Florence as seen from San Miniato. Florence: 1838. Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic (7 ½” x 11 ¾”, 193 x 302 mm). Signed lower right: E. Lear/1838. Provenance: Davis Galleries, New York; Deane F. Johnson, his sale, Christie’s, 18 November 2004, lot 70; by descent to.....
Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. Partie Orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France... .Paris: Jean-Baptiste Nolin, 1689. First edition, third state. Double-page engraved map with original hand-color (19 3/4” x 25 3/4”). Few mapmakers have taken such an unlikely road to the Canadian wilderness as Vincenzo Coronelli. The fifth child of a Venetian tailor.....
The Most Important Map of New England at the Time of the American Revolution First issued in 1755, this map provided the largest-scale, most detailed, and most accurate depiction of New England then available. Its importance was such that it was repeatedly revised and reissued into the 1790s. Throughout this.....
Abraham Ortelius’ Map of Asia: Charting the Discoveries of Marco Polo Antwerp, 1595. Copperplate Engraving with original hand-color & Japanese manuscript in the margins. 18 3⁄4 " x 23 1⁄4 " Ortelius' second plate of Asia, issued in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern world atlas, originally published in Antwerp.....
MAP OF THE WORLD FROM THE PREMIER DUTCH MARITIME ATLAS Double-page engraved map with original hand-color (24 9/16” x 21 3/8”). First edition, first state. In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, a copperplate could outlive its maker. Frederick de Wit (c. 1629-1706) was one of the most accomplished engravers, publishers, and mapmakers of the.....
THE MEDICI'S OWN COPY Alamanni, Luigi. La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al Christianissimore Francesco Primo. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1546. First edition. Octavo (8 1/16” x 5 9/16”, 205mm x 143mm): *2 a–t8 u–x2 [$half signed]. 158 leaves, pp. [6] (title, blank, 3pp. dedication to Catherine de Medici, blank) foll. 2–154.....
New York: Appleton & Company, 1851. First edition. Large Folio (23 ¼” x 17 ¼”, 590mm x 440mm): π2 1–132 [$1 signed]. 28 leaves, pp. i–iii iv 1 2–52. With a lithographed map and 12 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened in gum arabic. Rebacked in red straight grain morocco (an old.....
Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry for Matthew Becker, 1601. Folio (11 15/16” x 7 7/8”): (:)4 A–O4 a4 b4(–b3) c–d4 e6 [$3 signed]. 81 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 3pp. preface, blank) 1–111 [2] (blank, section title) foll. I–V VII–XXI. With 20 half-paged engraved plates. Bound in half calf.....
Vol. I (all published). Charleston, SC: Welch, Bigelow and Company at the University Press (Cambridge, MA) for Russell and Jones, 1860. Second edition. Quarto (11 ½” x 9 ½”, 292mm x 242mm): binder’s blank, π4 1-264 (264 blank), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 108 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, imprint, preface) iv-vii.....
Cologne: Taschen, 2009. First trade edition. Folio (14 5/8” x 11”, 372mm x 290mm): pp. 1-7 (epigram, illustration, title, 2pp. illustration, illustration, contents) 8-320. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth with the gilt-stamped pictorial dust-wrapper. Near fine, with a little shelf-wear. Signed by Ford on the title-page.....
THE WASSENAAR ZOO COPY WITH ALL 11 PART-WRAPPERS BOUND IN [London:] Taylor and Francis for the Author (“for the subscribers”), [1878–]1883. First edition. Broadsheet folio (23 ½” x 18 ¾”, 596mm x 477mm): 2 binder’s blanks; 64 leaves, pp. i-v (title, imprint, 2pp. preface, introduction) vi-xvi [2] (list of plates.....
THE BEGINNING OF ARCHAEOLOGY Ex-coll. ÉTIENNE BALUZE and HONORÉ, 8th duc de LUYNES Leone, Ambrogio. De Nola Opusculum. Distinctum Plenum Clarum Doctum Pulcrum Verum Graue Varium & Vtile. Venice: Giovanni Rosso, 4 September 1514. First edition. Folio in 6s (11 ½” x 8 3/16”, 292mm x 209mm): 2 binder’s blanks.....
Au Dezert [Geneva]: for the author, 1630. First complete collected edition. Small octavo (6 ½” x 4 3/8”, 165mm x 111mm): 2 binder’s blanks, *6 A–T8 V2, 2 binder’s blanks [$4 signed; G4 signed “F4”]. 160 leaves, pp. [12] (title, blank, 3pp. preface, 7pp. table of contents) 1–308. Sumptuously bound.....
London: for Philip Chetwin [and Robert Clavel], 1670. Sixth edition. Folio in 6s (7 1/8” x 11”, 181mm x 279mm): A4 B–X6 [$3 signed; A4 signed A3]. 124 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. epistle dedication, 2pp. to the reader, 2pp. dedication to the prince) 1–240. With an engraved title.....
“THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE 19TH CENTURY”THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE TINTED LITHOGRAPH 6 volumes bound in 3. London: F.G. Moon, 1842–1849. First edition. Folio (23 13/16” x 16 7/8”, 605mm x 429mm):Volume I: binder’s blank, π2 foll. A B–Q χ [$1 signed]. 19 leaves, pp. [6] (dedication, blank.....
THE DUTCH CEDE NEW YORK TO THE BRITISH The Hague: Hillebrant Jacobszoon van Wouw, 1667 [but no. 43 from Recueil van de tractaten; The Hague: Jacobus Scheltus, ca. 1700]. Pot quarto (7 ¾” x 6”, 197mm x 153mm): A-C4 D2 [$3 signed; –A1]. 14 leaves, pp. [28] (title, blank.....
THE CUTHBERT–BOTFIELD–MARQUESS of BATH SET Two volumes. London: C. Nourse, 1782. First edition, fourth issue (Stafleu-Cowan). Folio (18 ¼” x 11 3/16”, 460mm x 283mm).Vol. I: 2 front binder’s blanks, 1 rear binder’s blank; with 322 engraved plates, each blank verso: title, dedication to Mead (dated “14th of July.....
THE FIRST SEA CHART OF LONG ISLAND FROM THE PREMIER MARITIME ATLAS OF THE AMERICAS Roggeveen, Arnet. Pascaerte van Nieu Nederland Streckende vande Noordt Revier tot Hendrick Christiaens Eÿlandt. Amsterdam: Jacobus Robijn, 1681 [but Pieter Goos, 1675]. First edition, first state. Double-page engraved map with original hand-color (24 9/16” x......
THE BIRTH OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN London: Humphrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. First edition. Folio in 6s (12 13/16” x 8 ¼”, 326mm x 210mm): **6 A-Fff6 Ggg2 [$3 signed; –**1]. 320 leaves, pp. [12] (title, blank, dedication to Queen Henrietta Maria, blank, 4pp. to the reader, Sir.....
Pfintzing, Melchoir (ed.); Maximilian I. Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Rotters Twerdannckhs [Theuerdank]. Augsburg: Johannes Schonsperger, 1519. Second edition (first edition available to the public). Folio (13” x 8 5/8”, 330mm x 220mm): a8(–a8) b8(–b1) c8 d6 e–h8 i6 k–n8 o6.....
THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE PORTUGUESE ODYSSEY THE BOOTHBY–FANSHAWE-BONCHRISTIANO COPY London: [Thomas Newcombe for] Humphrey Moseley, 1655. First edition in English. Folio in 4s (10 7/8” x 7”, 276mm x 178mm): A4 a4 b4(–b4) B-Ff4 [$2 signed; –A1; Bb2 as “B2”]. 123 leaves, pp. [22] (title, blank, 3pp.....
MAYER’S EGYPT with the PLATES in TWO STATES THE COMTE de la BÉDOYÈRE–COMAR COPY London: Thomas Bensley for Robert Bowyer, 1801 (plates dated 1801–1803). First edition. Folio (19 1/8” x 13 ½”, 484mm x 343mm): A2 B-2D2 [$1 signed]. 54 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, dedication, blank) 1 2-102 [2].....
THE DISCOVERY OF ROBIN HOOD’S OAK IN SHERWOOD FOREST London: J. Nichols for the author, B. White and Son, and J. Robson; 1790. First edition. Quarto (11 ¼” x 9”, 288mm x 228mm): A4 B-C4 [$2 signed]. 12 leaves, pp. 1-4 (title, blank, dedication, blank) 5-23 [1] (blank). With.....
Cook, James, Captain. Bibliotheque portative des voyages. Tome vignt-huitième. Atlas du troisième voyage de James Cook, Contenant une carte générale des trois Voyages de Cook, et vingt-deux planches en taille-douce. Paris: la veuve Lepetit, 1804. Small quarto (6 9/16” x 5”, 167mm x 127mm): π4. 4 leaves, pp. 1–5 6–7.....
THE MARQUIS de COURTANVAUX–RICHMOND COPY London: for the author, 1773. First edition. Folio (19” x 13 5/16”, 482mm x 339mm): A1 B-F2 χ1(=A2?) [$1 signed]. 12 leaves, pp. [2] (title, blank) 1 2-20 [2] (index, blank). With 10 hand-colored engraved plates by Hill. Bound in later (early XIXc?) half.....