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A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English ... [Uniformly bound with:]  A Collection of Voyages and Travels ...

London: by Messrs. Churchill for Henry Lintot and John

Osborn (vols.I-VI); Thomas Osborne (vols.VII-VIII),  1744-

1747. 8 volumes, folio. 284 engraved maps and plates, folding

letterpress table, 10 engraved illustrations, 62 wood-cut

illustrations. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked

retaining the original morocco lettering pieces. Provenance:

Henry Seymer, Hanford, Dorset (armorial bookplate).

A fine set of the third and best edition of this "very valuable

collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact

that it gives original accounts'' (Hill): complete with the

Osborne continuation.

(#34355)                                                                               $ 26,000

A . & J . CHURCHILL

& T . OSBORNE

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Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals. 

New York:  Printed by Order of the Corporation of New

York,  1825-26. 4to. 53 maps, portraits and plates, including

many lithographed views by Imbert (many folding, two hand

coloured). Contemporary presentation full red morocco gilt,

by Wilson & Nichols, with the Arms of the City of New York

on the covers in blind. Provenance: Cornelius Agnew

(presentation copy from Alderman John Agnew).

Among the earliest works illustrated with lithography in the

United States: a rare presentation copy specially bound in

red morocco gilt.

(#34675)                                                                                 $ 3,750

CADWALLADER

COLDEN

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The Art of Making and Colouring Ivorytypes, Photographs, Talbotypes, and Miniature Painting on Ivory & c. together with valuable Receipts never before published

Philadelphia:  By the Author,  1863. 12mo. 52pp. WIth a

hand-painted manuscript colour chart mounted on verso

of the title and a signed and inscribed photograph of the

author bound in following the title. With a letterpress ad

for Cooper's Photographic Gallery mounted onto the rear

pastedown. Publisher's cloth, covers stamped in blind and

titled in gilt, rebacked and with endpapers renewed.

Rare American manual detailing an unusual hand coloured

photographic process.

(#34700)                                                                              $ 4,500

PEREGRINE F .

COOPER

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Manuscript letter signed ("Edward") to architect James Wyatt, concerning repairs and alterations at Kensington Palace, including proposed work on the library. 

Kensington Palace:  20 May 1809. 6pp., on 3 sheets of paper,

each 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches.  Each sheet inlaid at a later date.

Renovating Kensington Palace.

(#34685)                                                                                  $ 1,750

AUGUSTUS EDWARD ;

DUKE OF KENT

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A Monograph of the Pittidae, or, Family of Ant Thrushes

New York:  D.Appleton & Co,  [1861-]1863. Folio. 1p.

dedication to Philip Lutley Sclater, 1p. list of subscribers. 31

hand-coloured lithographic plates, printed and coloured by

Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. Expert repairs at margins of

frontispiece plate. Expertly bound to style in half dark green

morocco and green cloth covered boards, spine gilt with

raised bands.

A fine copy of the first edition. A rare and spectacular

ornithological work, the first book by Elliot with his own

illustrations, and the scarcest of his major monographs.

(#34444)                                                                             $ 22,000

DANIEL GIRAUD

ELLIOT

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Mathematics Simplified and made Attractive: or, the laws of motion explained. 

Philadelphia:  The Author,  1852-1854. 2 volumes (8vo text,

plus large square folio atlas of plates). 19 plates (10 with

hand colouring), lithographed by A. Kollner. Text in

publisher's green cloth, covers stamped in blind, upper

cover titled in gilt; atlas in half green morocco and period

marbled paper covered boards, upper cover with original

blue morocco gilt label.

Very rare American lithographed work and a prize winner

at the London Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

(#25847)                                                                              $ 22,000

THOMAS

FISHER

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New Orleans Characters

[New Orleans]:  Peychaud & Garcia, 48 Camp Street,  1876.

Folio (13 11/16 x 9 3/4 inches). Lithographed and mounted on

cloth guards throughout, title with oval hand-coloured

vignette, 16 hand-coloured plates, each with title beneath.

Publisher's half black morocco and pebbled cloth covered

boards, lettered in glt on the upper cover.  Front joint

starting.  Housed in a black morocco backed box.

A classic American colour-plate book which offers a new

and improved take on the twin European traditions of suites

of plates of regional costume and street cries.

(#34513)                                                                              $ 10,000

LEON J .  

FRÉMAUX

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To the Captains, other Officers & Seamen, who (with a detachment of Boats from the Fleet commanded by Admiral Boscawen) Burnt the Prudent & Took the Bienfaisant in Louisbourgh Harbour, about 1 o'Clock in the morning of the 26th. July 1758. In Memory of that Singular & Brave Action. This Representation is humbly Inscribed, By their Most Obedient Servant Richd. Paton

London:  John Boydell,  14 February 1771. Copper-engraving

by Pierre-Charles Canot after Richard Paton.  Sheet size: 16

1/2 x 24 inches.  Repair to the lower right corner with minor

facsimile.

A very fine representation of one of the most decisive

moments in the French & Indian War.

(#34630)                                                                               $ 4,500

FRENCH &

INDIAN WAR

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Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca; or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick writers

London:  printed for Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson and

Daniel Midwinter,  1705. 2 volumes, folio (14 3/4 x 9 1/2

inches). 2pp. list of subscribers. 32 engraved plates and

maps. Contemporary calf, panelled in blind, expertly

rebacked to style, spines with raised bands in seven

compartments, red and black morocco lettering piece.

The first edition of this important compilation of world

voyages, including descriptions of voyages to America, the

Arctic, Africa, the Middle East and China.

(#34365)                                                                                $ 9,500

JOHN

HARRIS

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The New Jamaica Almanack, and Register, for the Year of our Lord 1806. 

Kingston:  Stevenson and Smith,  [1806]. 12mo. 184, [16]pp.

The calendar interleaved with blank, plus additional blanks

in rear. Contemporary green wallet-style morocco.

Early Jamaica almanac, including an early Jewish calendar.

(#34425)                                                                                 $ 3,500

JAMAICA

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Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 ... [With:] Atlas to the Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana. 

Philadelphia:  John Conrad,  1816. 2 volumes, 8vo (9 x 5 3/4

inches). Text: xx,264,cxc pp., plus frontispiece portrait of

Andrew Jackson.  Atlas: 8 colored maps and plans (seven

folding). Publisher's plain paper boards, early repair to front

joint of text, joints starting.  Housed in a red chemise and

red morocco backed slipcase. Provenance: Evan Morrison

(early signature).

One of the most important books on the War of 1812 in the

South and West, describing the campaign around the Battle

of New Orleans: with the preferred separate atlas and

bound in original boards.

(#34604)                                                                                $ 6,750

ARSENE LACARRIERE

LATOUR

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Les Philippines Histoire, Géographie, Moeurs, Agriculture, Industrie et Commerce des Colonies Espagnoles dans l'Océanie ... Atlas. 

Paris:  Arthus Bertrand,  [1846]. Folio. Letterpress title and

list of plates, plus 19 maps and plates (engraved folding map,

10 hand coloured lithographed plates on 5 sheets, 6

engraved charts on 3 sheets, engraved plan of Manila and

engraved plate of sheet music). Atlas volume only, without

the 2 octavo volumes of text. Contemporary red morocco

backed red cloth boards, covers with a central armorial

stamp in gilt of the national emblem of France featuring the

arms of Louis-Philippe, marbled endpapers.

Very rare atlas of maps and hand colored plates to a noted

mid-19th century work on the Philippines.

(#34655)                                                                               $ 13,500

JEAN BAPTISTE

MALLAT DE BASSILAN

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The Traveller's Directory, or a Pocket Companion: Shewing the Course of the Main Road from Philadelphia to New York, and from Philadelphia to Washington, with Descriptions of the Places through which it Passes, and the Intersection of the Cross Roads ... Second Edition.

Philadelphia:  Mathew Carey,  1804. 8vo. [4],37,[1],19[i.e. 17],

[1]pp., plus thirty-eight engraved maps on twenty-two

leaves. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked retaining the

original lettering piece.

One of the first important American road guides.

(#34689)                                                                               $ 6,000

S . S . MOORE  

& T . W . JONES

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Views in South America, from original drawings made in Brazil the River Plate, the Parana, &c. 

London:  Thomas McLean,  [1852]. Folio. Lithographed title,

dedication to Prince Albert with list of plates on verso, 26

tinted lithographed plates, lithographed plan. Expertly

bound to style in dark blue morocco backed period cloth

covered boards, large central morocco label on the upper

cover, flat spine lettered in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers

and pastedowns.

Among the rarest lithographed view books concerning

South America.

(#34437)                                                                               $ 37,500

WILLIAM GORE

OUSELEY

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Manuscript patent specification by J. B. Pignatelli for a papermaking machine. 

[Np, but New York?:  1819]. 6pp., on three folio sheets of

vellum.  Unstitched. Housed in a red cloth four-fold

chemise, with morocco label on the upper cover.

A fascinating contemporary manuscript description of

among the earliest American papermaking machines.

(#34693)                                                                                $ 3,500

PAPERMAKING

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Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. May, 1815

Philadelphia:  1815. 12mo.  12pp. Disbound.

Rare early American art exhibition catalogue, including

works by Thomas Birch.

(#34714)                                                                                 $ 1,500

PENNSYLVANIA  

ACADEMY OF

FINE ARTS

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[Prang's War Pictures]

[Boston:  L. Prang & Company,  1886-1888]. Oblong folio (22

x 28 inches). 18 chromolithographs by Prang after Thulstrup

or Davidson (each print approximately 15 x 21 1/2 inches),

cut to the edge of the image (as issued) and tipped onto

individual thin card mounts, each mount with printed title

and imprint. Housed in a morocco backed box.

Complete set of Prang's magnificent Civil War series

(#34470)                                                                              $ 22,500

LOUIS  

PRANG

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The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor  Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore

London:  printed for A. Dry,  1819 [plates watermarked 1816-

1818]. 3 volumes, large quarto (15 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches). Seven

section titles. 100 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates,

printed in colours.  Extra-illustrated with an engraved view

of Windsor Castle. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style,

spine gilt.

A rare large-paper issue, with pre-publication watermarks,

of this important architectural record of the British palaces

and among the best known and most wonderful English

colour plate books.

(#34686)                                                                               $ 9,500

WILLIAM HENRY

PYNE

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The Franklin Expedition: or Considerations on Measures for the Discovery and Relief of our Absent Adventurers in the Arctic Regions. 

London:  Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans,  1850. 8vo.

99, [1]pp. 2 engraved folding maps. Publisher's blue-green

cloth, covers stamped in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt.

Provenance: Marinens Bibliothek (small inked stamp on

title).

First edition of a rare Franklin search item: complete with

the folding maps.

(#34668)                                                                                $ 6,500

WILLIAM

SCORESBY , JR .

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments ... The Seventh Edition.

London:  A. Strahan, T. Cadell [and others],  1792. 2 volumes,

8vo. [iii]-xv, [1], 488; [iii]-viii, 462pp.  Lacks half-titles.

Expertly bound to style in half russia and period marbled

paper covered boards.

Eighteenth century edition of Adam Smith's first published

work.

(#34586)                                                                                 $ 3,750

ADAM

SMITH

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Sketches in Architecture. Containing plans and elevations of Cottages, Villas and other useful buildings with characteristic scenery ... To which are added, Six Designs for Improving and Embellishing of Grounds, with Sections and Explanations. By an Amateur.

London:  J. Taylor,  1798. 2 parts in one, folio. [6], iv pp., pls

43 engraved and aquatint plates; iv, 20pp. plus 11 engraved

plates.  Includes letterpress half title, general title and

sectional title to the second part.  Uncut.  Minor staining to

the first few text leaves, minor foxing and browning in the

rear. Later blue paper boards.

Architectural designs by one of England's greatest neo-

classical architects.

(#34684)                                                                               $ 2,800

JOHN

SOANE

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The Acropolis of Athens, Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography. 

London:  F.S. Ellis,  1870. Folio. Title page illustrated with a

mounted photograph. 25 mounted carbon print

photographs (images approx. 7 1/2  by 9 1/2  inches, or the

reverse). Publisher's green cloth, upper cover lettered in

gilt, expertly rebacked to style with green morocco.

The best 19th century photographs of the Acropolis: one of

100 copies printed.

(#34010)                                                                             $ 52,000

WILLIAM J .

STILLMAN

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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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To The Members of the House of Representatives of the United States. Gentlemen, I consider it as a duty...to correct some unfounded statements made by Mr. Benjamin H. Latrobe ...[caption title]. 

Washington:  1805. 12pp. Disbound.

Scarce printed letter to the House of Representatives by the

designer of the U. S. Capitol building, responding to

criticisms of his plans by Superintendent of Construction

Benjamin Latrobe.

(#34720)                                                                                 $ 1,500

WILLIAM

THORNTON

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Plantae Selectae

[Nuremberg]:  1750-1773. Folio, 10 parts in one volume (20 1/4

x 14 inches). 3 mezzotint portraits of Trew, G.D. Ehret and

J.J. Haid, 10 engraved section titles, all heightened in red

and gold, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates by Johann

Jacob Haid and Johann Elias Haid after Georg Dionysius

Ehret, with lettering heightened in gold. Contemporary

diced russia, spine gilt in eight compartments, marbled

endpapers. Provenance: Beriah Botfield (Christie’s London,

30 March 1994, lot 89).

One of the greatest eighteenth century botanical books,

with 100 exquisite plates after paintings by Georg Dionysius

Ehret.

(#33442)                                                                              $ 75,000

CHRISTOPH JAKOB

TREW

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