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.....
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.....
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].....
WITH 77 BOTANICAL WATERCOLORS EXECUTED ON THE TEXT Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; 1903. First edition. Small quarto (8 3/8” x 6 ¼”, 215mm x 159mm): pp. [6] (half title, blank, title, copyright, dedication, blank) vii-xi, [5] (blank, note on the illustrations, blank, contents, blank) 1-2.....
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New York: Williams & Stevens, 353 Broadway, 1850. Tinted lithograph (21 ¾" x 30 ¼") showing Union Square and Lower Manhattan, including Governors Island, parts of Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Narrows. Backed on board and trimmed along lower margin, missing the publisher's line.Likely the RARE THIRD STATE of Bachmann's.....
[Baur, Johann Wilhelm.] Battle, perhaps Tancred surveying the Saracen host. Gouache and gold over ink on vellum mounted on panel: 5 ¼” x 7 ¼”, 135mm x 184mm. Matted and framed (11 ½” x 13 ½”). Some flaking to the sky, with some abrasions at the right edge. Some wear.....
[Becker, Wilhelm.] Album of the finest Birds of all countries. Philadelphia: Weik & Wieck, [ca. 1850–1860]. Oblong quarto (10 3/8” x 13 15/16”, 264mm x 353mm): with 25 hand-colored lithographed plates. Bound in moiré pictorial boards, re-backed in grey cloth. All edges of the text-block gilt. Re-backed. Wear at the edges, with.....
Two volumes. [Nuremberg (and Altdorf): K. Bauer,] 1613. First edition, variant A. Broadsheet folio (21 1/8” x 17 1/8”, 540mm x 434mm).Vol. I: (:)-(:)(:)(:)1 )(1 χ-2χ1 a(o)-o(o)1 3χ1 A-S1 4χ1 A)(-R)(1 5χ1 Α)()(-R)()(1 6χ1 A)()()(-N)()()(1 7χ1 A)()()()(1 C-O)()()()(1 8χ1 A)()()()()(-P)()()()()(1 9χ1 A)()()()()()(-H)()()()()()(1 10χ1 A)()()()()()()(-I)()()()()()()(1 11χ1 A)()()()()()()()(-I)()()()()()()()(1 2A)(1 2B)()(1 2C)()()(1 2D)()()()(1.....
THE VANISHINGLY RARE SECOND EDITION OF BIRCH’S VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIA Birch, William. The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the Year 1800 Second Edition 1804. Consisting of twenty Copper-Plates Drawn and Engraved by W. Birch Enamel Painter. Published by W. Birch, Springland.....
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE TO SIR HUMPHRY DAVY EX-COLL. JOHN CAMPBELL, 2nd MARQUESS OF BREADALBANE and of HENRY ROGERS BROUGHTON, 2nd BARON FAIRHAVEN Two parts in one volume. Paris: P. Didot l’ainé, [1812–]1813. First edition. Folio (20 ¾” x 13 5/8”, 526mm x 347mm): binder’s blank, π2(+χ1) 1-82, binder’s.....
LARGE-PAPER COPY, UNTRIMMED Paris: chez l’Auteur, 1781. First edition. Folio (19 ¼” x 11 15/16”, 494mm x 304mm): χ1. 1 leaf, pp. [2] (2pp. explanation of plates). With 101 engraved plates: an engraved title and 100 engraved botanical plates with hand-color. Bound in contemporary brown marbled boards, (re-)backed with.....
THE NEBENZAHL COPY IN PUBLISHER’S BOARDS London: Printed for J. Almon, 1780. The Second Edition. Octavo (8 7/8” x 5 ¾”, 225mm x 145mm): binder’s blank, A6 B-N8, 2A-F8 G8 (G8 blank), binder’s blank [$4 signed; –C4, H4]. 157 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, dedication) iv-vi, blank, vii (introduction).....
THE SIEBERT COPY Stockholm: J.H. Werner for Wankijf’s widow (Tryckt uti Kongl. Boktr. hos Sal. Wankijfs Änkia med egen bekostnad, af J.H. Werner), 1702. First edition. Pot quarto (7 3/8” x 5 ¾”, 188mm x 146mm): a-b4 A-Aa4, binder’s blank [$3 signed; –a1, b3, M3, O3, P3, T3, U3.....
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THE [DUPORT–BARROW–]HUTH–PARCÉ COPY of the EDITIO PRINCEPS of DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY with EXCEPTIONAL MARGINS Των Διωνος ρωμαικων ιστοριων εικοσιτρια βιβλια [Tôn Diônos rhômaikôn historiôn eikositria biblia] Dionis Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII vsque. Paris: Robert Estienne, 31 January 1548. Editio princeps. Folio in 6s (13 5/8” x 9”.....
The mariners plain scale new plain’d: or, A treatise shewing the ample Uses of a Circle equally divided, or of a Line of chords and equal Parts, Divided into Three Books or Parts. Being contrived to be had either alone, or with the other Parts.I. The first containing Geometrical Rudiments.....
Two volumes in one. London: the author; John Nourse; Thomas Payne; Peter Elmsley, 1770–1771. First edition. Quarto (10 1/16” x 8 3/8”, 268mm x 213mm): binder’s blank, π4 a–c4 B–D4 2B–D4 3B–Dd4; 2π2 4B–L4 4M2 4N–R4 5B–C4 5D2 †A4 2†A4 2†B2 *A–*E4 binder’s blank [$2 signed; –2M2, 5D2, 2†B2]. 248.....
Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al Settentrione nella Norvegia, Moscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e Regno de’ Sini, dove scopersero il Mare di Veygatz, La Nuova Zembla, Et un Paese nell’ Ottantesimo grado creduto la Groenlandia. Con una descrittione di tutti gli accidenti occorsi di giorno in.....
Rochester, N.Y.: D.M. Dewey, 1860. Quarto (11 3/16” x 8 ¾”, 284mm x 223mm): binder’s blank, a two-color lithographed title-page, 56 hand-colored lithographed plates, 6 chromolithographed plates and 2 two-color lithographed plates. Bound in half black morocco (rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down) over cloth boards. On the front.....
THE RICHARD HARRIS SET OF THE “NEW DUHAMEL” Five volumes. Paris: Etienne Michel et Arthus Bertrand, [1800–]1804–1806–1809–1812. First edition. Folio (20 7/16” x 13 ¼”, 518mm x 338mm).Vol. I: π-2π2 1-202 20bis2 20ter1 21-662 χ2 [$1 signed]. 141 leaves, pp. [4] (half title, explanation of the engraved title vignette.....
THE FUNERAL OF KING HENRY IV OF FRANCE BOUND FOR KING CHARLES III OF SPAIN EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED Florence: Bartolommeo Sermartelli and Brothers, 1610. First edition. Folio (11” x 7 7/8”, 281mm x 198mm): 1 binder’s blank, A-N2, 1 binder’s blank [$2 signed; –A1, N2] 26 leaves, pp. 1-2 (title, blank) 3-51, blank.....
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE SET Five volumes. London: Taylor and Francis for the Author, [1862–]1873. First edition. Folio (21 9/16” x 14 11/16”, 548mm x 373mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, π-2π2 A2 B-2N2 χ-35χ1, binder’s blank. 1 11 leaves, pp. [12] (title, blank, dedication, blank, 5pp. subscribers, blank, 2pp. preface).....
A COOK FAMILY SET THE COMPLETE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK “THE BASIS FOR ANY COLLECTION OF PACIFIC BOOKS” First Voyage: Hawkesworth, John. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, And successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Willis, Captain.....
“THE MOST DISTINGUISHED OF ALL PRINTS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA” [London:] Engraved by G. Vandergucht, Sep.br 1.st 1754. First state (“Skull” for “Scull” twice on sheet 3). Four sheets (ca. 29 ½” x 23 ½” each). Framed floating. An old transverse crease about 9” below the top edge, reinforced.....
New York: Joseph Stanley & Co. 1836. Uncolored aquatint (22" x 30 ½") showing the intersection between Broadway and Canal Street. Some frayed edges, tears, and perforation in left margin, mat burn. Niblo's Garden was located on the northeast corner of Prince Street at Broadway, and consisted of a......
Six volumes. Nuremberg: [No publisher]; 1764 (though see below), 1765, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1773. First French editions. Quarto (9 7/8” x 7 7/8”, 250mm x 199mm). Vol. I: binder’s blank, A-F4 G2 a-b4, binder’s blank [$3 signed; -A1, A2]. 34 leaves, pp. 1-5 (title, blank, 2pp. introduction, text) 6-52, [16].....