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Liberté. Conclusion de la Campagne de 1781 en Virginie. To his Excellency General Washington this Likeness of his friend, the Marquess de la Fayette, is humbly dedicated.
Paris: Chez Le Mire, [circa 1784]. Engraving by Noel Le Mire
after Jean-Baptiste Le Paon, printed on thick laid paper.
Sheet size: 20 x 14 inches. Old repairs to tears in the image.
Scarce portrait of Lafayette with James Armistead, the
Battle of Yorktown raging in the background.
(#34634) $ 4,500
AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
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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. Publisher's cloth-backed
letterpress brown stiff paper wrappers. Housed in a full
black morocco box.
A rare color plate book, containing "the most
comprehensive set of prints dealing with the Papineau
Rebellion in Lower Canada" (Spendlove).
(#34197) $ 17,500
CHARLES
BEAUCLERK
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Album of topographical watercolors depicting views along the Lower Danube and in Hungary, Transilvania, Romania, and Serbia.
[Central Europe]: 1841-1843. Quarto. 97 original watercolors
or drawings (including a folding panorama) corner mounted
recto only onto 76 leaves within the album, plus an additional
watercolour loosely inserted and a pen-and-ink drawing in
the style of an engraving mounted onto the final page.
Contemporary half green morocco and marbled paper
covered boards, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled
endpapers.
An unusual album of watercolours of mid-19th century
Hungary, Romania and Serbia.
(#34905) $ 6,750
BRITISH SCHOOL ,
19TH CENTURY
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[Scenery of the Windward and Leeward Islands].
London: Ackermann & Co., 1837. Oblong folio (16 x 22
inches). 12 hand coloured aquatints after Caddy engraved by
Fielding, Harris, Hunt and Westall [complete without text,
as issued]. Each print measuring approximately 12 3/4 x 15
1/2 inches. Each tipped onto sheets of blue paper within an
album. The album bound to style in half period dark blue
morocco and buff paper colored boards. Housed in a dark
blue morocco box.
Very rare complete set of among the most desirable 19th
century colour aquatint views of West Indian landscape.
(#31669) $ 52,500
JOHN HERBERT
CADDY
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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.
(#30316) $ 12,000
AUGUSTIN PYRAMUS
DE CANDOLLE
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Boyer. Jean Pierre Boyer, President de la Republique d'Haiti
Paris: Chez Jean, [circa 1820]. Hand coloured color aquatint
engraving. Sheet size: 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches.
Very rare color aquatint portrait of the African American
leader of Haiti.
(#34757) $ 2,500
LOUIS FRANÇOIS
CHARON
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A plan of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton, taken by His Majesty's forces ... [With large inset titled:] Part of Hudsons River, shewing the position of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton, with the Chevaux de Frieze, cables, chains, &c to obstruct the passage of his Majesty's forces up the river
London: 1779. Engraved and aquatint map, period hand
colouring. 14 lettered references, large inset with title as
above.
Rare revolutionary chart of the Hudson River showing the
American defenses, on the eve of the Battle of Fort
Montgomery.
(#33200) $ 22,500
J . F . W .
DES BARRES
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A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements; and Present State of the British Settlements in North America.
London: R. Baldwin, 1755. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 7/8 x 5 inches).
Engraved folding map by Thomas Jefferys after D'Anville,
hand coloured in outline. Contemporary calf, spines with
raised bands, green morocco lettering pieces (expert
repairs to joints and spine ends). Provenance: W.
Dowdeswell (early signature).
First English edition of the "First American history of the
whole country" (Howes).
(#31524) $ 4,000
WILLIAM
DOUGLASS
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A Monograph of the Pittidae, or, Family of Ant Thrushes
New York: D.Appleton & Co, [1861-]1863. Folio. 31 fine
hand-coloured lithographic plates, drawn on stone by C.
P.Tholey and others, printed and coloured by Bowen & Co.
of Philadelphia. Expert repairs at margins of frontispiece
plate. Expertly bound to style in half dark green morocco
and green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in
seven compartment, ruled in gilt on either side of each
band, lettered in gilt.
A rare and spectacular ornithological work, the first book by
Elliot with his own illustrations, and the scarcest of his
major monographs.
(#34444) $ 22,000
DANIEL GIRAUD
ELLIOT
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The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America.
London: printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1760. 2 parts in one
volume, folio (14 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches). Titles printed in red and
black. [8], 168; [4], 246pp. 18 engraved folding maps and
plans, by Jefferys. Uncut. Minor foxing. Publisher's blue
paper covered boards, sympathetically rebacked to style.
An important mid-18th century work on French Canada,
Louisiana and the French colonies in the Caribbean: "A
monumental geographical work important equally for its
text as well as its maps" (Streeter).
(#34914) $ 30,000
THOMAS
JEFFERYS
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Horae Physicae Berolinenses Collectae
Bonn: Adolph Marcus, 1820. Folio (14 x 9 inches). 27
engraved plates (11 hand coloured). Contemporary half
morocco over marbled paper covered boards, flat spine in
seven compartments, vellum lettering piece in the second
compartment. Provenance: Anton Victor, Archduke of
Austria (initials in gilt in the lower compartment of spine).
Rare work featuring papers by Berlin natural historians,
including a monograph on plants discovered in America on
Kotzebue's 1815-1818 Rurik expedition to the Arctic.
(#29556) $ 6,750
KOTZEBUE
EXPEDITION
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Pilote de la Mer Noire, Traduit de Russe et Mis a Jour ... Cote d'Asie.
Paris: Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1865
[updated to 1884]. Tall, thin 8vo (11 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches). xvi,
128pp. 16 hand-coloured, double-page maps after
Manganari, 24 lithographed plates of coastal profiles. With
27 inserted printed slips, updating the work to 1884.
Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper boards, wear to top
and tail of spine.
Rare mariner's pilot to the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea.
(#34476) $ 2,850
HIPPOLYTE DE LA
PLANCHE
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Lettres de feu M. Jos. Marcoux, missionnaire du Sault, aux Chefs Iroquois du Lac des Deux Montagnes, 1848-49 ... Nene tesakoiatonnihne ne ratikosanenskse kanesatakehronon ne tharonhiakanere kenha kahnasakehronon ronsanikenha
Tiohtiake [Montreal]: John Lovell, 1869. 16mo. Text entirely
in Mohawk. 27, [1] pp. Publisher's lettered wrappers.
Father Marcoux's letters to the Chiefs of the Iroquois,
printed entirely in Mohawk.
(#35037) $ 1,750
JOSEPH
MARCOUX
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The Life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American Forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President of the United States ...
Philadelphia: C.P. Wayne, 1804 [vols. 1-3] - 1805 [vol. 4] -
1807 [vol. 5 and atlas]. 6 volumes (text: 5 volumes, 8vo; atlas:
4to). Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. 1. Atlas
with 10 engraved maps. Text: Contemporary tree calf, flat
spines gilt, marbled endpapers, expert repairs to head and
tail of spines and some joints. Atlas: original blue paper
sugar paper covered boards, rebacked to style uniform to
the text.
First issue of the text with the first edition quarto atlas. The
classic biography of Washington.
(#33018) $ 5,000
JOHN
MARSHALL
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Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, with regard to the trade of Great Britain, the increase of our people, and the employment and support it will afford to great numbers of our own poor, as well as foreign persecuted protestants. With some account of the country, and the design of the trustees ... the Second Edition.
London: Printed for W. Meadows, 1733. 4to. [1-]48pp.
Engraved frontispiece and tailpiece after J. Pine, engraved
map. Expertly bound to style in half russia and period
marbled paper covered boards, flat spine gilt.
An important and rare Georgia tract from the time of the
colony's founding, complete with the rare map of the
region.
(#34958) $ 12,000
BENJAMIN
MARTYN
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The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings: with explanations in English and French
London: William Miller, 1800 [plates watermarked 1802].
Quarto (13 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches). Titles and text in English and
French. 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by
Dadley after Pu-Qùa of Canton, each with accompanying
text leaf. Contemporary diced russia, covers bordered in gilt
and blind, spine with raised bands in seven compartments,
lettered in the second and sixth, the others with a repeat
decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
A fine copy of Mason's famous illustrated survey of the
costume of China.
(#32497) $ 5,800
GEORGE HENRY
MASON
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Vindiciae Judaeorum; Or, a Letter in Answer to Certain Questions propounded by a Noble and Learned Gentleman, touching the Reproaches cast on the Nation of the Jews; wherein all objections are candidly, and yet fully cleared.
London: W. Bickerton, 1743. 8vo. [4], 67, [1]pp. Contemporary
inscriptions on the half-title. Bound within a sammelband
with four other works, detailed below. Contemporary calf-
backed marbled paper covered boards. Provenance: Sir
William Forbes (armorial bookplate).
An early defense of Judaism and refutation of anti-Jewish
allegations and slanders.
(#33430) $ 10,500
RABBI MENASSEH
BEN ISRAEL
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Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in the Gardeners Dictionary exhibited on three hundred copper plates
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by John Rivington
[and others], [1755]-60. 2 volumes, folio. 300 hand-coloured
engraved plates (two folding) after G. D. Ehret, J. Bartram,
W. Houston, R. Lancake and J. S. Miller by Miller, T. Jefferys,
and J. Mynde. Uncut. Contemporary marbled paper boards,
expertly rebacked to style in tan calf, spine gilt with raised
bands. Housed in a slipcase.
A lovely set of the first edition of Miller's illustrated
supplement to his overwhelmingly popular Gardeners
Dictionary.
(#34775) $ 22,500
PHILIP
MILLER
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Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. May, 1815.
Philadelphia: 1815. 12pp. Disbound.
Rare early American art exhibition catalogue, including
works by Thomas Birch.
(#34714) $ 1,500
PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF
FINE ARTS
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A view in Hudson's River of the Entrance of what is called the Topan Sea. Vue sur la Riviere d'Hudson, de l'entree counue sous le nom de Mer de Topan. Sketch'd on the SPOT by his Excellency Governor Pownal, Painted by Paul Sandby, Engraved by Peter Benazech.
London: printed for John Bowles, Robert Sayer, Thos.
Jefferys, Carington Bowles and Henry Parker, n.d. [1768].
Copper engraving by Peter Benazech, after Pownall. Sheet
size: 16 x 22 1/4 inches.
This fine print from the famously rare Scenographia
Americana series is after a drawing by Governor Pownall,
colonial governor of Massachusetts.
(#29076) $ 4,500
THOMAS
POWNALL
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New York From Hobuck Ferry House New Jersey
London and New York: "... by F. Jukes No. 10 Howland
Street and by Al. Robertson Columbian Academy Liberty
Street New York", March 31st 1800. Hand finished colour
aquatint engraved by Francis Jukes. Sheet size: 16 x 22 3/8
inches.
Lovely colour aquatint view of New York City from Hoboken
in New Jersey by a noted British artist
(#33390) $ 4,500
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON
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Rear Admiral Sir James Clark Ross, D.C.L: F.R.S. From the Original Portrait in the Royal Hospital Greenwich by several Naval Officers & Scientific Men in honour of his great discoveries & Achievements in the Arctic and the Antarctic Regions.
[London: circa 1850]. Mezzotint portrait, engraved by
Alexander Scott after Stephen Pearce. Sheet size: approx. 23
x 17 1/2 inches.
A fine portrait of Polar explorer James Clark Ross.
(#34702) $ 1,500
JAMES CLARK
ROSS
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The Oriental Album: Twenty illustrations in oil colors of the people and scenery of Turkey, with an explanatory and descriptive text.
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1862. Folio (18 x 13 3/4
inches). Tinted lithographic additional title by Charles
Parsons, printed by Endicott & Co., 20 chromolithographic
plates by Parsons after van Lennep, all printed by Endicott
& Co. of New York. Modern half brown morocco and cloth
boards, spine gilt.
A rare and important American color-plate book
(#31583) $ 9,500
HENRY JOHN
VAN LENNEP
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[Autograph manuscript memoir, a mock-up for an unpublished book, recounting a journey from Calcutta to Java, with photographic and other illustrations, manuscript title:] Calcutta to Java &c. and back, with notes on the Dutch Settlements in the Malay Archipelago including Sumatra, Borneo, the Spice Islands and New Guinea.
Carlow, Ireland: 1888. Manuscript, 429 leaves in 13
fascicules, including a few drawings and inserted clippings
and other material within. Plus two separate fascicules
containing 37 mounted albumen photographs, by Vigors and
others, with manuscript captions. Plus four printed maps
with manuscript annotations. Housed in a cloth box.
Unpublished, photographically-illustrated manuscript
memoir recounting a journey into the interior of Java.
(#34988) $ 12,500
PHILIP DOYNE
VIGORS
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How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds
New York: The Magazine of Wall Street, 1922. 8vo (7 3/8 x 5
inches). Portrait frontispiece, 13 plates. Publisher's flexible
dark blue morocco, upper cover titled in gilt, rebacked with
the original spine laid down. In a cloth chemise and
morocco backed slipcase.
First edition of a classic work on securities analysis and
investing.
(#32085) $ 1,200
RICHARD D .
WYCKOFF
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