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[AL-MARGHINANI, Burhan al-Din al-Farghani (1135-1197)]; - Charles HAMILTON, translator (1753-1792).

The Hedàya, or Guide; A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: Translated by the Order of the Governor-General and Council of Bengal.

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London: T. Bensley, 1791. 4 volumes, 4to (10 1/4 x 8 inches). lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, [2-errata] pp.; viii, 727, (1), [2-errata]; viii, 609, (1), [2-errata]; lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, (1), [2-errata]. Errata leaf in rear of each volume. Expertly bound to style in half calf over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine divided into six compartments with gilt roll tools, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat arabesque decoration in gilt.

First edition in English of al-Hidayah: the authoritative guide to Islamic jurisprudence.

Commonly referred to as al-Hidayah or The Guidance, this work originated as a 12th-century Hanafi work by Shaykh al-Islam Burhan al-Din al-Farghani al-Marghinani (1135-1197) and is considered an authoritative guide to Islamic law among Muslims throughout the world. The Hidayah presents a legal tradition developed over many centuries and represents the corpus of Hanafi law in its approved and preferred form. The primary reason for its popularity is the reliability of its statements and the soundness of its legal reasoning. It is arguably the most popular and important work in fiqh literature.

Hamilton’s English translation is based on a Persian translation by Ghulam Ya Khan from the original Arabic version. Intended for a British audience, chapters relating to rituals were omitted; however his coverage of contracts, torts and criminal law is more complete. Hamilton explains in his preface: “The permanence of any foreign dominion (and indeed, the justification of holding such a dominion) requires that a strict attention be paid to ease and advantage, not only of the governors, but of the governed; and to this great end nothing can so effectually contribute as preserving to the latter their ancient established practices, civil and religious and protecting them in the exercise in their own institutes ... they must be infinitely more acceptable than anything we could offer; since they are supported by the accumulated prejudice of ages, and, in the opinion of their followers, derive their origin from the Divinity himself ” (Preliminary Discourse). The understanding of Islamic law was critical to the colonial administration of India, and Bengal in particular, which had a very large Muslim population, and this work was intended to enable English officials to understand local proceedings. A second edition of Hamilton’s translation was published in 1870, though the first edition is rare.(#29370)   $ 11,000

ALBIN, Eleazar (c.1680-c.1742).

A Natural History of English Insects, Illustrated with a hundred copper plates, curiously engraven from life, and exactly coloured by the author.

London: William Innys, 1749. 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches). 100 hand coloured engraved plates. Later half calf over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: P. Lundwall (booklabel).

A fine copy of Albin’s celebrated English insects: one of the most beautifully illustrated works of lepidoptery.

“In the preface, Albin explains that several prominent society patrons who were obviously keenly interested in entomology, employed him to prepare drawings of butterflies, moths and larvae which they had collected” (Lisney). In 1720, the first edition of Albin’s insects was published, with each plate dedicated to a subscriber or patron. The present example is Lisney’s fifth edition, this being an issue without Derham’s notes and additions in the rear, as usual (and as per ESTC and BM(NH)). The text is entirely reset, though the plates are printed from the original copper plates and maintain their vivid hand colouring.

Lisney 123; Nissen ZBI 58.(#29546)   $ 5,500

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ALBUMASAR [Ja’far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi] (A.D. 787-886).

Introductorium in astronomiam.

Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 February 1489. Small 4to (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Translated from Arabic into Latin by Hermannus Dalmata. 70 leaves. Gothic letter. 46 woodcuts (2 half-page, the remainder smaller) mainly of zodiacal figures and including 6 astronomical diagrams, opening 8-line woodcut initial, 7-line and smaller initials throughout. Expertly bound to style in nineteenth century green straight grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, period brown paper endpapers.

Rare first edition of this important illustrated work of a noted Arabian astronomer.

Abu Ma’shar (787-886), born in Balkh, was the most renowned astrologer writing in Arabic in the 9th century, and was part of the group of intellectuals who served the Caliph al-Ma’mun (813-833) in Baghdad. The present work is a slightly abridged translation of his Kitab al-madkhal al-kabir ‘ala ‘ilm ahkam al-nujum (“Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology”), written in 849/850. The work was translated twice in the first half of the 12th century and was one of the earliest vehicles for the transmission of Aristotelian concepts into Latin before the actual translations of Aristotle.

The work presents the philosophical and historical justifications of astrology, and a survey of the characteristics of the Signs, Planets, Sun and Moon, along with the Aspects (angular relations between them). The 15 cuts showing allegorical figures of the planets are reduced versions of seven woodcuts used by Ratdolt in Johannes de Thwrocz, Chronica Hungarorum (Augsburg: E. Ratdolt for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488, Goff T-361). The cuts include 12 large and 12 small zodiacal figures, 6 astronomical tables, and 15 planetary figures printed from 7 blocks. The whole is a beautifully composed book, set in a semi-Gothic font and with white on black initials from two alphabets.

Albumasar’s work would gain considerable attention during the Middle Ages and have a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history. The present first edition, printed by Erhard Ratdolt in Augsburg in 1489, is scarce; a second edition followed, printed in Venice in 1506. A fine, large example.

BMC ii, 382; Goff A-359; GW 840; Hain 612; Schreiber 3075.(#29214)   $ 35,000

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Edmund BURKE (1729-1797); and William PITT (1708-1778).

[Sammelband of three important works by Edmund Burke and William Pitt, regarding American Independence].

London: 1775. 3 volumes in 1, quarto (10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches). Bound to style in half period russia and period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Francis Maseres (contemporary ink marginalia and signatures).

An important association copy of three important works, including first editions of two famous speeches by the English orator Edmund Burke.

The works included are as follows (in bound order):

1) Edmund Burke: The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. [4], 65pp. First edition. “Contains the famous sentence: “Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of government, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquest and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in a single life” (Sabin). Adams, Controversy 75-17a; Howes B979, “b.”; Sabin 9296.

2) Edmund Burke. Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. On American Taxation, April 19, 1774. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. iv, 57, [1]pp. First edition. Burke’s famous argument for the repeal of the duty on tea. Adams, Controversy 75-16a; Howes B980, “b.”; Sabin 9295.

3) William Pitt. Plan Offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House of Lords, entitled, A Provisional Act, for Settling the Troubles in America, and for Asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1775. 14, [1]pp. First edition. William Pitt was one of America’s staunchest supporters before the Revolution. This was his grand plea for conciliation, presented in February 1775. Pitt argued for complete sovereignty of Parliament over the colonies, but at the same time requested the King to recall the troops from Boston. His plan was defeated. Rosenbach called the work rare in his seventh catalog in 1913. Not in Adams. Nebenzahl 12:136; Rosenbach 7:480, “rare”; Sabin 63071.

The first two works bound in the sammelband are by Burke. The first, a masterful March, 1775 speech, urges a reconciliation with the colonies. In the second, on the subject of American taxation, Burke urges the Crown to repeal the tea tax. Both of these works are especially rare in their first editions. The third work is a plan put forth by former Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder, proposing the recall of British troops from Boston and a conciliatory policy toward the colonies. Both statesmen, in opposition to the prevailing English administration. hoped to prevent the war which was on the verge of breaking out; needless to say, their voices of reason did not prevail, but these speeches are among the most famous given by English statesmen of the period.

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The half title of the first work is signed “F. Maseres. May 25, 1775,” and this first work includes some ink marginalia in his hand; the titlepages of the second and third works are signed “F. Maseres.” From 1766 to 1769, Francis Maseres was attorney general of the new British province of Quebec and was involved in colonial affairs in Quebec after the revolution.

An important assemblage of three important conciliatory efforts by two of the most important American sympathizers of the pre-Revolutionary period, once belonging to an important British official in Revolutionary-era Quebec.(#29390)   $ 17,500

AZARA, Félix Manuel de (1746-1821).

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

Paris: Dentu, 1809. 5 volumes (text: 4 volumes, 8vo [7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches]; atlas: folio [14 x 10 1/4 inches]). 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 in compartments with red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, 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.

An important work by Spanish naturalist Felix de Azara (1746-1821). Azara, a military officer, was part of a delegation to settle the boundary dispute between Spain and Portugal in the Rio de la Plata region. He was in the region for twenty years, from 1781 to 1801, documenting the wildlife, natives, and geography of the area. This work is the culmination of his time there, published upon his return to Europe.

The atlas includes folding maps of South America, Paraguay and the Province of Buenos Aires, the Government of Buenos Aires, the Government of Paraguay and part of Chaco, and the Province of Chiquitos and Government of Matagroso and of Cuyaba; eight city plans and views, including a double-page plan and view of Buenos Aires, seven plates depicting animals, and four plates depicting birds.

First published in Spanish in Madrid between 1802 and 1805, the work provides an important contribution to natural history, describing over 400 species of birds, many for the first time (see vols. 3 and 4 of the text). Interestingly, Darwin would read Azara’s work following his return from the second voyage and refer to it within his Voyage of the Beagle.

Palau 20975; Sabin 2541; Field 62; Wood, p. 214.(#28591)   $ 12,000

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BARENGER, James (1780-1831); James SILLETT (1764-1840) and Charles TURNER (1774-1857).

[British Feather Game].

London: R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 1810 [watermarked J. Whatman 1809]. Oblong folio (17 x 21 1/2 inches). 14 mezzotints, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Charles Turner after Barenger (10), Sillett (2) and Turner (2). Interleaved paper guards and endpapers renewed. Contemporary half red straight grained morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Modern slipcase.

A contemporary bound and hand coloured complete suite of among the rarest English ornithological sporting prints.

This series, issued as such without a title, was superbly mezzotinted in color by Charles Turner and published by Rudolph Ackermann. While we have seen individual, uncoloured plates from this series, we have never before encountered a complete suite, and never before seen any with period colouring.

The plates comprise:

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1) Partridges. After Barenger. 2) Pheasants. After Barenger. 3) Snipes. After Turner. 4) Woodcocks. After Turner. 5) Wild Ducks. After Barenger. 6) Widgeons. After Barenger. 7) Black Grouse. After Sillett.

8) Red Grouse. After Sillett. 9) Plovers. After Barenger.10) Quails. After Barenger.11) Bald Coot. After Barenger.12) Teal. Afte Barenger.13) Moor Hen. After Barenger.14) Dab Chick. After Barenger.

A contemporary notice of this suite is given in the December 1811 issue of the Monthly Magazine: “This work consists of fourteen plates, published plain and in colours, and give excellent portraits of the most beautiful of the British feathered game. Each plate, which are big enough for furniture prints, consists of a picturesque group of one sort, and exhibit just portraits of the species. The series are partridges, pheasants, snipes, wood-cocks, wild ducks, widgeons, black grouse, red grouse, quails, plovers, teal, bald coot, dab chick and moorhen. The pheasants are of course the most beautiful but they all appear to possess the identity of individual portrait. The engravings by Turner are in his usual excellent style, which has given him the title of one of the best mezzotinto scrapers of the present day.”

The plates are principally after James Barenger. He was born into an artistic family. His father exhibited paintings of insects at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1799, and his mother was the sister of William Woollett, the celebrated engraver. Barenger was well known as an animal painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1807 and 1831. He was a keen sportsman and had a natural eye for detail, which brought an appealing realism to his studies. From 1815 onwards he exhibited the majority of his pictures at Mr. Tattersall’s auction rooms in London, where they were well received by a diverse audience. Although Mr. Tattersall was his primary patron, Barenger earned a number of commissions from the Earl of Derby, The Duke of Grafton, and the Marquess of Londonderry. His work was widely engraved by some of the most fashionable engravers of the day and his attractive images remain highly desirable to sporting collectors.

Siltzer, pp. 77-79.(#29550)   $ 60,000

BEAUCLERK, Lord Charles (1813-1861).

Lithographic Views of Military Operations in Canada under His Excellency Sir John Colborne ... during the late insurrection. From sketches by Lord Charles Beauclerk, Captain Royal Regiment.

London: printed by Samuel Bentley, published by A. Flint, 1840. Folio (14 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches). Lithographic map, 6 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates after Lord Beauclerk, drawn on stone by N. Hartnell. Expertly bound to style in half blue straight-grained morocco, with early blue sugar-paper-covered boards, gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt.

A rare color plate book, containing “the most comprehensive set of prints dealing with the Papineau Rebellion in Lower Canada” (Spendlove).

There is an immediacy about this set of prints that is particularly compelling: Lord Beauclerk, the third son of the Duke of St. Albans, was an eye-witness to the events described, serving as an officer in the British army, and made on-the-spot sketches from which the images were drawn on stone by Hartnell. “The most valued account of the Rebellion of 1837 is the set of seven ... lithographs after sketches made by ... Beauclerk ... The views are attractive in both coloring and composition, and depict various actions in November and December 1837” (Mary Allodi, “Prints and Early Illustration”’ in The Book of Canadian Antiques p.304).

Gagnon II, 124; Lande 1559; Sabin 4164; Spendlove p.85; TPL 2037(#31025)   $ 12,000

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BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796-1856).

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 2 volumes, quarto (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches). 26 maps and plates (2 folding). Errata slip in vol II. (Scattered foxing to the plates). Contemporary half straight grain green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Provenance: Norcliffe Norcliffe (1791-1862, gilt stamp at base of spine).

Rare large-paper Admiralty issue of the first edition of a classic narrative of Pacific exploration.

Beechey was sent to the region in 1825 to provide relief to Parry’s third voyage and Franklin’s second inland expedition, although he never managed to rendezvous with either. It is a noteworthy account, however, for its descriptions of the northwest coast of Alaska, as well as content relating to Pitcairn Island, Hawaii and California.

“The so-called Admiralty edition, issued in a quarto format, preceding the octavo edition of the same year. Beechey’s book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California ... Beechey’s work provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives his impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco. Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay is named for his ship. Beechey also describes the Eskimos of the north. At Pitcairn Island, Beechey met with John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty, who gave Beechey a lengthy account” (Hill).

Hill 93; Cowan p.42; Du Reitz 68; Ferguson 1418; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347.(#30270)   $ 6,500

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BENTHAM, George (1800-1884); and Henry Fletcher HANCE (1827-1886).

Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hong Kong ... [Bound with:] Flora Hongkongensis ... A Compendious Supplement to Mr. Bentham’s Description of the Plants of the Island of Hong Kong ... Extracted from the Linnaen Society’s Journal.

London: Lovell Reeve, 1861; [London: Linnaen Society, 1872]. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (8 x 5 1/8 inches). [3]-20*, 51, [1], 482pp., plus folding map; [4], [95]-144pp. Contemporary half green morocco over green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, tooled on either side of each band and lettered in the center three compartments, marbled endpaper and edges.

The first comprehensive flora on any part of China and Hong Kong, bound with the separately-issued supplement.

Bentham donated his impressive herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens in 1854, and shortly thereafter, with the sanction of the British Government, began preparing a series of flora of the indigenous plants of British colonies and possessions, beginning with the present work.

“Bentham had made use of all the botanical materials then known from Hong Kong. In the determination of the plants he was aided by several distinguished botanists: Dr. J. Lindley, Sir W. J. Hooker, Dr. J. D. Hooker, Colonel Munro, Prof. . Oliver. Dr. Boott and others ... This remarkable book exhibits on every page the vast botanical knowledge of the author and serves as a model for accurate characteristic and at the same time popular descriptions of plants” (Bretschneider). In his work, Bentham identifies 1056 species of flowering plants, of which approximately 1000 were native.

His monumental work is very rare. We know of only the Plesch copy selling at auction in the last forty years.

Plesch sale 48; Pritzel 625; Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in Asia, pp. 401-403.(#29444)   $ 3,750

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BERMUDA, Photography.

[Group of 13 albumen photographs of scenes in Bermuda].

[Bermuda: 1866-1869]. All mounted to larger sheets, most measuring 10 1/4 x 12 inches (two slightly smaller), disbound from an album. Ten images mounted within an ink ruled frame and with ink manuscript captions below dated 1866. Housed in a cloth box.

Group of rare early images of Bermuda.

1) Town of St. George’s. Looking towards Ferry and St. George. Image size: 7 x 9 1/2 inches.1866.2) St. George’s from Convict Bay / R.E. Tugboat Blue Bird. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. 1866.3) The Ferry. St. George’s from the Main Land. Image size: 6 3/4 x 9 inches. 1866.4) Town of St. Georges. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.1866.5) Fort Catherine. North Shore. St. Georges Island. Image size: 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches. 1866.6) View from Fort George. St. George’s Bermuda, Looking West. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.1866.7) The Government Dock Yard, Ireland Island. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. 1866.8) St. George’s from Mullet Bay / Road to Hamilton. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. 1866.9) The Flatts / Looking West. Image size: 5 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches. 1866.10) The Flatts / Looking East. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. 1866.11) [Group of 5 men standing in a tropical setting, identified in caption as “Laird / Col. D. C. Thompson / 3 young Americans”]. Image size: 7 x 9 1/8 inches. Circa 1866.12) [Floating dock, with the ship Urgent and a large group of men]. Image size: 7 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches. Circa 1869.13) [Floating dock at Ireland Island]. Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Circa 1869.(#29332)   $ 5,200

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BIDA, Alexandre (1813-1895) & E. BARBOT (1798-1878).

Souvenirs d’Egypte.

Paris: Lemercier, [circa 1850]. Large folio (22 1/8 x 16 3/8 inches). Lithographed and mounted on cloth guards throughout: tinted title with integral vignette by and after Alexandre Bida, 24 tinted plates titled in French, Arabic and English (comprising: 12 views after E. Barbot drawn on stone by Eug. Ciceri with occasional help from C. Bour; 12 costume/character studies by and after Alexandre Bida), all printed by Lemercier. Contemporary brown half morocco over blue cord-grained cloth, upper cover titled in gilt “Souvenirs / d’Egypte”, spine in seven compartments with semi-raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with simple repeat decoration in gilt, cream/orange glazed endpapers.

A spectacular and rare album featuring the work of two important French Orientalist artists.

Only a single copy of this work is listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty-five years, and according to Chadenat this album was never sold commercially. The twenty four uniformly excellent plates include twelve topographical views after Barbot of Egyptian sights and cities from Philae to Cairo, ancient and modern, all peopled and bustling with life. Alexandre Bida’s contribution consists of twelve beautifully-observed character studies of the people he encountered in the region: an Albanian, a Copt, dancers, ladies, a donkey driver, a groom, etc. Bida, studied under Eugene Delacroix, and travelled extensively through Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Palestine. “E. Barbot” is Prosper Barbot (1798-1878), a pupil of Jules Coignet and Louis Watelet, who made two journeys to Egypt in 1844 and 1846 travelling from Cairo south across the desert.

Colas I.326; Chadenat 761 (“Tres belle album non mis dans le commerce.”); Lipperheide I, Ma32(#23182)   $ 15,000

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BIGGS, Thomas Hesketh (1822-1905, photographer) - Theodore C. HOPE.

Architecture at Ahmedabad, the capital of Goozerat, photographed by Colonel Biggs ... with an historical and descriptive sketch, by Theodore C. Hope ... and architectural notes by James Fergusson ... Published ... under the patronage of Premchund Raichund.

London: John Murray, 1866. Quarto (11 x 9 inches). Half-title, tinted wood-engraved frontispiece, 2 lithographic maps (one printed in two colours), 22 wood-engraved illustrations (2 full-page). 120 albumen photographs by Thomas Biggs, on individual thin card mounts, the mounts with printed red single line borders with small decorative flourishes at each corner, numbers and captions, all printed in red. Original green pebble-grained cloth, covers elaborately blocked in gilt with a wide decorative border in the “Indian” style surrounding a central gilt vignette drawn from plate number 112 titled “Meer Aboo Toorab’s Tomb”, rebacked to style with green morocco, spine gilt extra, yellow endpapers, gilt edges.

An important, early and rare photographically-illustrated record of the art and architecture of western India.

“Like many military men in India, Biggs became fascinated with archaeology, but he soon discovered the difficulty and uncertainty of sending manual copies of stone inscriptions back to London. Biggs was furloughed on sick leave in England starting in 1850 ... he watched his brothers practicing photography and it struck him ‘that it would be a perfect method of copying the sculptures and inscriptions.’ ... Biggs took lessons from Samuel Buckle and then presented his plan to the directors of the East India Company, who were so impressed that they traded him a complete new photographic outfit in exchange for his first album. He was appointed ‘Government Photographer, Bombay’ and was the first person to officially assume that position” (Taylor, Impressed by Light, pp. 290-291).

As a member of the Bombay Photographic Society he had been equipped with a set of Ross’s single and double lenses and a kit which allowed him to make 15 x 12 inch pictures. His task was to photograph the Muslim buildings, sculpture and inscriptions of Western India. The preface to the present work notes that “The Government of Bombay has at various times taken steps towards portraying ... the magnificent architecture with which the Presidency and the territories bordering it abound.” Biggs made over one hundred paper negatives of Bijapur, Aihole, Badami and other sites in Western India. The results were exhibited at the Photographic Society of Bombay and much admired, but the increasing unrest, which culminated in the Mutiny of 1857, forced him to hand over his work to surgeon and fellow photographer Dr. Pigou. The preface continues: “Subsequently, a series of plans and drawings of Beejapoor, which had been prepared under the superintendence of Captain Hart, were published for the Government under the editorship of James Fergusson.”

In 1865, at the request of the Governor of Bombay a committee was set up and given the task of publishing the photographs of Biggs, Pigou and a third photographer A.C.B. Neilly “in the form of a comprehensive series of volumes on the Architectural Antiquities of Western India” (preface). The present work, published in London under Biggs supervision, was the first fruit of this ambitious enterprise and is believed to have been limited to forty copies.

Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 332.(#21869)   $ 17,500

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(BLIGH, William (1754-1817)).

An Account of the Mutinous Seizure of the Bounty, With the Succeeding Hardships of the Crew. To Which is added, Secret Anecdotes of the Otaheitean Females.

London: Printed for Bentley and Co. And sold by H. D. Symonds, [circa 1792]. 8vo 8 x 4 3/4 inches. [4],[9]-76pp. Engraved frontispiece. Modern blue morocco backed cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: Paul Peralta-Ramos (small red inked ownership stamp on endpaper).

First edition of this rare anonymous narrative.

One of two Bentley variants published simultaneously, the other bearing an imprint to be sold by Bell and Taylor and others. According to Hill, Bentley based their publication on a slightly earlier account by publisher Robert Turner.

“Following Bligh’s return to England in March of 1790, publisher Robert Turner recognized that the public had an insatiable interest in the story of the mutiny. Turner believed that he could capitalize on this interest by stealing the thunder from Bligh’s official account, then in preparation. Culling information from newspaper reports, Hawkesworth’s Voyages, and other recent works on Tahiti, Turner published the sensationalized version...An Account on the Mutinous Seizure of the Bounty ...The [later] Bentley version differed in its larger format, the inclusion of an engraving of Bligh in his nightshirt, and most importantly, as Stephen Walters points out, probably the first published clue to Fletcher Christian’s post-mutiny whereabouts: the publisher reports information from a voyager that Christian and the mutineers had recently left Tahiti with promises to return, and concludes from this information ‘that they have turned pirates’” (Hill). This edition is not in Hill, who only owned a 1987 reprint edition.

“An anonymous narrative. The account of the Mutiny is based on Bligh’s book; the ‘Secret Anecdotes of the Otaheitean Females’ are extracted from Hawkesworth” (Ferguson). This latter account of Tahitian women is sometimes wanting, likely by a censor’s hand. To account for the seeming mispagination at the beginning of the text, Ferguson notes that, “Apparently an error occurred in numbering the pages.”

Ferguson 131; ESTC N29876; cf. Hill 1825; Howgego B107.(#28660)   $ 8,500

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BLIGH, William (1754-1817).

A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor ... in the East Indies.

London: for George Nicol, 1790. Quarto (12 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches). 3 engraved charts (2 folding) after William Harrison, engraved by J. Walker, 1 engraved plan of the Bounty’s 23-foot launch. Uncut. (Light scattered foxing). Later half dark blue crushed morocco over blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (armorial bookplate).

First edition of Bligh’s account of the famous mutiny, and the incredible voyage which followed: a tall uncut copy.

Although the mutiny is now the best known incident, the most remarkable part of the narrative is undoubtedly Bligh’s account of the voyage in the Bounty’s launch. His achievement of safely navigating an open vessel packed with 19 men a distance of 4,000 miles without serious mishap is almost without parallel in the history of ocean travel. He not only piloted the boat to safety but “In the course of this hazardous journey Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of New Holland as he passed along it” (Wantrup, p.128). The resulting chart of the “NE Coast of New Holland” was first published in the present work.

Du Reitz p.44; Ferguson 71; Hill 132; Kroepelian 87; Wantrup 61.(#28656)   $ 12,500

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BONNAFFÉ, A. A.

Recuerdos De Lima Album Tipos, Trajes y Costumbres Dibujados y Publicados Por A.A. Bonnaffe En Lima 1856 [cover title] ... [With:] Recuerdos De Lima ... 1857 [cover title].

[Paris: 1856-57]. 2 volumes [all published], folio (17 5/8 x 12 inches; 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches). Without letterpress title or text, as issued. 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates (12 in each series) with printed captions, printed on various coloured paper, lithographed by Morin, Adam, Gaildreau and others, printed by Lemercier. Publisher’s near uniform green and brown cloth, covers bordered in blind and lettered in gilt on the upper covers, expertly rebacked to style. Together in a modern morocco backed box.

Rare colour plate books depicting the costume of Peru.

A collection of 24 brightly colored and handsomely produced plates depicting various costumes of the natives of Peru, each plate “signed” in the lower left corner AABffe (i.e. A.A. Bonnaffe, as noted in the cover title). The imprints on the plates read: “Dibujo. por A.A. Bonnaffe.” with various lithographers’s names, e.g. Julien, Didier, J. Gaildreau, De Moraine, etc. No letterpress title or text was issued with the plates and only these two parts were ever published.

The plates are captioned as follows: [First series, 1856]: El Cholo Costenõ; La Chola Quesera; El Heladero; La Chola Frutera; El Biscochero; La Chola Rabona; La Tapada (de noche); El Indio de la Sierra; La Tapada; La Chola de la Sierra; La Tapada (Saya y Manto) [1]; La Tapada (Saya y Manto) [2, i.e. the same title as the preceding plate but an entirely different image]. [Second series, 1857]: La Zamacueca; La Zamba (a la procesion); El Capeador; Chorrillos. Traje de Bano; El Panadero; La Plazera; El Arriero; La Chichera; El Aguador; La Lechera; El Velero; La Caleza.

Sets of both the first and second series are seldom encountered together.

Hiler, p.101; Palau 32375; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful I:3. Not in Colas or Lipperheide.(#26145)   $ 18,500

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BOWLES, Carington (1724-1792).

Bowles’s Florist: containing sixty plates of beautiful flowers, regularly disposed in their succession of blowing, to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing and painting them according to nature.

London: Carington Bowles, 1777. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches). 60 hand coloured engraved plates. Extra-illustrated with an 18th-century hand coloured decoupage of a potted chrysanthemum, mounted on verso of the title. Early nineteenth century half calf over purple morocco, spine with raised bands in five compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, patterned endpapers.

A very rare hand coloured copy of a noted 18th century manual on flower painting.

The work is organized in calendar fashion, with five plates for each month. The work “represents an early example of one of the pattern-books for drawing and painting flowers ... By drawing directly from nature, the author explains, one can avoid the stiff formality of the copied image. Regarding the use of colour, he recommends that the flowers be placed with the light falling from the left, casting the right half of the composition into shadow. He then adds a list of the paints necessary ... Further instuctions follow, regarding the best way to paint specific flowers: the hyacinth, cyclamen, crocus, snowdrop, anemone, almond blossom, auricula, daffodil, iris, rose, tulip, etc., many of which are depicted in the book.” The sixty plates “were intended not only to serve as models for the amateur artist; they could also be admired by flower lovers...” (Oak Spring Flora).

The work by Bowles was originally issued in circa 1760 by his grandfather Thomas, under the title The Florist; in the present Carington Bowles issue, the plates have had the original engravers names and imprints removed and replaced with a Carington Bowles imprint dated 1774. The text would appear identical in both issues. Like the earlier version, Bowles issued the work coloured (1 guinea) [as the present] and uncoloured (6s). All editions are very rare, particularly coloured: only the Plesch and De Belder coloured copies appear in the auction records.

Nissen BBI 1735; Dunthorne 46; Henrey 3.481; Johnston 529; Tomasi, Oak Spring Flora 88.(#29438)   $ 8,500

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BOWLES, JOHN (1701-1779).

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.

The plates depict the gardens and fountains of Versailles after Sebastien Le Clerc and others, engraved and issued by print and mapseller John Bowles. This edition is dated based on Bowles’s address “at the Black Horse, in Cornhill” at which he was active between 1733 and 1752 (after which the name of the firm changed to John Bowles and Son).

The last seven plates depict the fountains in the labyrinth at Versailles, representing the Fables of Aesop. The “fable fountains” no longer exist and are now only known through engravings such as the present examples. These seven plates are each divided into six compartments. These contain a map of the Labyrinth giving the location of each fountain, a single compartment of engraved text describing the concept, a view of the entrance to the Labyrinth with its statue of Aesop, and 39 images of selected fountains, each of these latter images is accompanied by a verse translation of the fable above and a description of the sculpture below.

Johnston 394; Lowndes, p. 2764 (1726 edition).(#29036)   $ 4,750

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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de (1778-1841).

Plantes rares du Jardin de Genève.

Geneva: J.Barbezat & Cie., 1829. Folio (14 1/4 x 11 inches). Half-title. 24 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Heyland (6), Anspach (5), Millenet (11), Bovet (1) and Bouvier (1), after Heyland (22) and Madmoiselle Car. Chuit (2), printed by Tattegrain (18) or Suardet (6). Stitched and uncut. Housed in a modern full green morocco box.

A fine uncut, never bound copy of an important and rare record of the trees, shrubs and plants growing in the botanical gardens of Geneva under the directorship of de Candolle.

The work recalls the early days of the Geneva Botanic Garden, which after a number of false starts, was finally laid out in 1818. The images include two excellent plates of the Pin des Canaries (Pinus canariensis), a native of Teneriffe and Grand Canary; a single plate of a

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Cherry (Cerasus caproniana polygyna) showing a flowering branch, details of the flowers and depictions of the extraordinary multi-lobed fruits; the final plate is a fine compostion showing a flowering branch of pink-flowered form of a Horse-Chestnut (Æsculus rubicunda) which de Candolle supposes to have originated in the United States.

According to the introduction, the plates were chosen from a collection of about 300 botanical drawings executed by various artists and given to the Botanical Garden by generous benefactors, all but two of the present plates are from original drawings by Jean Christophe Heyland (1792-1866), a German-born botanical artist who spent all of his working life in Switzerland. The original intention had been to continue to publish plates (with their descriptions) periodically. The present work was originally published in four fascicules between 1825 and 1826 or 1827; when it became clear that no more fascicules would appear, the present second issue was published, with the title dated 1829.

Great Flower Books (1990) p.25; Nissen BBI 327; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1000.(#30316)   $ 12,000

CHINA - American Presbyterian Mission.

Seeing China [Temple Hill cut-outs].

[Chefoo, China: Self-help Dept., Women’s Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, circa 1930]. Oblong folio (13 1/4 x 10 inches). 24pp. Eleven hand-cut chapter headings and approx. 90 hand-cut and mounted black cut-out illustrations, many with colorful silk inlays. Publisher’s 1p. letterpress explanation leaf mounted on inside front pastedown. Contemporary stitched pictorial silk covered flexible boards.

Scarce hand-made album of elaborate cut outs by Chinese women at the Ai Dao Bible School in Chefoo.

The introductory letterpress leaf explains: “The cut-outs of Temple Hill are an adaptation of figures of animals, plants, insects, dragons, etc. cut out by the women of Shantung for unknown generations.” It would appear that several versions of these books were produced. The present one, which is unrecorded by OCLC, is titled Seeing China and is divided into sections, including Travel and Transportation, Customs and Habits, Occupations, The Eight Immortals, Curios and Curiosities, Myths and Legends, Chow & How (including a leaf of letterpress with seven recipes), Chinese Children, Chinese Junks and The Magician. Although undated, the work includes a Chinese Birth-Year Cycle chart that encompasses the dates as early as 1864 up until 1935.(#29901)   $ 4,750

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CHISHULL, Edmund (1670/71-1733).

Travels in Turkey, and Back to England.

London: W. Bowyer, 1747. Folio (13 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches). viii, [4], 192 pp. 4pp. list of subscribers. Expertly bound to style in half 18th century russia over period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition of a scarce early English account of travels to the Levant.

Chishull served as chaplain to the Levant Company in Smyrna from 1698 to 1702, visiting Ionia, Ephesus, and Constantinople during his stay. This publication of his journal during his time in the region was brought to press by his son, with the assistance of Dr. Richard Mead (1673-1754), the latter authoring the Preface and editing the journal.

Sailing from England in the frigate Neptune on 10 February 1698, Chishull arrived at Smyrna on 12 November 1698. While resident there, he made a tour to Ephesus and visited Constantinople. He left Smyrna on 10 February 1701-2, taking his homeward journey by Gallipoli and Adrianople where he joined Lord Paget, who was returning from an embassy to the Sublime Porte. Travelling as a member of the ambassador’s household, Chishull passed through Bulgaria, Transylvania, Hungary, and Germany to Holland. At Leyden, he took leave of Lord Paget and returned to England.

Blackmer sale 65. Not in Howgego.(#28790)   $ 7,000

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COLEBROOKE, Sir Henry Thomas (1765-1837).

A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language ... Volume 1 [all published].

Calcutta: Printed at The Honorable Company’s Press, 1805. 4to (9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Printed in English and Sanskrit types. xxii, 369, [1], [4]pp. 4pp. errata in rear. (paper toned). Period cloth-backed paper boards, rebacked with leather, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: College of Fort William (period inscription on verso of title).

“The first European work to be based on the indigenous linguistic tradition” (ODNB).

Colebrooke, a noted Orientalist, first arrived in India in 1782. After several government posts and a diplomatic mission, he devoted himself to the study of Sanskrit and was appointed an honorary professor of Hindu law and Sanskrit at Calcutta’s new Fort William College in 1801. Interestingly, the present volume was at one time part of the library of that institution.

“[His] principal work ... was his Sanskrit Grammar. Though it was never finished it will always keep its place, like a classical torso, more admired in its unfinished state than other works which stand by its side finished, yet less perfect” (Thomas E. Colebrook, The Life of Henry Thomas Colebrook, London: 1872). “Colebrooke’s volume stands as a monument marking the beginning of the study of traditional Sanskrit linguistics (vyakarana) by non-Indians, and in due course that study was to bring vyakarana into the global development of linguistics” (ODNB).

Brunet 11742(#26698)   $ 7,800

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COLNETT, Captain James (1755-1806).

A Voyage to the South Atlantic, and round the Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries, and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring births, in certain islands and coasts on those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted.

London: printed for the author, by W. Bennett, 1798. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee Sir Philip Stephens, by J. Collyer after William Beechey, 6 folding engraved maps, 1 plate of a sperm whale, 2 plates of coastal profiles. Contemporary calf, covers with an elaborate wide gilt border, panelled in gilt and blind with intricate cornerpieces comprised of small tools, expertly rebacked to style, spine with wide semi-raised bands in five compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

Important and rare account of whaling in the Pacific.

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This account was privately printed for subscription, and is one of the rarest of Pacific voyage narratives. It offers a full description of Colnett’s second Pacific voyage in the Rattler, during which he opened up the South Pacific sperm-whale fields and made two visits to the Galapagos islands. He describes the voyage out via Rio de Janeiro, around Cape Horn, along the coasts of South America and Mexico, and into the Gulf of California. He did not stop at Hawaii on this visit, though the lengthy preface contains references to his first voyage, on which he made an extended stay in Hawaiian waters during the winter of 1787-1788. Colnett’s ship, Rattler, a Royal Navy sloop, was purchased from the Admiralty and altered to serve as a whaler. The voyage lasted from January 1793 until October 1794. In addition to the informative and lively text, this work is remarkable for the quality of the maps and plates. The folding plate within the text shows a diagram of a sperm whale, complete with scale and labelled segments, the two folding plates at the back show coastal profiles of six different locations. The large folding maps show the islands of Felix and Ambrose (on one map), the Pacific Coast of the Americas as far as California (one map), and individual maps of the islands of Revillagigedo, Cocos, the Galapagos, and Quibo.

Colnett first visited the Pacific as a midshipman on Cook’s second voyage. Later he made several commercial voyages to the Northwest Coast, where in 1789 his brush with the Spanish commander at Nootka Sound instigated the “Nootka Controversy”. An account of that incident is also given herein, as is his meeting with the Spanish commander at the Sandwich Islands. “This narrative is particularly important for the part Colnett played in the dispute between England and Spain over claims to the Northwest” (Forbes).

Forbes 280; Hill (2004) 338; Howes C604, “b.”; Sabin 14546; Strathern 120.(#30271)   $ 16,000

COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779).

A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships.

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. 2 volumes, quarto (11 x 9 inches). Engraved portrait of Cook by J. Basire after Wm. Hodges, 63 engraved plates, maps and charts (15 folding, 16 double-page), 1 folding letterpress table. (A few plates trimmed close, as usual). Contemporary calf, covers with decorative borders tooled in blind, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red and black morocco labels in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition of Cook’s second voyage on which he was directed to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to search for any southern continent.

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“Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century” (Printing and the Mind of Man p.135).

“The success of Cook’s first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents ... the men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, and a number of smaller islands. Rounding Cape Horn, on the last part of the voyage, Cook discovered and charted South Georgia, after which he called at Cape Town, St. Helena and Ascension, and the Azores ... This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy” (Hill p.123)

“This, the official account of the second voyage, was written by Cook himself ... In a letter, dated June 22nd, 1776, to his friend Commodore William Wilson, Cook writes: - ‘The Journal of my late Voyage will be published in the course of the next winter, and I am to have the sole advantage of the sale. It will want those flourishes which Dr. Hawkesworth gave the other, but it will be illustrated and ornamented with about sixty copper plates, which, I am of the opinion, will exceed every thing that has been done in a work of this kind; ... As to the Journal, it must speak for itself. I can only say that it is my own narrative ...’” (Holmes pp.35-36).

Beddie 1216; Hill (2004) 358; Holmes 24; Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Rosove 77.A1.(#25578)   $ 7,500

[COOK, James (1728-1779)] - [RICKMAN, John].

Journal of Captain Cook’s last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery; performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 ... Faithfully Narrated from the original MS.

Dublin: Messrs. Price, Whitestone, [etc.], 1781. Octavo 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [4], xlvii, [1], 396pp. Engraved frontispiece and four plates, 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece.

The first Dublin edition of the first published account of Cook’s last voyage: a work which preceded the publication of the official account by three years.

The first edition of this work was published in London in 1781; a second London edition, with corrections, was published in the same year. The present Dublin edition, also published in 1781, is a reprint of the second London edition, with four of the plates (the frontispiece of the death of Capt. Cook; “Omai’s Public Entry on his first landing at Otaheite,” “Ounalaschkan Chief ” and “Representation of the Heiva at Otaheite”) being reverse images of those in the London edition, while the plate of “Omai’s Double Canoe, and the Ships approaching Hueheine” is included here in place of the image “The Ships Approaching York Island” found in the London editions.

Rickman accompanied Cook’s voyage aboard the ‘Discovery’ until his transfer to the ‘Resolution’ in 1777. Of the London edition, Hill notes: “This anonymous journal, of Captain Cook’s third voyage, was once believed to have been written by John Ledyard, who had actually made liberal use of Lieutenant Rickman’s account; hence the confusion. This narrative anticipated the government’s authorized account by two years. All the journals kept on board were claimed by the Admiralty, thus the author remained strictly anonymous. The text, especially as regards details of Cook’s death, differs considerably from other accounts.” This Dublin edition is not in Hill.

Howes R276, “aa.”; Forbes 36; Wickersham 6555a; Beddie 1608; Beaglehole I, pp.ccv-ccvi; Davidson, p.64; Kroepelien 1078; O’Reilly & Reiman 416; Holmes 38 (ref).(#30273)   $ 4,500

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[COTTON, Charles (1630-1687)].

The Compleat Gamester: or, Full and Easy Instructions for Playing at above Twenty several Games Upon the Cards; with variety of diverting fancies and tricks upon the same, now first added. As likewise at all the Games on the Tables. Together with the Royal Game of Chess, and Billiards ... The Fifth Edition, with Additions.

London: Printed for J. Wilford, 1725. 12mo (6 x 3 1/2 inches). Engraved frontispiece. [12], 224pp. With 2pp. Explantion of the Frontispiece and 2pp. publisher’s ads. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Provenance: Roland Winder (booklabel).

Rare expanded fifth edition of the earliest English book on the subject of games, sports and gambling.

First published in 1674, Cotton’s anonymous work on gaming was frequently reprinted and augmented in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. As the title suggests, the work includes sections devoted to various card games, backgammon, billiards, chess and much more.

The present edition is divided into sections: card games (23 different chapters), games with tables (8 chapters) and games without tables (3 chapters). These are followed by chapters on chess and billiards, with a supplement on card tricks. The work concludes with a five chapter section on “Gentleman’s Diversions”, viz. riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting and bowling. “The Compleat Gamester neither teaches the rules of the games it discusses, nor treats strategy ... Much of the book teaches how to detect cheating...Of course such cautions can equally be read as a manual on how to cheat.” (David Levy, “Predecessors of Hoyle” blog entry for 15 August 2011, on Edmond Hoyle, Gent.)

The author is, of course, better known for his friendship and collaboration with Izaak Walton, and also for the verses which were valued by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lamb.

ESTC T64305(#31308)   $ 2,400

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COVERTE, Robert.

A True and Almost Incredible Report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good Ship called the Assension in Cambaya, the farthest part of the East Indies) travelled by Land thorow many unknowne Kingdomes and great Cities. With a particular Description of all those Kingdomes, Cities, and People: As also, a Relation of their commodities and manner of Traffiqne, and at what seasons of the yeere they are most in use. Faythfully related: With a Discovery of a Great Emperour called the Great Mogoll, a Prince not till now knowne to our English Nation.

London: Printed by I[ohn] N[orton] for Hugh Perry, 1631. Small 4to (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). [vi], 68, [1] pp. Printer’s colophon leaf in rear. (Title and A4 on stub guards). Full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers bordered with a gilt triple fillet, spine in six compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: early ink and pencil marginalia throughout.

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A very rare early account of an overland journey through India and the Middle East.

The author and his men left Plymouth in March 1607 aboard the Ascension and were among the first Englishmen to see the Cape of Good Hope, arriving there in July 1608. Coverte eventually reached Gujarat, where the ship ran aground while approaching Surat. Not granted permission to remain in Surat, the crew departed to various destinations. Coverte and others set out overland for the Moghul Court at Agra via Burhanpur (describing the important military post as larger than London), arriving at Agra in December 1609. Although asked by the emperor Jahangir to serve in his military service, Coverte and other crew members left Agra in January 1610 “with the intention of making their way back to the Levant by the overland route. Travelling by way of Kandahar, Esfahan, and Baghdad, they reached Aleppo in December 1610 and from the coast of the Levant sailed for England. They subsequently arrived home in April 1611” (Howgego).

An absorbing account presented in the form of a travel diary, Penrose described this work as a “vigorous narrative. It relates its author’s reception by the Emperor Jahangir, and his ... journey across India, Afghanistan, and Persia, and ... is one of the best examples of a travel journal that the period produced.” The work was first published in 1612, with a second edition appearing two years later before the present third edition: all English editions are rare and desirable. Two German translations followed and the account was further published in compilations of discovery and exploration, including those published by De Bry, Hulsius, and van der Aa.

Howgego C211; Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, p. 324; Oaten, European Travellers in India, pp. 158-161; STC 5897.(#25255)   $ 10,000

DALRYMPLE, Alexander (1737-1808).

An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean.

London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Nourse and T. Payne, 1770 [-1771]. 2 volumes in one, quarto (10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches). xxx, [2], 32, 24, 204, [4]; [4], 124, 20, [12], [40] pp. Half-titles, first with advertisement on verso. Volume one title and dedication as cancels. 16 engraved maps and plates (4 folding maps, 12 plates [6 folding]). 3pp. errata at end of first volume. Contemporary sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked retaining the original spine, flat spine divided into six compartments, red and black morocco labels in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet and Lord Minto (1722-1777, treasurer of the Navy, armorial shelf label).

A rare, early work arguing for the existence of a great Southern Continent and reviewing the early Spanish and Dutch exploration of the South Pacific, illustrated with fine maps and plates.

“This important work, issued before the return of Captain Cook’s expedition, is the result of Dalrymple’s strong belief in the existence of a southern continent” (Hill). In it, the author translates and reviews twelve foreign accounts of voyages which he believed supported its existence, including the Spanish voyages of Magellan, Mendana’s voyage to the Solomon Islands in 1595, and that of De Quiros in 1606. The second volume comprises the Dutch

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accounts including those of Le Maire, Schouten, Tasman, and Roggeveen. All are preceded by a valuable introduction, a section explaining the sources for his Chart of the South Sea, as well as chapters on the Solomon Islands, including a comparative vocabulary, and the “natural curiosities at Sooloo.”

Although Dalrymple’s thesis on the existence of a southern continent would be disproved by Cook, Hill refers to Dalrymple as a cartographer “without peer” and as “a latter-day Hakluyt.” Dalrymple made his career as a hydrographer to the East India Company. Originally offered the command of the Endeavour voyage to observe the transit of Venus, the command would be given instead to Cook, partly because of Dalrymple’s insistence on being given an Admiralty commission. His disappointment and anger at the Admiralty is brought forth in the remarkable “dedication” of this work, in which he critiques previous British explorers of the region. Dalrymple would be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1771 and would later become the Hydrographer to the Board of Admiralty. In that capacity, Dalrymple would be responsible for preparing for publication the maps from the expeditions of Vancouver, Colnett and others.

Two issues of the work were published. “[The] first issue of 1769 is exceedingly rare, and there are only a few copies extant. The regular trade edition was issued in 1770 [as the present copy]. The second volume, printed in 1771, is exactly the same in both sets. However the two issues of the first volume have different title pages and preliminary materials” (Hill). Among the changes to the dedication are variant dates (April 1, 1769; Jan. 1, 1769), along with amended text to the attack on Captain Samuel Wallis (“who left the arms of a calypso”; “who, infatuated with female blandishments, forgot for what he went abroad”). In the latter issue, both the title and dedication are present as cancels.

This copy with the rare leaf following the vol. 1 introduction, headed “Monthly Review for May, 1769” (frequently lacking).

Davidson, A Book Collector’s Notes, pp. 36-7; Hill 410; Holmes (first issue) 32; Kroepelien 245; Spence 264.(#24593)   $ 16,000

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882).

On the Origin of the Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1860. 8vo (7 5/8 x 5 inches). Half-title. 1 folding lithographic diagram. Early owner’s newspaper clipping mounted on verso of front endpaper. Original brown grained cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine in gilt, brown endpapers (expert repair at head and tail of spine). Housed in a full black morocco box. Provenance: Joseph H. Wilby (early owner’s booklabel).

The first American edition of one of the most influential books ever published.

Freeman calls Darwin’s magnum opus “the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman), whilst Dibner writes that it is “the most important single work in science” (Heralds of Science). “What the dropping of the first atomic bomb was to the twentieth century, the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was to the nineteenth century. Battle lines were drawn on both religious and scientific grounds” (Heirs of Hippocrates).

“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.” (Introduction p.12).

The first edition of On The Origin of Species was published in London on 24 November 1859. In total 1250 copies were printed, but after deducting presentation and review copies, and five for Stationers’ Hall copyright, around 1,170 copies were available for sale. The second edition of 3,000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, the present first American edition followed and a third English edition was published in 1861. The book went through a further four editions during Darwin’s lifetime and has remained in print ever since.

The present example is the first issue of the first American edition, with two blurbs on verso of the half-title.

Freeman 377.(#30649)   $ 6,500

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DAVIDSON, Charles James C.

Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India, from Bareilly, in Rohilcund, to Hurdwar, and Nahun, in the Himmalaya mountains, with a tour in Bundelcund, a sporting excursion in the kingdom of Oude, and a voyage down the Ganges, by C. J. C. Davidson ... late Lt.-Colonel of Engineers, Bengal.

London: Henry Colburn, 1843. 2 volumes, octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches). Contemporary calf bound for the Northern Light Board, covers with a border built up from fillets ruled in gilt and blind, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, green morocco in the third, the uppermost compartment tooled in gilt with Northern Light Board stamp, the others with repeat panelling in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Provenance: Northern Light Board, Scotland (binding).

A very fine copy of the first edition of this charming and surprisingly rare work.

As the title suggests, the work is in fact made up of a series of narratives describing various trips made by the author. The first volume is in three parts. The first part, “Travels from Bareilly, in Rohilcund, to Hurdwar and Nahun,” ends abruptly on p.168. On the following page, whilst bewailing the loss to the “literature of the age”, the author explains that “a vile thief entered my tents at night, and robbed me of my second volume ... In this manner did I lose my carefully-written account of the sub-Himalayan range, which cost me fully eight months’ labour while in the hills.” The second part in the first volume is on Bundelcund, and the volume ends with the first section of the author’s “Journal of a Voyage [started in December 1839] from Allahabad to Calcutta, via Dacca and the Soonderbunds.” Volume two is made up of the concluding part of the “Journal of a Voyage...”, followed by “A Sporting Tour [undertaken in 1836] in the Kingdom of Oude”. The writing style of the author, which manages to be both humorous and bombastic at the same time, allied with his obvious deep knowledge of the country and the people are what give this work its period charm.

The work is quite rare, with no other copies listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty five years. A fine copy of a delightful gem which deserves a place in any serious collection of books on the Indian sub-continent.(#23862)   $ 2,350

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[DEZALLIER D’ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765)] -- John JAMES (d.1746, translator).

The Theory and Practice of Gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens commonly called pleasure-gardens, as parterres, groves, bowling-greens, &c. ... The Second Edition. With very large Additions and a New Treatise of [sic] Flowers and Orange-Trees.

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1728. Quarto (10 x 7 3/4 inches). Title in red and black. 38 folding engraved plates. 3pp. publisher’s ads in rear. Contemporary calf, covers bordered with gilt double fillet, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece.

The expanded second edition in English of this important work, described by Henrey as the “first important book on garden design to appear in England in the eighteenth century” and by a contemporary critic as the best work on gardening “that has appeared in this or any other language.”

“The first important book on garden design to appear in England in the eighteenth century is The theory and practice of gardening, a translation of the French La théorie et la pratique du jardinage ... it is especially valuable as a record of the manner of gardening as practised by [André] Le Notre. The original French work appeared anonymously in Paris in 1709, and in the opinion of [M.L.] Gothein: ‘Never before did a book lay down the principles of any style so surely and so intelligibly in instructive precepts’ ... The translator [of the present English version] was the noted London architect John James (d. 1746) ... he tells us that he endeavoured to make his translation ‘as plain and intelligible, as possible’, and he certainly succeeded in this ... [The present work] deals fully with the design and formation of fine gardens ... and with the making of parterres, mazes, garden buildings, and ornaments of every kind. It also deals with the making of fountains, basins, and cascades ... [It includes a description] for the first time in England [of] the use of a fosse or deep ditch as an invisible division between the garden and the landscape beyond, a device now known as a ‘ha-ha’ and especially associated with the English landscape school” (Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, II, p490-495).

This second English edition includes additional text and plates not found in the first.

Bradley Bibliography III, p.112 (under ‘Le Blond’); Harvard,Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum p.416 (under ‘Le Blond’); Hunt II, 471; Henrey III, 1426; Nissen BBI 1136.(#29566)   $ 3,750

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ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835 -1915).

A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of the Hornbills.

[New York]: printed by Taylor & Francis of London, published for the subscribers by the author, 1877-1882. 1 volume bound from the ten original parts, folio (14 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches). 60 lithographic plates printed by M. & N.Hanhart (comprising: 57 plates by and after John Gerrard Keulemans, all hand-coloured by Mr. Smith, 3 uncoloured plates by and after Joseph Smit), occasional uncoloured illustrations. Near-contemporary green half morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third, date in gilt at foot of spine, original brown paper wrappers to all ten parts bound at the back, top edge gilt.

A fine copy of the first edition of this “comprehensive treatment of the entire family of hornbills” (Zimmer) from one of the best known American ornithologists of the second half of the nineteenth century, with illustrations by Keulemans, the most popular ornithological artist of the period.

This is the important first monograph on this widely scattered family of extraordinary birds. “The Bucerotidae are pretty equally divided at the present day between the Ethiopian and Oriental Regions, the first having twenty-seven and the latter twenty-nine species, while but a few... are scattered about the islands of the Malay archipelago” (introduction). Hornbills are extraordinary not only for their physical appearance but also for their behavior - the most noteworthy shared trait amongst the species is the male’s habit of “enclosing the female in the hollow of some tree, firmly fastening her in by a wall of mud, and keeping her close prisoner until the eggs are hatched” (introduction). The male will feed the female through a slit in the wall whilst she incubates the eggs. She will only break through the wall of mud and leave the nest once the young have hatched, at which point the wall is rebuilt and remains in

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place until the young are ready to fly. The bizarre beauty of this species is here ably captured by Keulemans highly accurate and beautifully observed plates. Keulemans was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1842, but worked and lived chiefly in England, working on most of the important ornithological monographs and periodicals published between about 1870 and his death in London in 1912. He was “undoubtedly the most popular bird artist of his day as well as being the most prolific. He was gifted with a superb sense of draughtsmanship and revealed his considerable versatility in capturing the significant subtleties of color, form, and expression in the birds... represented in his various illustrations” (Feathers to brush p. 47)

BM(NH) I,p.522; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.95; T. Keulemans & J. Coldewey, Feathers to brush... John Gerrard Keulemans, 1982, p.61; Nissen IVB 297; Wood p.331; Zimmer p.207.(#16801)   $ 21,000

ELLIS, John (1711-1776).

Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle des Corallines, et d’Autres Productions Marines du Meme Genre.

The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1756. 4to (10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches). xvi, 125, [3]pp. Engraved frontispiece and 39 engraved plates (5 folding), hand coloured throughout at a period date. Publisher’s ad leaves in the rear. Contemporary manuscript annotations. Contemporary mottled calf, covers with a gilt border and corner pieces, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt.

Very rare hand coloured copy of the first edition in French of a noted illustrated treatise on the marine plants of Britain.

Ellis (1711-76), an Irish-born merchant and naturalist, was proclaimed by Linnaeus as “the main support of natural history in England.” The present work, first published in London the year prior, is an extensive illustrated treatise on corals, sponges, and marine plants from the coasts of Britain. The work includes a depiction and description of a microscope in the final chapter.

The work, either in its first English or the first French edition, is seldom seen with period hand colouring, as in the present example.

Nissen, BBI 590; Stafleu & Cowan 1661; cf. Henrey, II, p. 283.(#29737)   $ 4,750

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EMPSON, Charles (1794-1861).

Narratives of South America; illustrating Manners, Customs, and Scenery.

London: Printed by A. J. Valpy ... and published for the author by William Edwards, 1836 [plates watermarked 1836]. Small folio (14 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches). 15 hand-coloured plates (14 being watercolour over etched line after Empson, 1 engraved plate printed in sepia and hand-coloured after Sowerby). Later three quarter crimson crushed morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, t.e.g.

One of very few large-paper, deluxe copies with all the plates beautifully hand-coloured: among the rarest South American colour plate books.

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In 1824, Charles Empson, at the age of 29, left England for South America, exploring the northern section of the continent in what is now Columbia. Empson’s preface gives some indication of his motivations for travelling abroad: “The glorious descriptions of Humboldt had induced many persons who had no other motive beyond that of beholding Nature in all her majesty, to explore these regions so gorgeously clothed in primaeval vegetation and so abundant in every production interesting to mankind.” The text, divided into twelve “narratives,” discuss the geography, natural history and natives of the region. The plates, after drawings by Empson himself, aptly portray the grandeur of the scenery he describes.

Three issues of this work seem to have been produced: 1) an octavo text (containing two natural history plates) and a separately-issued portfolio of 14 plates (12 being coloured etchings, and 2 being coloured lithographs), with the plates trimmed and mounted to card, produced and sold by Ackermann [e.g. Abbey 702]; 2) a large-paper text bound with the 14 plates, all uncoloured [e.g. Tooley 210, incorrectly referring to his as a later issue]; and 3) a deluxe issue, as in the present copy, with a large-paper text with 15 plates entirely hand coloured (14 being watercolour over etched line [the two lithographed plates from the portfolio issue being substituted for superior etched plates], and a hand-coloured, colour-printed engraving [one of the natural history plates from the octavo text, but printed in colours on large paper and hand-coloured]). This final issue is the rarest and was likely produced in only a handful of copies.

Cf. Tooley 210; cf. Abbey, Travel 702; cf. Sabin 22548; cf. Bobins, The Exotic and the Beautiful 808.(#26327)   $ 30,000

FADEN, William (1750-1836).

[A New General Atlas].

[London: William Faden, circa 1808, maps dated 1778-1808]. Large folio (22 7/8 x 17 ½ inches). Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress contents leaf. 55 engraved maps or charts, hand-coloured, hand-coloured in outline or with touches of hand-colouring, by Faden, Laurie & Whittle, L.S. de La Rochette, Henry Roberts and others (1 on a single

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page, 38 double-page, 16 folding). (The four hemisphere maps and the map of the western Mediterranean shaved with slight loss to imprint or image area, 2 others with marginal tears). Contemporary binding of marbled paper over pasteboard, rebacked and cornered to style using 18th-century diced Russia, the flat spine gilt in eight compartments delineated by roll-tools, lettered in the second compartment.

A fine example of Faden’s atlas:

The atlas includes four hemispheric maps, a Mercator-projection world map (including the tracks of Captain James Cook’s discoveries), a number of interesting charts giving depth soundings for the Baltic, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Bay of Biscay and the seas around the Iberian peninsula, two folding maps of the Mediterranean which could be combined to form one large four-sheet map, two folding maps of Italy that could be similarly combined and a larger scale single-page map of the Dutch Colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Additional maps of note include A Map of the Northern Part of France.. (1795); Plan of the Bay, Rock and Town of Gibraltar... (1783); a folding map of Bengal... (1786); a two-sheet map of the Peninsula of India ...(1800); and an important map of The United States of North America with the British Territories and Those of Spain according to the Treaty of 1784. (Feb. 11, 1796) .The US Territory is here bounded in yellow, with the trans-Appalachian portions of that territory noted as having been assigned to the aborigines. Western land grants are named and bounded in yellow (“Wabash Company” &c.) “Indiana” shows the influence of Thomas Hutchins.

Faden’s “contribution to the development of cartography was considerable, commissioning new surveys and publishing the work of mapmakers throughout Europe” (Tooley).(#2603)   $ 32,500

FOSSÉ, Charles-Louis François de (1734-1812, author). - Louis-Marin BONNET (1736-1793, engraver).

Idées d’un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées jeunes officiers dans la défense et l’attaque des petits postes.

Paris: printed by François-Ambroise Didot l’ainé, published by Alexandre Jombert, jeune, 1783. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). Half-title, title with wood-engraved vignette, letterpress dedication with engraved armorial headpiece printed in colours. 11 engraved plates (10 folding) printed in colours “en manière de pastel” by Louis-Marin Bonnet “premier Graveur en ce genre”, each plate hinged to the upper margin of the relevant caption leaf, as issued. Contemporary tree calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spine divided in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

The first edition of a work of great importance to the history of the development of colour printing.

One of the most successful eighteenth century experiments in colour-printing, this is the only book illustrated by Bonnet, the inventor of pastel manner engraving, or “gravure en maniere de pastel.” The crayon manner technique for reproducing chalk drawings in three-colour prints had been invented by J.C. François in 1757, and Bonnet was his pupil. Bonnet extended the technique to suggest tone and printed additional colours, calling his new method the pastel manner. This technically demanding process allowed Bonnet to produce colour prints of the highest quality and paved the way for the great French illustrated works of the late-18th and early-19th century.

The text is the work of the French military engineer Charles-Louis de Fossé and divides naturally into two sections. The first dealing with the strategies to be employed when attacking (or defending) a small military outpost manned by between 30 and 300 men; the second dealing with the correct use of colour when drawing military maps and plans (and touching on perspective drawing as applied to military plans). This second part is illustrated using Bonnet’s plates. Apart from the colour printing, another unusual feature of this beautifully produced work is that the plates are all attached along the upper margin of the descriptive associated caption leaves: this allows for individual plans to be folded out whilst the relevant text in the body of the book is studied.

Brunet II,1354; cf. V. Carlson & J. Ittmann Regency to empire: French Printmaking 1715 - 1814 (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1984); Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003-2004) no. 46; Jean Fürstenberg Das französische Buch im 18 Jahrhundert p. 121; Graesse II:620; Jacques Herold Louis-Marin Bonnet, catalogue de l’Oeuvre grav. (Paris: 1935) p.28; Joseph Marie Quérard La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants (Paris: 1829) III, p.173 (‘ouvrage estimé’).(#30521)   $ 5,000

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GARNIER, Marie Joseph Francis (1839-1873).

Voyage d’exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867, et 1868 par une Commission Française présidée par M. le Capitaine de Frégate Doudart de Lagrée.

Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1873. 4 volumes in three (text: 2 vols., large 4to [12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches]; atlas: 2 volumes in one, folio [20 1/8 x 15 1/2 inches]). Text: titles in red and black, half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, 1 plate of medals, 12 maps and charts (5 coloured, 5 tinted), numerous illustrations (39 full-page); atlas: 12 maps, (2 double-page); 9 plans (2 double-page); 1 tinted lithographic aerial view; 48 plates on 40 sheets (6 double page, 2 engraved, 10 hand-coloured lithographs, 1 chromolithograph, 27 tinted lithographs). Expertly bound to style in crimson morocco-backed original pebble-grained cloth (text) and crimson half morocco over original pebble-grained crimson cloth-covered boards (atlas), the spines of all three volumes gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

Rare complete set of the first edition of the official printed record of the most important 19th-century exploratory expedition into Indochina.

This first edition was limited to just 300 copies. The maps are after Garnier himself, whilst the views are taken from sketches by the expedition artist Louis Delaporte. These views, in conjunction with the fine illustrations in the text volumes, form a valuable and remarkably wide-ranging visual record of Indochina as a whole, with the depictions of the ancient capital of Laos at Viet Chan and Angkor in Cambodia being particularly impressive.

Garnier was part of the French expedition under Captain Ernest Doudard de Lagrée which set out from Saigon in 1866 to explore the valley of the Mekong River in the hopes of finding a navigable route into south-western China. Garnier took command of the mission when de Lagrée died and he safely led the expedition to the Chinese coast via the Yangtze River. The expedition traversed almost 5,400 miles travelling through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, mapping over 3,600 miles of terrain previously unknown to Europeans, and becoming the first westerners to enter Yunnan by a southern route.

Subsequently, Garnier returned to France a hero, fought in the Franco-Prussian war, and finished the present account of the expedition before eventually returning to Indo-China to establish a colony in Tonkin.

Cordier Sinica 329; Cordier Indosinica 1012.(#18660)   $ 45,000

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GOULD, John (1804-1881); and Nicholas Aylward VIGORS (1787-1840).

A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains.

London: [for the Author], 1831. 2 volumes, folio (21 3/8 x 14 1/2 inches). 80 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Elizabeth and John Gould, printed by Charles Hullmandel. (Scattered minor foxing). Text: contemporary half morocco and marbled paper covered boards, spine with wide semi-raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Plates: contemporary full red morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt, spine uniform to the text volume, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, Earl of Wharncliffe (armorial bookplate); Sir Giles Loder (armorial bookplate).

John Gould’s first work and an important contribution to the ornithological literature on the region: the rare first issue, with the backgrounds uncoloured.

By 1825 Gould had moved to London to pursue his career as a taxidermist. In 1827, shortly after the foundation of the Zoological Society of London, he was appointed Curator and Preserver at the Society’s museum in Bruton Street. The present work came about as a result of this appointment. Whilst working on a collection of ornithological specimens from the Himalayas he procured for the British Museum, Gould realised that they formed the first significant collection from the area to reach Europe and that there would therefore be a ready

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market for a large-format work on the subject which depicted hitherto unfigured birds. He persuaded his friend and mentor, N.A. Vigors, Secretary of the Zoological Society, to provide the accompanying text. Working from her husband’s sketches, Elizabeth Gould produced the eighty plates using the relatively new technique of lithography.

Failing to come to terms with a publisher, Gould undertook to publish the work himself, issuing the work by subscription. The list of subscribers suggests 300 copies to have been published, and includes such eminent ornithologists as John J. Audubon, Prince Bonaparte, P. J. Selby, William Jardine, Baron Cuvier, John Latham and others. Published in twenty monthly parts, with four plates to a part, Gould established a format of publishing that he was to successfully continue for the next fifty years, becoming arguably the most significant British ornithologist of the 19th century.

The present set is bound in two volumes, separating the text and plates; the latter is complete with all the plates, and with the list of subscribers bound in the rear; the former includes the preliminary Advertisement leaf, sometimes lacking. Two issues of the first edition have been identified, the present being the first issue with the backgrounds of the plates uncoloured and with the title page dated 1831.

Sauer 1; Anker 168; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.101; Nissen IVB 374; Wood p.364; Zimmer p.251(#30514)   $ 32,500

HARRIS, Sir William Cornwallis (1807-1848).

Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, d