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15* (EXPLORATION) STAUNTON, (SIR GEORGE) An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London: Printed by W. Bulmer for G. Nicol, bookseller to his majesty, 1798. 2 vols. (lacking rare atlas folio). 4to, 3/4 leather over decorative boards. Second edition of Staunton’s personal account of the first visit of a British Ambassador to China (1790s). Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume 1 and numerous engravings throughout. Spines slightly bowed; otherwise a very fine set. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $300-500

16 (EXPLORATION) COOK, JAMES A set of two folio atlases of engravings from Captain James Cook’s second and third voyages. [A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775.] London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. Atlas volume only. Folio, half calf over marbled boards. With 63 maps, charts and plates of portraits and views by William Hodges. Plates bound out of order; scattered foxing, offsetting and soiling to plates; some browning and wear at outer edges of several plates; two 4 inch tears to fold of A Chart of the Southern Hemisphere; otherwise a well-preserved copy. [A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.] [London: G. Nicol, 1784.] Atlas volume only. Folio, half leather over marbled boards. With two maps and 61 plates of portraits and views by John Webber, and without “Death of Cook” plate. Rebacked, retaining pieces of original spine; warping from water damage to front board; wear and dampstaining to outer edges; large chip to one edge, not affecting plate; occasional foxing, soiling and offsetting; an otherwise good copy with bright and fresh maps. $4,000-6,000 17 (EXPLORATION, COOK) FORSTER, JOANNES REINOLDUS AND GEORGIUS Characteres Generum Plantarum, Quas In Itinere ad Insulas Maris Australis, Collegerunt, Descripterunt, Delinearunt, Annis MDCCLXXII - MDCCLXXV. Londini: B. White, T. Cadell, and P. Elmsly, 1776. 4to, full blind-stamped calf, gilt titles to spine. First edition of Forster’s collected studies on the specimens that he and his son collected on Captain James Cook’s second voyage to the South Pacific. All leaves uncut. Bound by Dennis Rudd. With 78 engraved plates (1-75 and 38a, 38b and 51a). Occasional foxing; otherwise a fine copy. $4,000-6,000

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18* (EXPLORATION) CRAWFURD, JOHN The Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 4to, 3/4 morocco with gilt inlay, spine gilt in compartments, silk page marker, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. First edition. With large folding map, fold-out table of “Vocabularies,” 13 engraved plates with tissue guards and illustrations throughout. Inscribed by American diplomat Roger Tredwell, known for his imprisonment by the Russian Bolsheviks, to front flyleaf with an album of vintage photographs taken by him in Egypt and Africa. Wear to boards and spine; some wear to map; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Charlotte FitzHenry Robling, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois $3,000-5,000

19 (EXPLORATION) CHARDIN, SIR JOHN Travels in Persia. London: The Argonaut Press, 1927. 4to, 3/4 vellum over blue cloth-backed boards, uncut. One of 975 limited copies printed on japanese vellum. Illustrated throughout. Dampstaining to top right corner of front boards and last few pages; minor wear to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200

20* (EXPLORATION) A group of nine titles in 15 volumes pertaining to travel and exploration. Includes: The Albert N’Yanza Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources. By Samuel W. Baker. London: Macmillan, 1872. 8vo, full morocco, all edges gilt. Travels through France and Spain in the Years 1770 and 1771. By Joseph Marshall. London: printed for G. Corrall, 1776. Volume 4 only. 8vo, full calf. Lives of the Admirals and other British Seamen. By John Campbell. London: Printed for T. Osbourne, (ect.), 1761. Volumes 1-4 (of 5). 8vo, full calf. Third edition. (and 7 others) Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200

21 FERGUSON, JAMES A bound set of plates from an early edition of Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles. (London), circa 1770. 18 plates (17 double-page). Thin 4to, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, pastedown title label to front cover. Minor browning to plates; front outer hinge cracked; chipping to spine ends; otherwise fine. $100-200 23 (PHYSICS) DE LA FOND, SIGAUD Elemens de physique theorique et experimentale pour servir de suite a la description et usage d’un cabinet de physique experimentale. Paris: Gueffier, 1777. 2 vols. (volumes 1 and 2 only of original 4) 8vo, contemporary french mottled calf, 5 raised bands, gilt tooling and titles to spines with elaborate decoration, marbled edges and endpapers. With 17 folding plates. First edition. Wear to boards; browning to pages; otherwise sound. $200-400

24 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY Proceedings ofthe Royal Geographical Society. London: Edward Stanford, 1880-1883. 31 issues, including vol. II, nos. 1-9, 11; vol. III, nos. 1-6, 8-10, 12; vol. V, nos. 1, 3-12. 8vo, in wrappers; many maps, mostly of Africa. Light wear and fading to edges; large tear with lacking piece to vol. V, no. 5; otherwise a sound collection. Property of a Gentleman, Racine, Wisconsin $200-400

25 SKINNER, B. F. The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis. New York, London: D. Appleton, 1938. 8vo, full black cloth-backed boards. First edition, first printing of this important groundbreaking psychological study in the behaviorist school of thought. Publisher’s (1) code on the final printed page. Part of the “Century of Psychology Series,” edited by Richard M. Elliott. Head of spine bumped; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. $600-800

26 (SURGERY) PIGRAY, PIERRE Epitome Praeceptorvm Medicinae Chirvgiae: Cum ampla singulis morbis convenientium remediorum expositione. Paris: Apud viduam Marci Orry ad insigne Leonis Salientis, 1612. 8vo, full leather with elaborate blind tooling, embossed insignia and embossed date to boards, dark blue edges, 4 raised bands, manuscript title to spine. Frontispiece detached but laid in; lacking some pages; manuscript notations to 543 and 548-549. Together with: Die hochst-nothige Erkenntihiss des Menschen, sonderlich nach dem Leiben und naturlichem Leben, oder ein deutlicher Unterricht . . . . By Christian Friedrich Richtern. S.p., 1741. 8vo, full calf, 4 raised bands. Later edition. $80-120

22 (ORNITHOLOGY) SEEBOHM, HENRY Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds. Edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. 8vo, cloth. With numerous color plates of eggs. Foxing throughout, sometimes affecting plates; ex-libris tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. $150-250 18 (both)

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27 AUSTIN, MARY Starry Adventure. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. 8vo, original black cloth with green lettering, in scarce silver pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Austin to half-title. Rubbing to dust jacket; otherwise fine. Together with two other books by Austin. Comprising: Earth Horizon: An Autobiography of Mary Austin. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1932). 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. Spinners’ Book of Fiction. By Mary Austin, Jack London, and others. San Francisco, 1907. 8vo, burlap boards. $100-200

27A AUSTIN, MARY California: The Land of the Sun. Painted by Sutton Palmer. London: Adam and Charles Black, (1914). 8vo, green gilt stamped and color illustrated cloth, top edge gilt. First edition. With numerous tipped in color plates and folding map of California. Some wear to boards, otherwise fine. $200-400

28 BAUM, FRANK L. Lucky Bucky in Oz. By Frank L. Baum and John R. Neil. Chicago: Reilly and Lee, (1942). 8vo, orange cloth, pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With illustrations by John R. Neill throughout. Corners bumped; some chipping to edges of dust jacket, most prominently to spine; light soiling to dust jacket; otherwise a fine copy with a well-preserved cover. Property of a Gentleman, Racine, Wisconsin $300-500

29* HELLER, JOSEPH Catch 22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. 8vo, blue cloth, original dust jacket. First edition, first printing of Heller’s first book. Inscribed by Heller to f.f.e.p. during the year of publication to a colleague: “To John Robling - With best regards from Ed Heller, and with the very sincere hope that you will enjoy it. Joeseph Heller October 12, 1961 McCall’s.” Minor chipping and browning to extremities of dust jacket; sunning to spine; otherwise fine. Copies of Catch 22 inscribed in the year of the book’s publication are particularly rare. Property from the Estate of Charlotte FitzHenry Robling, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois $3,000-5,000

30 KIPLING, RUDYARD The Jungle Book. Together with The Second Jungle Book. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894 and 1895. 2 vols. 8vo, original blue cloth-backed boards, front covers decorated with gilt illustrations of Toomai and the Elephants and Kaa, gilt titles and decorative illustrations to spines, all edges gilt, housed in cloth slipcase. First editions. Frontispiece and illustrations after J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Slight wear to boards; spine ends bumped; bookplate tipped in front pastedown and previous owner’s inscription to verso of f.f.e.p.; otherwise a fine and bright set. $600-800

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31 MONTGOMERY, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. Boston: L.C. Page, 1908. 8vo, original tan ribbed cloth, mounted pictorial label on the front cover, gilt titles to spine and front cover. First edition. Stated first impression. One of the rarest and most collectable children’s books of all time. In scarcer tan binding. With eight illustrated plates by M. A. and W. A. J. Claus. Wear to boards; hinges starting; front endpapers detached but present; previous owner’s name to f.f.e.p.; dampstaining apparent to edges of plates; otherwise fine. Peter Parley to Penrod, 124. $6,000-8,000

32 (LITERATURE) A group of two signed first editions. Includes: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). By Andy Warhol. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, original pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Signed “Andy Warhol” to half-title. Minor rubbing to dust jacket; otherwise a fine copy. The Living Sea. By Jacques-Yves Cousteau. New York and Evanston: Harper and Row, 1963. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, original pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Signed by author to title page. With fold-out map and photographic illustrations throughout. Wear and chipping to dust jacket; head and foot of backstrip bumped; otherwise fine. $300-500

33 LAWRENCE, D. H. A group of 11 first English editions. Aaron’s Rod, (1922). The Lost Girl, (1920). Kangaroo, (1923). The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl), (1926). The Virgin and the Gypsy, (1925). The Man Who Died, (1931). The Woman Who Rode Away, (1928). England My England, (1924). St. Mawr Together with The Princess, (1925). The Collected Poems of D. H. Lawrence (2 vols.). London: Martin Secker, (1920-1931). 8vo, uniformly bound in cloth. Lacking dust jackets. $300-500

34 LAWRENCE, D. H. Etruscan Places. London: Martin Secker, 1932. Large 8vo, original blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition of Lawrence’s celebrated essay on travel in Italy. Chipping and some soiling to dust jackets; otherwise fine. Together with six other first editions. Includes: Mornings in Mexico. London: Martin Secker, 1927. 8vo, yellow cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial cover laid in. First edition. Lacking dust jacket. Pansies. London: Martin Secker, (1929). Large 8vo, blue cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Chipping to dust jacket; otherwise fine. Birds, Beasts and Flowers. London: Martin Secker, (1923). 4to, black and yellow cloth. First edition. Lacking dust jacket; foxed; otherwise fine. The Man Who Died. London: Martin Secker, 1931. 4to, green gilt stamped cloth. First edition. Lacking dust jacket. The Ship of Death. Illustrated with wood engravings by Blair Hughs-Stanton. London: Martin Secker, (1933). Love Among the Haystacks. London: Nonesuch, 1930. 4to, burlap and yellow cloth. First edition. Number 3 of 1600 copies. (7 vols. total) $400-600

35 LAWRENCE, D. H. A set of two first editions in leather bindings and one later edition in snakeskin binding. The Prussian Officer. London: Duckworth, (1914). 8vo, 3/4 leather over marbled boards, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine. First edition. The Lost Girl. London: Martin Secker, (1920). 8vo, full red leather, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine. First edition. The Plumed Serpent. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 8vo, snakeskin, leather title lable to spine, 5 raised bands. Later edition. Minor rubbing to spine. $400-600

36 LAWRENCE, D. H. My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. Written as an introduction to and a Motivation of the Paris Edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. New York: Random House, 1929. Thin 8vo, original tan boards, decorative endpapers. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies. Publisher’s “apologia” relating to misspelling of “photography” on page 3 inserted. Together with eight other works by D. H. Lawrence including Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts. London: C. W. Daniel, 1920. 12mo, dust jacket. Love Poems and Others. London: Duckworth, 1913. 8vo, blue cloth. Twilight in Italy. London: Duckworth, (1916). 8vo, blue cloth. (9 vols. total) $200-400 37 LAWRENCE, D. H. The Letters. Edited by Aldus Huxley. London; New York: William Heinemann; The Viking Press, (1932). 8vo, full imitation vellum, in slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies. Together with 15 other volumes by or about D. H. Lawrence including The Sea and Sardinia (New York, 1921), Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Florence, 1928), Studies in American Classical Literature (New York, 1923. First American edition), Last Poems (New York, 1933). (16 items total) $100-200

38 LAWRENCE, D. H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. n.p. (Florence): Privately Printed, 1928. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. First pirated edition, identical to the first edition save the author’s signature. One of 1,500 copies printed. With many uncut pages. Minor rubbing to boards with chipping at spine ends and extremities; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

39 LAWRENCE, D. H. A set of four first editions bound in leather as a set by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Includes: Kangaroo. (London, 1923). Etruscan Places. (London, 1932). The Lovely Lady. (New York, 1933). Memoirs of the Foreign Legion. By M. M. With an introduction by D. H. Lawrence. (New York, 1925). 8vo, 3/4 leather, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spines, top edges gilt, decorative endpapers. Some rubbing to boards; minor foxing to foreedge; otherwise a very fine set. $300-500

40 LAWRENCE, D. H. A group of eight first American editions. The Boy in the Bush, (2 copies, 1924). The Lost Girl, (1921). England My England. (1922) The Captain’s Doll, (1923). New York: Thomas Seltzer. 8vo, uniform blue cloth. Together with The Lovely Lady. New York: The Viking Press, 1933. 8vo, green cloth, in dust jacket. David: A Play. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1926. 8vo, decorative boards, orange dust jacket. Sons and Lovers. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921. 8vo, blue cloth. Later edition. $100-200

41 LUHAN, MABEL DODGE Winter in Taos. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1935). 8vo, cloth, scarce dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Luhan to the title page. Some loss to jacket; previous owner’s signature to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. Together with five other first editions all in original dust jackets. Includes: Edge of the Taos Desert. (New York, 1937). Lorenzo in Taos. (New York, 1932). Intimate Memories Background. (New York, 1933). Movers and Shakers. (New York, 1936). European Experiences. (New York, 1935). $300-500

42 MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest E. Shepard. New York: E. P. Dutton, (1927). 8vo, original 3/4 pink cloth and pictorial blue boards, printed paper spine label, original dust jacket, uncut, original pictorial cardboard gift box. Signed limited large paper edition of the first American edition, number 104 of 250 copies signed by both author and illustrator. The third book in the Milne’s Pooh series. Front cover of gift box detached, slightly browned with some chips to extremities; otherwise the book is in fine condition. $1,000-2,000

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43 PAZ, OCTAVIO A collection of three manuscripts of poems by Mexican poet and essayist, Octavio Paz (1914-1998), who was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. The three manuscripts included here demonstrate the author’s well-known penchant for revising his poetry, particularly Raiz del hombre written during his early period (1933-1957). Collation of the first two manuscripts demonstrates that they are very close, though not completely identical, to the versions of the poems included in A la orilla del mundo. The three manuscripts in this collection are: 1. Raíz del hombre (1937). Twenty-six typewritten pages (11 x 9 1/2 inches), a few handwritten author corrections. The manuscript is incomplete, missing the poem’s last two cantos; 2. Bajo tu clara sombra (1938). Twenty-two typewritten pages (11 x 9 1/2 inches), a few handwritten author corrections. Original handwritten title page. The manuscript is complete and coincides almost completely with the version in A la orilla del mundo; 3. Cantos. Twenty-two typewritten pages (11 x 9 1/2 inches), a few handwritten author corrections. Original handwritten title page and 13 poems. All manuscripts are complete and coincide entirely with the versions included in A la orilla del mundo. Includes one unpublished poem: “El suplicante.” Poems included are: “Un día” (3 pages), Sonnets “II,” “III,” “IV,” “V,” “VI,” “VII,” “VIII,” “IX” (8 pages), “Mar de día” (2 pages), “Al sueño” (4 pages), “Al tacto” (4 pages) and “El suplicante” (1 page). $8,000-12,000