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Dem Andenken guter Freunde [manuscripttitle].

Philadelphia, London, Halifax and Virginia:  1771-1784. Oblong8vo. Manuscript throughout, approximately 38 entries inGerman, Latin, French or English, most signed and dated,includes numerous unaccomplished blanks. Lacks frontendpaper, lacking corner of manuscript title withoutsignificant loss of text. With a couple later, unrelated entriesin the rear. Contemporary red morocco, covers bordered witha gilt roll tool, upper cover with a central stamp in gilt withMuhlenberg's name, marbled endpapers. Rare 18th century American album amicorum. (#34459)      $ 17,500.

ALBUM AMICORUM -

JOHN PETERMUHLENBERG

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Les Chasses et Le Sport en Hongrie.

Budapest:  Armand Geibel, [1857]. Folio (21 x 16 inches). Half-title. Chromolithographed frontispiece and 12chromolithographed plates, finished by hand andheightened with gum arabic. 12 mounted head and tail-piece chromolithographed vignettes, wood-engravedillustrations and initials. Scattered minor foxing to theplates. Publisher's lettered boards, rebacked and retippedwith red morocco, endpapers renewed, small area of loss oftext to the upper board. A rare color plate sporting book. (#35976)     $ 12,500.

COUNT EMMANUELANDRÁSY

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Aristotle's Complete Master-Piece, Displaingthe Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man.To which is added The Family Physician; beingapproved remedies for the several distempersincident to the human body. A new edition.

London:  Printed for the Booksellers, 1802 [but Boston:Manning and Loring, circa 1808]. 12mo. 72pp. Four woodcutillustrations. Contemporary calf-backed paper coveredboards. An unrecorded early American pirated edition with a falseimprint of this famous and mildly racy publication. (#36656)      $ 2,500.

ARISTOTLE 'SMASTERPIECE

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The Sugar Trade, with the IncumbrancesThereon, Laid Open. By A Barbadoes Planter.

London:  J. Peele, 1734. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 inches). [8], 22pp. Without the folding table. Expertly bound to style in half18th century russia and period marbled paper coveredboards, red morocco lettering piece. Early, first-hand account by a planter in Barbados on theisland's sugar trade, immediately after the passage of theMolasses Act. (#36499)      $ 2,500.

JOHN ASHLEY

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Architecture Françoise, ou Recueil des Plans,Elevations, Coupes et Profils des Eglises,Maisons Royales, Palais, Hôtels & Edifices lesplus considérables de Paris.

Paris:  Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1752-56. 4 volumes, folio.Engraved title vignettes in the first two vols. 499 engravedplates (many folding or double-page). Contemporarymottled calf, period marbled endpapers. Provenance:Nelson A. Rockefeller (bookplate). A tour-de-force of illustrated French architecture. (#36302) $ 42,500.

JACQUES-FRANÇOISBLONDEL

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Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View ofIllustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases.

London:  Printed by Richard Taylor ... Published byLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827-1831. Twovolumes bound in three, large 4to. xvi, 222, [32], 223-231,[1]pp., plus 16 hand-coloured engraved plates (numbered 1-15, plus 16 bis); xl, [2], 450, [28]pp., plus 14 hand colouredengraved plates (numbered I-XVI, without plates IV or VIII,as issued); [6], [451]-696, [48], 697-724pp, plus 24 engravedplates (numbered XVII-XL; 17 hand-coloured, 5 folding).Expertly bound to style in period russet morocco, spine giltwith raised bands, green endpapers. Bright's most important work, illustrated with color plateswhich are "among the most beautiful of medicalillustrations" (Grolier/Medicine). (#35734) $ 49,500.

RICHARD BRIGHT

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De Tristibus Franciae libri quatuor.

Lyon:  Perrin, 1840. Quarto (11 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches). [4], xvi, [2],117 pp., plus numerous plates and illustrations andadditional states of the title. Signed by Cailhava. Nineteenthcentury full green morocco, by Chamolle-Duru, spine withraised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt, marbledendpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt edges. First publication of an important illuminated 16th centurymanuscript: one of 10 thick paper copies with proofimpressions of the plates, bound by Chambolle-Duru. (#36217)      $ 1,850.

LÉON CAILHAVA

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Henrietta Temple, A Love Story.

London:  Henry Colburn, 1837. 3 volumes, 8vo. Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece byD'Orsay, with touches of hand coloring, trimmed andmounted on the front blank. Half-title in vol. 1, 2pp.publisher's ads in the rear of vol. 3. Full green morocco byBedford, covers elaborately tooled in gilt, spines in sixcompartments with raised bands, lettered in the second andthird, the others tooled in gilt, silk endpapers. Provenance:Mary Monckton Boyle, Countess of Cork (presentation copyinscribed by the author on the half-title); Mrs. Prinsep; M.A.Minchen (inserted letter and inscription on the title, seebelow). First edition: an important presentation copy to Lady Cork,in a lovely binding by Bedford. (#35887)                                                                               $ 8,500.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

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The Cabinet of Natural History, and AmericanRural Sports with Illustrations.

Philadelphia:  J. and T. Doughty, 1830-1833. Quarto. Threevolumes. vii,[1],298,[2]; vii,[3],292; 96pp. Text in two columns.Three uncolored steel-engraved titles with vignettes, twouncolored steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, and fifty-seven plates (three uncolored). Contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards, spinesgilt; volume three rebound to style in a modern binding.Extremities lightly worn; head of spine on second volumeslightly chipped. Bookplate on front pastedowns of first twovolumes. First major American color plate sporting book. (#33098) $ 9,500.

JOHN AND THOMASDOUGHTY

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The History of Texas; or, The Emigrant's,Farmer's, and Politician's Guide to theCharacter, Climate, Soil and Productions ofthat Country....

Cincinnati:  J. A. James & Co., 1836. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2inches). 336, [2]pp. Publisher's advertising leaf in the rear.Engraved folding map, hand-colored in outline. Publisher'sbrown cloth, rebacked retaining most of the original spineand paper lettering piece. Important early history of Texas. (#36659)     $ 8,000.

DAVID B . EDWARD

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Maison Rustique, Or, The Countrey Farme ...Now newly Reviewed, Corrected andAugmented, with divers large Additions.

London:  Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull, 1616. Smallfolio, bound in sixes (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Woodcutillustrations in text, ornamental headpieces and woodcutinitials. [18], 732, [22]pp. Expertly bound to style to fullperiod calf, covers with central gilt device, spine with raisedbands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second,the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance:Bridgewater Library (armorial bookplate on frontendpaper). First edition of Markham's revised English translation ofCharles Estienne and Jean Liebault's important late 16thcentury work on husbandry, gardening and country living. (#36516)      $ 7,500.

CHARLES ESTIENNEAND JEAN LIEBAULT

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Ladies' Old-Fashioned Shoes ... [Bound with:]Supplement to Old-Fashioned Shoes.

Edinburgh:  David Douglas, 1885-1889. 2 volumes in one,oblong folio (11 x 17 1/4 inches). 11 chromolithographedplates, some printed with gold and silver inks, each platewith a corresponding text leaf describing the shoes.[Supplement, bound in rear:] 6 plates (4chromolithographed). Publisher's paper-covered pictorialboards, expertly rebacked to style with red morocco. The scarce first edition of this desirable illustratedmonograph on women's shoes of the 17th century, completewith the scarce supplement. (#34836)     $ 7,250.

THOMAS WATSONGREIG

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The Friend ... [Vol. VI].

Honolulu:  The Polynesian Office, 1848. 12 consecutive issuesbound together, quarto. Volume VI, Numbers 1-12.Letterpress title and 96pp. Expertly bound to style in halfcalf and period marbled paper covered boards. A full year's run of a noted Hawaiian newspaper with earlyCalifornia Gold Rush content. (#36494)      $ 4,500.

HAWAII - SAMUEL C . DAMON

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Monumental Inscriptions! These Inscriptions,Compiled from Authentic Sources, ButPrincipally from Official Documents,Communicated by the Department of War toCongress, on the 25th of January, 1828, Are, inthis Form Submitted to the SeriousConsideration of the American People...

[Philadelphia:  Binns, 1828]. Broadside, illustrated withwoodcuts of six coffins with inscriptions giving accounts ofthe six soldiers who were executed by General Jackson.Sixteen verses in six columns below. Toned, with losses,mounted on linen at an early date. Broadside of Binn's famous anti-Jackson coffin handbills. (#36558)      $ 1,200.

ANDREW JACKSON -

[JOHN BINNS].

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[An archive of letters written to GeorgeFrederick Kunz, largely on gemologicalmatters].

[Various places:  1884-1930]. Approximately 105 letters ornotes, comprising: approximately 9 autograph notes signedon post cards, approximately 83 autograph letters signed,and approximately 22 typed letters signed. A fascinating archive of correspondence to noted Americanmineralogist and mineral collector, George Frederick Kunz. (#36598) $ 7,500.

GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ

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[A tree-peddler's sample book containing alarge collection of colour fruit and botanicalspecimen plates].

[Rochester, N.Y.]:  [circa 1885]. Oblong 8vo. 82 pochoir andchromolithographic plates, many with the Mensing &Stecher imprint, but also including Dewey, Horticultural ArtJournal, and other imprints. Many plates with pencilannotations of prices. Contemporary black morocco,rebacked. A Mensing & Stecher "tree-peddler's" sample book with finecolor plates of fruit varieties. (#33159)      $ 1,800.

MENSING & STECHERLITHOGRAPHICCOMPANY

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The Jewish Manual; or, Practical Informationin Jewish and Modern Cookery ... Edited by aLady.

London:  T. and W. Boone,  1846. 8vo. [2], xxi, [1], 244pp.Publisher's dark blue cloth, covers blocked in blind, flatspine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, glazed yellowendpapers. Minor fading to spine. Housed in a blackmorocco box. First edition of the first Kosher cookbook in English. (#36655)      $ 15,000.

JUDITH MONTEFIORE ;LADY

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Mishcàt-ul-Masábìh, or, a Collection of themost authentic Traditions, regarding theActions and Sayings of Múhammed; exhibitingthe Origin of the Manners and Customs, thecivil, religious and military Policy of theMuslemans. Translated from the originalArabic, by Capt. A. N. Matthews, BengalArtillery.

Calcutta:  T. Hubbard at the Hindoostanee Press, 1809-1810.2 volumes, quarto (12 x 9 inches). [6], ix, [1], vi, 665, [1]; [2], vi,817, [1], [12]pp. Contemporary sheep, flat spines with redmorocco labels. Rare first edition in English of a noted Sunni text: printed inCalcutta. (#36855)                      $ 4,500.

MUHAMMAD IBN 'ABDALLAH, AL-KHA'TIB AL-

TABRIZI

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Die Kunst Zu Stricken in ihrem ganzenUmfange Oder: Vollständige und gründlicheAnweisung alle sowohl gewöhnliche alskünstliche Arten von Strickerei nachZeichnungen zu verfertigen.

Leipzig:  Georg Voss, 1804. Oblong folio (11 3/8 x 18 1/2inches). Engraved hand-colored title and 50 engraved platesin two states (25 hand-colored).  The color plates on laidpaper, the text and uncolored plates on wove paper, asissued. Contemporary linen-backed marbled paper coveredboards. Second enlarged edition of a beautifully-illustrated patternbook on knitting, crocheting, lace-making and more. (#36839) $ 7,000.

JOHANN F . NETTOAND F . L . LEHMANN

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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica... Editio Secunda Auctior et Emendatior.

Cambridge:  [printed by Cornelius Crownfield at theUniversity Press], 1713. Quarto. [28], 484, [8]pp. Foldingengraved plate of cometary orbit. Engraved device on title,numerous woodcut illustrations within the text. Corrigendaon verso of final leaf. Modern red morocco, bound bySangorski & Sutcliffe, marbled endpapers. The second edition of Newton's great mathematical work,substantially revised and enlarged. (#36362)      $ 24,000.

ISAAC NEWTON

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Natural Magick ... In Twenty Books... Whereinare set forth All the Riches and Delights of theNatural Sciences.

London:  Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658. Quarto.Title page in red and black. Engraved additional title,woodcut initials and illustrations. [6], 409, [1, blank], [6] pp.Errors in pagination as issued. Contemporary calf, repair athead of spine. First edition in English of a classic 16th century work by theItalian polymath. (#36421) $ 4,800.

GIAMBATTISTA DELLAPORTA

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Fragments on the Theory and Practice ofLandscape Gardening. Including some remarkson Grecian and Gothic architecture...

London:  Printed by T. Bensley and Son for J. Taylor, 1816.Large quarto. 42 aquatint plates (22 hand-coloured,including ten with overslips and three double-page, 13uncoloured, including three with overslips, 7 tinted,including one with an overslip), 1 wood-engraved andletterpress plan, 9 aquatint head- and tail-piece vignettes(including two with overslips), and numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Half-title. Contemporary calf,rebacked, red morocco lettering pieces. Provenance: GeorgeGranville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (giltarmorial stamp on the covers); Robert Hoe (morocco booklabel). The first edition of Repton’s last great work on landscapegardening: the Hoe copy. (#36460)                                                                            $ 17,000.

HUMPHRY REPTON

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[Six Views of the City, Harbour, and Country ofthe Havana].

[London:  Printed for John Bowles, Robert Sayer, ThomasJefferys, Carington Bowles, and Henry Parker, 1765-1768].Oblong folio (17 1/4 x 24 inches). Complete suite of 6engraved views. Expertly bound to style in half russia andcombed marbled paper covered boards. Very rare complete suite of among the most beautifullyengraved Caribbean views of the 18th century. (#36011)      $ 18,750.

SCENOGRAPHIAAMERICANA - ELIASDURNFORD

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A Monograph of the Nectariniidae or Family ofSun-Birds.

London:  published by the author, 1876-1880. 4to. 121 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J.G. Keulemans.Contemporary green half morocco and cloth coveredboards, spine with raised bands in six compartments,morocco lettering piece in the second, marbled endpapers,gilt edges. One of 250 copies. (#36169)      $ 13,500.

GEORGE ERNEST SHELLEY

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Partly-printed vellum document signed, asPresident, approving the sale of 281 acres ofland in Alabama from Creek Indian "Yar-har-tus-tee-nug-gee" to John Fontaine.

Washington:  August 3, 1841. 1p. Approximately 17 1/2 x 12inches. Countersigned by J. Williamson, recorder of theGeneral Land Office. Paper seal intact. The Trail of Tears. (#36854)      $ 2,000.

JOHN TYLER

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