NATURAL hISTORY, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Lots 126–165

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126 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT White-winged Silvery Gull, Larus Leucopterus, no. 57, plate CCLXXXII. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, from The Birds of America, [c. 1836], on J. Whatman, watermark 1835. Framed and matted. 29 x 34 inches. $1,000-2,000

127 127 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Brasilian Caracara Eagle, Polyborus Vulgaris, no. 33, plate CLXI. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, from The Birds of America, [c. 1833]. Framed and matted. Laid down obscuring watermark. 47 x 35 inches. $2,000-4,000

128 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Least Bittern, Ardea Exilis, no. 42, plate CCX. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, from The Birds of America, [c. 1834], on J. Whatman Turkey Mill. Framed and matted. Slightly trimmed, obscuring date of watermark. 23 x 29 inches. $1,500-2,500

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129 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Republican Cliff Swallow, Hirundo Fulva, no. 14, plate 68. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, from The Birds of America, [c. 1829]. Framed and matted. Trimmed, obscuring watermark. 20 x 28 inches. $800-1,200

130 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Green-blue, or White Bellied Swallow, Hirundo Bicolor, no. 20, plate 100 [plate 98], variant 1 (misnumbered). Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, from The Birds of America, [c. 1830]. Framed and matted. Laid down obscuring watermark. 20 x 28 inches. $600-800

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131 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Prairie Titlark, Anthus Pipiens, no. 10, plate LXXX. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, from The Birds of America, [c. 1833]. Framed and matted. Trimmed, watermark obscured. 23 x 29 inches. $800-1,200

132* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BIEN, JULIUS Virginia Partridge, Perdix Virginiana, no. 1-2, plate 289. Chromolithograph from The Birds of America, New York: Julies Bien, 1860. Framed and matted. 26 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of Mr. Daniel Kastenmeier, Mount Prospect, Illinois $3,000-5,000

133 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BOWEN, EMMANUEL Canada Porcupine, Histrix dorsata, no. 8, plate XXXVI. Lithograph with hand-coloring from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1845-1848. Framed and matted. 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches. Provenance: Douglas Kenyon, Chicago, Illinois, December 5, 1987 $600-800

134* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) TYRON MINT The Birds of America. Text by R.D. James. Tyron Mint, 1987-1988.

Double elephant folio, publisher’s wooden folding case, shipping box. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies featuring different signed and numbered prints, with descriptive text. The present set features the BlueWinged Warbler, signed and numbered in pencil. The set also includes five unsigned lithographs of the same size (Great Egret, Little Blue Heron, Sandhill Crane, Key West Quail Dove and Blue-Winged Warbler) and five sample lithographs, stamped in red “Sample” (Great Blue Heron, Baltimore Oriole, Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Whooping Crane and Wood Duck). Together 11 lithographs. 39 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches each. Property from the Collection of Mr. Larry Whitlow, Oak Brook, Illinois $600-800 135* BEWICK, THOMAS A History of British Birds. Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick, 1805.

2 vols. 8vo, quarter calf over marbled boards. Third edition of Land Birds; Second edition of Water Birds, illustrated with numerous vignettes, illustrations and tail-pieces by Thomas Bewick. Boards worn and detached; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns. [Together with:] The Botanic Garden. A Poem, in Two Parts. Dublin: J. Moore, 1793. 8vo, modern plain boards, pastedown spine label. Manuscript ex-libris to title page; scattered light foxing. (3 total) Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $100-200

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136 (BOTANY) BROOKSHAW, GEORGE A group of four prints from Pomona Britannica, 1816-1817, including Plate V, Grapes, matted; Plate XI, Cherries; Plate XXIII, Apricots; and Plate LXXX, Pears. Each aquatint and stipple engraving, finished with watercolor and heightened with gum arabic, watermarked. 21 1/2 x 17 inches each. $400-600

137 (BOTANY) BESLER, BASILIUS Two prints from Hortus Eystettensis, (Eichstat Nuremberg, 1613), Latin text to verso, including Tulips (I. Tulipa lutea miniate punctata...) and Daylily (I. Hemerocallis Calcedonica polyanthos...). Both engraving with hand-coloring. Size of largest 23 x 18 inches. $500-700 138 (BOTANY) BROWN, (DR. PATRICK) Flowers of Mayo [Fasciculus Plantarum Hiberniae]. Introduction by E. Charles Nelson. Illustrations by Wendy Walsh. Dublin: Eamonn de Burca for Edmund Burke, 1995.

Folio, publisher’s morocco-backed boards, giltlettered spine, slipcase, one-page subscriber’s list at end. First edition, one of 150 copies, out-of-series unnumbered, but presentation copy inscribed by the publisher to the f.f.e.p., and numerous tipped-color plates, each signed in pencil by Wendy Walsh. Very fine. $1,000-2,000

139 (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. $300-500 140 (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). Contemporary boards rubbed; intermittent brownspotting and lightly toned leaves; offsetting from some plates. $800-1,200

141 (BOTANY) PRATT, ANNE The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain. London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1889.

4 vols. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. New edition, with over 300 color lithograph plates. Minor edgewear to boards; some light brownspotting; otherwise fine. $200-400

142 (BOTANY) THE FLORIST London: Chapman and Hall, 1848-1850.

3 (of 12) vols. only. 8vo, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered black leather spine labels. With 40 engraved and woodcut plates with hand-coloring. Rubbing to boards at extremities; scattered minor foxing; light offsetting from some plates; hinges tender. $300-500

143* (BOTANY) VOLCKAMER, JOHANN Two prints from Nurnbergische Hesperides, (Nuremberg, 1708), both engraving with handcoloring. Framed and matted, 13 x 8 inches each. Property from the Estate of Evelyn Stefani, Inverness, Illinois $300-500

144 (BOTANY) A group of 10 volumes.

The Botanical Magazine. By William Curtis. London: Printed by Stephen Couchman, 1796. Vols. 10, 12, 17 and 25 only. Ferns: British and Exotic. By E.J. Lowe. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1857. Vols. 3 and 7 only. The Fruit Growers Guide. S.l.: J.S. Virtue, n.d. 4 vols. All with numerous plates, uncollated. $100-200 145 (BOTANY) A group of five facsimiles of landmark botanical works.

The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs [and] De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, 1542. By Leonard Fuchs. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 2 vols. Folio, publisher’s cloth, gilt-lettered spine labels, slipcase. Species plantarum. By Carolus Linaeus. Tokyo: s.n., 1934. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over giltlettered cloth. Paradisi in Sole. By John Parkinson. London: Methuen, 1904. Folio, quarter cloth, title to paper spine label. $200-400

146 (INSECTS) DONOVAN, EDWARD The Natural History of British Insects. London: For the Author, 1792-1794.

3 (of 16) vols. only. 8vo, modern 3/4 red morocco over red cloth. With 108 hand-colored plates. Some spotting to end of vol. 3; a few plates with light dampstain on vol. 2. $200-400 147 (INSECTS) SWAMMERDAM, JOHN The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects. London: C.G. Seyffert, 1758.

Folio, modern blue leatherette, renewed endpapers, title printed in red and black, subscribers list, title page vignette. First edition in English, complete with 53 engraved plates. Wear to boards; intermittent foxing; dampstaining affecting majority of plates and some leaves; scattered brownspotting; offsetting. $200-400

148* (SHELLS) MAWE, JOHN The Linnaean System of Conchology. London: By the Author, 1823.

8vo, modern calf-backed decorative boards, uncut, 16 pp. advertisements. First edition, 37 hand-colored lithograph plates. Hinges cracked and a few leaves starting to detach; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.ep.; some intermittent brownspotting; otherwise interior is overall in good condition. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $300-500

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8vo, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label. With one hand-colored engraved plate. Light wear to boards; two bookplates tipped to front pastedown; intermittent brownspotting. [Together with:] The Natural History of Selborne. London: Cresset, 1947. 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth. Boards faded and rubbed; manuscript notation to f.f.e.p. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $100-200

149A ALPINUS, PROSPER De praesagienda vita et morte aegrotantium libri septem ... cum praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave. Leiden: Isaac Severini, 1733.

8vo, full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, title page in red and black. First published in 1601, with fold-out frontispiece portrait. 3-inch tear to portrait; light wear to boards; ex-library with bookplate; intermittent foxing. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

150 (ANATOMY) BOURGERY, JEAN MARC Traite complet de l’anatomie de l’homme comprenant la medicine operatoire. Paris: C. Delaunay, 1831.

2 (of 8) vols. only. Folio, quarter calf over marbled boards. First edition, with 160 (of 726) plates, nine hand-colored, mainly after Nicolas Henri Jacob. Boards worn with some loss to spine and upper board vol. 2 starting; vol. 2 lacking title page; some offsetting and light foxing. $300-500 151 (ANATOMY) LE CLERC, D. AND J. J. MANGET Bibliotheca Anatomica sive recens in anatomia inventorum thesaurus locupletissimus. Geneva: J.A. Chouet and David Ritter, 1699.

2 vols. Folio, early vellum, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, half-title vol. 1. Second edition, with engraved additional title to vol. 1 and 127 engraved plates, woodcuts and engraved illustrations in-text. Lacking half-title vol. 2; soiling and rubbing to boards; corners bumped; vellum cracked at spine, vol. 1; foxing; scattered brownspotting; offsetting from plates; intermittent wormholing. $600-800

152 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 $200-400

153 (ATLAS) BECVAR, ANTONIN Atlas of the Heavens. Atlas Coeli 1950.0. Prague: Naldatelstvi Ceskoslovenske Akademie; Cambridge: Sky Publishing Corporation, Harvard, 1958.

2 vols., comprising the atlas volume and accompanying 8vo text volume entitled Atlas Coeli II. Katalog 1950.0., publisher’s linen-backed boards, lettered in blue. With 16 full-page celestial charts, black and white photographs laid-in. Light soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $80-120 154 (ASTRONOMY) PEIRCE, BENJAMIN Physical and Celestial Mechanics. Developed in Four Systems of Analytic Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, Potential Physics, and Analytic Morphology. Boston: Little, Brown, 1855.

4to, modern library buckram, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, with one folding plate. Ex-library copy with stamp to title page; light marginal chipping to some leaves; otherwise good. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

155 (NEWTON, ISAAC) BREWSTER, DAVID The Life of Sir Isaac Newton. London: John Murray, 1831.

12mo, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered red leather spine label, portrait frontispiece. First edition. Boards rubbed; offsetting from frontispiece; otherwise good. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

156 HEISTER, LORENZ Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wundartzney gehoeret. Nuremberg: Johann Adam Stein and Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1747.

4to, full calf, engraved frontispiece portrait. With 38 folding engraved plates of surgical instruments. “Heister was the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. His book ... was the most popular surgical text of the eighteenth-century.” (Garrison-Morton) Light rubbing to boards; a few plates frayed along the fore edge; manuscript ex-libris to title page. Literature: Garrison-Morton 5576, 1718 original edition. $200-400

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157 KAAU-BOERHAAVE, ABRAHAM Perspiratio dicta Hippocrati per universum corpus anatomice illustrata. Leiden: S. Luchtmans, 1738.

2 parts in one. 8vo, full mottled calf, gilt-lettered spine label. Ex-library copy with bookplate tipped in front pastedown; edgewear to boards; intermittent foxing; otherwise good. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

158 LARMOR, JOSEPH Aether and Matter. A Development of the Dynamical Relations of the Aether to Material systems on the Basis of the Atomic Constitution of Matter. Cambridge: University Press, 1900.

8vo, publisher’s red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Edgewear and fading to boards; intermittent foxing; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

159 MANNINGHAM, RICHARD The Symptoms, Nature, Causes, and Cure of the Febricula, or Little Fever: Commonly Called the Nervous of Hysteric Fever; the Fever on the Spirits; Vapours, Hypo, or Spleen. London: J. Robinson, 1750.

12mo, modern green library cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Ex-library with bookplate, stamp and call-number; light foxing. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200 160 NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not. New York: D. Appleton, 1860.

8vo, publisher’s brown gilt-lettered cloth. First American edition. Light rubbing to boards with ends bumped; light foxing; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $300-500

161 (ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES) Histoire de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, Annee MDCXXIX. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1733.

8vo, full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine. With frontispiece and 28 folding plates. Bookplate of Archiv militar-geograf. Institutes Bibliotek tipped in front pastedown and stamp to title page; very light soiling to boards; otherwise very good. $100-200

162 SENAC AND CHICOYNEAU Traite des causes, des accidens, et de la cure de la peste. Paris: Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1744.

2 parts in one. 4to, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, title in red and black. First edition. Ex-library with call number and bookplate; lacking portrait; boards worn, detached, with spine deteriorating. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $80-120 163 SMELLIE, (WILLIAM) A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. London: W. Strahan et al., 1779.

3 vols. 8vo, modern full calf, gilt-lettered spine, renewed endpapers, t.e.g. First illustrated edition, containing reduced copies of the plates to Smellie’s 1754 A Set of Anatomical Tables, with 39 engraved plates. Lacking blanks; otherwise fine. $200-400

164* SALMON, WILLIAM Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory. In VI Books. London: J. Dawks, 1702.

8vo, full calf. Sixth edition. Contents detached from backstrip; lacking endpapers. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

165* (MEDICINE) A group of 12 works in 19 volumes. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200