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Multo-Epicycloidal and other Geometric Curves. 

London:  John Swain & Co.,  [1910]. Large 8vo. [12]pp, plus

photographic portrait of Alabone with his Epicycloidal

Geometric Chuck machine and 77 plates reproducing 117

designs made with the machine, printed in colours.  With a

manuscript design made using his machine surrounding the

presentation inscription preceding the title. Publisher's

maroon cloth gilt, patterned endpapers. Provenance: J. R.

Davies (presentation inscription from the author dated 1911).

Presentation copy of the first edition of a spectacularly

illustrated book of designs made using mathematical

calculations on an epicycloidal lathe.

(#35071)                                                                                $ 2,400

EDWIN W .

ALABONE

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A History of North American Birds ... Land Birds ... [With:] Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Vol. XII. The Water Birds of North America. 

Boston:  Little Brown and Company,  1875-1884. 2 works in 5

volumes (Land Birds, 3 vols; Water Birds, 2 vols), 4to (10 1/2 x

8 inches). [Land Birds:] 64 hand-coloured lithographs and

numerous illustrations.  Extra-illustrated with 36 hand-

coloured lithographs after Ridgway. [Water Birds:] 493

illustrations (including 332 finely hand-coloured). Uncut.

Publisher's uniform green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top

edge gilt.

Rare deluxe, coloured and extra-illustrated editions of

Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's classics of American

ornithology.

(#29922)                                                                              $ 12,000

SPENCER F .

BAIRD ; AND OTHERS

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Bowles's Florist: containing sixty plates of beautiful flowers, regularly disposed in their succession of blowing, to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing and painting them according to nature. 

London:  Carington Bowles,  1777. 8vo. 60 hand coloured

engraved plates. Extra-illustrated with an 18th-century hand

coloured decoupage of a potted chrysanthemum, mounted on

verso of the title. Early nineteenth century half calf and

purple morocco, spine gilt with raised bands in five

compartments, patterned endpapers.

A very rare hand coloured copy of a noted 18th century

manual on flower painting.

(#29438)                                                                                   $ 8,500

CARINGTON

BOWLES

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Album of 25 albumen photographs of flower arrangements.

[Paris:  circa 1855]. Folio. 25 albumen photographs, most with

rounded corners, each mounted onto white paper and

mounted onto tan sheets within the album. Contemporary

navy blue morocco, bound by C. Lewis, covers with wide

elaborate borders in gilt, central floral wreath stamped in

gilt and blind and lettered in gilt, flat spine gilt, cream silk

endpapers.

A stunning album of early floral photographs attributed to

Braun.

(#29743)                                                                             $ 28,000

ADOLPHE

BRAUN

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Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypres &c

Delft: chez Henri de Kroonevelt, 1700. Folio. Engraved

portrait of Le Brun by G. Valck after Sir Godfrey Kneller,

emblematic additional engraved title, folding engraved map,

97 engraved plates (including folding panoramas), 24

engraved illustrations. Expertly bound to style in period

mottled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments,

red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a

repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.

First edition in French of this classic of Middle Eastern

travel, with spectacular panoramic views.

(#33305)                                                                             $ 10,000

CORNELIUS

LE BRUYN

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James Madison, President of the United States.

[Philadelphia:  Published by W. H Morgan & Co.,  1810].

Stipple engraving. Image size: 19 7/8 x 13 1/16 inches. Expert

restoration, principally in the lower margin.

The most famous portrait of James Madison by one of

America's most esteemed engravers, David Edwin.

(#34647)                                                                                 $ 2,850

DAVID EDWIN ;

AND THOMAS SULLY

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Mémoires et observations géographique et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et l'Amérique.

Lausanne:  Antoine Chapuis,  1765. Quarto. Title in red and

black, engraved vignette on dedication page. 2 engraved

folding maps. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt stamp on

upper cover, minor repairs to top and tail of spine.

Provenance: Marinens Bibliothek; deaccessioned by the

Garnisions Biblioteket in 2017.

The first edition of Engel's important Arctic geography.

(#34924)                                                                             $ 12,000

SAMUEL

ENGEL

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Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of his life written by himself, together with essays, humorous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the spectator. 

London:  Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson,  1793. 2 volumes,

8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches). [iii]-x,[1,blank],[1,Contents],

[1,blank],317,[1,Errata]; [v],290pp. Uncut. Original paper

boards, rebacked with paper at an early date. Provenance:

Mary Lodge (signature dated 1796); Anne Bray (early

signature).

Second English edition, including part of Franklin's

Autobiography translated into English for the first time:

rare, especially uncut in boards.

(#29279)                                                                                $ 7,500

BENJAMIN

FRANKLIN

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Ladies' Old-Fashioned Shoes ... [Bound with:] Supplement to Old-Fashioned Shoes. 

Edinburgh:  David Douglas,  1885-1889. 2 volumes in one,

oblong folio (11 x 17 1/4 inches). 11 chromolithographed

plates, some printed with gold and silver inks, each plate

with a corresponding text leaf describing the shoes.

[Supplement, bound in rear:] 6 plates (4

chromolithographed). Publisher's paper-covered pictorial

boards, expertly rebacked to style with red morocco.

The scarce first edition of this desirable illustrated

monograph on women's shoes of the 17th century, complete

with the scarce supplement.

(#34836)                                                                                $ 7,250

THOMAS WATSON

GREIG

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Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries with an Introduction and Descriptive Lines by "Aleph". 

London:  Hodder and Stoughton,  [1868]. 4to (10 3/4 x 9

inches). [8]pp., plus [4]pp. publisher's ads in the rear. 12

chromolithographed maps, lithographed by Vincent,

Brooks, Day & Son. . Publisher's green cloth, upper cover

lettered and decorated in gilt and with a large central

pictorial onlay.

A complete copy of a rare atlas of anthropomorphic maps of

European countries.

(#34911)                                                                                 $ 4,500

WILLIAM HENRY

HARVEY

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Passing the Rubicon, Lieut. S. Bent in Mississippi's First Cutter Forcing His Way Through a Fleet of Japanese Boats While Surveying the Bay of Yedo, Japan, July 11th 1853. 

New York:  1855-56. Hand colored, color lithograph after

Heine, lithographed by Eliphalet M. Brown Jr. and printed

by Sarony.  Sheet size: approximately 25 1/2 x 36 inches.

A print from the very rare elephant folio suite of lithographs

illustrating scenes from Perry's Expedition to Japan.

(#35094)                                                                                $ 6,500

WILHELM

HEINE

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The History and Lives of the most Notorious Pirates, and their Crews ... the third edition. 

London:  Sabine and Son,  [circa 1780]. 12mo (7 x 4 inches).

96pp. 15 woodcut full-page illustrations. Publisher's

wrappers, upper wrapper with a large woodcut portrait of

Capt. Martel (repeated from the illustration on p. 27), lower

wrapper with publisher's ads.

Scarce 18th-century, illustrated chapbook edition of

Johnson's "Lives of Pirates"

(#34802)                                                                                $ 2,800

CAPT . CHARLES

JOHNSON

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Travels into North America; containing Its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Commercial State of the Country, The Manners of the Inhabitants ...

Warrington:  Printed by William Eyres, 1770 [vol 1]; London:

Printed for the Editor, and sold by T. Lowndes, 1771 [vols 2-

3]. 3 volumes, 8vo. Engraved folding map, 6 engraved plates.

Bound to style in speckled calf, spines gilt with raised

bands.

First edition in English, first issue with the Warrington

imprint, of "one of the most important and reliable

eighteenth-century accounts of American natural history,

social organization and political situation" (Streeter).

(#34950)                                                                               $ 8,500

PETER

KALM

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Naufrage de Mm. De Laborde sur les Canots de La Peyrouse au Port des François dans la Californie. 

[Paris:  Ostervald,  circa 1806]. Engraved by Prot and

Dissard. Sheet size: 22 1/8 x 29 inches.

Rare print depicting the tragic loss of two launches during

La Perouse's expedition in Lituya Bay, Alaska.

(#31698)                                                                                $ 6,000

J .F . DE

LA PEROUSE

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Ferns: British and Exotic. 

London:  Groombridge & Sons,  1868. 8 volumes, octavo (9

1/2 x 6 inches). 479 plates printed in colours from wood-

blocks by Benjamin Fawcett, after Francis Lydon, numerous

wood-engraved illustrations. Contemporary half green

morocco over period marbled paper covered boards, spines

gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A beautifully-illustrated monograph on ferns.

(#29802)                                                                                 $ 1,750

EDWARD JOSEPH

LOWE

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A Safe and Easy Remedy proposed for the relief of the Stone and Gravel, the Scurvy, Gout, &c. and for the Destruction of Worms in the Human Body. 

London:  Printed by James Phillips,  1778. Small 4to. [8], 38,

[2]pp. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and

marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands,

black morocco lettering piece.

First edition of an early work on scurvy.

(#34730)                                                                               $ 2,000

MEDICINE -

NATHANIEL HULME

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Histoire des Chênes de l'Amérique, ou descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de I'Amérique Septentrionale, considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage. 

Paris:  de l'Imprimerie Crapelet,  1801. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2

inches). Half-title. 36 copper-engraved plates after Pierre-

Joseph Redouté (32) or Henri-Joseph Redouté (4), by Plée

(33) or Sellier (3). Minor foxing. Twentieth century half green

morocco and green cloth boards, spine gilt with raised

bands, marbled endpapers and edges.

The first edition Michaux's magisterial monograph on all

the known species of North American Oaks, illustrated by

the best known botanical painter of all time.

(#34008)                                                                               $ 9,500

ANDRE

MICHAUX

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Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi. 

Amsterdam and Utrecht:  C.G. van der Post,  1863-1869. 4

volumes, folio. 40 plates (i.e. 37 plates, with 3 double-page or

folding plates with double numbers; 17 hand-coloured).

 Minor scattered foxing. Unbound in original sheets.  Housed

in two green cloth boxes with leather labels.

Rare botanical work, depicting exotic species in the Leiden

herbarium.

(#33598)                                                                                  $ 4,500

FREDERICK A . W .  

MIQUEL

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The Contest in America Between Great Britain and France, with its Consequences and Importance ... By an Impartial Hand. 

London:  A. Millar,  1757. 8vo. [2], xlix, [1], [17]-244pp.

Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt on

either side of each band, red morocco lettering piece.

Provenance: Earls of Glasgow (armorial bookplate).

Very fine first edition of John Mitchell's textual companion

to his famed French and Indian War map.

(#35033)                                                                                $ 8,500

JOHN

MITCHELL

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[Group of 8 waxed paper collodion negatives depicting scenes and landscape in India]. 

[India:  circa 1856]. Housed together in a red chemise and

morocco-backed box. Provenance: Dr. John Murray; by

descent; Sotheby's, London, Early Photographs of India The

Archive of Dr John Murray, 18 June 1999.

Important collection of original wax paper negatives by one

of the most important photographers in India in the mid-

19th century.

(#28239)                                                                               $ 9,000

JOHN

MURRAY

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The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain. 

London:  Frederick Warne & Co.,  [circa 1870]. 6 volumes,

8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 315 chromolithographed plates by

William Dickes. Contemporary green morocco backed

green cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, period brown

endpapers, gilt edges.

A lovely set with color plates by one of the most successful

female botanical authors of the Victorian era.

(#29899)                                                                                $ 1,200

ANNE  

PRATT

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The New-York Scientific American: The Advocate of Industry and Enterprise and Journal of Mechanical and other Improvements. Published Weekly at the Sun Building, corner Fulton & Nassau Sts By Munn & Company. Rufus Porter, Editor ...

New York:  [1846]. Broadside, approximately 24 x 19 inches.

 Seven woodcut illustrations.  Old folds with repaired

separations.  Matted.

Unrecorded illustrated broadside prospectus for Scientific

American: the oldest continuously published monthly

magazine in the U.S. and the influential source for scientific

discovery and technical innovation.

(#35055)                                                                                $ 8,500

SCIENTIFIC

AMERICAN

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Svenska Foglarna. 

Stockholm:  J. & A. Riis (text vol. 1); D & G. Beijer (text vols.

2-4),  1856-1886. 5 volumes, oblong quarto (9 x 12 3/8 inches).

Text in two columns.  Plate volume with lithographed title,

engraved dedication leaf and 84 hand-coloured

lithographed plates, mostly after Peter Akerlund.

Contemporary half calf and marbled paper covered boards.

Scarce set complete with plates and all text volumes: the

definitive 19th century work on birds observed in Sweden.

(#33330)                                                                                    $ 950

CARL JACOB

SUNDEVALL

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Franchise ... Why Should Woman Chained Weep / For Equal Rights to-day? / Break her fetters, do not sleep; / But loose them while you may. 

Lima, Ohio:  Parmenter Printing Co.,  [1895]. 8vo. 32pp.,

including portrait frontispiece.  Signed on the portrait

frontispiece. Publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on the upper

cover.

Rare volume of poetry and prose by an Ohio suffragette:

signed by the author on the frontispiece.

(#35072)                                                                                  $ 1,750

WOMEN 'S SUFFRAGE -

BELLE L . RUDY

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The Cruise of the 'Narcissus' with the Detached Squadron, from the 30th of September, 1874, to the 10th of May 1877.

Portsmouth:  Henry Lewis,  1877. 8vo. vii, [1], 114, [6]pp.

Folding map. Pubisher's blue cloth, upper cover panelled in

black and letter in gilt.

Scarce journal of the travels of the HMS Narcissus to South

America, South Africa, India, Singapore and the China Sea.

(#34883)                                                                                   $ 500

WILLIAM PURVIS

WRIGHT

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