Arader Galleries Rare Book Fall

Arader Galleries
A Selection of Rare Books
Fall - Winter, 2010
29 East 72nd Street at Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
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Greetings from the Rare Book Department at Arader Galleries.
October and November have been exceptionally busy and exciting months for us.
Not least the build-up to the auction of books from the library of Frederick, 2nd Lord
Hesketh in London on the 7th of December. The highlight of the sale was an exceptionally
fine subscriber’s copy of the double-elephant folio of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of
America” (1827-1838). The sale of this book, the most expensive book in the world at a
record-breaking almost $12,000,000, generated sensational interest and unprecedented
media-coverage across the globe. One of only 11 copies still left in private hands, not only is
this book beautiful, but rare.
In this current list of books recently added to the library here at 72nd Street we are
very pleased to be able to offer you a fine set of the first octavo edition of Audubon’s monumental work. Audubon created 65 new images for this edition, supplementing the original
435 of the double-elephant folio. The resulting series of 500 plates constitutes the most
extensive American color-plate book produced up to that time. The Philadelphia printer
J.T. Bowen reduced the double-elephant plates by camera lucida and the resulting lithographs show significant changes in the backgrounds and compositions. The original configurations were altered so that only one species is depicted per plate. The text is a revision of
the "Ornithological Biography", rearranged according to Audubon's "A Synopsis of the Birds
of North America" (1839).
We look forward to answering any questions you may have about any of the books
listed here, sending you more photographs, and especially welcoming you to the library on
your next visit to New York.
May we wish you and your families a festive holiday season and very happy New Year.
Kate Hunter and Caleb Kiffer
[email protected] and [email protected]
Catalog images and design by Helene Lowenfels for Arader Galleries, Deecmber 2010
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the
United States and their Territories. Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844.
$145,000
7 volumes. 8vo., (10 3/8 x 6 4/8 inches). Half-titles. 500 hand-colored lithographic plates
after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J. T.
Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text (plates occasionally browned, particularly at the end of volume 2, text spotted throughout as usual). Contemporary American
maroon morocco gilt, all edges gilt (hinges expertly strengthened, extremities a bit
rubbed).
First octavo edition, and an attractive copy, of John James Audubon's masterpiece.
Audubon created 65 new images for the octavo edition, supplementing the original 435
of the double-elephant folio edition of 1827-38. The resulting series of 500 plates constitutes the most extensive American color-plate book produced up to that time. The
Philadelphia printer J.T. Bowen reduced the double-elephant plates by camera lucida and
the resulting lithographs show significant changes in the backgrounds and compositions.
The original configurations were altered so that only one species is depicted per plate.
The text is a revision of the "Ornithological Biography", rearranged according to
Audubon's "A Synopsis of the Birds of North America" (1839).
The genesis of Audubon's career as a painter lies in the serendipitous meeting he had
with the now famous Scots American ornithologist Alexander Wilson in 1810. He was
seeking subscriptions for his "American Ornithology", which Audubon and his business
partner were too impoverished to contribute, and prophetically his partner, Rozier, pointed out that anyway Audubon was a much more accomplished artist. Ten years later in
1820 Audubon decided to publish his own vastly more ambitious folio of all American
birds. So began a series of collecting trips during which he accumulated his life-size bird
paintings. Squabbles with established American publishers and ornithological artists,
including Wilson, meant he failed to secure American support for his project, and he was
forced to return to Europe where in London where the engraver Robert Havell, Jr., who
would become Audubon's valued collaborator on the four-volume Elephant Folio project
for the next eleven years (1827-1838). Ayer/Zimmer, p.22; Benett, p.5; McGill/Wood,
p.208; Nissen IVB 51; Reese 34; Sabin 2364; Keir B. Sterling for DNB.
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the
United States and their Territories. Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844.
[THE SACK OF ROME]. Warhafftige unnd kurtze bericht inn der Summa wie es ietzo im
Tausent funffhundert un Siben und zwayntzigsten jar den vi tag May durch Romicher
Kayserlicher und Hispanischer Kuniglicher Mayestet kriegs volck in eroberunng der Stat
Rom ergangen ist bisz auff den xxi Tage Junii. [Augsbourg, ca June 1527, or later].
$35,000
4to., (7 6/8 x 5 6/8 inches). Gothic type. Full-page wood-engraved plate and two vignettes,
two of which have been attributed to Weiditz. 20th-century tan morocco backe marbled
paper boards.
Provenance: from the library of Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919), German Books 369.
First edition, and RARE, and one of the earliest accounts of the sacking of Rome by the mutinous Italian, German and Spanish armies of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. As early as
1524, the year after Clement VII became Pope, Francis I of France's conquest of Milan
prompted the Pope to change his allegiance from Imperial Spain and to ally himself with other
Italian princes (including the Republic of Venice) and France in the January of 1525. This
alliance acquired Parma and Piacenza for the
Papal States, the rule of Medici over Florence
and the free passage of the French troops to
Naples. However at the Battle of Pavia in
February of 1525 Francis was captured by his
bitter enemy Charles V and held captive in
Madrid. So Clement re-affirmed his loyalty to
Charles, signing an alliance with the viceroy
of Naples. Once Francis was freed after the
Treaty of Madrid in 1526 Clement changed
sides again, and entered into the League of
Cognac together with France, Venice,
Florence, and Francesco Sforza of Milan.
Then he issued an invective against Charles,
who in reply declared him a "wolf" instead of
a "shepherd", menacing a council convened
to discuss the Lutheran question. Meanwhile
troops loyal (but unpaid) to Charles, led by
Cardinal Pompeo Colonna pillaged Vatican
City and sacked Rome on May 6th 1527. The
three fine wood-engravings in this book show
the warring parties meeting at Vatican Hill
(title-page), engaging in close combat (on
verso), and a triumphant Charles V astride
his horse (at the end).
Clement was held prisoner in the Castel Sant'Angelo, and was forced to change sides for one
last time. On June 6, he surrendered, and agreed to pay a ransom of 400,000 ducati in
exchange of his life. Clement conceded Parma, Piacenza, Civitavecchia and Modena to the
Holy Roman Empire. In June of 1528 the warring parties signed the Peace of Barcelona. The
Papal States regained some cities and Charles V agreed to restore the Medici to power in
Florence. And, at last, in1530 Pope Clement VII crowned Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor:
the pinnacle of Habsburg power, when all the family's far flung holdings were united under
one ruler.
Fairfax Murray, a pre-Raphaelite artist and collector, formed one of the “finest European book
collections” (Codell). He lived for much of his life in Italy, and a considerable proportion of
his collections were Italian in origin. “Murray's major contributions were as collector, art dealer, connoisseur, and buyer, for public museums as well as for private collectors. His own collections included Italian and English art, especially Pre-Raphaelite art, rare and illuminated
books, incunabula of different origins, and a complete series of the Kelmscott editions, forming one of the finest European book collections” (Julie F. Codell for DNB).
LAWSON, John (fl. 1700-1711). The History of Carolina; Containing the Exact
Description and Natural History of That Country. Together with the Present State
Thereof, and a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians,
Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manner, &c. London: Printed for W.
Taylor at the Ship, and J. Baker at the Black-Boy, 1714.
$57,500
4to., (8 x 6 2/8 inches). One-page publisher's advertisement at end. Large engraved folding map of part of North America, North Carolina, South Carolina and the Western
Ocean, decorated with a fine compass rose, and dedicated to the Proprietors of Carolina
dated 1709 in the lower right-hand corner (a bit creased), engraved plate of "the Beast of
Carolina" (some spotting throughtou).Contemporary full paneled calf with 19th-century
gilt supra libros of the "The Society of Writers of the Signet" (expertly rebacked retaining
the original red morocco lettering-piece, extremities a bit scuffed).
Provenance: with the contemporary initials "L.S." on the verso of the title-page.
First edition, second issue with a new title-page, first published in 1709, and AN
ATTRACTIVE COPY. "Little is known about Lawson's early life. In 1700, being 'in a
mood for travel,' he accidentally met with a gentleman...who assured him that 'Carolina
was the best country to visit.' He landed at Charles Town, South Carolina, in August,
1700, and in December of that year started on an overland journey, traveling one thousand miles 'in Indian country.' He went up the coast to the Santee River, thence to the
Catawba, crossed the Yadkin, traveled through the interior of North Carolina, and finally
arrived on the 'Pamptioough River,' in February, 1701. He was one of the incorporators of
Bath, the oldest town in North Carolina, and with von Graffenreid was the co-founder of
New Bern (1710). He was surveyor-general of North Carolina, and while engaged in surveying work was killed by the Indians, near the present town of Snow Hill, North
Carolina, in September 1711. Lawson's book is one of the most valuable of the early histories of North Carolina, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. He describes the soil, climate, trees, plants, animals, fish, and
almost every other aspect of the colony. It is particularly good on 'natural history' and
Indians. M. C. Tyler says it is 'an uncommonly strong and sprightly book'" (Clark).
"Lawson was not the first Englishman to explore the Carolina interior. Virginia traders
had been among the Tuscarora, Occaneechee, Catawba, and other Carolina tribes more
than two decades before Lawson's 1701 journey into the interior. Others had explored the
Santee, Wateree, and Catawba rivers before him. In traversing central North Carolina
from present-day Charlotte to Durham, Lawson traveled over what was already well known
in Virginia as the "Occaneechee Path" and in South Carolina as the "Virginia Path."
Lawson's contribution to history and ethnohistory lay in his determination to describe for
others the topography, plants, animals, and native peoples of his adopted home. He wrote
about Carolina, not as a partisan booster, but as a careful observer. His monument is "A
New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That
Country; Together with the Present State Thereof. And a Journal of a Thousand Miles
Travel'd thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs,
Manners & c.," which was published in 1709. Although reprinted with the title The
BASTON, Thomas. Twenty-two Prints of Several of the Capital Ships of His Majesty's
Royal Navy with Variety of other Sea Pieces... [London: Thomas Bowles, ca 1720].
$38,000
Folio (20 x 14 inches). Engraved title-page and 2 fine engraved double-page plates by du
Puis, C. du Bosse, J. Sartor, J. Cole, E. Kirkall, J. Harris and others (some minor marginal
spotting). Modern full blue crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, all edges gilt.
First edition. Magnificent images of ships at sea, in glorious battle, and in port, including specific portraits such as the Royal Sovereign, the Royal George, the Royal Anne, the Britannia, the Blenheim, the
Barfleur, sometimes surrounded by mythical figures such as Neptune, sea-monsters etc., all dedicated to
His Majesty King George I, His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales, and other peers of the realm.
Two plates are dedicated to "The Court of Directors of the South Sea Company. This Piece being a representation of the Fishery of Great Britain, in its three different Branches viz. Cod, Herring, and whale...",
"to the Honourable Sir John Eyles ... sub-Governour of the South-Sea-Company Whales or Greenland
Fishery".
The South Sea Company, launched in 1711, partly as a Tory rival to the Whiggish bank and East India
Company, but with the aim of transforming the unfunded national debt into its stock, was at the center
of "the most notorious episode in the history of eighteenth-century financial speculation. The South Sea
Bubble seemed to contemporaries to be like an attack of mass madness, affecting all levels of society, as a
large swathe of the population became convinced that their fortunes could be transformed by investing in
the South Sea Company. Where the stock market had previously been regarded as the newfangled invention of moneyed men to make money make money, the main investors being identified with the commercial sector of the City, by 1720 all types and conditions of people-nobles, country gentlemen, Oxford
dons, clergymen, as well as women of various social ranks-were infected by the fever of speculation ...
Then the crash came [in 1720]. The price of £100 of stock fell to £290 by the end of September, and to
£170 by mid-October. Many were losers from the bursting of the bubble. Even George I lost £56,000" (W.
A. Speck and Matthew Kilburn for DNB).
BASTON, Thomas. Twenty-two Prints of Several of the Capital Ships of His Majesty's
Royal Navy with Variety of other Sea Pieces... [London: Thomas Bowles, ca 1720].
NORDEN, John (1548-1625?). Speculi Britanniae pars: A Topographical and Historical
Description of Cornwall, edited by Christopher Bateman. London: William Pearson for
the editor, and sold by Christopher Bateman, 1728.
$2,800
4to., (9 4/8 x 7 3/8 inches). Additional engraved title-page, dedication leaf, engraved folding map of Cornwall and 9 further folding maps, one folding engraved plate, 13 vignettes
in the text and one letterpress table. Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked to style, extremities
a bit scuffed).
Provenance: engraved armorial bookplates of the Sir Gilbert Elliot, of Minto, third
baronet (1722-1777), politician and literary patron, on the front paste-down.
First edition, though written in 1610 and based on Richard Carew's "Survey of Cornwall"
of 1602. Norden was the first Englishman to undertake a complete series of county histories. The idea for his "Speculum Britanniae..." came in 1583, when he met Portugal's King
Antonio, "who, exiled by the annexation of his country by Philip of Spain, came to
England looking for support. In the preface to his "Speculum" of Cornwall, Norden told
how he fell to travelling with the followers of 'Don Anttonie', 'for the most part very
learned', and how they questioned him about the names of the places through which they
passed and the nature of things they saw. Culturally and administratively the county was
the dominant social unit in early modern England, and inspired by the Portuguese visitors
Norden next wrote in 1591 a small guidebook to Northamptonshire (where he was surveying at the time), containing some historical and antiquarian background and a résumé of
the economic and social life of the county. To complete the description he included a
map of the county. This, his first county map, was not very innovative, being based closely
on an earlier map by Christopher Saxton, and it and the guide remained unpublished
until 1720. In 1593, however, Norden produced the next part of the "Speculum", a guide
to Middlesex. The text followed the formula established by the description of
Northamptonshire but the map of the county and its two plans of Westminster and the
City of London were, like all his later maps, his own, and not based on Saxton's work.
Norden's 'Middlesex' was the first English county map to mark roads, and his inclusion of
a characteristic sheet, giving a key to symbols used on the map, introduced this practice to
English cartography" (Frank Kitchen for DNB).
NORDEN, John (1548-1625?). Speculi Britanniae pars: A Topographical and Historical
Description of Cornwall, edited by Christopher Bateman. London: William Pearson for
the editor, and sold by Christopher Bateman, 1728.
[OGILBY, John (1600-1676)] - BOWEN, Emanuel (1694-1767) and John OWEN.
Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd. London: Thomas Bowles, 1736.
$2,850
4to., (8 x 5 6/8 inches). 4 leaves of tables. Engraved title-page and 273 engraved road
maps after Emanuel Bowen. Contemporary calf gilt (a bit rubbed).
Provenance: 19th-century North Library bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield on the
front paste-down dated 1860, discreet blind-stamp on first three leaves.
Fourth edition, first published in 1720 in its current format, but a reduced version of
Ogilby's "Britannia" first published in London in 1675.
"Ogilby secured the... title of His Majesty's Cosmographer early in 1671 [and] drew upon
the support of the King and other patrons in the production and publication of
Britannia..., the work for which he became best known. Chiefly a road atlas, it was securely based on contemporary and collaborative research... Ogilby drew out 2519 miles of road
in the form of 100 strip maps, a technique that was widely imitated throughout the following century. Measuring distances by waywiser (his "great wheel"), he made allowance
for roads that ascended hills yet had to be depicted in two dimensions on paper, and his
surveys helped to standardize the mile at 1760 yards throughout the kingdom. Britannia
marked the first major advance in cartography in England since the Tudor period, though
it did echo earlier traditions. It was republished in 1698, 1719, and 1720, and on subsequent occasions up to modern times" (DNB).
This is one of Emanuel Bowen's earlier works, and his contribution to eighteenth-century
world and British atlases would be substantial. Using contemporary sources, he published
and drew maps for the "Complete System of Geography" (2 vols., 1744-7), "The Maps and
Charts to the Modern Part of the Universal History" (published in 1766 under Thomas
Kitchin's name), the celebrated maps for John Harris's "Navigantium atque itinerantium
bibliotheca" (1744-8), and all twenty-two new plates in the final edition (1754) of Patrick
Gordon's "Geography Anatomized", the county maps in his "Large English Atlas" (1760)
the first to cover England and Wales on a large scale, and subsequently reduced by Bowen
and Kitchin for their "Royal English Atlas" (ca.1763) and then by Emanuel and Thomas
Bowen for "Atlas Anglicanus" (1767-8), published after Emanuel Bowen's death by Kitchin.
"All three works are characterized by detailed texts in the spaces surrounding the maps
and by elegant rococo decoration, which became the hallmark of his engraving" (Iolo
Roberts and Menai Roberts for DNB).
From the celebrated library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire,
England, accumulated from the early 18th century by generations of of the Parker family,
and sold (over successive sales) by Sothebys. The first Earl of Macclesfield was Thomas
Parker, 1st Baron Parker, made Viscount Parker, of Ewelm in the County of Oxford, and
Earl of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester in 1716. He was Lord Chief Justice
of the Queen's Bench from 1710 to 1718 and Lord High Chancellor from 1718 to 1725.
Probably acquired by Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield (17
March 1811 - 24 July 1896) Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire from
1837 until 1841.
LAMBARDE, William (1536-1601). The Perambulation of Kent. Containing the
Description, History and Customs of that County. London: Matthew Walbancke, and
Dan. Pakeman, 1656.
LAMBARDE, William (1536-1601). The Perambulation of Kent. Containing the
Description, History and Customs of that County. London: Matthew Walbancke, and
Dan. Pakeman, 1656.
$1,500
8vo., (6 4/8 x 3 6/8 inches). 2 leaves (B8 & 2E3) supplied in old pen facsimile.18th-century blind paneled calf, red morocco lettering-piece on the spine (scuffed).
Provenance: Early pen-trials and marginal notes; engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas
Parker, first earl of Macclesfield (1667-1732), lord chancellor, dated 1704 on the verso of
the title-page; 19th-century North Library bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield on the
front paste-down dated 1860, discreet
blind-stamp on first three leaves.
First published in 1576. Lambarde's
association with Kent began in 1568
when he was appointed as commissioner of sewers for Kent, in 1570 he moved
to the county after his marriage to a
local girl. "What was in time intended
as the first installment of a historical
topography of England was completed
in draft in 1570, read in manuscript by
Parker and Lord Burghley, and published as "Perambulation of Kent:
Containing the Description, Hystorie
and Customs of that Shyre" (1576). The
earliest county history, based on wide
and critical reading (partly informed by
Lambarde's protestant suspicion of
monks and their works), it draws also
on Domesday Book and on royal charters, and includes in its climatic, economic, social, religious, and historical
survey a short investigation of the see of Canterbury; a discussion of the local inheritance
custom of gavelkind is appended. While Lambarde was uninterested in pre-Anglo-Saxon
history (unlike William Camden) and exhibited no appreciation of landscape, his book 'is
packed with learned information' and 'eminently readable' (McKisack, 137). The project to
publish on other counties was eventually abandoned in 1585, when Lambarde learned of
Camden's similar undertaking, but his interim researches were finally published as
"Dictionarium Angliae topographicum et historicum" (1730) and his marginal notations
survive in the books he consulted now in the British Library, including John Price's
"Historiae Brytannicae defensio" (1573) and Alexander Neville's "De furoribus
Norfolciensium Ketto duce" (1575). From the celebrated library of the Earls of
Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, England, accumulated from the early 18th
century by generations of the Parker family, and sold (over successive sales) by Sothebys.
This copy belonged to the first Earl of Macclesfield, Thomas Parker, 1st Baron Parker,
made Viscount Parker, of Ewelm in the County of Oxford, and Earl of Macclesfield, in
the County Palatine of Chester in 1716. He was Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench
from 1710 to 1718 and Lord High Chancellor from 1718 to 1725.
[TENNIS]. "Paumier" from [Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences et les Arts]. [Paris: Denis
Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, ca 1771 or later].
[TENNIS]. "Paumier" from [Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences et les Arts]. [Paris: Denis
Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, ca 1771 or later].
$2,400
Folio (16 x 9 7/8 inches). 2-page detailed list of plates. 9 fine engraved plates by Benard
after Lucotte. Disbound.
The "Encyclopédie Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences et les Arts" was an exhaustive
illustrated compendium depicting all things in nature and man-made, issued from the
early 1760s to the late 1780s. The fine plates here include "Jeu de Paulme et Construction
de la Raquette", 2 plates showing the "Instrumens de Paulme", "Instrumens de Paulme et
de Billard", "Salle de Billard et Instrumens de Billard", "Plan au Rez de Chayssee d'un Jeu
de Paulme quarre et Salle de Billard", "Plan audessus des murs du Jeu de Paulme quarre",
"Coupes du Jeu de Paulme quarre", "Plans au Rez de Chaussee et audessus des murs d'un
Jeu de Paulme a dedans".
d'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis (1707-1780). Le Neptune
oriental dédié au Roi. Paris: Demonville, Imprimeur-Libraire de l'Académie Françoise, rue
S. Severin, aux Armes de Dombes et à Brest chez Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire de la
Marine. 1775-1781.
$125,000
3 volumes: text, Atlas and Supplement. Folio (22 x 16 4/8 inches; 23 x 17 2/8 inches; 26
6/8 x 20 2/8 inches). Text volume, contemporary half calf (scuffed); Atlas: 39 fine doublepage engraved maps and 36 full-page maps numbered 1-59 including a number of duplicates, extra-illustrated with 5 manuscript maps of the area surrounding the island of Java
(some soiling and creasing), half tan calf, maroon cloth, supra-libros of the Admiralty
Library on the front cover; Supplement: letterpress title-page and contents leaf. Fine folding engraved maps of the world after discoveries made by La Perouse, and 11 fine folding
engraved maps and 3 full-page maps. Contemporary half red morocco, red paper boards,
gilt (extremities a bit scuffed).
Provenance: Early penciled annotations giving soundings to map of coast of Borneo;
Musée de la Citadelle Vauban, their sale 16th July 2010, lot 66.
Second edition. The additional manuscript maps are in French and English and show the
area around the island of Java, particularly near Bantam, one or two are copies of portions of maps found in the Supplement. The most interesting is an early and important
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP: "A Sketch of the Ship Ponsborne's [sic] Track from
North Island shewing the soundings, from thence thr'ogh the Streight of Sunda, between
the Strom Rock at Po. Candang and between Tamarin and Cockatore [Krakatoa].
February 1774 (12 x 14 4/8 inches to the neat line). The Sundra Strait connects the Java
Sea to the Indian Ocean, and as such is an extremely important shipping route, in use for
centuries, but especially during the period when the Dutch East India Company used it as
the gateway to the Spice Islands of Indonesia (1602-1799). The strait's notorious narrowness, shallowness and lack of accurate charting make it unsuitable for many modern large
ships, most of which use the Strait of Malacca instead (Freeman). The Ponsbourne was an
East-Indiaman, owned by Thomas Lane and built by the Barnard family of shipbuilders.
d'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis (1707-1780). Le Neptune
oriental dédié au Roi. Paris: Demonville, Imprimeur-Libraire de l'Académie Françoise, rue
S. Severin, aux Armes de Dombes et à Brest chez Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire de la
Marine. 1775-1781.
The Atlas volume contains the following maps: "Carte des Côtes occidentales de France …
dressée pour le Neptune oriental … par M.R. L'Abbé Dicquemare, son ami", "Plan du Port
Louis et de l'Orient", "Levée géométriquement en 1752 par M. de ****. (Gravé par G. de
la Haye)", "Vue de la Baye de False", "Plan de la Baye et du Port de Rio Janeiro… Levé
géométriquement par Le P.Capassi. À Paris chez Dezauche, successeur des Sieurs Delisle et
Philippe Buache … rue des Noyers, 1785", "Carte réduite de l'Océan orientale qui contient
la Côte d'Afrique avec l'Isle Madagascar", "P.B.St. A levé en 1758 par Mr. G. Nichelson…",
"Plan des îles Mahé Delahaye", "...qui contient une partie des Costes d'Afrique, de
l'Arabie, de la Perse et celle de l'Indostan", "Mandeb sur la Coste méridionale de l'Arabie
Heureuse …", "Carte (non numérotée) de la Coste de Guzerat du Golfe de Cambaye et des
Cêtes de Concan et de Canara" "...vues diverses de l'Isle aux Cochons", "Carte de la Côte
orientale d'Afrique depuis l'île de Patte jusques à Mosambique", "Carte réduite de l'Océan
oriental depuis le Cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu'au Japon par D'Après. 1753". The
Supplement contains the following maps: "Carte reduite des Iles de France et de
Bourbon... 1798" 1802, "Plan du Port de Tintingne... du Port Louis en 1821", "Carte
Generale de la Mer Rouge" 1798 on three sheets, "Carte du Golfe de Suez" 1798, "Carte
des Cotes de Guzerat, de Concar et de Canara", "Carte de la Partie Meridionale de la
Presque 'Isle de l'Inde que comprend l'Isle de Ceylan" 1798, "Plan de la Baye de Manville...
1789" 1798, "Carte d'une parite de Cours de la Riviere de Saigon", "...des Cotes de la
Cochinchine" 1798 in three sheets.
d'Apres de Mannevillette, the celebrated French cartographer had a long and distinguished career in the French East India Company. He studied under the famous
Guillaume Delisle, the King's geographer, and was one of the first navigators to make use
of Hadley's revolutionary octant in taking measurements at sea. During his many voyages
d'Apres de Mannevillette created a number of charts for a hydrographic atlas which, with
the support of the Academie des Sciences, was published in Paris in 1745 under the title
"Le Neptune Oriental" with 25 maps. For the next thirty years, with the help of his friend
and eminent British hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple, d'Apres de Mannevillette revised
his charts for this the second and enlarged edition. This comprehensive atlas was used on
all French ships, and by some foreign ones too, navigating the Indian Ocean. It replaced
the "English Pilot" published by John Thornton in 1700and the charts of the van Keulens,
the hydrographers of the Dutch East India Company, which were full of errors. Donald B.
Freeman, The Straits of Malacca: Gateway Or Gauntlet?. McGill-Queen's Press, 2006.
d'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis (1707-1780). Le
Neptune...1775-1781.
BARTRAM, William (1729-1823). Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia,
East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges,
or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Philadelphia: James & Johnson,
1791.
BARTRAM, William (1729-1823). Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia,
East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges,
or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Philadelphia: James & Johnson,
1791.
$45,000
8vo., (7 6/8 x 4 5/8 inches). Engraved folding map of the coast of East Florida, frontispiece portrait of Mico Chlucco, and 5 botanical plates including one folding, and two
of the Great Soft-shelled Tortoise (some light browning). Contemporary sheep, the
smooth spine gilt-ruled in five compartments, red morocco lettering-piece in one (some
minor scuffing); modern cloth clamshell box).
Provenance: with the contemporary ownership
inscription of Mary Marshall on the front free endpaper.
"Bartram's account of the remote frontier, of the
plantations, trading posts, and Indian villages at the
end of the eighteenth century is unrivaled" (Streeter)
First edition, and AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE
AND ATTRACTIVE COPY. William Bartram, son
of a Pennsylvania Quaker and naturalist, embarked
on a journey of exploration throughout the
American Southeast in 1773 and traveled in the
modern states of Georgia, North and South
Carolina, and Florida recording the flora, fauna and
Indian tribes he found there. Bartram made discoveries and sketches of over 200 new botanical specimens, including the Venus Fly Trap and a now
extinct tree named for his great friend Benjamin
Franklin, calling it the Franklin tree or Franklinia
alatamatha. In addition to his scientific writings,
Bartram was one of the earliest authors to document
the customs of the Cherokee and Creek Indian
tribes who were so prevalent throughout the
Southeast at that time. The book has been called "a
valuable original authority on the Southern Indians
during the Revolutionary war." - Stevens. Bartram's attention to detail and his vivid
descriptions make for one of the most enduring and engaging journals of early exploration of southern natural history and ethnographical study. The words of this naturalist
have stirred the emotions and minds of such renowned romantic writers as Ralph Waldo
Emerson, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge giving inspiration to them
in their own literature. Obviously a key book from the period of early settlement of the
American Southeast, Streeter calls Bartrams volume: "The classic of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. Bartram's account of the
remote frontier, of the plantations, trading posts, and Indian villages at the end of the
eighteenth century is unrivaled." Stevens Catalogue of Rare Books Relating to America
1617; Howes B223; Sabin 3870; Streeter sale 2:1088; Field 94.
SPAENDONCK, Gerard Van (1746-1842). Fleurs Dessinees d'apres nature.receuil utile
aux amateurs, aux jeunes artists, aux eleves des ecoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des
manufactures. [Paris: Ca 1800]
SPAENDONCK, Gerard Van (1746-1842). Fleurs Dessinees d'apres nature.receuil utile
aux amateurs, aux jeunes artists, aux eleves des ecoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des
manufactures. [Paris: Ca 1800]
$58,500
Folio (20 2/8 x 14 inches). Title supplied in early manuscript "Fleurs de G Van
Spaendonck" on front free endpaper (without printed title-page or text, light spotting to a
few plates, last plate laid down). 25 fine stipple-engraved plates, by P.F. le Grand after G.
van Spaendonck, most identified in early pencil. Contemporary marbled paper boards,
manuscript lettering piece on spine (worn, joints starting).
Provenance: Early pencil annotations to plates, in an unidentified hand; with the ownership inscription of Wilfred Blunt (1901-1987) on the front free endpaper dated 1947.
WILFRID BLUNT'S COPY OF A SET OF PROOF PLATES OF ONE OF THE
RAREST GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, described by him as containing "magnificent drawings, brilliantly interpreted in stipple." "Copies are occasionally found either hand-colored
or printed in color and retouched with water-color. The watercolor serves in fact to cloud
the delicacy of the stipple-work. In their black and white state, these prints may well claim
to be the finest flower-engravings ever made" (Great Flower Books). Gerrit or Gerard van
Spaendonck (1746-1822), Dutch born, was professor of Flower Painting at Jardin des
Plantes in Paris. One of the contributors to the 'collection des velins' he was a major influence on Redoute and was responsible for securing a number of his patrons.
The fine plates include: Rose a cent feuilles - Rosa Centifolio; Chens commun - Quercus
robur; Mauve alcee - Malva alcea; Tulipe des jardins - Tulipa gesnerians; Digitale pourpree
- Digitalis purpurea; Rosa de Provens - Rosa gollical; Campanula gantelee - Campanula trachaelium; Neflier Cultive - Mespilius germanica; Reine marguerite - Aster chinensis; Iris
bleu-clair - Iris pallida; Mais, Ble de Turiquie - Zea Mays; Uva nigra & Uva alba - Raisen
noir & Raisen blanc de Chasselas; Souci des Jardins - Calendula officinalis; Rose-tremiere
- Alcea Rosea; Pavot coltive - Papaver somniferum; Untitled still-life of fruit on table;
Seringat oodorant - Philadelphus coronarius; Anemone double -Anemone coronaria;
Jacinthe double - Hyacinthus orientalis; Rose a cent feuilles - Rosa centifolio; Sceau de
Salomon - Couvallaria multifolio; Mufle de veau - Antiffhinum majus; Lavatere a grandes
fleurs - Lavetera trimesris; Lilas. Syringa Vulgaris.
Blunt was primarily a teacher, but also wrote a number of books, including the very successful "Art of Botanical Illustration" (1950), which was originally commissioned by the
editor of the New Naturalist series. Blunt & Stearn, pp.197-200; Great Flower Books
pp.21 & 77; Nissen BBI 1879; Pritzel 8809.
PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor
Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court,
Buckingham House, and Frogmore.. London: for A. Dry, 1819.
PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor
Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court,
Buckingham House, and Frogmore.. London: for A. Dry, 1819.
$16,500
3 volumes, 4to., (13 2/8 x 10 7/8 inches). Half titles. 100 FINE hand-coloured aquatint
plates after Wild, Cattermole, Stephanoff and others (some very light offsetting from
plates to text). Finely-bound in 20th-century red crushed morocco gilt, covers ruled in gilt,
spines gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt.
First edition, early issue, with one plate watermarked 1812 and 12 watermarked 1816.
Pyne enjoyed a long career with publisher of colour-plate books Rudolph Ackermann. His
"History of the Royal Residences" is one of his most sumptuously illustrated works, for
which he wrote the text and commissioned artists and engravers to provide 100 aquatints.
The first part was published in 1816 but he was forced to sell the publication on, at a loss,
before it was finished, although he retained editorial control. Abbey Scenery 396; Tooley
389.
TAYLOR, Bayard (1825-1878). Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire:
Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey;
Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel. New York: George P.
Putnam, 1850.
$1,150
TAYLOR, Bayard (1825-1878). Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire:
Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey;
Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel. New York: George P.
Putnam, 1850.
2 volumes, 8vo., (7 4/8 x 5 inches). 8 tinted lithographic plates by Sarony and Major after
Taylor's drawings. Original green publisher's cloth, decorated in blind, and lettered in gilt
(spines a bit dulled and chipped at the head); modern morocco backed slipcases and chemise.
Provenance: discreet 19th-century blind library stamp of J.S. Walters of Baltimore on the
front free endpaper and first blank of both volumes; with the book plate of James S.
Copley on the front paste-down of each volume, his sale Sotheby's 15th October 2010 lot
772.
"THE OUTSTANDING BOOK ON THE EARLY GOLDRUSH IN CALIFORNIA"
(Zamarano)
First edition, first issue and an attractive copy. With the lists of plates in volume two
uncorrected. "The author's description of the Constitutional Convention in Monterey is
the best we have, as are also the views he gives us of the earliest mining camps. The colored plates are beautifully tinted works of art depicting San Francisco, Monterey,
Sacramento, and mining camps. Bayard Taylor saw everything and recorded all he saw"
(Zamarano). The fine plates include San Francisco in November, 1848; Lower Bar,
Mokelumne River; Monterey; The Volcano Diggings; San Francisco in November 1849;
Sacramento City, from the South; Portsmouth Square, San Francisco; Mazatlan. Cowan
p.630; Graff 4074; Howes T43; Kurutz 618a; Sabin 94440; Streeter 2654; Wheat Gold
Rush 204; Zamorano Eighty 73.
MOLLHAUSEN, Baldwin (1825-1905). Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the
Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition... with an Introduction
by Alexander von Humboldt ... translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnett. London: Longman (and
others), 1858.
$8,500
2 volumes, 8vo., (8 4/8 x 5 4/8 inches). Half titles. Fine folding engraved map with
original colour in outline, and 7 chromolithographed and 4 tinted lithographed plates
after by Hanart after Möllhausen, 8 wood-engraved plates, 4 woodcuts in the text.
Original publisher’s purple cloth gilt, all edges gilt (spines a bit faded and worn with
minor loss at the head and the foot, inner hinges strengthened, but ATTRACTIVE); modern brown cloth slipcase.
Provenance: with the small library label of Alfred Paul Bay on the front paste-down of
each volume.
First edition in English. of Mollhausen's “Tagebuch einer Reise vom Mississippi
nach den Kusten der Sudsee” first published in Leipzig in the same year. Möllhausen,
a Prussian artist, who visited the United States three times in the 1850s, experiences
which “gave Möllhausen the material and experiences he used to produce illustrations,
diaries, and fiction for nearly fifty years. His works made him enormously popular
with Germans of all ages and classes, and he has become known as "the German
Cooper". After arriving in the United States in 1849 and working in the Midwest,
in 1851 Möllhausen traveled through the Plains to Fort Laramie with Prince Paul of
Württemberg. He returned to Germany in 1852 with a shipment of wild animals for
the Berlin zoo and met Alexander von Humboldt. He soon became a favorite of the old
explorer and, bearing a recommendation from Humboldt, returned to the United States,
where he joined Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple's Pacific Railroad survey of the Thirty-fifth
parallel as "topographer or draughtsman." The party traveled from Fort Smith, Arkansas,
to Pueblo de los Angeles in 1853–54. Möllhausen made several illustrations in the Texas
Panhandle that appear in Whipple's report” (Doherty). “A Diary...” is Möllhausen’s
separate account of this expedition with Whipple. (Kathleen Doherty for Texas State
Historical Association). Wagner-Camp 305:2; Mintz 582; Streeter sale 5:3134; Howes
M713; Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush 145; Graff 2849; Rader 2418; Smith 6908;
Farquhar, Colorado River 19b; Sabin 49915; Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region
268 note; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 956.
Arader G alleries
MOLLHAUSEN, Baldwin (1825-1905). Diary of a Journey...1858.
$8,500
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