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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.

(#34359)                                                                                 $ 4,500

EDWARD

BELCHER

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American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of Birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson

Philadelphia:  Samuel Augustus Mitchell [vol I]; Carey, Lea &

Carey [vols II & III]; Carey & Lea [vol IV],  1825-1828-1828-

1833. Four volumes, small folio (15 x 12 inches [vols. 2 and 4]

and 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches [vols. 1 and 3]. 27 hand-colored

engraved plates by Alexander Lawson (11 after Titian R.

Peale, 15 after A. Rider, and 1 after J.J. Audubon and A. Rider).

 Foxing to the text, particularly in vols. 3 and 4, though the

plates clean throughout.  Vols. 2 and 4 uncut. Publisher's half

red morocco and marbled paper covered boards.

First edition, first issue of this important American

ornithological work, with the plates beautifully hand

colored.

(#34816)                                                                                  $ 7,500

CHARLES LUCIAN

BONAPARTE

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Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres par quelques Missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus ... [including Piccolo's report on California]. 

Paris:  Le Clerc,  1724. Volume 5, 8vo (6 1/8 x 3 3/8 inches). 2

engraved folding maps. Contemporary mottled calf, spine

with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled

endpapers.

Includes an important early Jesuit account of California,

illustrated with a noted map by Father Kino.

(#30504)                                                                              $ 2,000

CALIFORNIA -

EUSEBIO KINO

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Constitution of the State of California

San Francisco:  Printed at the Office of the Alta California,

 1849. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches). Uncut. 19pp. Stitched,

later red cloth four fold chemise, all within a red morocco-

backed cloth slipcase, titled in gilt on the spine. Provenance:

Henry Lafayette Dodge (1810-1856, inscription dated 1850,

U.S. Indian Agent in New Mexico, killed by Apache).

The rare first separate printing of California's first

Constitution: this is one of the most important and difficult

to obtain state Constitutions, and includes the very rare

three-page "Address" found in only a few copies.

(#25098)                                                                              $ 10,000

CALIFORNIA

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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.

(#29954)                                                                                $ 9,500

CALIFORNIA

GOLD RUSH

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Lectrokit "A" [An electrical circuit playset for children, in the original box]. 

Pasadena, CA:  1946. Includes 4 original Rayovac batteries,

two small light bulbs, four coils, many metal brackets, two

plastic capsules containing screws and bolts, miniature

screwdriver, all mounted as issued in the original color

printed box.  With the handbook of instructions and a 1p.

advertisement.

The building blocks for a young electrical engineer at the

dawn of the computing age.

(#33144)                                                                                    $ 600

DE VEL  

INDUSTRIES

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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.

(#31038)                                                                                 $ 4,750

SIMON DE

FRIAS

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Album of 36 photographs of Granada and the Alhambra

[Granada:  circa 1890]. Oblong folio. 36 mounted

photographs, on the original grey card mounts with gilt

borders. Contemporary dark purple morocco, expertly

rebacked to style.

Grand Tour album of photographs of the Alhambra.

(#34832)                                                                                 $ 4,800

RAFAEL

GARZON

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A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery under the command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke ... through the interior parts of North America to the Pacific ocean, during the years 1804, 1805 & 1806. 

Pittsburgh:  Printed by Zadok Cramer, for David M'Keehan,

Publisher and Proprietor,  1807. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 inches).

262pp. . Contemporary tree sheep, flat spine divided into

compartments with blind rules, lettering in gilt in the

second. Provenance: John Statesir (inscription dated 1823).

A rare unsophisticated copy in the original binding of the

first edition of the earliest published firsthand account of

the Lewis and Clark expedition: "one of the essential books

for an Americana collection" (Streeter).

(#35013)                                                                               $ 14,000

PATRICK

GASS

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Noa Noa: Voyage de Tahiti

[Munich:  R. Piper & Co.,  1926]. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches).

204 pages. With mounted collotypye reproductions of

Gauguin's watercolors, drawings, photographs, and

woodcuts. Publisher's coarse raffia, upper cover and spine

lettered, publisher's dust jacket.

Limited edition reproducing Gauguin's original manuscript.

(#26374)                                                                                 $ 3,250

PAUL  

GAUGUIN

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Britton & Rey's Map of the State of California. 

San Francisco:  Lithographed by Britton & Rey,  1860.

Lithographed map. Linen-backed. Sheet size: 30 1/4 x 24 3/4

inches.

Extremely rare map of California.

(#24045)                                                                              $ 12,000

GEORGE

GODDARD

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A Journal of the Last Voyage perform'd by Monsr. de La Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the mouth of the Missisipi [sic.] River

London:  Printed for A. Bell, B. Lintott and J. Baker,  1714. 8vo

(7 x 4 1/2 inches). [2], xxi, [9], 205, [5]pp.  Engraved folding

map. Expertly bound to style in period speckled calf, spine

with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco

lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat

decoration in gilt.

First edition in English 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.

(#29987)                                                                               $ 12,500

HENRI

JOUTEL

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The Wonders of Yosemite Valley, and of California ... with original photographic illustrations, by John P. Soule ... 

Boston:  Alexander Moore,  1871. 8vo (10 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches).

Half-title, text bordered with red rules.  10 mounted

original albumen photographs. (Scattered minor browning

and staining). Original blue publisher's cloth decorated in

gilt and blind, recased into blue cloth, portion of original

spine retained.

First edition of a noted photographically illustrated early

guide to Yosemite.

(#27875)                                                                                  $ 1,500

SAMUEL

KNEELAND

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Views in South America, from original drawings made in Brazil the River Plate, the Parana, &c. 

London:  Thomas McLean,  [1852]. Folio. Lithographed title,

dedication to Prince Albert with list of plates on verso, 26

tinted lithographed plates, lithographed plan. Expertly

bound to style in dark blue morocco backed period cloth

covered boards, large central morocco label on the upper

cover, flat spine lettered in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers

and pastedowns.

Among the rarest lithographed view books concerning

South America.

(#34437)                                                                               $ 37,500

WILLIAM GORE

OUSELEY

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The Campaign against Italian East Africa 1940/41. The Lees Knowles Lectures given at Cambridge University 1951

[London:  privately printed],  1962. Tall quarto. Typescript.

 [1], 18, 20, 19, [3] leaves.  Color folding map of central Africa,

with additions in manuscript. Modern red morocco backed

cloth. Provenance: Sir John Marriott (presentation

inscription from Platt on the front endpaper).

Unpublished typescript of three lectures given by the

commander of the Sudan Defence Force during the East

African Campaign.

(#34997)                                                                                    $ 850

WILLIAM

PLATT

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Histoire Naturelle des Orangers. 

Paris:  Imprimerie de Mme. Hérrisant le Doux,  1818-[1820].

Small folio. Half-title, 2pp. dedication to the Duchesse de

Berry, 109 fine stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and

finished by hand after Poiteau by V. Bonnefoi, Chailly, Dien,

Gabriel, Legrand, T. Susémihl and Texier.  Scattered minor

foxing. 19th century full green morocco, covers bordered in

gilt, spine with double raised bands in six compartments,

lettered in the second and third compartments, the others

with a repeat decoration in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers,

gilt edges.  Housed in a cloth box. Provenance: Barons of

Brownlow, Belton House (armorial bookplate).

First edition of this beautiful work depicting sweet and

bitter oranges, lemons, limes, citrons, and grapefruit.

(#33456)                                                                              $ 25,000

JOSEPH ANTOINE

RISSO

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Original typescript proposal for the television series Star Trek, being Roddenberry's retained file copy, with holograph corrections: an early draft of the famed "Star Trek is ..." document. 

Space, the final frontier [i.e. Los Angeles]:  Stardate 1312.4

[i.e. March to May 1964]. 26 sheets (being a cover sheet and

pages numbered 1-25).  The cover sheet inscribed in red

pencil "File" in the upper right corner.  Cross outs and

corrections in Roddenberry's hand on page 17, concerning

the character Mr. Spock. Housed in a black morocco box.

Provenance: sold by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett-

Roddenberry, Christie's East, 18 June 1998, lot 61.

Roddenberry's original typewritten and corrected draft of

the pitch for Star Trek.

(#34812)                                                                              $ 45,000

GENE  

RODDENBERRY

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments ... The Seventh Edition.

London:  A. Strahan, T. Cadell [and others],  1792. 2 volumes,

8vo. [iii]-xv, [1], 488; [iii]-viii, 462pp.  Lacks half-titles.

Expertly bound to style in half russia and period marbled

paper covered boards.

Eighteenth century edition of Adam Smith's first published

work.

(#34586)                                                                                  $ 3,750

ADAM

SMITH

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Somaliland Campaign. 1902-1904. Telegrams. 19th October 1902 to 4th August, 1904. 

London:  War Office,  1905. Small folio. [2], xix, [1], 725, [1]pp.

Modern half calf and cloth boards. Provenance: Ministry of

Defense, Whitehall Library (inked stamp); HW (booklabel).

A primary source on the British actions against the Dervish

uprising.

(#34996)                                                                               $ 2,000

SOMALILAND

CAMPAIGN

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Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre de Espana a Indias de 12. de Octubre de 1778. 

Madrid:  Pedro Maran,  [1778]. Quarto. Title printed in red

and black.  Engraved armorial frontispiece. Contemporary

red morocco, Spanish royal arms in gilt on the covers, spine

with raised bands, green morocco lettering piece in the

second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in

gilt, gilded endpapers, gilt edges.  Housed in an oatmeal

cloth box with a leather label.

An important work, detailing commercial regulations

between Spain and the Americas: in a contemporary red

morocco binding with arms.

(#33317)                                                                                  $ 4,250

SPAIN -

CONSEJO DE INDIAS

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Medical Botany: or, illustrations of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain. 

London:  John Churchill,  1831. 4 volumes, octavo (9 1/4 x 5

5/8 inches). 185 hand colored engraved plates by or after W.

Clark, C.M. Curtis, G. Reid, G. Spratt, Weddell.

Contemporary calf, covers bordered with a gilt roll tool,

expertly rebacked to style.

A fine set of the first edition of this valuable work illustrated

with high quality plates.

(#34786)                                                                                $ 4,000

JOHN

STEPHENSON

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Album d'Oiseaux [cover title]. 

[France:  circa 1860]. Folio. 12 watercolours by G. Varnier

(each approx. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches), each mounted on grey

card and then a grey card matt with an octagonal opening,

the matts with gilt edges to the openings and thin black ink

ruled border. Contemporary French brown morocco,

covers panelled in gilt and blind, the central panel of the

upper cover lettered in gilt, spine  gilt with raised bands,

gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, gilt metal

clasps, expertly rebacked with original spine.

A charming series of decorative watercolours of birds in

botanical settings.

(#34906)                                                                                 $ 5,750

G . VARNIER

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Severall Chirurgicall Treatises

London:  E. Flesher and J. Macock,  1676. Quarto (12 1/2 x 7

1/2 inches). [16],  498, 79, [1], [14]pp. Contemporary mottled

calf, spine with raised bands, later paper label, worn.

Provenance: Jonathan Fisher (signatures dated as early as

1692); Jacobus Fisher (signature dated 1707); John Hare (early

signature).

First edition of a landmark in western medicine.

(#34621)                                                                                $ 3,000

RICHARD

WISEMAN

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The Orchid Album, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants

London:  B.S. Williams (I-VIII) and B.S. Williams & Son (IX-

XI),  1882-1897. 11 volumes, large quarto (11 7/8 x 9 3/4

inches). 527 lithographic plates by John Nugent Fitch (1

double-page), hand-coloured, printed in colours and

finished by hand, or printed in colours, wood-engraved

full-page portrait of Williams in vol.IX. Original publisher's

binding of brown decorated cloth, the upper cover and

spine blocked in gilt and black, the lower cover in blind, gilt

edges.

A very fine complete set of this important record of all of

the greatest orchid varieties discovered and described

during the nineteenth century, with beautiful illustrations

of the highest quality by John Nugent Fitch.

(#34778)                                                                              $ 20,000

ROBERT

WARNER

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Mexican News.

New York:  American Art Union,  1853. Engraving, sheet size:

25 x 21 3/8 inches.

An iconic mid-19th century American image.

(#34922)                                                                                  $ 1,875

RICHARD CATON

WOODVILLE

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