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SUMMERMISCELLANY
PART TWO
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... Views in the Mysore Country
[London: "published ... for Capt. Allen", 1 June 1794]. Oblong
folio (18 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches). Engraved title/dedication to
Charles Marquis Cornwallis K.G., Governor General of
Bengal, 12pp. descriptive letterpress text at end. 20
uncoloured aquatint plates by J. Wells after Allan. (Old
dampstaining). Later half calf over period marbled paper
covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Robert & Maria Travis (booklabel; sale
Sotheby's London, 26 May 2005, lot 4).
A complete copy of one of the rarest of all India view books.
(#26976) $ 15,000
ALEXANDER
ALLAN
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Versailles Illustrated; or, Divers Views of the Several Parts of the Royal Palace of Versailles; as likewise of all the Fountains, Groves, Parterras, ye Labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens
London: John Bowles, [circa 1740]. Oblong folio (12 1/2 x 16
1/4 inches). Engraved pictorial title and 29 engraved plates
by Bowles, showing fountains, water falls, statues and
gardens of Versailles. Publisher's blue paper wrappers.
Housed in a modern cloth case.
An early English work depicting the famed gardens and
fountains of Versailles.
(#29036) $ 4,750
JOHN
BOWLES
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Cabool: a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 ... Second Edition.
London: John Murray, 1843. 8vo. xii, 398, [2], [12]pp. 12
lithographed plates (two folding). Publisher's ads in rear.
Minor foxing to the plates. Publisher's green cloth.
An account of Burnes's second mission to Kabul: a fine copy
in the publisher's cloth binding.
(#34361) $ 850
ALEXANDER
BURNES
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The Miners' Own Book, containing Correct Illustrations and Descriptions of the Various Modes of California Mining, including all the improvements introduced from the earliest days to the present time
San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1858. 8vo (9 1/8 x 5
3/4 inches). 32pp. Woodcut illustrations after C. Nahl and
others. Period ink bookseller's stamp on title (Carswell's
News Depot, Sacramento). Publisher's brown pictorial
wrappers, expert paper restoration along spine.
First edition of a scarce early guide to modern mining
methods in California.
(#29950) $ 6,750
CALIFORNIA
GOLD RUSH
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View of Nassau Hall, Princeton, N.J.
[Princeton]: George Thompson, n.d. [c. 1860]. Lithograph
printed in colours by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, 93
Fulton Street, NY. Image: 13 1/2 x 19; 187/8 x 24 inches.
One of the first depictions of the restored Nassau Hall,
which had a devastating fire in 1855. Built in 1756, it
constituted the whole College of New Jersey for the ensuing
50 years.
(#33050) $ 1,250
FRANK
CHILDS
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Copy of an Unfinished Map of a Portion of the Military Department of North Eastern Virginia and Fort Monroe compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers War Department from the best and latest authorities ...
Washington: Bureau of Topographical Engineers, August
1861. Sun printed (i.e. photozincographed) map after the
original manuscript, routes of railroads and canals hand-
coloured, 44 x 51 1/2 inches, dissected into 24 sections and
linen-backed as issued. Manuscript annotations in pencil
[by J. J. Young?]. Modern blue morocco-backed box.
Provenance: Descendants of Amiel Weeks Whipple.
Incredible Civil War map of Virginia, produced by the Corps
of Topographical Engineers for use by Union officers in the
field.
(#26345) $ 17,500
CIVIL WAR -
A . W . WHIPPLE
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Her Garden. A Poem by Susan Coolidge Illustrated with Hand-Painted Flower Designs from Originals by Alice Stewart Hill
Troy NY: Nims & Knight, 1890. 4to. Title printed in sepia
and red, the text in sepia throughout. The text of the poem
on six sheets, each with elaborately hand colored floral
borders over thin etched line. Publisher's wrappers, upper
cover with embossed lettering and hand painted floral
design, ribbon stitching renewed.
A very rare illustrated work by two remarkable Colorado
women.
(#30931) $ 750
SUSAN COOLIDGE ;
& ALICE S . HILL
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A New Herbal, or Historie of Plants: Wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbes and Plants ... now first translated our of French into English by Henry Lyte, Esquire. Corrected and amended.
London: Edward Griffin, 1619. Small folio, bound in sixes
(10 5/8 x 7 inches). Title within an elaborate woodcut border.
[22], 564, [30]pp. Title remargined at top and bottom at an
early date, repaired tear to C1. 19th century smooth tan calf,
spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces.
Second folio edition of Lyte's English translation of
Dodoen's herbal.
(#30406) $ 2,250
REMBERT
DODOENS
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Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie
Paris: Le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes, folio. 65 engraved maps
and plates. Moderate age toning. Contemporary French
mottled calf, spines with raised bands in seven
compartments, red and block morocco lettering pieces in
the second and third compartments, the others with an
overall repeat decoration in gilt (repairs at joints and head
and tail of spines).
The first edition of Du Halde's celebrated and
comprehensive history of China and the most important
cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth
century.
(#31324) $ 37,500
JEAN BAPTISTE
DU HALDE
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Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described
London: James S. Virtue, [1858-1859]. 2 volumes, small folio
(17 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches). 76 mounted albumen photographs.
Extra-illustrated with 3 additional images by Frith in the
rear of vol. 2, dated in the negatives 1873-1875. Foxing,
principally to the mounts. Contemporary half green
morocco and green pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt with
raised bands. Provenance: Arthur G. Soames (armorial
bookplate).
Frith's Egypt and Palestine: "one of the most renowned
nineteenth century photobooks" (Parr & Badger).
(#31436) $ 12,500
FRANCIS
FRITH
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He Hoikehonua, He Mea Ia E Hoakaka'II Ke Ano O Ka Honua Nei, A Me Na Mea Maluna Iho.
Oahu, Hawaii: Mea pai palapa'la a na misionari, 1845. 8vo.
vii,[5],[7]-197pp. including numerous woodcut illustrations.
Minor foxing. Early paper boards, cloth spine, front hinge
repaired.
The heavily illustrated third edition of a Hawaiian-language
world geography, after the first two editions of 1832 and
1836.
(#34379) $ 2,500
HAWAII -
W . C . WOODBRIDGE
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Ichthyology of South Carolina.
Charleston, S.C.: Russell & Jones, 1860. Volume I (all
published), quarto (11 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches). 28 hand-coloured
lithographed plates by A.J.Ibbetson, August Sonrel and
J.Burkhardt, printed by P. Duval (3) and T. Sinclair (25) of
Philadelphia. Expertly bound to style in half dark blue
morocco and period marbled paper covered boards, flat
spine in compartments divided by gilt roll tools, lettered in
gilt in the second and fourth compartments, marbled
endpapers.
Unique intermediate issue of Holbrook's extremely rare
work on fish.
(#27880) $ 14,750
JOHN EDWARDS
HOLBROOK
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Excursions in and about Newfoundland, During the Years 1839 and 1840.
London: John Murray, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo. viii, 322; iv, 354,
[2]pp. Large folding map. Publisher's ad in rear of second
volume. Publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, spines
faded.
First edition of a diary kept during the first geological
survey of Newfoundland: complete with the map not found
in all copies.
(#34369) $ 1,500
JOSEPH BEETE
JUKES
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Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul: with his Political Proceedings towards the English, Russian, and Persian Governments, including the Victory and Disasters of the British Army in Afghanistan
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1846. 2
volumes, 8vo. 19 lithographed portrait plates. Publisher's
green cloth, covers stamped in blind.
First edition: a lovely set in publisher's cloth of an
important work on the First Afghan War.
(#34370) $ 2,000
MOHAN ZUTSHI
LAL
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Essays on Physiognomy, designed to promote the knowledge and love of mankind.. illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings.. executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway
London: T.Bensley for John Murray, H.Hunter and
T.Holloway, 1792 [watermarked 1804]. Three volumes in
five, large quarto. 3 engraved title vignettes, 173 plates, about
361 engraved text illustrations. Contemporary blue straight
grained morocco, covers with a wide elaborate Greek key
border, spines in six compartments with semi-raised
double bands, lettered in the second, third, fourth and fifth
compartments, the others tooled in gilt, brown endpapers,
gilt edges. Provenance: Charles W. Burr (bookplate).
A very fine set of this influential work with four images
engraved by William Blake, and the whole work overseen by
Henry Fuseli.
(#32388) $ 4,500
JOHANN KASPAR
LAVATER
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Map of the Province of Nova Scotia, including the island of Cape Breton, compiled from actual & recent surveys, & under the authority of the provincial legislature
London, Edinburgh and Halifax, N.S: published & sold by
Robert Scholey (London), Oliver & Boyd (Edinburgh) and
C.H. Belcher (Halifax), 1834. Map engraved by James Neele
& Co., on two sheets joined, period hand-colouring in
outline, dissected into twenty eight sections and backed
onto linen at a contemporary date. (Separation at one fold).
Sheet size: 25 1/4 x 65 inches.
First edition of this attractive, very rare, and important
large-scale map of Nova Scotia, the first comprehensively
detailed map of the province to be published and referred
to as William Mackay's '"Great Map."
(#24838) $ 3,500
WILLIAM
MACKAY
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Newport and its Environs, illustrated by a series of views
Newport: Chas. E. Hammett, 1848. Oblong folio. (12 1/8 x 16
7/8 inches). Tinted lithographic title with vignette. 11
lithographic plates, all after Mason. Contemporary maroon
cloth, upper cover with centrally blocked panel containing
title 'Newport / and / environs' lettered in gilt.
The earliest collection of Newport views by the prominent
Newport architect, George Champlin Mason. These views, a
pastoral lithographic tour, are very rare, and are among the
first to showcase the town as a recreational haven.
(#25549) $ 6,000
GEORGE
MASON
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Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov- Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline prosessed and practised; in the churches of New- England. With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches.
Boston: printed for S. Gerrish in Cornhill, 1726 . Small
octavo, signed in 4s (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches). [2],iv,10,207,[3]pp.,
including contents leaf. H3 torn, lower margin of Ee4
clipped, upper corner of title torn with loss to a few letters
supplied in old manuscript facsimile. Contemporary
panelled calf, rebacked. Provenance: W. Cogswell (early
signature).
Mather reviews church principles - a key work of New
England church history.
(#34373) $ 4,000
COTTON
MATHER
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The Practical House Carpenter; or, Youth's Instructor: Containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... The Sixth Edition, with Additions.
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. Quarto (8 1/2 x 7 1/2
inches). [36]pp text [3 preliminary leaves numbered with
roman numerals, followed by 15 leaves signed A-P], plus 148
engraved plates (numbered 1-146, plus 3 and 65 bis; 5 double
page, 2 folding). Early architectural drawings and
annotations throughout. Contemporary calf, repairs to
joints. Housed in a red morocco backed box. Provenance:
John Harbaugh (early signature).
Early American edition of one of the most influential
architectural pattern books in the United States.
(#33802) $ 4,500
WILLIAM
PAIN
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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.
(#29051) $ 5,750
POMOLOGY &
HORTICULTURE
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Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants, of Dorsetshire. From the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchins’s history of that county ... With additions; and a brief memoir of the author.
[London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley,
1813]. Folio (19 1/2 x 12 inches). Text in two columns. iv,
110pp. Engraved portrait, 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets.
Uncut. Some foxing. Later cloth-backed grey paper boards.
Large-paper issue of the first illustrated edition of a rare
catalogue of British birds, plants and shells.
(#33764) $ 3,500
RICHARD
PULTENEY
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Atlas zur bildenden Gartenkunst in ihren modernen Formen. Auf zwanzig colorirten Tafeln.
Leipzig: Friedrich Voigt, 1856. Broadsheet. Letterpress title.
20 hand-coloured lithographed plates (i.e. 17 plates, the
final plate being a very large folding plate comprised of four
sheets joined and numbered XVII-XX), lithographed by
Sommer. Without the text volume. Contemporary half
green morocco and green cloth covered boards, upper
cover lettered in gilt, spine with raised bands, lettered and
decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
A large folio atlas of beautifully hand coloured garden
designs.
(#29043) $ 8,500
RUDOLPHE
SIEBECK
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The History of the Province of New-York, from the first discovery to the year M.DCC.XXXIII. To which is annexed, a description of the country, with a short account of the inhabitants, their trade, religious and political state, and the constitution of the courts of justice in that colony
London: Printed for Thomas Wilcox, 1757. Quarto. 1 folding
engraved plate. Bound to style in 18th-century half russia
over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, spine in
six compartments with raised bands, red morocco label in
the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration
in gilt.
A cornerstone of any collection of books on New York: the
first edition of the first history of New York
(#19136) $ 6,500
WILLIAM
SMITH
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A Collection of All the Public and Permanent Acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky which are now in force, arranged and digested according to their subjects; Together with Acts of Virginia relating to Land Titles, the Recovery of Rents, and the Encouragement of Learning
Frankfort: Printed by William Hunter, 1802. 12mo. lxvi,85,
(86)-(93),86-188,(189)-(190),189-507,[2]pp. Original calf,
hinges broken, rubbed. Tears and chipping to fore edge of
first seven leaves. Tearing and partial loss to pp.263-264,
provided in facsimile. Light tanning and foxing throughout.
In a yellow cloth clamshell box.
A pioneering compilation: the 1802 laws of Kentucky.
(#28982) $ 3,000
HARRY
TOULMIN
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The Oriental Album: Twenty illustrations in oil colors of the people and scenery of Turkey, with an explanatory and descriptive text.
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1862. Folio (18 x 13 3/4
inches). Tinted lithographic additional title by Charles
Parsons, printed by Endicott & Co., 20 chromolithographic
plates by Parsons after van Lennep, all printed by Endicott
& Co. of New York. Modern half brown morocco and cloth
boards, spine gilt.
A rare and important American color-plate book
(#31583) $ 9,500
HENRY JOHN
VAN LENNEP
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