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London: Printed for Locker Davis, 1786. 3 volumes, octavo (6 3/4 x 4 1/8inches). [8], 264; [4], 389; [4], 370, [32]pp. Half titles in each vol. Contem-porary calf, all boards detached. Provenance: Rothamsted ExperimentalStation (inked stamp on title). A comprehensive guide to trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, and fruits withtheir Latin and English names as well as their uses and propagations.

(#37701) $ 200.

The Gardener's Pocket Dictionary; or, a SystematicArrangement of Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, Flowers, andFruits; Agreeable to the Linnaean Method, with their La-tin and English Names, Their Uses, Propagation, andCulture, in Gardens, Plantations, Greenhouses, and Hot-Houses, Alphabetically Divided under the followingHeads, viz. Hardy Trees and Shrubs, Hardy HerbaceousPlants, Green-House Plants, Hot-House Plants ...

JOHN ABERCROMBIE


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Edinburgh & London: Printed by Neill & Co. (Edinburgh) for Adam &Charles Black (Edinburgh) and R. Havell Jun., and Longman, Rees, Brownand Green (London), and various others, 1831-1834-1835 [with New York1836 overslip on the half-title]-1838-"1849" [i.e.1839]. 5 volumes, large 8vo(10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches). Half-titles. Numerous woodcut text illustrations.Prospectus and list of subscriber's with separate title in rear of vol. 1.Publisher's pink cloth, original paper labels on spines. Some fading andwear, vol. 1 rebacked with original spine, endpapers replaced in vol. 2,other repairs to hinges. First edition of the separately-issued text for the elephant folio Birds ofAmerica.

(#38720) $ 9,000.

Ornithological Biography, or an account of the habits ofthe birds of the United States of America; accom-paniedby descriptions of the objects represented in the work en-titled The Birds of America, and interspersed with delin-eations of American scenery and manners.

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON


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Amsterdam: Jacob Claus, 1676. Small quarto (7 3/4 x 6 1/8inches). [4], [20], 374, [26] pp. Expertly bound to style in17th-century calf, spine in six compartments with raisedbands, spine ruled in gilt. Very rare first edition of a Quaker masterwork: the pri-mary explanation of their principles.

(#21811) $ 5,000.

Theologiæ verè Christianæ Apologia.

ROBERT BARCLAY


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New York and London: G. P.Putnam's Sons, 1924. Quarto (111/4 x 8 inches). Photogravureportrait of Beebe by N. C.Owen, 9 tipped-in coloredplates by Isabel Cooper and 82illustrations, including photo-graphs mostly by John Tee-Van. Publisher's white cloth,lettered in gilt. Publisher'sgrey cloth dust jacket. First edition. The author'sAutograph edition: one of 100numbered copies signed byBeebe.

(#38723) $ 2,700.

Galapagos: World's End.

WILLIAM CHARLES BEEBE


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[San Francisco: 1889]. 8vo. [237]-320pp. Folding map. Publisher'sgreen wrappers, minor tears and tape repairs. Provenance: LymanBelding (inscription on upper wrapper); early owner's blindstampon wrapper and title. Rare separately-issued extract from the Proceedings of the Cali-fornia Academy of Sciences.

(#30648) $ 750.

A Catalogue of the Birds of Lower California, Mexico.

WALTER E. BRYANT


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At sea: 1894-1897. Small quar-to. 132pp. Contemporary stiffpaper wrappers, rebackedwith cloth, marbled end-papers. Housed in a clothbox. Manuscript journal at sea inthe Indian Ocean, the Bay ofBengal and along the coast ofIndia by a writer in the RoyalNavy.

(#38769) $ 1,200.

[Manuscript journal of a voyage onthe HMS Bonaventure, the Royal Navy flagship of the East Indies sta-tion].

REUBEN COURTMAN


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Dublin: George Faulkner, 1744-1743. 12 monthly parts in 3 vol-umes, 8vo. Vol. 1 (May through August): xii, 147, [1]; viii, 145, [3];viii, 111, [1]; vii, [1], 104pp. Vol. 2 (September through December):viii. 114, [2]; [2], cxix-cxxiii, [1], 125-244; [4], ccxlv-cclii, 253-368; [2],ccclxxv-ccclxxviii, 379-496pp. Vol. 3 (January through April): viii,9-124; vii, [1], 125, [3]; vii, [1], 9-126, [2]; vii, [1], 9-132pp. Contem-porary calf, spines with raised bands in six compartments, redand green morocco labels, expert repairs. Provenance: CaptainAshe (early signature). Lovely set of an important English guide to agriculture.

(#38641) $ 1,875.

The Modern Husbandman: Or, the Practice ofFarming: As it is now carried on by the mostAccurate Farmers in several Counties of England.

WILLIAM ELLIS


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London: Charles Bill, 9 February 1692/3. Letterpress broad-side, approximately 15 x 11 1/4 inches. Woodcut royal arms atthe head of the sheet. Broadside proclamation impressing English seamen intoservice.

(#33756) $ 750.

By the King and Queen, A Proclamation, Re-quiring all Seamen and Mariners to Renderthemselves to Their Majesties Service.

ENGLISH BROADSIDE


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Newtown, NJ: November 16, 1757. 1p. Signed by HenrySimson, Joseph Byram, John Anderson, ThomasWoolverton and Joseph Parry. The French and Indian War on the New Jersey "FrontTears."

(#38668) $ 2,500.

Manuscript document signed by theselectmen of Newtown, NJ, attesting thatIsaac Titsoort [i.e. Tietsoort], was sent inDecember 1755 to negotiate with Indianson the Pennsylvania frontier, but waskilled.

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR


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Zürich: Chr. Froschauer, 1551. Folio. [40], 1104, [12]pp. 80 woodcut illustrations, plus woodcut printer's devices on title andcolophon leaves. Early calf, spine with raised bands in seven com-partments, lettered direct in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Seventeenth century inscription on the title; James Fairfax (book-label). First edition of the first part of the greatest zoological encyclopedia of the sixteenth century and the arguably the birth of zoological illustration.

(#38413) $ 7,500.

Historiae Animalium. Liber I. De Quadrupedibus vivipartis.

CONRAD GESNER


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Sir William Jardine's Illustrations of the DuckTribe.

Jardine Hall, Lockerby, Dumfries: Privately printed at theExpense of the Author, [1839]. Quarto. Title, plate list, ninehand colored engraved plates (three by Edward Lear, fourby Selby, one by Jardine and one by James Stewart). Somestaining to the title. Original green upper wrapper boundin the rear. Modern calf-backed marbled paper coveredboards. Rare privately-printed work on ducks by Jardine, withhand-colored plates.

(#38978) $ 1,200.

SIR WILLIAM JARDINE


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The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, fromSt. Louis, by way of the Missouri, and Colum-bia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean: performed inthe Years 1804, 1805, & 1806 ... compiled fromvarious authentic sources, and original docu-ments.London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. 8vo. ix,[1], 309, [1]pp. Engraved folding map. Foxing. Contem-porary calf, rebacked at a later date. Provenance: E. P.Kennedy (early signature). First London "Apocrypha" edition of Lewis and Clark.

(#38999) $ 1,875.

LEWIS & CLARK


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London: William S. Orr & Co., 1850. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in-ches). Half-title. 58 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Pub-lisher's green cloth gilt, illustration of a flower in gilt onupper cover, spine tooled in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers.Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate). Lovely copy in publisher's cloth.

(#37444) $ 2,400.

The Ladies' Flower-Garden of OrnamentalBulbous Plants ... Second Edition.

JANE WELLS LOUDON


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Inverness: Printed by Robert Carru-thers, 1838. 8vo. Titles and text inEnglish and Scots Gaelic. 6 engravedplates. Disbound. Provenance: in-scribed by the author on the title. Rare Inverness imprint.

(#35485) $ 600.

Hints for the Use of HighlandTenants and Cottagers ...Beachd-Chomhairlean airsonfeum do Thuathanaich 'usChoiteran Gaidh'Lach.

SIR FRANCIS

MACKENZIE OF

GAIRLOCH


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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 3 volumes, folio. Half-titles.Hand-colored lithographic frontispiece to vol. 1, 80 plates, 27large hand-colored initials. Publisher's red half morocco overmarbled paper-covered boards, spines gilt in six compart-ments with raised bands, olive morocco lettering-pieces insecond compartment, brown morocco lettering-piece in thethird, the others with repeated outer border decorationssurrounding a single large tool: a helm in the first and sixth,crossed swords in the fourth and a gauntlet and pair of spursin the fifth, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: JohnGretton, 1st Baron Gretton (1867-1947, armorial bookplate). An excellent set of the second and best edition of Meyrick'sgreat work on arms and armor, with beautiful plates "as fineas the monuments of Westminster Abbey" (Edinburgh Review).

(#24054) $ 2,000.

A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as itExisted in Europe, particularly in GreatBritain, from the Norman Conquest to thereign of King Charles II ...

SIR SAMUEL RUSH

MEYRICK


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Washington: 1856. Quarto. 36pp. Publisher's corrigenda slipinserted following the title. 10 hand-coloured lithographedplates (numbered III-XII, as issued). Early half morocco andmarbled paper covered boards. Provenance: Samuel HoustonMacFarland (bookplate). Scarce separately issued offprint on the fish encountered onPerry's Japan Expedition.

(#38754) $ 1,500.

Notes on Some Figures of Japanese Fish takenfrom recent specimens by the artists of the U.S.Japan Expedition.

PERRY EXPEDITION

JAMES CARSON BREVOORT


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Department of State, July 31,1794, The Secretary of Staterequests the [blank] to permitany persons interested andinquiring for the List at the foothereof, to see the same ...

[Philadelphia]: 1794. Folio (13 x 7 3/4inches). 4pp. Signed in print by J.Wagner, Clerk. Contemporarymanuscript notations on eachpage tallying the number of vessels.Unbound. A contemporary official printed list ofAmerican vessels with spoliationclaims, issued by the Secretary of Statein the midst of the negotiations overJay's Treaty.

(#28826) $ 850.

EDMUND RANDOLPH, Secretary of State


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London: printed by J.L. Cox & Sons for Wm. H. Allen & Co., [1833-]1839[-1840]. 2 volumes, small folio. Half-titles. Hand-coloured aqua-tint frontispiece view of the Himalayas by J. Clark after Lt.Col. R.Smith, 1 hand-coloured plate of a geological section of the Hima-layas, 3 uncoloured lithographic plates of fossils, hand-colouredlithographed plan of the botanic garden at Saharanpore and 96hand-coloured natural-history plates, drawn on stone by MaximGauci and others,coloured by John Clark[e] or Mr. Barclay, afterVishupersaud, Miss Drake, W. Saunders, and others, printed by Graf& Soret (comprising: 2 plates of mammals, 2 plates of birds, 2 platesof insects, and 90 botanical plates). Expertly bound to style in halfgreen morocco over period green cloth covered boards. First edition of this "pioneering ecological study" (Rix) on the trees,shrubs and flowers of the Himalayan region of the Indian sub-continent, illustrated with delightful images after Vishnuperand: thegreatest Indian botanical artist of his time.

(#27941) $ 10,000.

Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of theNatural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and ofthe Flora of Cashmere.

JOHN FORBES ROYLE


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Philadelphia: Lippincott, Gambo & Co. [vols. 1-4] or J.B. Lippincott& Co. [vols. 5 and 6], 1853-1852-1853-1854-1855-1857. 6 vols, quarto.Half-titles. 5 steel-engraved add. titles, 1 steel-engraved portrait tofront vol. VI, 1 folding letter-press table, 329 engraved or litho-graphed plates, plans and maps (i.e 331 plates on 329 sheets). Pub-lisher's uniform purple, green or blue cloth, covers with bordersdecoratively stamped in blind and a central image of an Indian ingilt, flat spines divided into compartments in blind, with seal ofthe U.S. in gilt in lower compartment. Provenance: Captain AmielWeeks Whipple (pres. inscription to Whipple in vols. 1-5 by School-craft [vols. 1-3], Charles Nix [vol. 4] and George Manypenny [vol. 5]). A presentation set of Henry Schoolcraft's masterpiece inscribed bythe author to a noted western explorer and Captain of the Corps ofEngineers, with manuscript corrections. A cornerstone of anycollection of ethnological studies on America.

(#28248) $ 20,000.

Information, respecting the History, Conditions andProspects of the Indian Tribes of the United States:Collected and Prepared under the Direction of theBureau of Indian Affairs.

HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT


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London: Printed for ThomasWilcox, 1757. Quarto. xii,255pp. plus folding double-page plate. Contemporarycalf, recased, preservingthe original boards and giltspine label. Minor edge wear.Minor foxing. Presentation copy of the firsthistory of New York.

(#30399) $ 6,000.

The History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII. to whichis annexed, A Description of the Country, with a Short Account of the Inhabitants, Their Trade,Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in that Colony.

WILLIAM SMITH


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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885. Large 8vo (9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches). Numerous illustrations, including one coloured plate, after J.Sturgess and J. Charlton. Extra-illustrated with 28 original drawings by Sturgess. Number 60 of 250 large paper copies. Contemporaryred morocco by Rivere & Son, arms of the Dukes of Beaufort on both covers enclosed by a single fillet with stirrups and hunting horns at corners and with a motif of horse shoes in the outer panel, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the sec-ond and third, the others with sporting motifs in each compartment, gilt inner dentelles, blue paper end-papers, top edges gilt, other uncut, within a cloth slipcase. Provenance: M.C.D. Borden (armorial book-plate); Joel Spitz (bookplate). Rare large paper copy, beautifully bound by Riviere and extra-illustrated with original drawings by Stur-gess for illustrations within the book.

(#29633) $ 2,750.

Hunting ... [Volume One of The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes].

JOHN STURGESS, illustrator

HENRY CHARLES F. SOMERSET, Duke of Beaufort

MOWBRAY MORRIS


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[Four manuscript letters from Tocqueville toJohn Stuart Mill (3) and Henry Reeve (1), written in the hand of Gustave de Beau-mont evidently in preparation for his edition of Tocqueville's Oeuvres].

Paris: 1839-1849. 17pp., written recto only on 17 sheets. With a few pieces of re-lated ephemera by J.P. Mayer (the editor of the Gallimard edition of Tocqueville's Oeuvres Com-pletes). From the Tocqueville papers of Gustave de Beaumont.

(#35374) $ 3,000.

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE


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Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years aHunt. Being Scenes and Adven-tures in the Life of Philip Tome,Fifteen Years Interpreter forCornplanter and Gov. Black-snake Chiefs on the AlleganyRiver.

Buffalo: for the Author, 1854. 12mo. viii,[9]-238pp., including full-page woodcutfrontispiece of an eight-point buck byWightman. Publisher's brown cloth,covers blocked in blind, upper coverlettered in gilt. Provenance: CharlesPrescott (early signature). First edition: a scarce early work onfrontier life.

(#38231) $ 3,500.

PHILIP TOME


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London and Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Trustees of the BritishMuseum and University of North Carolina Press, 1964. 2 volumes,folio. Titles in red and black, half-titles. Coloured collotype fron-tispiece to vol.I and 3 uncoloured illustrations, vol.II with 76 col-oured collotype plates, finished by hand using the pochoir process(4 double-page), 84 pp. of illustrations (numbered from 77 to 160,recto and verso of 42 leaves), colophon leaf at the rear of vol.II.Original red cloth, covers bordered in blind, the upper coversblocked in gilt with the arms of John White, top edge gilt, the twovolumes contained within a single original black cloth slipcase. The definitive work on John White's drawings of North America: afine copy of this superb production.

(#23126) $ 600.

The American Drawings of John White 1577-1590with drawings of European and oriental subjects ...[vol.I:] A catalogue raisonné and a study of the artist[vol II: Reproductions of the originals in colourfacsimile and of derivatives in monochrome].

JOHN WHITE, PAUL HULTON

AND DAVID BEERS QUINN


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