SciENcE, NATUrAl HiSTOrY AND TrAVEl

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1 (EXPLORATION) BREHM, ALFRED EDMUND From North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands. London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin: Blackie and Son, n.d.

8vo, full calf, black leather spine label, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., frontispiece engraved portrait of the author. Tears and dampstaining to first few pages; hinges tender and slightly separated along rear board; some scuffing to boards. $100-200

2 (EXPLORATION) BRINKLEY, FRANK, ed. Japan, described and illustrated by the Japanese. Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. Boston: J. B. Millet, (1897).

10 vols. Folio, gilt-embroidered silk-covered boards with tassel ties. One of 100 sets of the Imperial edition. 60 matted hand-colored albumen prints and 200 smaller hand-colored albumen prints in-text by various Japanese photographers (including Kimbei), 10 original color collotype photographs of flowers by Ogawa, 10 frontispieces of mounted original examples of Japanese art, and numerous color plates reproducing notable works of Japanese art. Plates with silk tissue guards. An incredibly fine set, with no visible signs of wear. $2,000-4,000 3 (EXPLORATION) GREEN, WILLIAM SPOTSWOOD Among the Selkirk Glaciers. Being the Account of a Rough Survey in the Rockey Mountain Regions of British Columbia. London and New York: Macmillan, 1890.

12 mo, full gilt-stamped leather, marbled edges and endpapers. [16]-251. First edition. With numerous plates and fold-out map tipped in rear. Lacking 4 pp. of advertisements; previous owner’s signature to verso of f.f.e.p.; some soiling to endpapers; rubbing to spine and edges of boards; otherwise fine. $200-400

4 (EXPLORATION) LASSELS, RICHARD The Voyage of Italy; or, A Compleat Journey through Italy. In two parts. Paris: John Starkey, 1670.

2 parts in 1. 16mo, full leather, spine stamped in gilt and red. First edition. With engraved frontispiece to part 1. Hinges starting with first few pages slightly detached; early owner’s signature to rear endpapers and lightly on title page; chipping to fore edge of some pages; part 1, p. 235 to part 2, p. 48, detached but present; otherwise a sound copy. $400-600

8 5 (EXPLORATION) MONTANUS, ARNOLDUS Die unbekante neue welt, order beschreibung des welt-teils Ameriker, und des Sud-Landes . . . Amsterdam: Jacob von Meurs, 1673.

4to, contemporary worn vellum, titles printed in black and red. First German translation, much more rare than the Dutch original, with 15 (of 16) maps, 26 (of 32) double-page views, 6 portraits, and 70 large plates in text. With correct plates pasted over pages 49r and 92v. Lacking 1 map, 6 double-page plates and engraved title page; title page, preface and view of “Potosi” detached; large foldout map of America lacking large portions with a significant tear to center; lower right corner of first 20 pages shaved; many pages with small chipping along lower edge; 1-3 inch tears to some pages; intermittent foxing and darkening, with some pages evenly darkened; vellum significantly worn and partially detached from backstrip; library stamp of State Library Indianapolis, Indiana to p. 1. An unsophisticated copy of this desirable translation of Montanus’ atlas, nearly complete. $2,000-4,000

6 (EXPLORATION) NIEUHOFF, JAN [Die Gesandtschafft die Ost-Indischen Compagney in den Vereinigten Niederlaendern]. [Amsterdam: J. van Meurs, 1666].

4to, contemporary worn vellum. Illustrated with 16 (of 33) double-page engraved plates and numerous engravings in-text. Lacking first 18 pages, including map, engraved title and portrait, and last 8 pages of the register; chipping and small tears to many pages; plates and some portions of text leaves reinforced and rebacked. $400-600

7 (EXPLORATION) SPRAT, THOMAS Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier’s Voyage into England. Written by Dr. Wren, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. In the Savoy: Printed for John Martyn and James Allestry, 1668.

12mo, contemporary leather, professionally rebacked, spine gilt. Second edition. F.f.e.p. detached; modern stamp to recto f.f.e.p.; hinges starting; some small tears; some pages trimmed down; otherwise fine. $100-200

8 (EXPLORATION) STANLEY, HENRY In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1890.

2 vols. 4to, original half brown morocco and gilt-stamped vellum, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, t.e.g. First American edition. One of 250 copies of the Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe, signed by the author. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, three folding maps (linen-backed), and six original etched plates signed in pencil by the artist, G. Montbard. Hinges cracked; some slight warping; very light browning to rear pages; rubbing and soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $2,000-4,000

9* (EXPLORATION) ATLAS VAN TROPISCH NEDERLAND Amsterdam: KNAG/ Topografischen dienst in Nederlandsch-Indie, (1938).

Folio, original cloth stamped in gilt. Numerous colored maps. Separate index. First edition. Hinges starting with text block detached from back strip and 4 pp. of preface loose and laid in; hinges of index reinforced; scattered browning and soiling; some chips and small tears to fore edge; cloth boards worn. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

10 (EXPLORATION) TRIGAULT, NICOLAS, et al. Regni Chinensis descriptio. Ex Variis Authoribus. Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1639.

24mo, full vellum, with manuscript title to spine. Copper-engraved title-page, featuring a map of China, and one engraved two-sided plate. [8]-365-[9]. Soiling to vellum; some chipping at fore edges; dampstaining to top edge of text block; otherwise fine. $200-400

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11 (MATH) MALLET, PIERRE La science des nombres. Premiere partie du cours mathematic abrege . . . Paris: Chez l’Auteur, 1651.

12mo, contemporary leather, with very old rebacking with original spine laid down. Engraved borders, woodblock devices and diagrams in-text. Lacking final leaf; tear to p. 283; pp. 277-288 starting to detach from backstrip; fore edge p. 139 shaved; modern stamp to verso f.f.e.p.; some leaves starting; otherwise fine. $100-200

12 (MEDICINE) BORDEU, ANTOINE, et al. Recherches sur les maladies chroniques. Paris: Chez Ruault, 1775.

8vo, contemporary leather, marbled endpapers, spine gilt. First edition. Vol. 1 stated, none other ever published. Hinges cracked but text block tight; rubbing to boards; library stamp and manuscript notation to verso f.f.e.p.; some foxing; otherwise fine. $100-200

13* (MEDICINE) KETHAM, JOHANNES DE The Fasciculus Medicinae. Translated by Charles Singer. Milan: R. Lier, 1924.

Folio, 3/4 cloth over plain boards. Facsimile reprint of the first (Venetian) edition of 1491. Illustrated throughout with 13 tipped in plates of facsimile illustrations accompanied by tissue guards. Ex-library copy with stamps to title page and endpapers, bookplate tipped in front pastedown and call numbers to front board; some minor soiling to boards and leaves; wear to cloth-backed spine; reinforced hinges; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

14 (MEDICINE) WEBSTER, J. CLARENCE Ectopic Pregnancy. New York: Macmillan, 1895.

8vo, green cloth-backed boards, title stamped in gilt to spine. With 22 plates and numerous in-text illustrations throughout. Previous owner’s signature to title page; ex-library copy with Rickett’s Library stamp to half title; hinges starting; chipping to spine ends; corners bumped; otherwise fine. $200-400 15* (MEDICINE) WEBSTER, NOAH A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1799.

Vol. 2 only (of 2). 8vo, full leather. First edition. Hinges cracked; wear to extremities of boards; previous owner’s signature clipped from f.f.e.p.; ex-library copy with stamp to title page; minor intermittent foxing; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

16 (NAUTICAL) ROYAL NAVAL ACADEMY MANUSCRIPT s.l., n.d. (c. 1800) Folio, quarter leather over marbled boards, five raised bands. Comprising approximately 420 pages of a handwritten transcription, presumably by a cadet of the Royal Naval Academy. With 16 pen and ink drawings of architectural and landscape vignettes, numerous diagrams, tables, and other illustrations, some outlined in color.

The four marine surveys include one of Kamtschatka and another of the Palmerston Islands. The days works section describes a voyage of the HMS Resolution in June of 1795. Drawings of landforms in the Navigation section are outlined in shades of green, along with a full-page map of the Atlantic, depicting the construction of a Plane Chart. Similar small hand-colored illustrations are included in the section pertaining to Marine Surveying, which includes three large full-page illustrations.

Additional topics include the following: arithmetic, geometry, plane trigonometry, geography, chronology, navigation, spherics, astronomy, and latitude. Text, in most cases, is transcribed from standard educational sources of the time, including James Atkinson’s Epitome of the Art of Navigation, Charles Vyse’s The Tutor’s Guide, and George Fisher’s Arithmetick.

Wear to boards; some pages reinforced at the hinge; some very minor offsetting; otherwise fine. $1,500-2,500

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17* (NAUTICAL) ALEXANDER, WILLIAM H. A Journal Kept on Board the U.S. Frigate Constellation; Capt. M[elancthon] T[aylor] Woolsey Esq. Commander Bearing the Broad Pennant of...1825, bearing the Broad Pennant of C[illeg] Charles...Ridgely, 1827. At Sea.

4to, contemporary calf stamped “W. H. Alexander, U.S. Navy,” marbled endpapers. Manuscript journal kept by William H. Alexander while aboard the Constellation. 267 pp. of ships log and 41 pages of later hand-writing exercises by a relative of the author Covers worn and starting to detach; some leaves of manuscript soiled with over-writing; otherwise quite legible.

Together with a collection of autographed letters from Alexander while on duty. Property from the Estate of Dr. Warren G. Smirl, Waukesha, Wisconsin $2,000-4,000

18 (NAUTICAL, WHALING) A group of six documents illustrative of the business of whaling. Includes: (1) A printed Insurance Policy. November 19, 1867. $15,000 in Sperm Oil for vessels at Fayal (Atlantic). (2) 1 page. ALS from John C. Osgood. July 28-29, 1867. Endorsing Mr. Corowell for First Mate to Indian Ocean aboard the ship Para. Response: Crowell is aboard the ship Julian on a whaling voyage. (3) 2 page. ALS from Captain Lewis Tobey, Master of William Rotch. January 10, 1821. Request payment for main sail and line. (4) 2 page. ALS and sales account from John MacKay, Baltimore. October 4, 1823. 21 casks of whale oil received for sale by MacKay from Plummer. Also lists buyers and current prices for both whale and sperm oils. (5) 3 ALS from G. S. Alden, New Bedford, to Isaac Hicks, NY. December 4, 1801. Arrival of ship Warren, purchase of ship, arrival of ship Commerce. (6) 1 page. Printed bill of sale of ship Lading. July 15, 1845. Casks of sperm oil by Abraham Bell and Son, New York. For the ship Fidelia. $600-800

19 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York: J. J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840.

2 vols. (vols. 1 and 2 only). 8vo, 3/4 green leather over marbled boards. 139 (of 140) colored plates. Wear to boards, slight foxing throughout; Vol. 1 hinges starting, leaves detached from spine on interior of both volumes. $3,000-5,000 20 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Audubon’s Fifty Best. By John James Audubon and John Bachman. Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition. Chicago: Oppenheimer Editions, 2002.

2 vols. Elephant folios, loose as issued in linen folding cases, housed in original standing wooden rack, engraved brass plaque. Limited edition, number two of 300 copies. With 45 of 50 color plates, each embossed with the Field Museum stamp in the lower left corner and publisher’s single monogram in lower right corner, limitation stamped on verso of each broadsheet. Fine in fine case. Size of Plate 28 x 22 inches. $3,000-5,000

21 BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1785.

18 vols. 12mo, full leather, spines gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 256 engraved black and white plates. Some wear to boards; some pages detached, including vol. 1, pp. 107-110 and plate 10. $400-600

22* (FISHER, CHARLES HAWKINS) Reminicences of a Falconer. London: John C. Nimmo, 1801.

8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth with gilt-stamped illustration of birds to front board, portrait frontispiece. First edition. Intermittent foxing; hinges starting; wear to spine ends; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Dr. Warren G. Smirl, Waukesha, Wisconsin $100-200

23* (BOTANY) CURTIS, WILLIAM The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. London: Lovell Reeve, 1887 and 1909.

2 vols. 8vo, ex-library copy with call numbers to spines. (1) 1887, with 39 plates (4 fold-out); (2) 1909, with 58 plates (10 fold-out). Together with Farm Weeds of Canada. By George H. Clark and James Fletcher. Ottawa: Sydney A. Fisher, 1909. 8vo, original pictorial cloth (worn). Illustrated with 76 plates. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

24 (BOTANY) LOUDON, J. C. An Encyclopaedia of Gardening; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening, Including All the Latest Improvements; A General History of Gardening In All Countries; And A Statistical View of its Present State; With Suggestions For Its Future Progress, In the British Isles. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834.

8vo, green cloth-backed blind-stamped boards with title stamped in gilt to spine. Wear to boards; hinges starting, with separation to inner hinges; minor foxing to some leaves; discoloration to 5 inch strip on p. 860; otherwise fine. $100-200

25 (BOTANY) MEEHAN, THOMAS A collection of 30 framed and matted chromolithographed plates from an edition of The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States. [Boston:] L. Prang, [18781879]. $200-400

26 (BOTANY) MEREDITH, LOUISA ANNE Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania. London: Day & Son, 1860.

Folio, blue library cloth, glit-stamped call number to spine and call number sticker to spine, marbled boards, bookplate city of Leeds Library of Commerce, Science and Technology, a.e.g. Illustrated with eight colored plates with tissue guards. Text block shifted; library stamp to plates and title pages; some foxing. $200-400

27 (BOTANY) MILLER, PHILIP The Gardener’s and Botanist’s Dictionary. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1807.

2 vols. in 4. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked maintaining portions of original spine, marbled edges and endpapers. With 20 plates to vol. 1, part 1. Rubbing to boards; hinges cracked; dampstain to lower 1/2 of majority affecting some plates; foxing to endpaper; bookplate tipped in front pastedowns; 4 3/4 inch tear to bottom of p. 8Z(2) in vol. 1, part 2. $400-600

28 (BOTANY) WALCOTT, MARY VAUX North American Wild Flowers. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925.

5 vols. Folio, loose as issued in blue cloth folder stamped Smithsonian Institute with cloth ties and original publisher’s box. Complete with 400 colored plates. Vol. 2 lacking box; vol. 1 without folder; boxes worn; some browning to text folders. $300-500

29* (PHYSICS) HERTZ, HEINRICH A group of three books.

The Principles of Mechanics Presented in a New Form. London and New York: Macmillan, 1899. 8vo, ex-library copy. First edition in English. Miscellaneous Papers. London: Macmillan, 1896. First edition in English. 8vo, ex-library copy. Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. Thin 8vo, quarter leather over marbled boards. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

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