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Lacepede, Comte de].
        Histoire naturelle de Lacepede comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons. Nouvelle edition precedee de L'eloge de Lacepede par Cuvier avec des notes et la nouvelle classification de M. A.-G. Desmarest.
      Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1867. - Large octavo, two volumes,1310 pp.,36 handcoloured engraved plates. Early brown calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few inoffensive spots, otherwise a handsome copy. This edition of Histoire naturelle de Lacepede was first published in 1856 and "the many subsequent volumes and editions [of treatises on vertebrates based on Cuvier and Desmarest] by this author follow Buffon and his teachings" (Casey Wood p. 424). The handsome plates by Edouard Travies ". one of the finest painters at work in the first half of the 19th century" (Jackson Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World p. 467) cover the following subjects: volume one, whales five plates, reptiles and batrachians 15 plates, fish four plates; volume two, fish twelve plates. BM(NH) p. 1041; Casey Wood p. 424. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Catlin, George:
        O-KEE-PA: A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY; AND OTHER CUSTOMS OF THE MANDANS.
      Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, . 1867 - vii,52pp. including half title, plus thirteen full-page color plates depicting the Mandan Torture Ceremony. Half title. Quarto. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Original fly leaf and half title chipped at upper corner (no loss). Text lightly tanned, plates clean. A very good copy. First American edition, actually the same sheets and printing as the London edition of the same year, but with a cancel titlepage. Catlin spent some fourteen years among the various North American Indian tribes and left the most authentic anthropological record of an already vanishing people. He wrote O-KEE- PA. in response to an article appearing in an 1866 issue of Truebner's monthly catalogue. The article attributed to Catlin the authorship of an "indescribably lascivious pamphlet" on the secret customs of the Mandans (see Sabin 11528). O-KEE-PA. is as much a defense of Catlin as of the Mandans, a tribe who were mostly found on the west side of the Missouri River, most of whom were destroyed by a smallpox epidemic in 1837. Catlin states in his preface that of all the numerous customs which he had recorded, nothing was so peculiar and surprising as the O-kee-pa ceremony of the Mandans. The curious rite of O-kee-pa is shown in "horrible fidelity" (Field) in the thirteen outstanding color plates. BENNETT, p.22. FIELD 262. HOWES C244, "b." SABIN 11543. McCRACKEN, CATLIN, pp.101-8, 25A&B.

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WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899).
        Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park. Explanatory text by D.W. Mitchell and Philip Lutley Sclater.
      London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867. - 2 volumes. Folio (20 x 13 4/8 inches). Letterpress title-pages, list of subscribers. Additional mounted hand-coloured lithographic title-pages printed by Vincent Brooks, and 100 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, drawn on stone by Joseph Smit after the drawings of Joseph Wolf, each plate cut to the edge of the image and mounted on thin card in imitation of a watercolour, with the caption printed in gilt lettering beneath, as issued. Contemporary half maroon morocco, purple cloth, gilt, all edges gilt (extremities scuffed, edges of cloth lifting, unevenly faded). "WITHOUT EXCEPTION, THE BEST ALL-ROUND ANIMAL PAINTER THAT EVER LIVED" (Sir Edwin Landseer) First edition, with the revised and final text by Philip Lutley Sclater. The plates were originally issued monthly with an accompanying temporary text for parts I-VII written by David William Mitchell, secretary to the society. On Mitchell's death in 1859, Sclater completed the work, selecting the subjects and writing both the initial letterpress and then the final published text, as here, which was issued with the thirteenth and final part. The work was commissioned by the Council of the Zoological Society in 1852, to provide "an accurate artistic record of the living form and expression of the many rare species of animals which exist from time to time in the menagerie". The council chose Wolf, already well-known for his work for the ornithologist Rüpell and Gould's "Birds of Great Britain". Originally from Prussia, Wolf's paintings of wild animals are renowned for their spectacular use of colour: pinks, blues, and greens; for the astonishing realism of feet, fur, and feather texture; and for their detailed backgrounds, which often include smaller but still perfectly painted and fully animated. As a young man he was apprenticed to Gebrüder Becker, lithographers at Koblenz, where he was employed as designer, principally of trade circulars. A chance meeting with Eduard Rüppell, the ornithologist and explorer, "gave him an introduction to the director of the grand ducal natural history museum at Darmstadt, Johann Kaup. Wolf obtained employment in Darmstadt as a lithographer with the publisher Ernst Kern, and in his free time worked for Rüppell, executing drawings for Rüppell's "Systematische Uebersicht der Vögel Nord-Ost-Afrikas" (1845). He was subsequently given illustrative work for Hermann Schlegel and H. Wulverhorst's "Traité de fauconnerie" (1844), but an attack of ague forced his return to Darmstadt, where he attended the art school, going in 1847 to study at the Antwerp Academy. In February 1848, as revolution spread across the continent, Wolf went to London at the invitation of David William Mitchell, secretary of the Zoological Society of London. There he assisted Mitchell with a British Museum-based project, illustrating Robert Gray's "Genera of Birds" (1844-9); afterwards he assisted John Gould with illustrations for "Birds of Great Britain" (1862-73). Two books may be considered especially his, though he did not write the text: "Zoological Sketches" [as here], issued in two series (1861 and 1867), and "Life and Habits of Wild Animals", with letterpress by D. G. Elliot (1874); the latter was reissued in 1882 as "Wild Animals and Birds: their Haunts and Habits" (Clemency Thorne Fisher for DNB).Anker 539; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.158; Nissen IVB 1012; BM(NH) V,p.2349; Wood p.633. For more information about this book, or a warm welcome to see it and other books in our library at 72nd Street, NYC, please contact Kate Hunter, M.A. Oxon, in the Rare Book Department [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Leroy, André
        Dictionnaire de Pomologie contenant l'histoire, la description, la figure des fruits anciens et des fruits modernes les plus généralement connus et cultivés
      Angers, impr., Paris 1867 - Folio. 6 vols. (Vol. I: 1 retrato, 615 p.; v. 2: 774 p.; v. 3: 448 p.; v. 4: 880 p.; v. 5: 399 p.; v. 6: 331 p., todos con ilustraciones. Media piel, nervios, tejuelo, adornos dorados. Corte superior pintado. Cubierta original. Completísimo diccionario hortícola, que estudia todas las especies conocidas de frutos y frutales, con la descripción de cada fruto, siempre acompañado de su representación gráfica. También comprende observaciones sobre los nombres y los sinónimos más corrientes de cada uno, sus méritos y defectos, las apreciaciones inexactas que se le han atribuido, y consejos sobre la manera de adquirir cualidad y prolongar su duración. Agricultura. Horticultura. Botánica. Agriculture. Horticulture. Botany.

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Mexican Lithography]:
        LA ORQUESTA.
      Mexico. -1873. 1867 - Six volumes of "Tercero Epoca." 1867: Vol. I, Nos. 1 - 54 (Jun. 26 - Dec. 28, 1867); 1868: Vol. I, Nos. 55 - 106 (Jan. 2 - Jun. 27, 1868) and Vol. II, Nos. 1 - 45 (Jul. 1 - Dec. 30, 1868); 1869: Vol. II, Nos. 46 - 149 (Jan. 2 - Dec. 29, 1869); 1870: Vol. III, Nos. 1 - 105 (Jan. 5 - Dec. 31, 1870); 1871: Vol. IV, Nos. 1 - 104 (Jan. 4 - Dec. 30, 1871); 1873: Vol. VI, Nos. 1 -105 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1873). Each issue 4pp., with one lithograph per issue. Folio. Contemporary half tan Mexican sheep over mottled boards, spine gilt. Some overall shelf wear, joints rubbed, text block of final volume loose in binding. Plate twelve in volume 1878 has dime-size hole caused by paper flaw; 1869 volume lacks plate 118 but has added lithographed titlepage; volume 1878 lacks No. 8, its plate, and plate 96, but has hors-series plate; 1871 volume lacks No. 5 and its plate. Instances of dampstaining, light foxing, a few plates wrinkled, contemporary ownership signatures on front free endpapers of first two volumes. Overall, a very good set. A wonderful and extensive run of this 19th century Mexican periodical, of great interest for its vast number of lithographic political cartoons. The lithographic plates, numbering over 500, in this run of LA ORQUESTA, all of which belong to the third series and most of which were executed by master draftsmen Constantino Escalante, Vicente Riva Palacio and Hesiquio Iriarte represent some of the most exquisite early specimens of Mexico's nationalistic print-making art, a tradition that began with illustrations in a handful of liberal periodicals such as LA ORQUESTA and later blossomed to influence and encompass such prolific talents as Jose Guadalupe Posada and Jose Clemente Orozco. Popular lithography in 19th century Mexico reached its zenith with the CARICATURAS, or political caricatures, such as those contained in LA ORQUESTA. The narrative style of the cartoons combined with biting political satire and the use of decidedly Mexican emblematic metaphors evoke the peculiar Mexican CARICATURA style. Although the lithographs reveal hints of French influence in matters of decorations, they reflect more the genesis of Mexico's own satiric genre in lithography. This view is supported by Joyce Waddell Bailey, an authority on Mexican graphic art: "Outside of [a few] circumstantial affinities to the tradition of French magazines of caricature, we find little influence of a specific nature in the prints. Rather, the Mexican lithographs show highly original themes, and styles vary from artist to artist and journal to journal. To a certain extent we can see here traces of how highly creative artists work. A new idea or image may act as a stimulus, but it is combined in the artist's own work with such agility and acuity that it becomes impossible to accurately delineate specific sources of influence" - Tyler (page 96). Indeed, Escalante and the staff of LA ORQUESTA attained an international reputation, and even attracted Europeans hoping to learn the art of satirical lithography in their Mexico City shop. Sabin called LA ORQUESTA the Mexican PUNCH, but the themes depicted remain fully Mexican. Each issue consists of four pages plus a single full-sheet lithographic plate, with a printed caption. Besides standing as influential examples of Mexican lithography, the plates are of much interest as documents of the French intervention period in Mexico, the reign of Emperor Maximilian, and the political turmoil of the period. "LA ORQUESTA, a periodical of political satire, established lithographic caricature as a field of its own through the excellent work of Constantino Escalante, virtual pillar of the publication until his untimely death in a railroad accident at Tlalpan in 1868" - Mathes. Manuel Toussaint, in his study of 19th century Mexican lithography, describes the political caricatures in LA ORQUESTA as "a terrible weapon at the command of caustic satire. Two colossal humorists debut here: Vicente Riva Palacio and Constant

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Trollope, Anthony
        The Last Chronicle of Barset
      London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A Very Good copy of the first edition in book form of this famous Trollope novel, in the Publisher's original blue cloth with the front boards blind stamped and gilded and with the spines gilded as well, bound from the original Parts. This copy shows rubbing to the corners and common wear and chipping to the spine overhangs, and general edge rubbing. The front joint (interior) of Volume I is cracked at the top portion thereof beween the frontis and its adjoining page and the last page of text in Volume I is browned but remains quite legible. The pages rather clean bright and the plates have been bound without tissue guards. The Last Chronicle of Barset was first published in 32 weekly Parts. Some buyers would collect the Parts issue and then have the sheets bound in the Publisher's cases. This is such a case, bound from the Original Parts (not from the later-issued sheets which were for use only in bound sets). Sadleir notes two states for the Parts issue (as here bound in the cases). In this set, Volume I shows the title page in the second state (otherwise, the first and second states identical), the title page of Volume II shows characteristics which do not match either state, showing a characteristic said to be exclusive to the first state as well as a characteristic said to be exclusive to the second state, the Table of Contents is second state, and the text and illustrations are first state. In Volume II, on page 298 at line 21, the third word reads "Crawley", an error later corrected to read "Toogood". The Last Chronicle of Barset is the sixth and last of Trollope's famed Barsetshire Novels and the novel of which in his Autobiography he stated "I regard this as the best novel I have written. I was never quite satisfied with the development of the plot, which consisted in the loss of a cheque, of a charge made against a clergyman for stealing it, and of absolute uncertainty on the part of the clergyman himself as to the manner in which the cheque found its way into his hands." A Near Fine to Fine copy and rather uncommon when in a condition as nice as is this copy.

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Morin, Felix (Photostudio):
        13 Original-Photographien von Eingeborenen und der Landschaft Trinidad.
      Trinidad, Morin, o. J... 13 einzelne Albumin-Abzüge. Ungebunden.. Felix Morin, ein damals preisgekrönter Photograph, eröffnete sein Photostudio 1867 auf Trinidad. (Felix Morin was an established Photographic Business in 1869. Award winning photographer in Trinidad. 10 Photographien auf Trägerkarton montiert. (Format ca. 11.5''X 4'). Diese verso von Hand betitelt, z.a.B.: Govenors Palace & Botanic Gardens in Trinidad - Hindus landing at Trinidad from India - Sugar Cane in Blossom - Mavaras Fall-Port of Spain - Coconut Tree, weitere, allerdings mit schwer lesbarer Beschriftung. - 3 Kleinbild-Photographien zeigen Eingeborenen-Frauen (Format ca. 6'' X 4'').

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BAKER, Sir Samuel W
        The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
      London: Macmillan & Co.,, 1867,. Octavo (215 Ã— 189 mm). Recent half calf, old marbled boards, red morocco label. Double portrait engraved frontispiece, 2 coloured maps, one full-page the other folding, and 23 plates. Some foxing front and back, light toning throughout, occasional spotting, folding map a little weakened on the folds, but overall a very good copy. First edition; the important adjunct to Baker's book on the Albert N'yanza. "His prowess in the field won for him the friendship and admiration of the Hamran Arabs, themselves mighty hunters. He explored other tributaries of the Atbara, including the Bahr-er-Salam and the Angareb, and followed up the course of the Rehad to its confluence with the Blue Nile. Thence he marched to Khartoum, where he arrived on 11 June 1862. The value of the work of exploration during this fourteen months' journey and of the observations proving the Nile sediment to be due to the Abyssinian tributaries was publicly recognised by Sir Roderick Murchison [q.v.] , president of the Royal Geographical Society. Baker had also during the period gained for himself experience as an explorer, mastered Arabic, and acquired the use of astronomical instruments" (DNB). Czech remarks on Baker's preference for a "four-barrelled muzzle loading 10-bore" as his "regular battery", while describing the present work as "A classic of exploration and big game hunting".

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Turgenev, Ivan
        Fathers and Sons
      Leypoldt & Holt, 1867-01-01. Hardcover. Good. First American edition, first printing. New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1867. 248 p + 4 p of ads at rear. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. Green cloth with gilt lettering and monogram on front cover.(Correct first in the English language as well.) Good condition. Clean text and sturdy binding. Binding has been professionally repaired, endpapers replaced, with new head and tail cloth. First 50 pages or so wrinkled, binding slightly canted, bumped corners with exposed tips, bubbling to cloth at rear. Moderate foxing throughout. Small erased pencil mark on catalog facing title page. Quite rare. The first appearance of Turgenev's best-known novel, perhaps the first modern Russian novel. It was largely responsible for popularizing Russia's remarkable contemporary literature abroad.

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        RACCOLTA DI N. 50 VEDUTE ANTICHE E MODERNE DELLA CITTA' DI ROMA E SUE VICINANZE INCISE DA MOREL, ACQUARONI, PARBONI, ED ALTRI CELEBRI BULINI.:
      F. d'Atri,, Roma 1867 - (Codice TU0947) In 8º formato album (28x43,5 cm) 50 vedute incise in rame con didascalie in italiano e francese. Brossura editoriale un po' usata, frontespizio in rame con bella vignetta ripetuto alla copertina. Dimensioni delle incisioni: 23,5x18,5. Lievi gore marginali alle prime tavole, qualche segno del tempo ai grandissimi margini bianchi: minime ingialliture, bordi lievemente usurati, accenni di orecchie. Perfettamente conservate le belle vedute incise. Euro 500 ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA ~ Tutti i libri subito disponibili. Descrizioni precise, consegna rapida con imballaggio solido. All books are in stock in fine conditions or described meticulously. Very safe packaging ~

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Dante Alighieri; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Translator]
        The Divine Comedy. In Three Volumes: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
      Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. First Longfellow translation. First Edition thus, First Printing. Volume II and III are in Very Good condition. Volume I is in Fair condition, with a split in the cloth at the rear gutter, leaving the rear hinge very, very fragile and the rear board in danger of becoming detached. All volumes show wear at spine ends, with chipping to top ends, with a chip that appears glued back onto the top of the spine on Volume III. Light scuffing to boards, light edge wear. Bumped corners. Gilt lightly rubbed, but still rather sharp.

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Watkins, Carleton E.:
        COLLECTION OF 56 STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS FROM WATKINS' PACIFIC COAST SERIES, PRINCIPALLY DEPICTING SCENES IN YOSEMITE].
      San Francisco. 1867 [copyright date]. - 56 stereoscopic albumen prints by Watkins, on original yellow card mounts (3 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches), with his 429 Montgomery Street address. Very good. In a modern half morocco and cloth box. Carleton Watkins was one of the finest 19th-century landscape photographers. The magnificence of the Yosemite Valley was unknown to settlers until 1849 and it remained so until Watkins brought photographic images of its extraordinary beauty to the public. Watkins' vistas of a serene and underpopulated land demonstrated the ideal harmony between man and nature. "The controlled grandeur of his views of the sublime is encoded not only with classical ideals of simplicity, geometry, and measure but also with a perception of the West as the primordial theatre of an authentically American place" - THE WAKING DREAM. These photographs helped clinch the notion that Yosemite was a relic of Eden in North America. Although Watkins is best known for his mammoth plate photographs, his work was also published as stereoscopic views. In July of 1861, Watkins first traveled to Yosemite equipped with a stereoscopic camera, taking 100 stereoscopic negatives. He returned to Yosemite between 1865 and 1866 which yielded an additional 300 stereoscopic negatives. The present collection includes fifty images of Yosemite (eleven from the first series taken in 1861, and thirty-nine from the second series taken between 1865 and 1866), as well as five images in San Francisco (including three Cliff House views; a July 4, 1864 image of Montgomery Street; and a view from Telegraph Hill), and an additional image of the entrance to the New Almaden, California mine. The collection is from an unusually early period, with the images on Watkins' yellow card mounts with his Montgomery Street address (images printed subsequently would be on orange cards and a different address post-1871). The stereoviews present here were printed between 1867 and 1868, with many including notice of his Paris International Exposition medal on verso. Photographic historian Peter Palmquist has noted: "As a landscape photographer Watkins is best remembered for his pictures of Yosemite. Not only did he achieve many of his artistic successes there, but Yosemite also became more widely known and appreciated because of his eloquence and vision." THE WAKING DREAM, GILMAN PAPER COMPANY COLLECTION, p.124. Peter Palmquist, CARLETON E. WATKINS, PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE AMERICAN WEST (Albuquerque, 1983).

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GIBBON, Edward
        The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
      London: Bell & Daldy,, 1867. 7 volumes, octavo (175 x 112 mm). Contemporary full tan calf, raised bands to spines, brown morocco labels, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, double frames to boards and medallion centrepiece to front board gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. 3 engraved frontispieces, one portrait and 2 folding maps. Bookplate of Christopher Teesdale to front pastedowns. Spine slightly darkened, extremities a bit rubbed, light scuff marks to boards, minor nicks to tops of joints, mild foxing to flyleaves. Otherwise an excellent set. Handsomely bound complete set of Gibbson's most important work, first published between 1776 and 1788.

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LAURANT, Auguste.:
        HISTOIRE DES BAROMETRES ET MANOMETRES ANEROIDES - BIOGRAPHIE DE LUCIEN VIDIE, INVENTEUR DU BAROMETRE ET DU MANOMETRE ANEROIDES. Signed copy.
      Paris E. Dentu, 1867.FIRST EDITION 1867, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. French text, 8vo, approximately 255 x 165 mm, 10 x 6½ inches, mounted photograph of Vidie as frontispiece, a few text illustrations, 408 pages plus 1 (Contents table), bound in contemporary half morocco, marbled sides, gilt dividing lines, raised bands with gilt rules and gilt lettering to spine, gilt top edges, marbled endpapers, silk marker. Very slight rubbing to 3 raised bands, upper corners slightly worn, frontispiece expertly reinserted on a tab, offsetting on title page, occasional slight pale foxing including on title page. Binding tight and firm. A very good copy of a scarce book. Born in Nantes (France), Lucien Vidie (1805 - 1866) began his career as a lawyer but soon turned to engineering, particularly the design of steam engines. The study of manometers awakened his interest in barometers. In c. 1844, he built and patented an efficient aneroid barometer. The instrument, however, did not meet with immediate success in France so he turned to the English market, where he was more fortunate. Auguste Laurant the author has inscribed the half - title: "Offert a M. Emil Gautier. Aug. Laurant 17 D. 67". MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

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[MEDICINE - CALCIFEROUS GROWTH]. J.G. von M.
        Eigentlicher Entwurff eines weißgelblichten und kalchichten Steins, welcher bey einem steurischen Emigranten, Herrn H.A.P.F.z.N. . . . im Monat Martio ao. 1654. dessen eusserliche und innerliche gestalt allhier vor augen gestellet wird.[Nuremberg], Georg Walch, [1654/55]. Folio (20.5×16 cm). Engraved flier reporting the surgical removal of a growth from a nobleman's elbow, with 2 illustrations (each about 2.5×6 cm), of the exterior and the interior of the growth after removal, engraved by Georg Walch. Mounted on an 18th-century (?) piece of paper.
      Drugulin, Historischer Bilderatlas, II (1867), 2399; C.G. Müller, Verzeichnis von Nünbergischen topographisch-hitorischen Kupferstichen und Holzschnitten (1791), p. 205. An rare engraved print (an illustrated flier or Flugschrift) reporting the surgical removal of a large calciferous growth from the elbow of Hans Adam Praunfalcken (1604-1655), Freyherrn zu Neuhaus. The illustrations of the removed growth's exterior and interior are apparently original size and have bars indicating the three dimensions (4.8×2.2×1.6 cm): it weighed, together with some smaller pieces, 1.5 Lot (more than 26 grams). Besides the title and the captions for the two illustrations, the flier includes a two-line Latin epithet and a 4-line German verse. With a violet ink stamp in the foot margin and on the back of the backing paper ("Sammlung Hans Hopf"). With the margins trimmed approximately to the plate edge without affecting the texts or images. There is a faint stain along the let edge, but the flier is otherwise in very good condition.

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STRAUSS, Friedrich Adolph.
        Sinaï en Golgotha. Reis in het Oosten. Naar den achsten druk uit het Hoogduitsch bewerkt door J.J.L. ten Kate.
      Arnhem, J. Voltelen, (1867).8vo. Original decorated cloth gilt. With tinted lithographed title-page, lithographed map and plan by Emrik & Binger and 10 chromo-lithographed plates (including frontispiece). 466 pp. * First published in Berlin in 1847 Sinaï und Golgotha, Reise in das Morgenland. - 'A theology student from the Universiy of Berlin, Strauss, traveling from Alexandria to Aswan and the Suez and Sinai areas, saw the usual sights, gives a number of Biblical quotations and an account of Islam and the Copts. A good description of Thebes and Luxor' (Kalfatovic, Niles notes of a howadji, 0403). Athens, Corinth, Syra, Alexandria, Cairo, Thebes, Nubia, Assuan, Suez, Sinai, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jordan and the Dead Sea, Jaffa, Lebanon, Damascus, Beirut, Smyrna and Constantinople were visited. - With fine coloured plates.Gay 3671; Tobler 1845; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.262; Rohricht p.420; Weber 566; Not in Tiele, Blackmer or Atabey collection.

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LACAILLE (LA CAILLE), Nicolas Louis de.
        Lectiones elementares astronomiae, geometriae, et physicae, ex editione Parisina anni 1755 in Latinum traductae a C.S(chefer) e S.J. Including: Appendix, complectens Praecipuas Mutationes, quas Auctor in Ultima Editione Parisina anno 1761 fecit, et in Latinum convertit C.S(chefer) e S.J.Vienna, Prague, Johann Thomas Trattner, 1757-1762. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut vignette on 2 title-pages, 10 folding engraved plates in text. Contemporary vellum.
      Honeyman 1867; Houzeau-Lancaster 9254; Poggendorff I, 1337; not in De Backer & Sommervogel; for Lacaille: DSB I, pp. 542-545. First Latin edition of a popular school book on astronomy, geometry and natural science, translated from the second French edition published at Paris in 1755, together with an Appendix, containing a Latin translation of the corrections and additions of the latest Paris edition of 1761. Nicolas Louis de La Caille (1713-1762), was a famous French astronomer and mathematician, professor at the College Mazarin. The present work, first published at Paris in 1741, contains his lectures to pupils at the College, used in Schefer's Latin translation by the Latin Schools in Vienna and Prague. It covers applied mathematics, cosmography, map making, horology, perspective, surveying, etc. With 10 folding engraved plates with arithmetical exercises and tables in text and geometrical and perspectival figures and illustrations.With old owner's inscription on first endpaper; spine chipped at the upper corner. Very good large-paper copy.

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[FLY VOYAGE] [MELVILLE, Harden.]
        The Adventures of a Griffin on a Voyage of Discovery. Written by Himself
      London: Bell and Daldy, 1867. Octavo, wood-engraved illustrations including frontispiece;original dark brown gilt-decorated cloth a little worn, gilt edges, becoming a little shaken in the binding with one gathering sprung. Scarce and attractive children's book, based on the experiences of Harden S. Melville on the Fly, with frontispiece and 29 other illustrations by Melville (the "Griffin") from his original sketches. Melville sailed with Francis Blackwood on the Fly in 1841 as artist for a voyage commissioned to make a detailed and scientific survey of northeast Australia, concentrating on the Great Barrier Reef. This book gives a lively account of the voyage of the Fly in Australian and Australasian waters, although the boat is here disguised as the Bluebottle. The thirty illustrations by Melville, range from a self-portrait of the young artist learning to draw (replete with portfolio under one arm, initialled "H.S.M"), through to depictions of life on the Australian coast: dancing a corroboree, throwing a boomerang, turning turtle at Bunkers Islands, or riding over Razorback, southwest of Sydney. The titlepage vignette, reproduced in gilt on the front board, shows Melville patiently sketching while being attacked by swarms of insects. Melville had earlier published the more sombre Sketches in Australia in 1849; both works are now difficult to find.

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Sauvageot, Claude («Dessinateur et graveur»)
        Palais, châteaux, hôtels et maisons de France du XVe au XVIIIe siècle. (4 Bde. mit 295 gestochenen Taf., cplt.).
      Paris, Morel, 1867 (Bd. 1, 2 und 3 mit Schildern der Buchhandlung Max Mohr, Berlin, auf Titelbl.) - 2° (39 x 28 cm), Bd. 1: 56 S. Text m. Textabb. u. 84 gestochene Taf. (davon eine in Chromolithogr. u. eine doppelblattgross); Bd. 2: 114 S. Text m. Textabb. u. 64 gestochene Taf. (davon eine doppelblattgross); Bd. 3: 90 S. m. Textabb. u. 73 gestochene Taf. (davon eine in Chromolithogr.) (das Tafelverzeichnis nummeriert falsch mit 24 Taf.); Bd. 4: 114 S. m. Textabb. u. 74 gestochene Taf. (davon eine in Chromolithogr. und eine doppelblattgross), Brosch. Textteile u. lose Taf. in (Orig.-)HLwd.-Mappen, Bibliotheksex.: priv. Rückenschildchen, Schildchen a. Innendeckel, Stempel a. Vorderdeckeln der Textteile, jede Taf. mit kleinem Stempel am Steg; Rücken etw. unsauber u. an den Kanten berieben , Kapitale tlw. lädiert, Deckel tlw. kratzspurig; Tafeln öfter etw. staubrandig und fingerfleckig, tlw. und randrissig; allg. gutes Ex. Jeweils EA. 11000 gr. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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James Garfield
        Garfield?s copy of John Stuart Mill?s ?The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte?
      ?The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte? by John Stuart Mill, 182pp, 5? x 7.75?. Boston: William V. Spencer, 1867. Second Edition. Dark brown cloth boards, brown endpapers. Titled in gilt on spine. Publisher?s logo on gilt on cover. Partial separation at front hinge, minor flaws. Very good condition.Affixed to the inside cover is a 2.5? x 1.5? label imprinted ?Inter Folia Fructus / Library of / JAMES A. GARFIELD / No. __ ,? location penned in ink ?Case 1 ?" Shelf D.?The first Presidential memorial library, completed at the Lawnfield estate in Ohio by the widow of James Garfield four years after his assassination, houses almost 3,000 books that were used and treasured by the 20th president. Books were a scarce commodity to young James, who lost his father before the age of two, and was raised by his mother who struggled to maintain a humble existence. Both James Garfield and his wife Lucretia were voracious readers and amassed a large collection of books and pamphlets. Some twenty ye

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Navarro de Paiva, Jose Cunha
        Manual do Ministerio Publico: Repertorio Alphabetico da Legislacao.
      1867 - Rare Portuguese Treatise on Administrative Law Navarro de Paiva, Jose Cunha. Manual do Ministerio Publico: Repertorio Alphabetico da Legislacao Diplomas do Governo, Circulares de Execucao Permanente dos Procuradores Regios das Relacoes de Lisboa, Porto e Acores, Officios do Procurador Geral da Coroa, Jurisprudencia e Doutrina Relativas a Assumptos do Ministerio Publico. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1867. xii, [2], 400, [1] pp. Octavo (8" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary tree calf, lettering pieces and gilt fillets, lettering piece and ornaments to spine. Light rubbing to boards, heavier rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners, boards slightly bowed, front joint just starting at head. Light toning to text, foxing to title page, minor worming to upper corner of preliminaries and a few following leaves, internally clean. * Second edition. This well-regarded manual of administrative law and procedure reached a third edition in 1901. No copies located on OCLC. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Quenstedt, Fr. Aug.:
        Handbuch der Petrefaktenkunde.,
      Tübingen, Laupp, 1867 - Mit 86 lithographischen Tafeln und je einem unpaginierten Blatt Tafelerklärungen; Mit 185 Textholzschnitten, VIII, 982 Seiten. Nissen ZBI 3262; Zittel S. 779. - Zweite Auflage dieses klassischen Handbuchs. Gegenüber der Erstauflage um nahezu 200 Seiten und 24 Tafeln vermehrt. Friedrich August Quenstedt (1809 - 1899) war ein deutscher Paläontologe, Geologe und Mineraloge. "F. A. Quenstedts Petrefaktenkunde zeichnet sich durch eine Fülle neuer und feiner Beobachtungen, sowie durch einen Atlas mit vortrefflichen, größtentheils neuen Abbildungen aus und hat in drei Auflagen bis 1885 mehrere Generationen in das Studium der Versteinerungen eingeführt" (Zittel). - Marmorpapierbezug beider Bände erneuert, beide Bände mit kleinem Exlibris auf dem vorderen Innendeckel und hs. Namen auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz, vereinzelte Tafeln im Randbereich leicht braunfleckig, Vortitel, Titel u. Vorwort des Textbandes etwas stärker braunfleckig. Im Tafelband wurden die Tafeln 52 u. 53 versehentlich zwischen Taf. 56 u. 57 eingebunden. Insgesamt gutes bis sehr gutes und absolut vollständiges Exemplar. Sprache: de Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Gr.-8° (23 x 16 cm), marmorierte Pappbände der Zeit mit Rückentitel. Zweite (2.) umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. Text- und Tafelband in zwei Bänden.

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Bean, Edwin F.:
        BEAN'S HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. CONTAINING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, WITH SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS.
      Nevada, Ca.: Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1867. - vi,[6],424pp. With the advertisement leaf, not found in all copies, inserted between pp.184 and 185. This copy does not have the small ad after p. vi, which, according to Quebedeaux, does not appear in all copies. Contemporary printed paper boards, calf backstrip, spine gilt. Rebacked, with most of the original backstrip laid down. Boards rubbed and soiled, worn at the corners and edges. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown of William Montgomery; printed label on rear pastedown, "John Howell / Importer/ San Francisco", and also pencil notes in the hand of Warren Howell. Quite clean and neat internally. A very good copy. The first Nevada County directory, the first history of the county as a whole, and the first book printed in Nevada County. Bean's history and directory is quite scarce, and contains a great wealth of early material on this vitally important mining region. Bean, who was Nevada County assessor and editor of the DAILY GAZETTE, provides a complete history of the county, along with sketches of the various towns and mining camps, names and occupations of residents, and statistics on mining and other resources. A substantial essay is given over to mining gold from quartz deposits, which, as the author notes, has been the subject of numerous false starts. Besides the general history of Nevada County, there are also descriptions and directories of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Meadow Lake, Bridgeport, Rough and Ready, Little York, Washington, Bloomfield, and Eureka, as well as descriptions of the mines of Nevada City and Grass Valley and a number of advertisements for local businesses. "[Bean's] history and directory is, by far, the best- known of all California directories. One of the great 'standard' county histories, it is, in the minds of many collectors, dealers, historians and libraries, one of the most valuable - content wise - of all directories published in the United States. Though very scarce, it is also perhaps the most obtainable of California directories, probably because its worth was recognized from the beginning, resulting in the fact that copies were preserved in quantities greater than those of other directories" - Quebedeaux. "Notable compendium of early source material" - Wheat. QUEBEDEAUX 36. COWAN, p.170. HOWES B278 "b". ROCQ 5956. WHEAT, GOLD RUSH 13. STREETER SALE 2913. GRAFF 219. HOWELL 50:420. NORRIS CATALOGUE 2833. PLATH SALE 130.

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[FRANCIS ABBOTT] CHAMBERS, George F
        Descriptive Astronomy
      Oxford University Press, 1867. Large thick octavo; with a total of 37 plates (some hand-coloured) and numerous diagrams throughout, a fine copy in contemporary polished calf (upper joint a little worn), spine ruled in gilt with morocco label. An attractive treatise on astronomy from the library of the Hobart Town watchmaker Francis Abbott 'one of the leading astronomers in Australia' (DNB). Abbott was sentenced two seven years transportation for fencing two watches and arrived in Van Diemen's Land in June 1845. He spent one year in a chain gang and another three as an assigned servant before obtaining a ticket-of-leave in early 1849. By all accounts an intelligent and energetic fellow, Abbott soon established a business in central Hobart selling and repairing watches, and was joined by his wife and family in 1850. Widely respected as a watchmaker, Abbot soon gained a reputation as an astronomer and meteorologist. This copy of Chamber's Descriptive Astronomy bears the bookplate reading 'Francis Abbott, Private Observatory, Hobart Town.' Indeed, his collection of books and scientific instruments was unparalleled in the colony at this time. Although an amateur, his skill was widely respected and Abbott was awarded membership to the Royal Astronomical Society of London while his climatic observations were utilised by the United States Meteorological Department in their standardised world charts. Between 1878-1880 Abbott published four books on astronomy in Hobart Town.

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GRANT, Ulysses S.
        Framed Document Signed as ad interim Secretary of War
      Washington 1867 - At the time that this document was signed, President Andrew Johnson was undergoing Impeachment proceedings. A week earlier he compounded his problems by firing Secretary of War Stanton and convincing Grant to fill the Cabinet position. Two months later both houses of Congress determined that it was illegal to fire Stanton and that he should be reinstated immediately. Grant, rather than to get caught up with the political controversy, walked away from President Johnson - both men refusing to speak to one another for the rest of their lives. 1 page on "War Department" letterhead, 9.75 x 7.75 inches, Washington, November 6, 1867 -- an uncommon partly printed document signed "U.S. Grant" as ad interim Secretary of War, a post he held for only eight weeks, informing Thomas J. Greggs: "You are hereby notified that the President of the United States has appointed you, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, a Captain by Brevet. Should the Senate at their next session, advise and consent thereto, you will be commissioned accordingly." Beautifully framed to 15.5 x 17.5 inches with a 4.5 x 3.75-inch copperplate portrait, along with a tan matte and black-and-gold frame. The letter has horizontal folds and a small smudge in the left margin; overall a magnificent item in near fine condition. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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10 ethnologische Original-Fotografien - Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde.
        Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Anthropologischer Theil, 1.-3. Abteilung.
      Wien, Gerold's Sohn, 1867-1875.. Mit 24 lithographischen Tafeln, 10 montierten Photographien, 1 gefalteten farblithographischen Karte und 8 Tabellen auf 16 Blatt. (2) XII, 120 Setien; (4), 271 Seiten; XXX, 224 (2) Seiten. 30,5 x 24 cm. Original-Leinen (2) mit goldgeprägter Deckelvignette und Halbleinen der Zeit.. Erste Ausgabe. - Sabin 77619 (Anmerkung) - Borba de Moraes 619. - Cranien der Novara-Sammlung, Körpermessungen, Ethnographie = der komplette anthropologische Teil des in insgesamt 9 Abteilungen in 21 Bänden erschienenen Werkes. - Der buchhändlerische Erfolg des Reiswerkes war kolossal, seine Wertschätzung durch führende zeitgenössische Köpfe erging sich in schmeichelhaftestem Lob (Henze, 23. Lieferung, S. 33). - Mit den 10 montierten Original-Photos mit Ansichten und Kulturgegenständen aus Java, die Tafeln mit Schädeln verschiedener Volksgruppen. - Ecken und Kapitale etwas bestoßen, leicht berieben. Bibliotheksstempel auf Innendeckel, verso Titeln und Tafeln, die lithographischen Tafeln mit Stempelabklatsch, Trägerkartons der Photos etwas wellig, sonst gutes Exemplar. First edition of part 1-3. Bound in original cloth (2) with gilt stamped vignette to cover resp. half cloth (spine-ends and corners somewhat bumped, minor chafing). With 24 lithographic plates, 10 mounted photographs (on card board), 1 folded lithographic map and 8 tables on 16 leaves. Library stamp on inner front cover, verso title-page and plates, cardboards somewhat wavy, else a very good copy.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Mertens & Pomplun GbR (Versa]

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