NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION

52 52 (ILLUMINATED MSS) GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN An illuminated manuscript leaf. French, middle of the thirteenth century. Written in small Gothic hand in dark brown ink with glosses in red. A small miniature at the foot of the text in blue, red, green and gold, showing John, depicted in gold, preaching above the image of a dove standing on a banner with the name “Johannes.” Also a twentyline initial in blue, red, green and gold. Framed and matted. Fine condition. Size of frame 8 x 5 1/2 inches. $3,000-5,000

53 (INCUNABLE) CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTO Sermones de laudibus sanctorum. Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 7 July 1489.

220 pp. 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped vellum binding. Gothic type, initial spaces. Second edition, following the first by six months. Woodcut printer’s device removed from final leaf; light staining to interior; otherwise fine. $2,000-3,000

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54 LUCRETIUS, TITUS CARUS His Six Books of Epicurean Philosophy. London: printed for Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-lucs Bookseller near the Theatre in Oxford, 1683.

4to, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt decoration, gilt titles, green leather label to spine, marbled edges, engraved frontispiece. Third edition. Fading and edgewear to boards and spine; hinges slightly loose, but text block is tight; dark marks to pp. 107-112; otherwise fine in unique binding. $100-200

55 (MSS) MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN An engraved woodblock leaf from an edition of Sebastian Munster’s Cosmographia. (c. 1576). Matted and framed in a window matte frame. Size of leaf 25 x 18 inches; size of frame 40 x 30 inches. $100-200

56 SENECA L. Annaei Senecae cordubensis tragoediae. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1588.

16mo, rebound in full modern imitation vellum, black pastedown label to spine, renewed endpapers, housed in felt lined slipcase. Very minor foxing throughout; some age darkening; otherwise fine. $400-600

57 TERENCE Original incunabula leaf from Comoediae, by Terence Afer. Straussberg: Johann Gruninger, 1496.

One of the earliest depictions of actors, the leaf contains woodcuts of the cast and stage setting made up from interchangeable scenes. Matted. Wormhole in upper margin not intruding into the woodcut; otherwise very fine. 11 x 7 inches. $100-200

58 TRISMEGISTUS, HERMES Mercurii Trismegisti Poemander, seu de potestate ac sapienta divina. Paris: A. Turnbebus, 1554.

8vo, full seventeenth century calf. First edition of the Greek printing of this book that was central to Renaissance thought. The book collates as complete: [8], 103, [1], 126, [2] p. (the last leaf blank). Robert Lenkiewic copy. Covers detached; slightly spotted; some light dampstaining to lower margin at beginning; binding slightly rubbed; otherwise fine. $4,000-6,000

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59 ACTUARIUS, JOHANNES De urinis. Libri VII. Ambrosio Leone Nolano interprete. Basil: Andreae Cratandri, (1529).

8vo, contemporary vellum boards, leather spine label with titles in gilt. An early edition of the most complete and systematic study of urine that remains from antiquity. Actuarius was a Byzantine physician in the court of Andronicus III. Intermittent marginalia; contemporary label tipped in front pastedown; wormholing to front covers and first few pages; soiling to vellum; otherwise binding is tight and interior is in good condition. $400-600

60 ETTMUELLER, M. MICHAEL Dissertationem inauguralem de morsu vipe, sub praesidio . . . Dn. Sigismundi Ruperti Sultzberger . . . publ. examini submittit M. Michael Ettmuller / lips. art. medic baccal. die 17. August. Anno 1666. Lipsiae: Nicolaus Scipio, 1685.

Thin 8vo, very old marbled paper wraps, marbled edges. Ettmueller’s dissertation for medical license granted in 1666. Second edition. Minor age darkening to pages; otherwise fine. $100-200

61 (ANATOMY) GLISSON, FRANCIS Anatomia hepatis . . . de lynphe ductibus. Amsterdam: Johannes Ravesteinii, 1659.

12mo, full contemporary calf, very old tape to spine with manuscript title, engraved title page. Second edition of the first accurate account of the liver and the independent study of the lymphatics. Considered the most important book to date on the physiology of the digestive system. With two folding plates, half-title plate to p. 305, and eight woodcuts in text. Binding slightly soiled with a small tear to rear board; otherwise fine. $400-600

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63 (BOTANY) A group of two works with botanical plates, along with three loose botanical prints.

Spring Flowers: Hyacinths - Tulips - Narcissi. By Arlette Davids. Paris, New York, London: Hyperion Press, n.d. Containing 19 (of 32) color lithographs. Bouquets et fruits. By Jean-Louis Prévost. Paris Etching Society, n.d. Folio, loose as issued in cloth folder with pastedown illustration. With 11 (of 12) color plates of fruits and flowers. $100-200

64 (BOTANY) BAXTER, (WILLIAM) British Phaenogamous Botany; Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants. Oxford: published by the author, 1834-1843.

6 vols. 8vo, half red morocco over red cloth boards, five raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. Second edition of volume one, first editions of subsequent volumes. Illustrated with 509 hand-colored engravings and lithographs. Minor foxing throughout; very minor rubbing to spines; otherwise a fine set. $400-600

65 (BOTANY) BLOSSFELDT, CHARLES La Plante. Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, n.d.

4to, original green gilt decorated cloth-backed boards. First edition. Illustrated with 120 heliogravures of Blossfeldt’s plant studies. Fading to cloth; foxing to endpapers; some age darkening throughout; previous owner’s signature to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. $400-600

66 (BOTANY) PHILIBERT, J.C. Exercices de botanique : À l’usage des commençans. Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1801.

2 vols. 8vo, full calf, red leather spine labels, titles in gilt to spine. First edition. With 160 engraved plates of botanical studies. Lacking plate 68 (plates 1-70) in volume one. 87 plates (no. 71-153, 89bis, 113bis, 118bis, 137bis) in volume two. Ex-libris Rachel McMasters to front pastedown; previous owner’s inscription to the title page; wormhole to first few pages of volume one; foxing throughout; wear to tips of spine on volume one with crack down the middle; otherwise fine. $600-800

67 (BOTANY) REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH A group of four books of botanical prints by Redoute.

The Best of Redoute’s Roses. Selected and introduced by Eva Mannering. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Folio, cloth, dust jacket. Complete, with 29 color plates. Roses. Selected and introduced by Eva Mannering. New York: Ariel Press/British Book Center of New York, 1954. Folio, cloth, dust jacket. Complete, with 24 color plates. Roses 2. Selected and introduced by Eva Mannering. London: The Ariel Press, 1956. Folio, paper boards, dust jacket. Complete, with 24 color plates. Fruits and Flowers. Edited and introduced by Eva Mannering. New York: Crown Publishers, 1956. Folio, cloth, no dust jacket. Complete, with 24 color plates. $200-400

68 (AFRICA) A group of four volumes finely rebound with renewed endpapers.

Nubia and Abyssinia: Comprehending Their Civil History, Antiquities, Arts, Religion, Literature and Natural History. By Rev. Michael Russell. New York: Harper, 1833. Green leather. Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger. By Richard and John Lander. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836. 2 vols. Yellow leather. Discovery and Adventure in Africa. By Prof. Jameson, James Wilson and Hugh Murray. New York: J. J. Harper, 1833. With fold-out map. Tan leather. All fine with only minor foxing. $200-400 69* (AFRICA) A group of eight books.

Madagascar; Or, Robert Drury’s Journal. London: T. Fischer Unwin, 1897. In Darkest Africa; Or, the Quest Rescue & Retreat of Emin Governor of Equitoria. By Henry M. Stanely. London: Charles Scribner’s, 1890. 2 vols. Gordon in Central Africa 1874-1879. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. London: Macmillan, 1899. And five others. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $200-400

70 ANSON, GEORGE Reize naer de zuidzee, met het schip de wager, onder het opzicht van den heere George Anson, ondernomen in den jaere 1740. Leyden en Amsterdem: Johannes le Mair, et al., 1766.

4to, contemporary boards, five raised bands. Dutch translation of the account of the ill fated voyage of the ship Wager and her crew. With hand-colored engraved title page, engraved chapter headings, and seven hand-colored engravings, many fold-out. Minor foxing throughout; wear to boards and spine; otherwise fine. $200-400

71* (ATLAS) KITCHIN, THOMAS General Atlas, Describing the Whole Universe. London: Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1797. Bound together with A Complete Body of Ancient Geography. By Mons. D’Anville. London, 1795.

Two works bound as one. Atlas folio, quarter modern leather over green clothbacked boards, green spine label, gilt titles to spine, renewed endpapers. Kitchin’s General Atlas with 32 (of 37) two-page maps, many fold-out. D’Anville is complete with 13 maps. Maps are marked with printed Roman numerals and many are labeled by a contemporary hand. Hand-colored outlines of borders. Minor foxing to some maps; chipping to edges; minor tears at folds to some; contemporary manuscript notations to some maps; otherwise fine. $3,000-5,000

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72* BROOKS, R. The General Gazetteer or Compendious Geographical Dictionary. London: J. Newberry, 1762.

8vo, full calf, renewed spine with pastedown label and title in gilt. With six uncolored fold-out maps of the World, Europe, Asia, England and Wales, South America and Germany. Lacking maps of North America and one other; tears to some folds; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200

72A DARWIN, CHARLES [Works.] New York: D. Appleton, 1898.

15 vols. Complete. 8vo, contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g. Authorized edition of Darwin’s works. Among the titles are The Origin of Species, Journal of Researches . . . During the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle . . ., The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, and The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter. Minor rubbing to spines and top edge of some volumes with chipping to some heads; otherwise a fine set. $1,000-2,000 73 DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS The World Encompassed. Facsimile of the first edition of Drake’s work of 1628, bound with the first edition in English of The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage. By William Cornelison Schouten (1619). Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1966.

8vo, imitation vellum with closure ties, gilt titles to spine and decoration to front cover, in publisher’s green clamshell box with maroon velvet lining. With bibliographical notes in separate pamphlet laid in. Boards slightly bowed with minor age darkening; otherwise in very fine condition. $100-200

74 JANSSONIUS, JUNIUS Arabia seu arabum vicina. Amsterdami: apud Guiljelmun et Ioannem Blaeu, 1635.

24mo, boards detached. Engraved title page. Manuscript notations to the verso of final leaf; otherwise pages are clean and tightly bound. $100-200 75* (LEWIS AND CLARK) JACOB, J. G. The Life and Times of Patrick Gass, Now Sole Survivor of the Overland Expedition to the Pacific, Under Lewis and Clark, in 1804-5-6 . . . . Together with Gass’ Journal of the Expedition Condensed . . . Wellsburg, VA: Jacob & Smith, 1859.

12mo, original green embossed cloth-backed boards, gilt titles to spine. With frontispiece engraving of Gass with facsimile signature and three engraved plates. Ex-libris Hervey Allen tipped in front pastedown. Evenly foxed pages; wear to boards with some loss at top outer hinge of spine; corners bumped; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Marcia A. Allen, Fairfield, Iowa $600-800

76* (MAP) CAMOCIO A group of two maps framed together. By Francesco Camocio. From an edition of Isole famose. Venice, c. 1560 depicting Cyprus and the Morea. Size of frame 21 x 15 inches. Property from the Estate of Richard Z. Kabaker, Middleton, Wisconsin $800-1,200

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77 (MAP) BLAEU, J. AND C. Thuringia landgraviatus. Amsterdam, c. 1650. Hand-colored map of Thuringa, showing Weimar and Erffurd. Text to verso. Chipping to edges; some soiling; creased to center with 1 1/2 inch loss to top; tape to verso at crease and edges; otherwise sound. 18 x 23 inches. $80-120

78 (MAP) BONNE, M. A group of four engraved maps of Europe. 18th century. 12 x 17 inches each. $200-400

79 (MAP) ENGLAND A group of hand-colored maps of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. By Robert Mordon, 18th century. Framed and matted. Each with crease to center; otherwise very fine. Together with a hand-colored map of France, Carta Geografica del Governo dell’Isola di Francia. (Venice: Girolamo Albrizzi, 1740). Framed and matted. Repaired tear to the upper right corner. Size of largest 21 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches. $200-400

80 (MAP) MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS A group of two maps from Mitchell’s New General Atlas. Philadelphia: Bradley, 1882. In color. Creased to center; otherwise fine. Size of largest 15 1/4 x 23 inches. $100-200

81 (MAP) OGILBY, JOHN A hand-colored ribbon map showing The Road from Exeter to Truroe, in com. Corn. (London, 1675-1698). Framed and matted. Together with a framed set of two smaller ribbon maps. Hand-colored. In two sided window frame. Size of largest frame 58 x 67 inches. $100-200

82* (MAP) ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM A group of two maps of the Holy Land and surrounding Mediterranean. (Antwerp, c. 1580). Hand-colored. Framed and matted. Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova descriptio. Together with Aegypti recentior de scriptio [with] Carthaginis celeberrimi sinus typus [with] Natoliae quae olim Asia Minor nova descriptio. Size of frame 20 x 26 1/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Richard Z. Kabaker, Middleton, Wisconsin $200-400

83 (MAP, SCANDINAVIA) CLUVER, PHILIPP Svecia, Dania et Norvegia, from an edition of Cluver’s Introductio in universalem geographiam. (Amsterdam: J. Wolters, 1697). Engraved map of Scandinavia, borders outlined in color. Fine condition. 24 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches. $80-120

84* (MAP, SOUTH AMERICA) A group of three hand-colored maps of South America.

Chili. (Amsterdam, 1640). A copper engraved hand-colored map of Chili. Text to verso. Small tear to right edge; otherwise fine. Together with a group of two maps of South America by Gerard Mercator. (Amsterdam, 1609). Framed and matted. Creased to center; otherwise fine. Size of largest frame 23 1/2 x 26 inches. Property from the Estate of Richard Z. Kabaker, Middleton, Wisconsin $200-400 85 MAYER, LUIGI Veduta del villagio di Gigesti nella Valakia presa da un casino alle sponde del fiume Argis. Romania (Walachia), 1794.

An original watercolor, signed. Depicting the Roma inhabitants of a farm near the village of Gigesti (Wallachia). Rare eighteenth century gypsy representation. Size of frame 14 x 21 inches. $4,000-6,000

86 MAYER, LUIGI Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe, in Asia, and Some of the Mediterranean Islands, from the Original Drawings Taken for Sir Robert Ainslie. London: T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1810.

Elephant folio, quarter leather, gilt decorations to spine, with binder’s instructions included at the end. First edition. Complete with 71 hand-colored aquatint plates, including folding panoramic view of Constantinople and views made by Mayer in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, including Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Constantinople, Ephesus, Latachia, Tortosa, Samos and Jerusalem. Wear to boards with some fading and dampstaining to cloth; rubbing to leather spine; slight browning to interior and soiling to margins, not affecting plates; light foxing to the text and three plates; otherwise plates are bright and interior is clean. $4,000-6,000

87 SHAW, ROBERT. Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand, And Kashghar (Formerly Chinese Tartary), and Return Journey Over the Karkoram Pass. London: John Murray, 1871.

8vo, half calf. First edition. With color frontispiece engraving and color engraved plates throughout. Folding map. Spine detached but laid in; wear to boards; hinges starting; institutional stamps to f.f.e.p.; front board detached but present; advertisements tipped in front pastedown; otherwise plates and map are in fine condition. $300-500

88 (MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE) A group of 25 books. $100-200

89 (MATHEMATICS) A group of 26 books. $100-200

90 (MATHEMATICS) BION, N. Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique. The Hague: P. Husson, T. Johnson, et al., 1723.

4to, full contemporary calf, five raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette to title page. With numerous plates throughout, many of which are fold-out. Bookplates of William Hugh Mitchell and Harrison D. Horblitt to front pastedown; splitting to outer hinges; otherwise fine. $500-700