Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts

Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts

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 Book Fair 2018 Americana: Items 1 - 34 Travel and Voyages: Items 35 - 53 Natural History: Items 54 - 70 Miscellany: Items 71 - 75

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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 CALIFORNIA, Universal Pictures.

Universal Beauty Trip to the California Expositions and Universal City [cover title].

United States: 1915. Oblong small 4to. 149 photographs, mounted recto and verso on black sheets within the album, each with printed captions. Plus five related photographs mounted on the endpapers. The first few pages detached. Period cloth, upper cover titled in gilt and stamped with the name of the original owner. Provenance: Mollie Julian.

In 1915, to celebrate the opening of the Universal City studios, sixty women from across the United States were chosen by local newspaper editors to represent their hometowns in a pageant sponsored by Universal Motion Pictures. The women travelled together across the country by rail and automobile, stopping in cities along the way to promote Universal, en route to the California Expositions in San Francisco and San Diego. Stops included New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Colorado Springs, Denver, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, the Grand Canyon, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and more. Upon the final arrival in Universal City, a single contestant was chosen as the winner and offered a position at Universal. In the end, the ultimate winner Ruth Purcell of Washington, declined the offer of a starring engagement to return to her home Washington where she worked as a stenographer.

This album of captioned photographs was evidently issued to all the contestants as a memento of their trip; the present album belonging to Mollie Julian, a contestant from Delaware.

(#34698) $ 2,500 . 3 CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH.

The Miners’ Own Book, containing Correct Illustrations and Descriptions of the Various Modes of California Mining, including all the improvements introduced from the earliest days to the present time.

San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1858. 8vo (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches). 32pp. Woodcut illustrations after C. Nahl and others. Period ink bookseller’s stamp on title (Carswell’s News Depot, Sacramento). Publisher’s brown pictorial wrappers, expert paper restoration along spine.

First edition of a scarce early guide to modern mining methods in California.

The publishers write in the prefatory note that they intended to inform the public on “the various modes that have been adopted to extract the precious metal ... by rendering familiar, though correct views and descriptions, everything connected with the immense mining operation of the State. We believe it is the first book of the kind ever published.”

The illustrations, many of which appeared in Hutchings Magazine, are as instructive as the text, and though many are signed by celebrated California artist Charles Christian Nahl, artists Harrison Eastman and Warren C. Butler also contributed.

Scarce, with only two other examples at auction in the last thirty-five years.

Cowan II, p. 431; Graff 2813; Howes M639; Kurutz 444a; Streeter sale 2839; Eberstadt 168:121; Greenwood 967; Wheat 141

(#29950) $ 6,750 . 4 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 .

5 CATLIN, George (1796-1872).

O-Kee-Pa: a religious ceremony; and other customs of the Mandans.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867. Octavo (10 x 6 3/4 inches). Half-title. 13 coloured lithographic plates by Simonau & Toovey, all after Catlin. Minor foxing. Publisher’s green cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt, expertly rebacked with green cloth.

First American edition of one of the rarest works by the noted painter of American Indians: this is Catlin’s last major publication.

Catlin’s account of O-Kee-Pa, or Buffalo Dance, a controversial Mandan religious ceremony, is of particular importance as he witnessed the sexually-charged and barbaric dance first hand shortly before the upper Missouri tribe was decimated by a small pox epidemic in 1837. Catlin here gives a full account of the ceremony, illustrating the rituals and self-tortures of the Buffalo dance in thirteen beautifully executed colour lithographs. An unauthorized account of the ceremony was privately circulated by the Philobiblon Society in 1865, prompting several, including Henry Schoolcraft, to question Catlin’s descriptions. Thus, Catlin published the present work, and included within a letter by Prince Maximilian Wied zu Wied, who visited the Mandan with Karl Bodmer, though did not witness the ceremony first hand.

The explicit details of the sexual elements of the ceremony were considered too shocking for the general public and were included in a very rare separately-issued three-page “Folium Reservatum,” purportedly issued in an edition of approximately 25 copies (not present here, as usual).

Bennett p.22; Field 262; Howes C244,”b”; McCracken Catlin pp.101-108; Pilling 693

(#34942) $ 12,500 .

6 (COLT, Samuel (1814-1862)).

In the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts. Samuel Colt vs. Mass. Arms Company. Report of the Trial ...

Boston: White & Potter, 1851. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches). [4], 327pp. [With:] Autograph manuscript signed by Colt’s attorney Charles L. Woodbury, to a bookseller/binder Mr. Roberts, ordering morocco presentation covers for 25 copies of the above [see below], laid in. Contemporary half black morocco and period marbled paper covered boards, spine with semi-raised bands in five compartments, tooled in gilt on each band, lettered in the second compartment. Expert repair to the front joint. Provenance: Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott (black morocco gilt presentation label on the upper cover); Charles Leonard Frost Robinson (armorial bookplate).

Presentation copy of Colt’s successful patent defense of his revolver: a fine association between the 19th century’s most influential gunmaker and Winfield Scott, the Commanding General of the United States Army.

The case presented here is Colt’s historic patent infringement lawsuit against the Massachusetts Arms Company (the precursor to Smith & Wesson), which from 1850 had produced about 800 revolvers and thus threatened Colt’s patent on all revolver production. Colt emerged victorious from this and other patent cases which he zealously pursued until his revolver patent expired in 1857.

Laid into this presentation copy of the transcript of the trial is a manuscript by Colt’s attorney Charles L. Woodbury ordering 25 presentation copies on behalf of Colt, ordering them from a Mr. Roberts (perhaps Robert Roberts, bookseller of Boston). The list of names is a who’s who of mid-19th century American politics and judiciary, including President Millard Fillmore, Fillmore’s cabinet, the sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justices, a number circuit court judges, influential military figures and Colt’s attorneys. This volume bears the bookplate of Charles Leonard Frost Robinson (1874-1916), famed book collector and president of Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company in Hartford from 1911 to 1916.

(#34796) $ 7,000 . 7 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 . 8 CORTÉS de Monroy y Pizarro, Hernan (1485-1547).

De Insulis Nuper Inventis Ferdinandi Cortesii ad Carolum V ... Narrationes, cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII ... libello. His accesserunt Epistolae duae de felicissimo apud Indos Evangelii incremento ... Item Epitome de inventis nuper Indiae populis idololatris ad fidem Christi ... convertendis, Autore R.P.F. Nicolao Herborn ... Cologne: ex officina Melchioris Novesiani, impensis Arnoldi Birckman, September 1532. Small folio, signed in 4s and 6s (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches). [82] ff. Text in latin. Woodcut title- portrait of Charles V within a woodcut border of escutcheons of Spanish provinces and towns, the portrait repeated within decorative border-pieces on A1 and F1, large ornamental woodcut initials and border-pieces in text, woodcut printer’s device at end. Later half calf and paper boards, gilt leather labels. Housed in a black morocco backed box. Provenance: Duke of Devonshire (bookplate on the front pastedown).

A crucial edition, with many important materials published for the first time.

Second Latin edition of the second and third letters of Cortés to Emperor Charles V and the first to contain missionary reports from Yucatan and Mexico. Cortés gave his personal account of the conquest of Mexico in a series of five letters, or Cartas de Relación, which he addressed to Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. The famed first letter was lost, making the second letter the earliest account by Cortés himself, describing the events in Mexico after his departure from Vera Cruz. The third letter continues the narrative, describing Mexican events from October 1520 to May 1522.

The present work includes the second editions in Latin of the second and third letters (translated by Petrus Savorgbabus), as well as Peter Martyr’s De Insulia (a condensed version of the lost first Cortés letter); a letter from Mexico by Martin de Valencia, dated June 12, 1531, which is the first printed report from the Yucatan; a letter from Bishop Zumarraga giving an account of the Franciscan schools in Mexico, their teachers, and the Indian converts; and a letter from Nicholaus Herborn dated 1532. These last three sections appear here in this edition for the first time.

A rare edition, with only three other copies appearing in the auction records over the last thirty-five years. This copy from the library of Spencer Compton, the eighth Duke of Devonshire, with the Chatsworth bookplate.

Church 63; Harisse 168; H.V.Jones 21; Sabin 16949; Medina I, 86; Palau 63192; JCB I, 103-104; Balle 15.

(#26780) $ 35,000 . 9 DE SMET, Reverend Pierre Jean (1801-1873).

Letters and Sketches: with a Narrative of a Year’s Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains.

Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1843. 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches). 13 lithographed plates (including folding allegorical plate, often lacking). Publisher’s brown cloth, covers pictorially stamped in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (minor wear).

The scarce first issue of the first edition of Father De Smet’s epistolary narrative of a journey to the Rocky Mountains: a seminal early work on Montana.

This account describes De Smet’s experiences in the Rocky Mountains in 1841 and 1842. “On April 30, 1840 Father De Smet left Westport in company with the annual party of the American Fur Company for rendezvous on the Green River, and returned in the fall of that year. In 1841, he journeyed to the Rockies again, here he remained for nearly a year [serving as a missionary at St. Mary’s near present day Stevensville, Montana]. In the Spring of 1842, he continued his journey west, arriving at Fort Vancouver early in June, and returned to Saint Louis by way of Fort Colville, Fort Union, and the Missouri River” (Wagner-Camp).

A leading advocate for Indians, particularly the Flathead tribes of Montana, his works are some of the best sources of the period, well-written and articulate. The lithographed views include “Chimney Rock on the Oregon Trail,” “A View of the Rocky Mountains,” “Devil’s Gate,” “Soda Springs,” “Fording the River Platte,” “Indian Mode of Travelling,” “Interior of a Kanza Lodge,” “Kanza Village,” “Worship in the Desert,” and others. The large folding allegorical plate, often found lacking, is present here.

Wagner-Camp 102:1; Howes D283, “b”; Field 1423; Sabin 82262; Tweney 89, 13 (note); Streeter Sale 2095; Graff 3823.

(#29682) $ 2,250 . 10 [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 . 11 FOSTER, George G. (d. 1850).

The Gold Regions of California: Being a Succinct Description of the Geography, History, Topography, and General Features of California. Including a Carefully Prepared Account of the Gold Regions of that Fortunate Country.

New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1848. 8vo. 80, [10]pp. Frontispiece map. Ads in the rear. Publisher’s gilt lettered wrappers, contemporary manuscript titling to the spine. Housed in a red cloth box. Provenance: J. H. Carter, Jr. (contemporary signature on wrapper).

First edition of “some of the earliest reports of the gold discovery” (Kurutz): in the publisher’s gold printed wrappers.

Foster culls reports from Farnham, Colton, Mason, Doniphan, Fremont, Emory, et al. “This is one of the first published accounts of the gold discovery in book form” (Streeter). In addition, it is the first book devoted to the Gold Rush to include a map of the region. The woodcut map depicts from Los Angeles in the south to as far north as Three Buttes, with the region around Sutter’s Fort circled with hash marks and indentified as Gold Region.

There is some bibliographic confusion as the title on the wrapper varies slightly from the letterpress title. Sabin and Howes mention the wrapper title as the title of the first edition, although, as Kurutz points out, the present is the first, and here in the preferred wrappers lettered in gold.

Cowan II p 219 (later edition); Graff 1387; Howes F287; Kurutz 250a; Mintz 160; Sabin 25225; Streeter sale 2529; Wheat Books 77; Wheat Maps 39.

(#34818) $ 6,750 . 12 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 .

13 HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859).

Essai Politique sur la Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne ... [With:] Atlas Géographique et Physique du Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.

Paris: J.H. Stône for [text] F. Schoell or [atlas] G. Dufour & Cie., 1811 [i.e. 1808-1812]. 6 volumes (text: 5 vols., 8vo [8 x 5 inches]; atlas: large folio [21 1/2 x 17 inches]). Text: folding engraved map in the rear of vol. 1, folding plate in vol. 2. errata in rear of vol. 5 and publisher’s ads in rear of vols. 4 and 5. Atlas: on paper guards throughout: letterpress half-title, title page and 4pp. description of the ‘Cartes Géographiques et Physiques contenus dans l’Atlas Mexicain’. 19 engraved sheets with maps, cross-sections or plates (9 sheets double-page), consisting of one engraved map on 2 double-page sheets, 1 double-page sheet with three maps on it, 1 single-page with eight maps on it, 1 single page with one map and four graphs on it, 4 single-page maps, 3 double-page maps, 4 double-page geographical cross-section profiles [one printed in brown], 2 single-page views printed in brown, 1 single-page plate of diagrams [complete]. Text in contemporary dark green morocco backed blue/black marbled paper covered boards, atlas bound uniform to style, flat spines gilt.

A fine set of Humboldt’s work on New Spain: a founding work in the fields of political economy and economic geography and considered by Howes to be “of superlative California importance.”

Humboldt was described by Dibdin as “the most illustrious traveller of his day.” With the support of the Spanish Prime Minister, Humboldt managed to gain permission to enter the Spanish colonies of Central and South America, which were effectively closed at the time. He set off with the French botanist Bonpland from Marseilles in 1799, and spent five years travelling through Central and South America, during which time he covered some 6000 miles. He then returned to Europe and spent the next twenty-three years recording his experiences, observations and collections in a series of spectacular works. The Essai Politique is a complete work in itself, but also forms the third part of Humboldt and Bonpland’s Voyage. In the present work Humboldt describes northern New Spain, particularly Mexico and the northern provinces, including California and the American Southwest: Becker calls it “detailed and thorough, containing much data that had never before appeared in print.”

“Nothing seems too vast, too varied, too wonderful, or too minute, for the keen eye, penetrating intellect, and unwearied exertions of this extraordinary man. A botanist, zoologist, statistician and philosopher, the genius of this great writer seems to have been peculiarly fitted for surveying the varieties and immensity of the physical world; and he accordingly takes the foremost rank of all the travellers, dead or living” (Dibdin).

The accompanying Atlas... is regarded as one of the seminal cartographic works of Western Americana. The most important map is Humboldt’s great “Carte Generale du Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne,” originally executed by Humboldt during his stay in Mexico in 1803-4, and covering two large folio double sheets. It extends from the “comte de Natchitoches” in the Texas country on the east to the head of the Gulf of California in the west, and begins just south of El Paso in the north, extending south to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Carl Wheat calls it a ‘truly magnificent cartographic achievement,’ and notes that, ‘for the area of the American West which it included it was undoubtedly the most important and accurate map that had yet appeared’ and concludes that, before the explorations of Lewis and Clark, Humboldt’s maps were in the first rank of western cartography. Schwartz and Ehrenberg state that it remained ‘the standard map of the Great Basin region until Fremont’s explorations 35 years later.’ Thomas Streeter discusses the map at great length, concluding that “it is without question the best representation of Texas that had thus far appeared.” It is certainly one of the foundation maps for Texas and the Southwest. Besides the large map, there is a double- sheet map of the whole North American continent south of 42° latitude which reiterates Humboldt’s western cartography on a larger scale, and three important maps for the Santa Fe trade illustrating the route from Mexico to Durango, Durango to Chihuahua, and Chihuahua to Santa Fe. Other maps illustrate the Valley of Mexico, and ports and routes in Mexico and across the Isthmus. The Atlas... concludes with a series of fine geological/physical profiles (one printed in brown), and two excellent views of volcanoes (also in brown).

The atlas was issued with a two volume quarto text, but is here accompanied (as often) by the octavo text in five volumes, which is desirable as it contains an additional copy of Humboldt’s seminal map.

Cf. Cowan p.296; cf. Graff 2009; cf. Hill (2004) 843; Howes H786; cf. Mapping the West pp.100-101; Palau 116974; Phillips Atlases I:2682; Plains & Rockies IV:7a:3 & 7a:3a:1; cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 320; cf. Reese & Miles Creating America 23; Sabin 33713; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, p.127, plate 139; cf. Streeter Sale 195; Wagner-Camp 7a:2; Wheat Transmississippi 272-275, 302-305 & pp.132-138

(#34648) $ 40,000 . 14 [IDE, Simeon; and Sarah HEALY].

A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies. (3000 miles over land), from the east to the Pacific coast. And what is claimed as the most authentic and reliable account of “the virtual conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear Flag Party”.

[Claremont, N.H.]: Printed for the subscribers, [1880]. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). [2],239,[1]pp. Half title. Expertly bound to style in period purple straight grain morocco, covers bordered in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt. Provenance: E. T. Ide (signature on title).

An Ide family association copy of a Bear Flag Rebellion rarity.

“This Sketch contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide, recollections by his daughter of the family’s trip across the plains to California in 1845, and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849, and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which, as Ide died in 1852, must have been written within a few years of the event. [An] interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846...” (Streeter).

The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman (Ide’s daughter, who at eighteen accompanied her father west in 1845), and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition, printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress, “was probably small.” A rare and important California book.

Howes I4, “B”; Streeter Sale 2967; Tutorow 3466; Graff 2059; Zamorano 80, 45; Cowan 1914, p.118.

(#28186) $ 4,250 . 15 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - Mexican School, 18th century.

[Mexican illuminated missal on vellum, titled:] Libro Primero de las Missas de la Virgen Nuestra Señora: Missas Votibas de Santos, Fiestas Moviles. Para el uso del Convento y Hospital de Nuestra Señora de Bethlem de Mexico.

Mexico: 24 September 1702. Large folio (20 7/8 x 15 inches). Manuscript in Latin and Spanish on 140 vellum leaves ([2], 1-134, [4]). Text in two different hands: 1. leaves numbered 1-134, plus 3 unnumbered pages of tables at the end; 2. five-stave musical notation in black only on pastedowns, 3 unnumbered pages at the beginning, leaf 134 verso, and 6 unnumbered pages at the end. Illumination: 56 illuminated initials in colors and gold (6 x 6 inches and smaller). Contemporary Mexican olive green morocco over wooden boards, covers elaborately tooled in gilt with a wide border built up from four fillets, a pomegranate and diamond roll, and a stylized foliage roll, each of the inner corners of the border tooled with a drawer handle tool from which radiate five stylized fan-leaves each enclosing a stylized flower-spray, beyond these a foliage tool repeated three times, at the center of the inner panel is a circular design which re-uses the tools used at the corners: a central circle formed by two drawer handle tools, from which radiates a larger circle formed from the fan-leaf tool repeated sixteen times, outside this the foliage tool repeated eight times, the flat spine divided into five compartments by gilt fillets, the four lower compartments each with a large single stylized flower-spray tool, iron clasps, small expert repairs to head and foot of spine, some scuffing to extremities, gilt edges. Provenance: Bethlemite Brothers of Mexico City.

An exceptional Mexican illuminated missal and a fine example of Baroque Mexican book arts. The fifty-six gorgeously illuminated initials of this missal, made by the Bethlemite brothers of Mexico City, depict New World flora and fauna, including a wild turkey. Their style melds the traditional Renaissance book arts to an Andalusian decorative aesthetic, with a strong mannerist influence. The palate used for the illuminations consists of liquid gold, lavender, red, pink, black, white, yellow, and purple. Many of the initials are adorned with miniatures of animals, birds, flowers, and insects, and the remaining are presented on elaborate fields of geometric patterns. Besides the turkey, animals portrayed include foxes, parrots, a peacock, squirrels, a monkey, herons, finches, crested birds, dogs, storks, deer, ducks, an owl, and butterflies, to name a sampling. The flowers and foliage include a wide variety of stylized and occasionally exotic flowers. The initials that are presented on geometric patterned fields represent two styles: traditional European of the sort found in Renaissance manuscripts, and clearly Hispano-Moresque influenced, of a type more usually associated with Southern Spain. The contents of the missal include: The Kyrie, Gloria, and Credo; Masses of the Virgin; Masses from the Sanctoral and Temporal; with a Hymn to the Virgin on the front pastedown and flyleaf, and the Asperges on the endleaf and rear pastedown.

The manuscript was produced during a second golden age for Mexico City. During the 18th-century it was the largest and richest city in the New World. After a century of decline, Mexico’s silver production was again robust thanks to new technologies and other sometimes cut-throat business practices; additionally, much of Spain’s trade with the Spice Islands, China, and the rest of Asia passed through Mexico City. This brought additional wealth to its merchants, a fact that was reflected in the opulence of the life-style. This opulence meant that the city was able to support artists and artisans of the highest caliber in many fields, including manuscript illumination. From the beginning in the 16th century onwards, Mexico had adopted a Spanish tradition of illuminated manuscript works on vellum that had two branches to it: a secular and religious. The secular arm was supported by the constant demand for beautifully-produced ‘patents of nobility’ that were so much a part of every conquistador’s quest for respectability. On the religious side, the Church benefited from the newly-created wealth via substantial bequests and donations, some of which were used to pay for the famously-beautiful choir books of the city’s cathedral. The demand for these manuscripts was met by both European and locally- trained artists and artisans: by 1557 there was actually a formal organization for painters in Mexico, called the ‘Ordenzas de Pintores y Doradores’, which provided for the establishment of workshops with apprentices.

The embellishment of religious texts with miniatures and illumination continued throughout the colonial period, the style changing from the Mannerism of the Lagarto family-illuminated manuscripts of the 16th and early 17th centuries, to the Baroque and Rococo of the later 17th century as exemplified by the artist, Juan Correa, to the formal Neo-Classical of the period after 1720. The present manuscript dates from the transitional period from Rococo to Neo- Classical and, with 57 individual illuminated initials, is an exquisite example of the art of the era. The title, index and occasional lines of introductory summary are written in a roman hand in black or red with occasional colored decoration initials. The main text is written in very large modified rounded gothic bookhand in black and red, twelve lines per page, within a red double-ruled border. The text consists of Kyrie, Gloria and Credo (ff. 1-7); Masses of the Virgin (ff. 7v-60); Masses from the Sanctoral and Temporal (ff. 60v-134). Hymn to the Virgin (front pastedown and end leaf); Asperges (rear pastedown and end leaf). This is the first volume of what would have been a monumental series of possibly four to six volumes. No other volumes from the series have been traced, and it is likely either that they have not survived or that the series was never completed.

The artist of the miniatures is not known but the manuscript created for the use of the Convent and Hospital of Our Lady of Bethlehem in Mexico City, and according to the colophon, completed by “a servant of Mary” in 1702. A further name is added at the foot of the page of music facing the first page of the index: “ El P[adre]. San Geronimo, [lo] escribio.” The Bethlemites were the first religious order created in the New World, founded by Pedro de San José de Betancur, a native of the Canary Islands, who arrived in Guatemala in 1650 and founded the first hospital for convalescents in the world. The Bethlemites went on to become one of the New World’s most important orders of the hospitalers. Their importance may be judged from the fact that by the middle of the 18th century, the convent and hospital of Nuestra Senora de Belen in Mexico City had attracted such generous benefactions that splendid new buildings were commissioned from the influential architect, Lorenzo Rodriguez.

María Concepción Amerlinck de Corsi El Ex Convento Hospitalario de Betlemitas (México: Banco de México, 1996).

(#34908) $ 120,000 . 16 JAMES, Edwin (1797-1861).

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819, and ‘20 &under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long.

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & Lea, 1822-1823. 3 volumes (text: 2 vols., octavo [8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches]; atlas: 1 vol., quarto [11 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches]). Atlas: 11 engraved plates and maps (2 double-page maps after S.H. Long by Young & Delleker; 1 double-page plate of geological cross-sections; 8 plates [1 hand-coloured] after S. Seymour [6], T.R. Peale [1] and one unassigned, engraved by C.G. Childs [2], Lawson [1], F. Kearney [2], W. Hay [1], Young & Delleker [1]). Text: expertly bound to style in full tree calf, covers bordered with a gilt double fillet, flat spine in compartments divided by darker tree calf bands and gilt roll tools, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Atlas: expertly bound to style in half tree calf over period marbled paper covered boards, spine uniform to the text.

First edition of one of the most important early western expeditions.

Edwin James was the botanist, geologist, and surgeon for this important government expedition, initially named the Yellowstone Expedition. Led by Major Stephen Long, the expedition added significantly to the earlier discoveries of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. In addition to his duties on the expedition, James subsequently served as the editor and compiler of this text, relying “upon his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say [who served as the expedition’s naturalist]” (Wagner-Camp). Appendices to the text comprise astronomical and meteorological tables and Indian vocabularies. In addition to Long, James and Say, the expedition included Titian Peale as draughtsman and assistant naturalist; and Samuel Seymour as landscape artist. The published plates depict Oto Indians, views of the Plains, and buffalo. Major Long was the principal proponent of government-sponsored exploration of the West following the War of 1812. He travelled farther than Pike or Lewis and Clark, and blazed trails that were subsequently followed by Fremont, Powell, and others. The expedition travelled up the Missouri and then followed the River Platte to its source in the Rocky Mountains before moving south to Upper Arkansas. From there the plan was to find the source of the Red River, but when this was missed the Canadian River was explored instead.

Cartographically, the atlas contains the first maps to provide detail of the Central Plains. Upon returning to Washington from the expedition, Long drafted a large manuscript map of the West (now in the National Archives) and the printed maps in James’s Account closely follows. The “Western Section” map is particularly interesting as it here that the myth of the Great American Desert was founded by Long: a myth which endured for decades. The designation Great American Desert appears east of the single range of the Rocky Mountains, together with a two-line note: “The Great American Desert is frequented by roving bands of Indians who have no fixed places of residence but roam from place to place in quest of game.” Long’s map, along with that of Lewis and Clark, “were the progenitors of an entire class of maps of the American Transmississippi West” (Wheat).

American Imprints 12942; Graff 2188; Howes J41; Sabin 35682; Streeter sale 3:1783; Wagner-Camp 25:1; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 353; see Nicholas and Halley, Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration (1995).

(#26959) $ 22,000 . 17 JOHNSON, Overton, and William H. WINTER (1819-1879).

Route Across the Rocky Mountains, with a description of Oregon and California: their geographical features, their resources, soil, climate, productions.

Lafayette, In.: John B. Semans, printer, 1846. Octavo. 152pp. Expertly bound to style in cloth-backed paper boards. Housed in a blue morocco backed box.

A very rare key overland guide

One of the earliest and rarest of overland guide books to the Oregon Trail, chronologically the second such guide, preceded only by the Hastings guide of 1845. The authors went overland to Oregon in 1843. Winter went to California the following year, then returned to Indiana, where he arranged to publish this guidebook in time for the 1846 emigrant season. The guide provides a detailed account of the 1843 trip, a long description of Oregon, Winter’s route to California, the Bear Flag movement, gold at Santa Barbara, and of northern California. The return route from California is also described, and there is a table of distances in the rear. Winter eventually settled in the Napa-Sonoma area.

This is the issue with corrected text on pages 26 and 36. A rarity, afforded a “d” by Howes, who calls it “one of the greatest of early overland narratives.” A key guide and important work of Western Americana, with an interesting association.

Cowan I, p.315; Graff 2221; Howes J142, “d.”; Sabin 36260; Streeter Sale 3145; Wagner-Camp 122.

(#32674) $ 13,500 . 18 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 . 19 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 . 20 KIP, Leonard (1826-1906).

California Sketches, with Recollections of the Gold Mines.

Albany: [Joel Munsell, Printers, Albany, for] Erastus H. Pease & Co., 1850. 12mo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches). 57pp. Publisher’s ad on verso of the upper wrapper. Publisher’s lettered wrappers. Provenance: Josiah Markle (period signature on upper wrapper).

First edition of a scarce account of Gold Rush-era California.

Leonard Kip’s work includes excellent first hand descriptions of San Francisco, Stockton, mining camps, and life in the diggings around the Mokelumne River area. His companions, however, suffered from dysentery, scurvy, low provisions, and little success, and consequently, his impressions of California are a touch gloomy. Predicting a bleak future for the state once the gold ran out, he writes: “It will readily be conceived that California can present few inducements to the settler.”

According to the introductory notice, these recollections “were intended for one of the daily papers, but the friend to whom they were sent (in the absence of the author), has assumed the responsibility of publishing them in this form, for the benefit of those who are meditating a voyage to the El Dorado of the West.” His older brother, William Ingram Kip, went on to become a major figure there as the first Episcopalian Bishop of California in 1853. Scarce.

Cowan p. 331; Graff 2343; Howes K174; Kurutz 379a; Sabin 37946; Streeter sale 2638; Bibliotheca Munselliana 474.

(#28111) $ 12,000 . 21 [LETTS, John M.].

California Illustrated: including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes. By a Returned Californian.

New York: William Holdredge, 1852. 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches). 224pp. 48 tinted lithographic plates by G. W. Lewis after George V. Cooper. Scattered minor foxing. Publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt.

A vivid narrative of California mining life, issued at the height of the Gold Rush fever: the rare first edition, first issue, with the Holdredge imprint.

Letts sailed to Chagres in 1849, went overland to the Pacific, and sailed to San Francisco. This work is a vivid narrative of California mining life, issued at the height of the gold fever. It is particularly valuable for the attractive, accurate illustrations drawn by Cooper and lithographed by Cameron. Peters remarks: “Cooper has left us a pungent, graphic record of the long trip to and from the gold fields, of the young cities he found mushrooming there, of booming San Francisco and Sacramento, of the lovely vestiges of the mission-founding padres in early California, and of the actual life of the forty-niners, with its flavor of roughing it, humor, hope, and all the luring magic of the yellow streak.”

A lovely copy in its original publisher’s gilt binding.

Howes l300, “aa”; Cowan, p.390; Graff 2469; Flake 4880; Kurutz 395a; Hill, p.476; Peters, America on Stone, pp.130-31, 147; Peters, California on Stone, pp. 97,103-5; Sabin 40723; Wheat Gold Rush 125

(#34371) $ 1,600 . 22 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.

Philadelphia: J. Maxwell for Bradford & Inskeep and Abm. H. Inskeep of New York, 1814. 2 volumes, octavo (8 3/8 x 5 inches). Six maps and charts, including the large folding map. (Evenly foxed throughout). Contemporary tree calf, covers bordered with a gilt roll tool, rebacked to style, flat spine divided into six compartments by Greek key roll tool, black morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, period marbled endpapers.

The first edition of the “definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent” (Wagner-Camp), complete with its large folding map. A cornerstone of Western Americana. The book describes the Government-backed expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase undertaken from 1804 to 1806 by ascending the Missouri to its source, crossing the Rocky Mountains, and reaching the Pacific Ocean. In total, the expedition covered some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months. Lewis and Clark 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.

This official account of the expedition is as much a landmark in Americana as the trip itself. The narrative has been reprinted many times and remains a perennial American bestseller. The observations in the text make it an essential work of American natural history, ethnography and science. It is the first great U.S. government expedition, the first book on the Rocky Mountain West, and a host of other firsts. It is among the most famous American books.

Church 1309; Field 928; Graff 2477; Grolier American 100, 30; Howes L317; Printing & the Mind of Man 272; Tweney 89, 44; Sabin 40828; Shaw & Shoemaker 31924; Streeter Sale 1777; Streeter, Americana Beginnings, 52; Wagner-Camp 13:1

(#27016) $ 140,000 .

23 LINFORTH, James (editor); and Frederick PIERCY.

Route From Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sketches made by Frederick Piercy...Together with a Geographical and Historical Description of Utah, and a Map of the Overland Routes to that Territory from the Missouri River. Also, an Authentic History of the Latter-Day Saints’ Emigration from Europe.

Liverpool: Franklin D. Richards; London: Latter-Day Saints Book Depot, 1855. Quarto (12 x 9 1/2 inches). viii,120pp. Folding map, thirty engraved plates, and woodcuts in text illustrations after Frederick H. Piercy. Contemporary half calf and tan cloth covered boards, rebacked. Housed in a red morocco backed box. Provenance: William Bernard and Maria Young Dougall (signature and inscription dated 1927 to); John A. and Leah Dunford Widstoe; University of Utah (small inked stamp on Contents leaf, deaccessioned in 1986).

A landmark depiction of the West with superb plates, and one of the most important publications devoted to the Mormon emigration: with provenance to Brigham Young’s daughter.

“This elaborately prepared and illustrated book was published as a monument to the Mormon emigration to Utah, and as a means of attracting further emigrants. Piercy made a special trip to America [in 1853] to make sketches for the plates, which are some of the best western views of the period” (Streeter). The outstanding views show New Orleans, Natchez, Vicksburg, Nauvoo, Council Bluffs, Laramie, Fort Bridger, and Scott’s Bluff. “... One of the most elaborately and beautifully illustrated of western books” (Howes). “...One of the basic sources of illustrated Western Americana of the period” (Taft). “One of the most illuminating maps of the West to appear during 1855...it shows Utah in all its glory. This is not only an important map in the history of Mormons, but is in every sense an important map in the history of the West, giving as it does a carefully drawn picture of that entire area” (Wheat).

This copy inscribed by Brigham Young’s daughter Maria Young Dougall (1849-1935) to her niece Leah Dunford Widstoe and her husband, John A. Widstoe (1872-1952), a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It is additionally signed by prominent LDS Elder (and Maria Dougall’s husband) William Bernard Dougall (1843-1909).

Howes L359, “b;” Wagner-Camp 259; Graff 2501; Flake 6381; Sabin 41325; Streeter Sale 2296; Taft, Artists & Illustrators of the Old West, p.285; Wheat Transmississippi IV, pp.40-41; Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty 46.

(#34824) $ 30,000 .

24 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 .

25 PALLISER, John (1817-1887).

Exploration - British North America. Papers Relative to the Exploration by Captain Palliser of that region of British North America which lies between the northern branch of the River Saskatchewan and the frontier of the United States; and between the Red River and Rocky Mountains. [with:] ...Further Papers relative to the Exploration.... [with:] ...The Journals, Detailed Reports, and Observations Relative to the Exploration.... [with:] ...Index and Maps to Captain Palliser’s Reports....

London: 1859-1860-1863-1865. Four parts in one, folio (13 x 8 1/4 inches). 64pp. plus eight maps and diagrams by John Arrowsmith (one folding and five colored); 75pp. plus three folding colored maps by John Arrowsmith; 325,[1]pp.; 3pp. plus five colored folding maps lithographed by Stanford. With the publisher’s blue paper wrappers bound in. Later half brown morocco and cloth covered boards. Provenance: George Vaux, Jr.

First edition of all four parts of this landmark survey of western Canada, describing the important exploration led by Captain Palliser in 1857-59: complete, with the very rare fourth part.

Palliser explored the southern prairies of British North America as far as the Rocky Mountains, and the passes into the Mountains. This volume contains the official British government documents, journals, reports and observations written by members of the party, with a complete description of their route from Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains, with much on the geography, geology, botany, and climate of the area traversed. “The reports... provided the first comprehensive, careful, and impartial observations to be published about the southern prairies and Rocky Mountains in what is now Canada...they added considerably to geographical knowledge of the region, and established that an extensive ‘fertile belt,’ well suited for stock-raising and cultivation, bordered the semi-arid prairie land of the South...” - Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Also contains material on the languages of the Indian tribes of the region. The maps include some of the first accurate representations of western Canada.

This copy was owned by noted mineralogist and Chairman of the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners, George Vaux, Jr.

Graff 3167; Howes P42, “c”; Lande 1377, 1378, 1379; Peel 217, 222, 238. Pilling, Proof-Sheets 2882; Reese, Best of the West 158; Sabin 58332; Streeter Sale 3728; TPL 3928, 4002, 4264; Wagner-Camp 338:1; Wheat Transmississippi 1011a, 1082.

(#34174) $ 12,500 .

26 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 .

27 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 .

28 SARTORIOUS, Carl (1796-1872).; and Johann Moritz RUGENDAS (1802-1858).

Mexico. Landscape and Popular Sketches ... Edited by Dr. Gaspey.

London: Trubner & Co., 1859. 4to (11 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches). Engraved additional title, 17 engraved plates after Rugendas. Scattered minor foxing. Publisher’s blue cloth, covers decoratively blocked in blind and gilt, spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt.

First edition in English

German traveller Carl Sartorius first arrived in Mexico in the mid-1820. An avid plant hunter, Sartorius travelled extensively through the country (his collection of plants resides in the Smithsonian, as well as the Berlin Botanical Garden) and his hacienda in the coastal, tropical lowlands became the mecca for botanists visiting Mexico in the nineteenth century. “During a long series of years I resided in a magnificent country, amidst the people and with them. As a member of the family, I beheld their domestic life, and may, without appearing indiscreet, call attention to many features, which necessarily must escape the scientific traveller, and the professional tourist” (Preface).

The engraved plates within the work are after the German artist Rugendas, noted for his travels and views in Brazil. Rugendas travelled in Mexico in the 1830s, though was expelled from the country in 1834 following his involvement in a failed coup to oust Mexican President.

Palau 302686; Sabin 77121.

(#30419) $ 1,850 . 29 SIMPSON, James H. (1813-1883).

Journal of a Military Reconnaissance, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Navajo Country...

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1852. 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 140, [28] pp. Large folding map and seventy-five plates lithographed by Duval after R. H. Kern (including many printed in colour and hand-finished) [numbered 1-75, without plates numbered 2, 21 or 39 and with plates 66*, and 67* and 67**, complete thus, as issued]. Publisher’s ads in the rear. Minor dampstain. Publisher’s brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine gilt.

A cornerstone on the exploration of the southwest, with important color plates of Indians from the region.

“One of the most accurate and complete of all narratives of exploration of the country of the Zuni and Pueblo Indians” (Field). Wheat praises the map as “An arresting production bringing out many new details of the region directly west of New Mexico.” Simpson was the first explorer to visit and describe Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Pueblo Bonita, Inscription Rock, and other sites in northern Arizona. As William Goetzmann notes, the work is “a major Southwestern archaeological endeavor” and “no serious student can afford to neglect Simpson’s report even in the present day.” The plates, handsomely illustrating Navajo costumes, artifacts and sites, make this an important American color plate book. Deak cites the well known view of Santa Fe by Richard Kern. Also included is a comparative vocabulary of the Pueblo language of the “wild tribes” of the borders of New Mexico.

Bennett, p.98; Deak, Picturing America 590; Field 1413; Graff 3789; Howes S498, “aa.”; Wagner-Camp 218; Palau 31488; Pilling, Proof-sheets 3608; Wheat Transmississippi 641; Reese, Stamped With A National Character 29

(#34375) $ 2,000 . 30 STRATTON, R. B. .

Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an interesting narrative of life among the Apache and Mohave Indians: containing also an interesting account of the massacre of the Oatman family, by the Apache Indians in 1851 ...

San Francisco: Whitton, Towne & Co.’s Excelsior Steam Power Press, 1857. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). 231pp. Wood-engraved map, portrait of Olive Oatman, and numerous wood- engraved illustrations. Publisher’s blue cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. Housed in a later brown chemise and slipcase.

The earliest obtainable edition of the most famous California Indian captivity: lovely example in publisher’s cloth.

The Oatman family belonged to a sect of Mormons called the Brewsterites, after their leader James C. Brewster. The group followed Brewster to California, which he believed was the proper location for Zion. Along the way the party split into two groups; the Oatman family took a southern route which led them through what is now present day Arizona. They were attacked by members of either the Tolkepayas or Western Yavapais about midway between Pima Village and Yuma. Most of the family was killed except for brother Lorenzo, who was left for dead, and sisters Mary Ann and Olive, who were taken captive. The sisters were soon traded to the Mohaves and brought to what is now Needles, California. Mary Ann died there of starvation and Olive was finally released after three years captivity. “[Olive’s] adventures were vividly recounted by Royal Stratton and became a best-seller of the time” (Wagner- Camp).

The very rare first edition was published in San Francisco in 1857, under the title Life Among the Indians. Only the Siebert copy of that great rarity has appeared on the market in the last quarter century. The present second edition quickly followed later in the same year and is the earliest obtainable edition. Later, more commonly found editions were published in Chicago and New York.

Ayer, Supplement I:121; Graff 4006 (first edition); Howes S1068; Wagner-Camp 294:2; Sabin 92742

(#34827) $ 3,000 . 31 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 .

32 WEED, Charles Leander (1824-1903).

[Mirror Lake and Reflections. Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.].

San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., circa 1865. Large-format albumen photograph, on a period mount. Image size: 16 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches.

A rare, early mammoth albumen photograph of Yosemite by a pioneer California photographer.

Charles Leander Weed was a pioneer photographer of California and the American West, creating the first photographs of Yosemite and other areas of California. He began photographing in California around 1855, at the same time as his contemporary and rival, Carleton Watkins. Weed created ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, and salt prints in a San Francisco studio, as a junior partner of Robert Vance, in February 1858. While here, Weed ventured to the Middle Fork of the American River to document the burgeoning community of gold mines.

However, Weeds best-known and most acclaimed work was the series of 30 mammoth-plate albumen prints of Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, and the Big Trees, Calaveras County, California. Photographed in 1864 and published prior to 1867 by Lawrence & Houseworth, Weed is widely believed to have been the first photographer to work in Yosemite. For his 1864 photographic expedition to the Valley, Weed was equipped with a large camera and large glass plates, enabling him to produce these mammoth-plate prints, which won the first-place bronze medal at the 1867 Paris International Exhibition. Only a few complete sets of the 30 photographs are extant; the last complete set realizing $374,500 at auction in 2012 (Sotheby’s New York, 3 October 2012, lot 25).

“If ever there was an unsung hero of early western and Pacific rim photography, it was Charles Leander Weed. He was a pioneer of large-format landscape photography on the West Coast. In the 1860s he owned galleries from Nevada and California to Hawaii, Hong Kong, and China. Despite his many noteworthy accomplishments, Weed never gained wide recognition during his lifetime, and he still remains a shadowy presence” (Palmquist).

Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers, p.153; Palmquist, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West, pp.585-588; Palmquist, “California’s Peripatetic Photographer, Charles Leander Weed,” California History 58, no.3 (Fall 1979), pp.194-219.

(#34833) $ 12,000 .

33 WILKES, Charles (1798-1877).

Western America, including California and Oregon, with Maps of those Regions, and of the Sacramento Valley.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1849. 8vo. [iii]-viii, [11]-130pp. 3 folding maps. Dampstaining in the top margin. . Modern red morocco, covers stamped in blind and gilt.

Scarce first edition, complete with its three important maps: “In a sense it constitutes the first Pacific coast guide” (Howes).

“Commander Wilkes compiled this work from data gathered while he was on the Pacific Coast commanding the United States Exploring Expedition from 1838 to 1842. He included a chapter on the gold region drawn from official reports and his knowledge of the area’s geology and his own opinion of gold specimens sent east ...The map of the Sacramento Valley was an important source of information for gold seekers” (Kurutz).

The three important maps comprise a large map of the Sacramento Valley, drawn by F. D. Stuart (Wheat, MTW III:646; Wheat, Gold 134), as well as maps of Upper California (Wheat, MTW 654; Wheat, Gold 135) and Oregon Territory (Wheat, MTW 654; Wheat, Gold 135).

Graff 4656; Howes W416; Cowan I p 249; Cowan II p 683; Sabin 103995; Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 679a; Streeter Sale VII: 3326; Wagner-Camp 175a (#34829) Sold 34 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

Sixteenth Amendment Convention. The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold its Tenth Annual Washington Convention ... All Woman Suffrage Associations and all friends of woman suffrage throughout the country who believe that it is the duty of Congress to submit a Sixteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution prohibiting the several states from disfranchising United States citizens on account of sex, are cordially invited to send delegates and letters to this Convention ...

[Washington?]: [1877]. 1p. handbill. Signed in print by Clemence S. Lozier, Susan B. Anthony, Isabella Beecher Hooker and Sara Andrews Spencer. Old folds. .

Scarce handbill announcing the Woman Suffrage Convention of 1878, which would result in the first Congressional bill to amend the Constitution to grant women the right to vote.

The final paragraph reads: “Then let the free-born women citizens of this boasted Republic, defrauded of every right Man claims for himself, once more assemble under the shadow of the National Capitol, and demand in the sacred name of Liberty, an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States protecting the rights of women citizens.”

The January 1878 Tenth Annual Washington Convention would prove historic, with Senator Aaron A. Sargent first introducing to Congress a proposed amendment to the Constitution to grant women the right to vote. Sargent’s bill calling for the amendment would be introduced unsuccessfully in Congress each year for the next forty years before his words ultimately became the 19th Amendment.

This handbill inviting delegates to the Convention and outlining the NWSA goals is scarce, with only a single example recorded in OCLC (University of Rochester).

(#34849) $ 2,500 . TRAVEL AND VOYAGES

35 BACK, Admiral Sir George (1796-1878).

Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835.

London: A.Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1836. 4to (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches). 16 plates on India paper mounted, after Back (13) and B. Waterhouse Hawkins (3), (7 lithographed by Haghe or Day & Haghe, 9 steel-engraved by E. Finden), 1 folding engraved map, numerous illustrations. 19th century half dark brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt .

Rare large-paper issue of the first edition: “One of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration” (Hill) and “one of the finest travel books of the nineteenth century” (Howgego).

A large paper copy of this major source both in the early exploration of the Far North and its ethnology. “...Full of details of [Back’s] ... commerce with the Cree, Chippewa, and Coppermine Indians..[this work is ] ... a fundamental source of information about Indian life along the route of the Arctic expedition” (Streeter). The narrative also contains valuable information on Arctic flora and fauna. The original primary intention of the expedition had been to aid the second expedition of Sir John Ross. News of Ross’s safe return reached Back in April 1833 and he then pursued the expedition’s secondary objectives. These were, firstly, to navigate the length of a river supposedly arising in the neighbourhood of the Great Slave Lake and running north to the Arctic sea, and then, secondly, to map as much as possible of the sea-coast. He was successful in both objectives, travelling 7,500 miles in total and traversing the full 440-mile length of the river (known as Thlueetessy by the Indians). The Great Fish River, as Back named it, has since become known as Back River.

Arctic Bibliography 851; cf.BM (NH) I,p.81 (incorrect plate count); Field 63; Hill (2004) 42; cf. Howgego II:B3; Sabin 2613 (incorrect plate count); cf. Staton & Tremaine 1873 (octavo edition); Wagner-Camp 58b:1 (octavo edition).

(#28175) $ 4,000 .

36 COLNETT, Captain James (1755-1806).

A Voyage to the South Atlantic, and round the Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries, and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring births, in certain islands and coasts on those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted.

London: printed for the author, by W. Bennett, 1798. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches). Stipple- engraved portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee Sir Philip Stephens, by J. Collyer after William Beechey, 6 folding engraved maps, 1 plate of a sperm whale, 2 plates of coastal profiles. Contemporary calf, covers with an elaborate wide gilt border, panelled in gilt and blind with intricate cornerpieces comprised of small tools, expertly rebacked to style, spine with wide semi-raised bands in five compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

Important and rare account of whaling in the Pacific.

This account was privately printed for subscription, and is one of the rarest of Pacific voyage narratives. It offers a full description of Colnett’s second Pacific voyage in the Rattler, during which he opened up the South Pacific sperm-whale fields and made two visits to the Galapagos islands. He describes the voyage out via Rio de Janeiro, around Cape Horn, along the coasts of South America and Mexico, and into the Gulf of California. He did not stop at Hawaii on this visit, though the lengthy preface contains references to his first voyage, on which he made an extended stay in Hawaiian waters during the winter of 1787-1788. Colnett’s ship, Rattler, a Royal Navy sloop, was purchased from the Admiralty and altered to serve as a whaler. The voyage lasted from January 1793 until October 1794. In addition to the informative and lively text, this work is remarkable for the quality of the maps and plates. The folding plate within the text shows a diagram of a sperm whale, complete with scale and labelled segments, the two folding plates at the back show coastal profiles of six different locations. The large folding maps show the islands of Felix and Ambrose (on one map), the Pacific Coast of the Americas as far as California (one map), and individual maps of the islands of Revillagigedo, Cocos, the Galapagos, and Quibo.

Colnett first visited the Pacific as a midshipman on Cook’s second voyage. Later he made several commercial voyages to the Northwest Coast, where in 1789 his brush with the Spanish commander at Nootka Sound instigated the “Nootka Controversy”. An account of that incident is also given herein, as is his meeting with the Spanish commander at the Sandwich Islands. “This narrative is particularly important for the part Colnett played in the dispute between England and Spain over claims to the Northwest” (Forbes).

Forbes 280; Hill (2004) 338; Howes C604, “b.”; Sabin 14546; Strathern 120.

(#30271) $ 16,000 .

37 [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 .

38 D’OYLY, Sir Charles (1781-1845).

Sketches of the New Road in a Journey from Calcutta to Gnah.

Calcutta: Asiatic Lithographic Company’s Press, 1830. Oblong 4to (9 5/16 x 11 1/4 inches). Lithographed throughout. 22 lithographed, each India proof mounted onto sheets with lithographed captions, each with accompanying lithographed text leaf. (Very minor dampstaining). Publisher’s brown paper lettered wrappers. Housed in a modern red morocco backed box.

Very rare work of views by D’Oyly, lithographed in Calcutta at the Asiatic Lithographic Company’s Press.

Born in India, Sir Charles D’Oyly was educated in England, before returning to India in the service of the East India Company in 1798. By 1808 he was Collector of Dacca, and in 1818 succeeded to baronet. After serving in a series of posts throughout India, culminating in his appointment as Senior Member of the Board of Customs, Salt and Opium, and of the Marine Board in 1833, he returned to England in 1838, and retired in 1839.

He is now best known for his work as an amateur artist and publisher of lithographs in India. D’Oyly became a noted student of George Chinnery, who worked in India between 1802 and 1825. “Chinnery’s love of drawing rural India and its people and animals comes through strongly in D’Oyly’s work ... [D’Oyly’s] work at its best is fresh and charming, and his topographical work has an engaging vividness” (Losty).

Lithography came to India in the 1820s and D’Oyly was an early adopter. “In 1824 D’Oyly was the moving spirit in setting up a society of dilettanti called the Behar School of Athens ... for the promotion of the Arts & Sciences, and ‘for the circulation of fun and merriment of all descriptions’” (Losty). D’Oyly had ordered a lithographic press from England in 1823, though transporting it to Patna proved difficult, with the first such attempt resulting in the destruction of the press in a squall on the Ganges. A second press was ordered, and was established at Patna in 1828 (though there is evidence that D’Oyly had access to lithographic stones at an earlier date) and named The Behar Amateur Lithographic Press.

“During 1827 and 1828, D’Oyly had been drawing on stone, a series of views taken from his pen-and-ink drawings of the road which had recently been laid between Calcutta and Gaya and these were eventually published by Thomas Black [at his Asiatic Lithographic Press in Calcutta] ... This does not necessarily indicate that D’Oyly had by 1830 grown tired of the Patna Press” (Losty). Losty suggests that D’Oyly accomplished the work at Patna, but had the finished stones sent down the river to Calcutta for printing and the addition of the title page and text. The original drawings for the work survive, located in the British Library.

Unlike many of the other D’Oyly “published” works from this early period of lithography in India, each of the plates in the Sketches of the New Road bear D’Oyly’s imprint identifying him as the artist on stone. The plates comprise: 1) A Hindoo temple at Jehanabad 2) View of the Purisnaut Hills from Chatna 3) View of an insulated rock near Ruggoonauthpore on the New Road, 1828 4) View of the rocky hills at Ruggoonauthpore, 1827 5) View on the road from Chunder Kerree to Chass crossing the Odilbun Nullah, 1827 6) View on the road from Angballee to Goomea crossing the Damooda River, 1827 7) View in the Chittroo Pass on the road from Gomea to Chittroo Chutta, 1828 8) End of the Chittroo Pass, 1827 9) View of the Village and Hill of Silwar with a telegraph tower 10) View from the summit of the Kutcumsundee Pass, 1828 11) Summit of the Kutcumsundee Pass, 1828 12) End of the Dungye Pass on the New Road, 1828 13) Entrance into the city of Gyah by the Sheerghathy Road 14) View of the Summun Boohe in the city of Gyah 15) View of the back entrance to the Summun Boorhe in the City of Gyah 16) View of the Bishunpud Temple and part of the city of Gyah from the Fulgo River 17) Temple of Seta Mahaish Mahadeo at the bottom of the Burrum Jewun Hill near Gyah 18) View of the Muccundee Dewul and the Beturnee Tank at Gyah 19) View of a small Hindoo temple in front of the Great Temple at Bhood Gyah 20) Hindoo temple at Bhood Gyah, 8 miles from the city of Gyah 21) Terrace of the Hindoo temple at Bhood Gyah in Behar 22) View of an excavated chamber in the summit of the Barabur Hill, 14 miles N.E. from Gyah. “Although [D’Oyly’s published works] appear to be regular books in the sense that various copies of them were printed, it is obvious that none of the products of the Behar Lithographic Press was ever published in any commercial sense” (Losty). As a result, all are rare and of those extant, most bear direct association with D’Oyly. The present example includes provenance to Sir H. H. D’Oyly (1864-1948), as well as another indecipherable D’Oyly family presentation. We can locate but six other extant copies: British Art Center, Yale (the Abbey copy); British Library; Oxford; University of Sydney, Australia; and Basel Universitatsbibliothek.

Abbey, Travel 455; Archer, India Observed, pp. 70-72; Godrej and Rohatgi, Scenic Splendours, pp. 58-60; Jeremiah P. Losty, “Sir Charles D’Oyly’s Lithographic Press and his Indian Assistants” in Rohatgi and Godrej, India: A Pageant of Prints, pp. 135-160.

(#34945) $ 12,500 . 39 DANIELL, Thomas (1749-1840) and William DANIELL (1769-1837).

A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row; and William Daniell, no. 9, Cleveland-Street, Fitzroy-Square. By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, 1810 [watermarks dated 1808-1809]. Oblong quarto (8 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches). 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates on card, drawn & engraved by Thomas and William Daniell. Contemporary green morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt, flat spine gilt.

The rare hand-coloured first edition of this finely-illustrated account of the Daniells’ voyage to China and India.

In 1784, Thomas Daniell received permission from the East India Company to travel to India “to follow his profession of an engraver.” He was accompanied by his nephew, William Daniell. They travelled aboard the Atlas bound for China and continued to Bengal in a smaller vessel, reaching India by early 1786. Their travels both to and in India resulted in some of the finest illustrations to come before the public and their work was - and remains - greatly in demand. A Picturesque Voyage to India records their journey from England. Starting from Gravesend, via Beachy Head to Madeira (2 plates), the crossing the equator and then on via the Cape of Good Hope (2 plates) to the East Indies (10 plates) to China (23 plates) including Macao and Canton, then back via the Straits of Malacca (2 plates) to Bengal and Calcutta (5 plates). The group of images of coastal China form a particularly valuable record of the area as it was beginning to open up to the West, and pictures of Bengal and Calcutta include one of the Daniell’s most famous images: “Calcutta from the Garden Reach”. It is also one of the rare instances in which the image was re-worked to include new information gathered from a drawing made at a later date by another artist, for certain of the buildings shown were not in existence during the Daniells’ time in India. The final plate shows the “Old Fort Gaut” which was to become notorious almost half a century later as the site of the “black hole of Calcutta.”

A lovely example, in a contemporary binding.

Abbey Travel II. 516; Archer p12; Colas 797; Lipperheide 1523; Sutton 19-20; Bastin & Brommer 70.

(#34943) $ 12,500 . 40 [DRAGE, Theodore, or Charles SWAINE].

An Account of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Hudson’s Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America ... performed in the year 1746 and 1747, in the ship California.

London: Sold by Mr. Jolliffe [and others], 1748-49. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches). [2], vii, [1], 237, [1]; [2], 328, 313-326, [18]pp. 10 engraved maps and plates. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, brown and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt (expert repairs at joints). Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek (small inked stamp on the title).

A rare and important narrative of an early exploratory expedition in Hudson’s Bay in search of the Northwest Passage.

The privately-financed expedition was dispatched by the North West Committee in 1746 as part of an attempt to verify the assertions of Arthur Dobbs in the quest for a passage. The two ships which made up the expedition, the Dobbs Galley and the California examined Wager Bay and wintered at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s York Factory.

Streeter describes this anonymously authored work, which is rarely seen on the market, as a “significant item in the literature relating to attempts at finding the Northwest Passage ... it tells of a voyage undertaken to sustain Arthur Dobbs’ claim that a northwest passage existed leading from Hudson’s Bay.” The outcome was to prove the opposite. Accounts of the voyage are found in two rival narratives published soon after the return of the expedition. Henry Ellis sailed aboard the Dobbs Galley and published his Voyage to Hudson’s Bay in 1748. The present anonymous account written by “the Clerk the California” has been variously attributed to Charles Swaine or Theodore Drage.

The account includes important descriptions and illustrations of the manners and customs of the native Americans. The maps comprise: The Northern Ocean; Hudson’s Straits and Bay; Hudson’s Streights and Bay, of Davis Streights, and Baffin’s Bay; The West and North-West parts of Hudson’s Bay; Hudson’s Bay according to the discoveries in the years 1746 & 1747; Chart for the better understanding of De Font’s letter.

Streeter 3640; European Americana 748/54; Sabin 82549; TPL 206; JCB (3)I:872.

(#33865) $ 39,500 . 41 DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore (1786-1865).

Voyage autour du Monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825.

Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1826-1830. 11 volumes in 8, quarto and folio. Detailed listing and collations below. Near uniform contemporary half green morocco and marbled paper covered boards. Provenance: J. Cauvin (signature and inked stamp).

A very rare set of one of the rarest and most lavish of the French Grand Voyage accounts of exploration in the Pacific.

The expedition, which left Toulon on Aug. 11, 1822, was sponsored by the French government and had as its chief objective the collection of scientific data, but was also instructed to report on the possibility of establishing a penal colony in western Australia. Duperrey, who was thirty-five at the start of the voyage, had been on the crew of the previous major French Pacific voyage, that of Freycinet. He had as his second in command Jules S. Dumont d’Urville, who was to become the most experienced French commander in the Pacific. While science led the expedition, there was also an unspoken goal of discovering where France might carve out an empire of her own in the South Pacific.

Duperrey proceeded to the Pacific by way of Brazil and Cape Horn. Stops were made along the coasts of Chile and Peru, and in the Society, Gilbert, Marshall and Caroline islands. Other islands visited included the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Tonga, and Rotuma. The expedition also made important exploratory visits to Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand, where the Maoris were visited. The entire voyage took almost three years, arriving in Marseilles on March 24, 1825.

By far the greatest contributions of the expedition were scientific, cartographic, and ethnographic. Some 264 birds and quadrupeds, 1200 insects, 288 fishes, sixty-three reptiles, and a mass of plants were collected and beautifully described and reproduced in the exquisitely colored plates of the several atlases. Reports were made on Polynesian languages, costumes, weapons, and religious artifacts, many of which are illustrated in the plates of the “atlas historique.” Duperrey is given credit for discovering the Gilbert and Caroline island groups, and for correcting errors in earlier mappings of the Society Islands. Despite the unfinished nature of some of the text volumes, that which was published is marked with the detail and careful observations expected in the sumptuous format of French “Grand Voyages,” and is one of the most extensive voyage accounts ever published.

Duperrey’s long visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands continued the French interest in this group, which culminated in their annexation by France by Du Petit-Thouars. His expedition also proved to be a catalyst for French missionary endeavors in the South Pacific to contest with Protestant Englishmen. His explorations of Australia and New Zealand, which Ferguson characterizes as of “great importance,” were less significant politically, since the British vehemently opposed any French settlement there. Nonetheless, this largely scientific endeavor opened the door to a much more aggressive French policy in the South Pacific.

This set is comprised as follows:

[HISTOIRE]. L.-I. DUPERREY. Voyage autour du Monde ... Histoire du Voyage. [Paris: 1829]. 2 volumes (quarto text [12 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches] and folio atlas [19 3/4 x 13 inches]. Text: [2], xlv, [1], 202pp. [all published]. With the half-title, but without a title page as usual. Uncut. Atlas: engraved title, 60 engraved plates (59 printed in colours and hand coloured) by Ambroise Tardieu after Duperrey, Lejeune and Chazal.

[HYDROGRAPHIE]. L.-I. DUPERREY. Voyage autour du Monde ... Hydrographie. Paris: 1829. 2 volumes (quarto text [11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches] and large folio atlas [22 x 16 inches]). Text: [4], 164pp., plus engraved map. Atlas: Engraved title, [2], 21, [1]pp., plus 53 engraved plates (numbered 1-50, plus 3, 8 and 41 bis; 19 double-page; 49 engraved maps by Ambroise Tardieu after Duperrey and others, 4 engraved plates of various native sailing vessels by Berard after Duperrey and others). Extra-illustrated with a map of Oceanie by Tardieu, bound in the rear, hand-coloured in outline.

[HYDROGRAPHIE ET PHYSIQUE]. L.-I. DUPERREY. Voyage autour du Monde ... Hydrographie et Physique. Paris: 1829. Quarto (bound with the Hydrographie text above): [4], 133, [1]pp., plus folding engraved map. [BOTANIQUE]. J. S. C. DUMONT d’Urville, A. BRONGNIART and BORY de St. Vincent. Voyage autour du Monde ... Botanique. Paris: 1828-1829. 3 volumes (two volumes quarto text [12 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches and 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches] and folio atlas [19 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches]). Phanerogamie text (bound with the Histoire text above): 200pp (of 232). Uncut. Cryptogamie text (bound with the Hydrographie text above): [4], 301, [1]pp. Atlas (102 [of 106] engraved plates by Barrois, Dusmenil and others after P.Bessa, Borg de St.Vincent and others): Engraved title, 39 plates (numbered 1-38, plus 13 bis); 63 plates (numbered 1-78, plate 23 misnumbered 30, issued without plates numbered 55, 57, 58, 63, 65, 66, 67, 72, 73, 74 and 76; lacks plates 59, 62, 64 and 71).

[ZOOLOGIQUE]. R. P. LESSON and GARNOT. Voyage autour du Monde ... Zoologie. Paris: 1826-1830. 3 volumes (two volumes quarto text [11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches] and folio atlas [19 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches]. Text (4 parts in two volumes): [4], iv, 360, [4], 361-743, [1]; [4], 471, [1], [2], xii, 9-317, [1], 155, [1]pp. Atlas (three parts in one, with a total of 157 plates by Countant after Lesson, L. Prevost, Pretre, Guerin, Vauthier and others): Engraved title, 53 plates (numbered 1-50, plus 21, 31 and 35 bis; Mammals 1-9 and Birds10-50; all but one hand-coloured), letterpress table; 61 hand coloured plates (Reptiles 1-7, Fish 1-38, Mollusks 1-16), letterpress table; 43 hand coloured plates (Crustaceans 1-5, Insects 1-21 plus 14 bis, Zoophytes 1-16), 3pp. letterpress table.

Anker 288; Borba de Moraes pp.275-276; Chadenat 566; Dunmore French Explorers in the Pacific II, pp.107- 155; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.73; Hill (2004) 517; Hocken 42; Nissen BBI 560; NissenIVB 42; Nissen ZBI 1210; Sabin 21353; Stafleu & Cowan 1578; Whittel 218; Fergusson 1069; Brunet II:888

(#33864) $ 70,000 .

42 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 .

43 KING, Richard (1811-1876).

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in 1833, 1834, and 1835; under the Command of Capt. Back, R.N.

London: Richard Bentley, 1836. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. xv, 312, [1]; viii, 321, [1]pp. 4 plates, including 2 frontispieces and a map. Modern half morocco over marbled paper covered boards.

Rare narrative by the surgeon and naturalist on the Back expedition.

“Dr. King’s narrative is full of the details of Indian life, as it was presented to the members of Captain Back’s expedition. He looked at the same transactions with the natives, and the same phases of their character which Captain Back portrays, from a different point, and their coloring to his eye bears another tinge. His journal, filled with descriptions of interviews with the Chippewyans, Crees, Dog-Ribs, and Esquimaux, is therefore exceedingly interesting even after the perusal of Captain Back’s narrative. Although every chapter is largely devoted to incidents associated with the natives, and anecdotes illustrative of their character, Dr. King yields the whole of Chapter xii. to an examination and relation of the present condition of the tribes inhabiting the Hudson’s Bay territories. The Doctor does not attempt to conceal the chagrin he felt, at the cool absorption of his own careful researches in the narrative of Captain Back. In the splendid work of that really eminent explorer, there appears a little, and but a little of that want of generosity which the relation of Dr. King insinuates. Both give the most minute narrations of the peculiar traits of the Northern Indians, their destructive wars, their wasting from disease, and famine, and debauchery, all of which are directly traceable to their communication with the whites. Dr. King, however, finds in them traces of some of the nobler, as well as the more tender emotions, the possession of which Captain Back somewhat superciliously derides. Dr. King very justly reminds him that the gallant Captain owed his life, and that of his entire party, to the devotion and self-denial, through two long starving winters, of the Chippewyan chief Akaitcho. This remarkable Indian deserves an honorable fame. While his tribe in common with himself were starving, he shared with Captain Franklin in his two expeditions, and with Captain Back in a third, the scanty food, which his superior hunter-craft enabled him to obtain, when the duller white reason failed. Captain Franklin would never have sailed upon his fateful voyage, but for the humanity of Akaitcho, as he would have perished of starvation on his first exploration” (Field).

“King, surgeon and naturalist of the Back expedition that descended the Back River to the arctic coast of Canada, includes much material similar to that contained in Sir George Back’s Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition, 1836, with additional detail on birds, mammals, and fishes, especially as observed near Fort Reliance” (Arctic Bibliography).

Most notable from a historical perspective is King’s charge that Capt. Back appropriated his own research and that Back’s conclusions were less than exact. King praises to great length the Chipewyan chief Akaitcho who fed the starving parties of the first two Franklin expeditions and Back’s third and without whose generosity Franklin would not have sailed on his last fateful journey.

Arctic Bibliography 8708; Field 831; NMM 857 (ref); Sabin 37831 (calling for 7 plates); Staton & Tremaine/ TPL 1899; Streeter Sale 3705; Wagner-Camp 62.

(#27894) $ 13,500 .

44 [MARRA, John].

Journal of the Resolution’s Voyage, in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. On Discovery to the southern hemisphere, by which the non existence of an undiscovered continent ... is demonstratively proved. Also a journal of the Adventure’s voyage, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774. With an account of the separation of the two ships.

London: 1775. Octavo (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches). 1 folding engraved map, 5 engraved plates, extra- illustrated with 1 folding engraved map “Part of the Tropical Discoveries of the Resolution Sloop Captain J. Cook in 1774”. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering-piece.

“The first printed account of man’s entry into the region south of the Antarctic circle” (Spence) and the earliest published complete account of Cook’s second voyage, issued at least eighteen months prior to the official version. “A rare work ... contain[ing] details of many events not recorded in the official account, and a preface recording the causes which led Banks and his staff to withdraw from the expedition at the last moment. Accordingly it is a vital second voyage item...” (Davidson).

The second voyage included the first crossing of the Antarctic circle, making Marra’s narrative the earliest firsthand account of the Antarctic, and the engraved plates are the first depictions of that region. Due to the strict regulations against private publications, the work was published anonymously, but the identity of the author did not remain a mystery for long. “Correspondence between Cook and the Admiralty shows that the author was John Marra, one of the gunners’ mates in the Resolution. He was an Irishman whom Cook had picked up at Batavia during the first voyage. He made an abortive attempt to desert at Tahiti on 14 May 1774, an escapade of which Cook took so lenient a view that he says - ‘I know not if he might have obtained my consent, if he had applied for it in proper time.’ This did not, however, as Marra states at p. 241, prevent his being put in irons...” (Holmes).

This copy contains the extremely rare extra folded map, “Part of the Tropical Discoveries of the Resolution Sloop Captain J. Cook in 1774,” which is noted by Beddie and Rosove, but which is not called for in most of the references. This map has been present in only three of the twenty-five copies of the first edition sold at auction in the last thirty or so years. The chart appears opposite the first page of text and shows New Caledonia and the Great Cyclades islands to the north and Norfolk island to the south. It is a most interesting production, and is to be found in two states: first, as here with the engraver’s name and with the position of Norfolk Island incorrectly placed 4° too far south; and second, with the engraver’s name erased (but just visible), with Norfolk Island’s latitude corrected. The chart follows two of the Gilbert manuscript charts (see David 2.225/6/) in spelling Ballabeah Isle with a final “h,” unlike all the other manuscript charts. We have a definite date for the corrected issue of this chart, as it accompanied the article, “Late Voyages of the Resolution and Adventure,” published in the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. XLVI, 1776 (edited by David Henry), opposite page 120 in the March issue. Therefore, it seems probable that the uncorrected chart found its way into copies of Marra issued during the last two or three months of 1775.

Bagnall 630; Beaglehole II, pp.cliii-clv; Beddie 1270; Conrad p.13; Davidson p.60; Hill (2004) 1087; Hocken, p.14; Holmes 16; Kroepelien 809; O’Reilly-Reitman 379; Rosove 214.A1b; Sabin 16247; Spence 758; Streeter Sale 2408.

(#19445) $ 18,500 .

45 OGILBY, John (translator and publisher, 1600-1676). - Johann NIEUHOFF (1630-1672); and Olfert DAPPER (1639-1689).

An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China ... [With:] Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages in Two Embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary ...

London: printed by the Author, 1672; Tho. Johnson for the Author, 1671. 2 volumes, folio (16 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches). [Nieuhoff:] Title in red and black. Engraved additional title, double- page map of China, 18 plates (1 double-page), 94 engraved illustrations within the text. [Dapper:] Title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 40 engraved plates and maps (2 double-page maps, 38 plates [31 double-page, 1 folding]), 57 engraved illustrations within the text. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the other with an overall repeat decoration in gilt.

Scarce set of Ogilby’s English editions of Nieuhoff’s and Dapper’s accounts of the early Dutch embassies to China: the most comprehensive descriptions of China in the 17th century and among the most beautifully illustrated works on the region from that period.

The first work by Nieuhoff first appeared in Dutch in 1665. It describes the embassy to China led by Pieter van Goyer and Jakob de Keyser on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. Setting out from Batavia, they arrived in Canton on 17 March 1656, and were in Nanking by 17 July. Chinese officialdom, court etiquette and the opposition of the Jesuits (including Father Adams) conspired to prevent any major trading concessions being granted by the Emperor Chun-Chi. The embassy returned to Batavia on 31 March 1657. Nieuhoff, an eyewitness in his position as Steward to the Ambassadors, includes many incidental remarks on the manners and customs of the Chinese, together with a second part comprising a general description of the Chinese Empire. The fine plates and illustrations show town views in China, Tibet and Tartary, together with subjects such as costume and natural history, most of which “appear to have been based on Nieuhoff’s own sketches” (Lach and Van Kley, p. 484). Ogilby’s translation, first published in 1669 and with a second edition, as here, published in 1672, includes excerpts from Kircher’s China Monumentis (1667). The second edition contains the same plates as the first, though is entirely reset in a slightly larger format (i.e. to be more uniform with the Atlas Chinensis).

Following van Goyer and de Keyser’s embassy in 1656-1657 to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China, the Dutch dispatched a number of subsequent embassies. The accounts of these various journeys are here collected by Dapper, most notably including the 1663-64 expedition along the Fukien coast by Admiral Balthasar Boort and the 1667 embassy led by Pieter Van Hoorn. Van Hoorn “reached Peking by way of Fukien province and stayed there from [June 20, 1667] to [August 5, 1667] ... Van Hoorn’s embassy failed to secure the trading privileges from the K’ang-hsi emperor and actually led in 1668 to the revocation of all Dutch trade in China” (Howgego G85). Dapper’s account was first published in Amsterdam in 1670. The following year, John Ogilby published the first English translation. Interestingly, on the title page of the present work, Ogilby misattributes the original Dutch work to Montanus instead of Dapper, though Lach and Van Kley suggests that his “confusion is understandable. Montanus and Dapper seem to have formed a partnership for the compilation of these large, illustrated volumes on far-away lands” (Lach and Van Kley, p. 491). Like Nieuhoff’s earlier work, Dapper’s account is beautifully illustrated with views and maps, and notably include four engravings of Buddhist iconography “obviously of Chinese provenance” (Lach and Van Kley, p. 491).

Together, Ogilby’s translations of Nieuhoff and Dapper form the most comprehensive English descriptions of China in the 17th century. The English editions are both beautifully printed and extensively illustrated. Beyond their accounts of specific embassies, each work includes general descriptions of China’s government, religion, customs and history. Based in part on prior works, including those by Trigault, Semedo, Martini and Kircher, each work also contains information unique to the observations from the accounts of each embassy.

Sets comprised of both separately-issued works are very rare.

[Nieuhoff:] Cordier Sinica III.2347; cf. Cox I, p.325; Lust 536; Wing N-1153; Howgego G85; Lach and Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, book 1, volume 3, pp. 483-484. [Dapper:] Landwehr 543; Cordier Sinica III, 2349; Cox I, p.326; Lowndes 1719; Lust 525; Wing D-242; Howgego G85; Lach and Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, book 1, volume 3, pp. 490-491.

(#33455) $ 45,000 . 46 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 . 47 PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (1748-1817).

A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, and George Goulding, 1789. Quarto (11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches). xii, 384, xl pp. 20 engraved plates, charts and maps (6 folding charts or maps, 2 engraved portraits, 12 engraved plates [the 5 ornithological plates with contemporary hand- colouring, as issued]). Bound to style in period mottled calf, covers with a Greek key border in gilt, flat spine gilt, black morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers.

Rare deluxe issue with hand coloured plates of the first edition of a classic narrative of the early exploration on the Northwest coast.

Portlock, a veteran of Cook’s third voyage, and Dixon were sent by the King George’s Sound Company to the Northwest coast of North America to investigate the economic possibilities of the fur trade there. En route, they had a long stay in Hawaii, and Portlock’s narrative of this visit is of particular interest since Portlock and Dixon were the first captains to visit the Hawaiian islands since the death of Cook. He gives an important account of the situation there, already much altered by European contact. The voyage then proceeded to the Northwest to survey the region. Portlock and Dixon separated, with Portlock exploring northward up the Alaskan coast and Dixon proceeding southward to Nootka Sound. Both Dixon and Portlock published accounts of the voyage, but Portlock is of greater value for his particularly vivid descriptions of the Native Americans and Russians in the region.

In addition to the lively narrative, the work is well illustrated with 20 plates and maps: these include a fine large folding general map of the Northwest Coast, and five maps of particular harbours along the coast. In the regular issue, the five bird plates are uncoloured and the text is printed on laid paper. A contemporary advertisement announcing the publication offers “a few copies ... printed on fine paper, hot pressed and plates coloured.” These deluxe issues, as here, are considerably more rare than the usual uncoloured examples. Besides the obvious benefit of hand coloured illustrations, the paper used for the text of this deluxe issue is a higher quality paper.

Forbes Hawaii 177; Judd Voyages 147; Hill (2004) 1376; Howes P487 “b.”; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Streeter Sale 3485; TPL 599; Wagner Northwest Coast 738-43; Wood p.523.

(#33030) $ 17,500 .

48 PRINGLE, John (1707-1782).

A Discourse upon some late Improvements of the Means for Preserving the Health of Mariners. Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society ... [Bound with:] A Discourse on the Different Kinds of Air ...

London: Printed for the Royal Society, 1776; 1774. Two volumes in one, small 4to. [4],44pp., including half title; [2],31, [1]pp., with mounted errata on verso of the final leaf. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece.

Extremely rare and important Captain Cook item.

One of the most significant of all the printed works relating to Cook’s voyages and their importance. This is the first appearance in print of Cook’s epoch-making account of the successful measures taken against scurvy on his first two voyages. There were several later versions and translations, but the original edition of this milestone publication has long been acknowledged as a major rarity. The paper on scurvy was read to the Royal Society by its president, Sir John Pringle (in the absence of Cook himself, then just beginning his final voyage), as recipient of the Copley medal award for that year, and was immediately published in this form. Pringle’s long presentation address, quoting directly from Cook and other sources, is followed by Cook’s paper and an extract from a letter by Cook to Pringle written from Plymouth Sound in July 1776. The paper subsequently appeared in the official account of the second voyage and in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

“In Pringle’s discourse on preserving the health of mariners he includes the first printing of Captain Cook’s important paper entitled: ‘The Method taken for preserving the Health of the Crew of His Majesty’s Ship the Resolution during her late Voyage round the World.’ In this paper, which Cook communicated to Pringle, President of the Royal Society, Cook describes the supplies carried on the voyage and his maintenance of the cleanliness of his ship and crew. It was included by Pringle in his discourse commemorating Cook’s receipt of the Copley medal” (Norman sale). The winning of the battle against scurvy was one of the most important achievements in the general field of exploration. It made possible the major voyages that followed. As Robert Hughes has so aptly put it in The Fatal Shore, “malt juice and pickled cabbage put Europeans in Australia as microchip circuitry would put Americans on the moon.”

Very rare. The NUC locates only four copies in American libraries, at Harvard, John Carter Brown, National Library of Medicine, and Naval Observatory Library.

This copy bound with another work by Pringle, being a discourse given at the presentation of the Copley medal to Dr. Priestley in 1773 for his discovery of oxygen.

Streeter Sale 2410; Norman Sale 378; Garrison-Morton 2156,3714; Beddie 1290; Holmes 20; Kroepelien 1065.

(#34671) $ 27,500 .

49 [RICKMAN, John].

Journal of Captain Cook’s last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery; performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 ... Faithfully Narrated from the original MS.

Dublin: Messrs. Price, Whitestone, [etc.], 1781. Octavo 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [4], xlvii, [1], 396pp. Engraved frontispiece and four plates, 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece.

The first Dublin edition of the first published account of Cook’s last voyage: a work which preceded the publication of the official account by three years.

The first edition of this work was published in London in 1781; a second London edition, with corrections, was published in the same year. The present Dublin edition, also published in 1781, is a reprint of the second London edition, with four of the plates (the frontispiece of the death of Capt. Cook; “Omai’s Public Entry on his first landing at Otaheite,” “Ounalaschkan Chief” and “Representation of the Heiva at Otaheite”) being reverse images of those in the London edition, while the plate of “Omai’s Double Canoe, and the Ships approaching Hueheine” is included here in place of the image “The Ships Approaching York Island” found in the London editions.

Rickman accompanied Cook’s voyage aboard the ‘Discovery’ until his transfer to the ‘Resolution’ in 1777. Of the London edition, Hill notes: “This anonymous journal, of Captain Cook’s third voyage, was once believed to have been written by John Ledyard, who had actually made liberal use of Lieutenant Rickman’s account; hence the confusion. This narrative anticipated the government’s authorized account by two years. All the journals kept on board were claimed by the Admiralty, thus the author remained strictly anonymous. The text, especially as regards details of Cook’s death, differs considerably from other accounts.” This Dublin edition is not in Hill.

Howes R276, “aa.”; Forbes 36; Wickersham 6555a; Beddie 1608; Beaglehole I, pp.ccv-ccvi; Davidson, p.64; Kroepelien 1078; O’Reilly & Reiman 416; Holmes 38 (ref).

(#30273) $ 4,500 .

50 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 .

51 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). Errata leaf. Binder’s advertisement of Remnant & Edmonds tipped-in. Endpapers renewed, scattered minor foxing. [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. Publisher’s blue-green patterned cloth, flat spines lettered in gilt (first volume expertly rebacked with the original spine). Provenance: Lord Fitzhardinge, Berkeley Castle (bookplate in Narrative); John Cretton (bookplate in Appendix) .

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, in the publisher’s cloth.

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. A lovely set in the original publisher’s binding.

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

(#34967) $ 4,000 .

52 SEYMOUR, Capt. William Dean.

Journal of a Voyage Round the World.

Cork: Francis Guy, 1877. 12mo. [8], 169pp. Portrait photographic frontispiece, signed by the author below the image. Publisher’s red cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. Provenance: Mrs. Hasler (inscribed by the author on the front pastedown).

Around the world: a privately printed journal.

In this privately printed work, the author recounts via his daily diary entries a voyage from Queenstown to New York, overland across the United States to California, by boat to Japan and Hong Kong, and thence to Singapore, Ceylon, Bombay and home via the Suez Canal. In all the 30,000 mile voyage lasted from August to December 1876.

“Includes trip from Chicago to California, via the Platte valley and Utah” (Howes).

Howes S318; Cowan, p. 577.

(#34880) $ 500 . 53 STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von (1676-1747).

An Histori-Geographical Description of the north and eastern part of Europe and Asia; but more particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary; both in their ancient and modern state: together with an entire new polyglot-table of the dialects of 32 Tartarian nations: and a vocabulary of the Kalmuck-Mungalian tongue. As also, a large and accurate map of those countries ... Written originally in high German ... Now faithfully translated into English.

London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, 1736 [map dated 1737]. Quarto (8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches). 1 large folding engraved map “Nova descriptio geographica Tattariae Magnae...” (sheet size: 26 x 39 inches), 1 folding woodcut map, 1 folding letterpress chart, 10 engraved plates (3 folding), and numerous illustrations in the text. Expertly bound to style in contemporary marbled sheep, covers bordered with a gilt double filet, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt .

First edition in English of a key work on Siberia, with the rare and important large folding map of the region.

A Swedish officer taken prisoner during Charles XII’s campaign in Russia, Strahlenberg was held captive in Siberia for thirteen years. Situated in Tobolsk from 1711 to 1721, he was able to explore the lower basins of the Ob and Yenisey rivers, gathering the geographical information regarding the northern and eastern parts of Europe and Asia recorded in this book and its large folding map.

The text is of great importance offering much first-hand information -- geographical, historical and ethnographic -- about Siberia and Great Tartary. The work also includes early descriptions of the linguistics of the region, with a Kalmyv vocabulary including the translations of Mongolian words. The most important aspect of the present work, however, is Strahlenberg’s rare and significant map representing the Russian realm and Great Tartary, containing extensive information regarding Siberia. Strahlenberg utilized a wide array of sources in preparing his map. He used his own latitude calculations, as well as readings he had taken with Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, a Prussian naturalist with whom he travelled in Russia. Measurements and other geographic information were obtained from other sources as well, including Swedish officers on different expeditions, Swedish and German travellers, and Russian cartographers and explorers.

The map, first published separately to accompany the Stockholm, 1730 first edition, is here re-engraved by R.W. Seale, and dated 1737. The map encompasses the area between 50° and 185° east longitude and 32° and 75° north latitude. It records the Russian territories from west of Moscow to Japan in the east and includes northern China, Tibet, and Turkestan in the south. Neighboring countries such as Poland, Persia, India, and Mongolia are documented. Numerous important geographic features are also represented: the Arctic and Pacific oceans, and the Caspian Sea; the Urals, Caucasus, and the Himalayan mountains; and the Gobi desert.

The map is most notable, however, for its accurate representation of Siberia, particularly the settlement patterns of the region’s various populations. Bagrow notes that after Semyon Remezov’s map, Strahlenberg’s map is the “most important source of historical-geographical information about Siberia.”

Cordier 2713; Cox I, 194; Lowndes III, 2528.

(#34963) $ 12,000 . NATURAL HISTORY

54 ANDREWS, Henry Charles (fl. 1799-1828).

Coloured Engravings of Heaths. The drawings taken from the living plants only. With the appropriate specific character, full description, native place of growth, and time of flowering of each; in Latin and English. Each figure accompanied by accurate dissections of the several parts, (magnified where necessary,) upon which the specific distinction has been founded, according to the Linnean system.

London: printed by T. Bensley [vol.I] or R. Taylor [vols.II-IV] for the Author, [1794-]1802- 1805-1809-’1805’[-1830]. 4 volumes, folio (16 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches). Half-title to vol.IV. 288 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Andrews, printed in green or black, some heightened with gum Arabic. (Bound without the engraved dedication to the Marquis of Blandford and the one-leaf letterpress introduction). Vols.I-III: contemporary uniform diced Russia; vol.IV: bound to match in about 1830, covers with decorative borders in gilt and blind, spines in six compartments with wide raised bands, the bands highlighted in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt in the second, third, fourth and fifth compartments, the first and sixth compartments with repeat decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins (rebacked, original spines laid down).

First edition of this spectacular monograph on the heathers: a work which Blunt considered to be Andrews ‘finest achievement ... noble in conception and impressive in execution’. The present set includes the rare fourth volume published sporadically between 1810 and 1830 and therefore rarely found complete

The work was very much the achievement of one man: Andrews not only drew and engraved all the plates ‘from living plants only’, but also wrote most of the text , and according to Dunthorne, also coloured the plates himself. The 4-volume set was originally issued in parts between 1794 and 1830, a period when interest in ‘ericas’ was at its height, stimulated by the apparently endless stream of plants being discovered and shipped back from South Africa. Nurserymen specialized in cultivating the new arrivals and at the height of ‘eroicamania’ large numbers of different varieties were available: in the list bound at the back of vol.I Andrews records that 228 varieties were under cultivation by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy of Hammersmith in 1802. The first three volumes of the present set were apparently bound up shortly after the completion of the third volume in 1809, and the watermark date of ‘1829’ on the endpapers of the final volume show that it was bound to match shortly after the completion of the work in 1830. Various peripheral leaves can be found in this work, but most sets are without one of more of these leaves; the present set includes the four ‘systematical arrangement’ leaves that were missing from the Plesch copy, but does not include the dedication leaf or one-leaf introduction.

BM (NH) I, p.46; Dunthorne 9; Great Flower Books (1990) p. 69; Johnston Cleveland Collections 674 (vols.I-III only); Nissen BBI 31; Pritzel 174; Stafleu & Cowan 134

(#34771) $ 35,000 .

55 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 . 56 CHINA, Company School.

An album of spectacular original botanical watercolours of edible plants.

[China: after 1805]. Folio (16 3/8 x 21 inches). 20 original botanical drawings in watercolour and bodycolour of fruit, vegetables and nuts (each shown approximately life-size), on wove paper (each sheet approximately 15 x 19 1/4 inches, and watermarked “J. Whatman / 1805”), interleaved with individual sheets of contemporary wove paper of Chinese manufacture originally used as mounts for the watercolours. Expertly bound to style in contemporary diced russia, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, spine decoratively stamped in gilt in a repeat floral pattern, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the original binding of contemporary woven damask silk used as pastedowns.

A spectacular large-scale album of beautifully-composed drawings of the highest quality.

The album is evidently the work of a single, extremely-gifted artist, but, as is the norm with Chinese botanical drawings from this period, it has not been possible to attribute the drawings to a particular artist. The watermarks give a no-earlier-than date of 1805, and this date is supported by the style of composition, which still shows strong traces of traditional Chinese art. The artist of these drawings does not portray the subjects according to the strict western notions of botanical drawing, i.e. with samples and dissections of the fruit, seeds, and flowers to show their structures. This album aptly represents the work of Chinese artists in and around the coastal trading ports, producing work for Western patrons, more particularly in Canton, and later Shanghai, for the members of the East India and Dutch East India Companies. These so-called “Company School” artists produced lovely works of art that rivalled their contemporaries in the West. However, the present album is exceptional even amongst this exalted company. The combination of the large size of the images and the very fine quality of the compositions result in an album of rare beauty, an album that was surely produced for a collector of some importance.

A detailed examination of the drawings reveals a tantalizing clue concerning the identity of the original owner: all but two of the drawings include early pencilled botanical Latin binomials on the verso, together with occasional notes as to the western name. The binomials are correct for the period when the drawings were produced and all support the theory that they were produced for an important and informed individual. The presentation of the drawings in an album of Chinese manufacture (preserved here as the pastedowns) suggest that the album was assembled on the orders of a Chinese patron for presentation. The subject matter: plants of nutritional (and therefore economic) value may also be significant, perhaps indicating the owner to be a member of a trading company such as the East India Company.

The subjects of the drawings (with their modern binomials) are as follows: Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima); water chestnut (Trapa natans); lotus, showing bud, flower, seedhead and rhizome (Nelumbium speciosum); cucumber (Cucurbita sativa); watermelon, with red and yellow fleshed variants (Cucurbita citrullus); bitter melon (Momordica charantia); pomelo (Citrus decumana); Buddha’s hand citron, fingered citron (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis); lychee (Dimocarpus litchi; mango (Mangiferica indica); peach (Amygdalus persica); pineapple (Bromelia ananas); Eugenia ?jambolana; jacjfruit (Artocarpus integrifolius); 2 varieties of bitter orange (Citrus aurantium); sugar apple (Annona squamosa); loquat (Mespilus japonica); ‘pan tao’ or, Chinese flat peach (Prunus persica); persimmon or sharon fruit (Diospyros kaki).

Cf. Crossman, The China Trade (Princeton: 1972); cf. Clunas, Chinese Export Watercolours (London: 1984).

(#34907) $ 120,000 .

57 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915).

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

New York: D.Appleton & Co, [1861-]1863. Folio (21 7/16 x 13 5/8 inches). 1p. dedication to Philip Lutley Sclater, 1p. list of subscribers. 31 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, after Elliot (24), Paul Louis Oudart (4), E. Maubert (1), A.Mesnel (1) and one unsigned, drawn on stone by C. P.Tholey and others, printed and coloured by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. Expert repairs at margins of frontispiece plate. Expertly bound to style in half dark green morocco and green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in seven compartment, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in gilt.

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

“Elliot was not his own painter, except among the Pittas. Early in his career, in 1863, he had brought out his book on the Pittidae, or Ant-Thrushes with plates of a delightful ... character, after his own drawings” (Fine Bird Books).

Elliot’s chosen illustrator, Paul Louis Oudart, died after completing only 3 or 4 plates, and rather than risk a hurried instruction to another artist, Elliot “felt compelled to turn draughtsman myself” (Preface) and executed all of the other drawings, bar one each by Maubert and Mesnel. The illustrations and indeed the birds themselves represent the pinnacle of Elliot’s pictorial work.

The Pittidae described are native to Borneo, Nepal, Ceylon, the Philippines, New Guinea, and Cambodia amongst other places. Their plumage is rendered in vibrant shades of blues, greens and reds, and the birds (many of whom are shown feeding their young) are placed against beautifully drawn landscapes. Elliot was also careful to ensure that the flowers and foliage shown in detail with the birds were appropriate for the species shown.

When a second edition of this work was issued, most of the plates were redrawn by John Gould’s artist, William Hart, and the text was completely rewritten.

BM (NH) I, p.522; Fine Bird Books (1990), p. 95; Nissen IVB 292; Sabin 22228 (noting that only 200 copies were printed); Wood p.332; Whittell pp.225-226; Zimmer p.208.

(#34444) $ 22,000 .

58 GOODALL, William (1757-1844).

An extensive, life-time collection of 409 watercolor drawings of animals, each captioned with Linnaean classification and other information.

[Dinton, Buckinghamshire, England]: 1794-1833 [watermarks]. Each pen-and-ink and watercolour, on wove paper. Each measuring approximately 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. All signed by Goodall. Housed in two blue cloth chemises and two cloth boxes with morocco labels on the upper covers.

Extraordinary collection of over four hundred original late 18th and early 19th century watercolours of animals of the world by a little-known British naturalist.

William Goodall was educated at Eton, became an ordained priest of the Church of England and served as absentee rector at All Saints Church, Marsham, near Aylsham in Norfolk from 1787-1844. In 1788, he married the sole heiress of Dinton Hall, Buckinghamshire, making him lord of the manor and a Justice of the Peace for Bucks. Painting was a life-long hobby. His brother Joseph Goodall (1760-1840), long-time Provost of Eton, was a noted collector of natural history drawings and friend of William Swainson. Their shared passion suggest that the Goodall brothers were educated at an early age in both natural history and the fine arts.

The present collection of over four hundred watercolours would seem to be a nearly life-time collection, with watermarks dated as early as 1794 and as late as 1833. Drawings by Goodall, sometimes confused with the family of artists of the same surname, exist in various institutions, including the Fitzwilliam Museum. While other collections include watercolours of insects, fish, shells and other animals, the present collection is strictly comprised of mammals.

The animals depicted include species from all over the world, including more exotic animals from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Many of the images are identified as derivative of printed sources, including the Zoological Journal, Shaw, Edwards, Pennant, Temminck, Ruppel, Leach and others; however, others are labelled as having been done from specimens at Dinton. “William had no access to live whales or the larvae of foreign butterflies, so that he must have copied many of his paintings from printed works. This does not mean that he copied all of them. Some are probably original or partly original. Many paintings suggest observations on live or newly caught organisms ... Even paintings known to have been copied contain corrections or some new element to improve the presentation” (Locke & Collins).

“William lived in a more leisurely age when the only way to create a visual archive was to paint, much as we might now collect photographs. His pursuit of images probably satisfied his inclination to paint, to collect and to study natural history combined in the one activity. He was following in the footsteps of Sir Hans Sloane ... He thus created his personal museum, a good part of which was a paper museum” (Locke & Collins).

Locke, M. and Collins, J.V. (2001) “Who was W. Goodall?” in The Linnean 17: 28-47.

(#33454) $ 60,000 .

59 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 .

60 INSECTS - MATHEWS, H.

Nature Imitated in Colour Form & Size [cover title: An album of watercolours of moths and other insects, some incorportating original wings].

[Great Britain : 1820s-1840s]. Oblong small 4to (7 x 8 1/2 inches). 11 pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings with gold and silver highlights (some incorporating original wings or other elements of the insect) on Bristol board or thick drawing paper, each mounted within the album and with all but one surrounded by elaborate watercolour frames. With eight printer’s trade cards or specimens mounted within the rear of the album (relating to T. Mathews of New York and Bristol or Mathews & Son of Oxford). Contemporary dark green morocco, covers blocked in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, flat spine gilt.

Accomplished 19th century watercolours of insects

In all 48 specimens are depicted on the 11 drawings, mostly being moths, but also a image devoted to a fantastic dragonfly (incorporating the original wings), as well as one of four caterpillars. A pleasing album by a talented entomological artist.

(#34917) $ 3,850 . 61 J., S.

The Vineyard: a Treatise shewing I. The nature and method of planting, Manuring, Cultivating, and Dressing of Vines in Foreign Parts. II. Proper Directions for Drawing, Pressing, Making, Keeping, Fining, and Curing all Defects in the Wine. III. An Easy and Familiar Method of Planting and Raising Vines in England, to the greatest Perfection ; illustrated with several useful Examples. IV. New Experiments in Grafting, Budding, or Inoculating ; whereby all Sorts of Fruit may be much more improved than at present; particularly the Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, Plumb, &c. V. The best manner of raising several sorts of compound fruit, which have not yet been attempted in England. Being the observations made by a gentleman in his travels.

London: D. Browne, 1732. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). [16],192pp. Engraved frontispiece. Minor staining. Expertly bound to style in eighteenth century russia and period marbled paper boards, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: William Wilson (early signature on title).

Scarce early English treatise on cultivating vines and wine making.

A reissue of the edition of 1727, with a cancel titlepage. The preface is signed S.J. (not in Halkett and Laing), though the work is attributed by some to Richard Bradley.

Henrey 871; ESTC T123774; Bitting p.616.

(#30857) $ 3,500 . 62 LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744-1815).

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

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

First edition, complete with the hand coloured frontispiece.

The Natural History of the Tea-Tree is actually a translation and expansion of Lettsom’s Latin doctoral dissertation entitled “Observationes ad vires Theae pertinentes” (M.D., Leyden, 1769) and contains an accurate botanical description of the plant, about which Linnaeus, in a complimentary letter, allowed himself corrected. Lettsom, a physician of great learning, discusses the varieties and methods of curing and preparing tea in China and Japan. He astutely points out that “It is indeed probable that the North American summers in the same latitude with Pekin[g], would suit ...Tree better than ours [in England].” In the second part of this work Lettsom deals extensively with the history of medicinal uses of tea.

The lovely hand coloured frontispiece was painted and engraved by J. Miller after a drawing in the possession of Dr. Fothergill of a flowering specimen at Sion-House.

Wellcome III 504; Nissen BBI 1182; Henry 966

(#34728) $ 2,500 . 63 MILLER, Philip (1691-1771).

Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in the Gardeners Dictionary exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraved after drawings taken from nature, with the characters of their flowers and seed vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by John Rivington [and others], [1755]-60. 2 volumes, folio (16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches). Engraved allegorical headpiece to the dedication leaf after and by J. S. Miller, woodcut headpiece and initial-frame. 300 hand-coloured engraved plates (two folding) after G. D. Ehret, J. Bartram, W. Houston, R. Lancake and J. S. Miller by Miller, T. Jefferys, and J. Mynde. Uncut. Contemporary marrbled paper boards, expertly rebacked to style in tan calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Housed in a slipcase.

A lovely set of the first edition of Miller’s illustrated supplement to his overwhelmingly popular Gardeners Dictionary.

While conceived as a complement to an earlier publication, Miller’s Figures of ... Plants “is a sufficiently complete work and may be rated on its own merits” (Hunt). In the preface, Miller stated his intention of publishing one figure of a plant for every known genus, but abandoned this in favor of, “...those Plants only, which are either curious in themselves, or may be useful in Trades, Medicine, &c. including the Figures of such new Plants as have not been noticed by any former Botanists.”

The plants illustrated were either engraved from drawings of specimens in the Chelsea Physic Garden or drawings supplied by Miller’s numerous correspondents, including John Bartram, the Pennsylvania naturalist (cf. plate 272), and Dr. William Houston, who travelled widely in the Americas and West Indies and bequeathed Miller his papers, drawings, and herbarium (cf. plates 44 and 182). For the plants drawn from examples in the Garden, Miller employed Richard Lancake and two of the leading botanical artists and engravers of the period, Georg Dionysius Ehret and Johann Sebastian Miller. Like Miller’s Catalogus Plantarum, many of the etched and engraved plates are delicately printed in colour (i.e. green) to give a more life- like impression after hand colouring.

The work was published by subscription in 50 monthly parts, with each part containing 6 plates, between 25 March 1755 and 30 June 1760. Two later editions were published in 1771 and 1809. Complete sets of the first edition are scarce, particularly in such lovely original condition.

Nissen BBI 1378; Great Flower Books p. 121; Dunthorne 209; Henrey 1097; Hunt 566; Stafleu and Cowen TL2 6059; Pritzel 6241

(#34775) $ 22,500 . 64 POMET, Pierre (1658-1699).

A Compleat History of Druggs [sic.] ... Divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts.

London: printed for R. Borwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwinb, [etc.], 1712. 2 volumes in one, 4to (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches). Titles in red and black, 2pp. subscribers’ list. 86 engraved plates. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards.

First edition in English of this important work by the Parisian apothecary Pierre Pomet, with additional information from Nicolas Lémery and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.

The first volume is entirely on trees, shrubs and other smaller plants. The species are presented under headings that indicate their use in the maintenance of health: Of Seeds; Of Roots; Of Woods; Of Barks; Of Leaves; Of Flowers; Of Fruits; Of Gums; and Of Juices. The second volume is on animals and minerals but includes a fascinating 8pp. Catalogue of the seeds of several ... plants lately brought from the American Islands by J. D. de Surain, “a Physician of Marseilles, a Lover of Botany, and also Professor in America, being sent thither by the French King to promote Botanick Knowledge.”

Bradley III, 240; Hunt 428; Wellcome IV, p.411.

(#29892) $ 3,000 . 65 ROBERTSON, William (1770-1850).

A Collection of Various Forms of Stoves, used for Forcing Pine Plants, Fruit Trees, and Preserving Tender Exotics.

London: R. Ackermann, 1798. Quato (14 x 11 1/4 inches). [4]pp, plus 24 aquatint plates (22 colored), interleaved with descriptive letterpress for each plate. Contemporary marbled paper covered boards, sympathetically rebacked with tan cloth, paper lettering piece.

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

Robertson, an Irish architect, devised these heated garden buildings with practical advice and tips for their construction. His plans show stoves for peach, pine and cherry trees, greenhouses and conservatories for the cultivation of particular exotic fruits and plants, and a plan of a kitchen garden.

“The following Work is respectfully offered to the Public, under the idea of its being the first of the description published in this kingdom. Engravings of many of their forms are to be met with, it is true, in many works on gardening; but it can also be with truth asserted, that (with very few exceptions) they serve to convey no more than a general idea of their forms; which may satisfy a theorist, but is insufficient for a practical gardener...” (Preface).

Abbey Life 62

(#34886) $ 4,500 . 66 ROSCOE, Margaret (c.1786-1840).

Floral Illustrations of the Seasons, consisting of the most beautiful hardy and rare herbaceous plants, cultivated in the flower garden, from drawings by Mrs. Edward Roscoe.

London: Robert Havell, 1831. Quarto (11 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches). Engraved title and 55 hand coloured engraved and aquatint plates, by Havell after Roscoe. Plates on wove paper watermarked J. Whatman 1830. Contemporary burgundy straight grain morocco, covers elaborately blocked in gilt and blind, spine gilt with wide semi-raised bands in five compartments, lavender endpapers, gilt edges.

With wonderful hand coloured plates by Havell after Margaret Roscoe.

Margaret Roscoe was the daughter-in-law of William Roscoe, the Liverpool botanist, banker, and patron of the arts. She contributed several plates to Roscoe’s Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamae (1824-1829) before publishing Floral Illustrations of the Seasons (1829-31), her book of detailed botanical drawings engraved by Havell. Kramer notes that the work is one of very few Victorian English botanical books where a female illustrator/author is named on the title.

Roscoe’s book was produced in a very small edition at the time that Robert Havell was deeply involved in the production of Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838), and this exquisite work demonstrates his pre-eminence as a natural history engraver.

Nissen BBI 1676; Dunthorne 236; Great Flower Books 133; Stafleu & Cowan IV:882; cf. Kramer, Women of Flowers, p. 49.

(#34804) $ 5,000 . 67 SCLATER, Philip Lutley (1829-1913).

A Monograph of the Jacamars and the Puff-Birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae.

London: printed by Taylor & Francis, published for the Author by R.H. Porter, October 1879- July 1882. 7 parts in one volume, royal quarto (12 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches). 1p. list of subscribers, letterpress title with wood-engraved vignette. 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates by John Gerrard Keulemans, printed by Hanhart. With the original parts front wrappers bound in the rear. Early red half morocco and red pebble-grained cloth-covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments.

First edition of this beautifully-illustrated monograph, limited to 250 copies, with plates by Keulemans: “the major bird book illustrator” of his time (Jackson).

John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) is described by Christine Jackson as “the major bird book illustrator for 30 years at the end of the 19th century” (Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World, 1999, p.314), and an artist who “worked to a consistently high standard.” This is certainly true of the excellent illustrations in the present work. Every species is carefully depicted against a naturalistic background, with the plumage precisely indicated and beautifully coloured.

Sclater notes in the preface that “The Jacamars and Puff-birds formed the subject of some of my earliest studies in Ornithology. Of the former of these families I published a Synopsis in 1852, of the latter in 1856. Since those dates I have not failed to add to my series of examples of both groups whenever the opportunity has presented itself. Assisted by the additional materials thus acquired, and by the excellent collection of the birds... in the cabinets of my friends Salvin and Godman ... it has been a great pleasure to me to go over former ground and ... to give a complete account of what is as yet known of the Jacamars and Puff-birds.”

The work was issued in seven parts by Sclater, each part priced at one guinea. The size of the work was intended to be uniform with Dresser’s Birds of Europe, Sharpe’s Kingfishers, Marshall’s Barbets, and Shelley’s Sun-birds.

The Jacamars and Puffbirds are insect-eating birds, natives of the Caribbean, central and south America, and are apparently related to the trogons and woodpeckers. They inhabit the dense tropical forest, and can usually be seen sitting motionless on trees from which they fly out to catch insects on the wing, then return to crack them on a branch before eating them.

Anker 451; Fine Bird Books (1990), p.106; Nissen IVB 840; Wood, p.558; Zimmer, p.561

(#34424) $ 7,500 .

68 SHORT, Thomas (1690-1772).

A Dissertation upon Tea: explaining its nature and virtues, by many new experiments; and demonstrating the various effects it has on different constitutions. To which is added, the natural history of tea; ... Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water; and an enquiry into the reasons, why the same food is not equally agreeable to all constitutions ... The Second Edition.

London: Printed for Dan. Browne [and others], 1753. Small 4to. [4],199,[1]pp. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece.

Rare early English work on the medicinal uses of tea.

Thomas Short (d. 1772) was a physician at Sheffield who specialized in the curative effects of spa waters. First published in 1730, the work covers the history of tea, including its importance in Japan and China and its first appearance in England. Short discusses the curative uses of tea in preventing such ailments as the spitting of blood, scurvy, dropsy, and indigestion. He advises its use as an antidote against the effects of chronic fear or grief and stresses that “[t] ea, if moderately drunk, and of a due strength, is generally more serviceable to the fair sex than to men” (p. 61). Short also points out the ill effects of tea, which include tremors and should on no account be used for obstructions of the liver, spleen, or pancreas. Included is “An Appendix Containing a Dissertation on Sage and Water” in which Short describes the various types of sage and its medicinal properties.

The present scarce second edition not to be confused with Short’s more common Discourses on Tea, Sugar, Milk, Made Wines, Spirits, Punch, Tobacco, etc, published the same year.

ESTC N2348

(#34729) $ 2,500 . 69 SPEECHLY, William (1734?-1819).

A Treatise on the Culture of the Pine Apple and the Management of the Hot-House.

York: Printed by G. Peacock, 1779. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 2 engraved plates (one folding). Uncut. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine tooled in gilt in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece.

First edition of the most important English work on the culture of the pineapple in the 18th century.

From 1767 until 1804, Speechly served as the gardener to the Duke of Portland, to whom this work is dedicated. Described by Henrey as “the best kitchen, fruit, and forcing gardener of his time”, the present work is widely considered the most important treatise on the culture of the pineapple published in the 18th century.

Henrey III:1373; cf. Raphael, Oak Spring Pomona 99 (1786 edition)

(#29728) $ 1,200 . 70 SWEET, Robert (1783-1835).

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

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

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

Cistus species are upright evergreen shrubs, having mostly pink or purple flowers, which resemble roses. Originally published in 28 parts, at three shillings per part, between July 1825 and January 1830, each plate shows a single variety of Cistus or Rock-rose and is accompanied by text giving a taxonomic description and instructions for the plant’s cultivation. In the years following completion, the work was reissued as a single volume, however sets of the first edition in the original parts, as here, are very rare.

Robert Sweet “was born in 1783 at Cockington, near Torquay, Devonshire. When sixteen years old he was placed under his half-brother, James Sweet, at that time gardener to Richard Bright of Ham Green, near Bristol, with whom he remained nine years. He subsequently had charge of the collection of plants at Woodlands, the residence of John Julius Angerstein ... In 1810 Sweet entered as a partner in the Stockwell nursery, and when that was dissolved in 1815, became foreman to Messrs. Whitley, Brames, & Milne, nurserymen, of Fulham, till 1819, when he entered the service of Messrs. Colvill. While in their employ he was charged with having received a box of plants knowing them to have been stolen from the royal gardens, Kew, but was acquitted after trial at the Old Bailey on 24 Feb. 1824. In 1826 he left the Colvills, and till 1831 occupied himself almost wholly in the production of botanical works, while still cultivating a limited number of plants in his garden at [Pomona Place] Parson’s Green, Fulham. In 1830 he moved to [Cook’s Ground, King’s Road] Chelsea, where he had a larger garden and cultivated for sale to his friends… He died on 20 Jan. 1835... He had been elected a fellow of the Linnean Society on 14 Feb. 1812. The botanical genus Sweetia was named in his honour by De Candolle in 1825” (DNB).

Nissen BBI 1922; Great Flower Books (1990) p.141; Stafleu & Cowan 13.546; Pritzel 9078.

(#34776) $ 5,250 .

MISCELLANY

71 BOUDARD, Jean Baptiste (1710-1768).

Iconologie Tirée de divers Auteurs. Ouvrage Utile aux Gens de Lettres, aux Poëtes, aux Artistes, & généralement à tous les Amateurs des Beaux-Arts.

Parma: De l’Imprimerie de Philippe Carmignani, 1759. Three volumes, folio (13 x 8 3/4 inches). [10], 16, 203, [1]; [4], 219, [9]; [4], 208, [8]pp. Engraved title vignettes in each vol., engraved dedication in vol. 1, engraved headpiece in vol. 1, 630 engraved emblematic illustrations. Contemporary marbled calf backed paper covered boards, flat spine ruled in gilt, citron and green morocco labels, expert repairs to tops and tails of spines. Provenance: Giuseppe de Lama (manuscript book label in vol. 1).

A lovely 18th century emblem book: the rare folio edition.

Known for his work as a sculptor, the present work is arguably Boudard’s most enduring masterpiece, containing over six hundred engraved emblematic illustrations. The work is organized alphabetically, creating a visual dictionary of vices, virtues, emotions, professions and more. More commonly found is the 1766 octavo second edition; the present first edition in folio is quite rare. This set with provenance to Giuseppe de Lama, the biographer and bibliographer of Bodoni.

Praz p.28

(#34217) $ 4,800 . 72 COOPER, Peregrine F. .

The Art of Making and Colouring Ivorytypes, Photographs, Talbotypes, and Miniature Painting on Ivory & c. together with valuable Receipts never before published.

Philadelphia: By the Author, 1863. 12mo. 52pp. With a hand-painted manuscript colour chart mounted on verso of the title and a signed and inscribed photograph of the author bound in following the title. With a letterpress ad for Cooper’s Photographic Gallery mounted onto the rear pastedown. Publisher’s cloth, covers stamped in blind and titled in gilt, rebacked and with endpapers renewed.

Rare American manual detailing an unusual hand coloured photographic process.

This rare mid-19th-century American technique involved hand colouring salted paper or albumen prints, mounting them to white board and then specially glazing a piece of glass with a wax-based heated mixture and adhering the photograph face down to the glass on the waxed side. The effect is soft and beautiful and has the appearance of a hand-painted ivory miniature. The process was first used in America in the late 1850s by photographer Frederick Wenderoth, which he called the Toovytype.

The author of this manual operated from a studio on Chestnut Street, according to his ad on the rear pastedown, and specialized in equestrian pictures, views of buildings, cased portrait images and the colouring of prints and photographs. In addition, the author offered lessons “in painting photographs of all sizes” and sold the present book to aid his students.

(#34700) $ 4,500 . 73 [HARVEY, William Henry (1811-1866)].

Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries with an Introduction and Descriptive Lines by “Aleph”.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. 4to (10 3/4 x 9 inches). [8]pp., plus [4]pp. publisher’s ads in the rear. 12 chromolithographed maps, lithographed by Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son. . Publisher’s green cloth, upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt and with a large central pictorial onlay.

A complete copy of a rare atlas of anthropomorphic maps of European countries.

The introduction describes these caricature maps as the work of a “young lady ... in her fifteenth year.” The introduction itself and accompanying four lines of verse beneath each map are ascribed to “Aleph” on the title-page, but the book was in fact a posthumous work by William Harvey, wood-engraver, illustrator and writer of verse for children. The 12 chromolithographed, anthropomorphic maps comprise: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Prussia, Germany, Holland & Belgium, Denmark and Russia.

(#34911) $ 4,500 . 74 HOMER - John OGILBY (1600-1676).

Homer his Iliads Translated, Adorn’d with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations.

London: printed by Thomas Roycroft, to be had at the Author’s House, 1660. Folio. Letterpress title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, engraved portraits of Ogilby and Charles II, engraved statue of Homer and 48 (of 49) plates engraved by W. Hollar and others after Cleyn and others. Lacks plate illustrating Book 6, verse 340. Contemporary red morocco, expertly rebacked to style retaining the five central compartments of the original spine, marbled endpapers. Provenance: S.P. (initials in gilt on the spine).

First edition of Ogilby’s lavishly illustrated edition of Homer’s Iliad, among the most beautiful editions ever printed.

John Ogilby began his professional life a far cry from the world of publishing, as an apprentice to a dancing master. Having no formal education, he began learning Latin in his forties with the help of members of the University of Cambridge whom he had befriended. In 1649, having had some success at a young age with creating his own verse, he attempted a translation of Virgil. Meeting with a positive response, he turned his study to Greek so that he could translate Aesop and Homer. Beyond simple translations, his editions of such classics include significant marginal annotations, synthesizing previous scholarship. However, the common thread among his works, and the principal reason for his success in his lifetime and beyond, are the numerous illustrations which adored his works.

The illustrated folio editions of such classics were a new and welcome addition to the mid-17th century English book market and led to the larger more expansive geographical works for which he is best remembered. For the lavish illustrations in his works, Ogilby commissioned prints from some of the best designers and engravers working in England, including Francis Cleyn ( d. 1658), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), William Faithorne ( c. 1620-1691), and Pierre Lombart (1612/13-1682). To subsidize his publications, particularly costly because of the quality of both paper and illustrations, Ogilby was one of the first publishers to be fully successful at using a combination of subscription and lotteries.

Ogilby’s version of the Iliad first appeared in 1660; five years later, he published his translation of the Odyssey. A second edition of the Iliad followed in 1669 (although with fewer plates than the original). “The versions of [Homer by] John Ogilby fired the enthusiasms of a youthful Alexander Pope, and despite his later reservations, furnished many rhymes and potential couplet-shapings for his own versions. Both were lavishly illustrated folios ‘replete with magnificent plates which depicted the Greek and Trojan heroes in dignified costumes, settings and attitudes in the grand manner of Renaissance painting’, and which offered a more coherent impression of Homer than the text” (Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, p. 170).

The provenance of this volume is intriguing. At the Ham House sale (Sotheby’s, 24-5 November 1947), a third folio Shakespeare similarly bound in morocco with the same initials on the spine, was suggested at the time to have been from Samuel Peyps’s library. However Nixon, in his 1984 work on Pepys’s bindings, refutes the attribution: “The suggestion made ‘tentatively’ in the Ham House sale catalogue ... that the fine turkey copy of the Third Folio with the initials ‘SP’ on the spine might have been Pepys’s is wildly improbable. He certainly did not use turkey leather for any of his bindings during the 1660s nor did he add his initials to the spine of any of his books.” The owner of this fine copy of The Iliad remains an unidentified collector of the Restoration period.

Wing H-2548; Schuchard 7

(#2996) $ 12,000 .

75 STILLMAN, William J. (1828-1901).

The Acropolis of Athens, Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography.

London: F.S. Ellis, 1870. Folio. Title page illustrated with a mounted photograph. 25 mounted carbon print photographs (images approx. 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches, or the reverse). Publisher’s green cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked to style with green morocco.

The best 19th century photographs of the Acropolis: one of 100 copies printed.

Stillman’s The Acropolis of Athens “may be considered a precursor of the twentieth-century modernist photobook in that self-expression is deemed as important as making a record. Stillman’s title determines the book’s tone -- the Acropolis is ‘illustrated picturesquely and architecturally in photography’, with the artistic side of the enterprise being placed before the documentary ... [Stillman’s] work is nominally in a straightforward nineteenth century topographical mode, fulfilling the brief of documenting the Parthenon and Erecheum, but it also functions as a conscious vehicle for the photographer’s artistic ambitions. Stillman takes us on a tour of the Acropolis in 25 well-executed and richly toned photographs that transport us from far to near, beginning with distant views that place the hill and its monuments in context, and ending with close-ups of statue fragments” (Parr and Badger).

Stillman, born in Schenectady, New York, trained as an artist under Frederic Church; travelling to England and Europe in the 1850s, he became an important member of the Pre- Raphaelite circle, befriending Rossetti, Millais and others. It was around this time that he also took up photography. Following the Civil War, Stillman was named U.S. Consul to Crete, but fled to Athens during the Cretan Revolt. In the winter and spring of 1869 he began photographing the Acropolis. Encouraged by others, he privately published his work, with the carbon print photographs printed by the Autotype Company of London. Contemporary advertisements reveal that only 100 copies were published at the price of $25 (with images subsequently offered for sale individually at $1).

The work is quite rare on the market, with only a single example in the auction records.

Truthful Lens 155; NYPL 223; Parr and Badger, The Photobook, I:p. 68; Frederick N. Bohrer, “Fixing the Acropolis: William J. Stillman and the Restoration of Athenian Antiquity” History Of Photography Vol. 40 , No. 3 (2016); Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, “An American on the Acropolis” in Antiquity in Photography, pp. 148-193 (Getty Publications: 2005).

(#34010) $ 52,000 .

INDEX

MARRA, John 44 ABBOT, John 55 MATHEWS, Alfred Edward 24 ADAMS, Ansel 1 MATHEWS, H. 60 ANDREWS, Henry C. 54 MILLER, Philip 63 BACK, George 35 OGILBY, John 45, 74 BOUDARD, Jean Baptiste 71 PALLISER, John 25 CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH 3, 11, 18, 20 PALOU, Francisco 26 CALIFORNIA, Universal Pictures 2 PÉRON, François Auguste 46 CASSIN, John 55 PIERCY, Frederick 23 CATHERWOOD, Frederick 4 POMET, Pierre 64 CATLIN, George 5 PORTLOCK, Nathaniel 47 CHINA, Company School 56 PRINGLE, John 48 CLARK, William 22 RICKMAN, John 49 COLNETT, James 36 COLT, Samuel 6 ROBERTSON, William 65 COOK, James 37, 44, 48, 49 ROGERS, Woodes 50 COOPER, Peregrine F. 72 ROSCOE, Margaret 66 CORTÉS, Hernan 7, 8 ROSS, John 51 DANIELL, Thomas and William 39 SAGE, Rufus B. 27 DE SMET, Pierre Jean 9 SARTORIOUS, Carl 28 D’OYLY, Charles 38 SCLATER, Philip Lutley 67 DRAGE, Theodore 40 SEYMOUR, William Dean 52 DUBOS, Jean Baptiste 10 SHORT, Thomas 68 DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore 41 SIMPSON, James H. 29 SPEECHLY, William 69 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud 57 STILLMAN, William J. 75 STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von 53 FOSTER, George 11 STRATTON, R. B. 30 FREYCINET, Louis-Claude 46 SWAINE, Charles 40 de Saulces de SWEET, Robert 70 GARRETT, Pat F. 12 TRIGGS, J.H. 31 GOODALL, William 58 GOULD, John 59 WEED, Charles Leander 32 WILKES, Charles 33 HARVEY, William Henry 73 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE 34 HERRERA y Tordesillas, Antonio de 42 HOMER 74 HUMBOLDT, Alexander von 13

IDE, Simeon 14 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, 15 Mexican School

J., S. 61 JAMES, Edwin 16 JOHNSON, Overton 17 JOHNSTON, William 18

KENDALL, George Wilkins 19 KING, Richard 43 KIP, Leonard 20

LEDYARD, John 37 LETTS, John M. 21 LETTSOM, John Coakley 62 LEWIS, Meriwether 22 LINFORTH, James 23