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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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