BOSTON BOOK FAIR ADDENDUM a short list e-catalogue Donald A. Heald | Rare Books Donald A. Heald | Rare Books BOSTON BOOK FAIR ADDENDUM a short list e-catalogue Just click the title of each item in this illustrated short list and follow the link to a full description and images on our website Questions? Contact us or email [email protected] DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss ALBUM AMICORUM CLICK THE An album of drawings and watercolours of TITLE natural history and topographical subjects, and including a original watercolour of a bouquet of bluebells and wood-anemones by Margaret Meen. [Great Britain: first quarter 19th century]. Quarto. 29 drawings or watercolours, each corner mounted. Early English red straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with border defined by an inner and outer single fillet rule, lettered (in the second compartment) 'Recueil / des / talens/' and 'et de / l'amitie' (in the third), the first and sixth with elaborate repeat tooling made up from numerous small tools and pointillé work, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Provenance: Marquis of Bute. A rare and beautifully bound collection of original drawings and watercolours, including a work by Margaret Meen "the most outstanding woman painter associated with Kew [Gardens] in the eighteenth century" (Mabley) and an early representation of one of Australia's most spectacular butterflies, the Cape York Birdwing. (#34904) $ 8,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss AMERICAN REVOLUTION, BENJAMIN WILSON The Repeal. [London: 18 March 1766]. Engraving, on laid paper. Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 18 inches. Trimmed to the platemark. Rare first edition, first issue of the most famous satirical print relating to the dreaded Stamp Act, printed on the day of its repeal. (#35806) $ 16,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss BIBLE IN LATIN [Biblia Latina]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 6 August 1479. Thick folio (14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches). 468 leaves. Printed in gothic type in two columns throughout. Rubricated in red and blue throughout with a dynamic fourteen-line initial on folio one in red, blue, and green whose center contains a blue heart centered on a green cross being pierced by a red arrow. Very minor worming affecting the first leaf (OT index). Early manuscript inscription on verso of first leaf. Full sixteenth- century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, edges stained blue. Incunable Bible in Latin, printed by the famed publisher of the Nuremberg Chronicle. (#37361) $ 35,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss JEAN BERNARD BOSSU Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales; contenant une Relation des différens Peuples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appelé vulgairement le Mississipi; leur religion; leur gouvernement; leurs moeurs; leurs guerres et leur commerce. Paris: Le Jay, 1768. 2 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. Four engraved plates (including frontispieces in each vol.). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines with raised bands, ruled on either side of each band, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: William McDowall, Castle Semple (armorial bookplate, covered by); Sir Michael Robert Shaw- Stewart, 7th Baronet (armorial bookplate). Rare first edition of a noted mid-18th century account of the Mississippi Valley. (#36888) $ 1,600. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss FRANCOIS BOUSSUET De natura aquatilium carmen, in universam Gulielmi Rondeletii. Lyon: M. Bonhomme, 1558. 2 parts in 1, small 4to (7 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches). Bonhome's woodcut Perseus device on both titles, woodcut portrait of the author, 466 large woodcut illustrations of fish and marine life. One folding leaf with illustration in the second part. Late 19th century brown morocco by De Samblanx and Weckesser, covers panelled with gilt rules, gilt fleuron cornerpieces, spine with five raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with gilt fleurons, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. First and only edition of Bossuet's pictorial history in verse of fishes and aquatic animals. (#31052) $ 4,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss CHARLES DARWIN The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871. 2 volumes, octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches). [8], 423, [16]; [10], 475, [16]pp. Half-titles. Publisher's ads at end of both volumes dated January 1871. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt spine, dark blue glazed endpapers. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate). First edition, first issue: the first appearance of the word "evolution" in any of Darwin's works. (#37435) $ 5,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss J. F. W. DES BARRES A View of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, taken from the East Shore. London: J.F.W. Des Barres, c. 1777. Hand-colored etching. Several skilfully repaired tears. Trimmed within platemark left margin. Plate mark: 11 3/4 x 25 1/4". Sheet size: 13 7/8 x 25 3/4". Rare early view of Portsmouth from the New England volume of the Atlantic Neptune. (#32296) $ 9,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss JEAN FRANÇOIS FORTY Ouevres de Sculptures en Bronze, Contenant Girandoles, Flambeaux, Feux, Pendules, Bras, Cartels, Barometres, et Lustres. Paris: Chereau, [circa 1780]. Quarto. Engraved title and 48 engraved plates, by C. Colinet and Augustin Foin. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Provenance: Eug. van Herck & Fils (early ink stamp). Classic series of Louis XVI designs. (#38121) $ 5,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss WILLIAM GUTHRIE A New System of Modern Geography: Or, A Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World..., the astronomical part by James Ferguson, F.R.S. ... London: printed for C. Dilly, and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1792. 4to. 24 folding engraved maps, each hand-coloured in outline, and one single-page plate of an Armillary Sphere. Contemporary full calf by William McKenzie, covers with a roll border in gilt and with a large central panel of tree calf, spine with raised bands with gilt bead roll, green morocco labels in second and fifth compartments, others gilt panelled with bead and rope rolls, and containing a variety of fleuron, star, wheel, bird, and sunburst tools, green stained edges. Provenance: McKenzie (Irish bookseller's label on the front bookplate). An exceptionally fine copy of Guthrie's Geography in a contemporary binding by the celebrated Irish binder William McKenzie. (#36892) $ 7,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss HORACE Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. London: Gul. Sandby, 1749. 2 volumes, 8vo. Titled printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication, 35 engraved plates. Contemporary French red morocco, flat spine gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: W. W. Scranton. Sandby's edition of Horace, in contemporary red morocco. (#32762) $ 950. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ [An archive of letters written to George Frederick Kunz, largely on gemological matters]. [Various places: 1884-1930]. Approximately 105 letters or notes, comprising: approximately 9 autograph notes signed on post cards, approximately 83 autograph letters signed, and approximately 22 typed letters signed. A fascinating archive of correspondence to noted American mineralogist and mineral collector, George Frederick Kunz. (#36598) $ 7,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss THEOPHILE LEFEBVRE Voyage en Abyssinie exécuté pendant les années 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 ... Histoire Naturelle Zoologie ... Atlas ... [Bound with:] Voyage en Abyssinie ... Album historique, ethnologique et archeologique ... [And with:] Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae ... Icones. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1847-1851. 3 volumes bound in 2, folio (489 x 344mm). 203 plates, mounted on guards, comprising: [Atlas Zoologie:] 40 hand-coloured engraved plates of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, and insects, 1 plate of fossils bound at end; [Album Historique, Ethnologique et Archéologique:] 59 lithographed plates (33 coloured, 3 folding); [Atlas Botanique:] 103 engraved plates. Contemporary green morocco-backed marbled boards, flat spines in compartments with wide black bands, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate). The complete atlas volumes to an important 19th century French exploration of Ethiopia. (#37438) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss MAINE, GEORGE N. COLBY Atlas of Hancock County Maine Compiled and Published under the direction of Geo. N. Colby ... Drawn from official Plans, U.S. Coast Survey Charts, and actual Surveys by H. E. Halfpenny & J. H. Stuart. Ellworth, Maine: S. F. Colby & Co [engraved by William Bracher, printed by F. Bourquin, Philadelphia], 1881. Folio (16 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches). 96pp, including 5pp ads in rear. 39 hand coloured lithographed maps (17 double-page, some printed recto and verso of same sheets, numerous insets) [complete]. Contemporary black morocco, upper cover lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Edward C. Burleigh (name in gilt on upper cover). The first atlas devoted to Hancock County, Maine. (#30409) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss ANDRÉ MICHAUX Histoire des Chênes de l'Amérique, ou descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de I'Amérique Septentrionale, considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage. Paris: de l'Imprimerie Crapelet, 1801. Folio