Valladolid, 1586. Folio (12 1/8” x 8 13/16”, 308mm x 223mm): 48 leaves, pp. [96] (blank, illumination, 89pp. carta executoria, 3pp. notaries’ marks, 2pp. blank). With one full-page body color and liquid gold illumination and 12 body color and liquid gold headlines. Bound in contemporary brown morocco with blind rolled.....
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JOHN ABBOT’S WATERCOLORS OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST THE LARGEST COMPLEMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS ex-coll. THE EARL OF DERBY Abbot, John. [Drawings of the birds of Georgia]. Album of 221 watercolors. November, 1815. Small folio (11 13/16” x 9 ½”, 300mm x 242mm): binder’s blank; 221 leaves of watercolors over.....
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789. First edition. Octavo (9 13/16” x 6”, 250mm x 153mm): A-Q8 [$4 signed; –A1]. 128 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, preface) iv-xvi, 1 2-238, [2] (2pp. advertisements). [=xvi, 238, ii] With five engraved plates (sanguine). Bound in publisher’s blue boards, rebacked to style, preserving.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8” x 8”, 258mm x 203mm): [xii] (half-title, blank, title, blank, 4pp. dedication, 2pp. preface, 2pp. contents), 464. With a folding engraved map. Bound in later mottled calf with a triple gilt fillet border by Bedford (signed at.....
“NE LEGERIS PROHIBITUM” Basel: Jakob Wolff of Pforzheim, 1501. First edition of Brant’s verses. Quarto in 8s and 6s (11 11/16” x 8 1/8”, 297mm x 208mm): binder’s blank, a-b8 c6 d8 e6 f8-n6 o8 p-s6 (s6 blank); A-B8 C-D6 E8 F6 G8 H6 I8 K6 L4 M6(–M6 blank).....
[New York: W.J. Black,] 1906. Chromolithograph (sheet 8" x 17", frame 12 1/4" x 20 7/8"). Faint stain to the lower-left corner. Else fine (not examined out of frame) in an old oak frame with a brass title-plaque. Louis Benton Akin (1868-1912) was born in Oregon but trained in.....
A SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST COLORED-PLATE BIRD BOOK Albin, Eleazar [and William Derham]. A Natural History of Birds. Illustrated With a Hundred and one Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life. Published by the Author… and carefully colour’d by his Daughter and Self, from the Originals, drawn from.....
London: T. Lowndes and S. Bladon, 1779. Octavo (7 1/16” x 4 1/4”, 180mm x 109mm): binder’s blank, A2 B-G8 H8(–H8), binder’s blank [$4 signed]. 57 leaves, pp. [iv] (title, blank, 2pp. to the reader), 1 2-107, [iii] (3pp. index). With an engraved frontispiece and 23 engraved plates. Bound in.....
London: Printed for William Innys, 1749. Third edition. Quarto (11 ½” x 9”, 293mm x 226mm): 2 binder’s blanks, A-N4 O2, 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed; –A1]. 54 leaves, pp. [108] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 4pp. preface, 100pp. description of the plates). With 100 hand-colored engraved plates (pl. LXXXIV heightened.....
Eleven maps of Maryland: nine manuscript and two lithographed. 1833-1837. Manuscript map of Washington and Frederick Counties. Single sheet (19 ½” x 27 ¼”), laid down on linen. Ink and wash. Manuscript map of the District of Columbia and Anne Arundel, Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. Single sheet (19.....
Paris: Ponce & Godefroy[, ca. 1784]. First edition. Oblong quarto (9 3/16” x 12 7/8”, 233mm x 327mm): with 16 engraved plates: a title,[1] 12 vignettes, 2 maps and a précis. Bound in the original blue paper wraps, backed in speckled buff paper. Irregularly cut; 323mm along the top edge.....
Paris: Ponce & Godefroy[, ca. 1784]. First edition. Oblong quarto (9 ¼” x 11”, 238mm x 280mm): with 16 engraved plates: a title, 12 vignettes, 2 maps and a précis. Bound in half taupe cloth over marbled boards. On the spine, gilt stamping. Title (“RECUEIL D’ESTAMPES REPRESENTANT LES DIFFERENTS EVENEMENS.....
Paris: Ponce & Godefroy[, ca. 1784]. First edition. Quarto (10 ½” x 9”, 270mm x 235mm): with 16 engraved plates: a title,[1] 12 vignettes, 2 maps and a précis. Each with a tissue guard. Bound in quarter brown calf over blue paste-paper. Spine blank. Ingres-blue end-papers. Rubbed generally, with patches.....
Paris: Ponce & Godefroy[, ca. 1784]. First edition. Quarto (10 ¾” x 9 ¼”, 273mm x 235mm): with 16 engraved plates: a title,[1] 12 vignettes, 2 maps and a précis. Each with a tissue-guard. Bound in contemporary marbled calf with a triple gilt fillet border. On the spine, six panels.....
Ανακρέοντος Τηΐου μέλη. Anacreontis Teij odæ. Ab Henrico Stephano luce & Latinitate nunc primùm donatæ. Paris: Apud Henricum Stephanum, 1554. Editio princeps. Octavo (7 ¾” x 5 3/16”, 198mm x 133mm): *4 A-O4(O4 blank) [$3 signed]. 60 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 4pp. to the reader, 2pp. verses, 1 2-110.....
Two volumes. London: William Lane, 1789. First edition. Octavo (8 ¼” x 4 7/8”, 210mm x 124mm): Vol. I: binder’s blank, π4 a–c4 B–Gg8 Hh2 [$4 signed; –Hh2]. 250 leaves, pp [4] (half-title, blank, title, blank) i ii–iv (4pp. dedication to Viscount Petersham, Earl of Harrington) [20] (19pp. subscriber list.....
Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus, 1749. First edition in French. Quarto (9 13/16” x 7 7/8”, 248mm x 201mm): π2 *2 **–***4 A–Ss4 Tt4 (–Tt4) [$3 signed; –Bb3]. 179 leaves, pp. [8] (half-title, blank, title, blank, 4pp. dedication to Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Griez) i ii–xv (table of contents) v vi–xvi (preface) 1 2–333 [1] (instructions.....
ONE OF 100 QUARTO EXAMPLES, BOUND BY DERÔME Four volumes. Birmingham: John Baskerville for P. and G. Molini, 1773. First Baskerville edition, quarto format. Quarto (11 1/2” x 8 15/16”, 292mm x 227mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, π4(–π1) a-g4 χ1, A-Yy4 Zz2 (Zz2 blank), binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 214 leaves.....
A RARE TWO-SHEET LAFRERI-SCHOOL WORLD MAP WITH ORIGINAL COLOR Siena: Giovanni Florimi, 1634. Second issue. Two sheets (32 ¼” x 20 3/8”, 816mm x 523mm sheet). Engraved, with original hand-coloring. Framed floating with glass recto and verso (39 ¾” x 28 ½”). A stadium map of the world, with.....
THE HECKROTTE COPY London: Aaron Arrowsmith, (January 1st, 1795. Additions to) 1811. 50” x 58”, dissected into 24 sections and laid down and linen. With original color. Stained in parts. Red library-stamp of John Hughes of Armagh verso. Armorial bookplate of the Right Reverend Nathaniel S. Thomas, S.T.D. verso.Aaron.....
London: A. Arrowsmith, 1804 [1808]. First edition, second issue. Printed on four sheets (ca. 59” x 48”), dissected into 36 panels and mounted on linen, as issued. Hand-colored. Engraved by W. West, the Hills (i.e., topography) by H. Wilson. Cartouche vignette engraved by W. & G. Cooke. Overall mildly tanned.....
SARTINE’S AMERICAN COASTAL ATLAS AT THE DAWN OF INDEPENDENCE EX-COLL. DEPÔT DE LA MARINE, DESCOTES, RABUT & de LAVIS-TRAFFORD [Paris: Dépôt des Cartes, 1778–1780.] First edition. Broadsheet folio (25 7/16” x 19 5/8”, 646mm x 499mm): with an engraved title-page and 26 engraved charts, of which 5 (two of the.....
New York: Ensign & Thayer, 1849. Folding engraved map with original hand-color in outline (20 3/16” x 25 11/16”, 513mm x 651mm). Sometime presented in a wallet (with text), with adhesive residue verso at the attachment point and a little damp-staining at that point (behind President Tyler), as well as.....
Two volumes. Paris: Crapelet for Desray, (1800–)1802 (An XI). First edition. Quarto (13 9/16” x 10 1/8”, 345mm x 257mm). Vol. I: binder’s blank, π2 a4 b2 1-114 122 13-154 162 17-204 212 214 31-34 342 354 362(–362 blank), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 109 leaves (86, 4, 19), pp. [4].....
AN EXTRAORDINARY SUBSCRIBER’S SET (EX-COLL. MAJ. GEN. A.A. HUMPHREYS) WITH ALL 100 PART-WRAPPERS BOUND IN Audubon, John James. The birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories. 7 volumes. Voll. I-V: New York: J.J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840–1841–1841–1842–1842; voll. VI-VII: New York and Philadelphia.....