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A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art of Artyfichall Flee Making" By an Old Man Well Known on the Derbyshire Streams as a First- Class Fly-Fisher a Century Ago

London: John B. Day, 1876. Quarto. 2 chromolithographed

plates, 2 completed flies and 23 flies with dressing materials

displayed in 22 sunken mounts on six cards. Extra-

illustrated with an albumen photograph of the author

signed "Yours faithfully, W.H. Aldam." (mounted on verso of

the dedication leaf). Publisher's green cloth, elaborately

blocked in gilt and black.

First edition, second issue: extra-illustrated with a signed

photograph by Aldam.

(#33415) $ 4,200

W . H . ALDAM


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Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, par Don Félix De Azara ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801

Paris: Dentu, 1809. 5 volumes (text: 4 volumes, 8vo; atlas:

folio. Text: lx,389; [4],562pp. plus three folding tables;

[4],ii,479; [4],380pp. Atlas: [4]pp. Twenty-five engraved maps

and plates. Atlas uncut. Text: contemporary tree calf, covers

bordered in gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments with red

and black morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers.

Atlas: publisher's blue paper boards, printed paper label on

the upper cover.

The preferred First French Edition, with additional notes by

Cuvier and Sonnini: the atlas here uncut and in original

boards.

(#28591) $ 12,000

FÉLIX MANUEL DE AZARA

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The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon

London: Published by the Bombay Natural History Society

... John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1921-1930. 3 volumes, large

8vo (10 1/2 x 7 inches). Illustrated additional titles. 60 color

plates after H. Gronvold, G. E. Lodge and J. G. Keulemans, 15

plates in black and white and 2 maps. Contemporary half

green morocco (vols. 1-2) and half green cloth (vol. 3) and

green cloth covered boards, spines lettered in gilt (vol. 1

rebacked to style).

A classic work of Indian ornithology.

(#31665) $ 450

E . C . STUART BAKER


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De aquatilibus Libri duo cum eiconibus ad vivam ipsorum effigiem, quoad eius fieri potuit, expressis

Paris: Car. Stephanus, 1553. Oblong 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches).

[32], 448pp. 185 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut

illustrations. Contemporary vellum, manuscript titling on

the spine. Provenance: Alberti Enfreni Batani

(contemporary inscription on the title).

First edition of Belon's groundbreaking illustrated study of

fish and aquatic animals: rare example with contemporary

hand colouring.

(#33859) $ 14,500

PIERRE BELON


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Icones Euphorbiarum ou fitures de cent vingt- deux especes du Genre Euphorbia, dessinées et gravées par Heyland, avec des considérations sur la classification et la distribution géographique des plantes de ce genre

Paris: Victor Masson et Fils, 1866. Folio. 122 lithographed

plates after Heyland (numbered 1-120, plus 31 and 40 bis),

lithographed by Mercier & Cie. Publisher's front wrapper

bound in. Contemporary black morocco backed pebbled

cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: Carl

Meissner (inscribed by the author on the wrapper).

First edition of a noted illustrated monograph on the wide-

ranging flowering plants in the Euphorbia family, including

poinsettias and other spurges, as well as South African

examples

(#30264) $ 1,400

EDMOND BOISSIER


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[Panorama of Athens] Sketched from nature and on zinc by Miss Bracebridge, May 1839

[London: 1839]. Hand-coloured lithographed folding

panorama, in thirteen joined sections, unfolds to

approximately 10 1/4 x 107 inches. 28 numbered references

in the lower margin. Expertly bound to style in half dark

blue morocco over period blue cloth covered boards.

Rare hand coloured panorama of Athens.

(#26265) $ 6,750

SELINA BRACEBRIDGE


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Cosmic Consciousness: A Study of the Evolution of the Human Mind

Philadelphia: Innes & Sons, 1901. Quarto (12 x 9 inches).

xviii, 318pp. Uncut. With a printed mourning note

concerning the death of his son, laid in. Publisher's half

morocco and green cloth, spine with raised bands, marbled

endpapers.

First edition: one of only 12 large-paper copies on Holland

hand-made paper, numbered and signed by Bucke.

(#34001) $ 2,500

RICHARD M . BUCKE


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General Atlas, being a collection of Maps of the World and Quarters, their principal empires, kingdoms, &c

Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey & Son, 1817. Folio.

Letterpress title (incorporating a list of the maps). 24

engraved maps, all hand-coloured in outline. Period

manuscript numbering in the upper right corner of each

map. Expertly bound to style in half calf over period

marbled paper covered boards, flat spine in six

compartments divided by gilt roll tools, lettered in gilt in

the second compartment, the others with a repeat

decoration in gilt.

An apparently unrecorded variant of Carey's General Atlas,

here dedicated to the world outside of the U.S.

(#24634) $ 10,000

MATTHEW CAREY


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Evening Delta ... Published at 1 p.m. ... Fallen But Not Disgraced

New Orleans: Tuesday, April 29, 1862. Broadsheet (16 1/2 x 11

inches). 2pp., printed in four columns. Unbound.

A rare issue of this New Orleans newspaper, announcing the

fall of the city to Union forces.

(#29951) $ 2,500

CIVIL WAR , LOUISIANA


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

[England: June 1833]. 3pp.

Scarce letter on the Liberian colonization movement by one

of its founders.

(#31599) $ 3,000

ELLIOTT CRESSON


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Fables Nouvelle

La Haye: et se trouve a Paris, Chez Delalain, 1773. Two

volumes in one, 8vo. Engraved titles, 99 engraved headpiece

and 99 tailpiece illustrations, by C.P. Marillie. Nineteenth

century half morocco and marbled paper covered boards,

marbled endpapers and edges, front hinge starting.

First edition: an "eighteenth-century masterpiece of

miniature illustration" (Ray).

(#32933) $ 1,000

CLAUDE JOSEPH DORAT


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The Book of Sun-Dials

London: Bell and Daldy, 1872. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Tinted

lithographed frontispiece, 5 plates. (Foxing to the plates).

Publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt.

First edition.

(#29770) $ 600

MARGARET SCOTT GATTY


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Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music, Painting and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness

London: Printed by H. Woodfall, Jr., 1744. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 5/8

inches). [4], 357pp. Contemporay calf, spine with raised

bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in

the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

Provenance: The Garden Library, LTD (morocco booklabel).

First edition of a classic work of mid-18th century English

philosophy

(#29237) $ 500

JAMESHARRIS


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The Houghton Shahnameh

Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, editors.

Cambridge, Mass.: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,

1981. 2 volumes, folio (17 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches). Numerous color

and sepia collotype plates. Publisher's blue cloth gilt, gilt

edges.

One of 750 copies.

(#31620) $ 1,875

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT


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A Grammar of the Burmese Language

Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1888. 8vo. 61,

[3]pp. Contemporary brown cloth.

Scarce Rangoon imprint.

(#30605) $ 500

ADONIRAM JUDSON


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Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi

Amsterdam and Utrecht: C.G. van der Post, 1863-1869. 4

volumes, folio. 40 color plates (i.e. 37 plates, with 3 double-

page or folding plates with double numbers; 17 hand-

coloured). Minor scattered foxing. Unbound in original

sheets. Housed in two green cloth boxes with leather labels.

Rare botanical work, depicting exotic species in the Leiden

herbarium.

(#33598) $ 4,500

FRIEDRICH ANTON WILHELM MIQUEL


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Monograph of the Lories, or brush-tongued parrots, composing the family Loriidae

London: printed by Taylor & Francis for R.H.Porter, 1896.

Quarto (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches). 61 hand-coloured lithographic

plates by and after J.G. Keulemans, 4 lithographic maps with

coloured areas of distribution by George Philip & Son, text

pp. 183[-184] present in both their cancelled and

uncancelled states. Publisher's brown cloth, spine and

upper cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

A lovely copy of this important work on lories: "an excellent

treatise with beautiful hand-coloured plates" (Wood).

(#33879) $ 12,500

ST . GEORGE JACKSON MIVART


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Eléments de Décoration Chinoise. Motifs décoratifs relevés dans les Temples et Yamens

Peking: Albert Nachbaur, editeur, 1931. Large 8vo. Typeset

title printed on tissue. 60 hand coloured plates, printed

recto and verso. Contemporary stitched marbled paper

wrappers.

A scarce work by Nachbaur with beautiful hand coloured

plates.

(#33102) $ 2,250

ALBERT NACHBAUR


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Christianismou stoicheiosis, eis ten t[on] paidon opheleian hellenisti kai latinisti ektetheisa. Christianae pietatis prima institutio, ad usum scholarum Graece & Latine scripta

London: Ioannem Dayum [John Day], 1578. 8vo. Text in

Greek and Latin. [256]pp. Contemporary vellum.

Provenance: William Hamers (contemporary signature);

Nathan Comfort Starr (armorial bookplate).

A early Greek translation, by William Whitaker, of

Alexander Nowell's Middle Catechism.

(#31485) $ 1,500

ALEXANDER NOWELL


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Ordinances made and passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec

Quebec: William Brown, 1780. Folio (11 1/8 x 7 1/8 inches).

[3], 1-86, [1, blank] pp (p.1 beginning on verso of French title

resulting in even number pages on recto). Titles and text in

English and French, woodcut royal seal on titles,

ornamental headpieces. Expertly bound to style in half

russia over 18th century marbled paper covered boards.

Ordinances of the government of Quebec in the midst of the

American Revolution, printed by Quebec's first printer.

(#28899) $ 8,000

QUEBEC , LAWS & STATUTES


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The Arms of the Colleges of Oxford

Oxford: Spiers and Son, 1855 [to 1862]. 4to (12 1/2 x 10

inches). Title printed in red and black. 20 elaborately hand

coloured lithographed plates with gold and silver highlights.

Twentieth century half blue morocco over cloth covered

boards, bound by Coverly and Sons, spine gilt with raised

bands, marbled endpapers.

First edition, with elaborately coloured plates.

(#30258) $ 1,750

HENRY SHAW


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Military Instructions for Officers Detached in the Field; Containing a Scheme for Forming a Corps of a Partisan. Illustrated with Plans of the Manoeuvres Necessary in Carrying on the Petite Guerre

Philadelphia: Aitken, 1775. 12mo. [8],vii,[1],232,[4]pp. Twelve

engraved plates (seven folding). Contemporary sheep,

expertly rebacked to style retaining the original morocco

lettering piece. Provenance: Abraham Bradley (early

signature).

Important Revolutionary War guerrilla tactics manual

(#33270) $ 9,500

ROGER STEVENSON


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Travels in Sweden, during the Autumn of 1812

London: for Robert Baldwin, 1813. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches).

13 engraved plates, plans and maps (comprising: 2 engraved

portraits, 6 maps [4 folding], 5 plates and plans [1 plate

printed in bistre]). (Occasional old repairs to folding maps,

some light spotting to maps and plates. Contemporary half

calf over marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked to style,

recent endpapers.

First edition of a rare and important work: a scientific

exploration, a description of the country at an important

time in its history and a description of its people.

(#21599) $ 1,200

THOMAS THOMSON


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Voyage au Canada dans les années 1795, 1796 and 1797. Traduit de l’anglais

Paris: Impremerie De Munier ... Chez Gérard, An XI [1803].

3 volumes, 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches). Folding map, 11

engraved plates. Early French calf-backled marbled paper

covered boards, spine with raised bands in five

compartments, decoratively tooled in gilt, marbled

endpapers and edges.

A lovely set of the second edition in French.

(#29304) $ 700

ISAAC WELD


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A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca, and Gibralter

London: Printed for John Hearne ... By J. F. Dove, 1822

[plates watermarked 1822]. Folio (16x12 inches). Text in

English and French. 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates (32 by

J.C. Stadler after Willyams, 4 unsigned). Twentieth century

brown crushed morocco, bound by M. B. S. Bird, lettered in

gilt on the upper cover, spine with raised bands in seven

compartments, neat repairs at top and tail of spine.

A fine series of coloured aquatint views of the

Mediterranean by an eyewitness at the battle of the Nile.

(#33915) $ 2,500

REV . COOPER WILLYAMS

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Spring Miscellany, Part Three - Donald A. Heald Rare Books · 8vo(0 1/2 x7 inches. Ilustratedadditionl titles. 60color plates after H. Gronvold, G. E. Lodge and J. G. Keulemans, 15