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PART ONE
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A relation of the fearful estate of Francis Spira,after he turn’d apostate from the ProtestantChurch to popery. As also the miserable lives,and woful deaths, of Mr. John Child, whodesperately hang’d himself in Brick-Lane, inSpittle-Fields, London, 1684. And Mr. Geo.Edwards, late of Stratford in Essex, whowillfully shot himself to death, Jan. 4, 1704
London: Printed for B. Harris ... and Sold by C. Bates, 1715.
12mo. [26], 142pp. Woodcut frontispiece and smaller
woodcut illustrations. Advertisement for books sold by
Harris on final 4 p. Includes prices. Nineteenth century calf.
Provenance: Eliott family of Stobs or Stobhouse, in
Roxburghshire, Scotland (armorial booklabel).
An early edition of Bacon's first published work.
(#31504) $ 500
NATHANIELBACON
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Novae Novi Orbis Historiae, id st, Rerum abHispanis in India Occidentali HactenusGestarum...Libri Tres, Urbani CalvetonisOpera...ex Italicis...Latini facti...His ab eodemadjuncta est, de Gallorum in FloridamExpeditione, & Insigni Hispanorum in eosSaevitiae exemplo, Brevis Historia
[Geneva]: Eustatium Vignon, 1578. 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches).
[32],480,[13]pp. Includes errata leaf. Contemporary pigskin,
covers elaborately tooled in blind, paper title label in
manuscript at head of spine, two metal and leather clasps,
all edges painted blue.
First Latin edition of Benzoni's important early account of
the New World, translated from the first edition printed in
Italian in 1565.
(#31352) $ 7,500
GIROLAMOBENZONI
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Chutes du Niagara. Niagara Falls ... Sketchedfrom Nature in March 1837 by A. Blouet.Drawn on stone by C. Remond
Paris: Delpech, 1838. Folio (22 1/8 x 15 3/8 inches). Title and
4pp. text in French and English. Title with a cartographic
vignette. 6 lithographed plates after Blouet, captions in
French and English. Contemporary wrappers, lettered on
the upper wrapper. Housed in a blue morocco backed box.
Very rare plate book of American scenery, depicting Niagara
Falls in winter.
(#31333) $ 9,500
GUILLAUME -ABELBLOUET
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Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccionuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato
Florence: Philippo di Guntia, 1527 [but Venice: Étienne
Orlandini, 1729]. Large 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). [7], 284 ff.
Contemporary vellum, spine lettered direct in gilt (covers a
bit soiled and bowed).
The classic masterpiece of early Italian prose.
(#28931) $ 1,100
GIOVANNIBOCCACCIO
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Die Anfänge der Majolikakunst in Toskana
Berlin: Julius Bard, 1911. Folio (17 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches). 37
mounted photographic plates (18 color), numerous tipped-
in photographic illustrations. Publisher's cloth, blocked and
lettered in black, slipcase (slipcase worn).
One of 200 numbered copies: an important illustrated
monograph on Italian majolica.
(#31478) $ 1,500
WILHELMBODE
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La chronica del Peru, nuevamente escrita, porPedro de Cieça de Leon, Vezino de Sevilla
Antwerp: Juan Steelsio, 1554. 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches).
[8],285,[9] leaves. Woodcut illustrations. 19th century red
morocco by Thibaron-Joly, spine with raised bands in six
compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt
edges.
The primary account of the history of Peru before the
conquest: one of two 1554 Antwerp editions of Cieza de
León's highly regarded history of Peru, and the earliest
obtainable edition, following the first edition in Spanish
printed in Seville the previous year.
(#30369) $ 25,000
PEDRO DECIEZA DE LEÓN
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Landscape Gardening in Japan ... [With:]Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan... with Collotypes by K. Ogawa
Tokyo: Printed by the Hakubunsha ... Published and sold by
Kelly and Walsh, 1893. 2 volumes, small folio. Half titles. xi,
[1], 161 pp. With 37 full-page plates, and 55 figures illustrating
the text. [Supplement:] [8] pp. 40 collotype plates executed
by Ogawa Kazuma, each accompanied by a leaf of
descriptive text. Publisher's uniform green cloth, upper
covers elaborately blocked in gilt, lower covers in blind,
patterned endpapers (some abrasions to covers).
First edition of Conder's definitive work on landscape
gardening in Japan, with the important photographically-
illustrated Supplement.
(#29896) $ 1,500
JOSIAHCONDER
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The Manner of Raising Ordering andImproving Forest-Trees: With Directions Howto Plant, Make and Keep Woods, Walks,Avenues, Lawns, Hedges, &c. ... the thirdedition, corrected.
London: Eliz. Bell, John Darby [et al], 1724. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 1/2
inches). iii-xx, 273, [3]pp. Engraved frontispiece, 4 folding
plates. Contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked to
style, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red
morocco lettering piece in the second. Provenance: Thomas
Broadley (armorial bookplate).
A noted early work on the planting of trees.
(#29511) $ 1,200
MOSESCOOK
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Journal d'un Voyage à la Louisiane fait en1720. Par M***, Capitaine de Vaisseau du Roi
The Hague, 'et se trouve à Paris': Chez Muiser, Fils, &
Fournier, 1768. 12mo (6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches). [1]-8, 1-316 pp.
Half-title. (Without the two final leaves giving the
'approbation censoriale' and the 'privilège' issued later [see
below]). Contemporary sheep-backed figured paper-
covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised
bands, the bands flanked by double gilt fillets, lettering-
piece in the second compartment.
A fine copy of the first edition of one of the rarest early
publications about Louisiana.
(#24303) $ 6,500
DE VALLETTELAUDUN
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Francisvs Draeck Nobilissimvs Eqves AngliæAN. ÆT SVE 43.
Paris: [circa 1583]. Engraved portrait, oval with surrounding
legend and text beneath, on laid paper (6 7/8 x 4 ¼ inches).
Cut to just within platemark and inlaid into later wove
paper sheet. Later ink inscription on verso reading "from
Holland / 1809." Minor wear and soiling. Very good.
A very early engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake.
(#26929) $ 7,500
SIR FRANCISDRAKE
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Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writingsof John Evelyn ... comprising his diary, fromthe year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of hisfamiliar letters ...
London: Printed for Henry Colburn ... Sold by John &
Arthur Arch, 1818. 2 volumes, quarto. 8 engraved plates,
folding pedigree table. Extra-illustrated with 3 engraved
plates after Coney. Contemporary pigskin, gilt arms on
covers, spines with wide bands, lettered in the second, the
others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers
and edges. Provenance: Earls of Dartmouth.
A tall wide-margined copy of the first edition in a lovely
period binding and with three extra-illustrations: from the
library of the Earls of Dartmouth.
(#30599) $ 2,200
JOHNEVELYN
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The Botanic Garden, consisting of highlyfinished representations of hardy ornamentalflowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain
London: Simpkin & Marshall & Sherwood & Co., 1825-
[1851]. 15 volumes. 15 engraved titles, 1248 hand-coloured
engraved figures on 312 plates. [With:] The Fruitist. London:
Groombridge & Sons, [no date]. 72 engraved illustrations.
[With:] The Auctarium of the Botanic Garden. London:
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [1834-50]. 2 parts in one vol.
[With:] The Floral Register. London: Simpkin, Marshall &
Co., [1835-50]. 2 parts in one vol. Together 18 volumes, small
quarto. Uniformly bound in early green half calf and
pebbled cloth covered boards.
A lovely set of the first edition of the Botanic Garden, here
with Maund's supplemental publications.
(#27815) $ 6,500
BENJAMINMAUND
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Moon Christmas Annual. 1938 [Printed inembossed Moon type]
[London: Moon Society, 1938]. Oblong folio. Printed and
"Moon type" title ("A Simplified System of Embossed Reading
for the Use of the Blind") preceding the Moon type title as
above, otherwise entirely printed in embossed Moon type.
[1], 85 ff. Publisher's paper boards, lettered spine label.
Printed in embossed Moon type for the blind.
(#32760) $ 1,200
WILLIAMMOON
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Grand Canyon of Arizona - From Hermit RimRoad
New York: Printed by American Lithographic Co. and
Published by Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
System, 1913. Colour-printed lithograph. Sheet size: 27 x 35
inches.
This majestic print is the largest and most dramatic of
Thomas Moran's printed works.
(#5114) $ 6,000
THOMASMORAN
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Perry's Victory
Mid-19th century. Copper printing plate 14 1/8 x 18 inches;
image: 12 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches.
An original copper printing plate for a print based on a
painting in the National Museum of the United States Navy.
(#28708) $ 1,250
OLIVER H .PERRY
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Topographical Map of the Road from Missourito Oregon commencing at the mouth of theKansas in the Missouri River and ending at themouth of the Wallah-Wallah in the Columbia.In VII sections
Baltimore: E. Weber & Co, 1846. Oblong folio (15 3/4 x 26 1/4
inches). Lithographed map by E. Weber & Co. after Preuss,
on seven sheets, joined at right margin with a period pink
paper spine and folded. (Minor foxing). Housed in a blue
morocco backed box.
First issue of the first map "to show the Oregon Trail
accurately" (Rumsey): an unsophisticated copy of one of the
greatest monuments to the cartography of the American
West.
(#30436) $ 5,250
CHARLESPREUSS
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The Costume of Great Britain
London: Printed for William Miller ... by William Bulmer
and Co., 1804 [plates watermarked 1819]. Folio (14 x 10
inches). Hand-coloured stipple-engraved title vignette, 60
hand-coloured aquatint plates with partially coloured
backgrounds. Contemporary full green straight grained
morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind, spine with wide
semi-raised bands in six compartments, tooled in gilt on
each band, lettered in the second compartment, the other
with a repeat decoration in blind, blue endpapers, gilt edges
(repairs at joints). Housed in a cloth box.
Lovely copy of the deluxe issue with partially coloured
backgrounds.
(#32501) $ 1,800
WILLIAM HENRYPYNE
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Three Physico-Theological Discourses ... TheThird Edition ...
London: William Innys, 1713. 8vo. xxx, [1], 456pp.
Frontispiece portrait, four engraved plates. Foxing.
Contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked to style.
Provenance: James Hamond (armorial bookplate).
Early, enlarged edition of Ray's work on natural disasters
and fossils.
(#32450) $ 1,200
JOHNRAY
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View of the Palace from the Lawn in the RoyalGardens at Kew
[Great Britain: 18th century]. Pen-and-ink and watercolour,
on laid paper, inscribed in the upper left corner "Kew Palace
to face p. 112." Sheet size: 7 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Tipped to a
larger 18th century sheet.
Early watercolour of His Royal Highness' House at Kew.
(#30254) $ 450
ROYAL BOTANICGARDENS , KEW
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Picturesque Garden Plans. A Practical Guide tothe Laying-out, Ornamentation, andArrangement of Villa Gardens, Town Squares,& Open Spaces ... Adapted to English Gardens
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1864. Small folio (13 x 8 inches).
Contents loose as issued. [2], iv, [28]pp. 24 hand coloured
double-page plates. Publisher's green cloth portfolio, upper
cover titled in gilt, expertly rebacked to style. Housed in a
green morocco backed box.
Scarce English edition of Siebeck's garden designs, with
hand coloured plates.
(#29741) $ 2,750
RUDOLPH SIEBECK
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The History of the Conquest of Mexico by theSpaniards. Done into English from the OriginalSpanish
London: printed for T.Woodward, J.Hooke and J.Peele, 1724.
Folio (13 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches). 4pp. subscribers' list. Engraved
frontispiece portrait of Cortes, 6 folding engraved plates, 2
engraved maps (1 folding). Contemporary panelled calf,
expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands,
morocco lettering piece.
A very fine copy of the first edition in English.
(#31616) $ 2,000
ANTONIO DE SOLIS YRIBADENEYRA
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Kultur und Industrie SüdamerikanischerVölker ... Text und Beschreibung der Tafelnvon Max Uhle ...
Berlin: Verlag Von A. Asher & Co., 1889-1890. 2 volumes,
folio (19 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches). 55 plates lithographed by Julius
Klinkhardt, including chromolithographs and collotypes.
Expertly bound to style in half red morocco over red
pebbled cloth covered boards, flat spine in six
compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others
with a repeat decoration in gilt.
An important illustrated ethnographic survey of the art,
culture and industry of South America.
(#26163) $ 8,000
ALPHONS STÜBEL &WILHELM REISS
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The Present State of Hudson's Bay. Containinga full description of that settlement, and theadjacent country; and likewise of the fur trade,with hints for its improvement
London: Printed for Charles Stalker, 1790. 8vo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8
inches). [4],vii,[1],128,133-230pp. Half title. One engraved
plate and two folding tables. Bound to style in 18th century
russia over period marble paper covered boards, spine
ruled in gilt, lettered in the second compartment.
Of major importance for Hudson Bay.
(#26945) $ 4,000
EDWARDUMFREVILLE
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Vues de Saigon [binding title]
[France: circa 1875]. Oblong small folio. Thirty-two
mounted albumen photographs, ranging from 4½ x 6½ to 9½
x 13½ inches. Contemporary half morocco and cloth, gilt
title on upper cover, spine gilt, marbled endpapers.
A rare album of early photographs of Saigon, Vietnam.
(#29678) $ 7,500
VIETNAM
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To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,This Map of the World on Mercator'sProjection is most respectfully dedicated
London: Published by J. and C. Walker ... and William
Colling Hobson, 1840. Large engraved case map, full period
hand coloring, dissected and linen-backed as issued. The
map with insets of both poles and surrounded by
descriptive panels of text. With early manuscript additions
in the Arctic. Housed in the original green cloth case. Sheet
size: 63 x 55 inches.
Stunning large format case map of the World, featuring
Texas as a Republic: with beautiful period hand coloring.
(#29839) $ 6,500
J . AND C .WALKER
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