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Dem Andenken guter Freunde [manuscript title, album amicorum kept by John Peter Muhlenberg].

Philadelphia, London, Halifax and Virginia:  1771-1784 .

Oblong 8vo. Manuscript throughout, approximately 38

entries in German, Latin, French or English, most signed

and dated. Contemporary red morocco, covers bordered

with a gilt roll tool, upper cover with a central stamp in gilt

with Muhlenberg's name, marbled endpapers.

Rare 18th century American album amicorum.

(#34459)                                                                               $ 17,500

ALBUM

AMICORUM

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Journey up the Mississippi ... [on pp. 104-127 of The Winter Wreath, A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse For MDCCCXXIX]. 

London:  George B. Whittaker; Liverpool: George Smith,

 [1828]. 12mo. [xii], 420 pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved

title, and 10 plates by Edward Smith and others. Original

pink watered-silk over boards, green endpapers, a.e.g.,

within original green printed pictorial cardboard sheath

slipcase.  Housed in a black cloth box. Provenance: Mrs. M.J.

Hoppé (presentation inscription by her brother dated 20

June 1829 on front endpaper); Jock Elliott.

An Audubon rarity: the journal of his first journey to the

upper Mississippi River.

(#35180)                                                                                $ 3,500

JOHN JAMES

AUDUBON

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Views in India. 

London:  Published for the Author,  1833. Quarto.

Lithographed title, 30 lithographed plates after Bellew by

Walton, Purser and others, printed by Hullmandel, 78pp. text

plus two errata leaves in the rear. Contemporary brown cloth

boards, rebacked and retipped with calf, flat spine gilt, green

morocco lettering piece in the second compartment.

Very rare privately printed book of lithographed views of

northern and central India.

(#35166)                                                                                   $ 4,000

CAPTAIN

BELLEW

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Botanic Plants Drawn by a Lady for Mrs. Bliss [manuscript title]. 

[Great Britain:  circa 1800]. Folio (18 1/4 x 11 1/2). Manuscript

title in gold within floral and architectural wreath including

pansies, roses, daffodils and a passion flower, 45

watercolours of flowers, most with contemporary pencil

captions below the images, on wove paper watermarked

1797-1801. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled

paper covered boards, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt. 

Beautiful album of botanical watercolours, possibly by Mary

Lawrance.

(#35103)                                                                               $ 22,500

BOTANICAL

DRAWINGS

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Journal of a Voyage up the River Missouri. 

Baltimore:  Coale & Maxwell,  1815. 12mo. viii, 244, 246-

247pp. (page 245 omitted from pagination as issued).

Publisher's green lettered boards, sympathetically

rebacked.  Housed in a green cloth case. Provenance: John

Bouvier (signature on title); William C. Braislin (catalogue

clipping laid in).

First separate printing of Brackenridge's journal.

(#35169)                                                                                  $ 1,750

HENRY M .

BRACKENRIDGE

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The Second World War. 

London, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney & Wellington:  Cassell

& Co. Ltd,  1949-1949-1950-1951-1952-1954. 6 volumes, octavo

(8 x 5 1/4 inches). Half-titles. Numerous folding maps, 1

folding facsimile letter, 1 folding facsimile letter, 1 folding

facsimile document.  Minor scattered foxing. Full dark blue

crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines with raised bands

in 6 compartments, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled

endpapers, gilt edges.

A finely bound set of Churchill's masterpiece.

(#34864)                                                                               $ 4,000

SIR WINSTON

CHURCHILL

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Stock Jobbers or Gazette Extraordinary. 

London:  Haines and Son,  1795. Mezzontint, with period

hand colouring. Sheet size: 14 x 10 1/2 inches. Colouring a bit

faded, expert restoration.

A very rare mezzotint, depicting the chaos of the London

securities market in the late 18th century.

(#35092)                                                                                 $ 2,750

ROBERT

DIGHTON , AFTER

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The Canterbury Tales. 

Waltham, Saint Lawrence:  Golden Cockerel Press,  1929

[1928-31]. 4 volumes, small folio. On hand-made paper.

 Wood-engraved border illustrations by Eric Gill, initials

printed in red, blue and black. Publisher's niger morocco-

backed patterned boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top

edge gilt, others uncut.

One of 485 from a total edition of 500, this copy number 128:

one of the most acclaimed and beautiful books of the private

press movement.

(#35186)                                                                                $ 9,500

GOLDEN COCKEREL

PRESS

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An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound in search of friends with Sir John Franklin. 

London:  John Van Voorst,  1850. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches).

viii, 152pp. Tinted lithographed frontispiece, lithographed

folding map with the route hand coloured.  Complete with

the half title. Publisher's blue cloth, covers bordered in

blind, flat spine tooled in blind and lettered in gilt, yellow

endpapers, minor fading to spine, small repair at head of

spine. Provenance: C. Normann (collector's stamp on title);

Det Kongelige Danske Søkaart Archiv. (inked stamp on title);

deaccessioned by the Garnisions Biblioteket in 2017.

First edition of a scarce Arctic narrative: one of the first

published accounts of the search for Franklin.

(#35148)                                                                                $ 2,200

ROBERT

GOODSIR

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The Aurelian. A natural history of English moths and butterflies, together with the plants on which they feed ... Drawn, engraved, and coloured, from the natural subjects themselves. 

London:  Printed for the author ... and with great additions,

for J. Robson,  1778. Folio (18 x 10 7/8 inches). Text and plates

printed on laid paper throughout.  2 letterpress titles in

English and French, text in English and French in two

parallel columns. Engraved frontispiece, 45 hand-coloured

engraved plates. First plate inscribed: "Colour'd by Mr. Ms:

Harris Sepr: 1778.". Nineteenth century half brown morocco

and pebbled cloth covered boards, spine gilt with raised

bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.

Second and best edition with four more plates than the first:

this copy a very rare example colored by the author.

(#35098)                                                                              $ 15,000

MOSES  

HARRIS

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Phycologia Australica; or, a history of Australian seaweeds. 

London:  Lovell, Reeve,  1858-1863. 5 volumes, 8vo. 300

plates, printed in color and finished by hand. Publisher's

green cloth, upper cover with the publisher's gilt device,

covers blocked in blind, flat spine lettered in gilt.

Provenance: Peabody Institute (bookplate, inked stamp on

verso of each plate).

The masterpiece by the father of Australian phycology: rare

complete set with beautifully colored plates, here in

stunning original publisher's cloth.

(#35123)                                                                               $ 14,000

WILLIAM HENRY

HARVEY

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The Courtin'.

Boston:  James R. Osgood and Company,  1874. Small 4to.

Title and 7 silhouette plates after Homer, reproduced in

heliotype from drawings, and printed in black. Publisher's

pictorial russet cloth, stamped in black and gilt.

Lovely example of a pictorial work by Winslow Homer,

illustrating a James Russell Lowell poem.

(#35083)                                                                                   $ 500

WINSLOW

HOMER

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Autograph document signed, as surveyor of the City of London following the Great Fire, concerning a disagreement arising from the rebuilding of a structure on Ludgate Hill in the burnt district. 

[London]:  4 July 1670. 1p., single foolscap sheet of laid paper.

 Countersigned by John Oliver.  [WITH:] Wenceslaus

HOLLAR. A Map or Groundplot of the Citty of London and

the Suburbes thereof ... by which is exactly demonstrated

the present condition thereof since the last sad accident of

fire... London:  Sold by John Overton,  1666. Sheet size 11 7/8

x 14 1/2 inches.

A very rare document related to the Great Fire of London

signed by the great polymath Robert Hooke, with an equally

rare separately-issued map showing the destruction.

(#35040)                                                                             $ 65,000

ROBERT

HOOKE

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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct, compiled from Official Document: Together with an Account of the Civic Celebration of the Fourteenth October, 1842, on occasion of the completion of the great work. 

New York:  Charles King,  1843. Quarto. vii, [1], 308pp.

Engraved view, after Robert Havell, engraved by Jordan and

Halpin. Foxing. Publisher's brown pebble-grained morocco,

covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine with wide

semi-raised bands in five compartments, lettered in gilt in

the second and fourth, the others with a repeat overall

decoration in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers, gilt edge.

Provenance: Jacob Miller (name in gilt on the upper cover).

In an elaborate presentation binding.

(#35197)                                                                                 $ 1,000

CHARLES

KING

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Archive of 21 field journals and related material kept by a Margaret Mead disciple, recording his observations in a Murik village near the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea:  February to July 1936. Over 1400pp. in

manuscript, written in 21 small quarto or octavo journals.

With a 29-page autograph manuscript concerning the trade

of the Murik, a 50+ page autograph letter signed giving

advice to an incoming anthropologist, a group of approx.

ten personal letters, as well as other ephemera. All housed

in a contemporary wooden box with Ledoux's name

stencilled on the top.

An incredible archive of an American anthropologist in

Papua New Guinea in the year following Margaret Mead's

groundbreaking work on gender consciousness among

natives of the same region.

(#35132)                                                                               $ 18,500

LOUIS PIERRE

LEDOUX

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Thirteen Years of Travel and Exploration in Alaska ... Edited by Prof. and Mrs. J. H. Carruth. 

Lawrence, Kansas:  Journal Publishing Company,  1890. 8vo.

224pp. Three full-page woodcut illustration facing pages 9,

83 and 143. Publisher's tan wrappers, upper wrapper

lettered in black.  Housed in a cloth chemise.

First edition of a very rare early account of the interior of

Alaska.

(#35168)                                                                                 $ 6,500

W . H .  

PIERCE

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Through the Brazilian Wilderness. 

New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons,  1914. Large 8vo.

Photogravure frontispiece and 48 half-tone plates, one

folding and 2 full-page maps. Publisher's cloth, upper cover

and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.

 Housed in a red morocco box. Provenance: Lola Edith

Lowther (presentation inscription by Roosevelt, dated 13

May 1915).

Rare presentation copy of the first edition.

(#35077)                                                                                $ 8,000

THEODORE

ROOSEVELT

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Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr. 

London:  Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,

 1885. Small folio (14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches). [12]pp.  44

chromolithographed plates, printed by Leighton Brothers,

each with accompanying text leaf. Publisher's cloth, upper

cover pictorially stamped in gilt, expertly recased, brown

endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Peabody Institute

(bookplate, small inked stamp on title and on verso of the

plates).

First edition of "One of the most prized of Hawaiian books

among collectors" (Forbes): this copy in the original

publisher's decorative cloth binding.

(#35099)                                                                                $ 6,000

ISABELLA

SINCLAIR

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The Testimony of Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator of Ireland, Against the Infamous System of American Slavery

[New York]:  Scatchard and Adams,  [1838]. Broadside, sheet

size measuring 23 x 19 1/2 inches, text in three columns,

central portrait of O'Connell (woodcut engraved by Childs),

all within a wide typographic border. 

Rare broadside, published in New York, printing a harsh

critique of American slavery by the famed Irish liberator.

(#35187)                                                                                 $ 1,000

SLAVERY

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[Unaccomplished printed manumission form]

[Philadelphia:  circa 1775]. 1p., approximately 5 1/2 x 7 inches.

An early relic of the abolition of slavery in America.

(#35188)                                                                                 $ 2,500

SLAVERY

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The Novels and other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï. 

New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons,  1899-1904. 22 volumes,

8vo (8 x 5 3/8 inches). Frontispiece plates. Full blue crushed

morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt, spines with

raised band in six compartments, lettered direct in the

second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt,

red morocco doublures with wide gilt dentelles, red silk

endpapers, top edge gilt, the others uncut.

Copy number one of twenty-four sets of the deluxe

autograph edition, including a full-page autograph

manuscript signed by Tolstoy and bound in an elaborate full

morocco binding.

(#35078)                                                                              $ 45,000

LEO

TOLSTOY

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The Will of General George Washington: to which is annexed, a schedule of his property, directed to be sold.

Alexandria, [Virginia]:  Printed from the record of the

County Court of Fairfax,  1800. 12mo (6 1/4 x 4 inches). 32pp.

Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Provenance: Wright

Charles (signature on upper wrapper).

Scarce first edition of George Washington's will: the

document which emancipated his slaves.

(#35152)                                                                                $ 19,500

GEORGE

WASHINGTON

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Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. 

London:  Gurney and Jackson,  1893. Folio. 32 lithographed

plates [14 coloured, 17 tinted]. Publisher's green cloth, upper

cover pictorially stamped in black blue and gold.

First edition recording the author's ornithological

expedition to Borneo, Java, Palawan, the Balabac islands and

his ascent of Mt. Kina Balu.

(#35165)                                                                                 $ 3,500

JOHN

WHITEHEAD

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Chinese Natural History Drawings selected from the Reeves Collection in the British Museum (Natural History). 

London:  Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History),

 1974. Folio. Color plates. Publisher's brown morocco backed

cloth boards.  Housed in the publisher's folding box.

Limited to 400 numbered copies.

(#35118)                                                                                      $ 375

P .J .P . WHITEHEAD ; &

P . I . EDWARDS

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Hunting with the Eskimos: the unique record of a sportsman's year among the northernmost tribe -- the big game hunt, the native life, and the battle for existence through the long Arctic night. 

New York:  De Vinne Press for the Century Co.,  1910. Large

8vo. 68 photographic plates.  Signed by the author on the

title. Later half green crushed morocco and period orange

cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in six

compartments, endpapers renewed.

One of 150 numbered large paper copies signed by Whitney:

an important account of life in northern Greenland from an

eyewitness to Peary's race to the pole.

(#35183)                                                                                 $ 1,500

HARRY

WHITNEY

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