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1] ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834). A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: Printed for R. Ackermann ... by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814 [text and plates watermarked 1811]. 2 volumes, large quarto (16 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches). Half-titles. 6pp. list of subscribers in rear of vol. I. Mounted India paper proof portrait of Lord Grenville by Henry Meyer after William Owen, 81 hand-coloured plates [i.e. 68 hand-coloured aquatint view plates on 64 sheets, plus 17 hand coloured line and stipple engraved plates of the costume of the members of the university], by J. Bluck, J.C. Stadler, D. Havell, F.C. Lewis, J. Hill and others after A. Pugin, F. Mackenzie, W. Westall, F. Nash and others. Without the 33 "Founders" plates, as issued [see note below]. Uncut. 19th century half brown morocco over purple cloth covered boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in blind, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (expert repair at one joint).
One of the great aquatint viewbooks: a rare early issue, large-paper copy and one of only twenty-five such copies with superior coloured plates.
Tooley makes reference to such preferred large-paper copies: "There were 50 copies on large and thick paper, 25 copies being issued uncoloured, the plates on India paper, proof impressions and 25 coloured large-paper copies that are definitely superior in finish, owing to the extra care and fine paper on which they were pulled. Large-paper impressions of the Oxford plates have an incomparably beautiful sheen, a suffused rich glow and 'bloom' that is absent from ordinary copies ... only one copy on large paper was printed for 30 on small [i.e. regular] paper." The present copy has early issues of the plates, including several with captions on mounted overslips, as well as the first state of the list of plates; as Tooley explains, such sets were published without the "Founders" plates, as these were not issued until April 1815. With the plates being an earlier issue, such sets are nevertheless greatly preferred.
The views, mostly after Pugin and Mackenzie, depict all of the most famous Oxford colleges. Each of the plates is enlivened by some detail of contemporary life. These asides, generally showing members of the university or citizens of Oxford, serve both as points of interest in the plates, and as indicators of the scale of the buildings depicted. An unlooked-for by-product of this fine detailing is that it encourages the viewer to examine each plate with great care: what exactly is being prepared for dinner in the kitchen of Christ Church (see plate facing p.76, vol.II). The costume plates by Agar after Uwins have the appearance of being portraits of individuals (rather than clothes with generalized faces attached) and are also very fine.
The text, understandably overlooked when competing for attention with the plates, repays careful study. College by college the author gives details of the founders, the names of subsequent benefactors together with their contributions. The physical descriptions of the colleges are next, and include details of the colleges greatest treasures: pictures, sculpture, books, etc. The college descriptions conclude with the names, dates and details of their presidents, together with similar notes on famous alumni. After these follow notes on the university halls, public buildings including the Radcliffe and Bodleian libraries, Ashmolean museum and the Physic garden. The text concludes with notes on the members of the university.
Abbey Scenery 278 (regular) and 279 (large paper); Tooley 5; Hardie, p. 106. (#28782) $ 7,500.
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2] AESOP (c.620-560 B.C.). [Vita et Fabulae, in Latin, with the fables of Remigius, Avienus, etc.]. [Basel: Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim, not after 1489]. Folio (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches). Collation: a8-o6 (alternately), pq8. 114ff. 43 lines, Gothic type. Full- page frontispiece on verso of A1 and 192 smaller woodcuts within the text. Early ink annotations on additional blank in rear. (Some headlines shaved, areas of slight worming at inner corner expertly repaired at an early date with a few small losses restored in facsimile, a few other defects expertly mended, full condition report available on request). Nineteenth century burgundy morocco, by J. Leighton, covers elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, spine with double-raised bands in six compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: C. W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate); Silvain S. Brunschwig (morocco booklabel).
The Dyson Perrins - Silvain Brunschwig copy of an incunable illustrated edition of Aesop and the earliest illustrated edition of Aesop to be printed in Switzerland.
Aesop's Fables is arguably the most enduring work of European literature and the earliest example of children's literature extant. Early references to Aesop, including those by Aristotle, Plato, Herodotus and Aristophanes, suggest he was a Greek slave, born circa 620 B.C. No manuscript writings by Aesop have survived, and although collections of the fables from the 4th century B.C. are suggested, Fables attributed to Aesop were first gathered and set down in writing by Babrius (in Greek) and Phaedrus (in Latin) as early as the first century C.E. In the tenth century, a prose version in Latin by Romulus appeared, which would become the most influential of the early versions and the version upon which most subsequent prose translations were based.
The editio princeps of the Fables in Latin appeared around 1470, in Greek in 1478, and in English by Caxton in 1484. The earliest illustrated edition of the Fables appeared in Ulm in 1476, published by Joh. Zainer, and the woodcuts were quickly copied, sometimes in reverse, by other printers. The present edition, the earliest to be published in Switzerland, uses copies of those cuts in reverse, attributed by B.M.C. to Adam von Speier. The printer of this edition, Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim, would re-use the same cuts (with a few exceptions) in the first part of his 1501 edition with commentary and additions by Sebastian Brant.
The printer of this edition has been established by Clifford C. Rattey as Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim, having previously been erroneously attributed to Joh. de Amorbach or M. Furter. As to the dating of this edition, recent bibliographic descriptons date the work "not after 1489" (by CIBN based on two inscribed examples dated 1489); this edition was previously dated to circa 1492 (by Goff and Schreiber) and Rattey concluded it to have been printed "nearer to 1490." See Rattey, "The Undated Aesop Attributed Jakob Wolff de Pforzheim" in The Library (1957), pp. 119-121.
The British Library ISTC cites 27 extant examples of this edition in European and American libraries, including several imperfect. Although several examples of the 1501 Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim edition have appeared on the market in modern times, we find no complete example of this edition in the auction records for the last half century. This example with esteemed provenance to C.W. Dyson Perrins (his sale, Sotheby & Co., 10 March 1947) and Silvain S. Brunschwig, with their respective booklabels on the front pastedown.
Goff A115; Van der Haegen I: 23,2; HC 327*; Schr 3023; Schramm XXI p.28; Pell 198; CIBN A-64; Polain(B) 38; IDL 91; IGI 81; Voull(B) 580 = 553,5; Voull(Trier) 263; Sack(Freiburg) 28; Mittler-Kind 63; Sheppard 2503; Pr 7629; BMC III 788; BSB-Ink A-76; GW 350; C. Fairfax Murray 19. (#29213) $ 195,000.
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3] ALBUMASAR [Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi] (A.D. 787-886). Introductorium in astronomiam . Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 February 1489. Small 4to (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Translated from Arabic into Latin by Hermannus Dalmata. 70 leaves. Gothic letter. 46 woodcuts (2 half-page, the remainder smaller) mainly of zodiacal figures and including 6 astronomical diagrams, opening 8-line woodcut initial, 7-line and smaller initials throughout. Expertly bound to style in nineteenth century green straight grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, period brown paper endpapers.
Rare first edition of this important illustrated work of a noted Arabian astronomer.
Abu Ma'shar (787-886), born in Balkh, was the most renowned astrologer writing in Arabic in the 9th century, and was part of the group of intellectuals who served the Caliph al-Ma'mun (813-833) in Baghdad. The present work is a slightly abridged translation of his Kitab al-madkhal al-kabir 'ala 'ilm ahkam al-nujum ("Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology"), written in 849/850. The work was translated twice in the first half of the 12th century and was one of the earliest vehicles for the transmission of Aristotelian concepts into Latin before the actual translations of Aristotle.
The work presents the philosophical and historical justifications of astrology, and a survey of the characteristics of the Signs, Planets, Sun and Moon, along with the Aspects (angular relations between them). The 15 cuts showing allegorical figures of the planets are reduced versions of seven woodcuts used by Ratdolt in Johannes de Thwrocz, Chronica Hungarorum (Augsburg: E. Ratdolt for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488, Goff T-361). The cuts include 12 large and 12 small zodiacal figures, 6 astronomical tables, and 15 planetary figures printed from 7 blocks. The whole is a beautifully composed book, set in a semi-Gothic font and with white on black initials from two alphabets.
Albumasar's work would gain considerable attention during the Middle Ages and have a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history. The present first edition, printed by Erhard Ratdolt in Augsburg in 1489, is scarce; a second edition followed, printed in Venice in 1506. A fine, large example.
BMC ii, 382; Goff A-359; GW 840; Hain 612; Schreiber 3075. (#29214) $ 35,000.
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4] AZARA, Félix Manuel de (1746-1821). Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, par Don Félix De Azara ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801. Paris: Dentu, 1809. 5 volumes (text: 4 volumes, 8vo [7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches]; atlas: folio [14 x 10 1/4 inches]). Text: lx,389; [4],562pp. plus three folding tables; [4],ii,479; [4],380pp. Atlas: [4]pp. Twenty-five engraved maps and plates. Atlas uncut. Text: contemporary tree calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spine in compartments with red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Atlas: publisher's blue paper boards, printed paper label on the upper cover.
The preferred First French Edition, with additional notes by Cuvier and Sonnini: the atlas here uncut and in original boards.
An important work by Spanish naturalist Felix de Azara (1746-1821). Azara, a military officer, was part of a delegation to settle the boundary dispute between Spain and Portugal in the Rio de la Plata region. He was in the region for twenty years, from 1781 to 1801, documenting the wildlife, natives, and geography of the area. This work is the culmination of his time there, published upon his return to Europe.
The atlas includes folding maps of South America, Paraguay and the Province of Buenos Aires, the Government of Buenos Aires, the Government of Paraguay and part of Chaco, and the Province of Chiquitos and Government of Matagroso and of Cuyaba; eight city plans and views, including a double-page plan and view of Buenos Aires, seven plates depicting animals, and four plates depicting birds.
First published in Spanish in Madrid between 1802 and 1805, the work provides an important contribution to natural history, describing over 400 species of birds, many for the first time (see vols. 3 and 4 of the text). Interestingly, Darwin would read Azara's work following his return from the second voyage and refer to it within his Voyage of the Beagle.
Palau 20975; Sabin 2541; Field 62; Wood, p. 214. (#28591) $ 12,000.
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5] BLAEU, Joan (1596-1673). Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Foederate ... [With:] Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Regiae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, [1649]. Folio (20 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches). Latin text. On paper guards throughout. Engraved title page to each volume, with titles on printed overslips, 223 engraved maps. Eighteenth century red morocco, elaborately bordered in gilt, expert restoration at edges and joints, spine with raised bands in eight compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Henry B. H. Beaufoy (1786-1851, bookplate); George Beaufoy (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, June 1909); William Hesketh Lever, Viscount Leverhulme (bookplate, 1851-1925).
The third edition in Latin of Blaeu's famous town books of the Netherlands, here bound in 18th-century English red morocco: a magnificent depiction of the Dutch Golden Age.
"Of all the Blaeu atlases, the townbooks of the Netherlands are held in the highest esteem in the Netherlands. This is partly due to the fact that their composition is linked up with the struggle for independence from Spain of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century" (Koeman).
This copy with slightly variant titles to Koeman Bl 66 and Bl67, printed on mounted overslips and without page numbers (otherwise collating as per Koeman). "In his third edition we find the same views and plans arranged in nearly the same order as in the second edition, but a smaller number of plates [i.e. mapsheets], as several half sheets of the first edition have been combined to make whole sheets ... Several plans have been amended, some of them to a considerable extent ... The text has been reset ... This third edition is extended with extracts from the privileges granted by Philip II and Louis XIV" (Koeman).
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch hegemony in ship building and navigation engendered their dominance in mapmaking. At the lead of this field was the Blaeu family. Willem Janszoon Blaeu first studied mathematics and navigation under the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe in 1594, opening his own instrument and globe making shop in Amsterdam in 1599. Shortly thereafter, Willem Blaeu would open a printing house, specializing in works on navigation. The Blaeu family's first world atlas, modestly titled the Atlantis Appendix as it was considered a continuation of the atlases by Ortelius, Mercator and Hondius, was first published in 1630 by Willem Blaeu with his son Joan Blaeu, the official cartographers of the Dutch East India Company.
The acclaim that Blaeu's atlases have always received is based primarily upon the extremely high production standards found within. The quality of the engraving and the paper are of the highest order, placing them in the first rank among seventeenth century illustrated books. Blaeu's maps and town plans are embellished in the Baroque style, and many rank among the most beautiful ever made.
This set, beautifully bound in 18th century red morocco, is from the noted libraries of Henry B. H. Beaufoy (a member of parliament and a fellow of the Royal Society noted for his library which included the first four folios of Shakespeare) and the Viscount Leverhulme (a noted industrialist, art collector and founder of the Lady Lever Art Gallery).
Koeman, Bl 66 and 67. (#27089) $ 62,500.
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6] BOWLES, JOHN (1701-1779). Versailles Illustrated; or, Divers Views of the Several Parts of the Royal Palace of Versailles; as likewise of all the Fountains, Groves, Parterras, ye Labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens ... London: John Bowles, [circa 1740]. Oblong folio (12 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches). Engraved pictorial title and 29 engraved plates by Bowles, showing fountains, water falls, statues and gardens of Versailles. Publisher's blue paper wrappers. Housed in a modern cloth case.
An early English work depicting the famed gardens and fountains of Versailles.
The plates depict the gardens and fountains of Versailles after Sebastien Le Clerc and others, engraved and issued by print and mapseller John Bowles. This edition is dated based on Bowles's address "at the Black Horse, in Cornhill" at which he was active between 1733 and 1752 (after which the name of the firm changed to John Bowles and Son).
The last seven plates depict the fountains in the labyrinth at Versailles, representing the Fables of Aesop. The "fable fountains" no longer exist and are now only known through engravings such as the present examples. These seven plates are each divided into six compartments. These contain a map of the Labyrinth giving the location of each fountain, a single compartment of engraved text describing the concept, a view of the entrance to the Labyrinth with its statue of Aesop, and 39 images of selected fountains, each of these latter images is accompanied by a verse translation of the fable above and a description of the sculpture below.
Johnston 394; Lowndes, p. 2764 (1726 edition) (#29036) $ 4,750.
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7] BROWN, William Henry (1808-1883). Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches. Hartford: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1845. Folio (16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches). 27 tinted lithographed silhouette portraits, 27 tinted lithographed plates of facsimiles of handwriting (some foxing, offsetting and oxidization as usual). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED: John C. CALHOUN. Manuscript letter signed, as Secretary of War, to The President of the Bank of the United States, suspending pension payments for three officers. Washington: 29 February 1820. 1p., folded 4to sheet with integral blank, docketed on verso. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco over publisher's cloth boards, upper cover decorated in gilt, spine with semi-raised wide bands in five compartments, tooled in gilt on each band, lettered in gilt in the second compartment.
First edition of this impressive work, notable for its effective and evocative lithographed portraits of renowned Americans of the antebellum period, each depicted in full-length silhouette profile: "Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare" (Harry Peters). This copy extra-illustrated with a letter signed by John C. Calhoun.
All the portraits, except for the George Washington allegorical frontispiece, are based on sketches made from life by Brown, who was widely celebrated for his scissor-cut silhouettes. Brown was born and died in Charleston, South Carolina, but in the interim traveled widely throughout the United States, his fame as a silhouettist gaining him access to many of the country's leading citizens whose profiles Brown took which amazing speed and accuracy.
Alice Van Leer Carrick, an authority on silhouettes, notes that, rather than any existing original portraits, the present work is "the real memorial to Brown's genius, [and it is] now almost rarer than any of the silhouettes themselves." Brown prepared the biographical text himself, and the silhouettes (with appropriate tinted backgrounds) were transferred to stone and printed by one of the best known lithographic firms of the period: Kelloggs of Hartford, CT. The result is a valuable historical and visual record, with subjects including John Marshall, John Q. Adams, Richard C. Moore, Andrew Jackson, John Forsyth, William Henry Harrison, John C. Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, Richard M. Johnson, Joel Poinsett, Alexander Macomb, Martin Van Buren, Samuel Southard, Henry Clay, Henry Wise, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Webster, William White, Silas Wright, Nathaniel Tallmadge, Felix Grundy, Dixon Lewis, and John Randolph. Each portrait is accompanied by another plate displaying a facsimile of the subject's handwriting.
According to Peters, "almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare."
Cf. Groce-Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860, p. 90; Howes B871 ("b"); cf. Peters, America on Stone, pp., 116-117; Sabin 8578. (#26203) $ 6,000.
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8] BURNEY, James (1750-1821). A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. London: Printed by Luke Hansard for G. & W. Nicol [and others], 1803-1806-1813-1816-1817. 5 volumes, quarto (11 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches). 41 engraved maps and plates (18 folding), 6 woodcut illustrations. Expertly bound to style in half calf over marbled paper covered boards, flat spines divided into compartments with gilt roll tools, red and green morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth compartments, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, early blue-gray endpapers. Provenance: Sir Thomas Burch Western (armorial bookplate).
The most important history of early Pacific discoveries containing "practically everything of importance" (Hill).
This important work was encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks, and Burney, who sailed as a lieutenant on Cook's second and third voyages, was given unfettered access to Banks' extraordinary collection of books and manuscripts. Many of the accounts published by Burney remain unavailable elsewhere. The present work therefore is one of the chief published authorities on Pacific exploration. Burney covers the 250 years of exploration before Cook, beginning with Magellan and ending with Bougainville. Detailed accounts of the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch voyages are included, and the whole is well-illustrated with maps and views. The fourth volume containing Burney's history of pirates, was particularly popular, and would be republished in 1816 as a separate work titled History of the Buccaneers of America (London: 1816).
The volumes are arranged chronologically as follows: Volume 1, from the Earliest Discovery of the Pacific by Europeans to the voyage of Sir Francis Drake in 1579; Volume 2, from 1579 to 1620 (Sarmiento de Gamboa, Thomas Cavendish, Merick, Quiros, Spilbergen, Schouten, Le Maire, Nodal, etc.); Volume 3, from 1620 to 1688 (the Nassau Fleet, Kwast, Tasman, Brouwer, Narborough, Peche, La Roche, etc.); Volume 4, from 1688 to 1723 (Buccaneers: Spaniards in Hayti, Careri, Halley, Dampier, Woodes, Rogers, Frezier, etc.); Volume 5, from 1723 to 1764 (New Philippine Islands, Bouvet, Anson, Bougainville, etc.).
Ferguson 372; Hill (2004) 221; Hocken pp.30-34; Howes B1002, "c."; Sabin 9387. (#28597) $ 18,500.
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9] CHINA, Canton School. [An album containing 36 original gouache drawings of flowering plants]. [Canton: circa 1800]. Folio (16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches). 36 original gouache drawings, heightened with gum arabic, on Chinese laid paper. Contemporary English red straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative border made up of various roll tools including a large Greek-key roll, neatly rebacked with spine in seven compartments, the compartments delineated by onlaid green morocco strips tooled in gilt with pentaglyph and metope roll, the second compartment with green morocco lettering-piece, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
A fine album of images of flowering plants by a talented Chinese artist: an early example prepared for a Western patron.
Centered on Canton, there existed a thriving trade in botanical watercolours executed by local Chinese artists for the Western merchants and sailors who traded through the treaty port. The style and materials used by these artists evolved over time, developing from the original purely Chinese tradition of decorative flower painting, through to a point where the artists were provided with western materials and produced drawings that followed Western conventions established for the correct scientific representation of botanical specimens. The present album comes from an early period (circa 1800) when the local artists were beginning to adapt the way they depicted the specimens but still used entirely Chinese materials.
A prime example of its type, the quality of the drawings is exceptional. The samples depicted have been chosen primarily for their decorative qualities, and the way that each specimen is presented on the sheet was evidently more important to the artist than pure scientific accuracy. The masterful use of gum arabic heightens the healthy gleam of the plants, and the occasional depiction of a damaged leaf confirms that this album was composed by an artist working from life.
A selection of the plants depicted include thorned prunus, trumpet vine, flowering shrubs, pink-flowered camellia, white-flowered datura, pink multi-petalled rose, white-flowered jasmine, pink-flowered rose, orange-flowered canna, pink double hollyhock, white and red-tinged camellia, pink flowered alcea, blue/white flowered hydrangea, sunflower, white flowered chrysanthemum, double pink-flowered peony, white flowered gardenia, double pink-flowered camellia and more. (#25014) $ 45,000.
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10] CORRY, Joseph. Observations upon the Windward Coast of Africa, the Religion, Character, Customs, &c. of the Natives; with a System upon which they may be Civilized, and a Knowledge Attained of the Interior of this Extraordinary Quarter of the Globe; and upon the Natural and Commercial Resources of the Country, made in the years 1805 and 1806. London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol and James Asperne by W. Bulmer, 1807. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). Half-title. Single-page engraved map, 8 hand-coloured engraved and aquatint plates. Expertly bound to style in half period russia over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. .
The African side of the slave trade: a finely-illustrated account of Corry's travels to West Africa in the early years of the 19th century.
There is much information regarding the region's inhabitants, particularly their religion and customs, as well as the area's natural productions and commercial resources. In addition to advancing England's commercial prospects, the author was also interested in ending the practice of slavery. To this end, the text includes the author's letter to Lord Howick abolishing the slave trade. The author hoped that "if in the most remote degree, I excite the interference of my countrymen in behalf of the African, extend our commerce, and enlarge the circle of civilized and Christian society, I shall think that I have neither travelled, nor written in vain."
Abbey, Travel 278. (#28582) $ 10,000.
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11] ELLICOTT, Andrew (1754-1820). The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late commissioner on behalf of the United States during part of the year 1796, the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800: for determining the boundary between the United States and the possessions of his Catholic Majesty in America, containing occasional remarks on the situation, soil, rivers, natural productions, and diseases of the different countries on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Gulf of Mexico ... Philadelphia: William Fry, 1814. Quarto (10 x 7 3/4 inches). vii,299,151pp. Errata leaf. 14 engraved folding maps and charts. . Contemporary tree calf, flat spine divided into compartments by gilt fillets, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment. Provenance: Samuel Mickle (early signature on title).
The first thorough American survey of the lower Mississippi, and one of the earliest American reports on West Florida.
Following his work on laying out the plans and surveys for Washington, D.C., Ellicott was appointed commissioner to determine the boundary between the United States and Spanish Florida. His travels, occupying four years, covered the Mississippi Valley, Florida, and the southern hinterlands. First published in 1803, the text provides a detailed summary of his work, while the maps show the borders and the region in far more detail than they had been illustrated previously. At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, this was one of the foremost authorities available on the region, and Ellicott's surveys and mentoring would have a profound influence on Meriwether Lewis, whom he advised at the request of Thomas Jefferson.
The present copy is a scarce example of the first edition, second issue: i.e. comprised of the sheets of the 1803 first edition, but with a cancel title page on wove paper bearing the 1814 imprint of William Fry.
Graff 1230 (1803 edition); Howes E94; Sabin 22216. (#29089) $ 7,500.
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12] GERARD, John (1545-1612). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London. London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Folio (13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches). Engraved title by Payne with decorative surround incorporating a portrait of the author, over 2700 woodcut illustrations, various decorative initials, occasional woodcut head or tailpieces. Early owner's lengthy inscription on front endpaper. Contemporary calf, rebacked, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second. Provenance: Gervas Holmes (armorial bookplate).
The third [second Johnson] edition of Gerard's Herbal: a significant work for its vast collection of botanical illustrations, which remained the standard English reference for over two centuries.
Gerard was superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, one of the most influential members of the court of Elizabeth I. In addition to his work for Lord Burghley, Gerard also raised many exotic plants in his own gardens and travelled extensively in search of new specimens. The first edition of the present work, published in 1597, was much praised for the elegance of the descriptions, but Johnson's re-editing of the work after Gerard's death undoubtedly greatly improved the accuracy and breadth of the original work.
"Johnson's Gerard", with over 2700 woodcuts, is almost half as long again as the first edition. Johnson was commissioned by the publishers to produce this amended and enlarged edition at short notice in order to forestall Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum, which was believed to be imminent, (it finally appeared in 1640), and he complains bitterly in his preface that he "was forced to performe this task within the compasse of a yeare." Almost all of the woodcuts were from a different source from Gerard's (mostly from Plantin's stock) but some of the figures Johnson drew himself, notably the famous bunch of bananas on page 1516. This had been to given him on 10th April 1633 by Dr. Argent, President of the College of Physicians of London, who had received it from Bermuda. Johnson's drawing is the first illustration of bananas to be published in England. Having drawn and described them, he says, the stalke with the fruit thereon I hanged up in my shop, where it became ripe about the beginning of May, and lasted until June ... it did eate somewhat like a Muske-Melon." The shop was in Snow Hill, in the City, and it must have been there also that John Payne studied this unknown fruit before incorporating it into his engraved title-page.
Cf. Bradley I, p.283; Henrey 156; Hunt 230; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11752 (#29037) $ 6,500.
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13] HALL, Basil (1788-1844). Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices ... And a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language. London: printed by T. Davison for John Murray, 1818. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 9 plates (7 hand-coloured aquatints, 1 uncoloured aquatint, all by Robert Havell & Son, 1 line engraving), and five engraved charts (two folding). Expertly bound to style in half calf over period marbled-paper covered boards, flat spine divided into compartments by gilt roll tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.
First edition of an important early western description of Korea and the China Sea, illustrated by high quality aquatints by the Havells.
This expedition transported Lord Amherst's embassy to China and whilst waiting for the embassy's business to be completed, they "explored the relatively little-known East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Visits were made to Korea and the Ryukyu Archipelago. Korea had been sketchily explored by Europeans, but it was not until the Alceste and Lyra expedition in 1816-17, under Captains Murray Maxwell and Basil Hall, that detailed information was obtained about the Ryukyus" (Hill). The vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language is by H.J. Clifford, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and includes phrases, nouns, numbers, a comparison with Japanese, and much more. The plates are a mixture of topographical scenes and costume studies of both Korean and Loo-Choo or Ryukyu islanders. The majority are from watercolours by William Havell, who accompanied Lord Amherst's embassy and worked up the sketches of Hall and C.W. Browne, a midshipman on the Alceste.
Abbey Travel 558; Cordier Sinica 3009; Tooley 241; Hill p.134; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful 289. (#28241) $ 2,500.
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14] LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup, comte de (1741-1788). Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde ... rédigé par M. L.A. Milet-Mureau. Paris: l'Imprimerie de la République, An V [1797]. 5 volumes (text: 4 volumes, quarto [11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches]; atlas: folio [23 3/4 x 18 inches]). Text: half-titles, final blank Qq4 in vol.IV. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Atlas: engraved allegorical title by Ph. Trière after J.M. Moreau le jeune, 69 copper-engraved plates (comprising: 31 charts, maps and plans [1 folding, 20 double-page], 38 views, ethnographical or natural history plates or coastal profiles). Text: contemporary red morocco-backed red glazed paper boards, the flat spines divided into six compartments by a decorative roll, lettered in the second compartment, numbered in the fourth, the sixth compartment with overall decoration created from a roll tool, the other compartments blank, marbled endpapers. Atlas: expertly bound to style uniform to the above, uncut.
Fine set of the first edition of the official account of the famous but ill-fated voyage: a cornerstone work on Pacific exploration. This copy with the text in a lovely contemporary binding and the atlas uncut.
"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 and his men did important geographical research [including visits to Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, the Aleutian Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Australia.] ... The voyage also included the first foreign scientific group ever to visit Alta California [two of the plates depict a bee-eater and a male and female partridge of California. There are also maps and plans of San Francisco, Monterery, and San Diego] ... 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). Thirty-nine years later, in 1825, the wrecks of the two frigates were found at Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz group by Peter Dillon.
The La Pérouse voyage is notable for its superb mapping of the Alaska and California coasts (discussed at length by Wagner in Cartography of the Northwest Coast), including maps of San Diego, Monterey, and the entire Northwest Coast. Of equal importance are the series of charts that were produced as a result of the expedition's surveys of the Asiatic side of the Pacific. The atlas also contains numerous interesting coastal views, as well as botanical and natural history plates. The text contains a wealth of scientific and ethnographic information. In addition, La Perouse was the first westerner to safely navigate and chart the Japan Sea and the strait between the island of Sakhalin and the northernmost island of Japan. En route for Australia in 1788, La Pérouse sailed via Samoa. This work "is one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration ever written, and certainly deserves to hold a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century" (Howell).
Anker 276; Cowan p.383; Ferguson I, 251; Forbes I, 272; Hill 972; Howes L93; Lada-Mocarski 52; McLaren 1; Sabin 38960; Wagner (Northwest) 837-848, pp.199-201; Zamorano 80, 49. (#25256) $ 35,000.
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15] [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] - Lewis CARROLL [Charles L. DODGSON]; and John TENNIEL. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ... [With:] Through the Looking Glass. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932-1935. 2 volumes, 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). Illustrations after John Tenniel. Publisher's red and blue morocco, bound by Frederick Warde, covers and spines elaborately bordered in gilt. Lacks slipcases. (Expert restoration to spine of Through the Looking Glass).
Limited editions, each signed by Alice Hargreaves
Each work is one of 1500 numbered copies, produced for members of the Limited Editions Club. Alice's Adventures is signed by typographer and binder Frederick Warde on the limitation page, as issued, and is additionally signed by Alice Hargreaves on a leaf preceding the title. Only about 500 copies were signed by the original Alice a few years before her death. Through the Looking Glass is signed by Alice, as issued, on the limitation page. (#29176) $ 3,750.
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16] LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4th, 1865. [Probably Washington, D.C.: March 1865]. Letterpress broadside. 11 x 8 7/8 inches.
Unrecorded broadside printing of Lincoln's second inaugural address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Delivered on 4 March 1865 in a driving rain on the steps of the newly-completed Capitol, Lincoln's Second Inaugural is one of the greatest presidential addresses of all time, and indeed is one of the most powerful speeches in American history. With a popular mandate behind him, the South devasted by Sherman's march to the sea, the Emancipation Proclamation approved by Congress, and the end of the war in sight, Lincoln penned this address with a tone of sadness rather than the joy of victory. It was his firm belief that continued enmity toward the South following the end of hostilities, would render the entire war in vain. This was no victory speech; rather religious words of healing, hope, and humility, with the intent of laying the groundwork for the reconstruction of the United States.
This broadside prefaces the President's address with a description of the ceremony and a description of the speech as "brief, confident, firm, kind, and God-acknowledging words." The broadside, issued without a publisher's imprint, continues with the text of the speech. In part: "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but located in the Southern part of it. These slaves contributed a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war ... Neither party expected the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease, even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just Gods assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other mens faces. But let us judge not, that we be not judged ... With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." (#28871) $ 18,500.
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17] (MEXICAN WAR). The Rough and Ready Songster: embellished with twenty-five splendid engravings, illustrative of the American Victories in Mexico. By an American Officer. New York: Nafis & Cornish; St. Louis: Nafis, Cornish & Co., [circa 1848]. 16mo (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches). 250, vi pp. (pagination including the woodcuts). Woodcut illustrations (10 full-page). Contemporary roan, spine pictorially stamped in gilt.
Scarce illustrated Mexican War songster.
The music and illustrations within this rare songster were composed to celebrate victories over Mexican forces. The images include a portrait of Zachary Taylor and scenes from the battle of Monterey, Resaca, Buena Vista, Point Israel, Vera Cruz, Okeechobee and more. Scarce, with no examples appearing in the auction records.
Sabin 73463. (#28850) $ 2,000.
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18] MILTON, John (1608-1674). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books ... With the Life of Milton by Thomas Newton ... [With:] Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in four Books. To Which are Added, Samson Agonistes: and Poems on Several Occasions. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1777. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches). 16, 328; [8], 331- 640pp. Half titles. Frontispiece portrait of Milton, engraved by John Norman. Vol. 1 half-title with publisher's ad on verso. Contemporary sheep, expertly rebacked to style, within modern cloth chemises and morocco backed slipcases. Provenance: Joseph Wharton Lewis (signature dated 1803); John Gribbel (bookplate).
First American edition of Paradise Lost, complete with the excessively rare frontispiece portrait of Milton engraved by Norman.
In the midst of the American Revolution, and over a century after the first publication of Paradise Lost in London, Philadelphia printer Robert Bell ignored British copyright and published this two-volume edition of Milton's work. Milton's epic poem was among the most influential works of literature in the colonies and among the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson cited Milton more than any other author in his childhood daybooks; and Thomas Paine would quote Milton's Satan in Common Sense (1776): "For never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep." For American's in the midst of Revolution, Milton's Paradise Lost provided a literary roadmap for freedom from tyrannical rule.
Owing to the publication during the war, the first American edition is very rare. Only one set, complete with both volumes, appears in the auction records for the last quarter century. This example from the famed library of John Gribbel (Parke Bernet, 1945).
Evans 15443; Hildeburn 3582. (#28828) $ 13,500.
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19] PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). Le Anitchità Romane ... divisa in quattro tomi. Rome: Stamperia Salomoni, "1786" [date altered by the publisher, in manuscript, from 1784]. 4 volumes. Letterpress title to vol.I, 1 etched portrait frontispiece of Piranesi by Francisco Piranesi; 3 etched titles; 2 engraved index leaves; 1 double-page etched dedication to Gustavus III of Sweden; 245 etched plates on 212 leaves (13 folding, 112 double-page; 6 single-page plates printed on three double-page leaves; 56 single-page plates, 60 half-page plates printed on thirty single-page leaves), 1 etched headpiece, 1 etched illustration, 6 etched initials), extra-illustrated with two additional unsigned engraved plates of the Porta S.Sebastiano at the end of vol.I. [Bound with:] Francisco PIRANESI. Monumenti degli Scipioni. Rome, 1785. Letterpress title, pp.1-24, 1-3 text. 6 etched plates, 1 etched tailpiece, all by Francesco Piranesi and bound at the end of vol.II of the first work. 2 works in 4 volumes, folio (21 x 16 inches). Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century diced russia over contemporary yellow/ivory glazed paper-covered boards, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, black morocco in the fourth, the other compartments with an elaborate decorative repeat design. Provenance: P. Moreno (early letterpress book labels).
Variant issue of the second edition of Piranesi's magnum opus with additional plates not found in earlier issues: the work by Piranesi's son, bound in at the end of volume II, shows the tomb of Scipio, which had recently been excavated.
In an attempt to reflect the additional material the publisher has had various manuscript changes made to the letterpress title and to the index leaf in the second volume: the original printed date on the title has been carefully altered so that it reads 1786 instead of 1784, the words "Seconda Edizione" have been added, and the presence of Francesco's contribution is noted on the index leaf which reads "Monumenti degli Scipioni, VI Tavole adjunte 1785".
"More than any other antiquarian work, the plates of the Antichità played a dominant role in conveying information [about the ancient city], and Piranesi was to develop a whole new range of specialized illustrations in order to reveal aspects of antiquity which had hitherto been largely neglected. His aim, as with all his archaeological publications, was two-fold: to record the vanishing past for scholars and to inspire contemporary designers to emulate the achievements of the past... In the Antichità Piranesi consciously sets out to apply a completely new system of archaeological inquiry to the study of the remains of antiquity. The first volume explains the urban structure of ancient Rome in terms of its walls, defenses and aqueducts as well as its civic and religious monuments. The next two volumes ... are devoted to the extensive remains of tombs and funerary monuments around Rome. The final volume expounds the heroic feats of Roman engineering represented by the bridges and monumental structures like the Curia Hostilia (the substructure of the Temple of Claudio), Hadrian's Mausoleum (the Castel Sant' Angelo), and the Theater of Marcellus... [In this work there are also signs of] Piranesi's attempts to counteract the increasing claims for the superiority of Greek art and architecture being made by Winckelmann and Laugier" (Wilton-Ely I, pp.327-328).
The son of a stonemason, Piranesi trained in the architectural studio of his maternal uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, and possibly with the artist and stage designer Ferdinando Bibiena at Venice before travelling to Rome as part of the Venetian delegation to honour the newly elected Pope Benedict XIV. Piranesi's early enthusiasm for antiquity was further excited at Rome, and the discoveries at Herculaneaum, which Piranesi visited, heightened his own and others' fascination with ancient ruins. After eight years of careful study and excavation Piranesi published this four-volume work in Rome in 1756. Its popularity was such that it swiftly established his reputation in Europe as the leading expert on Roman archaeology.
Focillon pp.297-310; Hind pp.83-84. (#21388) $ 100,000.
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20] POWNALL, Thomas (1722-1805). A Topographical Description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the Middle British Colonies, &c. in North America [bound with:] Speedily Will be Published, (Sold by J. Almon Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly.) A Map of the Middle British Colonies in North-America. First Published by Mr. Lewis Evans, of Philadelphia, in 1755; and since corrected and improved, as also extended, with the addition of New-England, &c. London: J. Almon, 1776. Folio (17 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches). Engraved folding map. 8pp. prospectus bound in. Expertly bound to style in half 18th century russia over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, flat spine divided into seven compartments with gilt double filets, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment. Minor toning and soiling to prospectus, which is untrimmed.
One of the most important works issued at the time of the American Revolution, here complete with the rare map partially-printed from the same plate as the famed 1755 Lewis Evans's map printed by Benjamin Franklin, and with the rare prospectus
In 1753, Thomas Pownall came to America as the private secretary to Sir Danvers Osborn, the newly appointed colonial governor of New York. Shortly after arriving, however, Osborn died, leaving Pownall without a post. Curious about the colonies, however, Pownall remained in America, travelling widely in the region. Evidently of great enthusiasm and intelligence, Pownall met many of the most influential men in America at that time, including Benjamin Franklin. From this relationship, he was able to attend the 1754 Albany Conference and became involved in Indian affairs in the colony. Through that work and his relationship with Franklin, Pownall met surveyor Lewis Evans and in 1755, Evans published his famed Map of the Middle British Colonies, printed by Franklin and dedicated to Pownall. The map, the most accurate of the region at the time, was enormously influential, with multiple piracies being issued in London, and famously used by General Braddock during the French and Indian War.
"A great change came over the fortunes of Evans' map in 1776. In that year Thomas Pownall, who had spent much time in America as Governor of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina, and Lieut. Governor of New Jersey, published a folio volume entitled, A Topographical Description of such parts of North America ... Pownall, after his return from America continued to take the greatest interest in the welfare of the Colonies ... The increasing public interest taken in the affairs of the Colonies at the outbreak of the Revolution, doubtless prompted the publication of the Topographical Description. That work may be described as a new and much enlarged edition of both Evans' Map and his 'Analysis' [the text accompanying the Evans's map] of 1755. As to the map, Pownall appears to have been in possession of the original Evans plate engraved by Jas. Turner in Philadelphia, and he uses it as the basis of his improved map..." (Stevens).
Indeed, much of the cartography of the western parts of Evans's original map remained unchanged in the 1776 Pownall edition, save for the significant addition of the routes of Christopher Gist and Harry Gordon. This addition is augmented by the publication in the appendix of Gist's journal of his 1750-51 journey through a portion of present day Ohio, Kentucky and on through North Carolina - the first publication of that important inland exploration.
The most significant addition to Evans original map is east of Philadelphia, where Pownall has extended the plate to encompass all of New England, with the coast as far north as Nova Scotia. The cartography of this portion is derived from a number of sources, but includes Pownall's own explorations into the interior of Vermont and Maine, as well as the surveys conducted on behalf of Massachusetts Colonial Governor Sir Francis Bernard.
Pownall's Topographical Description and its important map gives the best picture of the interior of North America as it was understood in the year of American independence.
Howes P543("b"); Streeter Sale 826; Buck 28a; Bell P470; Sabin 64835; Vail 651; Graff 3341; Stevens, Lewis Evans His Map, VI; cf. Klinefelter, Lewis Evans and His Maps (Philadelphia, 1971). (#24682) $ 34,000.
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21] [RANDOLPH, Edmund (1753-1813); Secretary of State]. Department of State, July 31, 1794, The Secretary of State requests the [blank] to permit any persons interested and inquiring for the List at the foot hereof, to see the same ... . [Philadelphia]: 1794. Folio (13 x 7 3/4 inches). 4pp. Signed in print by J. Wagner, Clerk. Contemporary manuscript notations on each page tallying the number of vessels. Unbound.
A contemporary official printed list of American vessels with spoliation claims, issued by the Secretary of State in the midst of the negotiations over Jay's Treaty.
In 1793 and 1794, the British captured numerous neutral American merchant ships during its conflict with France, including ships in both European and North American waters. The Secretary of State here issued an official list of 304 American merchant vessels -- including the ship's name, as well as the names of the masters and owners -- for distribution among port collectors, compiled "from the record of the Cases in the office of the Department of State." The terms of Jay's Treaty would include compensation for the vexations and spoliations, with the British eventually paying out over $10,000,000 by 1802.
A rare and ephemeral early American document. OCLC cites but a single copy (Library Company). Not in Evans or Bristol. (#28826) $ 850.
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22] [SOUTH CAROLINA] - Alexander Edwards, compiler. Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston, In the State of South-Carolina, Passed since the Incorporation of the City ... Charleston: Printed by W. P. Young, 1802. [2], 234, [2] pp. [Bound with:] Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, passed since the 28th of October, 1801. Charleston: Printed by W. P. Young, 1804. [2], 235-269, [1], [2]pp. [And with:] Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, passed between the 24th Day of September 1804, and the 1st Day of September 1807... Charleston: Printed by G. M. Bounetheau, 1807. [2], [270]-496pp. [And with:] Selection of such Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South- Carolina, as relate to the City of Charleston. Charleston: G. M. Bounetheau, 1807. 28, [4]pp. Together, 4 works in 1. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches). (Browning). Contemporary calf, original owner's name stamped in gilt on the upper cover, flat spine divided into compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. (Expert repair to the front joint). Provenance: J[ervis] H[enry] Stevens, City Sheriff (name in gilt on upper cover).
The sheriff's copy of an early compilation of the laws of Charleston, South Carolina, bound with continuations for several sessions and including many laws relating to slavery in the city.
Stevens (1750-1828) served as an officer under General Francis Marion during the American Revolution and later as the sheriff of Charleston.
For the first work: Sabin 12062; Shaw & Shoemaker 2012. (#26663) $ 3,750.
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23] TAYLOR, Marshall W. The Life, Travels, Labors and Helpers of Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Famous Negro Missionary Evangelist. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe for the Author, 1887. 12mo (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches). 63, [1]pp. Portrait frontispiece. Publisher's ad on the final leaf. Publisher's lettered wrappers within an ornamental border (neat repairs to wrapper).
Scarce biography of a female African-American Methodist missionary.
Marshall Taylor, Sr. was a free-born Methodist clergyman who compiled one of the earliest collections of hymns and melodies by an African-American. The publication of this work was sponsored by the Methodist Church, with proceeds going to benefit Smith, who at the time was serving as a missionary in Liberia. The work gives a description of her childhood and her conversion and subsequent life as a missionary.
This title is not to be confused with Smith's more common autobiography (The Story of the Lord's Dealings Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist. Chicago: 1893). OCLC locates but a single copy at the University of Minnesota. Rare. (#28834) $ 3,250.
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24] [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.
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25] UNITED STATES, General Land Office - C. ROESER, Principal Draughtsman, G.L.O. [Atlas of the states and territories over which land surveys have been extended]. Washington, D.C. : General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer], 1878-1879. Folio broadsheets (33 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches). 28 lithographed maps on 29 sheets (California printed on two sheets), printed in two or three colours, photo-lithographed by Julius Bien after Roeser. Original black cloth portfolio, rebacked and retipped with dark purple straight grain morocco, cloth ties renewed.
Very rare atlas containing the most detailed, large-scale maps of the American West.
The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War, much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War, the Homestead Act, the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West (with resulting treaties that transferred land ownership to the United States), together engendered an incredible increase in westward settement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876, the GLO surveyed over 200,000,000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico, Idaho, Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas, and with access to military information, the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed, these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers.
In 1876, the GLO, headed by S.S. Burdett, published an atlas containing 18 maps (on 19 sheets, California being on two sheets), showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868, the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories (sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas) was the first atlas to be published by the department.
The incredible growth of settlement in the west, coupled with new exploration and surveying, in the short time following the 1876 atlas, engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 [i.e. the present example]. Like the Centennial Atlas, the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO, Charles Roeser, Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien, each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement, the locations of the general land offices, Indian territories, county divisions, towns, rivers, roads, railroads, etc.
Furthermore, like The Centennial Atlas, the present Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended (the actual atlas issued without a title, but titled by Phillips based on the lettering on the cover of the Library of Congress copy) was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress, government agencies, each land office, the post office, the railroads, and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. This second General Land Office atlas, however, was expanded from the first atlas, now containing 28 maps (on 29 sheets, California being on two sheets).
In the west, 18 of the maps show additions and changes from the first atlas (i.e. maps of Minnesota, Louisiana, Florida, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Territory, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon and California). Notable among these changes is the map of Colorado, no longer shown as a Territory but now shown as a State. Maps of the following states, which do not appear in the first G.L.O. atlas, have been added: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.
The limited distribution of this atlas, coupled with its large size, accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey, Streeter or Graff.
Phillips, Atlases 1405. (#24655) $ 35,000.
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