NATUrAL HISTOrY, ScIENcE AND MEDIcINE

Lots 1–36

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1* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Trochilus Colubris. Plate XLVII, no. 10, from The Birds of America, 1836. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring. Framed. 36 1/2 x 30 inches. Property from the Estate of Peggy G. Richards, Barrington, Illinois $800-1,200 2* (AUDUBON, JOHN HAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Vigors Vireo, Vireo Vigorsii. Plate 30, no. 6, from The Birds of America, 1836. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring. Framed. 29 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Peggy G. Richards, Barrington, Illinois $200-400 3* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Tawny Thrush, Turdus Wilsonii. Plate CLXIV, no. 33, from The Birds of America, 1836. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring. Framed. 30 x 21 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Peggy G. Richards, Barrington, Illinois $600-800

4* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Black Guillemot, Uria Grylle. Plate CCXIX, no. 44, from The Birds of America, 1836. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring. Framed. 26 x 28 3/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Peggy G. Richards, Barrington, Illinois $800-1,200

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5* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Black Throated Diver, Colymbus Arcticus. Plate CCCXLVI, no. 70, from The Birds of America, 1836. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring. Framed. 33 1/2 x 46 3/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Peggy G. Richards, Barrington, Illinois $8,000-12,000

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6 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BOWEN, J.T. Douglass Squirrel, Sciurus Douglassi. Plate XLVIII, no. 10, from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1849. Lithograph with hand-coloring. Framed. 36 3/4 x 30 1/2 inches. $600-800 7 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BOWEN, J.T. Richardson’s Columbian Squirel, Sciurus Richardsonii. Plate V, no. 1, and Soft-Haired Squirrel, Sciurus Mollipilosus. Plate XIX, no. 4, from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1849. Lithographs with hand-coloring. Framed. 36 3/4 x 30 1/2 inches each. $800-1,200

8* AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854.

2 (of 3) vols. only, comprising vols. 2 and 3. 8vo, publisher’s giltdecorated dark green morocco, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g., pale yellow endpapers. With 105 hand-colored lithographed plates (vol. 2 = 50; vol. 3 = 55) after John James Audubon, drawn on stone by W.E. Hitchcock and printed and colored by J.T. Bowen & Co., Philadelphia, tissue guards. Manuscript ex-libris M.P. Willis, Vicksburg, and cost ($42.50), to half-title of both volumes. Boards rubbed with rear board vol. III detached; intermittent toning and foxing affecting most plates; light dampstaining affecting bottom right corner of pp. 319-336, vol. II and pp. 333350, vol. III. Property from the Collection of Cheryl Young, Grayslake, Illinois $2,000-4,000

9 (BOTANY) BESLER, BASILIUS I. Papaver multiplex albumoris rubicundis. II. Papaver flore miniato plens. III. Papver flore plensargentei coloris. Engraved botanical print with handcoloring from Besler’s Hortus Eystettensis, (Eichstat Nuremberg, 1613). First edition, De Luxe issue of the Bishop’s Edition, watermarked, no text to verso. 19 x 15 3/4 inches. $600-800

10 (BOTANY) BURNETT, GILBERT THOMAS The Cyclopaedia of Useful & Ornamental Plants. London: James Sangster, n.d. [c. 1860]

4to, publisher’s brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind, rebacked and restored, a.e.g. With 19 (of 20) hand-colored lithographed plates including frontispiece. Rubbing to boards; renewed endpapers; bookplate tipped in f.f.e.p; light foxing. $100-200

11 (BOTANY) DODOENS, ROBERT A New Herball, or Historie of Plants: Wherin is Contained the Whole Discourse and Perfect Description of All Sorts of Herbes and Plants. London: Ninian Newton, 1586.

8vo, modern quarter buckram, renewed endpapers. Second English edition, the first printed in England, with title in woodcut borders. Title pages soiled and chipped; lacking preliminary blanks and pp. 285-288, 351-352, 465-466, 621-622; scattered marginalia; intermittent minor brownspotting; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. $300-500 12 (BOTANY) GILLLI, F.L. AND G. XUAREZ Osservazioni fitologiche sopra alcune piante esotiche. Rome: Arcangelo Casaletti, 1789.

Thin 4to, publisher’s drab boards. First edition, being the first part of a three-part series of works on plants newly imported to Italy from explorers in America, Africa and the Pacific, complete with 10 full-page copper-engraved plates. Dampstaining to most pages and plates; light soiling to boards. $150-250

13 (BOTANY) GRASSET, M. EUGENE La plante et ses applications ornementales, 1 et 2 series. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux Arts, 1896.

2 vols. Folios, plates loose as issued in publisher’s pictorial boards with cloth ties. Complete with 144 lithographs after watercolors by Grasset executed by several of his pupils, including Verneuil, Giacometti and J. Milesi. Boards soiled and worn; vol. 1 lacking cloth ties; spines deteriorating; ex-library copy with Havervill Public Library stamps to verso of all plates; bookplate tipped in front pastedown, vol. 2; marginal chipping to most leaves not affecting images; light offsetting from plates; otherwise a fine set with bright fresh colors. $4,000-6,000

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14 (BOTANY) GRAY, ASA, ed. United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Atlas. Botany. Phanerogamia. Vol. I. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1857.

Atlas [to vol. XV, Botany vol. 1] only. Atlas folio, contemporary 3/4 morocco, marbled endpapers, giltlettered spine. With 91 (of 100) engravings of plants after drawings by Isaac Sprague. Evidence of removal of first few plates; plates lightly foxed; upper board and backstrip detached from text block; ex-library copy with call-number to spine and stamps to f.f.e.p. and title page. Literature: Haskell 62 $150-250

15 (BOTANY) GREEN, THOMAS The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary. Liverpool: Nuttall, Fisher, n.d. [1816-1820]

2 vols. 4to, contemporary blind-stamped calf, spines and corners rebacked, gilt-lettered black leather spine labels, renewed endpapers. First edition, complete with frontispieces, additional title and 106 engraved plates (one folding). Rubbing to boards; intermittent brownspotting and lightly toned leaves; offsetting from some plates. $400-600 16 (BOTANY) MILLER, PHILIP Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in The Gardeners Dictionary. . . London: Printed for the Author, [1755]-1760.

2 vols. Folio, bound in modern salmon library buckram, renewed endpapers. First edition, with 299 (of 300) copper-engraved plates, some partially color-printed and finished by hand, two folding, from drawings by J. Bartram, G.D. Ehret, W. Houston, R. Lancade and J.S. Mueller. Lacking plate 24 (Amaryllis) vol. 1; first three pages, including title page, mounted to strip; scattered light brownspotting and a faint wave to leaves; lacking blanks. $6,000-8,000

17 (BOTANY) MUNTING, ABRAHAM A group of three hand-colored engravings from Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen, (Amsterdam, 1696), comprising Plygonum Argenteum Latifolium; Glycyrrhiza Americana; and Abrotonum Foemina, Rorismarini Folio. Framed and matted. 21 x 16 1/4 inches each. $800-1,200

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18 BUTLER, ARTHUR G. Foreign Finches in Captivity. London: L. Reeve, n.d. [1894-1896]

4to, publisher’s maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blind with design of finches, uncut, t.e.g. First edition, with 59 (of 60) plates, lacking plate to face p.152 (The Painted Finch). Boards rubbed and shaken; spine faded; margins trimmed on plate facing p. 240 (not affecting image). $400-600

19 CATESBY, MARK Two hand-colored engravings from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, London, 1731, comprising The Little Owl and The Purple Jackdaw. Framed and matted. Size of frames 20 3/4 x 25 inches each. $800-1,200 20 CATESBY, MARK A group of four hand-colored engravings of snakes from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, London, 1731. Framed and matted. Size of frames 19 x 25 inches each. $800-1,200

21 GOULD, JOHN A group of six hand-colored lithographs of hummingbirds from A Monograph of the Trochildae or Humming Birds, London, 1849. Framed and matted. 17 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches each. $300-500

22* (EDUCATIONAL POSTERS) SCHREIBER, J.F. Schreibers grosse kolorierte Wandtafeln der Naturgeschichte. Munich: Schreiber, n.d. [c. 1910]

Vols. 1, 2, 4 and 7 (of 9), together with three others, containing 26 linen-backed color lithograph composite posters of mammals, birds, plants, geography and anatomy, folded and housed in publisher’s cloth-backed board portfolios, pastedown labels to upper boards. Contents include: I. Saugetiere, five posters (complete), mammals; II. Vogel, five posters (complete), birds; IV. Pflanzenreich, five posters (complete), botany; VII. Unsere michtigeren Giftgemachte (Samenpflanzen, Phanerogame,) three posters (complete), botany; Die michtigeren handelspflanzen, three posters (complete), botany; Wandtafeln der anatomie des menschen, four posters (complete), anatomy; Unterricht in der Geographie, four posters (complete), geography. Size of posters 39 x 30 1/4 inches each. $1,000-2,000

23 DARWIN, CHARLES The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836. London: Smith, Elder, 1994.

4 vols. Folio, 3/4 leather over marbled boards, gilt spines, housed in original wooden display box with hinged lid to form a lectern. Commemorative facsimile reprint of the original edition, number 636 of 1,000 copies signed by Dr. John Hemming, Director and Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. Very light wear to box. $600-800

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24 LACEPEDE, BERNARD GERMAIN DE Histoire naturelle ... comprenant les cetacees, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons. Paris: Furne et Cie, 1839.

2 vols. Large 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines. Nouvelle edition, preceded by an elegy to Lacepede by Cuvier, illustrated with 31 handcolored engraved plates with tissue guards. Wear to boards; ends bumped; moderate intermittent foxing; light offsetting from plates. $100-200

25 (ASTRONOMY) ARMSTRONG, NEIL Change in the Space Age: The Mountbatten Lecture Delivered at the University of Edinburgh on 10 March 1972. Edinburgh: University Press, 1972.

Thin 8vo, blue printed wrappers. Inscribed by Armstrong on the f.f.e.p. to astronomer J. Allen Hynek and family, “We’ve enjoyed our voyage together - may it not be the last - Neil Armstrong/ Eclipse ‘73.” Fine. $600-800 28

26 (ASTRONOMY) ULLIAC-TREMADEURE, SOPHIE Astronomie et meteorologie a l’usage des jeunes personnes. Paris: Didier Libraire-Editeur, 1854.

8vo, publisher’s cloth gilt with elaborate central title cartouche featuring blue, green and pink, giltdecorated and -lettered spine, a.e.g. First edition, with frontispiece and seven hand-colored engraved plates. Light wear to boards; spine faded; moderate intermittent foxing. $100-200

27 (ASTRONOMY) BURRITT, ELIJAH H. Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. New York: Huntington and Savage, 1835.

Folio, publisher’s printed wraps. Complete with eight celestial maps, hand tinted. Loss to covers at spine; some light spotting to maps; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. in the year of publication. $300-500 (EMBRYOLOGY) HALLER, M. La generation, ou exposition des phenomenes relatifs a cette fonction naturelle. Paris: Des Ventes de la Doue, 1774.

2 vols. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, giltlettered red leather spine labels, spines tooled in compartments. First edition in French of Haller’s work on embryology. Wear to boards; ends chipped; hinges cracked; scattered light brownspotting; bookplate tipped in front pastedown both vols. Provenance: John Farquhar Fulton, bookplate $200-400

29* (GEOGRAPHY) BROOKES, R. The General Gazetteer: or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary. London: J.F.C. Rivington, et. al, 1791.

8vo, full calf, gilt-lettered green spine label. With frontispiece folding map of the world and eight additional folding maps. Spine rebacked; rubbing to boards; scattered light brownspotting. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $100-200

30 (ANATOMY) EUSTACHIUS, BARTOLOMEO Tabulae anatomicae clarissimi viri Bartholomaei Eustachii quas e tenebris tandem vindicatas Clementis Papae XI. Rome: Laurentii & Thoma Pagliarini, 1728.

Folio, contemporary mottled calf, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine, red leather spine label. Second Rome edition. Complete with title page in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved ornamental frontispiece with vignette portrait of Eustachius, and 47 engraved plates. Wear to boards; 2 1/2-inch repaired tear to title page; two 3-inch repaired tears to frontispiece; marginal dampstaining affecting some leaves; scattered light foxing. $1,000-2,000

31 (ANATOMY) LE CLERC, D., AND J.J. MANGET Bibliotheca anatomica sive recens in anatomia inventorum theasaurus. Geneva: Johan. Anthon. Chouet & Davidis Ritter, 1699.

2 vols. Folio, quarter vellum over marbled boards. Second edition, with engraved title page and 115 plates. Ex-library stamp to margin of engraved title page; ex-library stamp Societe de Lecture de Geneve and manuscript ex-libris to title page; a few leaves starting; intermittent foxing. $800-1,200 32 (ANATOMY) EUSTACHIUS, BARTHOLOMAEUS A bound collection of 155 plates from various editions of Tabulae anatomicae, 18th-century, engraved by J.G. Seiller, Pfauntz, Hartman and others. Sold as a collection of plates only. Folio, marbled boards. Marginal foxing to most plates; 2-inch tear to one plate; boards worn with spine deteriorating but hinges sturdy. $400-600

33* (MEDICAL) ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA De causis et signis acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor. Edited by Hermann Boerhaave. Leiden: Janssonios Vander, 1735.

Folio, modern red library cloth, gilt-lettered spine, title printed in red and black, text in Greek and Latin. First Boerhaave edition of writings by the first century Greek physician on acute and chronic diseases. Ex-library with bookplate and stamp; intermittent light foxing. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

34 (MEDICAL) CULLEN, WILLIAM Lectures on the Materia Medica. Dublin: Printed for Thomas Ewing, 1773.

8vo, contemporary calf, gilt-lettered spine. Lacking endpaper; manuscript ex-libris to title page; hinges cracked; light dampstaining and intermittent spotting and soiling throughout. $100-200 35 (MEDICAL) SHAW, PETER The Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. London: Printed for William and John Innys, 1727.

8vo, modern library buckram with printed pastedown label to spine, renewed endpapers. [Together with:] A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. By George B. Wood. Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliott, 1847. 2 vols. 8vo, modern 3/4 cloth over decorative boards, renewed endpapers. Together, a nice set all bound tightly in recent cloth. $100-200

36 (MEDICAL) A group of nine volumes.

An Essay on Sickness and Health. . . By Edward Strother. London: Printed by H.P. for Charles Rivington, 1725. A System of Practical Nosology. By David Hosack. New York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1821. An Introduction to Physiology. By Malcolm Flemyng. London: J. Nourse, 1759. Traite de la pharmacie moderne. By M. Pyraux. Paris: Delaguette, 1751. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies. By Monsieur Dionis. London: R. Bonwicke, et al., 1716. The Eclectic Repertory. . . Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1811. 2 vols. Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science. By David Hosack. New York: J. Seymour, 1824. 2 vols. $200-400