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1] AMICIS, Edmondo de (1846-1908). Spain and the Spaniards. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, TheKnickerbocker Press, 1885. Large quarto. 463pp., with illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with giltdesign on front board and spine. Very good. The Guadalquiver edition: #225/600 copies. An inter-esting travel account on mid-19th century Spain by Italian writer Edmondo de Amicis.(#38868) $ 120. 2] ANDERSON, Dr. Charles L. G. Old Panama and Castilla del Oro. A narrative history of thediscovery, conquest, and settlement by the Spaniards of Panama, Darien, Veragua, Santo Domingo,Santa Marta, Cartagena, Nicaragua, and Peru... Washington: Press of the Subwarth Company, 1911.Octavo. [xv], 559pp. Folding color map, frontispiece, and 40 plates. Publisher's decorative cloth,stamped in gilt with a design of a ruin on the cover. This work presents an early history of thediscovery and exploration of Panama by the Spaniards and Columbus. It contains material on thebuccaneers, the Darien Colony, and Sir Francis Drake, plus an extensive index and bibliography.(#38791) $ 200. 3] ARENTS Jr., George; Jerome E. BROOKS, Sarah A. DICKSON and others. Tobacco its History Illus-trated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. ... New York:The Rosenbach Company (vols. I-V), NYPL (supplemental parts I-X), 1937-1952, Nov. 1958-June 1969.7 vols. (vols. I-V, supplemental vols. I & II in 10 original parts), small folio. Five frontispieces (3 col-ored), numerous plates and illustrations (a few colored). Vols. I-V: original red cloth, dark redlettering-piece; Supplemental vols. I & II: original red thick paper wrappers, lettering to backstripsand upper covers. A fine complete set. Vols. I-V limited to 300 numbered copies, this set #277.(#23128) $ 1,850.


4] AUCTION CATALOGUE. Bibliotheca Brandiana. A Catalogue of the Unique, Scarce, Rare, Curious,and Numerous Collection of Works... being the entire Library of the late Rev. John Brand, Fellowand Secretary of the Antiquarian Society, Author of the History of Newcastle, Popular Antiquities,&c. &c. which will be sold by auction, by order of his executors ... London: 1807. Octavo. [4], 1-139,137-346, 345-369 (errors in pagination as issued). Contemporary red half morocco. An auctioncatalogue containing nearly 9,000 lots for sale from the estate of Reverend John Brand.(#36898) $ 1,850. 5] AVIATION. Restricted ... Air Publication 1480 ... Aircraft Recognition Handbook. [Great Britain]:1948-1953. 6 volumes, 8vo. Numerous photographs and silhouettes of British, American, German,French, Italian aircraft. Contents with holes punched at the gutter margin and contained withineach binder by original string and metal clasps. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, title label onupper cover. Scarce post-war British manual to identify aircraft. (#38793) $ 100. 6] BARCA, Madame Calderón de la (1804-1882) [Frances Erskine Inglis]. Life in Mexico during aResidence of Two Years in that Country ... Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1843. 2 vols,octavo. xii, 412; [xii], 423 pp. Frontispiece. Publisher's purple cloth. Very good. The first Americanedition of this remarkable travel narrative. "One of the classic writings of 19th century travel,probably the most important record of the social life of the country at that time" (Hill).(#38862) $ 275.


7] BENNETT, Terry. History of Photography in China 1842-1860 ... [With:] History of Photography inChina: Western Photographers 1861-1879 ... [With:] History of Photography in China: ChinesePhotographers 1844-1879. London: Quaritch, 2009-2010-2013. 3 volumes, oblong square quarto.Numerous illustrations. Publisher's cloth, dust jackets. First comprehensive history of photographyin China.(#38773) $ 450. 8] BENSON, Frank W. - Adam E. M. PAFF, compiled and arranged by. Etchings and Drypoints ... Anillustrated and descriptive catalogue. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company [printed bythe Riverside Press], 1917. Quarto (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). Frontispiece etching signed by the artist.Numerous illustrations. Publisher's coarse cloth backed boards. One of 275 numbered copies: com-plete with the signed frontispiece etching by Benson. The first volume of the Benson catalogueraisonne. The frontispiece, titled Pair of Ducks, is described as item 102 in the catalogue: "After twoimpressions, the plate was steel-faced and the necessary two hundred and seventy-five proofswere printed on Shogun paper and bound into the copies of the book." After printing the plate wasdestroyed. The complete catalogue of Benson's engraved works would be published in five volumes,in a variety of limitations, between 1917 and 1959.(#35112) $ 850.


9] BIBLE IN PITMAN SHORTHAND. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and the New Testaments ...Printed in the Corresponding Style of Phonetic Shorthand. London: Fred. Pitman, Phonetic Depot;Bath: Isaac Pitman, Phonetic Institute, 1867-1866. 8vo. [2], 811, [1]pp. Text in shorthand in twocolumns. Manuscript notes in shorthand on the rear endpapers. Contemporary blindstampedmorocco, bound by David Chivers of Bath with his blindstamp on the rear endpaper. Provenance:W. P. Coleborn (small inked stamp). Bible in phonetic shorthand. Isaac Pitman developed hisshorthand system in 1837, rapidly becoming the most commonly used shorthand system in theEnglish-speaking world (and still in use today). He would first publish the Bible in shorthand in1850, with editions following in 1867, 1872, 1890 and 1891.(#33999) $ 400. 10] BROOM, James M. (1776-1850). An Address delivered before the Philadelphia Society forPromoting Agriculture: at its anniversary meeting January 16, 1821. Philadelphia: Printed for Littell& Henry, 1821. 8vo. 24pp. Later green morocco backed cloth covered boards. Address given by theDelaware politician to celebrate the anniversary of the oldest agricultural society in the UnitedStates. Among Broom's comments is an enthusiastic recommendation on the benefits of newtechnology, including the cotton gin and a machine for preparing flax for manufacturing.(#35474) $ 250.


11] COLMAN, Henry (1785-1849). First [- Fourth] Report on the Agriculture of Massachusetts.Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1838-1839-1840-1841. Four volumes in two, 8vo. 3 plates, including alarge, folding illustrated and hand colored letterpress table regarding silk worms. Contemporarysmooth calf, spine with semi-raised bands, green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust (inked stamp). Scarce complete set of the first officialagricultural report of Massachusetts. (#35358) $ 650. 12] COWLEY, Abraham (1618-1667), translator; and Stephen GOODEN (1892-1955), engraver.Anacreon, done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683, newlyembellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden. Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1923.Octavo. 52, [4]pp. 7 copper engravings. Presentation copy to J. H. S. McArthur from Sir SydneyCockerell. Quarter vellum over gold paper boards. One of only 725 copies produced, reprinted fromthe 1683 edition. Founded in 1922, None-such Press was a private press founded by a husband andwife, and their friend in the base-ment of Birrell & Garnett's bookshop on Gerrard Street in Soho,London, of which their friend was co-owner. The press produced around 140 books on poetry andliterature, reaching its peak pro-duction in the 1920s and 30s. It used a small hand press to designbooks but printed them via com-mercial printer, resulting in high-quality designs with thecapability of a large distribution. Abraham Cowley was one of the leading British poets of the 17thcentury, admired and known for his elaborate, decorative language.(#38849) $ 125.


13] DE LESCURE, M. Correspondance Secrete inedite sur Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette la cour et laville de 1777 a 1792 ... Paris: Henri Plon, 1866. 2 vols, octavo. 618; 800pp. Text in French. Contem-porary half blue morocco, marble paper boards, spine richly gilt in six compartments. Fine. Com-plete first edition of this work on the last king of the French monarchy at the height of the revo-lution. This work contains previously unpublished, or secret, correspondence on Louis XVI andMarie Antoinette written at the height of the French revolution, between 1777 and 1792.(#38871) $ 150. 14] FERNOW, Berthold (1837-1908), editor. The Records of New Amsterdam, from 1653 to 1674 AnnoDomini ... Volume I. Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens 1653-1655. New York:Knickerbocker Press, 1897. 7 vols, large octavo. Full tan sheep, black morocco letter lettering pieces. First edition of Fernow's revised English translation of the earliest Dutch municipal records of NewAmsterdam, the region now known as New York City. In the 1830s, Cornelius Westbrook was hiredto translate the ordinances of the city and the first book of court minutes. In 1848, Edmund B.O'Callaghan was hired to continue and complete Westbrook's translations. In this edition, BertholdFernow made a completely new translation of volume 1, which he considered to have been poorlytranslated previously, and revised and edited the rest of the volumes. The Dutch manuscriptrecords and their English translations document court proceedings, resolutions, minutes, andcorrespondence between the colonial governments.(#38815) $ 800.


15] FIELDING, T. H. The Art of Engraving, with the Various Modes of Operation. London:Ackermann & Co., 1841. 8vo. 12 plates on 10 sheets, including engravings, lithographs, aquatints,mezzotints, etc. Later half green calf and green cloth covered boards. First edition. Besides treatingengraving, mezzotinting, aquatinting and lithography, the work also includes a section on photo-genic drawing (i.e. the birth of photography). Gernsheim, Incunabula 652; Abbey, Life 125.(#34741) $ 550. 16] FLOWER, William Henry (1831-1899); and Richard LYDEKKER (1849-1915). An Introduction to theStudy of Mammals Living and Extinct. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1891. Octavo. [xvi], 763 pp.,357 illustrations. Publisher's decorative green cloth. Fine copy of this work by two notable Englishauthorities on natural history. William Henry Flower was an English doctor and zoologist whobecame a leading authority on mammals, especially whales and primates. He published manyworks on mammals and, in 1884, became the Director of the Natural History Museum in London.Richard Lydekker, the celebrated English naturalist, authored numerous works on both exotic anddomesticated big game and is particularly noted for his contributions on the natural history ofIndia and Indonesia.(#38818) $ 100.


17] GARDINER, Samuel R. (1829-1902). History of the Great Civil War 1642-1649. London: Longmans,Green, and Co., 1886-1891. 3 vols, octavo. Contemporary half tan calf, spine richly gilt in sixcompartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers. Very minor wear tospines. First edition of Samuel Rawson Gardiner's seminal work on the English Civil War. Thiswork traces the events from the beginning of the conflict through the Battle of Marston Moor, theturning point for the Parliamentarians. Gardiner's work was a significant contribution at the timeof its publication and continues to be a valuable account. He was the foremost historian of thePuritan revolution and the English Civil War in his time, the mid- to late 19th century, and devotedhis life to historical scholarship, publishing an exhaustive series of works on 17th-century Englishhistory.(#38856) $ 180. 18] GARNIER, Edouard. The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres ... 50 plates representing 250 water-coloursubjects after the originals ... London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. Folio (17 1/8 x 12 9/16 inches). 50chromolithographed plates, with gold highlights. Publisher's half cream cloth over decorative floralpatterned cloth boards. Provenance: Peabody Institute (bookplate, inked stamp on title and onverso of each plate). A wonderfully illustrated study of 18th century porcelain from the Royalfactory at Sevres.(#35125) $ 1,000.


19] GATTY, Mrs. Alfred [Margaret Scott GATTY (1809-1873)]. The Book of Sun-Dials. London: Belland Daldy, 1872. 4to. Tinted lithographed frontispiece, 5 plates. (Foxing to plates). Publisher's greencloth, stamped in black and gilt. First edition. This work contains detailed descriptions of varioussundial styles, many from Gatty's own collection. Over 350 sundials across Britain and Europe aredescribed, and each of their locations is noted, in one of the first popular books on the subject.(#29770) $ 200. 20] HOMER, Winslow, illustrator; and James Russell LOWELL. The Courtin'. Boston: James R.Osgood and Company, 1874. Small 4to. Title and 7 silhouette plates after Homer, reproduced inheliotype from drawings, and printed in black. Publisher's pictorial russet cloth, stamped in blackand gilt. Lovely example of a pictorial work by Winslow Homer, illustrating a James Russell Lowellpoem. "The Courtin and Surrey of Eagles Nest are the only books illustrated wholly by Homer.Although reproduced from drawings by heliotype, a forerunner of the collotype process, TheCourtin' is included as a lively example of Americana" (The Artist and the Book 134). Hamilton 860.(#35083) $ 500. 21] HUXLEY, Leonard (1860-1933). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. London: Macmillanand Co., Ltd., 1900. Octavo. 503pp. Publisher's purple cloth. A biography of "Darwin's bulldog,"written by his son. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was an English biologist and anthropologistwho was known for his major support for Darwin's theory of evolution. His son, Leonard, was aschoolteacher and writer who published many biographies in his lifetime. This biography goesthrough the personal and professional life of Thomas Henry Huxley year by year.(#38816) $ 100.


22] JOHNSON, Louisa. Every Lady Her Own Flower Gardener. Addressed to the industrious andeconomical. Containing simple and practical directions for cultivating plants and flowers in thegarden and in rooms ... revised from the fourteenth London edition, and adapted to the use ofAmerican ladies. New York: C. M. Saxton & Co., 1860. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). 119, [1]pp. Publisher'sred cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine letterd in gilt. Published for the use ofAmerican lady gardeners. The work describes the laying out of gardens, bulbs, perennials, annuals,roses, jasmines, evergreens, shrubs, window gardens, and domestic greenhouses. Good lists ofvarieties to grow under various conditions are provided.(#30765) $ 250. 23] MARSHALL, William (1745-1819). On the Landed Property of England, an Elementary andPractical Treatise; Containing the Purchase, the Improvement, and the Management of LandedEstates. London: S. Gosnell, 1804. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches). xx, 444, [2], [6]pp. Publisher's 2-pagead preceding the Index. Half-title. Modern brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance:Rothampsted Laboratory (small gilt stamp at bottom of spine). First edition of a detailed andcomprehensive manual for aspiring landowners. This book is a comprehensive manual on propertyin England, including chapters on land valuation, possession, and purchasing, as well as a guide toimproving different types of land, such as watery, commonable, farm, and grass lands. It has threemain sections on the purchase, improvement, and management of landed estates which detailevery relevant step in those processes and also offer general remarks on them.(#37881) $ 200.


24] [MINIATURE BOOKS] - Julian I. EDISON, editor. Miniature Book News ... [Number 1 throughNumber 78]. St. Louis: [September 1965 - September 1993]. 78 consecutive issues, 8vo. Stapled self-wrappers. Scarce newsletter issued by miniature book collector and scholar Julian Edelson. [toge-ther with:] Yolanda CARTER. Amistad Courier. A Newsletter about Miniature Books for the Doll-house [No. 1 through No. 24, with supplements]. Austin: Amistad Press, [1980-1984]. Loose sheets, asissued. Provenance: Ruth Adomeit. The present complete set was reprinted by Carter in 1984, in-cluding a general title and index. Within an envelope addressed to noted miniature book collectorRuth Adomeit. [and:] [MINIATURE BOOKS] - J. D. HENDERSON, editor. News-Letter of theLXIVMOS. Brookline, MA: [1927-1929]. 16 (of 21) issues, 8vo. Publisher's wrappers or self-wrappers.First edition of a near-complete run of a very rare reference periodical on miniature books. [and:]Valentine J. POSKA. Microbibliotrivia 5: A Fifth Curious Adventure in Miniature Books. [San Anto-nio, TX]: 1989. 4to. Plastic comb binding, navy blue covers, paper onlay on upper cover.(#30769) $ 650. 25] MOTLEY, John Lothrop (1814-1877). The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History. New York:Harper & Brothers, 1855. 3 vols, octavo. 579, frontispiece; 582; 664pp. Contemporary half tan calf,spine richly gilt in six compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers.Fine. A complete set of the first edition of this important work. John Lothrop Motley was an Ameri-can diplomat and historian, known for his most famous work, "The Rise of the Dutch Republic," onthe dramatic events of the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the 16thcentury. The work became a bestseller in the U.S. and dominated Americans' perceptions of theDutch war for independence for some 50 years.(#38854) $ 200.


26] MOUNTAINEERING - John BALL (1818-1889), editor. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: A Series ofExcursions by Members of the Alpine Club. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, andRoberts, 1859-1862-1862-1932. 4 vols, octavo. Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth. Minor wear to top andtail of spines. First editions of this famous series in mountaineering literature, edited by the Club'sfirst president, John Ball, in which he collected first-hand accounts of members' excursions intovarious regions of the Alps. He includes accounts of ascents of Monte Rosa, the Dom, the GrandCombin, the Alleleinhorn, and the Wetterhorn. This series would lead to the founding of the AlpineJournal in 1863, the world's oldest mountaineering publication. The Alpine Club was founded in 1857by a group of British mountaineers who were active in the Alps and in the development of alpinemountaineering during the Golden Age of Alpinism between 1854 and 1865. Neate 18-20-22.(#38864) $ 700. 27] PATERNO, Filippo de Jorio da. Della Coltivazione delle Cereali con Osservazioni Relative alRegno di Napoli ... [Bound with:] [Aniello CARFORA]. Cenno intorno alle sorgenti della Ricchezzanella Sicilia Citeriore Ed A'Mezzi di Aumentarla. Napoli: Tipografia del Vesuvio, 1838; TipografiaEconomica-Partenepea, 1838. Two volumes in one, octavo. viii, 308pp.; [8], 52pp. The second workinscribed by the author on the title. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper covered boards withvellum tips, flat spine gilt. Provenance: Rothamsted Experimental Station (inked stamp onendpaper). A descriptive work on the cultivation of cereals, focusing on the regions belonging tothe Kingdom of Naples. A lovely example, in a contemporary binding and bound with a secondwork on the wealth in Sicily, with infomation relating to both agriculture and manufacturing.(#37770) $ 250.


28] POTTS, Thomas (1778-1842). The British Farmer's Cyclopædia; or, Complete Agricultural Dic-tionary; including Every Science or Subject Dependant On, or Connected With, Improved ModernHusbandry ... London: W. Flint, 1807. Quarto. [656]pp., plus 42 engraved plates, most printed incolors and hand-finished. Text in two columns. Without the engraved additional title. Creases tofirst few leaves. Contemporary red morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind, flat spine gilt.Provenance: Thomas Jones (early signature on title); Eyre Evans (armorial bookplate and Ash Hillestate in gilt on upper cover dated 1820); Lawes Agricultural Trust (inked stamp). First edition, withhand-colored plates, of a noted agricultural dictionary. Thomas Potts was an English lawyer andwriter known for compiling agricultural reference books. This farming dictionary starts with the"Abolition of Tythes," a plan on abolishing the direct tax on agricultural earnings, and ends with"Yorkshire-White," the perennial flower. The colored engravings at the end of the dictionary mainlydepict livestock, machinery, flowers, among other agricultural entries. Contem-porary ads revealthe work was published over the course of a year in 12 monthly parts, thus offering to the public"the essential practical parts of everything hitherto written on the subject of agriculture."(#37880) $ 450. 29] PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922); and Kees VAN DONGEN (1877-1968), illustrator. A La Recherche duTemps Perdu [In Search of Lost Time]. Paris: Gallimard, 1947. 3 vols, quarto. 655 pp.; 764 pp.; 722 pp.With 77 color illustrations after Van Dongen. Publisher's decorated cloth boards. Number 5682 of8500 copies. Often considered Proust's masterpiece, along with the novel's musings on memory,art, language, and the experiences of life, this copy features beautiful illustrations by the Dutch-French artist, Kees van Dongen.(#38810) $ 300.


30] REIFFENBERG, Barone Frid. Aug. ab; DELPRAT, G. H. M.; HALM, Karl; NEIDHARDT, R. De JustiLipsii [Justus Lipsius] v. inl. Vita et Scriptis Commentarius in Stadio Regiae Scientiarum Literarum-que Academiae Brux. Aurea Palma Donatus, M. DCCC. XXI. [Bound with] Lettres Inedites de JusteLipse concernant Ses Relations avec les Hommes D'etat ds Provinces-Unies des Pays-Bas princi-palement Pendant les annees 1580-1597 ... [Bound with:] Ueber die Aechtheit der dem Justus Lipsiuszugeschriebenen Reden, eine litterarhistorische Untersuchung. [Bound with:] De Justi Lipsi VitaJenensi Orationibusque ab eo habitis. Bruxellis: 1823; Amsterdam: C. G. Van der Post, 1838; Mun-chen: Akademische Buchdruckerei von F. Straub, 1882; Passaviae, 1893. Quarto. [De Justi Lipsii]:Lithographed frontispiece and lithographic view, pp. ii/259. Text in Latin; [Lettres Inedites]: Title,96pp.; [De Justi Lipsi Vita]: 41pp. Contemporary cloth-backed, marble paper boards.(#38812) $ 200. 31] [RICHMOND, William]. Observations addressed to the shipping, the agricultural, and the com-mercial interest, on the Impolicy of the Free Trade System pursued by His Majesty's Ministers.Newcastle: Edward Walker, 1826. 8vo (9 x 5 5/8 inches). 84pp., including tables. Stitched. Prove-nance: Sir John Gladstone (1764-1851, inscribed "Fasque" at the head of the title). Kress C.1739.(#27377) $ 200.


32] ROBERTSON, William (1721-1793); and William H. PRESCOTT (1796-1859). The History of theReign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, with an Account of the Emperor's Life after his Abdication... Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1857. 3 vols, octavo. 618, frontispiece; 565; 694pp. Con-temporary half morocco, marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, lettered and ruled ingilt. Fine. Early edition of a biography of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In the early 16th century,Charles V (1500-1558) was chosen by his grandfather to become the Holy Roman Emperor, inherit-ing a vast empire including the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, and Hapsburg regions. As a resultof his desire to expand and fears he was trying to create a universal monarchy across Europe, histime as emperor was dominated by a series of conflicts, including the Protestant Reformation,advances from the Ottoman Empire in the east, and the Italian Wars with France. Towards the endof his reign, he transferred power to his son, who became Philip II of Spain, and his brother, whobecame Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. At the time, this biography was viewed as the definitivework on Charles V, by noted historians Robertson and Prescott, the former a significant figure inthe Scottish Enlightenment and the latter regarded as the first American scientific historian.(#38855) $ 180. 33] ROSSETTI, William Michael (1829-1919), editor. The Poetical Works of William Blake, Lyrical andMiscellaneous. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. Octavo. 231pp. Publisher's cloth, spine and frontcover decorated in gilt. A new issue of this collection, first published in 1874, of Blake's poems.Critic William Michael Rossetti provides a memoir of Blake within this collection of works by theiconic English poet and painter of the Romantic Age.(#38870) $ 200.


34] SEXTON, John (photographer). Listen to the Trees introduction by Stewart L. Udall essay byJames Baker. Boston, New York, Toronto, London: A Bullfinch Press Book Little. Brown &Company, [1994]. Large oblong quarto (10 3/8 x 11 5/8 inches). 53 plates from photographs by Sexton.(Without the signed gelatin silver print by Sexton). Publisher's green cloth binding, spine and uppercover lettered in silver, within publisher's grey cloth clamshell box, slight soiling to box. Firstedition, regular issue, the half title/frontispiece inscribed and signed by Sexton.(#34502) $ 200. 35] SHATTUCK, George Burbank. The Geographical Society of Baltimore. The Bahama Islands. NewYork: Macmillan Company, 1905. Small 4to. 93 plates. Publisher's blue cloth. First edition of thefindings of a 1903 expedition to the islands by the Geographical Society of Baltimore and research-ers from Johns Hopkins University. Includes chapters on geology, climate, flora and fauna, history(including much on slavery), and more.(#36124) $ 750. 36] (THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM, publisher). John Speed. A Prospect of the Most Famous Partsof the World. London 1627. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1966. Folio. Introduction by R.A. Skelton. with small inked stamp. Publisher's cloth. (#34188) $ 200.


37] TRINCI, Cosimo (d. 1756). L'Agricoltore Sperimentato, Ovvero Regole Generali Sopra L'Agri-coltura ... Settima Edizione. Venice: Giuseppe Rossi, 1805. 2 volumes, octavo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches).[xvi], 443; [xxii], 287, [1, blank] pp. 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf and marbledpaper boards, spine gilt with tan and red morocco lettering pieces. Provenance: RothamstedAgricultural Station (inked stamp on endpapers). A handbook for Italian farmers. Cosimo Trinciwas an Italian agronomist active in the 18th century. "L'Agricoltore Sperimentato" or "The Experi-enced Farmer" was originally printed in Lucca in 1726 and is considered to be his masterpiece. Forover a hundred years, this work was widely used as a guide by farmers who held Trinci in highesteem.(#37769) $ 200. 38] WILKINSON, Wynyard R. T. Indian Silver 1858-1947. Silver from the Indian sub-continent andBurma made by local craftsmen in Western forms. London: Wilkinson, 1999. Quarto. x, 190pp.Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Privately-printed. "Part history, part art-history, partguide to the silver, this book offers the first in-depth study of one of the most overlooked fields ofnineteenth century silverwork. Wynyard Wilkinson surveys each region of India separately, and hediscusses the complex styles and influences which combined to produce the distinctive forms anddecoration on Indian Silver between 1858 and 1947 ... For the first time, the subject receives carefulscrutiny and emerges with a vividness and clarity that will command the attention of both thecollector and student" (front jacket flap).(#38128) $ 250.


39] WILKINSON, Wynyard R. T. The Makers of Indian Colonial Silver. London: Wilkinson, 1987. 4to.xxii, 230pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Privately-printed. "This book ... contains aregister of over 900 Europeans who worked in the trades of goldsmith, silversmith, jeweller,watchmaker and clockmaker in India, with details of their working dates, identifying marks,addresses, and further biographical notes where these are useful or pertinent. There are more than150 half-tone illustrations, including many of marks which have previously not been ascribed orhave been misascribed. The Author explains, under carefullly headed sections, the growth of thecrafts within the overall development of the British involvement in India. This book contains anenormous amount of information and should be an indispensible aid to all who have an interest innon-official Europeans in India, in addition to museums and collectors" (front jacket flap).(#38126) $ 250. 40] YARRELL, William (1784-1856). A History of British Fishes ... illustrated by nearly 400 woodcuts... [Bound with:] Supplement to the History of British Fishes ... in two parts. London: Van Voorst,[1835-]1836-1839. 2 volumes, 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches). Half-titles. Numerous illustrations. Contem-porary full brown morocco by J. Mackenzie & Son, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and with alarge central design composed of small tools in gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands,lettered in the second and third, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, giltedges. Provenance: John Murray (circular booklabel). First edition with the supplement in abeautiful contemporary binding by Mackenzie. Nissen, Schöne Fischbücher 133.(#26827) $ 750


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