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... Views in the Mysore Country

[London:  "published ... for Capt. Allen",  1 June 1794]. Oblong

folio (18 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches). Engraved title/dedication to

Charles Marquis Cornwallis K.G., Governor General of

Bengal, 12pp. descriptive letterpress text at end. 20

uncoloured aquatint plates by J. Wells after Allan. (Old

dampstaining). Later half calf over period marbled paper

covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.

Provenance: Robert & Maria Travis (booklabel; sale

Sotheby's London, 26 May 2005, lot 4).

A complete copy of one of the rarest of all India view books.

(#26976)                                                                             $ 15,000

ALEXANDER

ALLAN

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Versailles Illustrated; or, Divers Views of the Several Parts of the Royal Palace of Versailles; as likewise of all the Fountains, Groves, Parterras, ye Labyrinth & other ye most beautiful parts of the gardens 

London:  John Bowles,  [circa 1740]. Oblong folio (12 1/2 x 16

1/4 inches). Engraved pictorial title and 29 engraved plates

by Bowles, showing fountains, water falls, statues and

gardens of Versailles. Publisher's blue paper wrappers.

 Housed in a modern cloth case.

An early English work depicting the famed gardens and

fountains of Versailles.

(#29036)                                                                              $ 4,750

JOHN

BOWLES

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Cabool: a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 ... Second Edition. 

London:  John Murray,  1843. 8vo. xii, 398, [2], [12]pp. 12

lithographed plates (two folding). Publisher's ads in rear.

Minor foxing to the plates. Publisher's green cloth.

An account of Burnes's second mission to Kabul: a fine copy

in the publisher's cloth binding.

(#34361)                                                                                  $ 850

ALEXANDER

BURNES

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The Miners' Own Book, containing Correct Illustrations and Descriptions of the Various Modes of California Mining, including all the improvements introduced from the earliest days to the present time

San Francisco:  Hutchings & Rosenfield,  1858. 8vo (9 1/8 x 5

3/4 inches). 32pp. Woodcut illustrations after C. Nahl and

others.  Period ink bookseller's stamp on title (Carswell's

News Depot, Sacramento). Publisher's brown pictorial

wrappers, expert paper restoration along spine.

First edition of a scarce early guide to modern mining

methods in California.

(#29950)                                                                                $ 6,750

CALIFORNIA

GOLD RUSH

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View of Nassau Hall, Princeton, N.J.

[Princeton]:  George Thompson,  n.d. [c. 1860]. Lithograph

printed in colours by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, 93

Fulton Street, NY. Image: 13 1/2 x 19; 187/8 x 24 inches. 

One of the first depictions of the restored Nassau Hall,

which had a devastating fire in 1855. Built in 1756, it

constituted the whole College of New Jersey for the ensuing

50 years. 

(#33050)                                                                                 $ 1,250

FRANK

CHILDS

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Copy of an Unfinished Map of a Portion of the Military Department of North Eastern Virginia and Fort Monroe compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers War Department from the best and latest authorities ... 

Washington:  Bureau of Topographical Engineers,  August

1861. Sun printed (i.e. photozincographed) map after the

original manuscript, routes of railroads and canals hand-

coloured, 44 x 51 1/2 inches, dissected into 24 sections and

linen-backed as issued.  Manuscript annotations in pencil

[by J. J. Young?].  Modern blue morocco-backed box.

Provenance: Descendants of Amiel Weeks Whipple.

Incredible Civil War map of Virginia, produced by the Corps

of Topographical Engineers for use by Union officers in the

field.

(#26345)                                                                               $ 17,500

CIVIL WAR -

A . W . WHIPPLE

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Her Garden. A Poem by Susan Coolidge Illustrated with Hand-Painted Flower Designs from Originals by Alice Stewart Hill

Troy NY:  Nims & Knight,  1890. 4to. Title printed in sepia

and red, the text in sepia throughout.  The text of the poem

on six sheets, each with elaborately hand colored floral

borders over thin etched line. Publisher's wrappers, upper

cover with embossed lettering and hand painted floral

design, ribbon stitching renewed.

A very rare illustrated work by two remarkable Colorado

women.

(#30931)                                                                                    $ 750

SUSAN COOLIDGE ;

& ALICE S . HILL

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A New Herbal, or Historie of Plants: Wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbes and Plants ... now first translated our of French into English by Henry Lyte, Esquire. Corrected and amended. 

London:  Edward Griffin,  1619. Small folio, bound in sixes

(10 5/8 x 7 inches). Title within an elaborate woodcut border.

 [22], 564, [30]pp.  Title remargined at top and bottom at an

early date, repaired tear to C1. 19th century smooth tan calf,

spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces.

Second folio edition of Lyte's English translation of

Dodoen's herbal.

(#30406)                                                                               $ 2,250

REMBERT

DODOENS

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Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie

Paris:  Le Mercier,  1735. 4 volumes, folio. 65 engraved maps

and plates.  Moderate age toning. Contemporary French

mottled calf, spines with raised bands in seven

compartments, red and block morocco lettering pieces in

the second and third compartments, the others with an

overall repeat decoration in gilt (repairs at joints and head

and tail of spines).

The first edition of Du Halde's celebrated and

comprehensive history of China and the most important

cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth

century.  

(#31324)                                                                               $ 37,500

JEAN BAPTISTE

DU HALDE

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Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described

London:  James S. Virtue,  [1858-1859]. 2 volumes, small folio

(17 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches). 76 mounted albumen photographs.

Extra-illustrated with 3 additional images by Frith in the

rear of vol. 2, dated in the negatives 1873-1875.  Foxing,

principally to the mounts. Contemporary half green

morocco and green pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt with

raised bands. Provenance: Arthur G. Soames (armorial

bookplate).

Frith's Egypt and Palestine: "one of the most renowned

nineteenth century photobooks" (Parr & Badger).

(#31436)                                                                              $ 12,500

FRANCIS

FRITH

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He Hoikehonua, He Mea Ia E Hoakaka'II Ke Ano O Ka Honua Nei, A Me Na Mea Maluna Iho. 

Oahu, Hawaii:  Mea pai palapa'la a na misionari,  1845. 8vo.

vii,[5],[7]-197pp. including numerous woodcut illustrations.

Minor foxing. Early paper boards, cloth spine, front hinge

repaired.

The heavily illustrated third edition of a Hawaiian-language

world geography, after the first two editions of 1832 and

1836.

(#34379)                                                                                $ 2,500

HAWAII -  

W . C . WOODBRIDGE

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Ichthyology of South Carolina. 

Charleston, S.C.:  Russell & Jones,  1860. Volume I (all

published), quarto (11 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches). 28 hand-coloured

lithographed plates by A.J.Ibbetson, August Sonrel and

J.Burkhardt, printed by P. Duval (3) and T. Sinclair (25) of

Philadelphia. Expertly bound to style in half dark blue

morocco and period marbled paper covered boards, flat

spine in compartments divided by gilt roll tools, lettered in

gilt in the second and fourth compartments, marbled

endpapers.

Unique intermediate issue of Holbrook's extremely rare

work on fish.

(#27880)                                                                               $ 14,750

JOHN EDWARDS

HOLBROOK

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Excursions in and about Newfoundland, During the Years 1839 and 1840. 

London:  John Murray,  1842. 2 volumes, 8vo. viii, 322; iv, 354,

[2]pp.  Large folding map.  Publisher's ad in rear of second

volume. Publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, spines

faded.

First edition of a diary kept during the first geological

survey of Newfoundland: complete with the map not found

in all copies.

(#34369)                                                                                $ 1,500

JOSEPH BEETE

JUKES

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Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul: with his Political Proceedings towards the English, Russian, and Persian Governments, including the Victory and Disasters of the British Army in Afghanistan

London:  Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans,  1846. 2

volumes, 8vo. 19 lithographed portrait plates. Publisher's

green cloth, covers stamped in blind.

First edition: a lovely set in publisher's cloth of an

important work on the First Afghan War.

(#34370)                                                                               $ 2,000

MOHAN ZUTSHI

LAL

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Essays on Physiognomy, designed to promote the knowledge and love of mankind.. illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings.. executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway

London:  T.Bensley for John Murray, H.Hunter and

T.Holloway,  1792 [watermarked 1804]. Three volumes in

five, large quarto. 3 engraved title vignettes, 173 plates, about

361 engraved text illustrations. Contemporary blue straight

grained morocco, covers with a wide elaborate Greek key

border, spines in six compartments with semi-raised

double bands, lettered in the second, third, fourth and fifth

compartments, the others tooled in gilt, brown endpapers,

gilt edges. Provenance: Charles W. Burr (bookplate).

A very fine set of this influential work with four images

engraved by William Blake, and the whole work overseen by

Henry Fuseli.

(#32388)                                                                                $ 4,500

JOHANN KASPAR

LAVATER

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Map of the Province of Nova Scotia, including the island of Cape Breton, compiled from actual & recent surveys, & under the authority of the provincial legislature

London, Edinburgh and Halifax, N.S:  published & sold by

Robert Scholey (London), Oliver & Boyd (Edinburgh) and

C.H. Belcher (Halifax),  1834. Map engraved by James Neele

& Co., on two sheets joined, period hand-colouring in

outline, dissected into twenty eight sections and backed

onto linen at a contemporary date. (Separation at one fold).

Sheet size: 25 1/4 x 65 inches.

First edition of this attractive, very rare, and important

large-scale map of Nova Scotia, the first comprehensively

detailed map of the province to be published and referred

to as William Mackay's '"Great Map."

(#24838)                                                                                $ 3,500

WILLIAM  

MACKAY

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Newport and its Environs, illustrated by a series of views

Newport:  Chas. E. Hammett, 1848. Oblong folio.  (12 1/8 x 16

7/8 inches). Tinted lithographic title with vignette. 11

lithographic plates, all after Mason. Contemporary maroon

cloth, upper cover with centrally blocked panel containing

title 'Newport / and / environs' lettered in gilt.

The earliest collection of Newport views by the prominent

Newport architect, George Champlin Mason. These views, a

pastoral lithographic tour, are very rare, and  are among the

first to showcase the town as a recreational haven.

(#25549)                                                                               $ 6,000

GEORGE

MASON

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Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov- Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline prosessed and practised; in the churches of New- England. With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches. 

Boston:  printed for S. Gerrish in Cornhill,  1726 . Small

octavo, signed in 4s (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches). [2],iv,10,207,[3]pp.,

including contents leaf.  H3 torn, lower margin of Ee4

clipped, upper corner of title torn with loss to a few letters

supplied in old manuscript facsimile. Contemporary

panelled calf, rebacked. Provenance: W. Cogswell (early

signature).

Mather reviews church principles - a key work of New

England church history.

(#34373)                                                                                $ 4,000

COTTON

MATHER

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The Practical House Carpenter; or, Youth's Instructor: Containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... The Sixth Edition, with Additions.

Philadelphia:  Thomas Dobson,  1797. Quarto (8 1/2 x 7 1/2

inches). [36]pp text [3 preliminary leaves numbered with

roman numerals, followed by 15 leaves signed A-P], plus 148

engraved plates (numbered 1-146, plus 3 and 65 bis; 5 double

page, 2 folding). Early architectural drawings and

annotations throughout. Contemporary calf, repairs to

joints.  Housed in a red morocco backed box. Provenance:

John Harbaugh (early signature).

Early American edition of one of the most influential

architectural pattern books in the United States.

(#33802)                                                                               $ 4,500

WILLIAM

PAIN

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A bound collection of coloured botanical specimen plates

Rochester, NY:  M. Brunswick & Co.,  [circa 1890]. Octavo (5

1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). 129 colour pochoir or

chromolithographed plates, bound accordion style with the

plates generally mounted in rows of three, joined by cloth

ribbons, each row joined by a second row of three so that

six plates are visible on each opening. Bound to style in

black morocco.  Housed in a black cloth box.

A very fine tree-peddler's sample book from M. Brunswick

& Co.

(#29051)                                                                                $ 5,750

POMOLOGY &

HORTICULTURE

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Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants, of Dorsetshire. From the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchins’s history of that county ... With additions; and a brief memoir of the author. 

[London:  Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley,

 1813]. Folio (19 1/2 x 12 inches). Text in two columns. iv,

110pp. Engraved portrait, 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets.

 Uncut.  Some foxing. Later cloth-backed grey paper boards.

Large-paper issue of the first illustrated edition of a rare

catalogue of British birds, plants and shells.

(#33764)                                                                                $ 3,500

RICHARD

PULTENEY

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Atlas zur bildenden Gartenkunst in ihren modernen Formen. Auf zwanzig colorirten Tafeln. 

Leipzig:  Friedrich Voigt,  1856. Broadsheet. Letterpress title.

 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates (i.e. 17 plates, the

final plate being a very large folding plate comprised of four

sheets joined and numbered XVII-XX), lithographed by

Sommer.  Without the text volume. Contemporary half

green morocco and green cloth covered boards, upper

cover lettered in gilt, spine with raised bands, lettered and

decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A large folio atlas of beautifully hand coloured garden

designs.

(#29043)                                                                               $ 8,500

RUDOLPHE

SIEBECK

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The History of the Province of New-York, from the first discovery to the year M.DCC.XXXIII. To which is 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

London:  Printed for Thomas Wilcox,  1757. Quarto. 1 folding

engraved plate. Bound to style in 18th-century half russia

over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, spine in

six compartments with raised bands, red morocco label in

the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration

in gilt.

A cornerstone of any collection of books on New York: the

first edition of the first history of New York

(#19136)                                                                                 $ 6,500

WILLIAM

SMITH

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A Collection of All the Public and Permanent Acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky which are now in force, arranged and digested according to their subjects; Together with Acts of Virginia relating to Land Titles, the Recovery of Rents, and the Encouragement of Learning

Frankfort:  Printed by William Hunter,  1802. 12mo. lxvi,85,

(86)-(93),86-188,(189)-(190),189-507,[2]pp. Original calf,

hinges broken, rubbed. Tears and chipping to fore edge of

first seven leaves. Tearing and partial loss to pp.263-264,

provided in facsimile. Light tanning and foxing throughout.

In a yellow cloth clamshell box.

A pioneering compilation: the 1802 laws of Kentucky.

(#28982)                                                                               $ 3,000

HARRY

TOULMIN

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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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