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SPENCER FULLERTON CLICK THE BAIRD TITLE

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.

(#29922) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JAMES BATEMAN

A Monograph of the Odontoglossum.

London: Savill, Edwards & Co. for L.Reeve & Co., [1867]- 1874. Folio. Half-title. 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Walter Hood Fitch, printed by Vincent Brooks or Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. 20th-century blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers panelled in gilt, with fillets and a decorative roll, spine in six compartments with raised bands and initials 'H.C.S.' and the date '1961' at the foot, the other compartments with double fillet borders around single large centrally-placed flower tools. Provenance: Clare Howard (Corley Castle, Carlisle, early pencil inscription on half title); H.C.S. (binding, dated 1961).

A fine copy of the greatest work on the most beautiful of all the high elevation 'cool' orchids - the genus Odontoglossum - illustrated with magnificent plates by 'the most outstanding botanical artist of his day' (Blunt & Stearn 'The Art of Botanical Illustration' [1994] p.265).

(#18194) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHARLES LUCIAN BONAPARTE

American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of Birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson.

Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell [vol I]; Carey, Lea & Carey [vols II & III]; Carey & Lea [vol IV], 1825-1828-1828- 1833. 4 volumes, folio. 27 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alexander Lawson. Extra-illustrated with 5 uncoloured engraved plates in vol. IV. 19th-century black half morocco over green cloth-covered boards, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, the compartments bordered in gilt with double fillets, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Provenance: Juliette Clary (inscribed by Bonaparte on the vol. I title, "Offert par l'auteur a sa Cousine Juliette").

A very fine set of the first edition, first issue of this important American ornithological work, inscribed by Prince Bonaparte to his cousin and with additional uncoloured states of the plates in volume four.

(#22742) $ 12,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FRANCOIS BOUSSUET

De natura aquatilium carmen, in universam Gulielmi Rondeletii.

Lyon: M. Bonhomme, 1558. 2 parts in 1, small 4to (7 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches). Bonhome's woodcut Perseus device on both titles, woodcut portrait of the author, 466 large woodcut illustrations of fish and marine life. One folding leaf with illustration in the second part. Late 19th century brown morocco by De Samblanx and Weckesser, covers panelled with gilt rules, gilt fleuron cornerpieces, spine with five raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with gilt fleurons, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

First and only edition of Bossuet's pictorial history in verse of fishes and aquatic animals.

(#31052) $ 4,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

J. DUKE

The Compleat Florist.

London: printed for J. Duke and sold by J. Robinson, 1747. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches). Engraved throughout. Hand- coloured emblematic frontispiece by John Carwitham, title with elaborate hand-coloured floral border, 100 hand- coloured numbered plates with integral text. Expertly rebacked to style in 18th-century russia, with contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, spines divided into seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Isaac Royall (early inscription dated 16 January 1754).

An excellent copy of the deluxe hand-coloured issue of the first edition, second issue of this beautiful and valuable work.

(#19641) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN EDWARDS

The British Herbal, containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants which blow in the open air of Great Britain, accurately coloured from nature with their botanical characters, and short account of their cultivation.

London: Printed for the author, [1769]-1770. Folio (17 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches). [2], 50 [2]pp. 100 hand-coloured engraved plates by Edwards. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked retaining portions of the original spine, repairs at corners, endpapers renewed.

One of the most highly artistic flower books of the eighteenth century.

(#36285) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HENRY JOHN ELWES

The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland.

Edinburgh: privately printed, 1906-1913. 15 parts bound in 8 volumes, quarto (12 1/4 x 10 inches). 8 half-titles, 6pp. list of subscribers, 8pp. errata. 7 coloured titles, coloured frontispieces in volumes I-V (one chromolithographed), photogravure portrait frontispiece of the authors in vol. VII, 413 plates (373 photogravures, 40 uncoloured lithographs). With original wrappers bound in the rear of the Index vol. Contemporary red half morocco by R.H. Porter, gilt spines, top edges gilt. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplates).

First edition with distinguished provenance of Elwes and Henry’s comprehensive work recording every species of tree grown outdoors in Great Britain and Ireland at the time of publication.

(#37439) $ 4,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JACQUES LOUIS ENGRAMELLE

Papillons d'Europe, Peints d'apres Nature.

Paris: Delaguette ... Basan & Poignant, 1779-1792. 8 vols, quarto. 3 engraved titles (2 hand coloured), engraved dedication, 3 uncoloured plates, 334 (of 342) hand coloured engraved plates, and 8 hand-coloured Supplemental plates, after Jean-Jacques Ernst and others. Lacks volume 8, text pp. 89-157 and the corresponding 16 plates numbered 327- 342 [see below]. The supplementary plates (numbered I-V, VII-IX) laid in. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, rose endpapers.

One of the most beautiful works about butterflies ever published.

(#36341) $ 18,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN GOULD

A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.

London: Richard & John E. Taylor for the Author, [November 1844 - March 1846 - November] 1850. Folio (21 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches). 1p. list of subscribers. 32 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates after Gould and H. C. Richter. Early half olive green morocco over green pebbled cloth covered boards, bound for Sotheran's, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A fine copy of the first edition of Gould's fourth monograph, in which he considerably enlarged the number of recorded species of the American partridge family.

(#27929) $ 20,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS HARRIS

Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, delineated in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn ...

London: printed by Green & Martin and H.W.Martin, published for the Proprietor by W.Pickering, and to be had of P.& D.Colnaghi and T.Cadell, 1840[-1842]. Folio. Lithographic additional title with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Frank Howard after Harris, 30 uncoloured lithographic vignette illustrations. Contemporary red half morocco over cloth boards, bound by Hammond, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, black morocco-lettering-piece in the second, the others with an animal decoration in gilt.

A fine copy of the large paper issue of "one of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna" (Mendelssohn).

(#31264) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SIR

Illustrations of Himalayan Plants, chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F.Cathcart Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service.

London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. Folio (20 x 14 3/4 inches). Half- title. 2pp. subscriber's list. Lithographic title with hand- coloured botanical border, 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Walter Hood Fitch from original drawings by native artists and the author. Publisher's patterned cloth boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down, floral patterned endpapers. Housed in a cloth box.

Hooker's second work on Himalayan plants containing some of the most spectacular work of Walter Hood Fitch, arguably the greatest botanical artist of the second half of the 19th century: "one of the finest flower books ever produced" (Jan Lewis).

(#35304) $ 18,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JANE WELLS LOUDON

The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals ... Second Edition.

London: William S. Orr & Co., 1850. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches). Half title. 48 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Publisher's green cloth gilt, illustration of a flower in gilt on upper cover, spine tooled in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

A fine copy of the second edition of a work from Mrs. Loudon's highly popular series. This work was extremely influential in forming the taste of a generation of mid- nineteenth century gardeners.

(#37445) $ 2,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

RICHARD LYDEKKER

Wild Oxen, Sheep & Goats of All Lands Living and Extinct.

London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1898. Quarto. 28 hand- colored plates after J. Smit (numbered I-XVII, XVIIa, XVIII- XXVII). With erratum & corrigenda slips. Publisher's green cloth gilt. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

First edition, number 138 of 500 numbered copies, signed by the Publisher.

(#37441) $ 3,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ANDRÉ MICHAUX

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

Paris: de l'Imprimerie Crapelet, 1801. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). Half-title. 36 copper-engraved plates after Pierre- Joseph Redouté (32) or Henri-Joseph Redouté (4), by Plée (33) or Sellier (3). Twentieth century half green morocco and green cloth boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, panelled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges.

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

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

FRIEDRICH ANTON WILHELM

Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi.

Amsterdam and Utrecht: C.G. van der Post, 1863-1869. 4 volumes, folio. 40 plates (i.e. 37 plates, with 3 double-page or folding plates with double numbers; 17 hand-coloured). Minor scattered foxing. Unbound in original sheets. Housed in two green cloth boxes with leather labels.

Rare botanical work, depicting exotic species in the Leiden herbarium.

(#33598) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHANN GOTTHILF MÜLLER AND JOHANN BERNHARD GOTTFRIED HOPFER

[Species plantarum secundum vegetationis et fructificationis partes ad vivum delineatæ et Latina ac Germanica dictione determinata descriptae. Decas prima...].

[Berlin: Gedruckt bey C.L. Kunst, 1757]. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). Without letterpress title or text, as issued. 10 hand- coloured engraved plates after Hopfer, engraved by Glassbach or Sauerbrey. Plates with captions in Latin and German. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period speckled paper.

Rare mid-18th century German botanical work.

(#35612) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

PETER SIMON PALLAS

Flora Rossica seu stirpium Imperii Rossici per Europam et Asiam indigenarum descriptiones et icones.

St. Petersburg: J. J. Weitbrecht, 1784-1788. 2 parts in one volume, folio (18 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). Text in Latin, captions in Russian and Latin. Letterpress titles to each part, 101 hand- coloured engraved plates by Karl Friedrich Knappe (numbered 1-100, plus 8 bis). Lacking the hand-coloured engraved title. Modern speckled half calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, yellow edges. Front endpaper creased. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

First edition of the first great illustrated Russian flora.

(#37431) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN PARKINSON

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, A choise Garden of all sorts of Rarest Flowers...To which is annext a Kitchin-Garden furnished with all manner of Herbs, Roots, and Fruits...

London: printed by R.N., to be sold by Richard Thrale, 1656. Folio, bound in sixes. [12], 612, [16]pp. Woodcut additional title engraved by Switzer, 1 full-page woodcut of parterre designs, 109 full-page woodcuts of plants (82 of flowers, 15 of vegetables and herbs and 12 of trees), 3 small woodcuts within the text. Publisher's ad on verso of the terminal leaf. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, repairs to joints. Provenance: Peter Du Cane (armorial bookplate); Knut Olav Thulesius (bookplate).

The expanded second edition of "one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening" (Hunt).

(#36179) $ 3,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN RAY AND FRANÇOIS SALERNE

L' éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales l'ornithologie, qui traite des oiseaux de terre, de mer et de riviere.

Paris: Debure Pere, 1767. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Half- title. xii, [4], 464pp. 31 engraved plates, engraved by and after Martinet, including the allegorical frontispiece. Contemporary mottled calf, covers bordered in blind, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

The first French edition of the ornithological portions of Ray's Synopsis methodica avium & piscium (London, 1713).

(#35236) $ 2,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

LOVELL AUGUSTUS REEVE

Conchologia Systematica, or Complete System of Conchology: In which the Lepades and Conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1841-1842. 2 volumes, quarto (11 3/16 x 8 1/2 inches). [6], 195pp.; [2], 338pp. Folding letterpress table and 300 hand-coloured engraved plates. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, glazed yellow endpapers. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

First edition, with beautiful illustrations of shells.

(#37434) $ 8,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

WILLIAM ROBERTSON

Collection de Differéntes Espèces de Serres Chaudes, pour Forcer des Ananas, des Arbres Fruitiers, et pour Preserver des Plantes Exotiques Délicates.

London: R. Ackermann, 1798 [plates watermarked 1816]. Oblong quarto (9 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches). [4]pp, plus 24 aquatint plates (22 coloured), interleaved with descriptive letterpress for each plate. Uncut. Contemporary boards, rebacked to style. Contained in a modern quarter morocco backed box.

Scarce illustrated work of designs for heated greenhouses to cultivate exotic trees and plants.

(#36666) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

RICHARD ANTHONY SALISBURY

Icones stirpium rariorum descriptionibus illustratae.

London: William Bulmer, 1791. Broadsheet (21 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches). [6], 20pp. 10 hand-coloured engravings by and after Salisbury, being watercolour and gouache over thin etched line. Extra-illustrated with a duplicate of plate nine. Modern half black morocco over green cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt.

An extraordinary rare botanical work of great beauty.

(#29042) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER

The Book of Antelopes.

London: Taylor & Francis for R.H. Porter, 1894-1900. 4 volumes, quarto (11 x 8 5/8 inches). Letterpress titles with wood-engraved vignettes. 100 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Joseph Wolf (51), J. Smit (32), J.G. Keulemans (1), Waterhouse Hawkins (2), H. Leutemann (1) and 13 unassigned, all lithographed by Smit and printed by Hanhart, 121 wood-engraved text illustrations, wood- engraved vignettes on title pages. Contemporary brown cloth, flat spines lettered in gilt. Provenance: Russell Aitken (bookplate); Windsor Holden White (bookplate).

A very fine copy of the first edition of this spectacular illustrated work on one of the most beautiful of all animal families, many pictured by Joseph Wolf - one of the greatest animal portraitists of the 19th century.

(#36209) $ 10,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

RUDOLPH SIEBECK

Atlas zur bildenden Gartenkunst in ihren modernen Formen. Auf zwanzig colourirten Tafeln.

Leipzig: Friedrich Voigt, 1856. Broadsheet (22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches). Letterpress title. 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates (i.e. 17 plates, the final plate being a very large folding plate comprised of four sheets joined and numbered XVII- XX), lithographed by Sommer. Without the text volume. Contemporary half green morocco over green cloth covered boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with an overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A large folio atlas of beautifully hand coloured garden designs.

(#29043) $ 8,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CASPAR STOLL

Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde Afbeeldingen en Beschreyvingen der Cicaden en Wantzen.

Amsterdam: Jan Christaan Sepp, 1780-1788. 2 volumes, quarto. Hand-coloured illustrated titles to each volume, 70 hand-coloured engraved plates (29 Cicaden and 41 Wantzen), illustrating 471 figures. Text in Dutch and French. The first volume with general title page preceding the sectional one. Contemporary marbled calf, covers with wide borders in gilt, flat spines tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, expert repairs to joints.

Beautifully illustrated and coloured work on insects from the order Hemiptera, including cicadas: complete with both parts.

(#35899) $ 8,500.