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AFTER JOHN
ABBOT CLICK THE TITLE Album of watercolor drawings of butterflies and moths after Abbot, titled in manuscript:] Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères les plus rares de Géorgie d'après les observations de M. Jean Abbot. Imprimé à Londres en 1797
[France: 1800-1830]. Oblong 8vo (6 3/8 x 8 inches). Manuscript title within a red ruled border, 2pp. manuscript index in rear. 40 pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings, each captioned in red ink, recto only on 40 sheets of wove paper (watermarked Horne). Contemporary black morocco- backed blue paper covered boards, yellow endpapers (lacks front free endpaper).
Beautiful French album of watercolours of Lepidoptera after Abbot.
(#29094) $ 14,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
CLICK THE TITLE JOHN ADAMS
Partly printed document signed, accomplished in manuscript and endorsed by John Adams, outlining a legal complaint against a Boston bookbinder
Boston: April 5, 1774. [1]p., docketed on verso. Folio. Old folds. Separation at some folds, with repairs on verso. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, cloth chemise.
John Adams files a legal complaint against a Boston bookbinder.
(#33083) $ 6,750 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
HENRY BRIDGEMAN BREWER CLICK THE TITLE
Autograph letter signed, from Oregon missionary Henry Bridgeman Brewer to his parents, describing the attempted human sacrifice of a young slave by local Indians and the child's rescue by a fellow missionary, as well as the activities of the missionaries.
Oregon Territory, Columbia River. Sept. 27 to October 3, 1844. [4]pp. manuscript letter on a folded sheet, addressed and postmarked on a blank portion of the fourth page. Old folds. A few stains. Some small closed splits along folds, longer split along bottom fold of second leaf, with no loss of text. Overall very good.
Fantastic content letter from Oregon Territory in 1844.
(#24297) $ 8,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
CHINA, CANTON SCHOOL
[Album of exceptional watercolours of members of the Chinese court, various occupations, landscape views, Chinese junks and botanical and ornithological subjects].
[Canton: circa 1830]. Small 4to. 61 watercolour and gouache drawings, on J. Whatman wove paper watermarked 1829, interleaved with blanks. The first watercolour, within an elaborate border. Contemporary dark purple straight grained morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind with a central device in gilt, spine wide flat bands in four compartments, tooled in gilt, Liverpool bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown (Richard Taylor), gilt edges.
A lovely album of pre-Opium Wars Chinese export watercolors of the highest quality.
(#31334) $ 30,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
GEORGE EDWARDS
The Bustard Cock [and] The Hen Bustard ... [Pair of ornithological watercolours signed, depicting a male and female Great Bustard].
London: 1746. Watercolour and gouache on laid paper, signed and dated within the images and with pen-and-ink inscriptions concerning the sizes of the birds. Sheet sizes: approx. 16 3/4 x 13 3/8 inches. Matted.
A lovely pair of original watercolours by George Edwards.
(#33072) $ 12,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
MORRIS C. FOOTE
[Original hand-drawn topographical map of the north & northwestern area above the Black Hills].
Near the Black Hills, South Dakota: c. 1878. Manuscript map, colored in outline, 12½ x 15¾ inches. One horizontal, one vertical fold, minor staining, some fold separations.
An important manuscript map of the country near the Black Hills.
(#29676) $ 6,750 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
PIETER HOLSTEYN, THE YOUNGER
[Eight watercolour drawings of tulips].
[Haarlem]: [circa 1640]. 8 ink, watercolour and gouache drawings, on laid paper. Each captioned in ink with the name of each flower. Sheets sizes as listed below. Each matted. Housed together in a full green morocco box. Provenance: Niall Hobhouse; exhibited Florist's Flowers, New York, April 1986.
Watercolours of tulips by a noted Old Master, from the height of Tulipomania.
(#28401) $ 65,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JULIA WARD HOWE
Autograph manuscript signed, the complete five stanzas of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
2 May 1891. 3pp. on two sheets, each sheet measuring 8 x 6 3/8 inches. Titled at the head of the first page and signed and dated below the last verse. With a period photograph portrait of Howe, portraying her as she looked in 1861. Housed in a dark blue morocco backed box.
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..."
(#27220) $ 35,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Cy Comencent Les Chroniques de Jherusalem Abregies [manuscript facsimile of the original Chronicles of the Crusades in the Austrian National Library made by Annette von Eckardt]
[Vienna: 1922-24]. Folio. 34 pages, on fine vellum, written in a batarde hand in red and black ink. 2 full-page and 83 half- page, quarter-page, and column width miniatures illuminated in full color and burnished gold, numerous illuminated initials, all within alternating red and blue borders with gold decoration. Original vellum over bevelled oak boards. Housed in a black morocco backed box.
Astounding manuscript facsimile of a celebrated illuminated manuscript account of the Second Crusade.
(#26335) $ 47,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
THOMAS JEFFERSON
[Partly-printed invitation to William Keteltas, to dine with President Thomas Jefferson]
[Washington, D.C: 1801-1808]. 1p., approximately 3¾ x 6¾ inches. Accomplished in manuscript in a secretarial hand. Old folds. Matted.
Invitation to dinner at Jefferson's White House.
(#30400) $ 3,250 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
[Manuscript letter signed, from Pierre Laussat, the Colonial Prefect of Louisiana, to French General Rochambeau, informing him of the impending transfer of Louisiana to the United States].
New Orleans: September 30, 1803 [i.e. 7 Vendémiaire, an 12]. [3]pp. letter on a folded folio sheet, with engraved scene entitled "Republique Francaise" at the top of the first page. Addressed in manuscript on the fourth page "au General en chef Rochambeau, Capitaine General de l'Ile St. Domingue." One-inch tear in center vertical fold (with some small tape repairs), where wax seal had been affixed, not affecting any text. Very good.
Commissioner Laussat writes of the impending transfer of Louisiana to the United States.
(#24150) $ 27,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
MAURITIUS
[Archive of manuscripts from and relating to the Island of Mauritius]
[Mauritius: 1767-1817]. Approximately thirty-four items, totaling 75pp. plus several other later or tangential items. Mostly folio and quarto sheets, with a few smaller pieces. Light soiling and wear throughout, heavier to some documents.
A superb archive of manuscripts spanning more than fifty years of French colonial history in the southern Indian Ocean.
(#28439) $ 6,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
MICROGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION
[The Story of Samson]
[Netherlands: mid-18th century]. Pen and ink on Dutch laid paper, watermarked "J Honig & Zoonen". Several repairs and reinforcements on verso, surface wear upper right, creased in the middle where it was once folded. Sheet size: 17 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches.
A large micrographic Bible illustration depicting Manoah and the angel, Samson and the lion, and Samson and Delilah.
(#28354) $ 2,250 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
NAPOLEON
[Album containing 39 mounted drawings, being scenes of Napoleon in Italy in the manner of Jacques Louis David, titled on the upper cover:] Pen Sketches of Napoleon I.
[Italy: circa 1820]. Oblong quarto (8 1/8 x 10 2/4 inches). 39 pen-and-ink and wash drawings over graphite, with black ink borders, each mounted recto and verso onto 20 cards, the drawings each approximately 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Contemporary black morocco, covers elaborately panelled in gilt, title in gilt on the upper cover, spine with raised bands in five compartments, each compartment decoratively tooled in gilt, floral patterned endpapers, gilt edges.
Original drawings of Napoleon in Italy.
(#29316) $ 18,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Manuscript ship's log of the Boston Clipper Ship Triton on a circumnavigation trading voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, by way of the Sandwich Islands and Canton, China
At sea (including the coasts off Hawaii, Alaska and Canton): August 1826 - July 1828. Tall 4to. Written recto and verso on 41 unnumbered leaves. 1p. list of Northwest Coast native vocabulary and 1p. list of vessels on the Northwest Coast and Sandwich Islands, in the rear. Period calf-backed marbled paper covered boards ledger-style binding.
An extraordinary, newly re-discovered log of an American ship on the Alaskan Northwest Coast in the 1820s: a primary source on the maritime fur trade.
(#29983) $ 30,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
PAKISTAN, JOWAKI EXPEDITION
Jowaki [manuscript title of an album of watercolours and pen-and-ink sketches by Lt. Oswald C. Radford, recording the Jowaki Expedition in Kohat Pass]
[Kohat Pass, Pakistan: November 1877 - January 1878]. Oblong quarto. Watercolour title, 28 watercolours (mostly on sheets of drawing paper mounted into the album, though others drawn directly on the album leaves), 7 mounted pen- and-ink sketches on thin paper, 5 watercolour vignettes. Manuscript descriptions and captions. Contemporary green cloth album, covers decoratively blocked in gilt, blind and black.
A unique album of drawings depicting the Jowaki Expedition in the Kohat Pass, recorded by an eyewitness in the 3rd Sikh Infantry: a pictorial relic of The Great Game.
(#26989) $ 25,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOSEPH PENNELL
Archive of original pen-and-ink drawings used as illustrations in his book Charing Cross to Saint Paul's.
London: circa 1890. 18 pen-and-ink drawings, each mounted to card, twelve signed. Housed within a black morocco backed box.
Archive of lovely drawings of London by a noted artist and illustrator.
(#31626) $ 17,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
PENNSYLVANIA MARYLAND BOUNDARY
Copy of the Agreement Between the Proprietors of Maryland & Pensilvania; and of the Commission for Running the Lines Between the Said Provinces, 1732 [manuscript title].
[N.p., but London. 1732]. [22]pp. Folio. Stitched, folded sheets. Old fold lines. Light wear and soiling to outer leaves, interior leaves lightly toned, some ink bleed. Still highly legible.
A contemporary manuscript copy of the abortive Penn-Lord Baltimore Agreement of 1732 on the Pennsylvania-Maryland Boundary
(#28740) $ 25,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
EDWARD PREBLE
Collection of fourteen autograph letters, signed, and manuscript letters or circulars in a secretarial hand, from Commodore Edward Preble to Tobias Lear, the American consul to the Barbary States, discussing all the most important issues and actions of the Barbary wars
Various ports and locations in the Mediterranean and the Barbary States. 1803 - 1804. [25]pp. of manuscript, written on folded folio sheets. Several pages have tears from wax seals or otherwise, with some paper loss, affecting a few words of text on two letters, but generally with no loss of text or readability. In a half morocco clamshell case.
An outstanding archive relating to the United States' first major overseas conflict.
(#24117) $ 75,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
LIONEL WALTER ROTHSCHILD
An album of original watercolour drawings of Cassowaries, with related manuscript, titled "Kasuare / Walter Rothschild"
London: 1899. Oblong octavo. Calligraphic manuscript title, manuscript map, 7 pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings of various species of cassowary. With a loosely inserted manuscript listing of various species of the birds, with common names and locations. Contemporary brown morocco-backed cloth-covered boards, dark red morocco box.
Pre-publication presentation manuscript with watercolour drawings depicting the 17 species or sub-species of Cassowaries identified by Rothschild in his "Monograph of the Genus Casuarius."
(#21824) $ 28,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
SLAVERY - ELLIOTT CRESSON
Autograph letter signed to Member of Parliament Benjamin Hawes, concerning the Spanish slave market in Sierra Leone and the colony at Liberia.
Philadelphia: 5 May 1834. 3pp. Later annotation at head of first page.
Scarce letter on the Liberian colonization movement by one of its founders.
(#31598) $ 2,500 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH
Autograph manuscript signed, the complete four stanzas of America
Np, 31 October 1892. 2pp., written on the same side of folded sheet of ruled paper, measuring 8 x 9 7/8 inches overall. Titled at the head of the first page, signed "S.F. Smith" and dated below the final verse.
My country, 'tis of thee...
(#27221) $ 4,000 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
USS DELAWARE - ROBERT STORER
[Manuscript log of the U.S.S. Delaware, kept by Robert Storer, during her final cruise home from the Mediterranean]
[Various places]. Jan. 1, 1844 - Mar. 22, 1844. Quarto. 62pp. Original brown cloth. Cloth moderately soiled and stained. Light dampstaining to some of the text.
An American Navy cruise in the Mediterranean.
(#24042) $ 3,250 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WEAVING, AMERICAN
[Manuscript pattern book for setting the harnesses of a loom, with ten named designs].
[America: circa 1750-1790]. Small folio. 7pp., on laid paper. Contents loose. Contemporary combed marbled paper wrappers.
Rare 18th century American manuscript pattern book of weaving designs.
(#33158) $ 1,250 DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WYOMING TERRITORY
[Pair of original watercolors of the Camp of K and F Companies of the Ninth U.S. Infantry during the Ute war, at Snake River, Wyoming Territory, in 1879-1880].
[Wyoming. 1880]. Two watercolors, painted on the recto of two one-cent postcards, each measuring 3 x 5 inches. Description of each scene written in pencil on the verso of each card. Very minor wear. Near fine.
Wonderful watercolor views on the Snake River.
(#24021) $ 9,500