Donald Heald Rare Books

Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books and 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 International Antiquarian Book Fair 2019 Americana: Items 1 - 28 Voyages and Travels: Items 29 - 47 Natural History: Items 48 - 63 Miscellany, including Photography: Items 64 - 75

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1 BENJAMIN, Asher (1773-1845).

The American Builder’s Companion; or, A System of Architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, Jr., 1811. Quarto (10 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches). iv, [1], 6-104, [2] pp. 59 engraved plates. Contemporary manuscript drawing of a staircase design on the rear blank. Contemporary sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, green morocco lettering piece. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. Very rare early American architectural manual, by America’s first architectural writer: a work which greatly influenced Greek Revival architecture in America.

Prior to the works of Asher Benjamin, beginning with his Country Builder’s Assistant (Greenfield: 1797), earlier architectural works printed in the United States were simply compilations or reprintings of British material (e.g. John Norman’s Town and Country Builder’s Assistant of 1786). Benjamin’s works are important American architectural treatises, by the man who was most responsible for disseminating late colonial details throughout New England, beautifully illustrated with engravings of colonial buildings, elevations of churches and homes, ornaments, cornices, etc., reflecting the influences of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders. “[T]here is scarcely a village which in moulding profiles, cornice details, church spire, or farm-house does not reflect his influence” (DAB).

“The career of our first American architectural writer, Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), covered several decades of the early nineteenth century. Both the books he wrote [Country Builder’s Assistant and the American Builder’s Companion] and the buildings he designed had an influence on building in New England that is still visible. He probably will be best remembered for his popularization of the federal style through his early books (and the Greek revival in his later ones)” (Thompson).

First published in 1806, the present 1811 second edition is the best edition of this early work on American architectural design, containing more plates than the first edition and with significant corrections. Benjamin writes in the Preface: “Five years have elapsed since the first publication of the American Builder; during which time I have been constantly employed in drawing and executing plans for buildings. The experience of that time enables me to confirm some, and reject other former methods. Sixteen plates, which were in the first edition, I have laid aside, and have added twenty-nine new ones; which almost make this a new work.”

Although principally a handbook for carpenters, this book also gives designs for houses, churches, a courthouse and more. The 1811 edition is rare, with no examples in the auction records for the last half century.

Shaw & Shoemaker 22210; Rink 2527; Hitchcock 100; Neville Thompson, “Tools of Persuasion: The American Architectural Book of the Nineteenth Century” in The American Illustrated Book in the Nineteenth Century (1987), p.142.

(#35905) $ 5,500 2 BOLLER, Henry A.

Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West: 1858-1866. Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake.

Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1868. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches). 428pp. Folding map. Publisher’s cloth, rebacked to style with the original spine laid down.

First edition of a rare narrative of travels of a fur trader in the far west: complete with the folding map.

Boller entered the fur trade on the Upper Missouri in 1858, in the service of the American Fur Company. Most of the book deals with his experiences with the Indians in Montana as a trader for the Company. His account is one of the most vivid and well written narratives of the trade, and one of the few relating to the period it addresses. At the end of his sojourn in the West, Boller spent some time in Utah among the Mormons. Wheat describes the map as notable for the places located and described in the text. It shows Montana and the Dakotas, with parts of Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

Field 147; Graff 341; Howes B579; Sabin 6221; Streeter Sale 3079; Flake 582; Wheat Transmississippi 1180.

(#36077) $ 3,500 3 BRADY, Mathew B. (c.1823-1896, photographer). - Charles Edwards LESTER (1815-1889, editor).

The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, containing the portraits and biographical sketches of twenty-four of the most eminent citizens of the American Republic, since the death of Washington. From daguerreotypes by Brady - engraved by d’Avignon.

New York: M.B.Brady, F.d’Avignon, C.Edwards Lester, 1850. 1st series only (all published), folio (21 x 15 inches). Letterpress title and salutation leaf. 12 lithographic portraits on india paper, mounted as issued, by d’Avignon after daguerreotypes by Brady (11) and a painting by S. Gambardella (1). Each plate with the publisher’s blindstamp in the lower margin, as issued. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco and period cloth covered boards, yellow endpapers.

A famous but very rare work, including portraits of John James Audubon and President Zachary Taylor from daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady, the most famous American photographer of the mid-19th century.

The series is made up of twelve portraits, all but one from Brady’s daguerreotypes, accompanied by biographical descriptions. It was intended as a celebration of the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century through the “noble deeds” of its most famous citizens. “In this Gallery, therefore, will be grouped together those American citizens, who have rendered the most signal [sic.] services to the Nation, since the death of the Father of the Republic. As there is nothing sectional in the scope of this work, it will be comprehensive in its spirit; and it is hoped that it may ... bind the Union still more firmly together” (Preface).

The work had its roots in 1845 when “Brady, the commercial photographer, became Brady the historian, who used a camera as Bancroft did his pen. It was in this year that Brady began work on the tremendous project of preserving for posterity the pictures of all distinguished Americans, which he planned to publish in a massive volume with the title of The Gallery of Illustrious Americans ... The year 1850 was ... a milestone in Brady’s life; his dream of having his Gallery ... published became a reality” (J.D.Horan Mathew Brady Historian with a camera. 1955 pp.10-14).

With Brady as the senior partner, the work was a joint publishing venture between the journalist and author Charles Edwards Lester (who undertook to write the biographical sketches), the lithographer F. d’Avignon and Brady. The “book was issued by D’Avignon’s Press ... It received fine notices from the Herald and other New York newspapers, but the public was apathetic and sales were disappointing. Brady had paid D’Avignon a hundred dollars apiece for each of the lithographic stones and Brady soon recognized the book as a critical success but a financial failure” (op.cit. p.14).

From the title it is clear that Brady originally planned to issue a second series of 12 portraits, but, according to Horan, Brady “reluctantly abandoned the project.” Horan goes on to note that Sabin claims that the work was completed in 1856 but there are no extant copies of this second part, and it appears that Sabin was mistaken in this case.

The subjects of the work are as follows: 1. General Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States 2. John Caldwell Calhoun 3. Daniel Webster 4. Silas Wright 5. Henry Clay 6. John Charles Fremont 7. John James Audubon 8. William Hickling Prescott 9. General Winfield Scott 10. President Fillmore 11. William Ellery Channing 12. Lewis Cass

J.D. Horan Mathew Brady historian with a camera pp.10-14; Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, et. al. Mathew Brady and his world pp.47-48; Harold Francis Pfister Facing the light: Historic American portrait daguerreotypes p.22; Sabin 40221 (calls for a second series in error); Robert Taft Photography and the American scene pp.59- 60.

(#35627) $ 22,500 4 CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH - James A. & Donald F. READ, illustrators.

Journey to the Gold Diggins by Jeremiah Saddlebags.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, [1849]. Oblong 8vo (5 1/2 x 9 inches). 63, [1]pp. Pictorial title and 112 wood engraved comic illustrations. Original green lower wrapper (upper wrapper, which repeats the title is lacking). Housed in a modern cloth slipcase.

Rare first edition of among the earliest caricatures of the Forty-Niners: a classic of California Gold Rush comic book literature.

“Of the American comic books on the subject of the gold rush, the best known, although it is scarce, is this.” This is the story of an “Argonaut who risked the hard journey to the gold fields, found that it was all a good deal more difficult than he had thought, avoided death by a hair’s breadth time and again, and came home poorer than he went. It is the best of the American comic books on this theme” (Cowan).

“Jeremiah Saddlebags underwent every possible mishap in this classic spoof of the adventurers of the Forty-Niner” (Streeter).

Two issues of the first edition were published, without priority, in Cincinnati and New York (present). A scarce example of the best known work of Gold Rush comic book literature.

Cowan, p. 523; Howes R92; Kurutz 524b; Murrell 170; Randall 404; Sabin 68157; Streeter sale 2591; Graff 3432.

(#29954) $ 9,500 5 CATLIN, George (1796-1872).

Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America.

London: C. & J. Adlard for George Catlin, Egyptian Hall, 1844. Folio (23 x 16 1/2 inches). [Pp.1-2] letterpress title (verso blank); [pp.3-4] To the Reader; pp.[5-]20 text. 25 hand- coloured lithographic plates, on thick paper, after Catlin, drawn on stone by Catlin (2) or McGahey (23), printed by Day & Haghe. Publisher’s half brown morocco and brown cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, pale green endpapers.

First edition, hand-colored issue, of Catlin’s Portfolio, a key work for any serious collection of Western Americana.

Catlin published the first two issues of the North American Indian Portfolio simultaneously in late November 1844. The first issue was hand-coloured, and the second had tinted plates. Catlin originally envisaged publishing a series of linked but separate portfolios, each with its own theme: religious rites, dances, costumes, etc. Unfortunately, the first series was the only one that was ever published, and its production proved to be so taxing (both financially and physically) that Catlin sold both the publication and distribution rights to Henry Bohn. Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio contains the results of his years of painting, living with and travelling amongst the Great Plains Indians. Catlin summarized the Native American as “an honest, hospitable, faithful, brave, warlike, cruel, revengeful, relentless, -- yet honourable, contemplative and religious being.” In a famous passage from the preface of his North American Indian Portfolio, Catlin describes how the sight of several tribal chiefs in Philadelphia led to his resolution to record their way of life: “the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian.” He saw no future for either their way of life or their very existence, and with these thoughts always at the back of his mind he worked, against time, setting himself a truly punishing schedule, to record what he saw. From 1832 to 1837 he spent the summer months sketching the tribes and then finished his pictures in oils during the winter. The record he left is unique, both in its breadth and also in the sympathetic understanding that his images constantly demonstrate. A selection of the greatest of images from this record were published in the North American Indian Portfolio in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible. In addition to publishing the present work, Catlin also spent from 1837 to 1852 touring the United States, England, France and Holland with his collection of paintings, examples of Indian crafts and accompanied by representative members of the Indian tribes.

A highly important record of a “truly lofty and noble race ... A numerous nation of human beings...three-fourths of whose country has fallen into the possession of civilized man ... twelve million of whose bodies have fattened the soil in the mean time; who have fallen victims to whiskey, the small-pox, and the bayonet” (Catlin).

Abbey Travel 653; Field 258; Howes C-243; McCracken 10; Sabin 11532; Wagner-Camp 105a:1; William S. Reese, The Production of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, 1844-1876

(#33867) $ 110,000

6 CIVIL WAR, Confederate.

Bound volume of 44 pieces of lithographed Confederate sheet music, mostly with illustrated covers.

Richmond, Columbia, Augusta, and elsewhere: 1863-64. Quarto. Expertly bound to style in half dark purple morocco and purple cloth covered boards, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.

An impressive collection of Confederate lithographed sheet music.

This bound volume includes the majority of the imprints by Richmond publishers and lithographers George Dunn and Company, active in Richmond from 1862-64.

Complete listing available upon request.

(#35748) $ 12,000 7 EMORY, William H. (1811-1887).

Notes of a Military Reconnaissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers.

Washington: Wendell and van Benthuysen, 1848. 8vo. 40 lithographic plates, 3 lithographic sketch maps, large folding map (loose as issued). Publisher’s brown cloth, paper label on the spine. Within a cloth clamshell box (with the map in a separate cloth chemise).

First edition, House issue: a stunning copy in near fine condition, complete with the landmark folding map.

One of the most important government reports on overland travel, with accounts of the march of the Army of the West, the Mexican-American War in New Mexico and California, and some of the first American views of the Far Southwest. “As an explorer, observer and reporter of the virtually unknown, newly-won territory of the Southwest, he performed an outstanding service for his country” (Wagner-Camp).

The present House issue of the Emory report, includes the reports of J.W. Abert, Joseph Johnston, and Philip St. George Cooke. Emory also made an important scientific contribution with this work, especially in the botanical section contributed by John Torrey. This example complete with the large folding map, “Military reconnaissance of the Arkansas, Rio del Norte and Rio Gila.” Wheat refers to this map as “epochmaking” as it put much of the country on the map for the first time.

“A library of Western Americana is incomplete without it” (Zamorano 80).

Howes E-145; Zamorano 80, #33; Wagner-Camp 148:5; Cowan, p. 195; Rittenhouse 188; Sabin 22536; Wheat, Transmississippi 3:505

(#35172) $ 4,000 8 FRIAS, Simon de.

Tratado Elemental de la Destreza del Sable.

Mexico: Imprenta de Arizpe, 1809. Small 4to 7 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches. 13 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary Mexican sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering piece (minor wear to head and tail of spine).

The first illustrated work on fencing published in Mexico.

The Mexican author was a master of arms in New Spain. Dicc. Porrúa notes that his birth and death dates are unknown, but he is known to have taught self defense by 1787. Of engraver Manuel Aráoz, Mathes comments: “Manuel Aráoz, instructor in engraving, produced thirteen excellent plates of fencing and fighting maneuvers using the saber for Simón de Frías, Tratado elemental de la destreza del sable, Imprenta de Arizpe. The artist, who signs his name P. Patiño or P.P., may be sculptor and artist Pedro Patiño Ixtolinque.”

The earliest book on any form of fencing published in Mexico, the work is a thorough guide to the formal sport of fencing with sabers, complete with accurate, detailed illustrations. The author includes descriptions of various attacks, defenses, proper foot work, posture, and equipment, including detailed descriptions of the fencing sword.

Leguina 65; Medina 10252; Palau 95016; Thimm, p. 108; Pardoel 989; Garritz 362

(#31038) $ 4,750 9 GENET, Edmond Charles (1763-1834).

Memorial on the Upward Forces of Fluids.

Albany: Packard & Van Benthuysen, 1825. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches). 112pp. 5 engraved plates, folding table. Foxing. Publisher’s lettered boards, rebacked.

Among the earliest American works on aviation.

An ambassador of the French Republic to the United States, Genet settled in New York and married Cornelia Clinton, the daughter of New York Governor George Clinton. Despite its title, which suggests hydraulics, the work largely deals with aviation and is regarded as the first printed suggestion of the theory of a heavier than air machine taking flight. The appendix includes chapters on “navigating the atmosphere,” “applying steam power to aeronautics,” and the “velocity of different winds.” “This pamphlet by the former Ambassador from France contains a proposal for a large airship and other suggestions for the use of the aerostatic principle” (Aeronautic Americana)

The “first book printed in the United States on practical aeronautics and on the first patent for an aeronautical invention” (Streeter). Scarce.

Aeronautical Americana 9; Honeyman Sale 1475; Howes G100; Rink 610; Streeter Sale 3974.

(#35811) $ 4,500 10 HENNEPIN, Louis (1640-1705).

A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico; with a description of the Great Lakes...with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the sieur de La Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. the taking of Quebec by the English.

London: Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698. Two volumes in one, 8vo (7 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches). [22],243,[32],228pp. Frontispiece, two engraved folding maps and six engraved folding plates. Modern panelled calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

The desirable Tonson issue of the first edition in English of this important American narrative, including the first eye-witness account of Niagara Falls.

The second issue of the English translation, known as the “Tonson issue,” with plates and typography improved, after the original French edition published in Utrecht in 1697. No other narratives of French exploration in the interior of North America enjoyed as wide a popularity or stimulated as much controversy and criticism among later scholars as those of Hennepin. A Recollet missionary, Father Hennepin went to New France in 1675, and in 1678 he set out with La Salle to explore the fertile basin of the Mississippi River. While La Salle turned back to raise funds to continue the voyage, Hennepin went on to ascend the river from Fort Crevecoeur (Chicago) and penetrated farther northwest into the interior than any white man to that time. He discovered St. Anthony’s Falls near the present site of Minneapolis, and provided the first eyewitness account of Niagara Falls.

The engraving of the Falls which appears in his narrative, although an imaginative rendering, was the earliest to be published. Hennepin was subsequently captured by the Sioux, and after several months of wandering, he was rescued by Daniel De Lhut.

This edition contains translations of both Hennepin’s second and third books, Nouvelle Decouverte... and Nouveau Voyage.... The first presents a fairly reliable account of Hennepin’s actual travels and experiences, but also incorporates his entirely false claim to have descended the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. This is, in fact, Father Zenobe Membre’s account, which Hennepin boldly plagiarized from Le Clercq. In his sequel, Nouveau Voyage..., Hennepin added new material drawn from contemporary sources on Indian manners and customs and various North American travels. The first eight chapters describe the adventures and murder of La Salle, while the last concern the British treatment of the Recollets after the taking of Quebec in 1629. Despite the fact that Hennepin has been severely and justly criticized for imposture and plagiarism, his works, according to Thwaites, still stand as “invaluable contributions to the sources of American history; they deserve study, and to this day furnish rare entertainment. We can pardon much to our erratic friar, when he leaves to us such monuments as these.” The maps are of great importance for the cartography of the Midwest.

JCB (2)II:1535; European Americana 698/100; Wing H-1451; Sabin 31370; Church 773; TPL 6354 (“Bon- Issue”); Streit II: 2780; Howes H416, “b;” Cox II, p.84; Bell 266-67; Lande 423; Vail 278; Dionne II:250; ESTC R24981

(#27927) $ 8,500

11 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: 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).

(#26689) $ 20,000 12 JOUTEL, Henri (1640-1735).

Journal Historique du Dernier Voyage que feu M. de la Sale fit dans le Golfe de Mexique, pour trouver l’embouchure, et le cours de la Riviere de Missicipi, nommee a present la Riviere de Saint Louis, qui traverse la Louisiane.

Paris: Estienne Robinot, 1713. 12mo. xxxiv, 386pp., plus engraved folding map. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

First edition of this first-hand account of La Salle’s ill-fated expedition, and Joutel’s subsequent incredible journey north to Quebec, through Texas, Arkansas, the Mississippi, and Illinois. Complete with the folding map.

Of the three major narratives of the journey, this record, by La Salle’s closest subordinate, is the most valuable. The party embarked in 1684, ostensibly to establish a French base at the mouth of the Mississippi as a headquarters for operations, but also to push as far as possible into the region in order to gain a foothold against the Spanish. In fact, through a conscious deceit, the base was established at Espiritu Santo Bay, in Texas, from whence the party spent two years making excursions into the surrounding territory. When promised reinforcements failed to appear, La Salle and his men determined to return to Canada via the Mississippi; however, one of the company assassinated La Salle when they reached the Trinity River, and the party split up. Some of the survivors, including Joutel, pressed on, reaching Canada by way of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers.

The present edition is the first edition of the work and is rare; a more commonly found English edition appeared the following year. “Most reliable eye-witness account of La Salle’s two-years wanderings in Texas. The map, based on La Salle’s Mississippi explorations, was the first accurate delineation of that river” (Howes).

Alden & Landis 713/103; Church 855; Howes J-266; Palau 132335; Sabin; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 114; Raines p. 130; Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 79; Greenly pp. 20--21; Graff 2251; Clark 1:14; Jones Adventures in Americana 149; Jones 394; Bell p. 273; Harrisse 75

(#35779) $ 13,500

13 KURZ, Rudolf Friedrich (1818-1871).

[Three original drawings from his 1846-1852 travels in the American West].

[Np: circa 1852].

Three extraordinary drawings by a noted Swiss artist who lived and worked among the tribes of the Upper Missouri.

Rudolf Friedrich Kurz, a Swiss artist, arrived in New Orleans in 1846, beginning a six- year sojourn at the western trading posts along the Mississippi and to the Upper Missouri. Joining the American Fur Company, Kurz spent significant time at Fort Berthold, Fort Union, Bellevue and Council Bluffs, trading and living among the Indians. His journal from that time survives, located at the Bernisches Historisches Museum, and is filled with pencil sketches of both people, landscape and native artifacts. Highly sympathetic of the native peoples, he writes in his journal that the purpose of his trip was to give a sincere portrayal of the the American Indian. Upon his return to Bern in 1852, he worked up his sketches into more finished watercolours and oil paintings. However, they seldom appear on the market.

The present drawings comprise:

1) [Self-portrait on horseback, riding across the Plains alongside an Indian, with a painted chest, a red blanket and with three feathers in his hair]. Watercolour finished with gum arabic. Signed lower left. Sheet size: 8 3/4 x 12 inches.

2) [Decorated Buffalo robe, depicting the victories and achievements of its original Native American owner]. Pen-and-ink and watercolour over graphite. Sheet size: 10 3/8 x 14 inches.

3) [Decorated Buffalo robe, depicting the victories and achievements of its original Native American owner]. Pen-and-ink and watercolour over graphite. Sheet size: 10 3/8 x 14 inches.

Cf. Journal of Rudolph Friedrich Kurz. Translated by Myrtis Jarrett. Edited by J.N.B. Hewitt. [Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 115]. (Washington: GPO, 1937); Ernst J. Klay, Das romantische Leben der Indianer, malerisch darzustellen: Leben und Werk von Rudolf Friedrich Kurz. Verlag (Solothurn: Aare, 1984).

(#35742) $ 24,000

14 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865); and Edward EVERETT (1794-1865).

An Oration delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863,) at the Consecration of the Cemetery Prepared for the Internment of the Remains of those who fell in Battles of July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863.

New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863. 8vo (9 x 5 5/8 inches). 48pp. Publisher’s lettered wrappers, publisher’s ad on rear wrapper. (Repair to paper spine). Within a modern box.

“Four score and seven years ago...”: the earliest publication of the Gettysburg Address in book form, preceded only by the exceptionally rare sixteen-page pamphlet, The Gettysburg Solemnities, known in only three copies.

Lincoln made his speech at the dedication of a cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield some four months after the bloody and pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. Lincoln’s speech was preceded by an address from Edward Everett, the most famous orator of his day. Everett’s speech took some ninety minutes to deliver, and is largely forgotten. Lincoln’s speech, delivered in only a few minutes, is immortal. It is a supreme distillation of American values, and of the sacrifices necessary for the survival of liberty and freedom.

“The Washington Chronicle of 18-21 November reported extensively on this ceremony and included a verbatim text of ‘Edward Everett’s Great Oration.’ On the fourth day it noted in passing that the President had also made a speech, but gave no details. When it came to the separate publication on 22 November, Everett’s ‘Oration’ was reprinted from the standing type, but Lincoln’s speech had to be set up. It was tucked away as a final paragraph on page 16 of the pamphlet [The Gettysburg Solemnities]. It was similarly treated when the meanly produced leaflet was replaced by a 48-page booklet published by Baker and Godwin of New York in the same year” (PMM).

Lincoln’s address appears on page 40, and parenthetical notes are added indicating “applause” and “long-continued applause.” A diagram on page 32 gives the details of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

Howes E232, “b”; Monaghan 193; Grolier, American 100, 72 (note); Streeter Sale 1747; Sabin 23263; cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 351; Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg, pp.191-204.

(#31428) $ 40,000

15 MATHER, John A.

Mather’s Historical Oil Region Views of Western Pennsylvania [cover title] ... Mather’s Historical Photographs.

Titusville, Pennsylvania: John. A. Mather, 1895. Oblong small folio (10 x 13 1/4 inches). Letterpress title, 2 preliminary leaves of text. 12 photographs, printing-out paper prints, each linen backed as issued, with Mather’s caption in the negative. Publisher’s dark brown cloth, covers bordered in blind, upper covers lettered in gilt.

Important photographic record of the early days of the U.S. Petroleum Industry.

The work was made and published by the pioneer photographer of the Pennsylvania oil fields, John A. Mather. The first oil well in the United States was drilled by E. L. Drake in Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, near Titusville, in 1859. On the 29th of August oil was struck. John A. Mather, a recent English immigrant and aspiring photographer, heard of Drake’s discovery and the ensuing oil rush, and moved to Titusville in October 1860. He set up a gallery, built a floating photo studio and over the next forty years compiled an exhaustive photographic record of the growth of the oil industry. Mather’s photographs rarely turn up in the marketplace. The photographs in the present work were printed in 1895 from earlier negatives. Most photographs are identified and dated in the negative.

Mather’s photographs serve up a visual narrative of this transitional period, documenting the rapid growth of the region from 1864-1880s, when it emerged as the first site of substantial oil wealth in the United States. Mr. Drake is shown along with his first oil well. Mather also depicts the early days of Titusville. The Oil Exchange Hotel is set amidst rolling hills marked with numerous erector-set-like vertical structures. Laborers of all ages, including child “oil dippers,” are chronicled along with the burly men who drilled and operated the giant rigs.

A second part was subsequently published, though is rarely encountered; all parts are scarce.

Giddens, Paul H., Early Days of Oil: A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania (Princeton: 1948).

(#35907) $ 7,200 16 McHARRY, Samuel.

The Practical Distiller: or an introduction to making whiskey, gin, brandy, spirits, &c, of better quality, and in larger quantities, than produced by the present mode of distilling, from the produce of the United States.

Harrisburgh: John Wyeth, 1809. 8vo. 184pp. Paper tones, as usual. Contemporary sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece.

Rare early American distiller’s manual, and scarce early Harrisburg imprint.

The work includes directions for making spirits from rye, corn, buck wheat, apples, peaches, potatoes, turnips, etc., with details on the practical part of distilling, and with instructions for purifying, clearing, and colouring whiskey. In addition, the work also includes receipts for making cider, domestic wines, and beer.

Just the second American book on distilling, the Practical Distiller is a classic rare and vital work on the practicalities and economics of liquor production in early 19th century America. Of particular interest is the Lancaster County author’s advice to char the barrels by burning straw to “sweeten” the barrel and his use of maple charcoal filtering to give “aged flavor” to the product. The former seems a precursor to the barrel charring practiced by the best whiskey makers today while the charcoal filtering is an essential to Tennessee Whiskey.

First and only edition of one of the earliest American distilling manuals

Gabler G28530; Rink 1473; Shaw & Shoemaker 17955; Lowenstein 51.

(#36153) $ 6,500 17 MCKENNEY, Thomas Loraine (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868).

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington.

Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins for D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1855. 3 volumes, octavo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). 120 coloured lithographic plates (3 tinted frontispieces finished by hand, 117 hand-coloured plates), by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, most after Charles Bird King. Publisher’s red morocco gilt extra, covers elaborately blocked with a panelled design including arabesque cornerpieces of stylized foliage, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with an overall design of small tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Provenance: J. W. Singleton (contemporary signature on endpapers).

The third octavo edition of McKenney and Hall’s classic work, after the first octavo edition of 1848-50, reduced from the folio format produced in 1836-44. The plates for the first four octavo editions were all produced by the same lithographer, J.T. Bowen, and the same high quality of printing and colouring of the plates is found throughout.

McKenney and Hall’s Indian Tribes of North America has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portrait plates are based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department’s Indian Gallery. Most of King’s original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall’s magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King’s sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola.

After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes.

When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. Both authors, not unlike George Catlin, whom they tried to enlist in their publishing enterprise, saw their book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture.

Howes M129; McGrath p.206; cf. Miles & Reese America Pictured to the Life 53 (first octavo edition); Sabin: 43411 (1854-56 edition with 221 plates); Servies 4028.

(#22365) $ 17,500

18 MEANS, James (1853-1920).

The Problem of Manflight.

Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1894. 8vo. 20pp. Publisher’s wrappers.

An early work on manned flight by a pioneer who influenced the Wright Brothers.

A shoe manufacturing industrialist from Dorchester, Massachusetts, Means would become the founder of the Boston Aeronautical Society and the publisher of the 1895-1897 American Aeronautical Manuals, a journal which would have a profound influence on the Wright Brothers.

The present work, published seven years before the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk, reviews the principles of flight, including lift, tacking, angle of descent, etc. and includes an image of Otto Lilienthal’s 1893 glider flight on the upper wrapper. Importantly, the work gives the results of Means’s own experiments launching unmanned “soaring machines” from the tower of Boston Light. The work concludes with the statement: “Aerial transit will be accomplished because the air is a solid if you hit it hard enough.”

Means’ extensive collection of works on aviation, as well as his correspondence and photographs, are housed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Also at the Museum is the Wright Brothers copy of this pamphlet.

Randers-Pehrson & Renstrom 97; Library of Congress, Dream of Flight 111.

(#35831) $ 1,600 19 MELISH, John (1771-1822).

Map of the United States with the contiguous British and Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest and best authorities by John Melish engraved by J. Vallance & H. S. Tanner.

[Philadelphia: 1818]. Engraved map, with full period hand colouring, dissected into 40 sections and linen backed (as issued). Inset of the West Indies, statistical table. Housed in a modern full blue morocco box. Sheet size: 36 3/8 x 58 1/4 inches.

The first large-scale map of the United States: this very rare issue of great significance to the mapping of the West, being the edition used to determine the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico in the 1819 Adams-Onis treaty.

A map of inestimable importance - one which synthesized the best data available at the crucial moment of the opening of American West, and one which, in a sense, envisioned and enabled the Manifest Destiny of the United States. “The cartographic publication that best publicized for the American people the data derived from the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Zebulon Pike’s exploration of the southwest in 1806 and 1807 was John Melish’s 1816 Map of the United States” (Ristow). Also, much like the Mitchell map of the previous century, the Melish became the map of record in many important treaties between the United States and Spain, Mexico, and both the Republic and State of Texas. Specifically, the United States- Mexico boundary was laid out on a copy of the map according to the Adams-Onis Treaty signed in February 22, 1819. The map also played a key role in the development of American mapmaking. “An exquisite map, it distinguished Melish as the leading American map publisher of the second decade and placed American maps on equal footing with those produced by the prestigious firms in London and Paris” (Schwartz). In fact, Melish founded the first company in the United States to deal specifically in maps and geographical works. The map was engraved by arguably the two finest map engravers in the United States at the time: John Vallance and Henry S. Tanner. It set a new standard for clarity and precision in map production.

The present example is the third issue of the 1818 edition, as identified by Ristow (in A la Carte pp.162-182, the most complete account of the map). The 1818 edition is of particular importance, as it is “the 1818 edition that was consulted by the official arbiters in laying down the boundary between the United States and the Spanish possessions in 1819” (Ristow). This issue is the first to show Illinois as a state rather than a territory and to include Chicago as part of Illinois.

Martin and Martin write: “Recognizing that the demand for geographical information on the American west was limitless in the foreseeable future, Melish undertook to accumulate a vast amount of descriptions, statistics and maps and in 1816 produced in six sheets his famous map ... For the Texas area, Melish relied heavily on the surveys conducted by William Darby, who had personally surveyed much of the Sabine River area ... Melish’s maps significantly improved the descriptions and depictions of the Texas interior, but perhaps its most lasting value to history was its official association with the Adams-Onis Treaty, because Melish’s 90th meridian, today the eastern boundary of the Texas Panhandle, was off by approximately ninety miles, controversy and court litigation concerning the correct boundary lasted well beyond Texas’s annexation ... Of lasting value, too, was the widespread dissemination of new information concerning Texas geography only five years before Stephen F. Austin decided to honor his father’s contract with the Mexican government to bring Anglo-American settlers to inhabit this rich new land” (Martin & Martin).

There are two primary reasons for the great rarity of this map: firstly, Melish only printed 100 copies of each issue to allow him to constantly update the map with the latest geographical information; the second reason is its large size which has ensured a high attrition rate over the past two centuries. Melish’s map, the first on a large scale to show the area of the present United States from coast to coast, provided most Americans with their first clear-sighted view of the continental landmass of which the United States was a part. Thomas Jefferson, said of the map that it provides a “luminous view of the comparative possessions of different powers in our America.”

Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 446; Ristow in A la Carte, pp. 162-182; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, pp. 238-39, pl. 233; Wheat II, no. 322, pp. 62-64; Martin & Martin, p. 115 (plate 26).

(#36173) $ 72,500 20 PATTIE, James O.

The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky, During an Expedition from St. Louis, Through the Vast Regions Between that Place and the Pacific Ocean, and Thence Back Through the City of Mexico to Vera Cruz, During Journeyings of Six Years; in Which He and His Father, Who Accompanied Him, Suffered Unheard of Hardships and Dangers, Had Various Conflicts with The Indians, and Were Made Captives, in Which Captivity His Father Died; Together with a Description of the Country, and the Various Nations Through Which They Passed. Edited by Timothy Flint.

Cincinnati: E. H. Flint, 1833. 8vo. 300pp. Five engraved plates. Contemporary marbled calf, expertly rebacked to style, retaining the original morocco lettering piece.

The second edition of Pattie’s narrative, one of the great rarities of Western Americana. The author and his father were engaged in the fur trade in the Southwest in the 1820s. In 1828 they crossed overland to California, only the second American group to make the trip by a southern route (the first was Jedediah Smith in 1826), and the first to publish an account of their journey. The party encountered difficulty and danger in New Mexico, Arizona, and California, where they were tossed in jail by Mexican authorities and the elder Pattie died. His son was released after aiding in vaccinating people during a smallpox epidemic. It is considered one of the best accounts of the fur trade, the Santa Fe trade, and early California, and one of the best overland narratives.

“A thrilling tale of pure adventure, ranging all the way from encounters with grizzly bears, and savages who had never before seen a white man, to a revolution in a Latin-American state, Pattie’s narrative has long been a classic. Its chief value to the student of Western history depends upon the vast extent of country over which the author passed, the ethnological data which he presents, especially in relation to the southwestern tribes, and his graphic picture of the contact between the two civilizations in the Southwest ... One sees in his pages the beginnings of the drama to be fought out in the Mexican War -- the rich and beautiful country, which excited the cupidity of the American pioneer; the indolence and effeminacy of the inhabitants, which inspired the virile backwoodsmen’s contempt; and the vanguard of the American advance, already touching the Rockies, and ready to push on to the Pacific” (Thwaites)

From the beginning of the serious collecting of Western Americana, the 1831 Pattie has been recognized as one of the most difficult of books to obtain, thus making the present 1833 second edition (from the sheets of the first edition with a cancel title) a cornerstone of any major western collection.

Graff 3217; Wagner-Camp 45:2; Clark III:83; Hill 1317; Howes P123; Cowan, p.476; Vaughan 108; Field 1186; Sabin 59150; DAB XIV, pp.310-11; Streeter Sale 3139; Thwaites, Early Western Travels, vol. xviii, pp. 18-19. Zamorano 80, 60.

(#36086) $ 3,500 21 PERRIN DU LAC, François Marie (1766-1824).

Voyage dans les Deux Louisianes, et Chez les Nations Sauvages du Missouri, par les Etats-Unis, l’Ohio et les Provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802, et 1803.

Lyon: Chez Bruyset ainé et Buynand, 1805. 8vo. [4], x, 479, [1]pp. Engraved folding map, engraved folding plate. Expertly bound to style in half calf and marbled paper covered boards. Provenance: Francis Boimare (19th century bookseller’s embossed label).

First edition, first issue: the principle account of early fur trade with Indians on the upper Missouri.

An important early piece of Western Americana, describing a fur trading expedition up the Missouri to the White River of South Dakota in 1802. Besides being a major source of information on the early fur trade, it provides much information relating to the tribes along the Missouri River at the time. The map has been described as “the earliest published map of the trans-Mississippi region which can be said to display even the faintest semblance of accuracy” (Wheat). The plate depicts the mammoth fossil skeleton on display in Philadelphia. Two French editions were issued in 1805, the present first issue published in Lyon, and a more frequently found second issue published in Paris.

This example with provenance to New Orleans bookseller Francis Boimare (1825-1888), and perhaps from the important library of his father, Antoine Louis Boimare (1796-c. 1875), bookseller and first bibliographer of Louisiana.

Buck 61; Clark, Old South 2:52, 114; Field Indian Bibliography 1204; Graff 3254; Howes P244; Monaghan 1176; Rader 2647; Sabin 61102; Streeter sale III:1773 (second, Paris, issue); Wagner-Camp 3:1; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 256

(#35836) $ 6,000 22 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). 303pp. Large folding map. Map silked with repaired tears. Twentieth century polished calf bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece, repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition, first 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, first issue (with page numbers 77-88, 270-271, and 302 placed in the inner margin).

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.

(#35258) $ 6,500

23 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

The New-York Scientific American: The Advocate of Industry and Enterprise and Journal of Mechanical and other Improvements. Published Weekly at the Sun Building, corner Fulton & Nassau Sts By Munn & Company. Rufus Porter, Editor. Each Number of this paper is furnished with from Three to Six Original Engravings, cut every week at a heavy expense illustrative of New Inventions, Scientific Principles and Curious Works ...Munn & Company.

New York: [1846]. Broadside, approximately 24 x 19 inches. Seven woodcut illustrations. Old folds with repaired separations. Matted.

Unrecorded illustrated broadside prospectus for Scientific American: the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. and the influential source for scientific discovery and technical innovation.

The prospectus is illustrated with wood engravings showing seven new inventions, including a plumb line and spirit level (invented by Porter himself), a rotary plow (also by Porter), a bullet engine, a railroad ship transport, an electro-magnetic engine, an electro-steering apparatus for ships, and something called “General Semple’s Prairie Steam Car.” Several lines of explanatory text are captioned below each engraving. All of the engraved illustrations are taken from issues of the first volume of the magazine (numbers 15, 23, 24, 26, 31, 36 and 40, respectively). In the center, set apart with a wood engraved border, is the block of promotional text about the magazine and information for subscription. The promotional text for the broadside is very similar to that which appears in the initial number of the magazine itself.

In 1841, Rufus Porter acquired partial interest in The New York Mechanic, a weekly that he published and edited in New York. After less than a year he moved the magazine to Boston and altered the title to American Mechanic, which he continued to publish until 1843. In late August of 1845, Porter founded The New York Scientific American, but sold it with ten months to Orson Desaid Munn and Alfred Ely Beach. Munn and Company would continuously publish Scientific American into the mid-20th century, making it the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States and the premier magazine of scientific discovery and technical innovation.

Porter (1792-1884) was an important American portrait painter and landscape muralist, and an inventor of a great variety of mechanical devices, including a patent for a revolving rifle (which he sold to Samuel Colt for $100.00), a camera obscura for silhouette portraits, clocks, churns, a washing machine, and a host of other items. In 1849 he published a pamphlet and built a scale model for an eight hundred-foot airship designed to transport passengers from Boston and New York to the California gold fields. He was also an accomplished musician and a tireless promoter.

This broadside prospectus not recorded in OCLC and we know of but one other example on the market in the last quarter century.

Cf. Lipman, Rufus Porter Rediscovered, 53-59; Mott, A History of American Magazines, II, [316]-324.

(#35055) $ 8,500

24 SEYD, Ernest (1830-1831).

California and its Resources.

London: Truebner & Co., 1858. 12mo. 168, [2] pp. Two folding maps, 18 plates (i.e 23 views on 18 sheets, 10 lithographed). Publisher’s ad in the rear. Publisher’s pebbled cloth, covers blocked in blind, upper cover with central block in gilt of a US $50 gold coin, minor wear at joints.

First edition.

One of the best early surveys on the natural resources of California, with much on the mining industry. In addition, there is a short discussion of Yosemite Valley, as well as two tinted lithographed views; Currey and Kruska state that “these...appear to be the first views of Yosemite Valley published in a book.”

Anderson 540 (stating only a few copies contained the gold slug); Bradford 4909; Cowan I, p. 210; Currey & Kruska, Yosemite, 296; Howes S310; Wheat Gold Rush 181; Rocq. 17136

(#36080) $ 1,750 25 SHINDLER, Antonio Zeno (1823-1899), photographer.

Group of 5 mounted albumen photographs of Native Americans, each being a chief or warrior of the Dakota Sioux.

[Washington, D.C.: 1867-1869]. Albumen photographs on original cream card mounts. Image sizes: approx. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Mount size: approximately 14 x 11 inches.

Rare photographs of Dakota Sioux by Shindler: images from the very first museum exhibition of photographs in America. Following the Smithsonian fire of 1865, which destroyed the collection of painted portraits of Native Americans by John Mix Stanley and Charles Bird King, Smithsonian secretary Joseph Henry sought the assistance of Dr. Ferdinand V. Hayden and the financial backing of William Henry Blackmore, to collect photographic portraits of Native Americans and hold an exhibition of the images. Held in 1869, the exhibition displayed 304 photographs of Native Americans -- believed to be the very first museum exhibition of photographs in America.

The images for the exhibition were all derived from one source: photographer A. Zeno Shindler. Shindler had arrived in Washington in 1867, becoming the proprietor of the Addis Photographic Gallery. Commissioned by Blackmore to make photographic copies of his collection of images, he was also contracted by the U.S. government to photograph visiting delegations of Native Americans between 1867 and 1869. In addition, as Addis had taken over the McClees Studio, Shindler had access to those negatives of visiting delegations from 1857-58. Thus the 1869 exhibition included photographs printed from his own negatives, McClees negatives, and copy prints made by Shindler of Blackmore’s images.

Although Shindler must have sold images from his studio, they rarely appear on the market. Indeed, the only evidence that the Smithsonian exhibition even took place is the existence of a very rare printed catalogue of the exhibition, which was recreated in 2003 by Paula Fleming. This collection includes the following five images, on their original card mounts:

1) Ma-to-kti-nang-ma-ni, The Bear That Walks Lying Down. A Yankton Sioux Brave. Upper Missouri, Dak. T. “Taken between February 17 and April 8 1867 in Washington, DC, probably before April 1 when the U.S. government ordered portraits of this delegation from Shindler” (Fleming 14).

2) Ma-ta-wa-yu-mi, The Bear That Frightens. A Yankton Sioux, Brave, Upper Missouri, Dak. T. “Taken between February 17 and April 8 1867 in Washington, DC, probably before April 1 when the U.S. government ordered portraits of this delegation from Shindler” (Fleming 22).

3) Ma-to-ho-kan-tan-ke, The Bear with the Big Voice, A Two-Kettle Sioux Chief, Dakota. “Taken between February 17 and April 8 1867 in Washington, DC, probably before April 1 when the U.S. government ordered portraits of this delegation from Shindler” (Fleming 27)

4) Tshe-ton-wa-ka-wa-ma-ni, The Hawk that Hunts Walking; or Little Crow, A Mde-wa Kan-ton Sioux. Chief Leader of the Massacre in Minnesota. “Taken April 16, 1858 ... The negative was made by the McClees Gallery ... Shindler was not the photographer and only printed images for the exhibition. In the late 1860s, he was the proprietor of the Addis Studio, formerly the McClees Gallery, and had access to the 1857-1858 negatives” (Fleming 48).

5) Psi-ka-wa-kin-yan, Jumping Thunder. A Yankton Sioux Warrior. Dakota. “Taken between December 13, 1857 and April 26, 1858 ... the negative was made by the McClees Gallery” (Fleming 58).

Paula Richardson Fleming, Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue (Washington: Smithsonian, 2003).

(#35778) $ 15,000 26 SMITH, Joseph (1805-1844).

The Book of Mormon ... translated by Joseph Smith, Jun. First European, from the Second American Edition.

Liverpool: Printed by J. Tompkins...for Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P. Pratt. By order of the Translator, 1841. 18mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches). [4],634,[637]-643pp. Publisher’s dark green morocco, flat spine lettered in gilt. Expert repairs to joints. Housed in a black morocco box.

The fourth, and first European edition of the Book of Mormon.

Published under the guidance of Brigham Young, who evidently was not aware of the 1840 edition at the time of publication, and so used the text of the Kirtland edition.

“In this edition the testimonies of the witnesses, formerly at the end of the volume, were transferred to the front, as they now appear in all later editions, and an index was added at the end. This index is a revision of the one printed separately at Nauvoo in 1840, with a few corrections and added words. According to Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, the book was entered at Stationers’ Hall in London, February 8, 1841. The contract was for 5000 copies, but only 4050 were delivered. An agreement was made in April, 1841, for the printing of another edition of 950 copies to supply the deficiency, at the expense of the printer, but the agreement was not carried out by the latter” (Sabin).

Flake 598; Howes S623; Sabin 83041; Crawley 98.

(#35388) $ 15,000 27 UNITED STATES, General Land Office - C. ROESER, Principal Draughtsman, G.L.O.

Atlas of the states and territories over which land surveys have been extended [label on upper cover].

Washington, D.C. : General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer], 1878-1879. Folio broadsheets (33 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches). 28 lithographed maps on 29 sheets (California printed on two sheets), printed in two or three colours, photo-lithographed by Julius Bien after Roeser. Each map linen-backed at a contemporary date and with a morocco tab labelled in gilt at the outer edge. With a bespoke, contemporary printed list of contents. Contemporary brown cloth, original lettered morocco label on upper cover, rebacked and retipped to style. Provenance: J. W. Dwight.

Very rare atlas containing the most detailed, large-scale maps of the American West.

The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War, much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War, the Homestead Act, the completion of the Trans- Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West (with resulting treaties that transferred land ownership to the United States), together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876, the GLO surveyed over 200,000,000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico, Idaho, Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas, and with access to military information, the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed, these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers.

In 1876, the GLO, headed by S.S. Burdett, published an atlas containing 18 maps (on 19 sheets, California being on two sheets), showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868, the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories (sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas) was the first atlas to be published by the department.

The incredible growth of settlement in the west, coupled with new exploration and surveying, in the short time following the 1876 atlas, engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 [i.e. the present example]. Like the Centennial Atlas, the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO, Charles Roeser, Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien, each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement, the locations of the general land offices, Indian territories, county divisions, towns, rivers, roads, railroads, etc.

Furthermore, like The Centennial Atlas, the present Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended (the actual atlas issued without a title, but titled by Phillips based on the lettering on the cover of the Library of Congress copy and the present) was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress, government agencies, each land office, the post office, the railroads, and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The present example given to the Hon. Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight, an influential Republican member of Congress from New York, serving in the Forty- fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (1877-1883).

This second General Land Office atlas, however, was expanded from the first atlas, now containing 28 maps (on 29 sheets, California being on two sheets). The maps comprise:

1) State of Ohio. 1878 2) State of Indiana. 1878 3) State of Illinois. 1878. 4) State of Michigan. 1878. 5) State of Wisconsin. 1878 6) State of Minnesota. 1879 7) State of Iowa. 1878 8) State of Missouri. 1878. 9) State of Arkansas. 1878 10) State of Louisiana. 1879 11) State of Mississippi. 1878 12) State of Alabama. 1878 13) State of Florida. 1879 14) Territory of Dakota. 1879 15) State of Nebraska. 1879. 16) State of Kansas. 1879 17) Indian Territory. 1879. 18) Montana Territory. 1879 19) Territory of Wyoming. 1879 20) State of Colorado. 1879 21) Territory of New Mexico. 1879 22) Territory of Idaho. 1879 23) Territory of Utah. 1879 24) Territory of Arizona. 1879. 25) State of Nevada. 1879 26) Washington Territory. 1879. 27) State of Oregon. 1879 28-29) State of California. 1879. Two sheets.

In the west, 18 of the maps show additions and changes from the first atlas (i.e. maps of Minnesota, Louisiana, Florida, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Territory, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon and California). Notable among these changes is the map of Colorado, no longer shown as a Territory but now shown as a State. Maps of the following states, which do not appear in the first G.L.O. atlas, have been added: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. The limited distribution of this atlas, coupled with its large size, accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey, Streeter or Graff.

Phillips, Atlases 1405.

(#35896) $ 35,000 28 WHITNEY, Josiah Dwight.

The Yosemite Book; A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California....

New York: Julius Bien, 1868. Large quarto. 116pp. plus twenty-eight mounted albumen photographs, each 6 x 8 inches, and two folding maps. Repairs to maps, text moderately foxed in places, photo mounts lightly so, but the photos themselves clean and bright. Three-quarter morocco, publisher’s green cloth, title stamped in gilt on front board, neatly re-backed, with original gilt morocco spine preserved, gilt edges.

Twenty-eight Mounted Photographs of Yosemite

An important photographically illustrated piece of Western Americana, containing twenty- eight original albumen photographs, the first twenty-four produced by Carleton T. Watkins in 1866 and the final four by W. Harris the following year. The Yosemite Book... was assembled by the office of the California State Geologist, headed by J.D. Whitney. The text was based mainly on the field survey work done by Clarence King in the 1866 season, supplemented with material from other sources. The whole was intended as a lavish guide to Yosemite. Only 250 copies were issued with photographs, as in the present copy. The rest were done on a smaller format to serve more practically as a guide book. The maps are the best of the Yosemite region produced up to that time. Whitney was justifiably proud of the work, which appeared early in 1869, although completed in December 1868. Currey & Kruska conclude that it is “one of the major contributions to Sierra Nevada literature.”

This work is now scarce. It was notably absent from the DeGolyer Library exhibition devoted to photographically illustrated western books (although it is listed in the appendix). Important and visually impressive.

Cowan, p.699; Currey & Kruska, Yosemite Bibliography 60; Farquhar 7a; Graff 4646; Howell 50:929; Howes W389, “aa”; Kurutz, California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs 88; ROCQ 5170;Truthful Lens 896; Zamorano Select 32

(#31427) $ 18,500

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

29 BELCHER, Sir Edward (1799-1877).

Narrative of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed in surveying the islands of the eastern archipelago.

London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. 2 volumes, 8vo. 5 maps (3 folding and housed inside the pocket in volume one), 30 plates (including 10 tinted lithographed views). Publisher’s purple cloth, covers blocked in blind and gilt, spines faded.

First edition of a classic account of a surveying voyage in the far east.

“The determination of the British government to survey the approaches to ports laid open by the new treaty with China led to this expedition. Extensive accounts are given of Singapore, Borneo, Hong Kong, Macao, the Philippine Islands, Celebes, the Moluccas, Formosa, the Ryukyu Islands, Quelpert Island of Korea, and Japan” (Hill).

Abbey, Travel 528; Hill (2004) 105; Löwendahl 1079; Lust 554.

(#34359) $ 4,500 30 BURNEY, James (1750-1821).

A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the early eastern navigations of the Russians.

London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons ... for Payne and Foss ... and John Murray, 1819. Octavo. viii, 310pp., plus 2 engraved folding maps. Uncut. Publisher’s brown paper covered boards, rebacked to style.

First edition of a scarce work of Pacific exploration, which includes a first-hand account of Cook’s death.

The present work, supplemental to Burney’s great five-volume Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Seas (published between 1803-1817), concentrates on the discoveries and voyages made by all the main maritime nations in the North East Arctic regions, but also incorporates the author’s earlier research into Russian discoveries. The author notes that his original intention had been to write a history of the maritime discoveries made by the Russians in all parts of the globe, but dismissed the idea as too broad.

“Burney, who had sailed with Cook on his Second Voyage, was also on the Third Voyage ... The text includes Burney’s own account of Cook’s return to Hawaii in 1778-1779, Cook’s altercations with the Hawaiians and his death. He quotes from his own journals and discusses several points not found in other printed narratives” (Forbes). Also included are accounts on the northwest coast of America and the passage through the Bering Strait, not found elsewhere, Burney offers a detailed discussion of the Russian discoveries, with accounts of English, Dutch, Russian and Danish voyages in the region. The two maps are of the north coast of Asia and Barents Sea.

Hill 223; Holmes 82; Howes B1001; Forbes 491; Beddie 1657; Sabin 9386; Streeter sale VI:3510. Not in Lada- Mocarski.

(#35951) $ 9,500 31 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 (9 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches). 61 watercolour and gouache drawings, on J. Whatman wove paper watermarked 1829, interleaved with blanks. The first watercolour, within an elaborate border, featuring a seated woman holding a sheet of paper inscribed G. Jackson, 1836. 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), glazed yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: G. Jackson (inscription dated 1836 on tablet on first image).

A lovely album of pre-Opium Wars Chinese export watercolors of the highest quality.

Beginning in the late 18th century, centered on the treaty port of Canton, there existed a thriving trade in watercolours executed by local Chinese artists and sold to the western merchants and travellers. The best known result of this trade is William Mason’s Costume of China, first published in London in 1800, which is illustrated with 60 hand-coloured aquatints adapted from a series of original watercolours by Pu-Qua of Canton.

Importantly, the watercolours in the present album are of a uniformly higher quality than usually encountered, including vivid colouring and the use of gold. The subjects include members of the court and occupations (15), junks and ships (7), landscapes (7) and natural history subjects including flowers, birds and insects (32). Collections of Chinese export watercolors were routinely executed on less expensive pith paper, whereas the present watercolours are on high quality wove paper. The album represents a more prestigious style of export watercolor paintings specifically meant for wealthy Europeans. These are Chinese watercolors of the highest quality, designed and executed to the highest standards.

Chinese export watercolours occupy “a space which is neither wholly Chinese nor wholly European, but which can, by the nature of the compromises it makes, tell us a lot about how one culture saw the other in the age before photography” (Clunas, p. 11).

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

(#31334) $ 30,000

32 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

33 COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779) and James KING.

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 .

London: printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. 4 volumes (text: 3 volumes, quarto [11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches]; atlas: 1 volume. large folio [21 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches]). Text: Titles with engraved medallion vignettes. 2 large engraved folding maps [usually found in the atlas, here bound into the text at a contemporary date], 24 engraved maps, coastal profiles and charts (13 folding), 1 folding letterpress table. Atlas: 61 engraved plates, charts and maps [complete]. Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia and period marbled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands in compartments, red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

A fine set of the second and best edition of the official account of Cook’s third and last voyage, during which he explored Hawaii and the west coast of America, Canada and Alaska.

“Cook’s third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands” (Hill).

The typography of the second edition text of the third voyage is generally considered superior to the first (Hughs took over the printing from Strahan and re-set all the text). Contemporary support for this view is reported by Forbes who quotes an inscription in a set presented by Mrs. Cook to her doctor, Dr. Elliotson, which notes that “the letter press of the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letter press.”

A pleasing set of Cook’s third voyage, with the plates in the atlas free of any foxing and with strong impressions of the plates, and with an unusually large set of the text.

Beddie 1552; Forbes 85; Hill (2004) 361 (first edition); cf. Lada-Mocarski 37; cf. Sabin 16250.

(#28739) $ 25,000

34 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882); Philip Parker KING (1791-1856); and Robert FITZROY (1805-1865).

Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America and the Beagle’s Circumnavigation of the Globe ... [with:] Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle.

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 4 volumes, 8vo. [Narrative:] 54 maps and plates (including 6 loose folding charts housed in pockets at the front of each volume, as issued). Mostly unopened. First edition, first issue (with author’s names on the spines and Colburn/London reading). [Journal:] 2 folding maps (bound in at pages 1 and 539 and without front cover pocket, as issued). Publisher’s 16pp. (dated August 1839) and 8pp.ads in the rear. First separate issue. Publisher’s blindstamped blue cloth, spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.

First edition of the Narrative of the Beagle, with the first separate edition of Darwin’s Journal.

“The English Catalogue makes it clear that the set was available, with or without Darwin’s volume, at £3.18s. or £2.18s., and that his volume alone cost 18s. What was being advertised as three volumes was really two volumes and the appendix ... It has usually been stated that Darwin’s volume was reissued in its own covers later in the same year, because the demand for it was greater than that for the other two volumes of technical narrative. That the demand for it was greater than the rest was probably true, and that it must be considered technically the later issue is certainly correct ... Nevertheless, it is also certain that both were advertised in the same set of advertisements in August 1839” (Freeman).

The first volume of the Narrative contains Captain King’s account of the expedition in the Adventure and Beagle between 1826 and 1830, which surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The second volume and appendix volume describe the second voyage of the Beagle under Captain Fitzroy between 1831 and 1836, which visited Brazil, Argentina, Tierra de Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and other islands and countries. The final volume is Darwin’s Journal, his own account of the Beagle’s voyage, and his first published book - it is an outstanding account of natural history exploration which described the fieldwork which ultimately led to On the Origin of Species. “The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career ... I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved” (Life and Letters, 1:61).

One of the most important records of natural history exploration ever written, and the foundation for the study of modern biology.

Freeman, Darwin 10 and 11; Borba de Moraes p.247; Hill (2004) 607; Norman 584; Sabin 37826.

(#35953) $ 45,000

35 HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885).

Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition.

New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1856. Folio (20 x 14 inches). 12 ff. letterpress text. 10 lithographic prints (one tinted portrait of Perry on india paper mounted from a daguerreotype by P. Haas, nine hand-coloured views by Heine [two of these chromolithographed, seven printed in two colours on india paper mounted]), all printed by Sarony & Co., all mounted on thick card with smooth glossy backings. Text in the original yellow pictorial wrappers, expertly rebacked to style with purple cloth, the plates loose as issued with the text within a half purple morocco and period purple cloth portfolio, yellow pastedowns and flaps, cloth ties. All within a black morocco backed box.

An important work recording Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan: the very rare deluxe, hand coloured issue on card.

William Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant-folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year the present volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, among the best lithographers in the United States at that time.

“As artistic productions, the pictures speak for themselves ... none superior to them have been executed in the United States, and they have no cause to shun comparison with some of the best productions of Europe” (Introduction). Copies were produced tinted (though with some plates with several colors) on regular paper and a very rare deluxe hand-coloured issue on card (like the present example).

The plates are numbered and titled as follows 1. [portrait of Perry]; 2. Macao from Penha Hill; 3. Whampoa Pagoda; 4. Old China Street, Canton; 5. Kung-kwa at On-na, Lew-Chew; 6. Mia or road side chapel at Yokuhama; 7. Temple of Ben-teng in the harbor of Simoda; 8. Street and bridge at Simoda; 9. Temple of the Ha-tshu Man-ya-tshu-ro at Simoda; 10. Grave yard at Simoda Dio Zenge.

Bennett describes the plates as “many times finer than those in the regular account of the Perry expedition.” His remarks on the work’s great rarity are confirmed by its absence from both of Cordier’s Japanese bibliographies.

Two distinct issues of Heine’s work were published: a regular issue with hand coloured plates on thick card; and the deluxe issue, like the present, with more elaborate hand coloring and on thick cards with glossy paper backings. The deluxe issue is considerably more rare than the regular issue.

Bennett, p.53; McGrath American Color Plate Books 123.

(#34436) $ 32,000

36 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 aggressive 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

37 MASON, George Henry.

The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings: with explanations in English and French.

London: William Miller, 1800 [plates watermarked 1802]. Quarto (13 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches). Titles and text in English and French. 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by Dadley after Pu-Qùa of Canton, each with accompanying text leaf. Contemporary diced russia, covers bordered in gilt and blind, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in the second and sixth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A fine copy of Mason’s famous illustrated survey of the costume of China.

First published in 1800, Mason’s text is based on his own experiences in Canton in 1789- 1790. At the time he was there, foreigners were not allowed access to the China beyond the borders of the visitor’s compounds. Mason, however, was able to gain some information from interacting with the Hong merchants of Canton. The work is given structure by the series of plates, based on original drawings by Pu-Qua, that Mason purchased in Canton. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary in which Mason draws on either his own experiences or the accounts of earlier writers such as Staunton and Nieuhoff.

Abbey Travel II, 533; Colas 2009; Lipperheide Le 17.

(#32497) $ 5,800 38 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 3/4 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 half calf and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

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.

(#35215) $ 17,500

39 RICCI, Matteo (1552-1610); and Nicolas TRIGAULT (1577-1628).

Histoire de l’expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine entreprinse par les peres de la Compagnie de Iesus.

Lille: Pierre de Rache, 1617. Small 4to (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. [12], 559, [5]pp. Contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, expertly recased (small repair at head of spine). Provenance: Franciscan Monastery at Weert (small inked stamp on title).

Second edition in French of the most important work on China published in the first half of the 17th century.

“In 1615, the French Jesuit missionary Nicolas Trigault published De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Suscepta ab Societae Jesu ... based on the reports and papers of Mateo Ricci, the Italian who carried the Jesuit mission in China beyond the Portuguese trading colony at Macau to the mainland. Ricci lived and worked in Canton and Nanjing, among other places, and died in Beijing in 1610. This chronicle about the Western mission in China from 1583- 1611 also provided a systematic portrait of contemporary Chinese society as perceived by Ricci, who was fluent in Chinese and exhibited both a sympathetic interest in Chinese culture and an erudite perspective on the Jesuits’ accomplishments. De Christiana Expeditione was among the most important and widely read books on China published during the seventeenth century. French, German, Spanish and Italian translations quickly appeared, but not English” (China on Paper, p. 10).

The first French edition was published in Lyon in 1616, translated by D. F. de Riquebourg- Trigault (a nephew of Nicholas Trigault) with the present second edition following. All early editions are rare. The work “became the most influential description of China to appear during the first half of the seventeenth century ... [and] provided European readers with more, better organized, and more accurate information about China than was ever before available” (Lach and Van Kley).

Cordier Sinica 809-810; Sommervogel, VIII, 240; Streit V:717; Lach and Van Kley, Asia in the Making of Europe, vol. III, pp. 512-513.

(#28941) $ 8,500

40 SARYCHEV, Gavril Andreevich (1763-1831).

[Puteshestvie Flota Kapitana Sarycheva po severovostochnoi chasti Sibiri, Ledovitnomu moriu i Vostochnomu okeanu] ... [Voyage of the Fleet Captain Sarychev over the Northeastern Part of Siberia, Frozen Sea and the Pacific Ocean...From 1785 To 1793].

St. Petersburg: 1802. Plate volume, folio (17 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches). Without title page, as issued. On guards throughout. 51 engraved maps and plates (including large folding map; 43 double-page, 7 single page). Expertly bound to style in half straight grain green morocco and marbled paper covered boards, flat spine gilt.

The most important iconography and cartography of Alaska at the beginning of the 19th century.

“This is one of the fundamental and very rare early books on the Aleutian Islands and particularly Unalashka ... The results of Captain Sarychev’s observations and measurements are embodied in several maps of the atlas accompanying the description of the voyage - which lasted eight years - and in masterful engravings of views of natives and of their habitations and ceremonies” (Lada Mocarski).

The expedition, the third official Russian expedition to the North Pacific, was sponsored by Catherine II and led by Joseph Billings who had accompanied Captain Cook on his third voyage. Charged with mapping the regions not surveyed by Bering, the party sailed from Okhotsk in 1787. Sarychev’s initial task of surveying the coast to the east of the Kolyma River was thwarted by pack ice. But in 1790, Billings crossed the North Pacific to the Aleutian Islands, proceeding as far as Mount Elias. Sarychev, in command of the ship Chernui Orel, accompanied Billing’s to the coast of Alaska, where he was responsible for surveying the coast, visiting Unalaska and Schugatskish Bay (i.e. Prince William Sound), returning in 1793. Sarychev’s observations provided the first substantive scientific account of the Aleutians and part of the Alaska coast.

Nine years after returning from the expedition, Sarychev completed his official account. The work was published in two quarto text volumes, along with a folio plate volume. Although bibliographies differ on the collation of maps and plates, new scholarship which compared extant examples has conclusively found the work complete, as here, with 51 maps and plates. Furthermore, there is some evidence to suggest that the volume of maps and plates was available for sale separately.

The extensive maps, coastal profiles, and engravings of natives are the most important examples of Russian American iconography and cartography of the Alaska coast published up to this time. A remarkable atlas of engraved views of Northwestern American.

Arctic Bib. 37223; Bagrow, A History of Russian Cartography up to 1800, pp.229-232, 252; Cox I, p.353; Howes S115; Howgego S50; Lada-Mocarski 57; Obol’ianinov 2406; Pilling 3488; Sabin 77173; Wickersham 6128; Whittaker, Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825, p.101.

(#34927) $ 120,000

41 SEEMANN, Berthold Carl (1825-1871).

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the Years 1848-51, under the Command of Captain Henry Kellett ... Being a Circumnavigation of the Globe and Three Cruizes to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin.

London: Reeve & Co, 1853. Two volumes in one, octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). xvi, 322; [iii]- vii, [1], 302pp. Half-title in vol. 1. Two tinted lithographic frontispiece plates by Hullmandel & Walton, 1 folding tinted lithographed map, with the routes marked by hand in red, printed by A. Petermann. Nineteenth century tan calf, bound by Hayday, spine with raised bands in six compartments, green morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with overall tooling in blind.

First edition of a Franklin search Arctic narrative and important voyage to California.

The well-known Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his entire expedition disappeared in 1847 whilst attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. Public interest and the energetic efforts of his widow, Lady Jane Franklin, ensured that the Admiralty and the British government were quick to send out relief expeditions. The present narrative details how, in April 1848, Captain Kellett’s expedition was diverted from its primary objective (a circumnavigation and hydrographical survey of the Pacific), and ordered to join the search from the westward end of the supposed North- West passage. The HMS Herald went through the Bering Strait and along the northwestern extremity of Alaska, eventually making three separate voyages to the region in 1848-1850. Seemann summarises all of the major search expeditions carried out from January 1848 to January 1853, in chapter XII of the present work.

Seemann, a naturalist, had joined the expedition aboard the Herald in 1847. His narrative is a combination of his own observations and others, and aptly documents the exploration of “most of the west coast of America, the Galápagos and Hawaiian Islands, Kamchatka, Bering Strait, Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. Extensive land exploration was undertaken in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and Mexico. In September, 1846, the Herald anchored in San Francisco Bay, and Seemann records a visit to Mission Delores, at that time occupied by a party of Mormons” (Hill). Of the California portion of the narrative, Howes notes that the expedition “visited San Francisco, Monterey and San Diego just after the Conquest.”

Arctic Bibliography 15680; Hill (2004) 1546; Howes S-271; Lada-Mocarski 141; Sabin 78867; Stafleu & Cowan 11602; Wickersham 6593; Day 3683

(#35956) $ 1,875

42 SHELVOCKE, George (1690-1728).

A Voyage round the World By the Way of the Great South Sea. Perform’d in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 Guns and 100 Men, (under His Majesty’s Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late War with the Spanish Crown) till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterward continu’d in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c.

London: printed for J. Senex ... W. & J. Innys ... J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1726. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). [8],xxxii,[4],468pp. Engraved title vignette by Pine, 1 folding engraved double-hemisphere world map and 4 engraved plates (2 folding) by Pine. Folding map linen- backed and with extraneous creases. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked.

First edition of “the fullest account of California, the natives and other features, of any of the old voyages” (Cowan).

“Captains Shelvocke and Clipperton led a privately financed privateering expedition to attack Spanish shipping. Shelvocke gave his superior officer the slip in a storm and proceeded to Brazil and thence to the west coast of South America, where in two months he sacked Payta, Peru, and captured several small prizes. His vessel, the Speedwell, was wrecked at Juan Fernandez Island, but a ship was built out of the wreckage, and he sailed up the coast to Baja California. After crossing the Pacific via Guam and Macao, Shelvocke returned to England, where he was accused of piracy and embezzlement, and then acquitted. He soon left for the Continent a wealthy man. Shelvocke wrote this account, in part, as a vindication of his conduct. In it he mentions the gold of California and the guano of Peru, more than a hundred years before their rediscovery in the 19th century. An incident in the narrative describing the passage around Cape Horn, in which a sailor kills an albatross, is said to have inspired Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner”(Hill).

Cowan II, pp. 581-582; Hill 272-273; Howes S383; Sabin 80158.

(#35283) $ 3,000

43 SMITH, Thomas.

A Narrative of the Life, Travels and Sufferings of Thomas W. Smith: comprising an account of his early life, adoption by the gipsys [sic]; his travels during eighteen voyages to various parts of the world, during which he was five times shipwrecked; thrice on a desolate island near the South Pole, once on the coast of England, and once on the coast of Africa.

Boston: 1844. 8vo. 240pp. Contemporary sheep, rebacked retaining a portion of the original spine. Housed in a calf backed box. Provenance: Neva & Guy Littell (morocco booklabel).

Rare American account of voyages in the Antarctic and the Pacific.

Smith was born of respectable British parents, but after his father died he was sent to work as an errand boy at age seven, and not unlike other young men in his situation, he soon found himself at sea. He participated in seven whaling voyages to the Pacific from 1816 to 1832, as well as numerous other sea adventures all over the world, including the South Pacific, the Atlantic coast of South America, Africa, and the Antarctic regions. Rosove notes that the work has been missed by many bibliographers because it is “so rare and little known.”

Besides whaling, Smith took part in hunting elephant seals on South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in 1816-18, and whaling and sealing on the South Shetland Islands in 1820. This visit, only a year after the discovery of the islands, is the earliest account of sealing there, and an important early Antarctic narrative, with harrowing tales of surviving on penguin hearts and livers and contesting territory with other sealers. Smith also describes a voyage from London to Cape Horn, then to Juan Fernandez and the Galapagos, Easter Island, and points in South America including Colombia and Panama. Later, in New Zealand, he describes scrapes with natives, witnessing battles between the Whorowrarians and Kivakivians. He also visited Japan, Guam, and other Pacific islands. He gives details of whaling activities, including advice on “the most expeditious way of killing a whale” (pp.228-229). Smith made further whaling voyages to the Pacific Ocean in the 1820s aboard the British whalers Spring, Grove, and Hibernia. He ended up trying to do good in New Bedford, but debt and a lung ailment prevented him from achieving his dream of becoming a minister.

A rare book, not in the Hill Collection. The Brooke-Hitching copy realized approximately $21,000 at his sale in September 2015.

Huntress 331C; Forster 86; Spence 1139 (listing an 1840 ed., an error in dating); Rosove 312; Howes S679.

(#35745) $ 5,500

44 STAEHLIN, Jakob von (1709-1785); and P. L. LE ROY.

An Account of the New Northern Archipelago, Lately Discovered by the Russians in the Seas of Kamtschatka and Anadir.

London: Printed for C. Heydinger, 1774. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches). xx, 118, ii pp., plus hand- coloured engraved map, by Kitchen. Half-title, publisher’s ad leaf in the rear. Ornamental headpieces. Contemporary half marbled calf and marbled paper covered boards, flat spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering piece.

First edition in English of “an important work in the history of the northwest coast exploration” (Hill).

“The author was Secretary to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and a member of the Royal Society of London. In the present work he attempted to present the gradual progress of the new Russian discoveries of islands in the North Pacific, including the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak and Unalashka islands, and a number of others. Staehlin states that his compilation is based on the original reports of Russian traders who, under a convoy from the Admiralty ... spent 1764-67 exploring the North Pacific area, discovering new islands and confirming previous discoveries” (Lada-Mocarski).

This first edition in English appeared the same year as the first edition, published in German in Stuttgart, and is much desired as it additionally contains a narrative of four Russian sailors shipwrecked on East-Spitzbergen. This additional narrative, authored by P. Le Roy and with its own title, was previously published in St. Petersburg, but appears here in English for the first time.

“An important work in the history of the northwest coast exploration. The work gives information on the people and wildlife of these islands” (Hill).

Arctic Bibliography 16667; Hill 1624; Lada-Mocarski 20 (German edition).

(#35957) $ 5,800

45 STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard (1737-1801).

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ... Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney.

London: W.Bulmer & Co. for G.Nicol, 1797. 3 volumes (text: 2 vols, quarto [10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches], atlas vol.: large folio [22 1/2 x 17 inches.)] Text: 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, of Emperor Tchien Lung in vol.I and the Earl Macartney in vol.II, 1 plate, 26 vignette illustrations after William Alexander and others. Atlas: 44 engraved views, plans, plates, charts or maps (including a large folding world map, 3 natural history subjects and 25 views). Text: contemporary tree calf, flat spine divided into six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. (Expert repairs at top and tail of spine). Atlas: expertly bound to style in half calf over period brown paper covered boards, spine gilt uniform to the text. Provenance: Sir Thomas Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet (armorial bookplate in text).

First edition of the official published account of the first British embassy to China, headed by the Earl Macartney: complete with the atlas of maps and plates.

George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was dispatched to Beijing in 1792 traveling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by Staunton, and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Staunton’s 11-year-old son who was nominally the ambassador’s page. On the embassy’s arrival in China it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to converse with the Emperor. The embassy, the first such to China, had two objectives: the first to register with the Emperor British displeasure at the treatment that the British merchants were receiving from the Chinese, the second to gain permission for a British minister to be resident in China. The first objective was achieved, the second was not. Macartney was twice granted an audience with the Emperor and in December 1793 he was sumptuously entertained by the Chinese viceroy in Canton, and returned to England via Macao and St. Helena, arriving in September 1794.

Brunet V, 525; cf. Cordier Sinica 2381-2382; cf. Cox I, p.344; Hill (2004) 1628; Lowndes III, p.2502; Lust 545 & 547; cf. Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G.E.Morrison (Tokyo: 1924) I, 696-697; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 12.835.

(#27884) $ 27,500

46 TRUSLER, John (1735-1820).

A Descriptive Account of the Islands Lately Discovered in the South-Seas.

London: R. Baldwin, 1778. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). [4],vii,303,[9]pp. Half-title, publisher’s ad on verso of final leaf. Uncut. Original blue boards with drab paper spine, contemporary manuscript titling on spine and front board. Light wear and soiling to binding. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Very minor foxing, primarily to outer leaves. Very good and in unsophisticated original condition. In a paper slipcase.

An important early compilation of South Seas voyages, put together by John Trusler, who drew primarily on Cook’s explorations.

This would have been the first introduction of many readers to the English advances in exploring the Pacific. “John Trusler is described in the DNB as an eccentric divine, a literary compiler, and a medical empiric. Throughout his diverse career Trusler published many works, on subjects ranging from philosophy to farming. The [present] work contains descriptions and history of Tahiti and the Society Islands, the Friendly Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Holland, and Kamchatka. It offers lively and entertaining discussions of the customs of the inhabitants of these various Pacific islands” (Hill). A very few copies were apparently issued with a folding map which is not present in this copy, nor was it present in the Hill copy (ESTC does not call for a map). Scarce, with only a handful of copies in ESTC.

Hill 1719; ESTC T107078.

(#28627) $ 9,750 47 WHITE, John (c. 1756-1832).

Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions.

London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto (11 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches). Engraved title and 65 hand coloured plates. 7pp. list of subscribers. Hh4 and Kk4 bound in as cancels, as usual. Expertly bound to style in half russia and period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine ruled and decorated in gilt, original red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Earls of Lovelace (armorial bookplate).

Rare handcoloured issue of White’s celebrated First Fleet Journal: among the most desirable works of Australian exploration and natural history.

John White served as surgeon general to the settlement of New South Wales and sailed with the First Fleet. His account is the best of the early descriptions of the natural history of the colony. “White’s Journal is of key importance to any collection of Australiana and is essential to a collection of Foundation books” (Wantrup, p.78). Hill adds that “the long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort.” The beautiful plates are largely after drawings by Sarah Stone, based on the natural history specimens sent by White back to London. A prolific and highly accomplished painter of natural history subjects in London between 1777 and 1806, Stone worked for Sir Ashton Lever, documenting Lever’s vast private collection of ornithological, zoological, and ethnographical specimens.

This a rare example of the deluxe coloured issue and with provenance to the Earls of Lovelace.

Abbey Travel, 605; Ayer/Zimmer, 672; Casey Wood, 626; Davidson, pp. 81-6; Ferguson, 97; Ford, 2495; Hill 1858; Nissen ZBI, 4390; Wantrup, 17

(#35793) $ 12,500 NATURAL HISTORY

48 AUDUBON, John James and John BACHMAN (1790-1874).

The Quadrupeds of North America.

New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849-1854. 31 original parts, 8vo (10 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches). Vol. 1 title and half-title bound at front of no. 1; vol. 2 title at end of no. 20; vol. 3 title and half-title at end of no. 31; Indexes in parts 10, 20 and 31; Table of Contents in part 31. 155 hand- colored lithographed plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and John Wodehouse Audubon. Original lettered parts wrappers. Housed in three morocco backed cloth boxes.

First edition in the rare original parts of Audubon’s final great natural history work, with plates and descriptions of the quadrupeds of the United States including Texas, California and Oregon, as well as part of Mexico, the British and Russian possessions and Arctic regions.

Audubon’s collaborator on the Quadrupeds was the naturalist and Lutheran clergyman John Bachman who had studied quadrupeds since he was a young man and was a recognized authority on the subject in the United States. The two began their association when Audubon stayed with Bachman and his family in Charleston for a month in 1831; this friendship was later cemented by the marriage of Victor and John W. Audubon to Bachman’s daughters, Maria and Eliza. Audubon knew Bachman’s contribution to the Quadrupeds would be crucial, and endeavored to convince his friend to lay aside his fears about the project. Audubon was eager to begin what he felt could be his last outstanding achievement in natural history, but Bachman was more cautious and worried that they were entering a field where `we have much to learn’. Audubon persisted in his efforts to get him to take part, and Bachman, `anxious to do something for the benefit of Victor and John [Audubon]’, eventually relented, with the final condition that all of the expenses and all of the profits should go to the Audubons. By 1835, Bachman had become indispensable to the Quadrupeds project, writing most of the text and editing the entire work.

With the success of the octavo edition of the Birds of America in mind, a similar edition of the Quadrupeds was envisaged from an early stage. The folio edition was published in 30 numbers between 1845 and 1854, and publication of the first octavo edition began in 1849 and was also completed in 1854. Unfortunately Audubon did not live to see the completion of either project, and after his death in January 1851 the work was seen through to completion by his son John Woodhouse Audubon. The two editions form a fitting memorial to the greatest natural history artist of his day.

The Prospectus, printed on the back wrappers, states that “The present will be a miniature copy of the large edition, with figures and descriptions of the Quadrupeds of the United States, (including Texas, California, and Oregon), part of Mexico, the British and Russian Possessions and Arctic regions of our continent. Each number will contain five plates, lithographed in a superior style and carefully coloured from the original drawings. The numbers will be delivered to subscribers at intervals of not less than one month, and the work will be completed in thirty numbers.”

Very rare in original parts, and here in remarkable original condition.

Bennett, p. 5; Nissen ZBI 163; Reese Stamped With A National Character 38; Wood, p. 208

(#36055) $ 17,500 49 BADGER, Clarissa W. Munger (1806-1889).

Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature.

New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867 [but December 1866]. Folio (17 x 12 7/8 inches). Hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 15 hand-coloured lithographed plates, coloured by Mrs. Badger. Publisher’s full black morocco, upper cover with broad floral gilt borders and gilt lettered title, rear cover with floral border in blind, spine in six compartments with a repeat decoration in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A charming American flower book with hand-coloured plates: among the best folio flower books produced in America. Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers (published 1859), though here focussed on the greenhouse and garden. “Contains 16 very beautiful full page flower plates in many colors and shades. Each flower portrayed is also the subject for a poem which serves as text for the illustration” (Bennett). Species represented include Azalea, Geranium, Roses, Jasmine, Bretia (Frontispiece); Camellia & Begonia, Night Blooming Cereus; Fuchsias, Cactus, Scarlet Geranium; Calla & Poincettia; Passion-Flowers, a bouquet of Roses, Narcissus, Hyacinth, Lily of the Valley, Tulip & Dielytra; Salvia & Dielytra; Pansies, Moss Rose; Tulips, Rose of Gethsemane; Larkspur & Japan Lily; Asters.

The handcoloured plates, coloured by Mrs. Badger over very light lithographed lines and without captions (thus giving the plates the appearance of original watercolours), were executed in an era when chromolithographs were fast replacing such skilled hand work. A contemporary advertisement for the work by the publisher, who priced the work $30 when issued, describes it as follows: “The volume is a stately folio, elegantly bound in Turkey morocco and the paper and presswork, and the whole mechanical execution are perfect. There are sixteen pictures in the volume -- favorite or representative flowers -- and each of them is painted from nature by the patient and laborious hand of the artist, and with such exquisite care and taste, and delicacy of touch as to vie with nature herself.” A review of the work in a December 1866 issue of Hours at Home proclaimed the work “without exaggeration, a most unique, highly artistic and gorgeous affair -- a work that reflects great credit on the artistic taste of the country, as well as on the genius and industry of the author.”

“Though little is known about her life other than the landmark dates of her birth, marriage and death, Mrs. Badger’s fine drawings and talented hand have survived to keep her name alive” (J. Kramer, Women of Flowers, New York: 1996).

Nissen BBI 56; Bennett p. 6; McGrath, p. 57.

(#29035) $ 5,750

50 BENTHAM, George (1800-1884); and Henry Fletcher HANCE (1827-1886).

Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hong Kong ... [Bound with:] Flora Hongkongensis ... A Compendious Supplement to Mr. Bentham’s Description of the Plants of the Island of Hong Kong ... Extracted from the Linnaen Society’s Journal.

London: Lovell Reeve, 1861; [London: Linnaen Society, 1872]. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (8 x 5 1/8 inches). [3]-20*, 51, [1], 482pp., plus folding map; [4], [95]-144pp. Contemporary half green morocco over green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, tooled on either side of each band and lettered in the center three compartments, marbled endpaper and edges.

The first comprehensive flora on any part of China and Hong Kong, bound with the separately- issued supplement.

Bentham donated his impressive herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens in 1854, and shortly thereafter, with the sanction of the British Government, began preparing a series of flora of the indigenous plants of British colonies and possessions, beginning with the present work.

“Bentham had made use of all the botanical materials then known from Hong Kong. In the determination of the plants he was aided by several distinguished botanists: Dr. J. Lindley, Sir W. J. Hooker, Dr. J. D. Hooker, Colonel Munro, Prof. . Oliver. Dr. Boott and others ... This remarkable book exhibits on every page the vast botanical knowledge of the author and serves as a model for accurate characteristic and at the same time popular descriptions of plants” (Bretschneider). In his work, Bentham identifies 1056 species of flowering plants, of which approximately 1000 were native.

His monumental work is very rare. We know of only the Plesch copy selling at auction in the last forty years.

Plesch sale 48; Pritzel 625; Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in Asia, pp. 401-403.

(#29444) $ 3,750

51 BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS - F.M. STANTON (artist).

Specimens of Oriental Tinting [cover title: being an album of original botanical watercolour drawings].

[Great Britain: circa 1828]. Folio (15 2/5 x 12 inches). 20 drawings (each approx. 15 3/8 x 12 inches) in watercolour and bodycolour on paper, all but one with caption in gold ink, 16 signed or initialled by Stanton, 1p. small format manuscript list of the flowers (including 4 not present in the album) tipped to front endpaper. Contemporary English green half calf with red textured paper on covers, the upper cover with large centrally-placed green calf title label, lettered ‘Specimens / of / Oriental Tinting.’ within a decorative border of double fillets and a stylized scrolling vine roll-tool, expertly rebacked and cornered to style, the flat spine divided into six compartments by fillets and roll tools, simple repeat pattern to each compartment of a single centrally-placed lozenge-shaped tool. Modern green cloth box, morocco lettering piece.

A unique album of original botanical watercolours, the majority being exotic species, and all executed using the theorem painting technique of oriental tinting.

This album contains very early examples of original artwork produced using a technique that came to prominence in the late 1820s and early-1830s. The results, here painted on ‘Imperial London Board’, show a strong sense of both design and colour whilst still retaining the charming naivété of what was essentially a folk art technique.

Oriental tinting was an early version of theorem painting technique that enjoyed such widespread popularity in both Europe and the United States during the 19th century. The exact date of the invention or introduction of this method is uncertain, but in 1829 Nathaniel Whittock, in his work The art of drawing and colouring from nature, writes of ‘the new method of oriental tinting’. By the following year the method was popular enough for W. Morgan, a drawing master in Torquay, to publish a work titled The Art of Oriental Tinting. Morgan describes the technique as a ‘method of applying watercolour which gives [the drawings] a softness and brilliancy almost surpassing nature in the effect produced.’ The method involved transferring a drawing with ‘oriental’ (or tracing) paper to paper, wood, velvet, silk, satin or marble, and working up the colours to the desired brilliancy.

The patterns from which the present watercolours are taken appear to include various sources, the majority printed. The origin of one drawing can be precisely identified: the 13th image, titled ‘Passiflora Racemoso. Princess Charlotte’s Passion Flower’, is an adapted version of plate number 2001 from the volume of William Curtis’sThe Botanical Magazine published in 1818. This helps with the dating of the album, as do the watermarks on the mounts (dated 1827-1828) and the watermark on the manuscript list of plates (1828).

All the drawings are evidently by the same hand, and the probability is that the artist, F.M. Stanton, was a woman. In any case, the creator of the present album shows a particular penchant for exotic flowers, and the species pictured include amaryllis Formosissima, passiflora racemosa, coccinea dahlia, convolvolus Jalapa, camellia Japonica, bigonia aquinoctialis and the splendid magnolia purpurea.

(#35248) $ 12,000

52 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 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches). 50 hand-coloured lithographs, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, 18 after George G. White, 32 drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock. Scattered minor foxing to the text (the plates generally cleaned), a few plates irregularly trimmed with minor loss at fore-edge. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

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.

(#35224) $ 3,700

53 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

54 LESSON, René Primevère (1794-1849).

Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches ... [with:] Histoire Naturell des Colibris, suivie d’un Supplement a L’Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches.

Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1829-1830]; [1830-1832]. 2 volumes, 8vo (9 x 5 5/8 inches). [Oiseaux-Mouches:] 86 hand coloured engraved plates by Coutant after A. G. Bévalet, J.-G. Prêtre, Mlle. Zoë Dumont, Mme. Lesson and A. C. Vauthier, printed by Rémond (numbered 1-85, plus 48 bis). [Colibris:] 66 hand-coloured engraved plates by Coutant and Teillard after J.-G. Prêtre and A.G. Bévalet, printed by Rémond (Colibris numbered 1-25, plus 12 and 13 bis, Supplement numbered 1-39). Contemporary uniform tan morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, rebacked, period lavender moire endpapers, gilt edges.

First editions of Lesson’s beautifully illustrated monographs on humming-birds.

Described by Wood as fundamental classics, Lesson’s monographs were the most comprehensive treatment of the Trocholidae until Gould began his monumental work 20 years later. Lesson’s beautifully-illustrated work benefits from showing the subjects in their natural poses and being based on the author’s personal observations of the birds in their natural habitat.

Lesson was educated at the naval medical school at Rochefort. In 1822 he joined the company of the expeditionary ship ‘Coquille’, serving as medical officer and naturalist with P. Garnot, under the natural historian J.-S.-C. Dumont d’Urville. The fieldwork that Lesson performed during the two-and-half-year circumnavigation was the foundation of both his fame as a natural historian, and also provided much of the information and experience that he used when writing this and his other companion monographs. When “Cuvier and Latreille reported to the Academy of Sciences on the [‘Coquille’] expedition’s zoological data and collections [...] Lesson and Garnot were praised for bringing back hitherto unknown species of birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, and crustaceans. Lesson was also cited for his remarkable colored illustrations of fish and mollusks and for his valuable aid to Dumont d’Urville for the insect collection” (DSB VIII, p.265).

Anker 291 and 293; Ayer/Zimmer p. 386; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.117; Nissen IVB 547 and 548; Ronsil 1774; Wood p. 433.

(#36042) $ 6,500

55 MUNSON, Laura Gordon.

Flowers from My Garden. Sketched and painted from nature by ... Munson. With an introductory poem by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney.

New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1864. Large quarto (12 1/16 x 10 5/16 inches). Frontispiece and 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Munson. Light foxing, principally to the text. Publisher’s maroon morocco, the covers with elaborate borders blocked in blind, the upper cover with title and within a decorative design blocked in gilt, spine with raised bands, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Josephine F. Allen (early signature).

A scarce American botanical gift book with finely hand coloured plates after Victorian artist Laura Gordon Munson.

Each flower print is accompanied by a short poem by Hooper, May, Hunt, Longfellow, Mrs. Hale, and Felicia Hemans. Munson is better known for her Ladies Wreath, published in 1849. A scarce American Victorian gift book.

Bennett, p.81; McGrath p.209; Kramer, Women of Flowers, p. 48

(#36126) $ 4,500 56 NOISETTE, Louis-Claude (1772-1849).

Le Jardin Fruitier, contenant l’histoire, la description, la culture et les usages des arbres fruitiers, des fraisiers, et des meilleures espèces de vignes qui se trouvent en Europ.

Paris: Audot, [1813]-1821. 2 volumes, 4to (11 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches). [4], 176; [2], 95, [1]pp., including the vol. 2 title which is here bound in with the plates. 90 hand colored engraved plates (numbered 1-77, plus 9, 10 and 52 bis, and I-X [one folding]). With a contemporary 2pp. letterpress handbill by a Valence, France horticulturalist, listing various species of fruits with their dates of maturity, laid in. Contemporary tree calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spines decoratively tooled in gilt, red morocco labels. Provenance: Mr. De Chazotte (lettered in gilt on the spine, signature on the half title and printed label on the title); Pierpaolo Vaccarino (collection stamp on the half title).

A lovely set of the first edition of a noted French work on fruit trees, with beautifully hand colored plates.

“Louis Noisette was the son of a gardener and followed the same occupation in 1795, after his military service, when he took charge of the gardens and greenhouses of the Val de Grace hospital in Paris. Three years later he was renting land for his own nursery garden in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques. Once his garden was established he travelled to Hungary with Prince Esterhazy, furnishing the Prince’s new plantations there. As Noisette’s reputation and his nursery’s stock both grew he started a larger garden for trees and fruit at Fontenay-les-Roses, before moving to Montrouge in 1836. The Noisette nursery is credited with the introduction to France of many new North American plants, a specialty that must have been helped by Louis’s brother Philippem who was for some years a nurseryman in Charleston, South Carolina ... Although Louis Noisette wrote or contributed to several other gardening books, Le Jardin Fruitier, first published in fifteen parts from 1813-1821, is devoted to a subject in which the French had long been leaders, the cultivation and training of fruit trees. The history, culture and uses of all the fruits are described, with advice on cultivation beginning with planting seeds, before going on to grafting and other methods of training and shaping trees for the best results” (Oak Spring Pomona).

The vast majority of the beautifully engraved and hand colored plates are after the 1768 first edition of Duhamel’s Traite des Arbres Fruitiers. A second edition of Noisette’s work would be published in twenty-six parts between 1832 and 1839, with the plates by Bessa, with each figure from the first edition on separate plates.

Raphael, Oak Spring Pomona 43; Nissen, BBI 1450; Pritzel 6733.

(#35069) $ 9,500 57 PLAT (or PLATT), Sir Hugh (1552-1608).

The Garden of Eden: or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now growing in England, with particular Rules how to advance their Nature and Growth, as well in Seeds and Herbs, as the secret Ordering of Trees and Plants ... The Sixth Edition.

London: William and John Leake, 1675. Two parts in one, 8vo. [28], 148; [16], 159, [1]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, covers ruled in blind, rebacked to style, flat spine ruled in blind, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: F. H. (early initials on the title).

The final edition, complete with both parts, of among the most influential English gardening books of the 17th century.

“Sir Hugh Platt (1552-1608), held by Richard Weston to be ‘the most ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in’ ... devoted [his life] to literary work and to the study of husbandry and gardening. He was also interested in all kinds of inventions and experiments, and in consideration of his services in this field was knighted by James I on 22 May 1605 ... His work on gardening entitled Floraes paradise ... appeared in 1608, the year of his death ... He wrote his book from his own practical experience as well as from information supplied to him by other gardeners ... Floraes paradise continued to be published after the author’s death but with the new title of The Garden of Eden and edited by Charles Bellingham ... In 1660 was issued The second part of The Garden of Eden ... Readers who questioned the authenticity of this work were invited to ‘see the original manuscript under the authors own hand..’” (Henrey).

Styled on the title as the sixth edition, it is the second combined edition of both parts and the final edition published in the 17th century. The second part includes its own title and pagination.

Fussell pp.15-16; Henrey 299; Hunt 340; Wing P2388; ESTC R31801

(#35334) $ 3,500 58 POMOLOGY & HORTICULTURE - M. BRUNSWICK & Co. (publishers).

A bound collection of coloured botanical specimen plates.

Rochester, NY: M. Brunswick & Co., [circa 1890]. Octavo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). 129 colour pochoir or chromolithographed plates, bound accordion style with the plates generally mounted in rows of three, joined by cloth ribbons, each row joined by a second row of three so that six plates are visible on each opening. Bound to style in black morocco. Housed in a black cloth box.

A very fine tree-peddler’s sample book from M. Brunswick & Co.

This album has a greater number and variety of plates than usually encountered: in the pomological section there are depictions of 25 kinds of apples, 3 pears, 7 cherries, 7 plums, 1 apricot, 2 peaches, 26 berries and currants, 6 grapes, 2 vegetables; the horticultural section includes 22 trees, flowering shrubs or climbers, 12 roses and other flowering plants and more.

“Mina (or Minnie) Brunswick (1849-1925) is listed in the Rochester city directories as a producer of fruit plates or nurserymen’s plates from 1888 through 1920. Her first advertisement, in the 1889 directory, reads in part: ‘M. Brunswick & Co., (Formerly with D.M. Dewey), Manufacturers of Hand Painted Fruit and Ornamental Plates. All of Mr. Dewey’s artists have been retained by us’ ... Brunswick, by the 1910s, appears to have been the last producer of hand-painted (stencilled) plates in Rochester.” (Kabelac).

Nearly all the plates include the Brunswick imprint, which suggests that this album was sold ready-made. The more usual practice was for the salesmen to make up his sample- book from individual plates from a number of different publishers. The album can be dated approximately from dates in the descriptions of a handful of plates between 1888 and 1893, which is consistent with the firm’s starting date.

Cf. Karl Sanford Kabelac, “Nineteenth-Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates” in The University of Rochester Library Bulletin (1982) vol. XXXV, pp. 93-114; cf. Sandra Raphael An Oak Spring Pomona 65

(#29051) $ 5,750

59 ROTHSCHILD, Lionel Walter, Baron (1868-1937).

The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands: with a Complete History to Date of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possessions.

London: Taylor & Francis for R.H. Porter, 1893-1900. 3 parts in two volumes, imperial quarto (14 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches) . 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates (53 of birds, 3 of nest and eggs), 6 tinted lithographic views and 2 uncoloured plates of anatomical details, all by and after J.G. Keulemans and F.W. Frohawk, printed by the Mintern Brothers, 20 colotype plates after Williams, printed by Bedford Lemaire & Co. Original publisher’s pink wrappers bound in (part 2 front wrapper bound in as the title to the second vol., the other wrappers in the rear of vol. 2). Some repairs to wrappers. Early half morocco and cloth covered boards, spines with raised bands lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.

The rare first edition of one of the most valuable records of the bird life of Hawaii: limited to 250 copies.

Lord Rothschild explains the genesis of the work in the preface: “I was induced to take a great interest in the fauna of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge, and Professor Newton showed me some of the wonderful species of birds discovered on those islands by Mr. Scott Wilson [co-author, with Arthur Humble Evans of Aves Hawaiienses: The Birds of the Sandwich Islands. London: 1890-1899]. At the time I had just engaged Mr. Henry Palmer to make a collection of birds, &c., for me on the Chatham Islands ... and determined that if the first trip turned out a success I would send him to the Sandwich Islands. On receipt of a most interesting collection from the Chatham Islands ... I immediately instructed Palmer to start for Honolulu, where he arrived in December 1890, and stayed on the Sandwich Islands until August 1893. During this period he collected 1832 birds on the following islands: - Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai. Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Niihau, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, Lisiansky, and Midway ... Palmer procured all the known resident land-birds ... [with seven exceptions] which are all undoubtedly extinct, and most of the sea-birds. In addition to these Palmer discovered fifteen species entirely new to science, and several birds new to the islands.”

The majority of the plates are by John Gerard Keulemans (1842-1912), “the major bird book illustrator for 30 years at the end of the 19th century” (Christine Jackson). He is responsible for all the hand-coloured lithographs of birds, whilst Frederick William Frohawk (1861- 1946) produced the three coloured plates of nest and eggs, two uncoloured lithographs of anatomical details and 6 tinted views. The remaining collotype plates are from photographs by Williams of Honolulu.

As the text on the upper wrapper suggests this work was originally sold by subscription, with each of the three parts costing 3 guineas. The remaining copies that had not been taken up by the subscription were then offered at 12 guineas for the complete work. Forbes gives a detailed collation and it is clear that the intention was that the three parts should be bound into a single volume requiring just a single letterpress title page. The resulting volume would have been quite unwieldy, and the original owner of the present example took the happy decision to bind their copy in two volumes. Anker 429; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.135; Forbes Hawaiiian National Bibliography IV, 4497; Jackson Lithography p.88; Nissen IVB 794; Wood pp.543; Zimmer p. 532

(#35237) $ 35,000 60 SINCLAIR, Isabella (1842-1900).

Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885. Small folio (14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches). [12]pp. 44 chromolithographed plates, printed by Leighton Brothers, each with accompanying text leaf. Publisher’s cloth, upper cover pictorially stamped in gilt, expertly recased, brown endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Peabody Institute (bookplate, small inked stamp on title and on verso of the plates).

First edition of “One of the most prized of Hawaiian books among collectors” (Forbes): this copy in the original publisher’s decorative cloth binding.

In the preface, the author writes: “The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large collection, considering that the flowering plants of the islands are said by naturalists to exceed four hundred varieties. But this enumeration was made some years ago, and it is probable that many plants have become extinct since then.” Her wonderfully illustrated work would be the first book dedicated to Hawaiian flora to be illustrated in colour.

Isabella Sinclair (nee McHutcheson), was born in Scotland in 1840, married her cousin Frank Sinclair in 1863 and moved to Hawaii that year. Having studied botany in New Zealand, Sinclair began painting watercolors of the Hawaiian flora, carefully identifying each specimen with its botanical name as provided by Joseph Hooker, along with its natural habitat, its native name and other information.

As Forbes notes, the work was an early example of a perfect binding and as such copies tend to be found loose in their bindings with subsequent damage to the plates and leaves. This example beautifully bound and in very fine condition internally.

Stafleu TL2 12.024; Forbes 3736; Nissen 1848; Great Flower Books p. 76.

(#35099) $ 6,000

61 STOLL, Caspar (c.1730-1791).

Natuurlyke en naar ‘t leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde Afbeeldingen en Beschreyvingen der Cicaden en Wantzen.

Amsterdam: Jan Christaan Sepp, 1780-1788. 2 volumes, quarto. Hand colored illustrated titles to each volume, 70 hand coloured engraved plates (29 Cicaden and 41 Wantzen), illustrating 471 figures. Text in Dutch and French. The first volume with general title page preceding the sectional one. Contemporary marbled calf, covers with wide borders in gilt, flat spines tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, expert repairs to joints.

Beautifully illustrated and colored work on insects from the order Hemiptera, including cicadas: complete with both parts.

Published in twelve parts, this work was “the first serious scientific work on these groups of insects” (Landwehr). The work describes the cicadidae and insects of the order heteroptera of all parts of the world, but with many from the Dutch colonies of Surinam, the Cape of Good Hope and the Coromandel coast. Stoll worked with Pieter Cramer on his monumental work on butterflies, becoming its principal author after Cramer’s death. Contemporary records describe him as being a clerk in the Admiralty of Amsterdam, but was evidently well regarded as an amateur entomologist and collector of specimens. The beautiful work is published by Jan Christiaan Sepp, the most acclaimed Dutch publisher of colored natural history books of the 18th century.

Nissen ZBI 3999 and 4000; Landwehr 191; Hagen, p. 198; Horn & Schenkling, p. 1192

(#35899) $ 8,500 62 STOLL, Caspar (c.1730-1791).

Natuurlyke en naar ‘t ieeven naauwkeuig Gekleurde Afbeeldingen en Beschrijvingen der Spooken, Wandelende Bladen, Zaabel-Spring-Haanen, Krekels, Trek-Springhanen en Kakkerlakken ...

Amsterdam: Jan Christaan Sepp et Fils, [1787-]1813. Two volumes in one, quarto (12 x 9 1/2 inches). Hand coloured illustrated titles, 70 hand coloured engraved plates (25 in the first part, 45 in the second part). Contemporary red morocco backed red paper covered boards, covers elaborately decorated in gilt, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, green morocco lettering piece in the second the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

Stunning hand colored illustrated monograph on mantises, stick insects, grasshoppers and related insects: among the most beautiful of 18th-century Dutch entomological books.

Stoll worked with Pieter Cramer on his monumental work on butterflies, becoming its principal author after Cramer’s death. Contemporary records describe him as being a clerk in the Admiralty of Amsterdam, but was evidently well regarded as an amateur entomologist and collector of specimens. The beautiful work is published by Jan Christiaan Sepp, the most acclaimed Dutch publisher of colored natural history books of the 18th century. Following the publication of Stoll’s monographs on cicadas and insects from the order heteroptera, he published the present work on the mantis, grasshoppers, stick insects and others. The work includes depictions of specimens from the cabinets of Holthusien, Raye de Breukelerwaerth and other Dutch wunderkammer, with specimens from Surinam, Coromandel, Amboine, the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Java, China, America and other exotic locations.

Nissen ZBI 4002; Landwehr 192; Hagen, p. 199; Horn & Schenkling, p. 1193

(#35900) $ 9,500 63 WESTON, R[ichard] (1733-1806).

Botanicus Universalis ... The Universal Botanist and Nurseryman: Containing Descriptions of the Species and Varieties of alL the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, Flowers, and Fruits, Natives and Exotics: at present cultivated in the European nurseries, greenhouses and stoves.

London: Printed for J. Bell, 1770-1777. 4 volumes, 8vo. Titles in Latin and English. 17 engraved plates (7 engraved by Miller). Engraved dedications in vols. 1-3. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper covered boards, flat spines gilt.

First edition, in a lovely contemporary binding.

Weston “appears to have had an excellent knowledge of nursery gardening and nurseryman’s sale catalogues. He was interested in agriculture and all forms of horticulture, and he also made a study of horticultural and botanical literature. His Botanicus Universalis ... contains descriptions of the species and varieties of all plants at that time cultivated in European nurseries, greenhouses and stoves ... The first volume ... is devoted to trees and shrubs, and is inscribed to Hugh, third Duke of Northumberland, one of the great eighteenth century planters of trees ...” (Henrey). The fourth volume includes a bibliography of botanical books, titled “A catalogue of the principal botanical authors and their works, for above two thousand years, from Theophrastus, to the year 1770.”

Henrey 1481; ESTC T81047

(#35897) $ 3,500 MISCELLANY, INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHY

64 ANNAN, Thomas (1829-1887).

The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow ... With an Introduction by William Young.

Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1900. Large quarto (14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches). 23, [1] pp. 50 warm-toned photogravure plates after photographs by Annan. Publisher’s rose cloth, upper cover with the arms of Glasgow in gilt, spine lettered in gilt.

A classic work of early photographic literature: one of 100 copies. “When Thomas Annan was commissioned by the Glasgow Improvement Trust in the mid- 1860s to document the older, working class areas of the Scottish city, it was not because his photographs might be utilized in a campaign to alleviate social conditions in these areas ... Rather, Annan was commissioned to record the historical fabric of the old streets before they were replaced by more modern housing ... Despite the penchant for photographing picturesque antiquity, Annan’s masterpiece is relatively rare in nineteenth-century British photography, a public commission recording humble city landmarks that were about to disappear ... It is the consistently narrow form of the alley that gives formal coherency to most of Annan’s imagery ... This lends the pictures an irresistible rhythm, a sense of leading somewhere. Coupled with the numerous glimpses of the closes’ indigenous inhabitants, the device makes these compelling pictures amongst the most intimate and ‘modern’ in feeling of nineteenth-century documents” (Parr & Badger).

“Illustrated with 50 photogravures on rag paper after photographs by Thomas Annan. Thirty- eight of these were taken in 1868, 1 in 1885 and 11 between 1897 and 1899, all portraying closes and old buildings on or off High Street, the Gorbals, the Salt Market, etc. Annan’s architectural views often contain incidental portraits of the inhabitants. These subjects from the working class districts have caused some to read into them the intent of social consciousness. One hundred copies were specially printed for the Corporation of Glasgow in a cloth binding, gilt embossed with the arms of the city” (Truthful Lens).

The present issue, in the rose cloth binding printed specially for the Corporation of Glasgow, is more desirable, printed on better quality paper than the issue in blue cloth.

Truthful Lens 4; Parr & Badger I:p. 49

(#36052) $ 8,500 65 BAYER, Johann (1572-1625).

Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa.

Augsburg: C. Mangus, 1603. Folio (14 1/8 x 10 inches). Engraved title, 3 preliminary text leaves, plus 51 double-page engraved celestial charts with text recto and verso. Printer’s device on verso of final chart. Scattered early manuscript annotations. Expertly bound to style in early mottled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition of the first accurate star atlas.

Earlier star catalogues followed Ptolemy’s Almagest in using verbal descriptions to describe the location of stars within the 48 northern constellations of classical astronomy, an awkward system that occasioned constant errors and misapprehensions. Bayer, a lawyer and amateur astronomer, was the first to identify the location of stars within a constellation by the use of Greek letters (with the addition of the Latin alphabet for constellations with more than 24 stars). This simple innovation greatly facilitated the identification of stars with the naked eye, just five or six years before the invention of the telescope. Bayer’s stellar nomenclature is still in use today. Bayer used Brahe’s recent observations for the northern sky, and included, in chart 49, twelve new southern constellations observed by the Dutch navigator Pieter Dirckzoon Keyzer and reported by Pedro de Medina. To simplify identification of the stars Bayer included in his typographic descriptions both the traditional star numerations within each constellation and the many names for the constellations employed since Ptolemy.

While later editions of Bayer appear with regularity on the market, the first edition of 1603 is rare. Only four examples have appeared at auction in the last twenty years, including the Richard Green, the Earls of Macclesfield and the Haskell F. Norman copies.

Deborah Warner, The sky explored: celestial cartography 1500-1800 pp. 18-19; Norman 142; Zinner 3951.

(#35042) $ 24,000 66 [BRAUN, Adolphe (1812-1877)].

Album of 25 albumen photographs of flower arrangements.

[Paris: circa 1855]. Folio. 25 albumen photographs, most with rounded corners, each mounted onto white paper and mounted onto tan sheets within the album. Contemporary navy blue morocco, bound by C. Lewis, covers with wide elaborate borders in gilt, central floral wreath stamped in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt, flat spine gilt, cream silk endpapers.

A stunning album of early floral photographs attributed to Braun.

A noted French textile designer, Braun was an early adopter of the use of photography in his studio to aid in the design of floral patterns. “It was his flower images that brought Adolphe Braun into the top rank of photographers. The subject could not have been more appropriate for him, as flowers were the most important theme in the printing factories’ design studios ... Adolphe Braun disliked the distorted, repetitive and conventional floral compositions of the schools and design studios. His stated goal for his Fleurs photographiées was to allow designers to work from natural models” (O’Brien and Bergstein, p. 15).

In 1854, Braun presented an album of 300 photographs to the Academie des Sciences in Paris and exhibited additional images at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. “With the collodion process, Adolphe Braun was able to reproduce his flower wreaths and arrangements with perfect subtlety and finess ... These images compose one of the major works of art produced in this period, known as the ‘golden age of photography’” (O’Brien and Bergstein, p. 16)

Braun catalogues show that his large albumen prints were offered for sale at ten francs each. Although he produced hundreds of glass plates, he found the market for the larger, more expensive images was limited among textile artists and students of design and therefore produced far fewer of the larger sizes like the present images.

While a few scattered images appear in museums and private holdings, the principal repository of Braun photographs is held by the Musée de l’Impression sur Étoffes, Mulhouse. Braun floral photographs of the size and quality as those in the present album are seldom seen on the market.

Maureen C. O’Brien and Mary Bergstein, Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000)

(#29743) $ 28,000

67 DAMMANN, Carl and Frederick W.

Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men.

London: Truebner & Co., [1875]. Oblong folio (16 1/2 x 12 inches). 167 mounted albumen photographs, recto and verso on 24 cards. Publisher’s green cloth, covers elaborately blocked in blind in high relief, upper cover lettered in gilt, white moire endpapers.

With photographs of Native Americans and Australian aborigines.

One of the first and most encompassing anthropological and ethnological photographic studies of the world, described by anthropologist Edward B. Tylor as “one of the most important contributions ever made to the science of man.” The twenty four plates comprise: 1. Germanic Types; 2. Romanic Types; 3. Slavonians, Finns; 4. Types of the Balkan Peninsula; 5. Arabia, Persia; 6. India, Western part; 7. India, Eastern part; 8. Sunda Islands; 9. Philippine Islands; 10. China; 11. Japan; 12. North of Asia; 13. Mediterranean Africa; 14. Niger District; 15. Congo; 16. Zanzibar coast; 17. Cape Colony; 18. N. America, Northern part; 19. N. America, Southern part; 20. S. America, Eastern part; 21. Amazon district; 22. Cordillera district; 23. Continent of Australia; 24. Polynesia, Oceania.

Edwards, Elizabeth (editor) Anthropology & Photography 1860-1920 (1992), pp.55, 57; Tylor, E.B., ‘Dammann’s Race-Photographs’, Nature, 13 (1876), pp.184-185; cf. Roosens & Salu History of Photography: Bibliography of Books 300

(#36053) $ 8,500 68 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882).

On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1860. Octavo. 432pp., plus folding lithographic diagram. With the half-title. Light foxing. Publisher’s green grained cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine in gilt, brown endpapers (expert repair at head of spine). Housed in a green morocco backed box. Provenance: Benjamin Lincoln (contemporary signature).

The first American edition of one of the most influential books ever published.

Freeman calls Darwin’s magnum opus “the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman), whilst Dibner writes that it is “the most important single work in science” (Heralds of Science). “What the dropping of the first atomic bomb was to the twentieth century, the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was to the nineteenth century. Battle lines were drawn on both religious and scientific grounds” (Heirs of Hippocrates). “As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.” (Introduction p.12).

The first edition of On The Origin of Species was published in London on 24 November 1859. In total 1250 copies were printed, but after deducting presentation and review copies, and five for Stationers’ Hall copyright, around 1,170 copies were available for sale. The second edition of 3,000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, the present first American edition followed and a third English edition was published in 1861. The book went through a further four editions during Darwin’s lifetime and has remained in print ever since.

The present example is the first issue of the first American edition, with two quotes on verso of the half-title.

Freeman 377; cf. Dibner Heralds of Science 188 (refers); cf. Horblit 236 (refers); cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 344b (refers).

(#36083) $ 9,500 69 GORKY, Maxime (1868-1936) - Jean LÉBÉDEFF (1884-1972), illustrator.

Les Vagabonds par Maxime Gorki. Traduction de Ivan Strannik. Bois Gravés par Lébédeff.

Paris : Chez Mornay, 1921. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches). Contents unbound, as issued. Illustrated with colour woodcuts by Lébédeff (frontispiece plate, 4 headpieces, 5 tailpieces [including tailpiece on colophon leaf], 4 initials and 12 illustrations within the text). With 30 preliminary pencil or pen-and-ink sketches by the artist, 8 preliminary woodcut proofs, 25 color woodcut proofs (21 signed), all tipped into 28 window cut paper mounts [as issued]. Extra-illustrated with a colour woodcut by Lébédeff, numbered 212/225, signed and inscribed by the artist to Ivan Lamberty, laid in. Publisher’s vellum wrappers, covers hand illuminated in pen-and-ink by Lébédeff, gold ribbon ties, within publisher’s dark brown morocco-backed patterned boards chemise and slipcase.

Unique large paper copy number one (of one), on Japon Impérial with the original preliminary sketches for the illustrations by Lébédeff, as well as signed artist’s proofs of the illustrations, and bound in a hand-illuminated binding by the artist.

A unique, deluxe issue of this work, usually found as one of 960 copies on papier de Rives (from a total edition of 1000, the remaining 39 copies being hors commerce or other limited but less deluxe versions). Jean Lébédeff (born Ivan Lebedev in Bogorodskoye), began his studies under Fernand Cormon at the Ecole Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1909 and became a noted graphic designer and book illustrator in Paris between the wars, acclaimed for his wood-cuts. A well-known anarchist, his work was exhibited at the 1926 International Exhibition of Revolutionary Art of the West in Moscow; his work would later be featured in the 1979 retrospective “Paris Moscou 1900-1930” at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Vagabonds was a tremendously influential work by Gorky, here in French from the translation by Ivan Stannik. The work, with strong autobiographical elements, is comprised of four short stories featuring Russian vagabonds, titled: Malva; Konovalov; Tchelkache; and Mon Compagnon.

The provenance of this copy, given the extra-illustration laid in, would seem to be Ivan Lamberty, a noted art patron and collector in Brussels.

(#28268) $ 9,500 70 HOOGVLIET, Arnold (1687-1763).

Abraham, de Aartsvader. In XII Boeken.

Rotterdam: Jan Daniel Beman en Zoon, 1766. Small 4to (9 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. Engraved title by J. Wandelaar and 12 engraved plates by J. Punt, all with very fine period hand-colouring and gilt highlights. Eighteenth century Dutch red morocco, elaborately bordered and panelled in gilt with imperial coronets at each corner, spine in six compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e. Provenance: J. G. R. Acquoy (1829-1896, signature).

A beautifully hand coloured copy in a period red morocco binding.

Hoogvliet’s epic biblical poem celebrating the life of Abraham was first published in 1728 and went through numerous printings in the 18th century. However, we have been unable to locate another copy of any edition of the poem with full period hand colouring to the plates. The colouring and binding of this copy is superb and would suggest an owner of high status.

Not in Landwehr.

(#26333) $ 6,500 71 [LOCKE, John (1632-1704)].

The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scripture.

London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, 1695. 8vo. [4], 304pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Provenance: Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (signature).

First edition of Locke’s most important contribution to theological literature and a noted influence on Thomas Jefferson’s bill for establishing religious freedom.

Locke here presents his arguments for faith being based in reason. This copy with provenance to Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (1850-1898), a noted English atheist and freethought writer. Curiously, while Locke promoted religious toleration, he believed that atheists, without a belief in a higher deity, were incapable of honoring the social contract upon which their legal rights were based.

Wing L2751; Yolton 229; Pforzheimer, 610; ESTC R22574

(#35910) $ 5,000 72 NEWTON, John (1622-1678).

Cosmographia, or a View of the Terrestrial and Coelestial Globes, in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid geometry, applied to surveying and gauging of cask. The doctrine of primum mobile. With an account of the Juilan & Gregorian calendars, and the computation of the places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars, from such decimal tables of their middle motion, as supposeth the whole circle to be divided into an hundred degrees or parts. To which is added an introduction unto geography.

London: Printed for Thomas Passinger, 1679. 8vo. Title printed in red and black. [16], 320, 319-510, [16] pp. 14 engraved plates (11 folding). 4pp. ads in the rear. Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled pastedowns, gilt edges. Provenance: William Ian Turner (collector’s blindstamp).

Early English pedagogical treatise on mathematics.

Designed as a practical guide on the instruction of mathematics, the work includes sections on surveying, geometry and astronomy, as well as tables to determine area and other calculations. The work includes an ad in the rear for James Atkinson’s school for mathematical sciences, as well as the sale of scientific instruments.

Wing N1055; ESTC R17177

(#35998) $ 2,800 73 [THOMSON, John (1837-1921) and Adolphe SMITH HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)].

Street Incidents.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. 4to (10 5/8 x 8 inches). [4], 45- 100pp. 21 woodburytypes, each with printed caption and red ruled border. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt and black (expertly recased).

“The first photographic social documentation of any kind” (Gernsheim).

Thomson’s photographs in Street Life in London and the present Street Incidents , and the commentary upon the images by Thomson and Adolphe Smith, depict a London in which life is a harsh and continuous struggle. The characters on view here are familiar to us more from Dickens’ novels or from an idea of the Whitechapel of Jack the Ripper than from any nostalgic image of a strait-laced or patrician Victorianism. Thomson and Smith are, however, sympathetic to the objects of their study and seem intent on cataloguing the variety of types to be found rather than attempting any Barnum-like freakshow. As Thomson himself writes: “The precision and accuracy of photography enables us to present true types of the London poor and shield us from the accusation of either underrating or exaggerating individual peculiarities of appearance.”

It is “a pioneering work of social documentation in photographs and words ... one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium’s history” (Parr & Badger).

This copy the second abridged issue, with variant title (i.e., renamed Street Incidents) and complete with 21 plates and text leaves numbered 45-100. The history of the production of this issue is not well known. However, internal evidence, when compared to the first edition of Street Life , which contains 36 photographs and text leaves numbered 1-100, reveal that Street Incidents comprises everything from Street Life, both text and photographs, following page 44. The only changes would appear to be additional plate numbers below the captions, as well as page numbers above the images. It would seem likely that the publisher had a remainder of the latter portion of Street Life, and re-issued what was available with a new title, without credit to Thomson, as a new work.

The images in Street Incidents comprise: A Convict’s Home; The Wall Worker; Covent Garden Labourers; Halfpenny Ices; Black Jack; The Cheap Fish of St. Giles; Cast-iron Billy; Worker’s on the “Silent Highway”; The Street Fruit Trade; The London Boardmen; The Water-cart; “Mush-Fakers” and Ginger-Beer Makers; November Effigies; “Hookey Alf” of Whitechapel; The Crawlers; Italian Street Musicians; The Street Locksmith; The Seller of Shell-fish; Flying Dustmen; Old Furniture; The Independent Shoeblack.

Cf. Hasselblad 42; cf. Gernsheim, p. 447; cf. Truthful Lens 169; cf. Parr & Badger I:p.48.

(#28775) $ 12,500

74 [WOOLSEY, E. J.].

Specimens of Fancy Turning Executed on the Hand or Foot Lathe with Geometric, Oval, and Eccentric Chucks and Elliptical Cutting Frame.

Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1869. Square 8vo (8 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches). Title, plus 2pp. Explanation. 30 mounted albumen photographs. Publisher’s green cloth, covers bordered in blind, upper cover titled in gilt, yellow endpapers.

Extraordinary proto-Modernist work of delicate abstract beauty and a very rare early American photographically illustrated book.

“The accompanying specimens of turning on the lathe are photographic copies of the originals, executed on a scale one-third larger than the copies ... These figures were cut on the lathe by a delicate pointed tool kept in position by guides, and pressed at the back by a fine spiral spring, which tool can be drawn back at any moment by the turner ... The object I originally intended was to illustrate the curves that the lathe was capable of producing, by cutting out figures on a glass plate covered with collodion, and one of the following figures with a white ground is printed from a plate so operated upon. The same figure is photographed on a black ground. The collodion, however, tears under the action of the tool, and this defect is corrected by using the blackened card process and then by photographing the card” (Explanation). The Explanation is signed with the initials E.J.W. of Lenox, Massachusetts and has been ascribed to Woolsely, a noted landowner in the town.

This early photographically illustrated book is a wonderful example of proto-modernism, with the resulting exquisite images unintentionally becoming works of art. Furthermore, this is an incredibly early example of the concept of scratching directly onto photographic paper to create a work of art, much in the style of today’s popular contemporary artist Marco Breuer. For this reason, copies of this work reside in the famed collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (54.636.1) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (98.537).

(#35794) $ 17,500

75 ZUBER, Jean, & Co. (publishers) - ENGELMANN, père & fils (lithographers).

Collection d’Esquisses des principaux articles de décoration exécutés en papier peint dans la manufacture de Jean Zuber et Compagnie à Rixheim près Mulhausen, dept. du haut-Rhin.

[Mulhouse, Alsace, France: Engelmann père & fils for Jean Zuber, circa 1850]. Folio (19 1/4 x 14 inches). Lithographed throughout: uncoloured title, 73 images by Engelmann after P.A. Mongin, J.J. Déltil, J.M. Gué, Zippélius, Ehrmann, Fuchs and others on 41 sheets (15 sheets with fine contemporary hand-colouring, 4 of these heightened with gum arabic, including two images in both coloured and uncoloured state). (The final sheet cut dwon and loosely inserted, the 4th and 5th torn with marginal paper loss not affecting the images, the 8th sheet torn in half with neat old repair). Contemporary French blue reversed leather-backed blue/green paper-covered boards, upper cover with red morocco label panelled and lettered in gilt, extremities rubbed. Provenance: H. Cresch (early inscription “H. Cresch / sellier / Masevaux”).

A magnificent album: an iconography of the work of the greatest of all the 19th-century producers of ‘papier peints’, and a spectacular example of the lithographer’s art.

Despite its large format and exuberant use of high-quality hand-colouring, the present album was designed as no more than a sample book to be used by salesmen or agents of Alsace-based producers of wall and ceiling treatments: Jean Zuber et Cie. The heavy usage such albums usually received has ensured that they are now much rarer than many of their pampered drawing-room contemporaries: the Grand Tour views of Rome or Paris survived into the 20th century in huge numbers, albums such as these did not.

After ten years learning his trade, Jean Zuber, the founder of the company, began manufacturing under his own name in 1802. He employing a number of artists: P. A. Mongin can be said to have set the style for the firm, working for Jean Zuber & Cie. up until 1825. The popularity of Mongin’s designs can be judged by the fact that a number of them were still being offered for sale in the present album produced about 25 years after he stopped working for the firm. J.J. Deltil succeeded to the mantle of chief designer and the spectacular three sheet panorama “Vues du l’Amerique du Nord” (1834) is one of the better known designs of his that is in the album: - the panorama of New York City, West Point, Boston, Virginia and Niagara Falls is here seen on two uncoloured and one coloured sheet, the 32 sheet full-sized work so delighted Jackie Kennedy that she had it installed in the “grand salon ovale de la Maison-Blanche” (according to Le Monde du Papier Peint, p. 113). Deltil was also responsible for the “Vues du Brésil” (1830) and the “Décor Chinois” (1832). It is however the image of a section of “El Dorado” which enables us to date the album to the middle of the century, since it was not produced until 1848, a date confirmed by the “Conquete de Mexique” which purports to show scenes from the war of 1846-1848.

In addition to the examples of papier peint there are numerous plates showing designs for decorative papers for a variety of other schemes, including faux panelling (in a variety of styles), ceilings, ceiling roses, chimney breasts, etc. Some of these are designed to reproduce plaster, some woodwork, and some again fabric, but all are of the highest quality with particular attention paid to the fine detail: as is to be expected from an album printed by Engelmann and intended to sell wall-paper that is on a much larger scale.

A complete list of the individual plates available upon request.

F. Curie. “Jean Zuber (fils)” in the Revue d’Alsace, 1855, pp 21-22 & 51-83; E. Dollfus. “Notice nécrologique sur M. Jean Zuber fils.” in the Bulletin S.I.M.,1853, tome XXV, pp.111-129; G. Gayelin, fils. Notice historique sur la manufacture de papiers peints Jean Zuber et Cie à Rixheim. (Strasbourg, 1912); C. Grad “Les industries de lAlsace, fabrication du papier peint.” in the Revue d’Alsace, 1876, pp. 331 -345; B. Jacqué “Les débuts de lindustrie du papier peint à Mulhouse (1790-1794)” in the Revue dAlsace, 1979, n°105, pp.137-150; B. Jacqué. “Papiers peints panoramiques et jardins: l’oeuvre de P.A. Mongin chez Jean Zuber et Cie.” in Nouvelles de l’Estampe, 1980, n°49, pp. 6-11; F. Teynac, P. Nolot & J-D. Vivien Le Monde du Papier Peint (Paris: 1981) pp. 107-117.

(#18539) $ 27,500