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CLICK THE HENRY ALKEN TITLE

The Seven Ages of the Horse.

London: S. & J. Fuller, 1825. Oblong folio. 7 hand-coloured etched plates. With a modern letterpress title-page. Each plate in a passe-partout mount. Modern green half morocco and green cloth, gilt morocco label on upper cover, spine with raised bands in six compartments.

Scarce series of Alken sporting prints.

(#38577) $ 5,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

DR. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. 12mo. 180pp. Half-title. Expertly bound to style in dark purple morocco and light purple cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands, tooled in gilt on each band, salmon , red endpapers. Provenance: N. M. Terry (early signature).

First edition of the first by the first female physician in the United States.

(#38166) $ 8,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

REBECCA BURLEND

A True Picture of Emigration; or Fourteen Years in The Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account of the various difficulties and ultimate success of an English family who emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in the year 1841.

London: G. Berger, [1848]. 12mo. [3]-62pp. Publisher's pink paper lettered wrappers.

First edition: a woman's account of pioneer life on the Midwestern frontier.

(#38551) $ 300. 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

TENCH COXE

The Federalist: containing some Strictures upon a Pamphlet, entitled, "The Pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency, examined, and the Charges against John Adams, refuted." Which Pamphlet was first published in the Gazette of the United States, in a Series of Essays, under the Signature of Phocion.

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1796. Octavo. 48pp. Uncut. Stitched.

Scarce Election of 1796 campaign pamphlet.

(#38189) $ 2,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

EDWIN JOHN ELLIS AND WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Works of William Blake.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893. 3 volumes, octavo. Portrait frontispieces, numerous lithographic plates reproducing Blake's works. Publisher's green cloth, upper covers and spines decoratively blocked in gilt.

First edition: one of 500 copies. A lovely example in the publisher's decorative cloth.

(#36218) $ 4,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HAWAII SAMUEL C. DAMON, editor

The Friend ... [Vol. V].

Honolulu: Charles Edwin Hitchcock, 1847. 24 consecutive issues bound together, quarto. Volume V, Numbers 1-24. 192pp. Woodcut illustrations. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled paper covered boards.

A full year's run of a noted Hawaiian newspaper.

(#36493) $ 6,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Report of the Secretary of State on the Subject of Establishing a Uniformity in the Weights, Measures and Coins of the United States ... Published by Order of the House of Representatives.

New York: F. Childs and J. Swaine, 1790. Octavo (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches). 49, [3, blank]pp. Expertly bound to style in half tree sheep and marbled paper covered boards. Housed in a full blue morocco box. Provenance: J. Elmer (early signature).

First edition, fourth and final issue of the landmark report.

(#37857) $ 20,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Taxation no Tyranny; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775. Octavo. [4], 91pp. Half title. Bound to style in half calf and marbled paper covered boards.

One of the most famous pamphlets of the Revolution.

(#37761) $ 3,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

A. KALINOVSKY

Les chasses au Caucase ... Okhoty Kavkaza.

[St. Petersburg]: Vilborg for A. Jacovlev, 1900. Folio (16 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches). Text in two columns in Russian and French. 192 photo- graphic plates on 100 sheets. Publisher's green cloth, covers blocked in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, rebacked retaining the original spine, decorative endpapers. Provenance: Norman Whitehouse (armorial ); F. P. Williamson (bookplate).

First edition recording the imperial hunting parties in the Caucasus: one of the greatest books on sporting in Russia.

(#35977) $ 6,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

MARIN CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE

Nouvelles Observations et Conjectures sur l'Iris.

Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1650. Quarto (9 1/4 x 7 inches). [6], 340, [6]pp. Engraved printer's device on title-page, engraved head-piece and initial on the leaf, 26 engraved illustrations (including one full-page). Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece.

First edition of an important work of optics and the musical nature of the refraction of color.

(#37850) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN LOCKE

Some Thoughts concerning Education.

London: A. and J. Churchill, 1693. Octavo. [8], 262, [2]pp. Title within double-ruled border. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining the original red morocco lettering piece, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Modern slipcase.

First edition of Locke's influential work: the foundational eighteenth-century text on educational theory.

(#35909) $ 6,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JANE WELLS LOUDON

The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants.

London: William Smith, 1841. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches). Half-title. 58 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Contemporary half calf over green patterned cloth covered boards, morocco gilt lettering piece on the upper cover, flat spine tooled in gilt, black morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (repairs at joints).

The first edition of the second work in Mrs. Loudon's extremely popular series that influenced a generation of mid-nineteenth century gardeners.

(#29722) $ 2,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

RICHARD LYDEKKER

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

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

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

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

FRANÇOIS MINGAUD

The Noble Game of Billiards wherein are exhibited extraordinary & surprising strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the Sovereigns of Europe, by Monsieur Mingaud ...

London: published by John Thurston, 1830. Imperial octavo. Engraved title, folding uncoloured aquatint frontis- piece, 1 engraved introductory plate, 40 hand-coloured engraved diagram- matic plates of various plays, extra- illustrated with a smaller-format 1p. letterpress prospectus tipped-in at the front. Original dark red half roan over marbled paper-covered boards, upper cover mounted with original green glazed-paper label with engraved title.

A fine copy of the rare first English edition of this highly-influential work, here with the very rare original prospectus.

(#25167) $ 2,850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN MORTIMER

The Whole Art of Husbandry, Or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land ... By J.M., Esq. F.R.S.

London: J. H. for H. Mortlock at the Phoenix, and J. Robinson at the Golden Lion, 1707. Octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches). [16], 609, [31]pp. Woodcut illustrations. Publisher’s advertisement on verso of final leaf. Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Admiral George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk (armorial bookplate).

First edition of an influential early 18th century work on husbandry.

(#36878) $ 1,850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHANN F. NETTO AND F. L. LEHMANN

Die Kunst Zu Stricken in ihrem ganzen Um- fange Oder: Vollständige und gründliche Anweisung alle sowohl gewöhnliche als künst- liche Arten von Strickerei nach Zeichnungen zu verfertigen.

Leipzig: Georg Voss, 1804. Oblong folio (11 1/8 x 18 1/2 inches). Engraved hand-colored title and 50 engraved plates in two states (25 hand-coloured). The colour plates on laid paper, the text and uncoloured plates on wove paper, as issued. Contemporary linen-backed marbled paper covered boards. Housed in a red morocco backed box.

Second enlarged edition of a beautifully-illustrated pattern book on knitting, crocheting, lace making and more.

(#36839) $ 7,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHARLES B. NEWHOUSE

The Roadsters Album.

London: Messrs. Fores, 1845. Folio (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches). Hand-coloured engraved title after H. Alken, 16 hand-coloured aqua- tint plates after Newhouse, heightened with gum arabic. Publisher's green cloth, covers blocked in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.

The greatest of all coaching books.

(#38570) $ 6,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

THOMAS PAINE

Opinion de Thomas Payne Député du Dé- partment de la Somme, concernant le Jugement de Louis XVI ... [Bound With:] Opinion de Thomas Payne sur l'Affaire de Louis Capet, Addressé au Président de la Con- vention Nationale ... [Bound with 282 other works concerning the trial of Louis XVI].

Paris: Imprimerie National, 1792-1793. Together 284 works bound in 6 volumes, octavo (8 x 4 3/4 inches). The Paine items 10pp. and 8pp. Early half calf and period pastepaper boards, flat spine in five compartments, red and black morocco labels.

A pair of rare works by Paine which would lead to his imprisonment in France: bound within an extraordinary collection of revolutionary pamphlets concerning the fate of Louis XVI.

(#36454) $ 7,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN PARKINSON

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, A choise Garden of all sorts of Rarest Flowers...To which is annext a Kitchin-Garden furnished with all manner of Herbs, Roots, and Fruits... With the Art of planting an Orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing Trees and Shrubs...

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

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

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

JOHN PERKINS

A profitable booke of Mr. Iohn Perkins, felowe of the inner Temple treating of the lawes of Englande.

London: Richard Tottell, [1593]. Octavo. [20], 168 leaves. in Latin, text in Law-French. Contemporary manuscript annotations. Title reinforced at outer edge, minor ink staining extending from the top edges. Modern calf.

An early edition of a popular English legal treatise.

(#31515) $ 2,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT

History of the Conquest of Mexico.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1843. 3 volumes, octavo. xxxiv, 488; xviii, 480; xvi, [2], 524pp., plus 3 engraved portraits, 2 engraved maps and an engraved plate. Publisher's brown cloth, elaborately blocked in blind, spine titled in gilt and with a gilt stamp reproducing the arms of Cortes. Housed in three green morocco backed slipcases.

First American edition: a cornerstone work for any collection on American literature or the historiography of Mexico. A stunning copy in original condition.

(#35933) $ 1,950. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

LOVELL AUGUSTUS REEVE

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

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

First edition, with beautiful illustrations of shells.

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

SLAVERY, ELLIOTT CRESSON

Autograph letter signed to Member of Parliament Benjamin Hawes, sending him the proposed resolution to establish the British African Colonization Society, and on William Lloyd Garrison's opposition to the colonization movement.

[England: June 1833]. 3pp.

Scarce letter on the Liberian colonization movement by one of its founders.

(#31599) $ 3,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HUGH SMITH

Letters to Married Women on Nursing and the Management of Children.

Philadelphia: Matthew Carey, 1792. 12mo. x, [11]-167, [1]pp. Publisher's ad on verso of the terminal leaf. Contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked to style.

First American edition of an early mothercraft manual.

(#38225) $ 1,750.