nine views by Heine [two of these chromolithographed, seven printed in two colours on india paper mounted]), all printed by Sarony & Co. Expertly bound to style in half purple morocco over period purple cloth covered boards.

An important work recording Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan.

William Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant-folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year the present volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, among the best lithographers in the United States at that time. “As artistic productions, the pictures speak for themselves ... none superior to them have been executed in the United States, and they have no cause to shun comparison with some of the best productions of Europe” (Introduction). Copies were produced tinted (though with some plates with several colors) on regular paper [as in the present copy] and a deluxe hand-coloured issue on card.

The plates are numbered and titled as follows 1. [portrait of Perry]; 2. Macao from Penha Hill; 3. Whampoa Pagoda; 4. Old China Street, Canton; 5. Kung-kwa at On-na, Lew-Chew; 6. Mia or road side chapel at Yokuhama; 7. Temple of Ben-teng in the harbor of Simoda; 8. Street and bridge at Simoda; 9. Temple of the Ha-tshu Man-ya-tshu-ro at Simoda; 10. Grave yard at Simoda Dio Zenge. Bennett describes the plates as “many times finer than those in the regular account of the Perry expedition.” His remarks on the work’s great rarity are confirmed by its absence from both of Cordier’s Japanese bibliographies.

Bennett, p.53; McGrath American Color Plate Books 123.

(#25141) $ 22,500 48 HERRERA y Tordesillas, Antonio de (1559-1625); LE MAIRE, Jacob (1585-1616); and others.

Description des Indes Occidentales, qu’on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde ... avec La Navigation du vaillant Captaine de mer Jaques le Maire, & de plusieurs autres.

Amsterdam: Chez Michel Colin, 1622. Folio (11 x 7 1/4 inches). [6],103,[6]107-254pp. Engraved additional title, 17 engraved maps (16 double-sheet, 1 folding), 5 engraved illustrations in the text of the Le Maire narrative. Without the portrait of Le Maire as usual (found in only a small number of copies). Early eighteenth century sheep, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled pastedowns.

One of the classic descriptions of the Spanish conquests in the New World, including the first publication of Jacques Le Maire’s journal of one of the greatest early Pacific voyages and circumnavigations: a work of great rarity and importance.

This edition of Herrera includes the first publication of Jacques Le Maire’s journal of one of the greatest early Pacific voyages and circumnavigations, that of Le Maire and Schouten in 1615 and 1616. Le Maire’s journal, which occupies pp. 107-174 of this book, describes the voyage of trade and discovery, launched by one of the most agressive of Netherlands traders in this era of Dutch expansion. The expedition sailed around Cape Horn, explored the Pacific coast of South America, and pursued the search for Terra Australis. Inspired in part by Quiros and motivated by Dutch trading zeal, this was the essential precursor to Tasman’s voyage; indeed Tasman made great use of Le Maire’s mapping of the ocean. The Le Maire voyage, the last of the seventeenth century expeditions to search for the unknown continent from the east, was responsible for extensive discoveries in the Pacific, recorded in excellent detail on the numerous maps published here. These include maps of Le Maire’s Pacific route and of New Guinea, the latter definitely establishing it to be an island. There are also five engraved views, showing the expedition in Patagonia, a Polynesian sailing canoe, the anchorage at Cocos Island, natives at Cocos, and the isle of Hoorn.

The first section of this work is the first French (and second edition overall) of a portion of Antonio de Herrera’s Historia General, first published in Madrid in 1601. This is one of the classic descriptions of the Spanish conquests in the New World, with important maps of the West Indies, the Americas, the coasts of Central and South America, the interior of Mexico, Terra Firme, and the west coast of South America, including some of the most important maps relating to the Pacific made to the time. The third section of this volume consists of brief accounts of other voyages into the Pacific, and the account of Pedro de Cevallos of the Spanish possessions in the New World.

Two issues of this French translation were printed in Amsterdam in 1622. This copy has the first imprint recorded by Wagner. There were also Latin and Dutch editions in the same year, differing slightly in their makeup; Wagner assigns priority to this French edition. A work of great rarity and importance.

Borba de Moraes p.400; European Americana 622/68; JCB (3)II:166; Sabin 31543; Tiele pp. 56-57, 314-316; Tiele-Muller 296; Wagner Spanish Southwest 12a

(#31298) $ 19,500

49 [LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup, comte de (1741-1788)] - CREPIN, Louis Philippe (1772-1851), after.

Naufrage de Mm. De Laborde sur les Canots de La Peyrouse au Port des François dans la Californie.

[Paris: Ostervald, circa 1806]. Engraved by Prot and Dissard. Sheet size: 22 1/8 x 29 inches.

Rare print depicting the tragic loss of two launches during La Perouse’s expedition in Lituya Bay, Alaska.

“La Pérouse’s expedition [aboard the frigates Astrolobe and Boussole] was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the west coast of North America ... The charge to the expedition [which took place between 1785 and 1788] was to examine such parts of the region as had not been explored by Captain Cook; to seek for an interoceanic passage; to make scientific observations on the various countries, peoples, and products; to obtain reliable information about the fur trade and the extent of Spanish settlements in California; and to promote the inducements for French enterprise in that quarter ... La Pérouse sent dispatches back to France from Kamchatka and Botany Bay. The two ships then set sail from Botany Bay, in 1788, and were never heard from again” (Hill).

In July 1786, La Perouse arrived at a majestic looking inlet off the southeast coast of Alaska. Naming the bay Port des Francais (present day Lituya Bay), La Perouse cautiously guided his ships into the fjord, eventually anchoring in the shelter of a small island at the head of the bay. After exploring and trading with local natives, on 13 July 1786, three small launches set sail back into the inlet to take soundings prior to the continuation of the expedition. Venturing too close to the entrance where the Pacific Ocean tidal currents created hazardous conditions, one of the boats capsized; the second boat (captained by Édouard Jean Joseph de Laborde de Marchainville) attempted to rescue the drowning sailors on the first, but suffered the same fate; the third boat, realizing the danger, returned to the safety of the inlet. In all, 21 sailors were lost. The present engraving, after a painting by noted French marine painter Louis Phillipe Crepin, depicts the above scene, with the first boat sinking in the foreground, the second boat throwing a line at the right, and the third ship returning toward the head of the bay, with La Perouse’s ships just visible behind the island at center left. The background is dominated by majestic snow-capped mountains, accurately depicted the beauty of the bay. As the title of the print suggests, the painting and engraving were done in honor of the fatal heroism of Édouard Jean Joseph de Laborde de Marchainville, who is depicted at the bow of the second boat throwing a line to the first launch, as well as his brother Ange de Laborde de Boutervilliers, who was aboard one of the two launches. The print is dedicated to their brother, French antiquary and Napoleonic politician Louis-Joseph-Alexandre de Laborde. The above scene is described in the second volume of La Perouse’s official narrative, published in 1797; Crepin’s painting is believed to have been done in 1806.

Rare: we can only find examples in the Bancroft Library and Yale, both of which have later colouring and are in poor condition.

(#31698) $ 6,000

50 LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834).

Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de La Pérouse ... [With:] Atlas pour servir à la Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de La Pérouse ...

Paris: Chez H. J. Jansen, An VIII [1799-1800]. 3 volumes (text: 4to [11 3/4 x 9 inches]; atlas: folio [21 x 13 1/2 inches]). Atlas: Engraved title, folding map, and 43 plates. Half titles in the text. Text and atlas uncut. Text in contemporary blue patterned paper-covered boards, rebacked to style; atlas bound to style in period uniform blue patterned paper covered boards, paper spine labels. A fine uncut set of the first edition of the official published account of the search for La Pérouse, by the naturalist on the d’Entrecasteaux expedition.

After three years had passed with no news of the fate of the La Perouse’s ships, in 1791 a new expedition was launched with the dual mission of searching for La Perouse but also making inquiries into the natural sciences and commerce of the region. “Rear-Admiral Bruny D’Entrecasteaux received command of the expedition which consisted of two ships of about five hundred tons burden [La Recherche and L’Espérance] ... Proceeding via the cape of Good Hope to Tasmania, extensive investigations of its coastline were made. New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the Admiralty Islands, Tonga, New Britain and other groups were visited, but ... no trace of the missing navigator was found ... The expedition made several important contributions to geographical knowledge, and the investigations of the naturalists into productions of countries visited were of special value” (Ferguson).

The work is particularly interesting for its descriptions and illustrations of Tasmania, Tonga, New Caledonia, and New Guinea, and the atlas contains outstanding views of these areas by the official artist Piron. Included is a famous engraving of a black swan, the first large depiction of the exotic Australian bird. Fourteen botanical plates, all by or produced under the direction of Redouté, the most famous of all botanical artists, include two of Eucalypts and two of Banksias.

Labillardière, botanist on the voyage, remains an important figure in early Australian science as the author of the first extensive monograph on Australian botany. Labillardière’s account is one of very few eighteenth-century accounts of Australian exploration, and the only major French account of the continent in the early settlement period to be published in the same century. The narrative based on the commander d’Entrecasteaux’s own papers did not appear until 1808 (i.e. after the restoration of the monarchy).

The first edition was published with the text in two forms: in quarto [as here, Ferguson 307] or octavo [Ferguson 308]. The quarto text , uniform in size to the first edition text of La Perouse, is greatly preferred.

Ferguson, 307; Hill, 954; Kroepelien, 697; McLaren, Lapérouse in the Pacific, 51; Nissen, ZBI 2331; Sabin 38420.

(#21588) $ 13,500 51 MASON, George Henry.

The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings: with explanations in English and French.

London: William Miller, 1800 [plates watermarked 1802]. Quarto (13 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches). Titles and text in English and French. 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by Dadley after Pu-Qùa of Canton, each with accompanying text leaf. Contemporary diced russia, covers bordered in gilt and blind, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in the second and sixth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A fine copy of Mason’s famous illustrated survey of the costume of China.

First published in 1800, Mason’s text is based on his own experiences in Canton in 1789- 1790. At the time he was there, foreigners were not allowed access to the China beyond the borders of the visitor’s compounds. Mason, however, was able to gain some information from interacting with the Hong merchants of Canton. The work is given structure by the series of plates, based on original drawings by Pu-Qua, that Mason purchased in Canton. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary in which Mason draws on either his own experiences or the accounts of earlier writers such as Staunton and Nieuhoff.

Abbey Travel II, 533; Colas 2009; Lipperheide Le 17.

(#32497) $ 5,800 52 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

53 PEARY ARCTIC EXPEDITION - G. Frederick NORTON (1876-1917).

[Incredible album of photographs documenting Peary’s final expedition to the Arctic].

[Northern Greenland]: 1908-1909. Oblong small folio (11 x 15 1/4 inches). 238 silver print photographs (comprising 71 panoramic images measuring 3 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches, 147 measuring 3 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches and 20 measuring 3 x 3 7/8 inches). Mounted recto and verso on grey card mounts within the album. Some images captioned in ink on the mount. A few cards detached, some fading to the images. Contemporary leather, missing part of one post, leather worn. Housed in a morocco backed box. Provenance: G. Frederick Norton.

An important photographic record of Peary’s Arctic expedition.

In 1908, G. Frederick Norton accompanied Robert Peary on the start of his final Arctic expedition. An acclaimed adventurer and hunter, Norton was additionally an amateur photographer and here documents Peary’s journey north, as well as camp life, landscape and natives of Greenland.

George Frederick Norton (1876-1917), born in Kentucky, attended the Lawrenceville School and served as a partner at the brokerage Ex Norton & Co. However, his life’s passion was travel, adventure and big game. Norton made numerous trips to the west and Alaska on private hunting expeditions, and collected and donated specimens (with a particular emphasis on bear skulls) to the American Museum of Natural History the Smithsonian and other institutions. In 1901, he journeyed around the world and in 1908 he helped finance the final Peary expedition to the North Pole, accompanying him aboard the ship Erik as far north as Etah, Greenland. The images include panoramic landscapes taken from aboard the ship, showing icebergs and the coast of Greenland. The smaller format images include portraits and candid shots of Peary, Matthew Henson, Captain Bartlett, Professor Marvin and other crew members at work and repose aboard the ships Erik and Roosevelt, as well as numerous images of native Inuit aboard ship and on land. Furthermore, images include landscapes and camp life at the whaling station at Hawk’s Harbor, Holseteinborg, the Cape York settlement, Etah and elsewhere en route. Among the Peary-related photos, are a series of images showing his preparations to leave the ship at Etah.

An extraordinary album of vernacular photographs in the Arctic on a noted expedition.

(#32761) $ 35,000 54 PÉRON, François Auguste (1775-1810); Louis-Claude de Saulces de FREYCINET (1779- 1842); and Nicolas BAUDIN (1754-1803).

Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes ... [With:] ... Partie Historique rédigée par M. F. Péron. Atlas par MM. Lesueur et Petit ...

Paris: L’Imprimerie Imperiale, [1807-]1816. 3 volumes (2 vols. quarto text [12 x 8 1/2 inches]; large quarto atlas, two parts in one [13 1/2 x 10 inches]). Historique text: half-titles, 2 folding tables, engraved portrait frontispiece; Historique atlas: engraved titles (part one with vignette), 40 stipple and line engraved plates (23 hand coloured, 2 double-page), 14 maps (2 folding). Extra-illustrated with an additional portrait of Baudin bound as the frontispiece in vol. 1 text, and 25 additional unnumbered engraved plates (9 hand coloured, including 2 plates of engraved sheet music), comprising all the plates added to the 1824 second edition atlas. Nineteenth century green calf backed marbled paper covered boards, flat spines divided into compartments with gilt roll tools, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

The rare first edition of the official narrative of the Baudin-Freycinet Expedition: a unique example extra-illustrated with additional plates from the second edition.

The expedition was sent out by the French government in 1800 with orders to complete the cartographic survey of the Australian coast. Commanded by Nicolas Baudin, the expedition left France in 1800 and sailed via Mauritius to the Australian coast in the region of Cape Leeuwin, arriving in May 1801. Peron sailed as naturalist on the expedition and Freycinet as cartographer. The vessels, Geographe and Naturaliste, sailed north from Cape Leeuwin. The expedition surveyed the coast and made observations on the natural history and inhabitants, until they crossed to Timor. After three months the two ships set out for Tasmania, the party continuing to make detailed surveys, and went on to Sydney. They then undertook a complete survey of the southern coast and an examination of the northern coast before returning to Mauritius where, near the end of 1803, Baudin died. It was a celebrated voyage which brought back to France the most important collection of natural history specimens in the history of the French Museum, as well as a wealth of geographical and other information.

The narrative of the expedition was begun by Peron, and completed by Freycinet after Peron’s death. A tacit agreement between Peron and Freycinet, both of whom disliked Baudin, kept the commander’s name mostly absent from the present official account of the expedition. Flinders completed his survey of the Australian coast before Baudin, but his imprisonment by the French in Mauritius for seven years resulted in the French exploration account being published first. Consequently, the Baudin-Freycinet narrative includes the first complete and fully detailed map of the Australian continent. It is justly one of the most famous depictions of Australia ever produced, with virtually the entire southern coast labeled “Terre Napolean,” indicating possible French colonial ambitions. The Atlas Historique contains a group of beautiful color plates, mostly of natural history specimens, many of which depict what the French saw during their important visit to Tasmania.

In 1824, a revised second edition of the narrative was published containing 23 additional plates (including four new portraits of aborigines), as well as two plates of engraved sheet music, being the earliest notation of any indigenous Australian music and a rendering of the Abortiginal cooee call. Unusually, the present set of the first edition is bound with these additional plates as extra-illustrations, as well as an additional inlaid portrait of Baudin after Joseph Jauffret stipple engraved by Mecou.

Hill 1329; Wantrup 78a, 79a & 82; Ferguson 449, 536; Dunmore, French Explorers in the Pacific II, pp.9-40; Davidson, Book Collector’s Notes, pp.108-10; Sharp, Discovery of Australia, pp.232-39; Plomley, The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802

(#31302) $ 30,000 55 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 panelled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Thomas Cholmodeley (armorial bookplate).

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.

(#33067) $ 4,500 56 ROSS, Sir John (1777-1856).

Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions ... [With:] Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North- West Passage.

London: A.W. Webster, 1835. 2 volumes, large quarto (12 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches). [Narrative:] 6 maps (1 folding engraved map, 5 lithographic charts and maps), 25 plates (9 hand-coloured, comprised of 6 lithographs, 16 engravings, 3 mezzotints printed in colors). [Appendix:] 20 plates (4 engravings [1 hand-coloured]; 16 lithographs [11 hand-coloured]). 37pp. list of subscribers, 1p. with errata and additions to subscriber’s list. Uncut and partially unopened. Minor foxing, large folding map linen-backed at an early date. Modern black morocco, covers panelled in blind, spines with raised bands in six compartments, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in blind.

First editions of both the Narrative and the separately-issued Appendix to Ross’ second Arctic voyage: the large-paper, “royal” issue, with additional hand coloured plates.

After his failure to explore Lancaster Sound in his first voyage of 1818, Ross had his 1829- 33 second voyage privately financed. Although forced to abandon his steamship Victory in the ice at Felix Harbour (a fact that in the present official account Ross blames largely on the shortcomings of the boilers supplied by Braithwaite), his second expedition achieved a number of milestones. Besides the most thorough exploration of Boothia Peninsula that had been accomplished to date, James Clark Ross (John Ross’s nephew) undertook an overland journey across the peninsula and became the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole.

Two issues of the Narrative were published, a standard issue containing 3 color plates (i.e. the three colour printed mezzotints) and a “royal” issue, printed on larger paper and with 6 plates additionally hand coloured.

Abbey, Travel II, 636; Arctic Bibliography 14866; Chavanne 1450; Sabin 73381; Staton & Tremaine 1808; Lande 1462; TPL 1808.

(#33127) $ 2,000 57 SHELVOCKE, George (1690-1728).

A Voyage round the World By the Way of the Great South Sea. Perform’d in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 Guns and 100 Men, (under His Majesty’s Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late War with the Spanish Crown) till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterward continu’d in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c.

London: printed for J. Senex ... W. & J. Innys ... J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1726. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). [8],xxxii,[4],468pp. Engraved title vignette by Pine, 1 folding engraved double-hemisphere world map and 4 engraved plates (2 folding) by Pine. Contemporary brown calf, covers ruled in gilt, rebacked, spine with raised bands, original morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt (hinges reinforced).

First edition of “the fullest account of California, the natives and other features, of any of the old voyages” (Cowan).

“Captains Shelvocke and Clipperton led a privately financed privateering expedition to attack Spanish shipping. Shelvocke gave his superior officer the slip in a storm and proceeded to Brazil and thence to the west coast of South America, where in two months he sacked Payta, Peru, and captured several small prizes. His vessel, the Speedwell, was wrecked at Juan Fernandez Island, but a ship was built out of the wreckage, and he sailed up the coast to Baja California. After crossing the Pacific via Guam and Macao, Shelvocke returned to England, where he was accused of piracy and embezzlement, and then acquitted. He soon left for the Continent a wealthy man. Shelvocke wrote this account, in part, as a vindication of his conduct. In it he mentions the gold of California and the guano of Peru, more than a hundred years before their rediscovery in the 19th century. An incident in the narrative describing the passage around Cape Horn, in which a sailor kills an albatross, is said to have inspired Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner”(Hill).

Cowan II, pp. 581-582; Hill 272-273; Howes S383; Sabin 80158.

(#28622) $ 6,000 58 TRUSLER, John (1735-1820).

A Descriptive Account of the Islands Lately Discovered in the South-Seas.

London: R. Baldwin, 1778. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). [4],vii,303,[9]pp. Half-title, publisher’s ad on verso of final leaf. Uncut. Original blue boards with drab paper spine, contemporary manuscript titling on spine and front board. Light wear and soiling to binding. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Very minor foxing, primarily to outer leaves. Very good and in unsophisticated original condition. In a paper slipcase.

An important early compilation of South Seas voyages, put together by John Trusler, who drew primarily on Cook’s explorations.

This would have been the first introduction of many readers to the English advances in exploring the Pacific. “John Trusler is described in the DNB as an eccentric divine, a literary compiler, and a medical empiric. Throughout his diverse career Trusler published many works, on subjects ranging from philosophy to farming. The [present] work contains descriptions and history of Tahiti and the Society Islands, the Friendly Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Holland, and Kamchatka. It offers lively and entertaining discussions of the customs of the inhabitants of these various Pacific islands” (Hill). A very few copies were apparently issued with a folding map which is not present in this copy, nor was it present in the Hill copy (ESTC does not call for a map). Scarce, with only a handful of copies in ESTC.

Hill 1719; ESTC T107078.

(#28627) $ 9,750 NATURAL HISTORY

59 AIGUEBELLE, Charles d’.

Homographie par brevet d’invention ... Choix de vingt plantes indigènes et coloniales.

Paris: l’auteur, [1828]. Broadsheet (24 1/4 x 18 inches). Lithographed and nature-printed title with dedication to the Duchesse de Berry. 20 hand coloured lithographed and nature- printed plates, lithographed by Bernard et Delarue (2), Bernard (6), or d’Aiguebelle (12), all after d’Aiguebelle. Each plate with corresponding text leaf, text by L. Madale. (Discoloration to one plate, minor foxing). Contemporary red paper boards, rebacked and retipped to style with red morocco, original red morocco lettering piece on the upper cover.

A very rare large folio botanical work with hand coloured plates, produced through a unique combination of lithography and nature printing.

The very beginning of the use of lithography for botanical illustration can be traced to 1811 with Von Schrank’s Flora Monacensis which included lithographs by Johann Nepomuk Mayerhoffer. The ability to draw directly onto the stone, coupled with the medium’s effectiveness in showing shifts of tone, appealed to the artist and naturalist alike. Although nature printing had been in use since the end of the 15th century at the time of Leonardo Da Vinci, the process used was simply inking the specimen and pressing it onto the sheet, with each specimen yielding only a small number of good impressions before becoming saturated with ink and damaged. Nevertheless, until the advent of photography, for the scientific world, nature-printing allowed for a degree of accuracy unrivalled except by the most talented of botanical artists. “A collection of good nature prints was a tolerable substitute for an herbarium in a way that no other illustrations could be” (Cave and Wakeman, Typographia Naturalis, p. 1).

The invention of lithography, and the limestone’s ability to retain its crayon marks even after numerous printings, evidently struck Frenchman Charles d’Aiguebelle as the perfect medium to re-invent nature printing. By “inking” the specimen with wax and applying it directly to the stone, the naturalist could more easily reproduce his specimens while maintaining the faithfulness of the original. Naming the process “Homographie”, D’Aiguebelle took his process a step father, by beautifully adding in lithography the fruit, stems and other details of the plants not nature printed, and adding hand colouring overall to enhance both the artistic and scientific merits of the work.

Evidently issued in parts, the title would appear to be repeated from the upper parts wrapper, and includes a dedication to the Duchesse de Berry and title within a lithographed and nature-printed wreath. The twenty plates comprise: Le Raisin; La Pivoine; Le Volkameria; Le Framboisier; Le Figuier; La Rose du Roi; Le Tulipier du Bengale; Le Cassis; Le Murier; Le Datura; L’Ibisque Militaire; L’Annone Trilobee; Le Solanum; Le Geranium des Pres; Le Neflier; Le Salvia Sylvestris; Le Passiflore; Le Noisetier; L’Heliotrope; and Le Fusain. Each plate is accompanied by a descriptive text leaf by L. Madale, who is described as “botaniste cultivateur.” This is the only work Nissen lists for Charles D’Aiguebelle, who would go on to invent anastatic printing for which he was awarded a silver medal at the Paris Exposition of 1834. By the mid-19th century, nature printing would be accomplished by pressing the specimens under high pressure between steel and soft lead plates, the latter yielding the impression needed for transfer to a copperplate for printing. We know of no other published works which unite lithography and nature printing in the manner of the present work.

The work is very rare, with no copies in the famed collections of De Belder or Plesch. Only one other copy has appeared on the market in the last quarter century.

Fischer, Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck 98; Nissen BBI 7; cf. Cave and Wakeman, Typographia Naturalis (Brewhouse Press, 1967).

(#31314) $ 37,500 60 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851).

The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories.

New York & Philadelphia: Audubon and J.B.Chevalier, 1840-1844. 7 volumes, royal octavo (10 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Half-titles, lists of subscribers. 500 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembley and others, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia (plates 1-135, 151-500) or George Endicott of New York (plates 136-150), numerous wood-engraved anatomical figures in text. Some minor dampstaining in lower margin of vols. 1 and 3 (mostly affecting text and not plates), scattered minor foxing mostly to text and tissue guards, minor marginal repairs to preliminary text in final volume. Nineteenth century half red morocco and red cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others panelled in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges.

The first octavo edition of Audubon’s Great National Work. This is the first complete edition and the first American edition. The work is one of the “most beautiful, popular, and important natural history books published in America in the nineteenth century ... representing the best of pre-Civil War American lithography and giving Audubon the opportunity finally to display his scholarship and genius to a large American audience for the first time” (Ron Tyler).

The plates, here accompanied by the text for the first time, were reduced and variously modified from the Havell engravings in the double-elephant folio. Seven new species are figured and seventeen others, previously described in the Ornithological Biography but not illustrated, were also shown for the first time. Audubon may have been prompted to publish the reduced version of his double-elephant folio by the appearance in 1839 of John Kirk Townsend’s rival Ornithology of the United States; or, as he writes in the introduction to the present work, he may have succumbed to public demand and his wish that a work similar to his large work should be published but “at such a price, as would enable every student or lover of nature to place it in his Library.”

The first edition of the octavo work is certainly the most famous and accessible of all the great American colour plate books, and now represents the only realistic opportunity that exists for collectors to own an entire collection of Audubon images in a form that was overseen and approved by the great artist himself. The octavo Birds of America was originally issued in 100 parts, each containing five plates. The whole story of the production of the book, with detailed information about every aspect of the project, is told by Ron Tyler in Audubon’s Great National Work (Austin, 1993). The story Tyler tells of the difficulties of production and marketing are revealing of the whole world of colour plate book production in mid-19th- century America. By combining detailed text with careful observations next to his famous images, Audubon proved that he was as good a scientific naturalist as the members of the scientific establishment who had scorned him.

Bennett p.5; Fries, Appendix A; Nissen IVB 51; Reese, Stamped With A National Character 34; Ripley 13; Ron Tyler, Audubon’s Great National Work (1993) Appendix I; Sabin 2364; Wood p.208; Zimmer p.22.

(#32772) $ 65,000

61 AUSTEN, Ralph (d. 1676).

A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, Shewing the manner of Grafting, Setting, Pruning, and Ordering of them in all respects.

Oxford: [L. Lichfield] for Thomas Robinson, , 1653. Two parts in one, 4to. Engraved title, engraved by J Goddard. [26, including title], 97, [1, blank]; [12], 41, [1, blank]pp (with errors in pagination as issued). Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, second part with separate title within typographical border. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind. Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck (bookplate).

First edition of a noted early English work on fruit trees.

This work “contains much useful information on the planting and care of trees. Of particular interest is a section headed ‘Errors Discovered.’ Here the author exposes a number of the old superstitions to be found in garden literature and also draws attention to some errors practiced by gardeners” (Henrey).

Austen first came to Oxford in about 1646; by 1659, he had built a house, orchard and cider factory between Queen Street and Shoe Lane in downtown Oxford. By the time of his death in 1676, Austen owned several properties in Oxford dedicated to his nurseries and orchards. He became a reader at the Bodeleian Library and although he spent considerable time researching on botanical subjects, his writings all bear evidence of extensive experimentation. Austen would become known especially for his skills at grafting and cider making.

ESTC R12161; Henrey 5; Wing A-4238.

(#33449) $ 3,500 62 BADGER, Clarissa W. Munger (1806-1889).

Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature.

New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867 [but December 1866]. Folio (17 x 12 7/8 inches). Hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 15 hand-coloured lithographed plates, coloured by Mrs. Badger. Publisher’s full black morocco, upper cover with broad floral gilt borders and gilt lettered title, rear cover with floral border in blind, spine in six compartments with a repeat decoration in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A charming American flower book with hand-coloured plates: among the best folio flower books produced in America.

Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers (published 1859), though here focussed on the greenhouse and garden. “Contains 16 very beautiful full page flower plates in many colors and shades. Each flower portrayed is also the subject for a poem which serves as text for the illustration” (Bennett). Species represented include Azalea, Geranium, Roses, Jasmine, Bretia (Frontispiece); Camellia & Begonia, Night Blooming Cereus; Fuchsias, Cactus, Scarlet Geranium; Calla & Poincettia; Passion-Flowers, a bouquet of Roses, Narcissus, Hyacinth, Lily of the Valley, Tulip & Dielytra; Salvia & Dielytra; Pansies, Moss Rose; Tulips, Rose of Gethsemane; Larkspur & Japan Lily; Asters.

The handcoloured plates, coloured by Mrs. Badger over very light lithographed lines and without captions (thus giving the plates the appearance of original watercolours), were executed in an era when chromolithographs were fast replacing such skilled hand work. A contemporary advertisement for the work by the publisher, who priced the work $30 when issued, describes it as follows: “The volume is a stately folio, elegantly bound in Turkey morocco and the paper and presswork, and the whole mechanical execution are perfect. There are sixteen pictures in the volume -- favorite or representative flowers -- and each of them is painted from nature by the patient and laborious hand of the artist, and with such exquisite care and taste, and delicacy of touch as to vie with nature herself.” A review of the work in a December 1866 issue of Hours at Home proclaimed the work “without exaggeration, a most unique, highly artistic and gorgeous affair -- a work that reflects great credit on the artistic taste of the country, as well as on the genius and industry of the author.”

“Though little is known about her life other than the landmark dates of her birth, marriage and death, Mrs. Badger’s fine drawings and talented hand have survived to keep her name alive” (J. Kramer, Women of Flowers, New York: 1996).

Nissen BBI 56; Bennett p. 6; McGrath, p. 57.

(#29035) $ 5,750 63 BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1887); Thomas Mayo BREWER (1814-1880); and Robert RIDGWAY (1850-1929).

A History of North American Birds ... Land Birds ... [With:] Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Vol. XII. The Water Birds of North America.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1875-1884. 2 works in 5 volumes (Land Birds, 3 vols; Water Birds, 2 vols), 4to (10 1/2 x 8 inches). [Land Birds:] 64 hand-coloured lithographs and numerous illustrations. Extra-illustrated with 36 hand-coloured lithographs after Ridgway. [Water Birds:] 493 illustrations (including 332 finely hand-coloured). Uncut. Publisher’s uniform green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

Rare deluxe, coloured and extra-illustrated editions of Baird, Brewer and Ridgway’s classics of American ornithology.

“This work contains a description of the birds of North America north of Mexico, including Greenland and Alaska. The focus of this work is an account of the life history of the species, to which is added information about the geographical distribution of the birds and a brief description of the eggs and the individual species. Baird and Ridgway supplied the descriptive parts of the work, while Dr. Brewer dealt with the habits of the birds” (Anker). Little Brown & Co. advertisements confirm that their Land Birds was issued with 64 plates (uncolored at $10 per volume, or coloured at $20 per volume). However, a letter from the librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia published in the October 1902 issue of the Auk reveals the existence of the present deluxe issue of the Land Birds, with additional hand-coloured plates after Ridgway: “While the existence of an edition of this work with these plates may be known to many ornithologists, yet there is no printed record of such, as far as the present writer is aware. No mention of these plates is made in Coues’s ‘Bibliography’ nor in the several reviews of the ‘Land Birds’ to which I have had access. Dr. C. W. Richmond informs me that Mr. Ridgway has never seen a copy of the work with these plates although he has some loose plates in his possession” (letter from William J. Fox published in The Auk, October 1902). Neither Nissen, Anker, Zimmer nor Sitwell mention this deluxe issue. A contemporary advertisement (in an 1882 edition of The Scientist’s International Directory), however, reveals that this deluxe extra-illustrated issue “beautifully colored by hand” was available for $75 in cloth (as here) or $95 in full morocco.

Little Brown & Co. advertisements confirm that their Water Birds was published in both uncolored ($10 per volume) and colored ($30 per volume) issues, describing the latter: “In the hand colored edition of the Water Birds all the illustrations of heads are most exquisitely executed in water colors from patterns prepared by Mr. Ridgway.” The in-text illustrations are indeed exceptionally well hand-coloured, with the eyes of the birds finished with gum arabic. (See the advertisement in the 31 May 1884 issue of The Literary World, advertising volume one as just completed and projecting volume two to be published in September). We have only once before encountered a colored issue (the Bradley Martin copy), and considering the cost and labor involved, must have been done in limited numbers.

“One of the great works on North American ornithology and for many years a standard reference ... the first major work on North American birds to supersede Audubon’s Ornithological Biography of 1831-39 as a comprehensive general source” (Ellis Collection).

Nissen IVB 63 and 64; Anker 25; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, page 75; Ellis Collection 137 and 140; Zimmer, p. 34-35.

(#29922) $ 12,000 64 [BRAUN, Adolphe (1812-1877)].

Album of 25 albumen photographs of flower arrangements.

[Paris: circa 1855]. Folio. 25 albumen photographs, most with rounded corners, each mounted onto white paper and mounted onto tan sheets within the album. Contemporary navy blue morocco, bound by C. Lewis, covers with wide elaborate borders in gilt, central floral wreath stamped in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt, flat spine gilt, cream silk endpapers.

A stunning album of early floral photographs attributed to Braun.

A noted French textile designer, Braun was an early adopter of the use of photography in his studio to aid in the design of floral patterns. “It was his flower images that brought Adolphe Braun into the top rank of photographers. The subject could not have been more appropriate for him, as flowers were the most important theme in the printing factories’ design studios ... Adolphe Braun disliked the distorted, repetitive and conventional floral compositions of the schools and design studios. His stated goal for his Fleurs photographiées was to allow designers to work from natural models” (O’Brien and Bergstein, p. 15). In 1854, Braun presented an album of 300 photographs to the Academie des Sciences in Paris and exhibited additional images at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. “With the collodion process, Adolphe Braun was able to reproduce his flower wreaths and arrangements with perfect subtlety and finess ... These images compose one of the major works of art produced in this period, known as the ‘golden age of photography’” (O’Brien and Bergstein, p. 16)

Braun catalogues show that his large albumen prints were offered for sale at ten francs each. Although he produced hundreds of glass plates, he found the market for the larger, more expensive images was limited among textile artists and students of design and therefore produced far fewer of the larger sizes like the present images.

While a few scattered images appear in museums and private holdings, the principal repository of Braun photographs is held by the Musée de l’Impression sur Étoffes, Mulhouse. Braun floral photographs of the size and quality as those in the present album are seldom seen on the market.

Maureen C. O’Brien and Mary Bergstein, Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolpe Braun (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000)

(#29743) $ 28,000 65 CASSIN, John (1813-1869).

Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American Ornithology.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., [1853]-1856. Quarto (10 1/4 x 6 7/8). 50 hand-coloured lithographs, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, 18 after George G. White, 32 drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock. Light dampstaining in the rear. Contemporary red morocco backed marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, lettered in gilt and panelled in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers.

The first edition of Cassin’s additions to Audubon: an important American colour-plate and ornithological work.

Cassin intended his work to supplement that of Audubon. He had originally suggested to Audubon’s sons a plan for extending the octavo edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America, but difficulty concerning credit on the titlepage sank the scheme, and Cassin proceeded with his own publication. His original intention was to issue a work containing 150 plates but about halfway through the issue of the parts this was reduced to 50 plates. Cassin used the same lithographer as the Audubons, J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, to produce the beautiful plates of American birds, consisting entirely of western species that Audubon had never observed. Cassin was a trained scientist as well as careful artist and observer, and his work took American ornithology to a new level of technical competence, becoming the first American bird book to use trinomial nomenclature.

Anker 92; Bennett p.21; Cowan p.110; Lada-Mocarski 144; McGrath p.85; Nissen IVB 173; Reese Stamped with a National Character 42; Sabin 11369; Zimmer p.124.

(#32717) $ 3,500 66 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915).

The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America.

New York: Published by the Author, [1866-]1869. 2 volumes, large folio (23 3/16 x 18 1/8 inches). 1p. list of 71 subscribers. 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates (including the additional “Parus occidentalis” plate bound between plates I and II in vol.I; 1 plate by and after Elliot and Joseph Wolf, printed by D. McClellan & Brothers of New York; 72 printed and coloured by Bowen & 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, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.

A spectacular work with very fine generally life-size hand-coloured lithographs of species not previously pictured by either Alexander Wilson or John James Audubon, and particularly on birds of the American West, here with an additional plate that is not recorded by the standard bibliographies.

Elliot describes his aims in the preface: “Since the time of Wilson and Audubon, no work has been published upon American Ornithology, containing life-size representations of the various species that have been discovered since the labors of those great men were finished. The valuable productions of Cassin, as well as the revised edition of the ninth volume of the Pacific Rail Road Report, the joint labor of Messrs. Baird, Cassin and Lawrence had indeed appeared ... but no attempt had been made to continue the works of the first great American naturalists in a similar manner ... It was, therefore, with the desire to contribute ... towards the elucidation of the comparatively little known species of the Birds of North America, their habits and economy, as well as to render their forms familiar so far as life-size representation of them might serve to do, that I undertook the present publication.”

Over half of the plates in the work are devoted to birds of the American west, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and the Rocky Mountains, with many of the remaining depicting birds of the Alaskan and Arctic regions. The specimens pictured by Elliot were derived from a number of sources, but included birds brought back from government- sponsored overland expeditions to the West, as well as from private sources such as John Xantus de Vesey.

The plates for Elliot’s work (with the exception of plate 17 in volume II) were executed by Bowen of Philadelphia, the same lithographer as in Cassin’s continuation of Audubon. The project, however, would prove the last for the noted firm, as it closed down shortly after the present work was completed. The plates are taken from originals by Elliot and one of the greatest ornithological artists working in the second half of the nineteenth century: Joseph Wolf. In particular, Wolf’s image of the Iceland Falcon (the second plate in volume II) must rank as one of the great bird portraits of all time, and is a worthy successor to the images in Audubon’s own masterpiece.

The story behind the additional plate is perplexing and illusive. Auction records show that copies with an additional plate have been sold at auction nine times in the past thirty years. These nine appearances represent at least three different copies of the book and possibly as many as eight, so the presence of the 73rd plate in the present copy is not unique. In the text (which does not call for a plate) Elliot notes that the bird which the additional plate pictures (“Parus Occidentalis”) it is not a new species at all, but a mis-identified Black-capped Chickadee (“Parus Atricapillus”). If this conclusion was reached by Elliot at a late stage in the book’s production then he could have been in the position of having a supply of the plates completed, but with no reason to include them in a book on birds that had not been pictured before. Strangely, none of the standard bibliographies mention the existence of this additional plate.

Anker 129; Bennett, p.39; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.95; Nissen IVB 294; Reese Stamped with a National Character 44; Sabin 22227; Wood p.331; Zimmer p. 205.

(#33108) $ 36,000 67 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 68 EMBURY, Emma C.; and Edwin WHITEFIELD.

American Wild Flowers in their Native Haunts...with twenty plates of plants, carefully colored after nature; and landscape views of their localities, from drawings on the spot, by E. Whitefield.

New York and Philadelphia: 1845. Octavo (9 1/4 x 7 inches). 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary half red morocco over pebbled red cloth covered boards, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers and edge (expert repairs at joints).

First edition of a beautiful American colour-plate book, with the plates interspersed with sentimental Victorian writings.

This book, which combines hand-colouring with bits of full colour-printing, represents colour-printing during a transition to mass produced chromolithographic technology. The plates are signed by Lewis & Brown Co. “What makes this book interesting is...the fact that the plates show some touches of color printing; Lewis and Brown is one of the very early firms to produce chromolithographic illustrations for books” - McGrath.

Norton considers this one of the two most interesting colour-plate books illustrated by the famous city view maker, Edwin Whitefield, who has supplied background scenes of the Hudson behind the flowers.

McGrath, pp.45,89; Bennett, p.40; Bettina Norton, Edwin Whitefield, p.139; Sabin 22414.

(#29425) $ 1,500 69 GOULD, John (1804-1881).

A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands.

London: published by the Author, 1837-1838. 4 parts in one (all published), imperial octavo (10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches). 73 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Elizabeth Gould. 1p. contents list, 8pp. appendix “Description of New Species of Australian Birds”. Expertly bound to style in half green morocco and period green pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt, yellow endpapers, gilt edges.

Rare coloured issue of Gould’s first attempt to describe the birds of Australia.

This work is Gould’s first work in connection with Australian birds. The excellent plates, the work of Elizabeth Gould, show that she not only possessed great natural talent, but that also developed much from her professional association with Edward Lear: the portrait of the sulphur-crested Cockatoo in part IV is a prime example.

Gould published this work, as he states in the prospectus, because he noticed that Australia had not been as well served by ornithological monographs as many other parts of the world. He therefore “conceives that a work on the Birds of [Australia and the adjacent islands] cannot fail to be of the greatest interest ... [and that] ... at this moment [he has ] .. in his possession an exceedingly rich collection ... among which are a large number of undescribed species; and having also relatives resident [in Australia] ... devoted to this branch of science.” Gould goes on to lay out his specific plan for the publication. “The Work will be published in Parts, each of which will contain 18 Plates, with letter-press descriptions ... the price of each Part, 1l. 5s. coloured, 15s. uncoloured ... It is impossible to state the number of parts to which the work may extend; the species now known to the author ... may be comprised to form 6 to 8 parts”. Gould finishes by noting that if the present work shows that there is sufficient interest, he may undertake a work on the same scale as his Birds of Europe, “in which case he contemplates visiting Australia, New Zealand, &c., for the space of two years, in order to investigate and study the natural history of those countries”. History shows that the present work ran to only four parts, but that Gould was induced to visit Australia, and he returned and published his two large format works on the birds and animals of Australia.

Ferguson 2271; Nissen IVB 382; Sauer 5; E. Thayer & V. Keyes Catalogue of ... books on Ornithology in the Library of John E. Thayer [Boston: 1913] p.79; Wood p. 364; Zimmer p.254.

(#31309) $ 18,500

70 GRANDVILLE, J.J. [pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore GÉRARD (1803-1847)].

Les Fleurs Animées.

Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847. 2 volumes, large octavo. Half-titles. Hand-coloured additional titles, 50 hand-coloured plates, all after Grandville, 2 uncoloured plates, occasional wood- engraved illustrations. Contemporary dark green morocco backed green cloth boards, repairs at joints and hinges and at top and bottom of spines, marbled endpapers.

First edition of a spectacular example of early fantasy illustration.

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard was born at Nancy in France and first studied art with his father who was a painter of miniatures. He worked under the pseudonym J.J. Grandville - his grandfather’s surname, and at the age of twenty-one moved to Paris, where he soon achieved a measure of success with the publication of a number of collections of lithographs. But it was not until the appearance of Les Métamorphoses du jour published in 1828-29, that his fame was assured. That work consisted of a series of seventy scenes featuring characters with the bodies of men and faces of animals. These images are remarkable for the extraordinary skill with which human characteristics are represented in animal’s facial features.

This proto-surrealist vein was continued by Grandville in the present work, in which flowers and beautiful fashionable women combine in images where the essence or spirit of the individual flowers is revealed. The resulting plates are early masterpieces from a genre that continued through the work of Doyle and the Fairy painters in the later Victorian era, before being taken up triumphantly in the early twentieth century by Max Ernst and the Surrealists.

The success of this work led to his being engaged as artistic contributor to various periodicals, such as Le Silhouette, L’Artiste, La Caricature, Le Charivari; and his political caricatures which were characterized by marvelous fertility of satirical humour, soon came to enjoy a general popularity.

After the reinstitution of prior censorship of caricature in 1835, Grandville turned almost exclusively to book illustration, supplying illustrations for various standard works, such as the songs of Béranger, the fables of La Fontaine, Don Quixote, Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe. He also continued to issue various lithographic collections, among which may be mentioned La Vie privée et publique des animaux, Les Cent Proverbes, L’Autre Monde and Les Fleurs animées.

The designs of Grandville display keen analysis of character and marvellous inventive ingenuity, and his humour is always tempered and refined by delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness. He died on March 17, 1847.

Ray French 198; Vicaire III, 135.

(#32773) $ 1,450

71 HOVEY, Charles Mason (1810-1887).

The Fruits of America, containing richly colored figures and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in The United States.

Boston & New York: [vol.I] Hovey & Co. and D.Appleton & Co. in New York, [vol.II] Hovey & Co., [1847]-1856. 2 volumes, octavo (10 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches). Titles with wood- engraved vignettes. Lithographic portrait frontispieces of Hovey and William Sharp, 96 chromolithographic plates by William Sharp & Son, numerous woodcut illustrations of trees, flowers and fruit. (A few plates shaved as usual). Contemporary green (vol. 1) and dark brown (vol 2) morocco, bound by Copeland of Boston, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind and with a central floral device, expertly rebacked to style. Provenance: Henry W. Dutton (signature in vol. 1).

The most lavish ante-bellum work on the fruit trees of America, “the first major work executed entirely in chromolithography” (Reese).

The 96 varieties featured include 93 fruit trees (53 pear, 20 apple, 7 cherry, 7 peach and 6 plum) and 3 strawberry varieties. The plates were all executed by the Boston firm headed by William Sharp and are accompanied by text which gives the history of each variety, a full description, its growing habit, flower and fruit, and advice on its cultivation. Each entry is headed by cross-references to the other standard European and American books and periodicals. The illustrations generally comprise a thumb-nail sketch of the growing habit of each tree, an outline of the fruit and occasionally an image of the flower.

Charles Hovey was born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1810 and with his brother Phineas established a nursery there in 1832. By 1845 his huge collection of fruit trees included a thousand pear trees and four hundred apple trees. A keen plant breeder, he also produced a number of new varieties of Camellia. His literary output brought him to the forefront of horticultural writers with the American Gardeners’ Magazine (renamed the Magazine of Horticulture) which enjoyed great popularity between 1834 and 1868. The present work was intended by Hovey as an international show-case for what American pomologists had achieved, as well as an essential reference guide. It is his masterpiece and originally appeared in parts between 1847 and 1856 and is considered complete in two volumes with 96 plates.

Arnold Arboretum/ Harvard p.354; Bennett p.59; BM (NH) II,p.881; Bunyard p.437 & 444; Mass. Horticultural Society p.148; McGrath p.112; Nissen BBI 941; Oak Spring Pomona 61; Reese 20.

(#30408) $ 7,500

72 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 Coniferae. Plates.

London: James Bohn, 1842. Folio (21 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches). 93 hand-coloured engraved plates (including 7 plates of views of trees in landscapes, 86 plates of botanical details,) after Ferdinand Bauer, J. Sowerby, J.T. Hart and others, engraved by Warner, Mackenzie, J. Sowerby, E.S. Weddell, Quiroz and others. Expertly bound to style in half purple morocco over original purple cloth covered boards, flat spine in six compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt.

A fine copy of Lambert’s masterpiece: the ultimate edition, including spectacular plates after Ferdinand Bauer.

Only a few copies of this edition, published by James Bohn, appear to have been printed and no other copies are listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years. It was the first edition to gather all the plates into a single large-format volume (with a separate octavo text volume not present here) thus eliminating any possibility of problems with the text offsetting onto the image area.

The majority of the plates are after Ferdinand Bauer, who with his brother Franz “may well claim to be the greatest of all botanical draughtsmen. Their skill in execution of detail is miraculous, yet they never lost sight of the wood for the trees; everything is understood, balanced, controlled ... The splendid illustrations to [the present work] ... deeply impressed Goethe ... The botanical draughtsman was no longer the mere recorder of floral beauty; he now had the more difficult task of serving both Art and Science” (Great Flower Books, p.37).

The earliest edition of this work, with the fewest number of plates, was published in two volumes between 1803 and 1824. It then appeared in various formats with varying numbers of plates until the Bohn issue of 1842. According to Henrey the largest number of plates found is 103 in a 3-volume folio edition published by George White between 1837 and 1842 (although Nissen gives a plate total of 117 for the same edition). The present example has one more plate than the Lindley Library copy described by Henrey.

Lambert’s work is of primary importance as a record of the genus Pinus, and is often cited in subsequent works. However as Renkema and Ardagh point out, the somewhat haphazard way in which the work was published means that these citations are often contradictory and to gain a full understanding of the information given by Lambert it is essential to have access to not just one but all of the main editions, culminating with the present work.

Great Flower Books (1990) p.111; Henrey III, 925; cf. H.W. Renkema & J. Ardagh ‘Aylmer Bourke Lambert and his “Description of the genus Pinus”’ in Journal Linnaean Society London, Botany (1930) vol.48, pp.439-466; cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4146.

(#26254) $ 58,500

73 MARTYN, Thomas.

The Universal Conchologist exhibiting the figure of every known shell, accurately drawn and painted after nature ... Figures of nondescript shells collected in the different voyages to the South Sea since the year 1764.

London: Thomas Martyn, 1789. 2 volumes in one, quarto (13 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches). Parallel text in French and English. Engraved title and secondary title, both in French and English, engraved dedication to the King, 2 engraved plates of medals, 1 hand-coloured engraved frontispiece (the image within a gilt neo-classical border, as issued), 80 engraved plates finely hand-coloured in imitation of watercolours, each numbered in ink and protected by a facing guard of thin blank paper. Extra-illustrated with 19 hand-coloured variant plates, and a related 3pp. ALS tipped in at the front. (Without the two engraved Explanatory Table leaves found in some copies). Near-contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with a gilt neo- classical border built up from fillets, a Greek-key roll and a decorative roll, neatly rebacked, the flat spine divided into six compartments by fillets, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, brown endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: James Wiglesworth (Halifax, 1759-1826, inscription, dated 1818, presenting the book to his nieces); Elizabeth, Barbara, Mary and Dorothy Gorst (inscription); Arthur Blok (Rottingdean, Sussex, d.1974, 3pp. ALS, dated 7 September 1934, concerning the book from conchologist Alfred Santer Kennard).

A fine extra-illustrated copy of the second edition of one of “the most beautiful of all shell books, containing exquisite renderings of shells collected on Cook’s three voyages and on other voyages, with specimens identified as having been obtained from New Holland, New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, and the Hawaiian Islands” (Forbes).

The present example is a second edition, dated 1789 on the title, containing a frontispiece, 80 plates, and 2 uncoloured plates of medals (one dated 1792): this according to Forbes is complete. In addition this copy is extra-illustrated with 19 very rare variant plates of images rejected for publication by Martyn. Copies of the Universal Conchologist exist with 160 plates but these “were apparently assembled rather than published and contain no letterpress text” (Forbes).

The engraved secondary-title (Figures of Non Descript Shells, collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764) makes clear the impetus that induced Martyn to publish his masterpiece. A highly lucrative market in shells from exotic lands had developed by the middle of the 18th century. The shells collected on Cook’s voyages were greatly desired and when the specimens collected on the Third Voyage were offered for sale, one of their most enthusiastic buyers was Thomas Martyn. In a letter dated 9 December 1780, he wrote: “I may venture to affirm that I have purchased, amounting to 400 guineas, more than 2 thirds of the whole brought home. Nevertheless I do not abound either in variety of the new or many duplicates of the known ones that are valuable” (quoted in Dance,Shell Collecting [London: 1966], p.100). For the present work, in addition to his own collection, Martyn was also able to supplement where necessary with specimens from the other great collections of the time (the Duchess of Portland, the Countess of Bute, John Hunter and others). The

Universal Conchologist is the only extant illustrated catalogue of the greater part of the shells collected on Cook’s Third Voyage. From a scientific perspective, it is therefore an invaluable conchological record, much as Banks’ Florilegium stands as a monument to the botanical discoveries made on Cook’s First Voyage.

Martyn writes in his preface that he published the Universal Conchologist in an effort to counteract the “complicated systems, bad arrangements, and the practice of crowding many sheets of different families into one plate, [which] have not only confused the subject, and created a distaste to the science itself, but made it necessary that even the most experienced collector should have some clew to conduct him through those labyrinths of difficulties” (Universal Conchologist, p.4). The shells on Martyn’s plates are beautifully detailed and very clearly displayed, with only one or two different specimens per plate. They are also exquisitely coloured, with a particularly lavish application of colour which all but obliterates the faint printed bases. All are the work of an academy of young artists trained by Martyn himself; he recruited young men who showed artistic talent, and trained them so that there “would generally be found that uniformity and equality of style, conception, and execution which it would be in vain to expect from a variety of independent artists” (Martyn, quoted by P. Dance op. cit., p.101).

The publication history of the work is complex in part due to Martyn halting production of the first edition and redrawing eighty plates. The present example includes 14 of these rejected plates, here bound adjacent to the published versions. They are printed on different paper to the published images and show differences in the way they are laid out on the page as well as variations in the colouring. An intriguing additional five plates with no corresponding counterparts in the published work, but very faintly titled on the versos in an unknown hand, are bound at the back of the volume.

This copy is accompanied by a series of early 20th-century offprints of articles on Martyn by W.H. Dall, T. Iredale and P. Dautzenberg, as follows:

1. William Healey DALL. ‘Thomas Martyn and the Universal Conchologist’, originally issued in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, [Washington: 1905] Vol. XXIX, no.1425, pp.415-432. Stapled. 2. William Healey DALL. ‘Supplementary Notes on Martyn’s Universal Conchologist’, originally issued in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington: 1907. Vol. XXXIII, no.1565, pp.185-192. Wrappers. 3. Ph. DAUTZENBERG. ‘A Propos de l’”Universal Conchologist” de Thomas Martyn’ originally issued in the Journal de Conchyliologie , Paris: 1917. Vol.LXIII, pp. 148-152. Upper wrapper. 4. Tom IREDALE. ‘Unpublished Plates of Thomas Martyn, Conchologist’ originally issued in the Proceedings of the Malacological Society, Hertford, England: 1921. Vol. XIV, part IV, pp.131-134. Wrappers.

BM(NH) III, p.1258; Brunet III, 1507; Ferguson I, 40; Forbes I, 176; Nissen ZBI 2728; Spence p.39.

(#25077) $ 45,000

74 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

75 POMOLOGY & HORTICULTURE - Rochester Lithographing Co.

The Nurseryman’s Specimen Book of American Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses &c. Rochester Lithographing Company, successors to D. M. Dewey’s American Fruit & Flower Plates ...

Rochester: Rochester Lithographing Company, [circa 1888]. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). Chromolithographed title, 53 chromolithographed plates. Some staining. Contemporary wallet-style calf, rebacked. Housed in a cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase. Provenance: William Morton & Son, Galena Indiana (name in gilt on flap of binding).

A fine “tree-peddler’s” sample book with a large range of images of various varieties of fruit, flowering plants and trees available

This sample book includes a wide variety of plants, including roses and other flowering plants, trees and shrubs and a plethora of fruits, including apples, pears, berries, grapes, cherries, etc.

“From the 1850s, as Rochester [N.Y.] became an important centre of nursery gardening, another local industry grew up to provide illustrations of fruit, flowers, shrubs, trees, selections of which were used as catalogues by travelling ‘tree peddlers’ who sold plants from the nurseries they represented to farmers and gardeners in the territories they visited. The earliest illustrations of this kind were watercolours copied by local artists, but soon their production was made more efficient by the use of stencils to provide theorem paintings of flowers and fruit. Printed outlines or lithographs were also coloured by hand until chromolithographs added colour to the basic process, though even then they were often finished by hand...” (Oak Spring Pomona, p.167).

The plates in the present sample book are by the Rochester Lithographing Company who were “in the nurserymen’s plate business by 1888. Beginning that year and continuing into the twentieth century, [the firm]... is listed in the city directories under both ‘Fruit Plates’ and ‘Nurserymen’s Plates’” (Kabelac).

Cf. Karl Sanford Kabelac ‘Nineteenth-Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates’ in The University of Rochester Library Bulletin (1982) vol. XXXV, pp. 93-114; cf. Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, 65

(#27907) $ 1,200 76 REDI, Francesco (1626-1697).

Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’insetti.

Florence: Francesco Onofri, 1674. Small 4to (8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches). [4], 136pp. 40 engraved plates (3 folding). Contemporary vellum, manuscript titling on spine.

The magnum opus of the father of experimental biology, refuting the theory of spontaneous generation.

“Redi’s masterpiece ... in which he disproved the doctrine of spontaneous generation in insects, inherited from Aristotle and still considered dogma. The microscope revealed in insects an organization as marvelous as it was unsuspected. Redi prepared and observed the egg-producing apparatus in insects, and he also used the microscope to good advantage in observing the morphological elements characteristic of the eggs of each species” (DSB XI, p. 341). In his experiments, Redi proved that maggots come from the eggs of flies and did not arise spontaneously from rotting meat, as was previously thought. His work also was the first to describe ectoparisites, and include early depictions of various ticks. The present example is a third edition, the first edition published in 1668.

Nissen ZBI, 3319; D. Pandi, Bibl. delle opere di F. Redi p. 3; Osler 3775

(#29545) $ 2,200 77 RISSO, Joseph Antoine (1777-1845) and Pierre Antoine POITEAU (1766-1854).

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 green morocco, covers bordered in gilt, spine with double raised bands in six compartments, 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 oranges, lemons, limes, citrons, and grapefruit.

This work “contains exquisite drawings of every known variety of orange, lemon and grape fruit, and their congeners, fruits that hang from the leaves, alternately like suns or moons, with every kind of rind, and shaped like gourds or pitchers ... or again, authentic globes of fire, whether pale, as of moonlight, or red-gold like the sun but half-hidden, as in poetry, in its own green shade. A beautiful and inspiring work, in its way not less so than Redouté’s Les Liliacées ... or Les Roses” (Great Flower Books).

The text covers every aspect of citrus fruit: its history and mythology, its taxonomy and cultivar descriptions of sweet oranges, bitter oranges, bergamot oranges, limes, grapefruit, lumies, lemons, citrons and related genera. The author, Antoine Risso, a French apothecary and botanist, lived and worked in Nice in the south of France.

Antoine Poiteau, the illustrator, began his career as an apprentice gardener at the Jardin des Plantes, and spent some time in the Caribbean collecting plants before returning to Paris in 1800 and turning to botanical illustration, with an initial style modelled on Van Spaendonck and Redouté. Apart from the illustrations, he provided much information on citrus varieties native to the Tropics.

The dedicatee of the work was the Duchesse de Berry, daughter of Francis I of Naples, and her crowned coat-of-arms appears on the title-page. First published in 19 parts between July 1818 and August 1820, a second edition would be published in 1872, though the present first edition is much preferred.

Oak Spring Pomona 76; Nissen BBI 1640; Great Flower Books p.73; Dunthorne 263; Stafleu and Cowan 9248.

(#33456) $ 25,000

78 SOWERBY, James de Carle (1787-1871); and Edward LEAR (1812-1888).

Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles. Drawn from life.

London, Paris and Frankfort: Henry Sotheran, Joseph Baer & Co., 1872. Folio (14 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches). iv, 16pp. 60 lithographed plates (57 hand-coloured), after Sowerby on stone by Lear and printed by Hullmandel. Publisher’s green morocco-backed green pebbled cloth covered boards, flat spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

A rare work, containing some of the finest known illustrations of tortoises and turtles, lithographed by Edward Lear and beautifully hand coloured.

Sowerby and Lear first began working on the present plates in 1831, with forty plates published in the initial parts of Bell’s “Monograph Testudinata” (1831-1842). That work was never finished due to the publisher’s bankruptcy and the forty plates, together with twenty previously unpublished plates, were reissued in 1872 by Sowerby and Lear.

The Introduction by John Edward Gray explains the complicated publication of this extraordinary work: “This series of Plates was made under the superintendence of Mr. Thomas Bell, to illustrated his Monograph of the Testudinata, a work in which the author intended to represent and describe not only all the known recent, but also fossil species. The publication of this extensive work was unfortunately interrupted (by failure of the publisher [in 1836]) when only two-thirds of the plates that had been prepared (which in themselves formed but a limited portion of the intended work) were published ... The unsold stock and unpublished plates were purchased at Mr. Highley’s sale by Mr. Sotheran, and the work has been in abeyance for many years. Mr. Bell has declined to furnish the text for the unpublished plates. In this difficulty Mr. Sotheran applied to me, and feeling that it was much to be regretted that such beautiful and accurate plates should be lost to science, and considering that such minutely accurate and detailed figures would not require to be accompanied by a description, I agreed to add a few lines of text to each Plate ... Many of the specimens figured and the rest of Mr. Bell’s Collection of Reptiles are now to be found in the Anatomical and Zoological Museum at Cambridge” (Introduction)

“Beginning in 1831 Lear worked with James de Carle Sowerby, a naturalist and painter, on Bell’s Monograph of the Testudinata, Lear drawing the lithographs at Hullmandel’s after designs by Sowerby. Bell wrote in the prospectus: ‘The joint talent of these excellent artists ... renders it unnecessary to say that the ability of the painter will only be seconded by that of the lithographer and colourist.’ ... Although Lear lithographed all the plates, his hand is most evident in the more eccentric-looking tortoises, especially the Testudo radiata and the Chelondina longicollis. Tortoises are not the most vivacious creatures, but they are shown in a great diversity of attitudes, sometimes emerging hesitantly from their armoreal carapaces” (Hyman).

Nissen ZBI 1701; Hyman, p. 32; Wood 1872; Adler p. 35.

(#29935) $ 27,500

79 WIGHT, Robert (1796-1872).

Illustrations of Indian Botany; or Figures Illustrative of each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants.

Madras: Published by J. B. Pharoah for the Author, 1840-1850. 2 volumes, 4to (10 3/8 x 8 inches). 205 hand coloured, lithographed plates (Vol 1: 101 plates, numbered 1-95, without plates numbered 6 or 47, plus 8 bis plates [3, 5, 11, 28, 28*, 29, 46 and 56]; Vol 2, in two parts: 104 plates, numbered 96-181, without plates 112 or 161 [but 160 numbered 160/161], plus 20 bis plates [97, 101, 105, 128, 148, 151, 154, 155, 155*, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 164, 165, 166, 168, 173 and 176]). Expertly bound to style in half dark brown calf and period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt.

The first significant botanical work with hand-coloured plates published in India.

Wight arrived in India in 1819 to serve as assistant-surgeon with an infantry regiment stationed in Madras. His primary interest, however, was in botany and he was soon thereafter put in charge of the Madras Botanic Garden. In the 1820s, he travelled extensively across southern India, sending hundreds of specimens to Sir William Hooker. Wight began to employ local artists to record the flora and sylva of the area. His work was championed by Hooker who in 1830 published a few parts of an early version of the present work in his Botanical Miscellany.

Encouraged, Wight took the extraordinary step of publishing his work in India, writing in the Preface: “It is ... to be borne in mind that this being the first volume of the kind that ever issued from the Madras press; an establishment had to be formed expressly for itself: that colours of the best qualities are not to be had at any cost, and lastly, that until the arrival of a fresh supply of paper for to [sic] the publication of the 11th number, our material was much deteriorated by age and even so far damaged as to render the use of superior colours almost nugatory.” The project was difficult, both in terms of sourcing paper, ink, artisans (his colorists went on strike at one point) and subscriptions to keep the work afloat. Indeed, on a slip headed Notice inserted at p. 47 of some copies, the author writes: “I avail myself of this opportunity of reminding Subscribers, that the heavy charge of continuing this publication is borne by myself alone, and is now pressing so heavily on my limited finances, that unless promptly aided by remittances, I will be subjected to considerable pecuniary embarrassment, and experience much difficulty in carrying it on.” After two years of work, the first volume was completed in 1840; the second volume was not completed until 1850. In all the work was issued in thirteen separate parts. Collations of extant sets vary tremendously given the haphazard numbering, with different bis plates found in different sets.

The work is quite rare, as expected given its limited publication and difficulties along the way. While a handful of copies of the first volume appear in the auction records, no copies of both volumes has appeared in the auction records in the last thirty-five years.

Nissen 2141; Stafleu & Cowan 17-579; Pritzel 40247; cf. Henry Noltie, “Robert Wight and the Illustration of Indian Botany” in The Linnean Society of London, Special Issue No. 6 (2006).

(#31601) $ 12,000

80 WILSON, Alexander (1766-1813).

American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Illustrated with plates engraved and coloured from original drawings taken from nature.

New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co. and Harrison Hall, 1828-1829. 4 volumes. (text: 3 vols., quarto [10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches]; plates: 1 vol. folio [14 5/16 x 11 inches]). Text: cxcix,[1],230,[1];456 [without a leaf number vii-viii, as usual];vi,396pp., 4pp. subscribers’ list at rear of vol.III. (Some light spotting). Atlas: 76 hand-coloured engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by A. Lawson (52), J.G. Warnicke (21), G. Murray (2), and B. Tanner (1), all after Wilson. . Expertly bound to style in half red straight-grained morocco over period near-uniform marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spines with title lettered in gilt and a small decorative gilt oval containing the volume number.

The second full edition of Wilson’s work, with plates in their most desirable form, and complete with an uncut copy of the text. “Science would lose little if every scrap of pre-Wilsonian writing about United States birds could be annihilated” (Coues).

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

BM (NH), p.2332; Fine Bird Books (1990) p. 155; Nissen IVB 992; cf. Sabin 104598; Wood p.630.

(#26930) $ 25,000

MISCELLANY

81 AUBREY, John (1626-1697).

Miscellanies, viz. I. Day-fatality. II. Local-fatality. III. Ostenta. IV. Omens. V. Dreams. VI. Apparitions. VII. Voices. VIII. Impulses. IX. Knockings. X. Blows invisible. XI. Prophesies. XII. Marvels. XIII. Magick. XIV. Transportation in the air. XV. Visions in a beril, or glass. XVI. Converse with angels and spirits. XVII. Corps-candles in Wales. XVIII. Oracles. XIX. Exstasie. XX. Glances of love. envy. XXI. Second-sighted persons.

London: Edward Castle, 1696. 8vo. [8, including preliminary blank], 179, [1] pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Provenance: Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury and 4th Earl of Elgin (armorial bookplate dated 1712); Charles W. Burr (bookplate).

First edition of his only life-time publication.

This collection of 21 short chapters on the theme of “hermetick philosophy” and reports of supernatural manifestations and other curiosities was the only life-time publication of Aubrey. The polymath, however, left behind an enormous quantity of manuscripts (now at the Bodleian Library) which detail his investigations into the various branches of science, including mathematics and astronomy, as well as archaeology and other antiquarian pursuits.

Wing A4188; ESTC R18928

(#32489) $ 1,950 82 BOSIO, Antonio (1575-1629).

Historia passionis b. Caeciliae virginis, Valeriani, Tiburtii, et Maximi martyrum.

Rome: Stephanum Paulinum, 1600. Quarto. [8], 184, [16] pp. Full-page engraving of the burial of Saint Cecelia and the vision of Pope Paschal I by Antonio Tempesta, woodcut of sarcophagus on Y4v. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Nordkirchen (armorial bookplate).

First edition.

During the restoration of the Church of St. Cecelia in Rome in 1599, the relics of the Saint, transported there by Pope Paschal, were found in a sarcophagus discovered under the high alter. This discovery is described in Bosio’s book. Scarce, with only the Hauck copy in the auction records.

(#33339) $ 1,750 83 [BRASS FOUNDRY PATTERN BOOK, English 18th century].

[Early English trade catalogue of brass furniture hardware designs].

[Birmingham, England: late 18th century (watermarked 1797)]. Oblong 4to (7 1/2 x 11 inches). 143 engraved plates (13 folding), on laid paper, priced throughout in manuscript. Period calf-backed marbled paper covered boards. Provenance: W. G. & Co. (inscription on front endpaper).

A rarely encountered pattern book or trade catalogue of 18th century English furniture hardware, including drawer pulls, keyholes, hinges, locks, castors, bolts, watch stands and more.

By 1770, over thirty different brass founderies operated in Birmingham, England, making it the epicenter of furniture hardware design in the last quarter of the 18th century. At roughly the same period, trade catalogues, like the present, began to be issued by both furniture and hardware makers alike. Although most of the brass foundry trade catalogues of this early period have no indication of the foundry, the present pattern book is inscribed W. G. & Co. on the front pastedown. In all, nearly 1000 designs are shown on the 143 plates, from rather simple hinges and hooks, to incredibly ornate pulls, knockers, watchstands, etc.

Although no engravers’s names are identified, it has been suggested that the foundries themselves produced such plates, utilizing the talents of their own craftsmen, who by their very occupation would have been highly skilled at etching on metal. Such pattern books “illustrate the beginning of what was then a new movement in the conditions of the crafts, namely, the growth of the organised factory as a means of production and distribution, as compared with the earlier limitation of these functions to the efforts of individuals” (Young).

Cf. Hummel, Charles F. “Samuel Rowland Fishers Catalogue of English Hardware.” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol 1 (1964): 188-197; cf. Symonds, R. W. “An Eighteenth-Century English Brassfounders Catalogue.” Magazine Antiques (Feb. 1931): 102-105; Young, W. A., comp. Old English pattern books of the metal trades: a descriptive catalogue of the collection in the V&A Museum. London: HMSO, 1913.

(#28174) $ 15,000

84 CARTARI, Vincenzo; Lorenzo Pignoria; and Cesare Malfatti.

Imagini delli dei de gl’antichi di Vicenzo Cartari Reggiano ... In questa vltima impressione reuista, e corr. da molti errori.

Venetia: Nicolo Pezzana, 1674. Large 8vo. [20], 368pp. 2 folding plates, 243 wood-engraved illustrations. Later vellum.

Important early illustrated work on the gods of the ancient world.

The second part includes Native American gods, from Mexico and elsewhere. First published in 1556.

European Americana 674/34; Sabin 11104

(#32944) $ 1,000

85] CATS, Jacob (1577-1660).

Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus: vitae humanae ideam, emblemate trifariam variato, oculis subijciens ... [Bound with:] Monita amoris virginei, sive Officium puellarum ... Maechden- Pflicht, ofte Ampt der Jonckvrouwen.

Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, [circa 1630]. Two parts in one, 4to. 244; 123, [1]pp. Text in Dutch, Latin and French. Woodcut printer’s device on both title-pages. Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved plate depicting children’s games, full-page engraved illustration and 96 large circular engraved emblems (51 in first part and 45 in second part), the emblems after A van de Venne. Minor staining at head of leaves in first part, 2g4 with large repaired tear. Seventeenth century red morocco, covers 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 (expert repairs to joints). Provenance: James Peter (signature dated 1710); William S. Heckscher (bookplate).

Lovely Dutch emblem book in contemporary red morocco: from the library of the noted emblem book scholar William S. Heckscher.

Rare edition of these two beautiful emblem works by Jacob Cats (1577-1660); known to the Dutch as “Father Cats”, he was one of the most popular authors of the golden age of Dutch literature and is best known for his emblematic works. The beautiful emblems present here depict various aspects of human life; love, morality and religion. The two works are illustrated with a total of 96 large circular engravings with accompanying texts in Dutch, Latin, and French. While undated the Cats Catalogus gives the date as circa 1630. Most of the bibliographies (see below), except Cats Catalogus, catalogue the two works separately, however, they probably had been intended to be issued together. The second work has a long introductory poem to Anna Roemers.

The work is also important for the famous folding plate depicting children at play: “The engraved plate... depicts, in a manner somewhat reminiscent of the famous painting by Pieter Bueghel the Elder, children playing various games ... the setting is the courtyard of the Abbey of Middelburg, in Holland” (Gerald gottlieb, Early Children’s Books, p. 84, with reproduction on p. 89).

Landwehr, Emblem & fable books, 113 & 136; de Vries, 84 & 63; Cats Catalogus, 177 (both works); Museum Catsianum, 32 & 63.

(#32561) $ 2,500 86 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. Octavo. Half-title. 1 folding lithographic diagram. Early owner’s newspaper clipping mounted on verso of front endpaper. Original green 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: William Hincks (signature).

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. This copy with provenance to William Hincks (1794-1871), an Irish-born Unitarian minister who came to Canada in 1853 to serve as the first professor of natural history at University College, Toronto. He was strongly opposed to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and taught the quinarian system of taxonomy.

(#33161) $ 6,500 87 FISHER, James.

The wise virgin: or, A wonderfull narration of the various dispensations of God towards a childe of eleven years of age; wherein as his severity hath appeared in afflicting, so also his goodness both in enabling her (when stricken dumb, deaf, and blind, through the prevalency of her disease) at several times to utter many glorious truths concerning Christ, faith, and other subjects; and also in recovering her without the use of any external means, lest the glory should be given to any other. To the wonderment of many that came far and neer to see and hear her ... The fourth Edition enlarged ...

London: John Rothwell, 1658. 8vo. [26], 170pp. Engraved frontispiece. Foxing. Nineteeth century calf, tooled in blind and gilt.

Scarce account of miraculous recovery and prophecies of the dumb, deaf and blind 11-year-old Martha Hatfield, complete with the portrait frontispiece.

Written by her uncle James Fisher, a Presbyterian minister, the work was first published in 1653. The frontispiece, depicting the child in bed, is often wanting.

Wing F1007; ESTC R215765.

(#31492) $ 2,400 88 GALILEO, Galilei (1564-1642); - Thomas SALUSBURY (c.1625-c.1665).

Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome in Two Parts. The first part; containing, I. Galileus Galileus His System of the World ...

London: William Leyboun, 1661. 2 parts in 1, tall quarto (13 x 8 1/4 inches). [14], 503, [1], [24]; [14], 118, [6]pp. 4 engraved plates. Lacks the half-title and without the errata leaf found in some copies. (A few expert repairs to tears at edges of preliminary leaves). Expertly bound to style in period calf, covers bordered with a gilt double fillet, spine with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition in English of Galileo’s Dialogo, his celebrated defence of the Copernican view of the solar system: a milestone in the history of science.

After years of being forbidden to teach the Copernican theory, in 1632 Galileo was given the opportunity to express these views by the new Pope, Urban VIII, his friend, admirer and patron for more than a decade. Urban granted Galileo permission to write a book about theories of the universe, “provided that the arguments for the Ptolemaic view were given an equal and impartial discussion” (DSB). Galileo’s formal use of the dialogue, casting the work as a hypothetical discussion, allowed him fully to explore the Copernican model within Urban’s parameters. The work “is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, wilfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics ... The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace” (PMM). In casting the Pope as the simple-minded Aristotelian Simplicius, Galileo brought upon himself arrest, trial by the Inquisition and life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to permanent house arrest, but the printing of any of his works was forbidden.

In 1664, English historian Thomas Salusbury published the present English collection of Galileo’s work, including a translation of the Dialogo titled Systeme of the World, and followed by the short but important Epistle to the Grand Dutchesse Mother concerning the Authority of Holy Scripture in Philosophical Controversies (known today as the Letter to Christina), which was only the second work of Galileo’s to be published in England. Apart from the two works by Galileo, Salusbury included other translations in volume I of his Collections, including Italian mathematician Benedetto Castelli’s works on fluids in motion.

In 1666, the Great Fire of London swept through the city, destroying many copies of this work and nearly all copies of the 1665 second volume containing the first book-length depiction of Galileo’s life. (The title-page to part two of volume I mis-states that it is ‘the second tome’, an obvious cause of some bibliographical confusion). Salusbury died at roughly the same time, perhaps, as some believe, in the Great Fire.

Carli-Favaro 276; ESTC R19153; Wing S-517.

(#28873) $ 57,500

89 HORACE.

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera.

London: Gul. Sandby, 1749. 2 volumes, 8vo. Titled printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication, 35 engraved plates. Contemporary French red morocco, flat spine gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: W. W. Scranton.

Sandby’s edition of Horace, in contemporary red morocco.

“I have always considered this work as a very pleasing and respectable production, and in point of accuracy preferable to its rival, the edition of Pine. The plates are numerous, and many of them conceived and executed with great taste” (Dibdin, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, II:p.109).

ESTC T46228

(#32762) $ 1,650 90 POUGET, Jean-Henri-Prosper (d.1769).

Dictionnaire de Chifres et de Lettres Ornees, a l’Usage de tous les Artistes, Contenant les vingt- quatre lettres de l’alphabet.

Paris: Tilliard, 1767. Small 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches). Half-title, double-page letterpress table. Engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication, 9 engraved plates of script, & 240 engraved plates of ornamental letters and cyphers (13 hand coloured). Late 19th century green crushed morocco, bound by Lortic Frères, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Baron Raimondo Franchetti (1889-1935, morocco booklabel).

Very rare first edition of this monumental work on ornamental cyphers, monograms and alphabets, by a noted French jeweler and decorator.

A beautifully engraved work, this copy is bound in a lovely binding for a noted collector. The first edition is very rare, with only a single example appearing in the auction records in the last quarter century.

BMC 20:790.13; Brunet V:p.848; Bonacini 1466; Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin 5322.

(#29311) $ 7,000 91 PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843).

The Costume of Great Britain.

London: Printed for William Miller ... by William Bulmer and Co., 1804 [plates watermarked 1819]. Folio (14 x 10 inches). Hand-coloured stipple-engraved title vignette, 60 hand- coloured aquatint plates with partially coloured backgrounds. Contemporary full green straight grained morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind, spine with wide semi-raised bands in six compartments, tooled in gilt on each band, lettered in the second compartment, the other with a repeat decoration in blind, blue endpapers, gilt edges (repairs at joints). Housed in a cloth box.

Lovely copy of the deluxe issue with partially coloured backgrounds.

The work was issued in three forms: with only the figures coloured, with the foreground immediately behind or around the figures coloured (as the present) and a rare issue with sky additionally coloured.

Abbey, Life 430; Colas 2447; Tooley 388

(#32501) $ 1,800 92 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

93 ROSS, Alexander (1590-1654).

The Philosophicall Touch-stone: or observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie’s Discourses of the nature of bodies, and of the reasonable soule.

London: Printed for James Young ... sold by Charles Green, 1645. Small quarto (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). [16], 131, [1]pp. Contemporary manuscript annotations on verso of the Privilege leaf. Early twentieth century half red morocco and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, lettered in gilt in the second, the others with a repeat decoration. Provenance: William Watts (signature and Latin inscription dated 1645, indicating the volume to have been a gift of the author); Charles W. Burr (bookplate).

First edition of an early English discussion of atomism.

With the 1644 publication of Digby’s Two Treatises, Gassendian and Cartesian atomism was introduced into England. In the present work, Scottish chaplain and writer Alexander Ross refutes Digby’s view, restating Aristotelian arguments. This copy evidently a presentation from the author to William Watts (1590-1649), chaplain to Prince Rupert and noted scholar and linguist.

Wing R1979

(#32378) $ 1,350 94 ROUQUETTE, Louis-Frédéric (1884-1926); and Clarence Alphonse GAGNON (illustrator, 1881-1942).

Le Grand Silence Blanc (Roman vécu d’Alaska).

[Paris]: Éditions Mornay, 1928. Small quarto (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches). Half-title, title and limitation notice printed in brown and black within hand-applied borders, the title with a vignette illustration coloured by hand using the pochoir process. 22 half-page illustrations, 19 decorated initials, numerous head- and tail-pieces and occasional decorations, all after Gagnon, all hand coloured using the pochoir process. Original publisher’s colour wrappers bound in. Contemporary crushed olive morocco, bound by H. Blanchetiere, covers with elaborate morocco inlays, spine with raised bands in five compartments, lettered in gilt and with a central morocco inlay, wide turn-ins with morocco inlay and gilt rules, patterned silk endpapers, gilt edges.

An important work of Canadian modern Art: one of 30 copies on Annam, with four original illustrations by Gagnon bound in.

Copy 17 of the édition de tête, 30 copies on Annam from a total edition of 725, with four small original drawings for culs-des-lampe rendered by Clarence Gagnon bound at the front of the work. A very fine copy of this beautifully-bound work with evocative illustrations from the important Canadian artist Clarence Gagnon. “Le Grand Silence Blanc” is Rouquette’s best- known and most popular novel: first published in 1921, its success ensured that it was much reprinted in both France and Canada and that an English translation was also produced. Of all the published editions, the present limited edition illustrated by Gagnon is the most sought after.

The novel takes the form of a series of episodic chapters, each describing events and people encountered by the author on his journey through the Klondike and Alaska during the Gold Rush. The work establishes a strong sense of time and place, and is rich in memorable characters: the wife of the Mountie; a Chinese trader, an Inuit, an Italian pianist, and adventurer and most importantly Tempest, the husky dog to whom the work is dedicated.

The illustrations and decorations form a harmonious whole with the text and include some of Gagnon’s best illustrative work. Clarence Gagnon was a painter, illustrator and etcher and is now recognised as one of the major figures in the development of Canadian modern art. The strong colours found in his later large scale original works are echoed in the jewel-like miniature images in the present work: his palette is able to make the best possible use of the vibrant colours achievable using the pochoir process. Born in Montreal in 1881, Gagnon first studied art at the Art Association of Montreal, starting at the age of 16. By 1904, he was in Paris where he lived and worked, studying briefly at the Academie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens, and absorbing the French Impressionists love of pure colours. “Back in Canada in 1909, he lived near Montreal in Baie-Saint-Paul, which, in the Charlevois region, became one of his favorite painting locations ... He became an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1910 and a full member in 1922. From 1911 to 1914 he was variously in Canada, France and Norway, working from sketches begun in Quebec. His subjects included French- Canadian life and anecdotal scenes ... He abandoned etching for landscape painting, and in addition to scenes of Quebec did village scenes and landscapes in France. In 1913, he exhibited scenes of Canada at the Galerie Reitlinger in Paris.

Gagnon lived in Paris from 1924 to 1936, where he illustrated Louis Hemon’s story of Canadian frontier life, Marie Chapdelaine, and L. F. Rouquette’s Le Grand Silence Blanc... In 1936, Clarence Gagnon stopped painting, and then devoted himself to the establishment of Ile d’Orléans, a national historical park inspired by ones he had seen in Scandinavia.” (Clarence Gagnon, 1881-1942, in American Art Review, December 2006, p. 134-137).

Cf. J. Russell Harper Painting In Canada [1966] p.463

(#33328) $ 6,500 95 SABINE, Edward; J. M. GILLISS; and others.

[Sammelband of 16 offprints or other ephemeral items relating to magnetism, astronomy, meteorology, etc., collected by or inscribed to James Duncan Graham].

Various places: 1846-1859. Quarto. Contemporary half calf and cloth covered boards. Provenance: James Duncan Graham (inscriptions).

Sammelband of works relating to the earth’s magnetism, astronomy and meteorology, collected by a noted American topographical engineer: includes four works with presentation inscriptions by Edward Sabine. This sammelband of extracts and other material was collected by noted topographical engineer James D. Graham, who served in the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers for much of his military career. In 1839-40 he was astronomer of the surveying party that established the boundary-line between the U.S. and the then new Republic of Texas. In 1840 he was appointed commissioner for the survey and exploration of the northeast boundary of the United States, and was employed along the Maine and New York frontiers until 1843. In the same year he was ordered to duty as astronomer on the part of the United States for the joint demarcation of the boundary between the United States and the British provinces, under the treaty of Washington. In 1850 Colonel Graham was engaged by the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, to examine certain disputed questions regarding the intersection of the boundary line of those states. He made a thorough survey of the line originally made by Mason and Dixon, and published a voluminous report thereon. He was employed in the final settlement of the questions resulting from the War with Mexico, and during 1851 was United States astronomer in the survey of the boundary line between this country and Mexico. For the next ten years he was in charge of various harbor improvements on the northern and northwestern lakes, in which he discovered the existence of a lunar tide (1858-59). At the time of his death he was superintending engineer of the sea-walls in Boston harbor, and of the repairs of harbor works on the Atlantic coast from Maine to the capes of the Chesapeake.

The sammelband is comprised of:

1) Sabine, Edward.

Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism. Nos. VII and VIII.

London: R. and J. E. Taylor, 1846. Five folding maps. Presentation inscription from Sabine on blank front stiff wrapper. Extract from the Philosophical Transactions for 1846. The first part of the above contains the results of John Henry Lefroy’s overland expedition to the Canadian Northwest to map the geo-magnetic activity of British North America from Montreal to the Arctic Circle. Sabin 74703.

2) Sabine, Edward. On the Annual Variation of the Magnetic Declination at Different Periods of the Day. London: Richard Taylor, 1851. Extract from the Philosophical Transactions for 1851. Two folding tables. Presentation inscription from Sabine on a blank sheet preceding the title.

3) Sabine, Edward. On the Periodic and Non-periodic Variations of the Temperature at Toronto in Canada, from 1841 to 1852 inclusive. [London: 1853]. Two plates. Extract from the Philosophical Transactions for 1853. Presentation inscription from Sabine on a blank sheet preceding the title.

4) Sabine, Edward. On the Evidence of the existence of the Decennial Inequality in the Solar- diurnal Magnetic Variations, and its non-existence in the Lunar-diurnal Variation, of the Declination at Hobart. [London: 1856]. One plate. Extract from the Philosophical Transactions for 1856. Presentation inscription from Sabine on a blank sheet preceding the title.

5) Moritz Ludwig Georg Wichmann. Erster Versuch zur Bestimmung der physischen Libration des Mondes aus Beobachtungen mit dem Heliometer. Np: 1847. Extract from Astronomische Nachrichten, Numbers 619, 621, 628, 630, and 631. Together, 5 parts.

6) Lee, Thomas J. On the use of the Zenith and Equal Altitude Telescope in determination of the Latitude. Washington: Topographical Bureau of the War Department, 1848.

7) Gilliss, J. M. On the Longitude of Washington, computed from the moon-culminations observed. Philadelphia: 1849. Extract from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper.

8) Hansteen, Christopher. Beschreibung und Lage der Universitats-Sternwarte in Christiania. Christiania: 1849. 3 plates. Front wrapper bound in.

9) Davis, Charles Henry. A Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean. Cambridge: 1849. Extract from the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Two plates. Inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper (partially trimmed).

10) Emory, W. H. Observations, Astronomical, Magnetic, and Meteorological, made at Chagres and Gorgona, Isthmus of Darien, and a the Ckity of Panama, New Grenada. Cambridge: 1850. Extract from the Memoirs of the American Academy. Upper wrapper bound in.

11) Maclear, Thomas.Contributions to Astronomy and Geodesy. London: 1851. Extract from the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society.

12) Alexander, Stephen. Suggestions relative to the Observation of the Solar Eclipse of May 26, 1854. Cambridge: 1854. Extract from The Astronomical Journal. Original wrapper bound in, inscribed in pencil by the author.

13) Alexander, Stephen. Observation of the Annular Eclipse of May 26, in the suburbs of Ogdensburgh, N.Y. Cambridge: 1854. Extract from The Astronomical Journal. One plate. Manuscript corrections to the title.

14) Gilliss, J. M. [Printed 2pp. letter to Dr. C. L. Gerling protesting his forced retirement]. Washington: November 1, 1855.

15) Gilliss, J. M. Origin and Operations of the U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition. [Washington: 1854]. Extract from the U.S.N. Astronomical Expedition.

16) Gilliss, J. M. An Account of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on September 7, 1858, as observed near Olmos, Peru. Washington: 1859. Extract from the Smithsonian Contributions of Knowledge. One plate. Inscribed by Gilliss on the title.

(#33150) $ 2,750 96 SALMON, William (1644-1713). Polygraphice: or, the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. ... The eighth edition. Enlarged, with above Five Hundred considerable Additions. London: printed for A. and J. Churchill. and J. Nicholson, 1701. 2 volumes, 8vo. [32], 224, 301-475, [1]; [2], 477-939, [1]pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved additional title, 23 engraved plates. Head of vol. 2 title clipped. Expertly bound to style in half russia and eighteenth century marbled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Richard Over (early signature).

Important early English manual on the arts.

First published in 1671, this important work on the arts went through several editions during the author’s lifetime; the present eighth edition, the first to be published in two volumes, is considerably expanded, with additional sections on alchemy, “Faber’s arcanums” and other additions.

ESTC T149640

(#32610) $ 2,000 97 SAVAGE, William (1770-1843).

Practical Hints on Decorative Printing, with illustrations engraved on wood and printed in colours at the type press.

London: published for the Proprietor by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [and others], [1818-] 1822 [-1823]. Folio (14 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches). Letterpress title printed in red and black within a typographic border, 3pp. list of subscribers, 1p. Address dated 25 March 1823. Additional title printed in gold and colours (on india paper mounted), dedication to Earl Spencer printed in colours (on india paper mounted), 52 plates (most printed in two or more colours, one heightened with gold, and including the 9 cancelled plates on 5 sheets), 3 illustrations, and 6 colour-printed head-pieces. Expertly bound to style in half red straight grain morocco over period plain cream paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Charles C. Bubb (bookplate).

Very rare large-paper copy of Savage’s extraordinary tour-de-force: an influential and beautiful work on colour-printing. The whole edition was to have been limited to no more than 335 copies, but in the end only 227 copies were subscribed for and this can be stated with certainty as being the actual number produced as Savage deliberately destroyed the blocks in order to ensure that no more copies could be printed. The edition was issued in two forms: 127 copies in quarto (the Abbey copy is 10 1/8 inches tall) at 5 guineas and 100 copies on large paper, as here, at 10 guineas. The large paper issue of this work was limited to 100 copies and is rare.

The underlying reason for the work is quite interesting: Savage wished to present his new oil-free printing ink in a form which allowed for its full potential to be demonstrated. The result is a masterpiece . “Savage’s magnum opus, which was announced in 1815, appeared in parts between 1818 and 1823. It is both a highly idiosyncratic volume and a notable landmark in the history of color printing from wood, anticipating Baxter by about ten years” (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England ). The technical aspects of the work are truly extraordinary: one highlight amongst many is a colour print, which Burch notes is printed from twenty-nine separate blocks, and which therefore qualifies as “the most complicated print ever printed in colours from wood blocks.”

This copy with appropriate provenance to the library of Arts and Crafts Movement printer Charles C. Bubb, the founder of the Clerk’s Press.

Abbey Life 233; Bigmore & Wyman, II, pp. 297-301; Burch Colour Printing pp.116-121; Friedman 35-38; Lowndes III, p.2194; Printing and the Mind of Man 141; Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 99.

(#26171) $ 17,500 98 TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915).

The Principles of Scientific Management.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches. 77pp. Publisher’s dark green cloth, covers bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: William Sangster (signature dated 1911).

First edition, first issue: the origin of modern management theory and a Printing and the Mind of Man classic.

According to the statement on the title-page, this “special edition” was printed in February 1911 for confidential circulation among the members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers “with the compliments of the author.” It precedes the trade issue, published later the same year, which omits the Foreword and the Appendix. As an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel Works in Philadelphia, Taylor developed an organizational system that he called “scientific management,” later known as “time and motion study.” “His system was based on what he estimated to be a fair day’s work and the best means of ensuring such a standard of production.” He was interested in any factor that hindered or helped in attaining this end, and besides studying factory conditions and methods in great detail he was responsible for fundamental changes in machinery and machine tools. “The main lines of approach to increased efficiency were standardizing processes and machines, time and motion study, and payment by results...” (PMM).

Norman Library 2059;Printing and the Mind of Man 403.

(#30544) $ 3,750 99 [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], 45- 100pp. 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

100 WEDGWOOD, Ralph (1766-1837).

Wedgwood’s Patent Manifold Writer ... for Copying Letters, Invoices &c. in Duplicate and Triplicate.

London: [circa 1845]. 4to (10 1/2 x 9 inches). Contemporary wallet-style dark purple morocco binding, covers elaborately tooled in blind, brass lock affixed to the upper cover and flap (with the original key present), interior with letterpress advertisement and directions for use mounted on pastedown, carbonic-ink paper and copybook of tissue paper “bound in” with silk ribbon, original steel plate and thick card guard housed in pocket and with the original white agate-tipped pen. [With:] Wedgwood’s Manifold Writer. [London: circa 1845]. 8vo. 16pp. Publisher’s wrappers.

A wonderful example of Wedgwood’s ground breaking carbonic paper copy book, complete with metal tablet, original carbon paper, original tissue, polished agate tipped pen and more.

Wedgwood, a relative of the famous pottery family, first obtained a copyright for carbon paper in 1806. This wallet-style binding, or “pocket secretary,” was marketed in the mid-19th century for use with the carbonic paper. The binding was designed to hold all the supplies needed for making duplicate copies of correspondence, including carbon paper, writing paper, as well as the inkless pens which were used.

Carbon paper (manufactured by soaking paper in printer’s ink and then letting it dry) was simply layered between a thin sheet of tissue paper on top and writing paper on bottom. A steel pen was then used to write on the tissue paper, impressing the ink from the carbon paper onto the verso of the tissue paper and onto the recto of the writing paper. The latter became the copy for the recipient, with the tissue paper kept as the retained copy (with the writing in reverse on the underside able to be read through the front of the thin tissue).

Although we have handled several Wedgwood manifold writers, we have never seen one as complete as the present, with all the original supplies needed, including the carbon paper (watermarked J. Whatman 1843). Furthermore, this manifold writer includes a 16-page pamphlet detailing how to use the writer, printed numerous letters of recommendation and advertising other Wedgwood products. Interestingly, the pamphlet explains how the manifold writer was of use as a noctograph for the blind.

(#32811) $ 3,800

INDEX

ADAMS, Ansel 1 LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup 49 AIGUEBELLE, Charles d’ 59 LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houton de 50 AUBREY, John 81 LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke 72 AUDUBON, John James 60 LEDYARD, John 42 AUSTEN, Ralph 61 LEWIS and CLARK 19 LEWIS, James Otto 18 BADGER, Clarissa W. Munger 62 BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton 63 MARTYN, Thomas 73 BANCROFT, H. H. 2 MASON, George Henry 51 BEECHEY, Frederick William 35 MATHEWS, Alfred Edward 20 BLIGH, William 36 MOHUN, Edward 21 BOLLER, Henry A. 3 MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard James 22 BOSIO, Antonio 82 BRASS FOUNDRY 83 NORTON, George Frederick 23 BRAUN, Adolphe 64 BYRON, George Anson 37 OGILBY, John 24 PACIFIC NORTHWEST 25 CALIFORNIA 4 PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de 26 CAREY, Mathew 5 PALOU, Francisco 27 CARMAN, Bliss 6 PARKINSON, Sydney 52 CARTARI, Vincenzo 84 PEARY ARCTIC EXPEDITION 53 CASSIN, John 65 PÉRON and FREYCINET 54 CASTRO, Casimiro 7 PLUMIER, Charles 74 CATHERWOOD, Frederick 8 POMOLOGY & HORTICULTURE 75 CATLIN, George 9 POUGET, Jean-Henri-Prosper 90 CATS, Jacob 85 PYNE, William Henry 91 CHINA, East India Company Press 38 COCKBURN, John 39 REDI, Francesco 76 COOK, Capt. James 40-43 REY DE PLANAZU, François Joseph 92 CORTÉS, Hernan 10 RISSO and POITEAU 77 ROGERS, Woodes 55 DALRYMPLE, Alexander 44 ROSS, Alexander 28, 93 DARWIN, Charles 86 ROSS, Sir John 56 DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste 45 ROUQUETTE, Louis-Frédéric 94 DUBOS, Jean Baptiste 11 SABINE, Edward 95 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud 66 SAGE, Rufus B. 29 ELLIS, John 67 SALMON, William 96 EMBURY, Emma C. 68 SAVAGE, William 97 SHELVOCKE, George 57 FISHER, James 87 SOWERBY, James de Carle 78 FRIAS, Simon de 12 SPAIN, Consejo de Indias 30 FRITH, Francis 46 TANNER, H. S. 31 GALILEO, Galilei 88 TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow 98 GARRETT, Pat F. 13 THOMSON, John 99 GOULD, John 69 TRIGGS, J.H. 32 GRANDVILLE, J.J. 70 TRUSLER, John 58

HEAP, Gwinn Harris 14 WEDGWOOD, Ralph 100 HEINE, Wilhelm 47 WHITNEY, Josiah Dwight 33 HERRERA y Tordesillas, Antonio de 48 WIEDMANN, Johann Heinrich 43 HORACE 89 WIGHT, Robert 79 HOVEY, Charles Mason 71 WILSON, Alexander 80 WYCKOFF, Richard D. 34 JOHNSTON, William. G. 15 JOUTEL, Henri 16

KENDALL, George Wilkins 17