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.....
Three volumes. New York: Victor Gifford Audubon, 1851–1851–1854. First edition in book form. Royal octavo in 4s: (6 13/16” x 10 3/16”, 173mm x 258mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, π4(–π1) 1–84 94 10–174 184 19–204 214 22–304 314 32–464 474 484, binder’s blank [$1 signed; –91, 181, 211, 311, 471]. 195.....
A PIONEERING WORK OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY THE ESTERHÁZY-GALÁNTHA–BRADLEY MARTIN COPY Paris: Chez Guillaume Cauellat, 1555. First edition, Cavellat issue. Folio in 6s (12 13/16” x 8 9/16”, 327mm x 217mm): ã6 ĕ4 ĭ4, a-f6 g4 h-m6 n4 o-t6 v4 x-z6 A6 (–A6) B-E6 F4 G-I6 K4 L4 (L4 blank) [$4 signed;.....
Printed for John Binns, and sold by B. White and Son; J. Johnson, and J. Wallis, London; J. and J. Merrill, Cambridge; J. Fletcher, Oxford; and the booksellers at Edinburgh; [1785]. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8” x 8 5/8”, 257mm x 219mm): a4 b-c2, D-L4 [$2 signed]. 40 leaves, pp.....
“ONE OF THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS IN EXISTENCE” FROM THE LIBRARY OF QUENTIN KEYNES London: T. Bensley for the author; White, Cochrane and Co.; E. Lloyd; and W. Lindsell; [1804–]1812. First edition. Broadsheet folio (23 ½” x 18 5/8”, 596mm x 470mm): π-2π1 a-c1 B-2H1 χ1 [$1 signed]. 36 leaves.....
[London: For Gabriel Simson and William White, 1590? (from ESTC)] Second edition, first state (eight-line historiated initial). Octavo (8 7/16" x 6 3/8", 215mm x 163mm): with a folding engraved map and four engraved plates by William Rogers. Collated complete with the ESTC copy. Bound in modern diced reversed grey.....
THE WARD–McKINNEY COPY London: Printed for J. Almon, 1780. First edition. Quarto (11 1/16” x 9”, 281mm x 230mm): A-M4 N2 O-S4 *S4 T-Cc4 [$2 signed; –A1, B2, C2, E2, F2; D2 mis-signed “D3”]. 106 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, preface) iv-viii, 1-140, 2i-lxii, [2] (advertisement, blank).[=viii, 140, lxiv].....
Album of 12 gouaches mounted. Ca. 1844. Oblong octavo (9” x 6 5/16”, 229mm x 160mm): blank, 12 leaves with mounted gouaches, 7 blanks. With tissue-guards mounted on stubs preceding each gouache. Bound in contemporary plum morocco with a double gilt fillet border, a blind fillet border and a gilt-and-blind.....
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NORTH DAKOTA London: J.E. Taylor and Co. for Trübner and Co., 1867. First edition. Octavo (9 15/16” x 6 13/16”, 263mm x 173mm): binder’s blank, A4 B-D8 E2 [$2 signed; –A1]. 30 leaves, pp. [8] (half-title, blank, title, blank, preface, blank.....
THE DECKER–STREETER COPY WITH ORIGINAL COLOR IN FULL Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits de sauvages d’Amérique, d’Asie, d’Afrique, et des iles du Grand Ocean; des paysages, des vues maritimes, et plusieurs objets d’histoire naturelle; Accompagné de Descriptions par M. le Baron Cuvier, et M. A. de Chamisso.....
Leiden: Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir, 1640. First edition in French. Folio in 4s (13 ½” x 8 5/8”, 342mm x 216mm): **-****4 A-Kkkk4 Llll6 [$3 signed]. 336 leaves, pp. [28] (title, blank, verse, list of map, 8pp. preface, 15pp. contents, list of in-text illustrations), 1-632, [12] (12pp. index). With 14.....
THE PRINCE ODOYEVSKY–YRARRÁZAVAL–RODRIGUEZ COPY Laet, Johannes de. L’Histoire du Nouveau Monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, Contenant dix-huict Liures, Par le Sieur Iean de Laet, d’Anuers; Enrichi de nouuelles Tables Geographiques & Figures des Animaux, Plantes & Fruicts. Leiden: Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir, 1640. First edition in French. Folio.....
THE THOMAS BEE COPY New York: Simeon De Witt, March 1804. First “Contracted” edition. Engraved folding map (27 ¾” x 28 5/8”, 602mm x 727mm), hand-colored in outline, laid down on linen and dissected into 24 sections. In the publisher’s card slip-case in colored floral paper, with the publisher’s.....
THE SIEBERT COPY THE VANISHINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE & FIRST STATE MAP Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1755. First edition, first issue, first state (map). Quarto (10 7/16” x 7 7/8”, 265mm x 200mm): 4 binder’s blanks (3 modern, one old) π2 A-D4, 3 binder’s blanks (modern).....
FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROCKWELL KENT [Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier.] Bucaniers of America: Or, a True account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of The West-Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French. Wherein are contained more especially, The unparallel’d.....
“THE MOST CELEBRATED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL HERBAL EVER PUBLISHED” Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542. First edition. Folio in 6s (14 9/16” x 9 7/16”, 371mm x 240mm): π6, α6 β8, A-Z6 a-z6 aa-zz6 aaa-fff6, χ6(–χ6) [$4 signed]. 464 leaves (printed; 11 additional manuscript leaves bound in as π6 and χ6(–χ6));.....
Baltimore: Armstrong & Plaskitt, 1833. First edition. Duodecimo in 6s (7 1/8” x 4 5/16”, 181mm x 109mm): binder’s blank, 1-146 [$2 signed (first and third leaves); –11]. 84 leaves, pp. 1-5 (title, imprint, dedication, blank, introduction) 6-167, blank. With an engraved folding map by W. Hooker (second state). Bound.....
[Rome?: ca. 1615.] Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper (15 1/8” x 10 5/8”, 383mm x 269mm (sheet); 26 ¼” x 20 7/16” (frame)), mounted, glassed and framed. Numbered twice: once as “753.” immediately following the title and once as “323,”immediately below the bottom of the stem. Mildly evenly tanned.....
“ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND INTRIGUING BOTANICAL BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY… INDISPUTABLY ONE OF THE RAREST” [Vienna: 1780–1781.] Second edition, expanded, with the plates replaced by watercolors. Folio (18 3/16” x 12 7/16”, 467mm x 316mm): 3 binder’s blanks, A-Mm2, 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed]. 70 leaves, pp. 1-7 (2pp. dedication to.....
Paris: Chez Barrois, l’aîné; 1786. First publicly-printed French edition, first appearance of the map. Octavo (7 5/8” x 4 15/16”, 193mm x 129mm): π2 a4 A-Aa8 Bb4 [$4 signed; –O4, Y3]. 202 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, blank, title, blank), i ij-viij, 1 2-387 288-290, [2] (errata, blank). With a folding.....
AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE OF THE FOLDING MAP Paris: Chez Estienne Robinot, 1713. First edition. Duodecimo (6 1/2” x 3 5/8”, 164mm x 91mm). With woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Bound in contemporary speckled calf (rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down). On the boards, a blind fillet border. On the.....
THE FIRST GREAT WORK OF POMOLOGY OF REAL IMPORTANCE. Three volumes in one. Leeuwarden: Gedruckt by Abraham Ferwerda en Gerrit Tresling; 1758-1763-1763. First edition. Folio (14 3/8" x 10 3/8", 368mm x 265mm). Three letterpress title-pages within wood-engraved border printed in red. Engraved coat-of-arms and 39 hand-colored engraved plates. Bound in.....
...Auch mit schönen vnd Kunstreichen Kupfferstücken, vnd deren angehenckten Erklärung, jezunder zum andern mal an Tag gegeben, durch Dieterich de Bry, Bürger in Franckfort am Mayn, Anno 1603. Frankfurt: Johann Wechel for Theodor de Bry, 1591 [1603]. Second edition in German. Folio in 4s (9 5/16” x 13 ¼”, 237mm.....
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Frankfurt: Johann Wechel for Theodor de Bry, 1591. First edition. Folio in 4s and 6s (12 13/16” x 8 7/8”, 326mm x 226mm): binder’s blank, )(4 a-d4, A-G6 H6(–H6; H1+χ1) I6(–I6) K4, 2 binder’s blanks [$3 signed; –)(1, A1, H2; K2 mis-signed “)( )(2”]. 77 leaves, pp. [8] (engraved title.....