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Mostly Breslau: 1785-1807. Oblong 8vo. 42 entries, mostly in German, including 7 watercolors and an embroidered scene.Contemporary light blue silk, covers tooled in gilt. Provenance: Astrik L. Gabriel (bookplate). Eighteenth-century Prussian Album Amicorum. (#38777) $ 900.

Late eighteenth century album amicorum kept by a Prussian physician or medical student.

ALBUM AMICORUM

CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB RÜDIGER


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Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London: Longman [et. al.], 1839.8vo. xii, 359, [1]pp. Publisher's ad mounted on the front endpaper.Uncut. Publisher's pink cloth, paper label on the spine. First edition of Audubon's scarce, separately-published systemicindex to the elephant folio Birds of North America. (#38974) $ 1,400.

Synopsis of the Birds of North America.

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON


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Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black.

New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1847. Small square8vo. 61, [3]pp. Publisher's lettered green paper wrap-pers. Very rare first edition of a noted slave narrative. (#38930) $ 8,500.

LEONARD BLACK


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London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. Quarto (11 5/8 x 9 1/4inches). [10], 264pp. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispieceof Bligh by J. Condé after J. Russell, 7 engraved plates, chartsand plans (comprising: 1 plate of a breadfruit, 2 foldingplans, 4 charts [3 folding]). Contemporary calf, rebackedwith the original spine, red morocco lettering piece. Housedin a calf backed box. Provenance: Earl of Dalhousie (armor-ial bookplate). First edition of the full official account of the Bountyexpedition, the famous mutiny and Bligh's miraculousnavigation to safety. (#38654) $ 10,000.

A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken bycommand of His Majesty, for the purpose ofconveying the bread-fruit tree to the WestIndies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty,commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.Including an account of the mutiny on boardthe said ship, and the subsequent voyage ofpart of the crew ...

WILLIAM BLIGH


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Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Com-pany, 1862. Quarto (12 x 10 1/4 inches). xx, 372 pages. 41 plates (numbered 1-51; com-prising 31 engravings on pale blue paper, 9 line engravings [4 folding], and one fold-ing lithograph). Publisher's purple cloth, covers bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt, expert repairs to top and bottom of spine. Provenance: Nathaniel I. Bowditch (presentation inscription). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the grandson of the famed mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch.

(#38203) $ 2,850.

Account of the Great Comet.

GEORGE PHILLIPS

BOND


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Cambridge: March 30, 1932. 1pp. A short letter with an update about Chadwick's researchon discovering the neutron.

(#36849) $ 3,500.

Autograph letter signed, written to GeorgeFrederick Kunz regarding his research on theNeutron.

JAMES CHADWICK


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The Desponding Negro.

Philadelphia: Carr & Co., [1793]. Quarto. Engraved sheet music, on two sheets. Very rare early American anti-slavery sheet music. (#38996) $ 5,250.

JOHN COLLINS AND WILLIAM REEVE


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Boston: published for the Author by Estes & Lauriat, [1884-]1885. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches). Uncolored lithographicmap, 22 hand-colored lithographic plates (18 of birds, 1 of anest and eggs, 3 of details of heads of birds). Contemporaryhalf morocco and marbled paper covered boards, spine giltwith raised bands, marbled endpapers. Provenance: W. L.Foster (booklabel). A fine monograph on the birds of Haiti and San Domingo,from an edition limited to 300 copies. (#38745) $ 1,800.

The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo.

CHARLES BARNEY CORY


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Panzooryktologia [in Greek]. Sive Panzoologicomine-ralogia. Or a compleat history of animals and minerals,containing the summe of all authors, both ancient andmodern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals,viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, asto their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use inmeat and medicine, description, kinds, generation,sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, andremedies ...

Oxford: Printed by Hen Hall, for Jos Godwin, 1661. Two parts in one,8vo. [96], 519, [3, blank]; [2], 112, [2], 113-152 pp. Sectional title andseparate pagination to the second part. Contemporary calf, coversruled in blind, spine with raised bands in five compartments, ruled ingilt on either side of each band, morocco lettering piece in the second.Provenance: John Evelyn (bookplate on the front pastedown andinscribed "Catalogo Evelini inscriptus: Meliora Retinete: 1664"). The Evelyn copy.

(#38639) $ 3,500.

JOHN EVELYNLibrary of ROBERT LOVELL


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Philadelphia: Prepared and published by A. Hoffy, 1860. "Book no.1" (allpublished) quarto (10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches). Lithographic portrait frontis-piece of Brincklé by Hoffy, 36 hand-colored lithographed plates,heightened and finished with gum arabic, all by Hoffy. (Plates toned asusual). Publisher's purple cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt. A fine copy of this beautifully-illustrated and "very rare" (Bennett)work. (#38977) $ 4,250.

Hoffy's North American Pomologist, containingnumerous finely colored drawings, accompanied byletter press descriptions, &c, of fruits of Americanorigin. Edited by William D. Brincklé.

ALFRED M. HOFFY


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[Manuscript diary of a 10th Regiment Britishsoldier in Sudan at the Battle of Omdurman].Sudan: 1898. Small 4to. 81pp. Written in pencil throughout.A few sketches showing battle plans. Contemporary halfgreen cloth and green paper covered boards. Housed in ared morocco backed box. First-hand account of the Battle of Omdurman. (#38893) $ 2,500.

CAPTAIN ALFRED EDWARDHUBBARD


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Sir William Jardine's Illustra-tions of the Duck Tribe.

Jardine Hall, Lockerby, Dumfries: Privately printed at the Expense of the Author, [1839]. Quarto. Title, plate list, nine engraved plates (three by Edward Lear, four by Selby, one by Jardine and one by James Stewart). Original green wrappers bound in, repairs to rear wrapper. Modern red morocco backed cloth. Rare privately-printed work on ducks by Jardine. (#38988) $ 650.

SIR WILLIAM

JARDINE


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Four ships logsrelating to hisservice aboardBritish battleshipsand cruisersbetween the wars,including timealong the coasts ofIndia and China.

At sea: 1924-1933. 4 volumes, folio. Over 700 manuscript pages, with approx. 90 manuscript maps and drawings of ships and ship-related schematics. Contemporary half cream and blue cloth, paper cover labels. Well written and illustrated ships logs of a midshipman, including time on the China Station during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

(#38959) $ 3,500.

L. H.

KETTLE


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Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1829-1830]; [1830-1832]. Two volumes in four (withthe text and plates for each bound separately), 8vo (9 x 5 5/8 inches).[Oiseaux-Mouches:] 86 hand-colored engraved plates by Coutant after A.G. Bévalet, J.-G. Prêtre, Mlle. Zoë Dumont, Mme. Lesson and A. C. Vau-thier, printed by Rémond (numbered 1-85, plus 48 bis). [Colibris:] 66 hand-colored engraved plates by Coutant and Teillard after J.-G. Prêtre and A.G.Bévalet, printed by Rémond (Colibris numbered 1-25, plus 12 and 13 bis[misbound into the Oiseaux-Mouches vol.]; Supplement numbered 1-39).Contemporary red and green morocco, bound by Bunetier, covers ela-borated bordered in gilt, flat spines gilt, silk endpapers, gilt edges. Prove-nance: armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. First editions of Lesson's beautifully illustrated monographs onhumming-birds. (#38755) $ 6,000.

Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches ... [with:] HistoireNaturelle des Colibris, suivie d'un Supplement a L'HistoireNaturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches.

RENÉ PRIMEVÈRE LESSON


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Africa: 1936-1948. Seven typescripts in two volumes, 4to. Approximately 325 typed pages,plus approx. 200 illustrations, including original photographs, clippings, postcards,hand-drawn maps, etc. [With:] Macdona, B. F. Ethiopia in Wartime: 1941-1942. Edited byFrederic J. Sharf. (Hollywood, CA: Tsehai, 2004). Later half black morocco and clothcovered boards.

An extraordinary first-hand look at war-time East Africa, by a fantastic writer.

(#38768) $ 4,500.

[Archive of photographically-illustrated typescript memoirs oftravels in Africa before, during and after World War II].

BRIAN FRASER MACDONA


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Mather's Historical Oil Region Views of Western Pennsylvania [covertitle] ... Mather's Historical Photographs ... [Part I].

Titusville, Pennsylvania: John. A.Mather, 1895. Oblong small folio (10x 13 1/4 inches). Letterpress title, 2preliminary leaves of text. 12photographs, printing-out paperprints, each linen backed asissued, with Mather's caption inthe negative. Publisher's dark bluecloth, covers bordered in blind,upper covers lettered in gilt. Important photographic record ofthe early days of the U.S. Petro-leum Industry. (#38947) $ 4,250.

JOHN A. MATHER


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Mardi: and a Voyage Thither.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 2 volumes, 8vo. 8-page pub-lisher's advertisement at end of vol. 2. Publisher's brown cloth,covers blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.Housed in a brown cloth box. First American edition of Melville's third novel. (#38987) $ 2,400.

HERMAN MELVILLE


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London: Henry Hughes for Robert Faulder, 1790 [i.e 1791].Quarto. viii, 161, [1]pp. Engraved title with hand-coloredvignette, 16 hand-colored engraved plates. Modern speckledcalf, spine with raised bands, red and black morocco letteringpieces, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Earls of Clanricarde(armorial bookplate). Beautifully hand-colored: the first complete edition, withadditional plates and added material. (#38746) $ 2,400.

Indian Zoology. Second Edition.

THOMAS PENNANT


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London: Privately Printed at G. Polidori's, 1847. Small 8vo. [4], 66, [2, blank]pp. Original bluepatterned cloth wrappers bound in. Full green morocco, bound by Zaehnsdorf, covers with anelaborate floral decoration in gilt with red morocco inlays, spine gilt with raised bands in sixcompartments, tan morocco endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelles, gilt edges. Expert repairto front joint. Full modern morocco box. Provenance: Eliza Harriet Polidori (presentationinscription by the author, dated July 1847); Charles Plumptre Johnson (bookplate); Dr. Samuel L.Siegler (bookplate); Parke Bernet, December 9-10, 1952, lot 596.

Verses ... Dedicated to her Mother.

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI


First edition of the author's rare first book, com-prising poems written when she was between twelveand sixteen years of age, and printed at the privatepress of her grandfather: inscribed by ChristinaRossetti to her aunt. (#38752) $ 28,500.

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London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1632. Folio (12 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches).303-329; 330-359; 360-388pp. Expertly bound to style in panelledcalf, covers tooled in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt. From Shakespeare's Second Folio. (#37821) $ 18,750.

The Tragedie of King Lear ... [Bound with:] TheTragedy of Othello ... [and with:] The Tragedy ofAnthony and Cleopatra.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE


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The British Miscellany: or Colored Figures of New, Rare, or Little Known Animal Subjects;many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles.London: R. Taylor, 1804-1806. 12 parts in one vol. 8vo. vi, 138 pp. 76 hand-colored plates (two folding). Uncut. Originalblue paper lettered parts wrappers bound in the rear. Modern half calf and marbled paper covered boards. With beautifully hand-colored plates of unusual British birds, insects and animals. (#38979) $ 4,750.

JAMES SOWERBY


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The Yosemite Book; A Description of theYosemite Valley and the Adjacent Regionof the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Treesof California....

New York: Julius Bien, 1868. Large quarto. 116pp.Twenty-eight mounted albumen photographs, each 6x 8 inches, and two folding maps. Publisher's halfpurple morocco and purple cloth covered boards,upper cover stamped in gilt, spine gilt, marbledendpapers, gilt edges. Twenty-eight mounted photographs of Yosemite. (#38700) $ 17,500.

JOSIAH DWIGHT

WHITNEY


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