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CLICK THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TITLE

Commonwealth of . In the House of Representatives ... A Resolve prescribing the form of inlistment for those Men belonging to this Commonwealth who shall Inlist into the Service of the United States, to continue in the Service until the End of the present war with Britain.

[: Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1780]. Small letterpress broadside, approx. 9 3/4 x 8 inches. With a printer's error of the same broadside on verso. Signed in print by Caleb Davis, Jeremiah Powell, and John Avery.

Continental Army enlistment broadside.

(#35837) $ 2,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Instructions Given with a Commission for seizing the Ships, &c. belonging to the Inhabitants of the Rebellious Colonies, &c. ... [Bound with:] Instructions for the Commanders of such Merchant Ships or Vessels who shall have Letters of Marque and Reprizals.

London: 1777-1778. Two volumes in one, folio. 8; 7, [1]pp. Signed in print by George Germain and Weymouth. Each signed in manuscript by Godfrey Lee Farrant, Registrar of the Court of Admiralty. Later pebbled cloth. Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek (old inked stamps); deaccessioned by the Garnisions Biblioteket in 2017.

Very rare Royal Navy instructions to British privateers during the American Revolution.

(#38107) $ 7,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CASE & DRAPER

[Group of 10 photographs of natives, art and landscape of the Alaska panhandle].

[Skagway, Alaska: 1905-1907]. 10 silver print photographs, 7 titled, dated and with photographer's imprint in the negative. Markings on verso suggesting they were used in the early 20th century for a French publication. Each approximately 9x7 inches.

Rare photographs by a noted early Alaskan studio.

(#37957) $ 8,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CIVIL WAR, ESTICK [OR ESTWICK] EVANS

Great Pacification. (To the People of the United States) ... I propose the restoration of our Union ... Peace, the hope of it, even in the midst of the most strenuous war, should not be abandoned ...

Washington, D.C.: February 13, 1865. Letterpress broadside. 24 x 8 1/2 inches. Expert restoration on verso.

An unusual broadside Civil War peace proposal.

(#38207) $ 1,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SAMUEL CLEMENS

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) ... By Mark Twain.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 8vo. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. 366pp. Photogravure portrait frontispiece. Publisher's deluxe half brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers.

First American edition in the publisher's deluxe binding: one of 500.

(#38199) $ 12,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

MARGARET DOUGLASS

Educational Laws of Virginia. The Personal Narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a Southern Woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the Common Jail of Norfolk, under the Laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free coloured childred to read.

Boston: John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1854. 12mo. 65, [1]pp. Portrait frontispiece. Publisher's brown wrappers, lettered on the upper wrapper.

Scarce ante-bellum narrative of a southern woman jailed for teaching free African-American children to read.

(#38215) $ 1,850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN EDWARDS

A Select Collection of One Hundred Plates, consisting of the most Beautiful Exotic and British Flowers.

London: for S. Hooper, 1775. Folio (17 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches). 100 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Edwards, Ferner, W. Darling and I. Fougeron after J. Edwards. Minor foxing and toning. Contemporary diced russia, spine gilt, expert repair to the front joint. Provenance: David Mill (bookplate); Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

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

(#37440) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JAMES M. ELFORD

J.M. Elford's Marine Telegraph; or Universal Signal Book.

Charleston, SC: printed by Archibald E. Miller; Published and Sold by James M. Elford, 1823. 8vo. 75, [1]pp. Hand coloured frontispiece. Elford's engraved trade label affixed to front pastedown. Contemporary roan backed marbled paper covered boards.

A rare instructional work on a patented system of ship communication, using just six telegraphic flags.

(#37868) $ 3,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JEAN FRANÇOIS FORTY

Ouevres de Sculptures en Bronze, Contenant Girandoles, Flambeaux, Feux, Pendules, Bras, Cartels, Barometres, et Lustres.

Paris: Chereau, [circa 1780]. Quarto. Engraved title and 48 engraved plates, by C. Colinet and Augustin Foin. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Provenance: Eug. van Herck & Fils (early ink stamp).

Classic series of Louis XVI designs.

(#38121) $ 5,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FRANCES HUTCHESON

An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations on the Moral Sense.

London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1728. 8vo. xxii, [2], 333, [3]pp. Publisher's ads. Contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece.

First edition of a noted work of the Scottish Enlightenment which would have a profound effect on the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson.

(#37745) $ 2,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN JOHNSON

An Abridgment of Johnson's Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor: With an Appendix.

Boston: C. L. Adams, 1828. 8vo. [4], 1-148, *1-*46, 195-316pp, plus woodcut frontispiece within typographical border (illustrating a Columbian printing press) and numerous woodcut illustrations, including 6 full-page illustrations of printing presses within the Appendix. Title, preface and other leaves within typographically illustrated borders. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Provenance: Samuel Wagner (early signature); William T. Timmons (bookplate).

Very rare first American edition of Johnson's Typographia, and just the second comprehensive American printer’s manual.

(#38165) $ 4,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

AMERICAN JUDAICA

Constitution and By-Laws of the American Jewish Publication Society. (Founded on the 9th of Heshvan, 5606). Adopted at Philadelphia, on Sunday, November 30, 1845, Kislev 1, 5606.

Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. 12mo. 11, [1]pp. Publisher's plain wrappers. Provenance: Leeser Library Hebrew Education Society (inked stamp on title).

The founding of the American Jewish Publication Society: the first Jewish organization in the United States dedicated to the advancement of Jewish Culture and Religion.

(#36119) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

C. W. LARISON

Silvia Dubois, (now 116 years old.) A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt her Mistres and Gand her Fredom [sic].

Ringos, NJ: C.W. Larison, 1883. 8vo. 124, [2, blank], [8]pp. Portrait frontispiece, 2 full-page woodcut illustrations. Publisher's ads in the rear. Publisher's cloth.

A biography of an African American slave, written and published in an unusual phonic orthography.

(#38191) $ 2,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

THEOPHILE LEFEBVRE

Voyage en Abyssinie exécuté pendant les années 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 ... Histoire Naturelle Zoologie ... Atlas ... [Bound with:] Voyage en Abyssinie ... Album historique, ethnologique et archeologique ... [And with:] Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae ... Icones.

Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1847-1851. 3 volumes bound in 2, folio (489 x 344mm). 203 plates, mounted on guards, comprising: [Atlas Zoologie:] 40 hand-coloured engraved plates of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, and insects, 1 plate of fossils bound at end; [Album Historique, Ethnologique et Archéologique:] 59 lithographed plates (33 coloured, 3 folding); [Atlas Botanique:] 103 engraved plates. Contemporary green morocco-backed marbled boards, flat spines in compartments with wide black bands, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

The complete atlas volumes to an important 19th century French exploration of Ethiopia.

(#37438) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHARLES C. LEONARD

The History of Pithole: By "Crocus."

Pithole City, PA: Morton, Longwell & Co., 1867. 8vo. 106, [8]pp. Business ads in the rear. Publisher's green cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt.

A Pennsylvania oil rush rarity.

(#37773) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

MIKHAIL VASIL’EVICH LOMONOSOV

Polnoye sobraniye sochineniy Mikhayla Vasil'yevicha Lomonosova.

St. Petersburg: Izhdiveniem Imperatorskoi akademii nauk, 1784-1787. 6 volumes, quarto (10 x 8 inches). xviii, 345, [1]; 262, [2]; 260 (i.e. 258, with no pages numbered 225-226 as issued), [2]; [10], 294, [2]; [4], 241, [1]; [6], 451 (i.e. 449, with no pages numbered 201-202 as issued), [1] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1, 16 engraved plates (15 folding). Engraved headpieces. Early manuscript annotations in vols. 5 and 6. Contemporary tree calf, flat spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers.

First edition of the collected works of the Russian scientist and polymath Lomonosov.

(#38171) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CLEMENT C. MOORE

Poems.

New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844. 12mo. xi, [1], [13], 216pp. Half-title. Contemporary brown morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt. Provenance: Eliza A. Nevin (name in gilt on the upper cover).

First edition: with an early printing of Moore's famous poem commonly referred to as "Twas the Night Before Christmas."

(#38160) $ 4,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JAMES B. NICHOLSON

A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding: containing Full Instructions in the Different Branches of Forwarding, Gilding, and Finishing. Also, The Art of Marbling Book- Edges and Paper. The whole designed for the Practical Workman, the Amateur, and the Book-Collector.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1856. Large 12mo. 318pp. 12 lithographed plates (including frontispiece), seven specimens of marbled paper. Letterpress illustrations. Publisher's catalogue at rear. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, gilt lettered spine.

The first edition of the first major practical bookbinding manual published in America.

(#36905) $ 850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

EMIL NICOLA-KARLEN

Photographs from E. Nicola-Karlen Berne Switzerland 1876 [cover title].

Bern: 1876. Large folio. 31 mounted albumen photographs, each on captioned card mounts. Image sizes approximately 10 x 14 inches to 12 x 15 inches. Minor restoration at corners of mounts. Exhibition labels on front pastedowns. Contemporary morocco, elaborately panelled and tooled in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked to style.

The Centennial Exhibition album of a noted Swiss photographer, with incredible photographs of glaciers.

(#34448) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

DENIS PAPIN

A New Digester or Engine for Softning Bones, Containing the Description of its Make and Use in these Particulars: Viz. Cookery, Voyages at Sea, Confectionary...and Dying ... [Bound with:] A Continuation of the New Digester of Bones: It's Improvements and New Uses it Hath Been Applyed to, Both for Sea and Land. Together With Some Improvements and New Uses of the Air-Pump.

London: J.M. for Henry Bonwicke, 1681; London: Joseph Streater, 1687. Two volumes in one, small 4to. [New Digester:] [8], 54pp. Engraved folding plate. [Continuation:] [8], 123, [3]pp. Two engraved folding plates. Later calf, panelled in blind, repairs to front joint.

First editions of an important work leading to the development of the steam engine.

(#37861) $ 8,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ARABELLA ELIZABETH ROUPELL

Specimens of the Flora of South Africa By a Lady.

London: printed by W. Nicol, 1849 [but March 1850]. Broadsheet (22 1/2 x 18 inches). Hand-coloured lithographic title, 8 mounted hand coloured plates, lithographed by P. Gauci after Arabella Roupell. Large hand coloured botanical tail-piece. 1p. list of subscribers (103 names subscribing for 111 copies). Publisher's full purple morocco, covers with decorative border tooled in gilt and blind, the upper cover with central gilt vignette with the title surrounded by flowers and foliage, gilt edges gilt. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

A beautiful copy of this rare work, beautifully illustrated with large scale images of the exuberant flora of the Cape of Good Hope.

(#37443) $ 9,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHARLES TOMKINS

The British Volunteer: or, A General History of the Formation and Establishment of the Volunteer and Associated Corps, enrolled for the Protection and Defence of Great Britain.

London: T. Egerton [et al.]; printed by C. Whittingham,, 1799. Quarto. 12 engraved plates (6 coloured aquatint full-length portraits, 5 hand-coloured plates of military maneuvers [2 folding], and 1 hand-coloured folding map of the United Provinces), engraved by and after Tomkins. Repaired tear to the map. Contemporary mottled sheep, expertly rebacked, period marbled endpapers and edges. Provenance: Colonel Paul Le Mesurier (flyleaf inscription, see plate 1 and p.5).

A beautifully illustrated and rare work on British military costume.

(#38117) DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

NATHANIEL WALLICH

Plantae Asiaticae rariores; or, Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants.

London: Richard Taylor for Treuttel and Würtz, 1829-1830- 1832. 3 volumes, folio. Half-titles in vols I and III (as issued, no half-title in vol. II). 295 hand-coloured lithographic plates, by M. Gauci and Weddell after Gorchand, Vishnu Prasad, M. Curtis, Miss Drake, and others, (plates 222/223 constituting one folding plate as issued), printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., Engelmann & Co., and Graf & Soret, folding double-page engraved map of India by J. Arrowsmith. 3pp. list of 160 names subscribing for 225 copies in vol. 1. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and period marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt with wide flat bands, marbled endpapers and edges. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).

A very fine, complete copy of this magnificent work: some of the finest images ever produced of the spectacular trees, shrubs and plants of India, Burma and Thailand.

(#37450) $ 95,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Letters from His Excellency General Washington, to Arthur Young ... containing an account of his husbandry, with his opinions on various questions in agriculture; and many particulars of the rural economy of the United States.

Alexandria, Virginia: Cottom and Stewart, 1803. 8vo. 128pp. Uncut. Later dark blue crushed morocco, bound by Bradstreet's. Provenance: Frank C. Deering (morocco booklabel).

Scarce first American edition of Washington and Young's correspondence on agricultural matters.

(#38192) $ 2,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SIR MATTHEW DIGBY WYATT - DAVID BATTEN (BINDER)

The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century.

London: Day and Son, 1851-1853. 2 volumes, folio (19 3/8 x 12 7/8 inches). 2 chromolithographed titles, 158 chromo- lithographed or tinted lithographed plates. Period full green morocco, bound by David Batten, covers with an elaborate overall decoration in gilt, spines with wide raised bands in five compartments, lettered in the second and fourth the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, silk endpapers, gilt edges.

An important Great Exhibition catalogue, among the most elaborate works illustrated with chromolithography of the mid-19th century: this copy in an extraordinary binding by the London binder David Batten who exhibited at the Great Exhibition and whose work is depicted within the book.

(#38167) $ 12,000.