Remaining Stock of Antiquariat Botanicum, Part I | Lots 67-192

Selections from the Collection of Dr. Eugene Vigil and the Remaining Stock of Antiquariat Botanicum

Lots 67-192

Chicago native Dr. Eugene L. Vigil began his career as a scientist, earning his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Iowa in 1967. From 1971-1988, Dr. Vigil taught Botany at Marquette University and the University of Maryland. He was appointed plant physiologist in 1988 for the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture until 1995, when he was appointed Program Director for the NIH. Dr. Vigil is a leader in botanical science and industry, advancing our understanding of plant cell organization. He transitioned to full-time bookselling in 2001.

As a person of Hispanic and Navajo descent, Dr. Vigil has sought to encourage young Hispanic and Indigenous students to STEM fields. Since 1995, he has devoted his time to helping other minority scientists achieve success and is a Life Member of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).

Vigil was first introduced to the book trade through his interest in gardening, specifically teaching himself how to build a rock garden. His surplus of gardening books after these explorations prompted him to find a way to sell them, leading him to his second career as a bookseller. He founded Antiquariat Botanicum in 1987, where he has sold books from the 15th to the 20th centuries on Botany, Gardening, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural History, and Science and Technology, as well as Travel and Exploration. The antiquarian materials he sold reflect his knowledge of botany, cell biology, the history of biomedical science. Vigil has been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of American (ABAA) since 1999, and is a member, by affiliation, of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Hindman is pleased to offer selections from his collection and the remaining stock of Antiquariat Botanicum, and will offer further selections in 2022.

67 AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas (1672-1738). Versuch einer allgemeinen Vermehrung aller Baume, Staude und Blumengewachse. Regensburg: Johann Leopold Montag & Johann Heinrich Gruner, 1772.

2 parts in one volume, folio (365 x 220 mm). Half-titles, title to part I printed in red and black; 2 engraved frontispieces; 34 engraved plates in text (2 folding). Modern vellum-backed marbled boards, uncut.

Later edition of the first book devoted to tree and plant cuttings and grafting, first published in 1716-1717. Though earlier editions of Agricola’s work were primarily concerned with fruit trees, the present edition provides a detailed exposition of different methods to propagate new trees not only from grafting cuttings to roots of the same species of tree, but also grafting similar trees of different species to generate new varieties. See Hunt 452. $2,000 - 3,000

68 [ALBUM - CHINESE SCHOOL]. Album containing 10 ink and color drawings on pith paper, ca 1860s.

Oblong 8vo album containing 10 finely drawn ink and color drawings on pith paper, each measuring about 105 x 168 mm, and mounted onto larger sheets (238 x 150 mm) within blue printed borders. (Some overall browning from adhesive, some minor cracking with occasional small losses.) Bound in 19th-century cloth-covered boards (rebacked). Provenance: Mrs. M. N. Clarke (signature, with a note that the album was given to the owner in 1862).

The subjects include flowering pants, birds and butterflies. Pith comes from the central column of spongy cellular tissue in the stem of the small tree Tetrapanax papyrifera, native to southwest China. because of the nature of pith and its cellular structure, the pigment used sits on the surface of the sheet, and fine detail could be achieved. Albums of pith paintings retain their vibrant colors. $800 - 1,200

69 ARCHIMEDES (287?-212 B.C.), APOLLONIUS PERGAEUS (fl. 225 B. C.), and THEODOSIUS. Archimedis Opera --Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri IIII --Theodosii Sphaerica: methodo nova Illustrata, & Succinctae Demonstrata. London: William Godbid for Robert Scott, 1675.

3 works in one volume, 4to (202 x 151 mm). 29 folding engraved plates. (Without the leaf with glossary of mathematical symbols inserted before A3, often lacking; some browning or offsetting, a few short tears to folds of plates). Contemporary mottled calf (neatly rebacked preserving old letteringpiece). Provenance: unidentified bookplate verso of title-page partially removed.

FIRST EDITION of Barrow’s translation of the known works of Archimedes, the first four books of the Conics of Apollonius, and the Spherics of Theodosius. Includes Barrow’s Lectiones opticae, which were revised and corrected by Newton: “these lectures, in Latin, form [Barrow’s] most important book, in which some of his remarkable optical discoveries are published for the first time and which undoubtedly influenced Newton” (Babson 249). ESTC R6704.

$1,000 - 1,500

70 AUDEBERT, Jean Baptiste (1759-1800). Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis. Paris: Desray, An XIII [1799-1800].

2 volumes, folio (489 x 321 mm). 61 engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand, 2 uncolored anatomical plates. (Some very minor spotting or soiling, minor dampstain to outer margin of a few plates.) Contemporary boards with modern rebacking and recornering, edges stained red (some light wear to boards).

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MONOGRAPH DEVOTED TO THE DESCRIPTION OF PRIMATES. Audebert employed a new technique in the printing of the plates in which all of the colors were printed from one plate, substituting oil paint for gouache. The resulting plates depict the animals in their natural brilliance. Nissen ZBI 156; Wood p.206. A FRESH COPY. $10,000 - 15,000

71 BECQUEREL, Antoine César (1788-1878). Traité Complet du Magnétisme. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1846.

8vo (227 x 135 mm). 20 folding engraved plates (2 unnumbered). (Some chipping or dampstaining.) Modern quarter black morocco gilt, marbled boards, uncut and partially unopened (new endpapers, some very minor rubbing); original wrappers bound in. Provenance: A.B. Muller (armorial bookplate).

Later edition, a reprint of vol. VII of Traité de l’Electricité et du Matnétisme, Becquerel›s most important work, first published in Paris in 1834-40 with a general introduction. Becquerel received the Copley Medal for his various publications on electricity, and his ultimtae goal was to eventually synthesize naturally-occurring crystals (DSB 1, p. 557). $200 - 300

73 [BIBLE, in Cree] [The New Testament in the Cree Language.] Rev. William Mason, translator. London: W. M. Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1859.

8vo (184 x 117 mm). Printed in Cree syllabics throughout. Contemporary sheep by Watkins with their ticket (some discreet repairs to hinges and spine).

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST NEW TESTAMENT PRINTED IN CREE. Methodist (later Anglican) William Mason and his wife Sophia Thomas Mason translated several editions of the Gospel of St. John in the Plains Cree dialect between 1851 and 1857. Following the publication of this edition of the New Testament, they published an edition of the whole Bible translated into Plains Cree in 1861-1862. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We trace no copies of this edition of the New Testament at auction since 1976. 72 BERGMAN, Torben Olof, Sir (1732-1784). Physical and Chemical Essays. Edmund Cullen, translator. London: J. Murray, 1788.

2 volumes only (of 3, lacking Vol.III, published 1791), 8vo (207 x 125 mm). 2 folding tables; 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: note indicating a 1996 purchase at Maggs Bros.

Second edition of this English translation of volumes I and II of the Opuscula physica et chemical. Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist, was the first chemist to use the A, B, C. etc. system of notation for chemical species. According to Neville, the second edition is so rare that Bergman’s bibliographer stated he had never seen a copy (Neville, p. 125). $500 - 700

74 BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818-1890). Ether and Chloroform; their Discovery and Physiological Effects. Boston: David Clapp, 1848.

8vo (230 x 150 mm). Original salmon wrappers uncut; cloth folding case.

FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, containing printings of two papers: “Ether and Chloroform: A Compendium of their History, Surgical Use, Dangers, and Discovery,” an offprint from Vol. I of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and “Anaesthetic Agents, their Mode of Exhibition and Physiological Effects,” an offprint from the Transactions of the American Medical Association. “Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery, and his subsequent advocacy of ether assured its adoption throughout the civilized world” (Garrison-Morton 5730). $800 - 1,200

75 BLACK, Joseph (1728-1799). Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry delivered in the University of Edinburgh...now published from his Manuscripts. Edinburgh: Mundell and Son, 1803.

2 volumes, 4to (265 x 206 mm). Engraved portrait, 3 engraved plates; with the 2 unnumbered leaves of explanatory text bound between pp.552 and 553. (Minor offsetting of frontispiece to text). Contemporary calf gilt by Carss of Glasgow with their ticket (neatly rebacked to style, some minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth, 2nd Baronet (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, edited by John Robinson. Black was appointed chair of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 1766, where he did important work on latent heat, which “not only formed the basis of modern thermal science, but gave the first impulse to Watt’s improvements in the steam engine” (DNB). After Black’s death in 1799, his heirs persuaded Robinson, Black’s former pupil and friend, to edit and publish his lectures. Robinson supplied an introduction and many notes as well as a few sections of text. Norman 239.

$800 - 1,200

76 BOCCONE, Paolo (1633-1704). Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eusdem classis facile distinguitur. Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano and London: Robert Scott, 1674.

4to (226 x 174 mm). Engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theater on title, 52 engraved illustrations, some with hand-coloring (title repaired in upper blank margin, some minor mostly marginal browning). Modern calf. Provenance: Sold Wheldon and Wesley, 1964; Anita Peek Gilger, M.D. (sold her sale, Christie’s New York, 14 October 2003, Lot 12).

FIRST EDITION of this description of rare plants in Italy and France. Boccone, an Italian naturalist, visited England in 1673, where he attended a meeting of the Royal Society and met Charles Hatton. Hatton convinced his mentor, Robert Morison, to edit Boccone’s manuscript for this work, and paid for its publication. Boccone brought plates for the work to England, but Morison had them redrawn from dried specimens and engraved at Hatton’s expense because they were inaccurate. Henrey 14; Hunt 329; Nissen BBI 179; Wing B-3385. $800 - 1,200

77 No Lot

78 BOODT, Anselmus Boetius de (1550?-1634). Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Leiden: Joannis Maire, 1647. [Bound with:] LAET, Joannis de (1581-1649). De Gemmis et lapidibus libri duo. Quibus praemittitur Theophrasti liber de lapidibus Graece & Latine. Leiden: Joannis Maire, 1647.

8vo (189 x 113 mm). 2 folding tables in the first work; in-text woodcuts throughout both works. (Some minor spotting.) Contemporary vellum, black morocco letteringpiece, yapp edges, edges sprinkled blue. Provenance: Bornius (signature); Melvin Edward Jahn (bookplate).

Third edition of the Gemmarum by Boodt, FIRST EDITION of De Gemmis by Laet. Boodt’s Gemmarium was the definitive work in the 17th century with regards to splitting diamonds, distinguishing authentic gemstones, and measuring the hardness of stones. He describes some 600 known minerals, describing their properties and medical uses. In the second work, Laet discusses Boodt’s work, and includes a translation of Theophrastus’s book on stones with Laet’s short annotations. $500 - 700

79 BORN, Max. (1882-1970) Mimeograph typescript, completed in manuscript, of lectures in physics: “Theorie der Wärme Vorlesung im Sommer-Semester 1922.” --”Vorlesung Ueber Theoretische Optik. Winter-Semester 1922.” University of Göttingen, 1921-1922.

2 volumes, folio (326 x 196 mm). Volume I: 232 leaves including title and contents leaves; Volume II: 254 leaves title and contents leaves. Mimeograph typescript printed recto only with manuscript diagrams, equations, and figures, and emendations and emphases to the typed text. Half cloth (some light wear to extremities). Provenance: Andries Charl Cilliers (1898-1980), theoretical physicist (ownership inscription); sold Christie’s London, 13 December 2006, Sale 7269, Lot 131.

The lectures on thermodynamics include sections on capillarity, the theory of the ideal gas according to Planck, thermochemistry and applications of van der Waal’s equations; those on optics cover electromagnetism, field theory, wave theory, refraction, optical properties of crystals, electron theory, and Born’s mathematical theory of optical rotation. Up to this point, Born’s work had focused on heat and the dynamics of crystal lattice, and by 1921, he provided the most satisfactory mathematical statement on the first law of thermodynamics.

That year, he was appointed professor of theoretical physics at Göttingen, where he joined a group of scientists whose collaboration brought forth major developments in theoretical physics, culminating in the birth of quantum mechanics. The present lecture formed part of his first academic year at the institute. “The ‘Born School’ at Göttingen was as important to the flowering of theoretical physics as the schools of Bohr at Copenhagen and of Arnold Sommerfeld at Munich’ (DSB). A.C. Cilliers became professor of theoretical physics at Stellenbosch University after he completed his studies at Göttingen. $1,500 - 2,500 80 BOUTCHER, William (fl. 1734-1781). A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the Best Methods of their Culture hitherto Practiced, but a Variety of New and Useful Discoveries. Edinburgh: R. Fleming for J. Murray, 1775.

4to (283 x 224 mm). Without engraved frontispiece and half-title as usual (Some light toning.) Original boards, printed lettering-piece, uncut (rebacked, some wear to edges, some staining). Provenance: Robert Mascall (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY BOUTCHER. Boutcher guides the reader through “plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees,” “transplanting hedges of sundry kinds,” as well as the “disposition, planting, and culture of hedges” to promote more robust growth (title-page). Henrey declared that the present work is the best 18th-century treatise on arboriculture, which has practical guidance that aid forestry today. Cleveland Collections, 521; Henrey 3, 476. $300 - 400

81 BRADLEY, Richard (d.1732). New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical; Explaining the Motion of the Sapp and Generation of Plants...The Fourth Edition...To which is added...Herefordshire-Orchards. London: W. Mears, 1724.

8vo (182 x 116 mm). Title printed in red and black within double rule border; 11 copper engraved plates (8 folding). (Title inserted on a stub, some light browning.) Contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked to style, some light wear). Provenance: Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724), Scottish statesman (armorial bookplate); Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963), bookbinder (bookplate laid in).

Fourth edition. The work comprises four tracts with continual pagination, describing a new system of vegetation, methods for improving flower gardens, a gardener’s calendar, and two early letters published as Herefordshire Orchards. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt was the first woman to lecture at the male-only Grolier Club, and was inspired to help found the all-woman Hroswitha Club, which has since merged with the Grolier Club. ESTC T112715; Henrey 501; not in Hunt. $200 - 300 82 BRICKELL, John (c.1710-1745). The natural history of North-Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants. Dublin: James Carson, 1737.

8vo (194 x 120 mm). Folding map, 2 engraved plates. (Some minor chipping to a few leaves.) 20th-century half calf, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt (joints slightly rubbed). Provenance: Frank C. Deering (1866-1939), Americana collector (morocco booklabel).

FIRST EDITION, THE FRANK DEERING COPY.

Brickell compiled his Natural History of North-Carolina from his own first-hand observations, though much of his work is taken from John Lawson›s A New Voyage to Carolina (1709). “Brickell took the book of Lawson, reworked it in his own fashion extended or curtailed and brought it to his time...there is, besides, much more language relating to the social condition of the Colony in Brickell...while Lawson sticks close to the natural, economic, and Indian history of the province (Stephen B. Weeks, Libraries and Literature in North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century). ESTC T143839; Sabin 7800. $2,500 - 3,500

83 BURBIDGE, Frederick William Thomas (1847-1905). The Narcissus; its History and Culture. London; L. Reeve & Co., 1875.

8vo (244 x 165 mm). Half-title; 48 lithographed plates with handcoloring. (Some minor spotting to a few preliminary leaves.) Original publisher’s cloth gilt (spine sunned, some minor wear to extremities, hinges starting). Provenance: W. R. Price (signature).

FIRST EDITION of Burbidge’s study on the genus Narcissus. “In offering this short history of a popular genus of hardy bulbs, my object has been to assist horticulturists and amateurs by adding coloured figures to the excellent review of the genus which originally appeared in the ‘Gardener’s Chronicle’ (1869)’” (Preface, p.[vii]). Nissen BBI 297; Great Flower Books p.83. $300 - 400

85 CASSINI, JACQUES. Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planets, des etoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne. Paris: de l’imprimerie royale, 1740.

4to (248 x 192 mm). 26 engraved plates; engraved head-piece and initial. (Lacking the errata leaf as often, a few small spots or stains to a few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some overall wear).

FIRST EDITION of Cassini’s collection of astronomical tables. Jacques Cassini succeeded his father as the head of the Paris Observatory. He was a cartesian, and an opponent of Newtonianism. Houzeau & Lancaster 12793. 84 BURROWS, George (1832-1909). On Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation; And on the Connection between Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846.

8vo (222 x 140 mm). 6 hand-colored lithographic plates; 4pp. advertisements at beginning, 16pp. advertisements at end. (Some very minor spotting to preliminary leaves.) Original maroon blind-stamped cloth gilt (some light wear, spine sunned). Provenance: London Hospital Medical College (shelf label on spine, stamps).

FIRST EDITION of Burrow’s research, which was critical in dispelling the earlier hypothesis by Monro-Kellie that the blood volume in the brain remains constant. Burrows “demonstrated that the amount of blood in the brain can vary and this may be responsible for clinical signs,” making this publication a “milestone in the study of cerebral vascular physiology” (McHenry). The advertisement at the read is a publisher’s catalog “Corrected April 1846.” McHenry, Garrison’s History of Neurology, P237. $200 - 300

86 CASSINI, Jacques (1677-1756). Elements d’Astronomie. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1740.

4to (248 x 190 mm). 21 engraved folding plates. (Some very minor spotting, mostly marginal dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: Early annotation on flyleaf; William S? (signature on title-page).

FIRST EDITION of Cassini’s manual. His principal areas of interest were the study of planets and their satellites, including the structure of Saturn’s rings and the observation and theory of comets and the tides. While his observations yielded important results, his biases as a Copernican and not a Newtonian diminished their theoretical value. $500 - 700

87 COQUEBERT, Antoine Jean (1753-1825). Illustratio Iconographica Insectorum… Paris: Typis Petri Didot, [1798/9]-1804.

3 parts in one volume, 4to (328 x 253 mm). 30 hand-colored engraved plates. Contemporary paper-backed boards, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance: Hans W. Taeuber (bookplate); Librairie Jacques Lechevalier (bookseller’s ticket).

FIRST EDITION OF COQUEBERT’S SCARCE WORK. Complete copies of this important entomological study of insects in the Museum of Natural History in Paris are very rare, as the publisher’s stock was destroyed by fire. Coquebert was a noted French naturalist and councilor to the royal court at Amiens and Rhiems. A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY. Nissen ZBI 957.

$800 - 1,200

88 CORNUT, Jacques Philippe (1606-1651). Canadensium plantarum, aliarúnque nondum editarum historia cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicum parisiense. Paris: Simon le Moyne, 1635.

4to (238 x 132 mm). 68 full-page etchings in text. (Some occasional pale spotting and browning.) Modern brown morocco. Provenance: Early inscription dated 1670 on title; occasional marginalia and titling of some plates; Edward Sandford Burgess (bookplate); Ashton Allis (bookplate); sold Swann Galleries, 28 October 1971, lot 111; Dr. Anita Peek Gilger (her sale, Christie’s New York, 14 October 2003, Lot 34).

FRIST EDITION OF THE FIRST CANADIAN FLORA, describing and illustrating approximately thirty Northeast American species for the first time. French physician Cornut never visited North America, but received plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the Morin family, who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Cornut also includes five South African bulb plants, again illustrated here for the first time. Cleveland Collections 190; Hunt 227; Nissen BBI 406. $4,000 - 6,000

89 COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Planters Manual: Being Instructions for the Raising, Planting, and Cultivating all sorts of Fruit-Trees, whether Stone-fruits or Pepin-fruits, with their Natures and Seasons. Very useful for such as are Curious in Planting and Grafting. London: Henry Brome, 1675.

8vo (157 x 90 mm). Engraved title-page “The planters manuell” on A1v (imprint cropped with old repair), publisher’s advertisements on final 2 leaves, several woodcut initials and head-pieces. (Some soiling and minor chipping.) Modern calf gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt.

FIRST EDITION of Cotton’s English translation of R. Triquet’s Instructions pour les Arbres Fruictiers, published in Paris by A. Bertier in 1653, according to F. Cardew’s Instructions pour les Arbres Fruictiers (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, October 1950). ESTC R18563, Henrey 42; Hunt 337; Janson p. 111; Wing C-6388. $400 - 600

90 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Insectivorous Plants. London: John Murray, 1875.

8vo (190 x 125 mm). Half-title; numerous in-text wood engravings after Darwin. Original publisher’s green cloth, covers decorated in blind, spine gilt (hinges just starting, some light wear to spine ends). Provenance: Rowland Ward (1848-1912), British taxidermist and founder of Rowland Ward Limited of Piccadilly, London (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, third thousand, with an updated errata slip. “These meticulous studies form a minor contribution to the evolutionary series by the study of the adaptations of such plants to impoverished conditions” (Freeman p.149). Rowland Ward’s firm specialized in taxidermy work on birds and big game trophies, and he was a well-known publisher of natural history books and big-game hunting narratives. His father, Edwin Henry Ward, was also a taxidermist who traveled with John James Audubon. Ward prepared bird skins for Audubon, which were later used in The Birds of America. Freeman 1219; Norman 601. A BRIGHT COPY. $200 - 300

91 NO LOT

92 [DEVILLE, Nicolas, translator] -- BAUHIN, Gaspar (1560-1624). Histoire des plantes de l’Europe, et des plus usitées qui viennent d’Asie, d’Afrique, & d’Amérique. Lyon: Chez les Frères Duplain, 1753.

2 volumes, 8vo (165 x 91 mm). Half-title to vol.I; numerous woodcuts throughout. (Small wormtrack to lower corner margin of vol.I). Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, red and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red (upper cover to vol.II slightly bowed, some minor rubbing, hinges starting).

Later edition of Bauhin’s Histoire des plants de l’Europe..., first published in 1671, and here illustrated with woodcut figures of medicinal plants with names in Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and German throughout, named according to Pinax and Bauhin’s nomenclature. Copies of any edition of Bauhin’s work are rare on the market at auction.

$400 - 600

93 DUHAMAL DU MONCEAULE, Henri Lewis (1700-1782). The Elements of Agriculture. Philip Miller, translator. London: P. Vaillant & T. Durham & R. Baldwin, 1764.

2 volumes, 8vo (203 x 123 mm). 14 copper engraved plates. (Some light toning.) Contemporary polished calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges speckled red (some scuffs and chipping to extremities). Provenance: Penn Libraries (shelfmarks “Library, Ben Damph. Forest”).

FIRST EDITION of Duhamel’s treatise, which was a significant contribution to the advancement of technology for agriculture and well recognized in France. Philip Miller revised and translated the work from the French, making the technological advances developed in France available to a wider readership, particularly farmers in English. ESTC T130245.

$300 - 400

94 EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.). Euclidis Megarensis Mathematici Clarissimi Elementorum Geometricorum Libri XV… Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1537.

Folio (298 x 202 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations. (Title torn crossing letters with old repair verso and lower corner renewed, closed tear on p.181 repaired, title slightly soiled). Contemporary vellum (endpapers renewed, slightly soiled). Provenance: Christen Sorensen Longomontanus (1562-1647), Danish astronomer (signature on title); Alexander Campbell (armorial bookplate).

FIRST HERVAGIUS EDITION OF EUCLID IN LATIN, containing the complete works derived from Zanetti’s 1505 translation, and including comments by Campanus, Hypiciles, and the rare preface by Philip Melanchthon, removed by censors in many copies.

DANISH ASTRONOMER CHRISTEN SORENSEN LONGOMONTANUS’S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE.

Longomontanus was Tycho Brahe’s assistant at the astronomical observatory of Uraniborg in 1589. There, Brahe, Longomontanus and Kepler worked to try to develop a theory to predict longitude at oppositions with complete accuracy. He had good “skill at manipulating observational data, and he may have played an important role in Tycho’s remarkable research on the lunar theory” (DSB). He visited Frauenburg, where Copernicus had made his observations, and took a master’s degree at Rostock. He was elected in 1605 to a professorship in the University of Copenhagen, where we became chair of mathematics in 1607, a position he held until his death.

Longomontanus developed Tycho’s geoheliocentric model of the universe to public acceptance. When Tycho died in 1601, he had not yet completed his program for the restoration of astronomy. Though the observational aspects were complete, Longomontanus selected and integrated the data into accounts of the motion of the planets and presented the results, which he published in his Astronomia Danica of 1622. Though Kepler›s Rudolphine Tables of 1627, based on Tycho›s observations, are often believed to be more accurate than any previous tables, Longomontanus›s tables, published in 1622, also based on Tycho›s observations, were demonstrably more accurate. With several marginal annotations, presumably in Longomontanus’s hand. Adams H-974; Houzeau Lancaster 832. $5,000 - 7,000

95 EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.). Euclidis Elementorum libri XV Graece & Latine... Paris: Apud Hieronymum de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1537.

8vo (164 x 104 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut printer’s device at end; text in Greek and Latin; woodcut diagrams throughout. (Some minor browning or spotting, inkburn to the upper margin of a few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, hand-lettered on spine (lacking ties, soiled); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: extensive early mostly marginal ink notes and diagrams.

Reprint of the first Gracilis edition of 1557 incorporating the corrections from that edition. The woodblock vignette on the title-page and the printer’s device at end depict the coat-of-arms of Jerome of Marnef. Adams E-1001.

$400 - 600

96 [EUCLID]. SCARBURGH, Charles, Sir (1616-1694). The English Euclide, Being The First Six Elements of Geometry, Translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and useful Supplements. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705.

Folio (349 x 224 mm). Half-title; engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater on the titlepage; numerous woodcut and typographic diagrams throughout. (Some minor mostly marginal dampstaining or spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, some light wear, hinges reinforced). Provenance: Benedict Library (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Scarburgh’s translation of Euclide, published from his manuscript by his son. Physician and mathematician Sir Charles Scarburgh was an original fellow of the Royal Society. Wallis, British Euclids p.5. $1,000 - 1,500

97 FONTENELLE, Bernad LeBouyer de (1657-1757). Eléments de la Geométrie de l’infinie Suite des Memoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences. Paris: De l’Imprimerie Royale, 1727.

4to (250 x 189 mm). Woodcut device on title; engraved head-piece; one engraved folding plate. (Some minor spotting.) Modern half calf, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Provenance: The University of Keele Library, Turner Collection (presentation bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Fontenelle’s attempt at a theory of infinity. “In it he displayed his interest in the notion of infinity and his talent as a historian; in a few pages he retraces the history of the mathematical study of curved lines from Archimedes to Newton and Leibniz...According to Fontenelle, none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory to it; that is what he proposed to do” (DSB). $200 - 300

98 FRISCH, Johann Leonhard (1666-1743). Beschreibung von allerley Insecten in Teutsch-Land. Berlin: Christoph Gottleib, 1721-1738.

13 parts in one volume, 8vo (200 x 157 mm). First title printed in red and black; engraved vignette headpieces; 40 copper engraved plates (many folding). (Some overall browning.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (hinges starting). Provenance: Theodoor Gerard van Lidth de Jeude (1788-1863) Dutch physician and zoologist (bookplate); N. A. Hamner (bookplate); Bengt-Olof Landin (1925-2006), Swedish professor of systematic zoology at Lund University (bookplate).

FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT GERMAN TREATISE ON INSECTS, issued over the course of 18 years, describing nearly 300 different insects, with most of the plates engraved from Frisch’s own drawings by his son Philip Jacob. “Frisch was a careful and diligent observer... He takes one insect at a time, describes its external features, figures it in all stages, if possible, and tells all that he has been able to discover about its mode of life” (Miall pp. 240-1). $400 - 600

99 FUCHS, Leonhart (1501-1566). Histoire des Plantes de M. Leonhart Fuschsius, avec les noms Grecs, Latins & Fraçoys. Paris: Arnold Byrkman, 1549.

8vo (165 x 98 mm). 519 woodblock prints with early hand-coloring. (B2 printed in facsimile on laid paper, a few short tears or holes occasionally just touching letters, a few shoulder notes just shaved.) Later limp vellum (soiling). Provenance: Marginalia in an early hand; Maison de Poesis Fondation Belmont (small stamp on title and a few other leaves).

Presumed second edition in French. Nissen records two Paris editions of 1549: a folio edition published by Jacques Gazeau, and the present edition. Fuchs’ work, “perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published” (PMM), was first published in Latin as De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes in Basel in 1542. The popularity of Fuchs› work in France is evidenced by the numerous editions which appeared in quick succession from 1549 through 1558.

RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this scarce reduced edition of Fuchs, published in Paris by Arnold Byrkman, has sold at auction in the last 50 years. OCLC locates only 5 copies of this edition worldwide. Nissen BBI 665; not in Brunet, Hunt, NLM/Durling, or Wellcome. $2,000 - 3,000

100 GHISI, Martino (1715-1794). Lettere Mediche. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1749.

8vo (238 x 165 mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. Later half vellum, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. FIRST EDITION.

[Bound with:] [IBN AL-BEITHAR]. Ebembitar De Limonibus Tractatus Arabicus in Latinum ab Andrea Bellunensi. Edited by Martino Ghisi. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1757.

A rare translation of the first citrus book, originally written in Arabic and translated in 1602 by Andrea Bellunensi. We trace no other editions of this work published after Ghisi’s edited 1757 publication.

Ghisi, a physician in Cremona, Italy, studies under Paolo Valcarenghis before moving to Florence. He returned to Cremona to practice medicine, and in 1747-1748, he combatted an epidemic which struck a large number of children and adolescents in the Cremona region. He made careful clinical and meteorological observations on the epidemic, which he published in the present pamphlet Lettre mediche del Dottor M. Ghisi. The second section of the work presents the first complete scientific description of diphtheria. RARE: We trace no copy of either work ever sold at auction. $1,000 - 1,500

102 GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob ‘s (1688-1742). Philosophiae Newtonianae Institutiones, in usus Academicos. Bassani: Ex Typographia Remondini, 1749.

8vo (172 x 112 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title; 18 engraved folding plates. (Wormtrack in lower margin of first ca 11 leaves affecting imprint on title and wormhole in lower gutter margin last ca 23 leaves.) Contemporary vellum, spine gilt-lettered (some minor soiling, a few early geometric drawings on covers).

FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Gravesande’s student textbook of Newton’s physics, and the most influential introduction to Newton published prior to 1750. Although Gravesande published the work in 1723, it was not accepted in Italy 1749, the year it was published. Gravesande, Dutch philosopher and mathematician and member of the Royal Society, laid the foundation for the teaching of Physics. The present edition is an abridgement of his Physices Elementa Mathematica. $400 - 600 101 GILBERT, Samuel (d. 1692). The Florists Vade-mecum, Being a Choice Compendium of whatever Worthy Notice hath been Extant for the Propagation, Raising, Planting...the Rarest Flowers and Plants...Together with the Gardiners Almanack. London: for Thomas Simmons, 1682.

12mo (134 x 72 mm). 2 woodcut diagrams in-text. (Lacking the engraved portrait, D1, G10, and M8 torn with minor loss to text, several repaired tears.) Modern calf antique. Provenance: W. Musgrave (1655-1721), British physician and antiquary (signature); William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish botanist (signature, 1798); manuscript note describing the publication of the work on front free endpaper.

FIRST EDITION. The almanack has a separate title-page, “The gardeners almanack...With monthly directions what ought to be done in either kitchin or flower-garden,” and covers the period 1683-1697. William Musgrave was elected to the Royal Society in 1684, and he was elected to the Royal College of Physicians in 1692. William Forsyth was a founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the genus Forsythia is named in his honor. Henrey 157; ESTC R30408. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum $800 - 1,200

103 GREELY, Adolphus W. (1844-1935). Report of the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888.

2 volumes, 4to. 6 maps and charts (one folding), numerous plates and illustrations. Original half calf gilt (some rubbing and wear). Provenance:

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED laidin: “For Capt. Schaff[‘s friend?] with compliments of A. W. Greely U. S. Army Mch. 28, ‘89.” The official report of Greely’s ill-fated expedition to explore the northwest coast of Greenland, during which most of the party would perish before the could be rescued in 1884. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum $300 - 400

104 GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712). Anatomie des Plantes. Paris: Lambert Roulland, 1675.

12mo (148 x 80 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved head-pieces and figures; woodcut tail-pieces and initials. (Two leaves roughly opened, not affecting text, tiny spots on a few leaves, some minor worm-holes in lower gutter margin occasionally touching letters.) Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (a few wormholes on the spine, hinges starting). Provenance: Librairie Jacques Lechevalier (bookseller’s ticket).

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Grew’s first book, published in 1672, The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun, “the first published study of the development of a plant from seed to seed” (LeFanu). Hunt 338; Pritzel 3554. $250 - 350

105 GUILLEMEAU, Jeune (“Jean Louis Marie”) (1766-1850). Histoire Naturelle de la Rose, où l’on décrit ses différentes espèces, sa culture, ses vertus et ses propriétés; suivie de la corbeille des rose, ou choix de ce que les Anciens et les Modernes ont écrit de plus gracieux sur la rose; et de l’histoire des Insectes qui vivent sur le rosier. Paris: Vatar-Jouannet, 1800.

8vo (156 x 95 mm). Errata leaf, half-title, engraved folding frontispiece, folding letterpress table. (Some occasional very light spotting, some creasing.) Contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, new red morocco lettering-piece gilt (some rubbing).

FIRST EDITION of French physician and naturalist Guillemeau’s work about roses. The 5 sections include: an introduction with discussion of types and varieties; an analytical table based on Lamarck’s classification; an examination of cultivation of numerous varieties; insects affecting roses; literary lore, poetry, and prose featuring roses; medicinal uses of roses; and recipes for rosewater, oils, vinegars, and syrups. Johnston 660; Pritzel 3643; Stock 1102; not in Nissen. $200 - 300

106 HALE, Thomas (fl. 1750). Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening.... London: for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder, and H. Woodgate, [1756-]1757.

Folio (420 x 260 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 60 engraved plates. (Some minor soiling, spotting or offsetting, ca 50 leaves with minor marginal worming.) Contemporary English blind-panelled calf (neatly rebacked and repaired). Provenance: William McElwain Talbot (gift inscription, 1978).

FIRST EDITION, intended as a companion to the Compleat Body of Husbandry (London, 1756). Issued in 60 weekly parts, each including “descriptions and cultural details concerning the various products of the garden under the time of year in which they flower or fruit, the phrase name used by Linnaeus for each plant is given, and each is referred to in its place in [Linnaeus’s] sexual system, which is explained. Advice is offered on what to do each month in the kitchen, flower, and fruit gardens” (Henrey p.98). Henrey III.776; Hunt 559; Nissen BBI 880. $1,500 - 2,500

107 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708-1777). Opuscula sua Botanica. Prius Edita Recensuit Retractavit Auxit Coniuncta Edidit. Göttingen: J. Wilhelm Schmid, 1749.

8vo (185 x 105 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved coat of arms on title-page, 5 folding engraved plates, numerous woodcut decorations. (Some occasional light toning.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards gilt, edges speckled edges (chipping to spine ends, some rubbing , corners lightly bumped); glassine. Provenance: Robert James Shuttleworth (18101874), English Botanist (bookplate)

FIRST EDITION of Haller’s work including information about plants from different localities, habitats, and developmental phases. Haller was a Swiss naturalist and was the first botanist to realize the importance of herbaria to study variation in plants. Opuscula sua Botanica derives from 6 pamphlets, each providing extensive discussion on alpine plants, and the history of botany from his own observations. From the collection of Robert James Shuttleworth, noted British Botanist and malacologist. Hunt 535; Pritzel 3722; Stafleu & Cowan 2308. $200 - 300

109 HENKEL, Johann Friedrich (1678-1744). Pyritologie, ou Histoire Naturelle de la Pyrite...on y a Joint le Flora Saturnisans...et les opuscules mineralogiques... Paris: Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1760.

4to (249 x 194 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved folding plates. (Some minor browning or spotting to a few quires, a few marginal pencil annotations.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, corners renewed, some light wear.)

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Henckel’s study on pyrites, first published in German in 1725. German naturalist, chemist and mineralogist, Henckel was one of the pioneers of inorganic chemistry. His work on pyrites was influential on porcelain fabrication, particularly in Saxony, and in recognition of his contributions, he was named mining councilor to the elector of Saxony. The French edition was translated by Baron d’Holback, and the plates are by Pelletier and Patte. 108 HAYE, Thomas and Jacques VINCENT. Regle horaire universelle pour tracer des cadrans solaires sur toutes sortes de plans régulaires, déclinans & inclinez. Paris: Jacques Vincent, 1716.

4to (222 x 164 mm). 46 engraved plates (3 folding). (Minor marginal losses to a few plates, a few plates with minor repairs, a few separations to folds of folding plates, some minor soiling or spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving portion of old spine, lettering-piece, and endpapers, some staining). Provenance: Bourdet Delongchamps? (signature, initials on verso of a few plates); Jean Condamin (signature 1939).

FIRST EDITION of Haye and Vincent’s extensive treatise on gnomics and the formation and use of sundials. Haye, a manufacturer of sundials, presents several models with descriptions of the instruments and directions for their use. Houzeau and Lancaster, 11591 $600 - 8000

110 HILL, Daniel M.D. Practical Observations on the use of Oxygen, or Vital Air, in the Cure of Diseases: to which are added a few experiments on the Vegetation of Plants. London: for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1820.

8vo. 5 engraved plates. (A few small spots.) ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine (upper cover detached, a few old repairs). Provenance: H. P. Hope (inscription).

Second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HILL to H. P. Hope: “With grateful esteem and respect from the author to H. P. Hope. Esqr.” “In a philosophical point of view, it was almost impossible not to conceive, that the singularly fortunate discovery of the chemical properties of the air of our atmosphere...must lead to great and salutary effects in the cure of many diseases peculiar to the human frame” including Asthma (Introduction, p.2). $100 - 200

111 HOOKER, William Jackson, Sir (1785-1865). British Jungermanniae. Being a history and description, with coloured figures, of each species of the genus, and microscopical analyses of the parts. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, [1812]-1816.

Folio (470 x 294 mm). Half-title; 88 engraved plates with hand-coloring. (Spotting to half-title and preliminary leaves, very minor spotting throughout.) Contemporary russia gilt (rebacked, some minor wear). Provenance: Dawson Turner (1775-1858), English botanist (signature, presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO THE DEDICATEE DAWSON TURNER, ONE OF 10 OR FEWER LARGE-PAPER COPIES of Hooker’s “most beautiful work” (DSB) INSCRIBED BY HOOKER: “Not above 10 copies printed in folio -- Dawson Turner from the Author.” Dawson Turner was Hooker’s father-inlaw, and a noted botanist in the field of cryptogamic plants. He was the author of Natural History of Fuci, and formed a large collection of algae, which was later integrated with Hooker’s herbarium at Kew. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY TURNER. Nissen BBI 916; Stafleu & Cowan 2987.

A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.

$4,000 - 6,000

112 No Lot

113 HOWARD, John Eliot (1807-1883). The Quinology of the East Indian Plantations. London: L. Reeve & Co.,, 1869-1876.

3 parts in one volume, folio (495 x 351 mm). Half-title; 15 lithographed plates (13 with hand-coloring), 2 mounted albumen photographs. (Some minor mostly marginal spotting to a few leaves.) Original publisher’s green gilt-decorated cloth by Westley with their ticket (lower joint repaired, hinges starting, some very light wear to extremities, otherwise bright).

FRIST EDITION of Howard’s rare work on growing quinine in South East Asia. As early as 1827, Howard showed interest in what would prove to be his life’s work: the extraction of the anti-malaria drug quinine from the bark of the Cinchona (Cinchonaceae) tree in South America. He published his first report on the subject in 1852. After the tree was introduced to India from the Andes, Howard examined the bark and produced this, his second major work, on his findings. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his important work. RARE: We trace only 4 copies of Howard’s work at auction in the last 45 years. A BRIGHT COPY. $2,000 - 3,000

114 HOWORTH, Henry Hoyle, Sir (1842-1923). The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood A Second Appeal to Common Sense from the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893.

2 volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, rear covers blind-stamped, uncut and unopened (some light wear). Provenance: Matthew White Ridley (1842-1904), 1st Viscount Ridley, 2nd Baron Wensleydale (presentation inscription, armorial bookplate, shelfmarks).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOWORTH: “To the Right Honorable Sir M.W. Ridley… From his old friend the author, June 1900.” Howorth, a conservative British politician, was alson an amateur geologist and historian. In The Glacial Nightmare, he refutes Scottish geologist Charles Lyell’s Uniformitarianist theories that known natural causes could explain geological features. Howorth disparaged theories of the ice age in favor of Creationist beliefs like neo-diluvialism, aimed at reconciling observed geological features with biblical descriptions of the great flood in Genesis. Ridley, the recipient of this copy, was also a conservative British politician; he received the work form Howard gifted just after his term as Home Secretary ended. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.

$300 - 400

115 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology. London: Williams and Norgate, 1864.

Folio (375 x 304 mm). 12 double-page lithographed plates by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. (Dampstaining to lower corner, some browning.) Original brown gilt-lettered cloth (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some light wear). Provenance: Clinton Hall Association, N.Y., Mercantile Library (stamps on plates).

FIRST EDITION, “the figures in the present Atlas are intended simply to aid students in comprehending the general arrangement of the bony framework of the Vertebrata, and some of its most important modifications” (Introduction). Nissen ZBI 2064. $400 - 600 116 HUYGENS, CHRISTIAN. Opera Reliqua. Amsterdam: JansonioWaesbergios, 1728.

3 parts in 2 volumes, 4to (255 x 196 mm). 56 (of 57) engraved plates (lacking plate XIV in Vol.II, provided in facsimile); titles printed in red and black. (Some minor browning, minor marginal dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf-backed sprinkled boards gilt, uncut (rebacked preserving original spine, some light rubbing).

117 JUSSIEU, Antoine Laurent (1748-1836). Genera Plantarum Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita. Paris: Veuve Herissant and Theophile Barrois, 1789.

8vo (201 x 126 mm). Errata leaf at end. (Some browning, worm hole to upper margin of last ca 45 leaves not affecting text.) Contemporary sheep gilt (old repairs to joints, some wear).

FIRST EDITION of Jussieu’s fundamental work on the classification of plants, the first to arrange “plant genera in a natural system based on the correlation of a great number of characteristics...Some of the elements of Genera plantarum...remain a part of the present-day system of botanical classification” (Norman). Hunt 703; Norman 1194; Stafleu & Cowan 589.

$300 - 400 Second edition, with several sections previously published in 1703 as Posthuma Opuscula. Contents include: Volume I, Tractatus de Lumine. Dissertatio de Causa Gravitatis. Geometrica demonstratio Theorematum Hugenianorum...; Volume II, Part I, Opscula Posthuma: Dioptrica. Commentarii de formandis poliendisque vitris ad Telescopia.; Volume II, Part II, Opuscula Posthuma: Dissertation de Coronis et Parheliis... The varied sections demonstrate the range of interest and depth of knowledge of Huygens, who invented the pendulum clock, discovered the Orion nebula and Saturn’s moon, Titan, and who made important contributions in the fields of geometry and mechanics. $800 - 1,200

118 LACÉPÈDE, Bernard Germain de (1759-1825). Historie Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens. Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 17881789.

2 volumes only, 4to (253 x 182 mm). 63 engraved plates; 2 folding tables. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, red and orange lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: J. Fauquer Lamberg? (inscription on a separate sheet tipped in).

FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive summary of amphibians and reptiles. Lacépède befriended Buffon, who in 1785 appointed him sub-demonstrator in the Jardin du Roi. Buffon proposed that he continue his monumental Histoire Naturelle, which he did with this work. The plates after de Sève depict the animals within their natural landscapes. Nissen ZBI 2350. $800 - 1,200

119 LAPLACE, Pierre Simon de, Marquis (1749-1827). The System of the World. 1809. $1,500.

2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 124 mm). Half-titles; 4pp. publisher’s advertisements in vol. II. (Minor spotting to a few leaves.) Original paper-backed boards, uncut.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Laplace’s important work on astronomy was translated by J. Pond, who notes: “The reader will find the angular measures and measures of time used by the author reduced in the margin to the sexigesimal system adopted in this country; this was thought better than altering the text o an original work of such importance” (Note, p.vi). The note is followed by a table of French measures on the facing page. A FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS.

$300 - 400

121 LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni Van (1632-1723), Nehemiah GREW (1641-1712), Robert BOYLE (1627-1691). Recueil d’experiences et observations sur le combat, qui procede du melange des corps. Sur les saveurs, sur les odeurs, sur le sang, sur le lait, &c. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1679.

8vo (160 x 90 mm). Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate; 1p. publisher’s advertisements at end.

FIRST EDITION. In his introduction, Louis Le Vasseur describes the three articles, and explains their inclusion in the work. Grew’s article, originally published in English, has been translated to French of the importance of his experiments. Boyle’s treatise includes information on 24 experiments, 12 dealing with flavors, and 12 dealing with odors. Le Vasseur explains that he decided to include Leeuwenhoek’s article because his experiments and observations on blood and milk are worthy of the curiosity of scholars. The treatise by Leeuwenhoek contains five articles written between April 1674 and February 1678, providing observations for experiments conducted in April, June and July 1674, August 1675, and February 1678. The fifth article, apparently unrecorded in Dobell, may be published here for the first time. In these articles, Leeuwenhoek describes in particular the deformability and agglutination of red blood cells. RARE: according to online records, only two copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 45 years. NLM/Krivatsy 4991; Wellcome III, 164 $1,000 - 1,500 120 LAURENCE, John (“John Lawrence” or “Charles Evelyn”) (1688-1732). The Clergy-Man’s Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. –The Gentleman’s Recreation. –The Lady’s Recreation… by Charles Evelyn. London: Bernard Lintott, 1717.

3 works in one volume, 8vo (192 x 118 mm). 3 engraved frontispieces by Simon Gribelin, 3 folding engraved plates, numerous woodcut initials, head-and-tail-pieces. (Some spotting, browning or staining, some marginal chipping.) Contemporary English panelled calf gilt (rebacked, preserving old endpapers, some minor rubbing.) Provenance: Baron Buchan Hepburn Bar (armorial bookplate).

Fifth edition of the first work, second edition of the second work. FIRST EDITION of the third work, the first publication of Kalendarium Hortense by Lawrence, which is a reduction of John Evelyn’s work, interspersed with many useful additions. “The first original eighteenth-century English treatise on gardening did not appear until the London bookseller Barnaby Bernard Lintot, or Lintott, published in 1714 The Clergy-Man’s Recreation by John Laurence” (Henrey II, pp. 415). Not only was The Clergy-Man’s Recreation Laurence›s first published treatise on gardening, it also “possesses a historic interest because it contains one of the earliest published records of the transmission of a virus by grafting” (Henrey, p. 416, 417). Henrey II, p. 415; Hunt and Willis, editors. The Genius of Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820. $400 - 600

122 LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni van (1632-1723). Anatomia seu interiora rerum. Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1687. --Continuatio epistolarum. Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1689

2 works in one volume, small 4to (195 x 155 mm). First work: engraved title-page, 6 engraved plates; numerous in-text engravings. Second work: 11 engraved plates in the second work.

Early Latin edition of the first work, FIRST LATIN EDITION of the second work, of the letters that were published in Dutch by Boutesteyn, a variant state of the first work with the title spelled correctly on the title-page and with some of the mis-paginations corrected. With de Hooghe’s Artemis frontispiece, dated 1685. With the full Latin text for letters 43, 42, 38, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 46, 47, 45, 48, 50, 51, and 52 (first work), and 53-60 (second work). Leeuwenhoek submitted several letters to Robert Hooke for presentation to the Royal Society of London, covering a range of investigations for animals, plants and minerals. Dobell 23A; Dobell 24; Wellcome III, p. 477; see lensonleeuwenhoek.net/timeline/tax/publications. $2,000 - 3,000

122A LEUPOLD, Jacob (1674-1727). Theatrum machinarum hydrotechnicarum. Schau-Platz der Wasser-Bau-Kunst. Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel, 1724.

Folio (364 x 236 mm). Half-title; 51 engraved plates (A few repairs to title just touching letters, some browning.) Contemporary tree calf gilt, modern red morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover (rebacked preserving original spine, some light wear).

FIRST EDITION of the Theatrum machinarium hydrotechnicarum, second of a ten-volume series entitled Theatrum machinarum, each volume of which is complete in itself. Leupold was one of the major transmitters of the machine designs and technological images of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the Sienese painter, sculptor and architect whose writings and drawings provided the chief source of inspiration (albeit one not always recognized) for several generations foe engineers” (Norman). Norman 1339. $600 - 800

124 LE MONNIER, Pierre Charles (1715-1799). Institutions Astronomiques, ou Lecons Elementaires d’Astronomie, pour servir d’Introduction a la Physique Celeste and a la Science des Longitudes. Paris: Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1746.

4to (248 x 190 mm). 15 copperplate engraved folding plates. (Small pale spots to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (joints starting, some light wear).

FIRST EDITION of Le Monnier’s best-known work, the first important general manual of astronomy in France. The framework of the Institutions Astronomiques was essentially a translation of John Keill’s Introduciton ad vera Astronomic (London, 1731), but Le Monnier included important additions and new tables of the sun and moon. Houzeau & Lancaster 9244.

$800 - 1,200 123 LEMAIRE, Charles (1800-1871). Le Jardin Fleuriste, journal général des progrès et des intérèts horticoles et botaniques. Ghent: F. & E. Gyselinck, 1851-1854.

4 volumes, 8A (240 x 157 mm). Half-titles. 405 lithographic plates (of which 403 are printed in color and finished by hand, occasionally heightened with gum-arabic, 26 are folding, 2 are uncolored folding plates), numerous illustrations, some full-page. (Some spotting or offsetting, a few quires becoming loose or disbound.) Contemporary calf-backed boards (some wear, hinges starting).

FIRST EDITION. This fine periodical has a definite preference for the exotic: there are about 60 orchids shown, a similar number of bromeliads and many other plants suitable only for the hot-house in northern Europe. There is some confusion about the number of plates, caused by the doublenumbering of most of the folding plates. Nissen calls for 430 plates, but Stafleu and Cowan record a number of double-numbered plates which are the folding plates in the present copy. Nissen BBI 2338; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 4376.

$2,000 - 3,000

125 LINNAEUS, Carolus (1707-1778). Materia Medica, Liber I. de Plantis. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, 1749.

8vo (205 x 115 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece (bound to face p.1) and one engraved folding plate. (Some minor spotting, minor worming to gutter margin of first and last few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece and endpapers). Provenance: a few early annotations on flyleaf; engraved plate tipped to front free endpaper.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF LINNAEUS’S MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL WORK, including the Linnaean names of over 500 medicinal plants, including proper genera and species for several, and noting their medicinal effects. Linnaeus never completed subsequent editions of his work, although unauthorized editions based on his dissertations on animals (Book II) and minerals (Book III) were published in 1763. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 45 years. Soulsby 948; Wellcome III, 526. $3,000 - 5,000

126 LOUDON, John Claudius (“J.C.”) (1783-1843). The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton. London & Edinburgh: Longman & Co., & A. & C. Black, 1840.

8vo (221 X 139 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 253 illustrations and plans. (Very occasional light spotting.) Original gray cloth blind-stamped and gilt (some minor staining, spine sunned, some minor wear especially to spine ends and extremities).

New edition of Humphry Repton’s work, edited by John Claudius Loudon, with an historical and scientific introduction, biographical notice, notes, and an index. Loudon, a Scottish botanist, was a prolific author on landscape design and was instrumental in the adoption of the term “landscape architecture” by the profession. Repton is widely considered the last great English landscape designer of the 18th-century. $400 - 600

128 MAIGNON, L’Abbé. Traité Complet d’Arithmétique... Lausanne: André FISCHER & Luc VINCENT, 1798.

8vo (208 x 159 mm). 2 diagrams. (A few stains, occasional spotting, one chip not affecting text.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, edges sprinkled red (some rubbing, some chipping). Provenance: Honoré Techtermann (elaborate signature, 1817).

SCARCE extensive treatise on the use of arithmetic for different aspects of commercial or practical mathematical computation. Maignon specifically prepared this work for people living in Canton of Berne near Fribourg. $200 - 300 127 MAGNI, Pietro Paolo (b. 1525). Discorsi intorno al sanguinar i corpi humani il modo di ataccare le sanguisuche e ventose a far frittioni e vesicatorii. Rome: Bartolomeo Bonfadion e Tito Diani, 1584.

4to (226 x 164 mm). Engraved title within architectural border, 11 engraved plates. (Engraved title bound in on a stub, some minor spotting or staining.) Later mottled calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Robert J. Moes (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Magni’s treatise on the art of bleeding and the use of leeches in therapeutic medicine. Magni, an Italian surgeon in Piacenza, was a practitioner of phlebotomy, and also wrote a treatise on cautery. The fine engravings are by Adamo Ghisi, and depict the methods that can be used for bloodletting on various places on the body. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one complete copy of this edition of this work has sold at auction in the last 40 years. Mortimer Italian II, 267; Wellcome I, 3959. $1,500 - 2,500

129 MANN, James (“James”) (1759-1832). Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Denham: H. Mann and Co., 1816.

8vo (237 x 145 mm). (Browning and offsetting, a few tears with minor losses to blank leaves.) Original publisher’s gray printed boards, letteringpiece printed in blue on paper, uncut and unopened (some chipping or staining).

FIRST EDITION of “the primary record of medicine during the War of 1812,” (Garrison-Morton 2161.1). It contains a “Dissertation on Dysentery” which won the Boylstonian Prize Medal in 1806, as well as an observation on the Winter Epidemic of 1815-16, denominated Peripneumonia Notha, as it appears at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts. Mann served as an Army Hospital Surgeon and as a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He served three years in the American Revolution and another three years in the War of 1812. His “chapter on surgery (pages 206-33) is especially invaluable for its first-hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds” (Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, GS4). Howes M-258; Garrison-Morton 2161.1. $400 - 600

130 [MANUSCRIPT]. KOLLAR, Vincenz (1797-1860). “Abbildung und Beschreibung schädlicher Insecten. Ms. mit aquarellierten Handzeichnungen.” [Vienna, ca 1839-1847].

Various folio, 4to, and 8vo sizes (sheets approximately 420 x 325 mm or smaller). 9 watercolors by Kollar, most tipped to cardboard backing; approximately 63pp. manuscript in German in ink, most in Kollar’s hand, many on bifolia. Loose in card portfolio with hand-lettering (some soiling and minor losses).

A collection of original documents and watercolors by eminent Austrian entomologist Vincenz Kollar, including descriptions and illustrations of harmful insects, and depicting various wasps, beetles, larvae, flies, and moths. The watercolors, most of which include several illustrations on one sheet, are carefully executed. The manuscript material includes several texts signed and dated by Kollar, and include one manuscript of Michael Babusnik, and another signed “Zimmerman.” Kollar was Curator of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where he worked primarily with insects collected on expeditions, particularly specimen from the Austrian Brazil Expedition of 1817-1835. The gall wasp was named Cynips Kollari in his honor. $2,000 - 3,000

131 [MANUSCRIPT - BOTANICAL] -- [VAILLANT, Sébastien (1662-1759)]. MÉRAT, Laurent Germain (1712-1790). “Botanicum parisiense, operis majoris prodituri prodromus.” [France]: n.p., n.d.

8vo (240 x 138 mm). 200ll. Manuscript in French, ink, 2 with diagrams showing Tournefort or Linnaeus’s systems of classification. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (spine ends neatly repaired, some very light rubbing).

A manuscript copy in a legible hand by Mérat of Vaillant’s Botanicon parisiense, operis majoris prodituri prodromus, an inventory of plants in the environs of Paris published 1723. Tipped in on thick paper at the beginning is a facsimile of a note from Linneaus to Bernard Jussieu. Laurent Germain Mérat was a pharmacist in Auxerre, and a member of the Literary Society there. He was friends with both Bernard de Jussieu and Linnaeus.

$400 - 600

132 [MANUSCRIPT - BOTANY AND MINERALOGY]. [JUSSIEU, Bernard de]. “Tableau des principales propriétés des plantes usuelles en medicine extraites des dictées botaniques de Bernard de Jussieu.” -- “Tableau des poisons végétaux.” -- “Tableau des poisons minéraux.” [France, ca 1775-1780].

3 sheets folding into 8vo covers (the largest 445 x 572 mm). Tables hand-lettered in French, in ink within rule borders. (A few short tears at folds, a few small stains.) 18th-century pink paper-backed paste-papercovered boards, hand-lettered label on spine. (Some light wear).

The large table of common medicinal plants is based on the “dictees botaniques” in the lessons of Bernard de Jussieu. It displays a classic pharmacopoeia describing plants to be used to cure various diseases. The two tables of poisons appear to be original. In them, the author lists herbal and mineral cures for various symptoms, and how to minister or apply the cure. He also describes alternative methods when the antidote is ineffective, and lists reagents and chemical methods to use to treat mineral poisons. $800 - 1,200

133 [MANUSCRIPT - CIPHERING]. EVANS, Cadwallader. Ciphering Book of a Colonial Schoolboy. [Philadelphia], 6 April-26 July 1763.

Folio (330 x 210 mm). 37 II. Manuscript in English, in ink, with diagrams, comprising Geometry and Trigonometry (ff.1-6), land surveying (ff.7-19), and plain, traverse, oblique and Mercator sailing (ff.20-37). With an elaborate surveying map, compass, and several diagrams. (Some mostly marginal chipping or tearing occasionally affecting text, small losses to the corners of two leaves.) Original red linen over boards, hand-lettered “C. E.” on upper cover. (Upper hinge broken

A portion of the surveying exercise appears to come from William Leybourn’s The Compleat Surveyor (see the fourth edition, published 1679, pp. 292-294). Evans personalizes his ciphering book on the first page, including a drawing of his rooster, “Belon is Narr Cock›s Father or the Bony Cock a Doodle Doo.” The drawing includes the rooster’s spurs, with a note: “Spurr um up my Boy.” Evans also includes an aphorism about doing good deeds.

$1,000 - 1,500

135 [MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS]. MODESTO, A.R.P.A Mte. “Elementa Matheseos tumultuario Studio concinnata ac suis Studentibus tradita.” [Italy], ca 17th or 18th century.

4to (239 x 167 mm). Title written in red and black; 90 numbered manuscript leaves in Italian, in ink, with 3 in-text tables; 6 manuscript folding tables and 18 manuscript figures on four folding leaves with red wash coloring at end. (Some minor mostly marginal soiling or browning, title with contemporary pasted overslip, a few short tears to folds of plates.) Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, hand-lettered on spine (some minor soiling.)

The text is divided into sections on Arithmetic (76 pp.) and Geometry (14 pp.), each with an introduction, history, presentation, object and divisions. These paragraphs are followed by propositions in the arithmetic section, and addenda on conics, parabola, and other subjects in the geometry section. The detail information in the geometry section leads to a practical problem solving for surveying. The manuscript was likely used for teaching students, possibly at a Capuchin monastery. $800 - 1,200 134 [MANUSCRIPT - GEOMETRY]. “Farragine Matematica E: Extesum et mumeribuius sunt farrago libelli.” N.p., ca 18th century.

4to. 200pp. manuscript in Italian, in ink with diagrams and tables, title and page numbers lettered in red, errata slips in the same hand laid in. (Two tears with losses repaired to title-page not affecting text, lacking pp.75-76, presumably blank.) Contemporary quarter sheep uncut (some minor rubbing or soiling.)

The manuscript includes a variety of mathematical problems and solutions, including trigonometry and geometry. Though pp.75-76 are missing, p.77 is blank, and p.78 opens a new section titled “Problema I.” The hand is incredibly neat throughout, and the errata tipped in in the same holograph suggest the work is the author’s own copy. It is presumably part of a larger work, as a footnote on p.33 refers to “Farragine Matematica A.” The Bern Dibner collection at Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries hold a copy of a 74pp. manuscript lettered in red and black ink also entitled “Farragine matematica,” further suggesting the present manuscript is part of a larger work. $600 - 800

136 [MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS]. MONTEGU, M.. “Gèométrie Royalle.” N.p., 1701.

4to (220 x 166 mm). 221pp., in French, in ink, with numerous hand-drawn figures in-text, several vignettes on separate slips pasted in; a portion of the title-page written on a separate slip pasted in. (Small hole on title affecting letters, Loss on p.9 affecting 4 lines of text, some minor soiling.) Contemporary calf gilt (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: M. Besnard (stamp, 3 typescript pages tipped in at front dated 1943).

Montegu copies the text of Géométrie royalle, divisée en deux parties, qui contiennent tout ce que cet art a de plus nécessaire à un Homme de Guerre... published by Bouchard. He reproduces part of the title-page, and includes a note that he has enriched the text with several illustrations of Euclid. Montegu wrote the manuscript in 1701, after taking a course taught by M. Flamuel at Metz in 1677-1678. He includes and 11pp. preamble, not found in the published work, including a definition of mathematics, logistics, arithmetic, and geometry. The main body of the text includes a nearly wordfor-word copy of the scarce printed text. The author includes a number of very fine hand-drawn vignettes which complement the manuscript. $600 - 800

137 [MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY]. Badr al-Din Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Misri al-Dimashqi, better known as Sibt (Ibn Bint) al-Maridini. A collection of three treatises on astronomy and mathematics. Safavid Persia: copied in alJauhariyya School, Isfahan, each treatise dated AH 1029/AD 1619-20.

8vo (194 x 130 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper, 90 leaves, 15 lines per page written in more than one hand in cursive script with several words in red; numerous diagrams and tables. (A few old repairs occasionally affecting letters.) Contemporary limp red morocco.

The three works comprise: 1. al-Durr al-manthur fi’l-’amal bi-rub’ al-dustur, a treatise on the quadrant. 2. Raqa’iq al-haqa’iq fi hisab al-daraj wa’l daq’iq, Subtleties of Truths on Arithmetic of Degrees and Minutes, a commentary on a work by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shihab al-din Abu’l-’Abbas Ahmad ibn Rajab ibn Tibugha ‘Ibn al-Majdi’ (1365 -1447), entitled Kashf al-haqa’iq fi hisab aldaraj wa’l-daq’iq, Opening Truths on Arithmetic of Degrees and Minutes. 3. A commentary, Risalah [al-Fathiyya (al-Shihabiyya)] fi’l-’amal al-jaybiyya, Treatise on [Fath al-Din (Shihab al-Din)] Operations with the Sine [Quadrant].

The author of these three treatises, Badr al-Din Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Misri al-Dimashqi, better known as Sibt (Ibn Bint) al-Maridini, lived in Cairo and Damascus. He was the time-keeper of the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, and was a pupil of Ibn al-Majdi. See B. A. Rosenfeld & E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers & Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works, Istanbul 2003, pp. 276–277, no. 815, and pp. 293–298, no. 873. $2,500 - 3,500

138 [MANUSCRIPT - MEDICINE]. PLUMB, Ovid. “Notes from the Lectures of Nathaniel Chapman, M. D. Professor of the Materia Medica In the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Course of 1814-1815.” -- “Notes From the Lectures of Nathaniel Chapman M.D. Professor of the Materia Medica In the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Course of 1814-15.” -- “Notes taken at the New York Eye Infirmary by Ovid Plumb 1821&2 Montgomery House Barclay Street No 65.” New York, 1821 and later.

3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (196 x 158 mm or smaller). Comprising some 450pp., in English, in ink (Some minor browning.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards (some light wear). Provenance: Scoville Memorial Library Salisbury Connecticut (stamps).

Dr. Ovid Plumb M.D. (1787-1856) spent most of his life in Connecticut. Chapman and Barton were noted physicians at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chapman later became the first president of the American Medical Association in 1848. Barton had been professor of materia medica from 1796 until 1812, and he succeeded Dr. Benjamin Rush as Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. Barton published his books on materia medica in 1798 and 1804, and Chapman published his in 1817.

Plumb’s lecture notes from his coursework in Philadelphia include sections on “Modus operandi of medicines generally,” “Sympathy,” “Emetics,” “Cathartics,’” Diuretics,” and “Bitters & Astringents.” Each section includes a number of plant and chemical remedies. The third volume comprises Plumb’s notes from his visits to the New York Eye Infirmary. The volume also includes information on fruit trees grown on the Plumb farm. $1,000 - 1,500

139 [MANUSCRIPT - PERFUMES]. [BARBE, Simon]. “Le parfumeur françois, qui enseigne toutes les manières de tirer les Odeurs des fleurs; & à faire toutes sortes de compositions de Parfums. Avec le secret de purger le tabac en poudre; & le parfumer de toutes sortes d’Odeurs. pour le divertissement de la Noblesse et Utilité des Baigneurs et Perruquiers.” [Lyon, ca 1660s or later].

4to (230 x 184 mm). 272pp., in French, in ink (Some spotting or browning.) 17th or 18th-century French calf gilt, edges stained red.

A manuscript after Barbe’s book on French perfume, with minor variations from the published text. The text opens with Au Lecture, and then Advertissements, and includes an index at the end, but does not include the dedication to Le Prince d’Harcourt. The present manuscript includes a section on chocolate on pp.85-86 which is not present in the first or second editions of Barbe’s work. Following the index is 8pp. of additional text and recipes. $800 - 1,200

140 [MANUSCRIPT - PHOTOGRAPHY]. DENIS, Paul (1852-1921). “Photographie.” [Orsay (Seine-et-Oise), ca 1890].

8vo (189 x 151 mm). 51pp., in French, in ink; diagrams on 11 gridlined sheets laid-in; irregularly trimmed sheet of tan tracing paper with 14 numbered figures in pencil folded and laid-in; manuscript note laidin. Manuscript text stab-sewn into original blue wrappers.

The manuscript describes a broad range of subjects relating to 19thcentury photography. All but one of the figures from the tracing paper are noted in the manuscript. The note includes a list of what should be included when setting up a chambre noir, or darkroom. Also laid-in is Denis’ business card, listing his address at d’Orsay (Seine-et-Oise).

Denis was a photographer originally from Vernon (Haute-Normandie), where he practiced photography and made photographic postcards. In 2007, the city of Vernon honored him with a dedicated exhibition of his photographs and postcards, including more than 250 unpublished photographs, prints, glass negatives, stereo plates, and albums. $400 - 600

141 [MANUSCRIPT - PHYSICS]. “Physicae Institutioues.” Italy, 1740.

8vo (205 x 152 mm). 292pp., in Latin, in ink; 38 leaves (of which 3 folding) containing 99 numbered ink drawings. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) Contemporary vellum, handlettered on spine (some soiling, a few crayon marks on upper cover).

With an introduction followed by Liber I Physica Generalis, and with an index on pp.289292. The text is organized with four dissertations that include a number of chapters, and the content covers all of the major areas of physics, including properties of bides, fluids, mechanics, heat, and optics. Numerals annotated in the margin refer to figures at the end. $800 - 1,200

142 [MANUSCRIPT - SUN DIALS]. “Traité De Gnomonique. Premiere partie [-Seconde partie] [-Troisieme Partie].” [Paris]: 1700.

3 parts in one volume, 8vo (194 x 130 mm). Premiere partie: 54pp. comprising text and diagrams; 8ll. longitude and latitude tables tipped in, printed on one side only (printed 1716). Seconde partie: 72pp. comprising text and diagrams. Troisieme partie: 61pp. comprising text and diagrams. (Some dampstaining to upper margin.) 20th-century red morocco-backed boards gilt.

Part one contains an introduction to the science including practical aspects of geometry and tables to assist in the construction of sun dials. Part two includes information about the construction of several types of sundials, with descriptions about arcs and lines. The third part contains the description of several portable sun dials for the sun, moon, and stars.

Though the manuscript is dated 1700, printed tables laid in are dated 1716. The manuscript comprises an extensive treatment of sundial theory, geometry, and the construction and application of different cadrans. It is generously illustrated throughout with accurate finely executed drawings. The second part includes information used for determining different times of the day, such as the Italian and Babylonian hours for sunrise and sunset. “Men well versed in mathematics and astronomy seem to have felt it their duty to acquaint everyone with the theory of constructing dials. It was all so simple that even the uneducated peasant should know how to build his own sundial...the dial became a scientific instrument, more dependable and lasting than any mechanical device.” (Newton & Mayall, Sundials, p.19). $1,000 - 1,500

143 MARIOTTE, Edme (1620-1685). Oeuvres. Leiden: Pierre Vander Aa, 1717.

2 parts in 2 volumes, 4to (247 x 195 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette; 26 engraved folding plates. (Some browning or offsetting, a few short marginal tears, some marginal worming to the first few leaves vol.I.) Contemporary vellum, handlettered on spine (some soiling, some minor worming to pastedowns and flyleaves). Provenance: Bibliotheca Viennensis Scholarum Ciarum de Virgem Fidelem (inscription on title, 1781).

First collected edition of the works of Mariotte. “Honored as the man who introduced experimental physics into France, Mariotte played a central role in the work of the Paris Academy of Sciences from shortly after its formation in 1666 until his death in 1684” (DSB). A WIDEMARGINED COPY.

$500 - 700

145 MCILVAINE, Charles (1840-1909). One Thousand American Fungi, How to Select and Cook the Edible; How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poisonous. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900.

Thick 4to (267 x 195 mm). Numerous illustrations in color and black and white. (Some browning, a few short tears not affecting text.) Original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt (slight wear or browning).

FIRST EDITION, number 499 of 750 copies of the “Author’s Edition,” SIGNED BY MCILVAINE. An essential reference for the mycophagist, including descriptions of mushrooms and other fungi, edible and poisonous, which McIlvaine tested personally to ensure the accuracy of his text.

$300 - 400 144 MATTSON, Morris (1809?-1885). The American Vegetable Practice, Or a New and Improved Guide to Health, Designed for the Use of Families. Boston: Daniel L. Hale, 1841.

2 volumes in one, 8vo (225 x 135 mm). 24 chromolithographs, one folding engraving, 9 in-text woodcuts. (Spotting throughout.) Contemporary reverse calf, green morocco lettering-piece gilt (worn). Provenance: R.H. Crosby (early signature).

FIRST EDITION of both volumes of Mattson’s work, a major advance in practical medicine. Mattson was a Physician to the Reformed Boston Dispensary, a Lecturer on Physiology, and the Practice of Medicine. In this work, he broke with Thomsonian medicine, popular in the 19th-century, which focused on ridding the body of toxins through natural herbal remedies, instead presenting a more accurate and well-researched treatise, considered superior to previous publications regarding botanical approaches to medicine. Of the many illustrations throughout are chromolithographs depicting plants or plant parts, and a folding double plate engraving of the human skeleton, and woodcuts of various parts of human anatomy. [Laid in:] Several leaves of manuscript notes, comprising formulas for cures using plant material. $400 - 600

146 METIUS, Adriaan. Arithmetica et Geometria nova. --Primum mobile: astronomice, sciographice, geometrice. Franeker: Uldericus Balck, 1625, 1631.

2 works in one volume, 4to (195 x 147 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut initials and diagrams; one etched folding plate, one woodcut folding plate. (A few early manuscript annotations, one diagram shaved, short tears to folds of woodcut plate, some minor dampstaining or spotting to a few leaves.) Later half vellum. Provenance: Johannes Petrus (presentation inscription); Liber Illustris Coll. Albensis (i.e. the college in Fehér, then in Hungary, but present-day Alba Iulia Romania, inscription); Thome B. Sz... Volgyi (signature, 1702).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO JOHANNES PETRUS, a public notary and Metius’s friend. Metius spent time with Tycho Brahe before becoming professor of mathematics and astronomy at Franeker in 1600, where Descartes attended his lectures. Elzevir issued an edition of the first part of this work in 1626. Joannes Janssonius separately issued an edition of the Primum mobile in 1631. RARE: According to online records, only one other copy of this work has sold at auction in the last 50 years. $1,500 - 2,500

147 MILNER, Henry Ernest (1845-1906). The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening. London: The Author and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Limited, 1890.

4to (310 x 237). Half-title, 10 etched sepia plates by J.R. Hutchinson, 12 wood-engraved plates (10 colored, 2 double-page). (Some light spotting.) Original publisher’s green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some rubbing to extremities, some light wear to corners).

FIRST EDITION of Milner’s text covering all aspects of landscape gardening. Milner was an English landscape architect and civil engineer. This present work spurred commissions for notable projects, including the 250 acres at Wembley Park for Sir Edward Watkin’s, the gardens at Friar Park for Sir Frank Crisp, and the parterre at Gatton Park for Sir Jeremiah Colman.

$300 - 400

149 ORFILA, Mathieu-Joseph Bonaventure (1787-1853). Elemens de Chimie Medicale. Paris: Crochard, 1817.

2 volumes, 8vo (196 x 123 mm). 14 copper-engraved plates. (Some staining, some spotting, a few tears mostly marginal.) 19th-century vellum-cornered boards, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges lightly speckled red (rebacked preserving endpapers and old lettering-pieces, corners bumped, some overall light wear).

FIRST EDITION of this scarce work by Spanish-born French toxicologist and Chemist Orfila, the founder of toxicology. His research provided clear evidence that toxins can be found in parenchyma and organic liquids, and he worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine. He studied asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, exhumation, and developed tests to identify the presence of blood in forensic contexts, and is credited as having been one of the first people to utilize the microscope to analyze blood and semen stains. Not only was he appointed physician to Louis XVIII in 1816, he was also a member of the French Academy of Science, and the recipient of the First Prize in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Valencia. 148 NEISON, Edmund (1849-1940). The Moon and the Condition and Configurations of its Surface. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876.

8o (226 x 160mm). Half-title, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 4 tinted lithographed plates, 24 (of 26) maps. (Light spotting, lacking: Key Map, Map I, a few short marginal tears.) Publisher’s marron cloth, stamped in black, smooth spine gilt-lettered (stitching weak, spine faded, extremities a little worn); glassine. Provenance: Edward H. McLachlin (signature, 10 May 1894).

FIRST EDITION of Neisen’s work, a translation and expansion of Johann Heinrich von Mädler’s work. Neison was frequently published in the Selenographical Journal and co-founded the Selenographical Society with amateur astronomer William Radcliffe Birt. The present work is still prized by Selenographers and spurred interest in selenography, the study of the topography of the Moon. $300 - 400

150 [PALLAS, Peter Simon]. Dierkundige beschouwingen, Eenige Zoorten van zeldzame Dieren door naauwkeurige Beschryvingen, Afbeeldingen en Verhandelingen opgeheldert: Vertaald meet aanmerkingen verrykt en thans op nieuw in ‘t licht gebragt. In VI stukken met plaaten. [BODDAERT, Peter, translator]. Rotterdam: Johannes Jakobus Meyneken, [1793/95].

4to (265 x 207 mm). 10 engraved plates with hand-coloring; engraved headpieces. (Minor losses to lower margin of a few leaves, some minor mostly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary calf-backed boards gilt, uncut and unopened (some wear).

A rare later edition. The first edition of Boddaert’s annotated translation of parts of Pallas’ Spicilega Zoologica was published in 6 parts in 1767-1770; a second edition was published by Esveldt & Holtrop in 1779. The present edition is a reissue of the 176770 edition, adding a new title-page and 6 section titles. According to Wood, the present edition is “one of the many editions of the author›s Dierkundig Mengelwerk” (see Wood p.511). Plates depict several species of antelopes, bats, an opossum, and the tufted puffin. Landwehr, Color Plates, 154; see Nissen ZBI 3072. $400 - 600

151 PARE, Ambroise (1510?-1590). De Chirurgie ende alle de Opera. Haarlem: Harman Kranepol for Hendrick Laurensz, 1627.

Folio (292 x 192 mm). Title printed in red and black with printer’s device; in-text woodcuts throughout. (Title soiled with small loss affecting imprint repaired, a few rust-holes touching letters, the first few leaves frayed affecting shoulder notes, a few minor stains.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some minor wear). Provenance: Jean Jacob de Gruytere (signature); Henri-Marcel Van Mock (signature, 17 February 1755); Dr. Leboucq (bookplate).

Fourth collected edition in Dutch, a reprint of the 1604 edition, printed by the same printer as the 1615 edition with his device on the titlepage. According to Doe, the Dutch editions were far superior to the “very inferior” Latin edition. The Dutch editions used the same woodblocks as the French editions. Paré, one of the most notable surgeons of the European Renaissance, is considered one of the fathers of modern surgery and forensic pathology, and was a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine. Doe pp.193-4. $1,000 - 1,500

152 PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629.

Folio (334 x 204 mm). Woodcut title with a Garden of Eden scene signed “A Switzer” (remargined with minor losses); woodcut portrait; one full-page garden design woodcut; 109 full-page woodcuts, one small orchard plan woodcut; one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting. (Index leaves laid in at end, a few leaves supplied, a few leaves remargined or repaired, some browning or soiling). Contemporary blind-tooled calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some light wear).

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT ENGLISH TREATISE ON HORTICULTURE, PRESUMABLY SIGNED BY JOHN PARKINSON

Parkinson was apothecary to James I, and later Royal Botanist to Charles I. He was a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617. One of the most eminent gardeners of the day, he kept a botanical garden at Long Acre in Covent Garden, close to present-day Trafalgar Square. The presumed signatures of Parkinson occur on the verso of the engraved title (along with the note “Natury Secretarie”), and on the dedication leaf.

Parkinson commissioned specially cut woodblocks copied from drawings in other Latin herbals for his work, rather than rely on specialist printers who owned a set of illustrations to be used in multiple works. “Since each block was the size of a full page and contained images of up to ten plants, the entire block had to be cut again if there were any mistakes...His books of plants would be the last to appear with wooden cuts, soon to be replaced by copperplate engravings...Yet the illustrations in the Paradisus are part of its charms” (A. Parkinson Nature’s Alchemist, p.105). his work remains one of the best single sources of information on early 17th-century gardening practices and styles in England, “in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day” (Hunt). Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489; Pritzel 6933. $6,000 - 8,000

153 PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Études sur la Bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procede pour la rendre inalterable, avec une theorie nouvelle de la fermentation. Paris: GauthierVillars, 1876.

8vo. 12 lithographed plates; numerous in-text illustrations. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS (some minor chipping or spotting, a few repairs to spine, upper wrapper detaching); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Colonel Broza? (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Pasteur on half-title: “Au Colonel Broza? son compatriot et son ami. L Pasteur.” Études sur la Bière discussed the practical problems of brewing and “recapitulated the series of debates over fermentation in which Pasteur had been embroiled since the publication of Études sur la Vin. Pasteur sought to prove that the ‘diseases’ of beer are caused by foreign micro-organisms and proposed a reformed brewing process to eliminate them” (Norman 1658). Garrison-Morton 2485; Heirs of Hippocrates 1898. $1,000 - 1,500

154 PINEL, Phillippe (1745-1826). La medecine clinique rendue plus precise et plus exacte par l’application de l’analyse. Paris: Brosson, Gabon et Cie., 1802.

8vo (198 x 124 mm). Half-title; 3 engraved folding tables. (Minor fraying to outer margin of one table.) Contemporary French sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained yellow (some minor wear, upper joint starting).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PRINTERS on the half-title. Pinel’s work, based on his experiences at the Hospice de la Salpêtrière, where he was chief physician, was a major contribution to the classification of diseases. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane approach to the care of psychiatric patience, and worked to humanise their treatment, for which he’s described as the father of modern psychiatry. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum

$300 - 400

155 PONTEY, William. The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Planting Forest Trees. Huddersfield: T. Smart for the author, 1808.

8vo (235 x 145 mm). Engraved frontispiece; 6pp. advertisements for various editions of this work at beginning, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. (Minor offsetting of frontispiece to title, very minor dust-soiling or spotting to a few leaves). ORIGINAL BOARDS UNCUT (rebacked, some light wear). Provenance: The Land Agent’s Society (bookplate).

Second edition, expanding on the first edition of 1796 to include forest trees in general, and to argue the benefits of using British timber: “It will be observed, that though the present is called a second edition, it may be considered as nearly a new work; the former being chiefly devoted to the cultivation of Larch, and Scotch Fir; and hence, though most of the sentiments are retained, a regard to method, has rendered it necessary to write most of the work anew” (Advertisement, p.6).

[Laid in:] FOUR SMALL WOOD SAMPLES WITH LETTERPRESS LABELS. Samples comprising: Scotch Fir; Abele, Stained; Larch, Stained; and Spruce Fir. The samples of various types of timber mentioned in the work are apparently not mentioned as being included with the edition. $300 - 400

156 PONTEY, William (fl 1780-1831). The Forest Pruner; Or, Timber Owner’s Assistant: A Treatise on The Training or Management of British Timber Trees; ...with Remarks on the Old and Outlines of a New System of Management of Oak Woods. London: J. Harding, 1810.

8vo (225 x 144 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 7 engraved plates (3 folding and sepia toned); 3pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. (Some spotting, staining or light toning.) Original gray paper-covered boards, paper printed lettering-piece to spine, edges untrimmed (rebacked and new spine label but preserving original endsheets, some chipping to boards, one small tear to head of spine, some toning to edges); glassine.

Third edition. Pontey was a planter and a tree pruner to Duke of Bedford, as well as a nurseryman at Lepton in Kirkheaton, Yorks. $200 - 300

158 QUINCY, John, M.D. (d. 1722). Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Compleat English Dispensatory, in Four Parts. London: A. Bell, T. Varnam & J. Osborn, and W. Taylor, 1718.

8vo (195 x 119 mm). Title printed within double-rule border, woodcut tail-piece. (Soiling throughout, some marginal chipping, some creasing.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf, later red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some rubbing, some chipping). Provenance: Thomas Powell Hornby Park (signatures and annotations, 1782).

FIRST EDITION of Quincy’s work. “At a time when differences between apothecaries and physicians were acute, Quincy, an apothecary, managed to secure widespread acceptance as a writer on medical subjects” and his work “long outlived its author and…became the basis of later dispensatories” (Howard-Jones, “John Quincy, M.D....,” In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 6, No. 2, 1951, p. 149). ESTC T61384.

$250 - 350 157 PRINCE, William Robert (1795-1869). The Pomological Manual; Or, A Treatise on Fruits: Containing Descriptions of a Great Number of the Most Valuable Varieties for the Orchard and Garden. New York: T. & J. Swords, et al., 1831.

2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 133 mm). (Some spotting.) Modern quarter sheep gilt, marbled boards, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (some very minor rubbing or staining).

FIRST EDITION of this scare treatise, which served as an excellent guide for American farmers and gardeners interested in raising fruit. Fruits discussed include apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, and plums that Prince cultivated himself. Prince was an American horticulturist who ran the Linnaean Botanic Garden and Nurseries, was Vice-President of the New-York Horticultural Society, and a member of several other horticultural societies. Sabin 65622.

$100 - 200

159 RANDOLPH, Mary. he Virginia Housewife, or, Methodical Cook... Stereotype Edition, with Amendments and Additions. Baltimore: Blaskitt & Cugle, [ca 1831].

12mo (184 x 105 mm). (Some marginal chipping, spotting, staining or browning.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked).

Fifth edition. The stereotype plates set for this fifth edition would be used for later printings through 1860. Mary Randolph’s husband, David Randolph, was appointed federal marshal for Virginia by George Washington, of whom Mary was a distant relation. When the Randolphs fell on hard times, Mary opened a boardinghouse in their home. She published this collection of recipes, drawn primarily from African American and Southern cooking, but also including recipes from a broader influence, such as “gaspacho.” Her motto on the title reveals: “Method is the Soul of Management. Bitting, p.388; Lowenstein 228. See Cagel and Stafford 628-631. $300 - 400

160 RAY, John (1628-1705). Synopsis Methodica Avium & Piscium. London: William Innys, 1713.

2 parts in one volume, 8vo (192 x 110 mm). Four engraved folding plates; publisher’s advertisement leaf at end. (Some very slight chipping to edges of two plates, some minor offsetting or spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked to style). Provenance: S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001), ornithologist, eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, published posthumously. “This classic treatise completes, with the Synopsis Quadrupedum et Serpentini, the author’s contributions to vertebrate zoology, a series that should form part of every firstclass library on natural history” (Wood p.529). Keynes, Ray 105. $200 - 300

161 RYFF, Walther Hermann (ca 1500-1548). Newe aussgerüeste Deutsche Apoteck: darinnen aller fürnemsten, und gebraulichtsten einfachen Artzneyen, als Kraütter, Gewürtz, Mineralien... Niklaus Ager, translator. Strassburg: Lazari Zetzners, 1602.

Folio (338x 215 mm). Title printed in red and black; numerous woodcuts throughout. (Some browning, a few stains or rust-holes.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lacking clasps and straps, some soiling). Provenance: A few early marginal annotations and underlinings in red; unidentified blindembossed seal on title-page.

Second edition of Ryff’s Deutsche Apoteck (1573), edited by Strassburg physician Niklaus Ager and published posthumously, with the text divided into three parts: the medicinal and gastronomic use of plants; the application of individual parts of a plant including information about exotic plants recently discovered; and details on the composition of pills, lozenges and ointments. Includes a treatise on the plague. The woodcuts by David Kandel were taken from Bock’s Kreüterbuch. NLM/Krivatsy 10087; Wellcome I 5681.

$4,000 - 6,000

162 SACRO BOSCO, Johannes de (fl. ca 1230-1240). Sphaera mundi, cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1499.

Small 4to (208 x 139 mm). Collation: A-C6 D4 E-G6 H4 I6 . 49 leaves (of 50, lacking I6, blank). 39 lines. Types: 160, title and headings; 81, text (leaded); 73, commentary. Capital spaces, with capitals, initial strokes and underlines supplied in red. Woodcut printer’s device at end hand-colored in red and green, 28 woodcuts in-text, a few hand-colored in outline in red, one full-page. (Some browning or staining.) Later vellum (some minor soiling). Provenance: Diagram on title-page and marginal notes and diagrams throughout in a contemporary hand; Jois Henrici (17th-century inscription on title)

A close reprint of Landsberg’s edition of ca 1497, the first to be published with commentary by Wenzel Faber von Budweis (1455-1518), an astronomer, astrologer and theologian from Bohemia. Sacro Bosco’s Sphaera Mundi, in which he sets out the basic principles of spherical astronomy, was widely commented upon, corrected and republished across Europe. First written in about 1220, the Sphaera Mundi is “a small work based on Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators antedating the De sphaera of Grosseteste. It was quite generally adopted as the fundamental astronomy text, for often it was so clear that it needed little or no explanation. It was first used at the University of Paris and from the middle of the thirteenth century it was taught in all the schools of Europe. In the sixteenth century it gained the attention of mathematicians, including Clavius. As late as the seventeenth century it was used as a basic astronomy text” (DSB XII, p. 61).

RARE: according to online records, only one copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 50 years; ISTC traces only 12 copies at institutions worldwide. BMC III 655; Goff J420; GW M14592; HC 14123; not in BSB-Ink. $4,000 - 6,000

163 [SALESMAN’S CATALOGUE]. DEWEY, D.M. The Nurserymen’s Pocket Specimen Book, Colored from Nature, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c. A specimen book for John Dixon, Dixon Nurseries, Geneva, NY. Rochester, NY: Keeler & Winfield, 1876.

Oblong 8vo (215 x 140 mm). 74 chromolithographed and stencil-colored plates. (Some browning, soiling, or offsetting.) Contemporary morocco gilt (rebacked to style and repaired, previous name removed from upper cover).

Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates, comprising: 42 fruit plates including apples, peaches, grapes, strawberries, and other berries; 13 flower plates, including roses, rhododendron, and althea; 7 flowering tree plates, including honeysuckle, clematis, and magnolia; 11 tree or bush plates, including mountain ash, horse chestnut, weeping willow, weeping birch, beech, and arbor vitae; also with one landscape plate.

Dewey was the most successful of the nineteenth-century nurserymen from the Flower City. The plates his firm produced “were simple watercolours, but later, as demand grew, the technique of theorem paintings coloured with the help of stencils was used to multiply the number of copies as quickly and as cheaply as possible” (Oak Spring Pomona 64). $600 - 800

164 [SALESMAN’S CATALOGUE]. A specimen book for Washington Nursery Co., Toppenish, Washington. Rochester, NY: Rochester Lithographing and Printing Co. or Christy Inc., n.d.

Oblong 8vo (140 x 205). 148 chromolithograph plates, one photograph. Original cloth walletstyle binding, gilt-lettered with the Nursery name (some light wear).

Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates, comprising: 87 fruit plates, including apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, grapes, and berries; 14 tree plates, including elm, maple, ash, oak, linden, chestnut, and birch; 18 plates of flowering bushes include hydrangeas, lilac, snowball, and clematis; also included are 26 plates of peonies and roses.

$500 - 700

165 SAMINIATI, Federico (fl. 1599). Tabulae astronomicae: quibus facile omnia capita, quae ad usum sphaerae primi mobilis praecipiuntur, confici possint... Fundamentum, apodixis... Methodus... quibus astronomiae studiosus, suo marte, per triangula plana & sphaerica omnes tabulas primi motus condere possit. Antwerp: Martinus Nutius, 1599

4to (212 x 167 mm). 3 engraved folding plates; woodcut diagrams in-text. (Some overall browning.) Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges (spine reinforced in old vellum manuscript waste, some soiling, small loss to corner, lacking ties). Provenance: Sancte Marie Curtis Orlandingorum (early inscription on title).

FIRST EDITION of Samianti’s rare astronomical treatise on determining location using dialing and tables for the sun at different ascension and descension points. The second part of the treatise deals with fundamental geometry for the construction of dials following astronomical protocols. Not in Adams; Riccardi 414-415. $400 - 600

166 SCHINZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1777-1861). Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Reptilien. Zurich: Schaffhausen, 1833.

2 volumes, 4to (336 x 235 mm). Plates and explanatory text bound separately; lithographed title in plate volume; 103 lithographed plates, all but one with hand-coloring. (Title leaf to text volume slightly soiled, some minor mostly marginal soiling or very light spotting to a few plates.) Contemporary cloth-backed boards (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Freiherrn G. A. von Liebenstein (bookplates and shelfmarks).

FIRST EDITION of Schinz’s lavishly illustrated survey of most of the known genera and species of reptiles and amphibians extant at the time of publication. The work was part of a larger natural history series by Schinz including volumes on mammals, birds, and fishes. The designer of the plates, Carl Joseph Drodtman, was known for the exacting scientific details and fine aesthetic presentation of images on a plate. Nissen ZBI 3671. $2,000 - 3,000

168 SÉGUIER, François (1703-1784). Bibliotheca Botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica...tractant. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1740.

4to (260 x 210 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut device. (Some minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary wrappers (a few small holes).

FIRST EDITION of Séguier’s botanical bibliography in Latin. The work is divided into three sections on flora, medical botany, and horticulture. “The coverage of the book is excellent, due to the fact that Séguier saw an unusual number of libraries on his European tour. He furthermore consulted as many catalogues of private libraries as possible. With the major Paris and London libraries accounted for, with the information obtained from Gronovious in Holland, and with his careful scanning of the literature, Séguier achieved a very high degree of coverage” (Stafleu & Cowan 11.624). $400 - 600 167 SCHULZE, Christian Friedrich (1730-1775). Kurtze Betrachtung derer versteinerten Hölzer, worinnen diese natürlichen Cörper sowohl nach ihrem Ursprunge, als auch nach ihrem eigenthümlichen Unterschiede und übrigen Eigenschafften in Erwegung gezogen werden. Leipzig: Friedrich Hekel, 1754.

Small 4to (220 x 170 mm). One folding engraved plate. (Some minor browning.) Original plain blue wrappers (a few repairs, minor soiling). Provenance: Hoefer (early signature on title-page).

FIRST EDITION, later summarized in Hamburgisches Magazin in 1755 (pp.354-359), of Schulze’s early work on petrified wood. Schulze studied at Leipzig and was a member of the Leipziger Ökonomische Sozietät. He gave the name “Pechstein” (in English, Pitchstone) to the dull black glassy volcanic rock he found near Meissen. RARE: we trace no copies of Schulze’s early work at auction in the last 50 years. Wellcome V p.65. $200 - 300

169 SMITH, Joseph Mather (1789-1866). Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1824.

2 parts in one volume, 8vo (230 x 142 mm). (Some spotting throughout, minor marginal chipping, some creasing.) Original publisher’s green boards, printed lettering-piece to spine, uncut and unopened (some staining, some chipping to spine). Provenance: A. W. Kennedy (early signature).

FIRST EDITION of this medical text, containing references to epidemics in the United States and the West Indies. Smith was born in New York, and practiced medicine in New York. He was one of the founders of the Medico-Physiological Society, contributing “Efficacy of Emetics in Spasmodic Diseases” to the first volume of the Medico-Physiological Society Transactions in 1817. He published many contributions to medical periodicals on cholera, Puerperal fever, and other epidemics. Smith also served as the editor of the New York Medical and Physical Journal and was President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Sabin 83362. $200 - 300

170 SMITH, Robert (1689-1768). A Compleat System of Opticks, in Four Books. Cambridge: for the Author, 1738.

2 volumes, 4to (290 x 225 mm). 83 engraved folding plates. (Some spotting or browning, primarily to plates, V1-4 on slightly shorter leaves.) 20th-century quarter calf antique, edges stained red.

FIRST EDITION, with sections on light, color, the theory of vision, the production of optical and perspective instruments including telescopes and microscopes, and astronomical discoveries. Smith’s work was influential in establishing the corpuscular theory of light as the dominant theory in the 18th-century. As Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Smith was influential in establishing Newtonian science at Cambridge. Houzeau-Lancaster 3323.

$1,000 - 1,500

171 [SOCIETAS REGIAS SCIENTARUM UPSALIENSIS]. Carolus LINNAEUS, Jan Frederik GRONOVIUS, and others. Acta societatis regiae scientiarum Upsaliensis ad annum MDCCXL [-MDCCXLII]. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, 1744-1748

3 parts in one volume, 4to (275 x 195 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut and engraved head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials and diagrams; 10 engraved plates (4 folding), one by Ehret. (Some spotting.) ORIGINAL BOARDS UNCUT (losses to spine, some soiling). Provenance: The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate, embossed stamp on title-page, sold Sotheby’s London, 25 October 2005, Sale L05409, Lot 1916).

FIRST EDITION, THE MACCLESFIELD COPY

Linnaeus contributes four articles, including work on orchids and lobelia. Gronovius also contributes four articles, including a work on fish. Other contributors include: Swedish mathematician, Samuel Klingenstierna, 4 articles (2 on solar eclipses); Finnish physician Helmut D. Sporing, one article on the trachea; Astronomer Peter W. Wargentin, to articles on the movement of Jupiter’s moons; Albert Haller, 2 articles and numerous astronomical observations; and entomologist Carlo De Geer on Parvulis Insectis. Soulsby 396, 416 & 930. $1,000 - 1,500

172 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - FERNS]. CRANWELL, Thomas. “New Zealand Ferns.” Auckland, New Zealand, [ca 1875-1890].

4to (280 x 220 mm). Album of 30 fern specimens pressed onto 30 leaves, printed name labels lower margin, by Thomas Cranwell with his stamp. Original calf-backed carved rimu wood boards. Provenance: Dorothy M. N. Davis (gift inscription, 1923).

Thomas Cranwell, one of the best-known makes of pressed fern albums, arrived in New Zealand from Linconshire in 1862. By 1875m, he had established his own business at Parnell. He collaborated with a Bohemian cabinet-maker, Anton Seuffert, who produced many of the wooden covers for Cranwell’s albums. $300 - 400

173 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - BRITISH MOSSES]. [PARNELL, William (1833-1906)]. “Preserved Specimens of British Mosses.” [Dublin, ca 1850].

4to (241 x 185 mm). Album of pproximately 200 specimens of mosses on 76 leaves, some in contemporary blue or white paper envelopes, each accompanied by extensive manuscript descriptions of each specimen including names and locations. Contemporary diced sheep, marbled boards, by D. W. Carroll with his ticket. Provenance: Miss Dawes (inscription); sold Maggs Bros., 2002.

Parnell collected and identified these mosses using William Jackson Hooker’s British Flora and Muscologia Britannica, and he reiterates in his Introduction that the study of mosses requires “the constant use of the microscope and the experience of no little patient perseverance.” Parnell describes the general morphology for 3 Divisions, 3 Subsections, and 39 Genera. The text includes additional morphological details for specimens of individual species for each genus that he collection in different regions of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Parnell worked in the Herbarium at Kew and assisted with The British Flora. Hew as foreman at Glasnevein Dublin for many years. He concludes his introduction with a note of presentation for the album: “The work is now presented for acceptance to Miss Dawes as a very slight token of the respect and esteem in which she is held by the Author.” Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum $300 - 400

175 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - HERBARIUM]. DUPOUX, Jacques. “Cahier de Botanique a Dupoux Jacques.” Collected 1895-1896.

2 volumes, 4to (320 x 240 mm). Album of 943 plant specimens, most mounted 2-3 per page, each number in manuscript lower margin corresponding to a caption on the facing page providing the Latin name, location where the specimen was found, and medicinal properties. With manuscript tables at the end of each volume comprising some 20 pages. Original cloth-backed green boards (rubbed).

Including plant specimens which are classified by family, and which were mostly collected near Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule. Jacques Dupous was likely a student of pharmacy in the Allier region of France. This herbaria likely fulfilled a general requirement, providing the student of pharmacy a reference of medicinal plants in their area. $500 - 700 174 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - ALGAE]. HUSSON, Anne Henry (1814-1855). Algae from the Red Sea. Collected ca 1844-1845.

Album of 18 algae specimens mounted on 18 sheets (each approximately 330 x 155 mm), each captioned with the Latin name, and details of the location and date the specimen was collected in manuscript in French on the mounts. Loosely laid in to folding portfolio, folding case.

“The Red sea has been a region of natural history exploration by European scientists...The first record of marine algae in the Red Sea was by Strand (a pupil of Linnaeus’s), who in his thesis on the flora of Palestine listed three species. The first person to collect marine algae from the Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast was the Danish botanist and explorer Forsskal in the 18th century who, in the month of November 1762, made a collection of seaweeds from the Sea of Jeddah...In the early years of the 19th century a British admiral Viscount Valentia made collections of algae form the Red Sea...several other workers, including medical doctors and amateurs collected marine algae from the Red Sea during the rest of the 19th century” (Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3/4, Dec. 2014, pp.278-285).

Anne Henry Husson was a French botanist from Nancy, and a pioneer of early photography. He lived in Egypt where he worked as the director of the botanical garden and conservator for the museum of natural history for the Kasr el Ain. [Laid-in:] Photocopy of an article about Husson: “L’album photographique d’Anne-Henry Husson...Regards d’un colon nanceien dur l’Egypte moderne.” From: Annales de l’Est, 1985, no. 4, pp.261-199. The sheets stab-sewn in wrappers. $500 - 700

176 STERBEECK, Johannes Franciscus van (1630-1693. Citricultura oft regeringhe der uy-themsche boomen te weten Oranien, Citroenen, Limoenen, Granaten, Laurie-ren en andere. Antwerp: Joseph Jacops, 1682.

4to (200 x 163 mm). Copper engraved frontispiece, 14 copper engraved plates. (Some minor soiling, a few leaves with marginal chipping.) Contemporary calf (joints starting, minor losses to spine ends).

FIRST EDITION, including descriptions of citrus plant including their flowers, leaves, and fruit, and the care and planting of citrus trees with information about citrus diseases and pests. The plates, engraved by Francois Ertinger, are closely based on the plates created by Giovanni Battista Ferrari for his 1646 Hesperides. Nissen BBI 1893. $800 - 1,200

177 THOMSON, Thomas (1773-1852). A System of Chemistry in Five Volumes. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1810.

5 volumes, 8vo (208 x 131 mm). (Some very minor spotting, a few small stains.) Contemporary diced russia gilt, smooth spines gilt, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained yellow. Provenance: Unidentified signature (note about acquisition of the set from Maggs Bros., 1996).

Fourth edition of Thomson’s System of Chemistry, which helped secure his reputation in the field, and which would go through 6 separate editions, and which also appeared in French and German. Thomson’s reference was based not just on standard compilations, but also a wide range of recent papers. Thomson’s writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton’s atomic theory, and he’s known for invention the saccharometer and for naming silicon. $250 - 350 178 TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-1647). Lezioni Accademiche. Florence: S. A. R Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715.

4to (263 x 185 mm). Half-title; engraved portrait after Pietro Anichini, engraved device on title, 2 small woodcuts in-text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (Two small rust-holes on frontispiece, some minor soiling.) 18th-century Italian red sheep gilt.

FIRST EDITION of Torricelli’s twelve previously unpublished lectures, delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino, and the Academy of Drawing, mainly relating to physics. “From the point of view of physics, the lectures on the force of impact and on wind are of particular interest. In the former he said that he was reporting ideas expressed by Galileo in their informal conversations, and there is no lack of original observations. For example, the assertion that ‘forces and impetus’ (what we call energy) lie in bodies was interpreted by Maxwell in the last paragraph of A Treatise on Electricty and Magnetism (1873) as meaning that the propagation of energy is a mediate and not remote action. In the lecture on wind Torricelli ... advanced the modern theory that winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence of density, between two regions of the earth” (DSB). Dibner, Heralds of Science 149; Norman 2088. A TALL COPY. $2,000 - 3,000

179 TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708). Institutiones rei herbariae. Paris: Typographia Regia, 1700.

3 volumes, 4to (240 x 175 mm). Engraved titles to vols. II and III, 489 engraved plates; engraved initial and vignettes. (Some minor spotting or toning.) Contemporary French sprinkled calf gilt, red and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges sprinkled red (some very light wear).

FIRST EDITION in which Tournefort translated his findings into Latin to engage a broader European readership. Tournefort was the first botanist to clarify the concept of genus for plants, and the first to distinguish between genus and species, and he invented the word “herbarium.” He was chief botanist to Louis XIV, and was in charge of the Jardin des Plantes. With plates after Claude Aubriet, who accompanied Tournefort on his planthunting travels, and who later became the principal artist at the Jardin des Plantes. Hunt 450; Nissen BBI, 1977; Stafleu & Cowan 14.783. $800 - 1,200 180 TRABAUD, Jean. Principes sur le mouvement et l’equilibre, pour servir d’introduction aux mecaniques & a la physique. Paris: Jean Desaint & Charles Saillant, 1741.

4to (255 x 193 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces; 25 engraved folding plates (one with flaps). (Minor marginal chipping to a few plates, otherwise bright.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some light wear).

FIRST EDITION, this copy including the section on Ellipse that is often lacking. “In the text Trabaud makes reference to Jean Bernoulli, Leibniz, Varignon, Descartes, de la Hire, and other authors represented in this collection” (Bibliotheca Mechanica, p.325). The text includes two treatises: the first, containing several books, deals with all aspects of the movement of bodies and weights, percussions of bodies and statics, hydrostatics and equilibrium of fluids and hydrodynamics; the second shorter book deals with the formation of ellipse. Bibliotheca Mechanica pp.324-325. $400 - 600

181 UNGER, Franz (1800-1870).Chloris protogaea. Beiträge zur Flora der Vorwelt. Leipzig: in Commission bei W. Engelmann, [1841]-1847.

Folio (350 x 257 mm). 50 tinted lithographed plates (3 double-page); Plate XXXIX number printed on an overstrip and pasted in. (Some spotting or soiling, a few tiny holes in the corner of Plate L.) Contemporary boards with modern rebacking and recornering (some light rubbing).

ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED PALEONTOLOGICAL WORKS by a pioneer of paleobotany. Franz Unger was Professor of Botany and Zoology in Graz. The Chloris, his major publication, includes more than 120 new species of tertiary plants, illustrated and classified under known genera of the day. Copies of Unger’s work are RARE ON THE MARKET: American Book Prices Current traces only one copy in the last 45 years. Nissen BBI 2024; Stafleu and Cowan 15,595. $1,000 - 1,500

183 VEITCH, James Herbert (1868-1907). Hortus Veitchii A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together with an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by them and a List of the Most Remarkable of Their Introductions. London: James Veitch & Sons Limited, 1906.

4to (285 x 198 mm). Photogravure frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 50 photogravure plates. (A few light spots, some occasional creasing.) Contemporary half black morocco gilt, marbled paper, tan metaltipped cornerpieces, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine sunned, some browning).

LIMITED EDITION, one of an unstated number “for Private Circulation only.” The Veitch family comprised several generations of distinguished horticulturalists, owned the largest group of family-run plant nurseries in the 19th century, and may have been the first to employ “plant-hunters” for their nurseries. James Veitch was a fellow of both the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Through the Veitch family’s work “a mass of interest and beauty has been added to the gardens of Great Britain!” (Introduction, p. 10), and the work includes 1500 plants the business introduced to the market. 182 VARIGNON, Pierre (1654-1722). Traite du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traite preliminaire du mouvement en general. Tire des ouvrages de feu Monsieur Varignon, par M. l’Abbe Pujol. Paris: Pissot, 1725.

4to (243 x 183 mm). 5 engraved folding plates. (Minor marginal dampstain to last ca 25 leaves, small wormtrack to blank margin of several plates.) Contemporary boards with later calf backing, upper cover set with the embossed coat of arms, edges stained red. Provenance: German Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for Leibgarde zu Pferde (binding).

FIRST EDITION of Varignon’s posthumous work edited from his manuscripts by Abbe Pujol. The work opens with a general discussion of motion, describing Varignon’s discoveries in the field of forces and acceleration, which were based on Galileo’s work. The Leibgarde zu Pferde of the Schwerin army participated in the Russian campaign and in the Napoleonic war against France. Roberts & Trent 339. $300 - 400

184 VRIES, Hugo de (1848-1935). Die Mutationstheorie. Leipzig: Veit & Comp., 1901.

First volume in 3 parts only (lacking the second volume, also in 3 parts), 4to (246 x 171 mm). 8 chromolithographed plates; numerous in-text illustrations. Original green printed wrappers, uncut (minor chipping, a few repairs to spines, some toning).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DE VRIES: “Den hern E. K G Rose Van den Schigver Hugo de Vries.” De Vries formulated his Laws of Mutation, suggesting that new species developed through a series of small random changes, through intensive study of Oenothera lamarckiana, a species of evening primrose, in 1886. His theory buttressed Darwin’s evolutionism. Although the mutants were later discredited as the plant was shown to be a permanent hybrid, “The principle of mutation...remains a cornerstone of evolution theory” (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 36; Garrison-Morton 240; Norman 2169. $400 - 600

8vo. Color-printed frontispiece; numerous maps and diagrams. Original publisher’s green cloth gilt (touch of wear to spine ends and corners, otherwise bright.) Provenance: William Eagle Clarke (1853-1938), natural historian (correspondence, see below).

Third edition, PRESENTATION COPY, with a printed Author’s Compliments slip laid in. This third edition was corrected and enlarged with the addition of 40 additional pages of text. Clarke, a naturalist, became Curator of Leeds Museum in 1884, and later joined the Natural History Department at the Royal Scottish Museum in 1888, where he became the Keeper from 1906 to 1921. He contributed papers to The Ibis from 1894-1900, focusing on birds from the Philippines.

[Tipped in:] THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, FROM WALLACE to William Eagle Clarke. WALLACE CORRESPONDS WITH CLARKE REGARDING CORRECTIONS FOR AN UPCOMING EDITION OF ISLAND LIFE.

WALLACE, Alfred Russel. Autograph letter signed (“Alfred R. Wallace”), to William Eagle Clarke. Parkstone, Dorset, 31 May 1901. 2 pages, 8vo. “I see you have written on birds of the Philippines in the ‘Ibis’ last year. I write to ask you if you can kindly give me the total number of species now known, to correct the statement at p.388 of my ‘Island Life,’ of which I am preparing a new edition.” On pp.388 of the present copy, Wallace writes: “Mr. W. Eagle Clarke has given me the latest figures by including all the new species discovered up to the present year (1901)...”.

WALLACE. ALS (“Alfred R. Wallace”), to Clarke. Parkstone, Dorset, 21 July 1901. 1 page, 8vo. “Many thanks for the lists you have been so good as to send...” -- WALLACE. ALS (“Alfred R. Wallace”) to Clarke. Parkstone, Dorset, 14 November 1901. 1 page, 8vo. “Will you be so good as to look over the enclosed proofs of list of Philippine Mammals, and correct any errors of spelling or any omissions...” A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. $2,000 - 3,000

186 WATSON, James Dewey (1928 - ). The Double Helix A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

8vo. 19 Photographic illustrations, 11 diagrams. (Some annotations.) Publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt and blind (some minor rubbing or sunning to extremities); original printed dust jacket (some chipping to head-and-foot of spine and lower top joint, spine sunned).

FIRST EDITION, second issue of the author’s groundbreaking account of the events which led to the discovery of the structure of DNA, for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962.

$100 - 200

187 WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus (1624-1677). Hecatosteae I[-II]. Observationum Physico-Medicarum ad Societatem Naturae Curiosorum in Germania. Augsburg: Theophil Goebel and Joannis Schönig, 1675.

Small 4to (205 x 158 mm). Engraved title, 12 copper engraved plates. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) Later half calf (some minor rubbing, hinges starting).

FIRST EDITION of Welsch’s study on materia medica in the 17th century, including plates after Melchoir Haffner illustrating minerals and plants used for preparing medicinal treatments. Welsch, a German doctor from Augsburg, was accepted as a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, the present-day Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, in 1676. Krivatsy 12929. $300 - 400

188 WESTON, Richard (1733-1806). The English Flora: Or, A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants and Fruits, Natives as well as Exotics, Cultivated, for Use or Ornament, in the English Nurseries, Greenhouses and Stoves, Arranged According to the Linnaean System. London: Printed for the Author, 1775.

8vo (232 x 139 mm). (Some creasing, occasional light spotting.) Original paper-backed boards, uncut and unopened (some light wear).

FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Weston’s early English flora includes an extensive catalogue of seeds both domestic and foreign, an index in English referring to Latin names, and a general catalogue of seeds for various gardens. Weston was an English Botanist connected to many horticultural and agricultural societies and published similar works on a variety of topics in those fields. ESTC T228382. $300 - 400

189 WESTON, Richard (1733-1806). The Gardener’s and Planter’s Calendar. Containing the Method of Raising Timber-Trees, Fruit-Trees, and Quick, for Hedges. London: T. Carnan, 1778.

12mo (172 x 103 mm). (Some occasional light staining.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked with new endpapers, some rubbing to corners). Provenance: J. Bryan (contemporary signature); Pamela Lister (bookplate).

Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of Weston’s work first issued in 1773, which contains extensive information on raising tress, preparing orchards, and planting vegetables and flowers. Weston included directions for garden management throughout the year, new advancements in gardening, an appendix, and a catalog of seeds and plants for use in various gardens (title-page). English Botanist Weston was the Secretary to the Leicester Agricultural Society and published numerous works on horticulture. Henrey 1485; Henry II, p. 396. $200 - 300

191 WILSON, Henry (1673-1741) and William HUME. Surveying Improv’d or, the Whole Art both in Theory and practice, Fully Demonstrated. London: for J. Wood and C. Woodward, 1741.

8vo (195 x 120 mm). 11 engraved folding plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (joints starting, some minor rubbing). Provenance: Ebenezer Hare (early signature).

Third edition, the first to be published with Hume’s supplement, Geodoesia Accurata: or, Surveying made Easy by the Chain only. The work, dedicated to Edmund Halley, describes use of chains, surveying wheel, theodolite, circumferentor, semicircle, plain table and scales.

$200 - 300 190 WILKINSON, John Gardner (1797-1875). On Colour and on the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All Classes. With Remarks on Laying Out Dressed or Geometrical Gardens. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for John Murray, 1858.

8vo (222 x 140 mm). 8 chromolithographic plates or lithographs with hand-coloring (including frontispiece), numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some occasional very light spotting.) Original publisher’s pictorial cobalt cloth gilt by Edmonds & Remnant with their ticket (some rubbing). Provenance: Eric Stanley Quayle (1921-2001), British bibliophile (bookplate, 1965).

FIRST EDITION. Wilkinson, considered to be the father of British Egyptology, set for the present work “to see England rival, and if possible excel, other countries in all the various branches of aesthetic art...to show how important it is that all classes of the community should appreciate the beautiful, and encourage the production of good works” (Preface, p. [v]). $150 - 250

192 WORLIDGE, John (1640-1700). Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered... and Dictionarium Rusticum: or, The Interpretaion of Rustick Terms. London: for Tho. Dring, 1687.

Folio (318 x 197 mm). Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate; woodcut initials. (First and last few leaves frayed, “The Explanation of the Frontispiece” leaf bound in on a stub, some overall browning or staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed, corners repaired). Provenance: Thomas Jones (signature, 1763, inscription on recto of first leaf); a few 19th-century annotations.

Fourth edition of Worlidge’s Systema, which was first published in 1668, outlining general improvements, enclosing meadows and pastures and watering and draining them, and with information about clovers, vetches, Wiltshire long-grass, hemp, and flax. $300 - 400