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London Printed for the Author, 1671. Leather Bound. Acceptable. London: Self published, 1671. 1st English edition. Full Leather. Contemporary mottled calf. Folio. Incomplete, missing a number of plates. This copy has: 85 Plates, 21 double plates present. All text pages appear to be present. Original boards rebacked and binding strong. Some wear to extremities. Title printed in red and black. Internally a few pages have tears, wear to edge. Scattered browning. Soiling. The frontis map of the hemisphere mostly complete but lacking 2 X 3" segments at bottom left and top center right. Some of the double-page maps still present include the hemisphere, Peru, Brasiliana, Paraguay, Magellanica, and Chili, Barbados, etc. Does not include the Lords Proprietors map of Carolina, nor the early map of New York. See our pictures. Sabin 50089. Wing O-165.

Ultrajecti : Apud Nicolaum Muntendam, 1750. Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant folio, 50 cm. Second Latin edition. [142] p. ill., 119 plates, 3 plates folded. Complete, collated. 105 plates with accompanying text leaves. 9 plates in appendix. 5 plates on 4 leaves in supplements. Contemporary leather. Marbled endpapers. Professional restoration to leather. Page ends washed red.. Scattered spotting. . <br><br> William Cowper was an English surgeon and anatomist who, in 1698, published The Anatomy of the Humane Bodies, which gained him great fame and notoriety, and over the next eleven years he published a number of tracts on topics ranging from surgery and pathology to physiology and anatomy. Some have called Cowper's Anatomy of the Humane Bodies one of the greatest acts of plagiarism in all of medical publishing. In 1685, Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) published his Anatomia Humani Corporis in Amsterdam using 105 beautiful plates drawn by Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711) and engraved by Abraham… Read More

London : George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes bound as one. Second edition. Folio. Old calf with gilt arabesque on front board. Recased on modern spine leather. Ornamental woodcut capitals, some colored. Generally good internationally, some minor stains, one margin repaired. [iii]-xxiv, 606 + [xvi] 312 + 202 pp. Lacking first title page, final leaf of vol. , and the map. The title of Vol. 2 has "Hackluyt" and 1599"; line 7 reads "these 1600 yeres." <br>Volumes 1 and 2 only. <br><br> As is typical, lacking the section on the conquest of Cadiz by Essex; as ordered suppressed by Queen Elizabeth in 1599. <br><br> Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) taught geography at Oxford. Hakluyt was one of the primary promoters of English colonization of Virginia. "Hakluyt with his collection of exemplary English voyages served the historic function of propagandist for English mercantilism and colonial… Read More

Antverpiae: Christophori Plantini, 1568-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Contemporary leather. 4 raised bands. New spine label. Good binding and cover. Restoration to boards and spine. Title page restored. Writing in contemporary ink on title page. Owners names on subsequent pages with additional notation in Latin. Owners name of Samuel Willard, dated 1681 on verso of first page. Later gift inscription from his brother John Willard on first preface page. Contemporary notation and underlining occurring. Clean, unmarked pages with tanning. Loss to upper right corner of few pages. Lacking, p 401-442 and last 4 pages, and blanks. pages. With the notes of Paul Manutius, Lambinus, and emendations and explanations of places by Canter. Not in Dibdin. <br><br> Reverend Samuel Willard was a colonial clergyman. The Reverend Willard was pastor of the Third Church, Boston, from 1678 until his death. Samuel Willard played an important role in the halting of the Salem witch trials. Born in 1640 to a… Read More

Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le Cene, 1727-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. [2] 12, 439 pp.; [2] pp. 445-808p (pagination continuous), 43 of 44 plates. 2 Volumes in One Bound in contemporary vellum. 7 raised bands. Leather spine label. Good binding and cover. Spine and hinges restored. Faint soiling to vellum. Pages tanned with a several pages with some offsetting and foxing. Lacks frontis and added title. All 27 plates & 16 maps are present. Brunet IV, 178; Cordier, Japonica, 367-68; Cordier, Sinaca 2077; Lust 342 <br><Br> Jean Albert Mandeslo set out in 1636 with the Embassy that the Duke of Holstein sent to Russia and Persia. He visited India, Ceylon, Madagascar, West Africa (Congo), and returned four years later. His story gives a very vivid picture of luxury, vices, curiosity and absolute disregard for life under the despotic tyranny of the Moghul Empire under Shah Jahan. In the port of Surat he arrived in April 1638 after he went to Ahmedabad and Agra. Although his observations… Read More

London : George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. Volumes 1 and 2 bound as 1. 2nd edition. Folio. Bound in modern 3/4 black leather. Marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt spine.Ornamental woodcut capitals, some colored. Generally good internationally, foxing, mostly marginal, one margin repaired. [iii]-xxiv, 606 + [xvi] 312 + 202 pp. Lacking title pages, replaced with title page for Volume II. Lacking map. The title page has "Hackluyt" and 1599"; line 7 reads "thefe 1600 yeres." Lacking volume II title page, present in 19th century pen facsimile. Pages 15-20 in handwritten pen facsimile. Collated : 2-6, **6, A-Z6 (lacking B2-4), Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Ddd6, Eee3; *8, A-Z6, Aa-Cc6. <br>Volumes 1 and 2 only.<br><br> As is typical, lacking the section on the conquest of Cadiz by Essex; as ordered suppressed by Queen Elizabeth in 1599. <br><br> Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was one of the primary promoters of English… Read More

A Paris : Chez Nyon, Libraire, 1776 - 1791. Hardcover. Good. 16 volume set. Published 1776-1791, also includes appendix volume published in by Treuttel and Wurtz, 1814. Bound in contemporary French mottled calf. 25 x 20 cm. All edges stained red. 153 plates and tables. Clean, unmarked pages. Marbled end pages. Blind stamp on title page. <br> Memoires concernat les Chinois was an important source for introducing China to Europeans and the foundation of French Sinology. It collected the reports of French and Chinese missionaries in Beijing, "considered at the time the chief source of information in Europe regarding China and its people ... Among the monographs, the most interesting are on language and literature, warfare and philosophy, including a complete life of Confucius. In addition, there are studies on natural history, science, architecture and agriculture, translations of Chinese poetry and biographical sketches of famous Chinese. This is undoubtedly the best work that… Read More

New-York: [Barlas & Ward], 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 506 pp. Suppressed by Aaron Burr. Rare first issue with publisher's name excised. Handsomely bound in green moroccan leather. Gilt ruled, raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Soiling and minor chipping to margins, restoration to title page. Contemporary signature of Bell Mumford on title page. Scattered spotting. Pages 497-506 provided in facsimile. "Most copies bought up and destroyed by (Aaron) Burr." Howes W-632; Sabin 105044. <br><br> John Wood (ca. 1775 - 1822), political writer, educator, and cartographer, was a Scot who immigrated to New York City in 1800. He soon met Aaron Burr and wrote a series of pamphlets supporting his political positions. One of Wood's efforts was "The History of the Administration of John Adams" (Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, no. 506). Wood wrote this anti-Federalist and pro-Burr book in an… Read More

London: Printed by W. Stansby, 1616 / Printed for Richard Meighen, 1640-41, 1616. Hardcover. Acceptable. Three volumes bound in two. Quarto. 26.5 cm and 29 cm. Housed in modern clamshell cases. Rebound in modern brown leather. Red leather spine labels with minimal rubbing to gilt of the second volume. 5 raised bands. Collated: Vol. I: [12], 1015 pp; Vol. 2: [12], 88, 75, [3], 93-170; Vol. 3: 292, 132, 122, 133-155, Title page and frontis provided from 1640 edition of Jonson's works. New end pages. Later states of title pages in Vol. 1; without woodcut borders (except Poetaster title page, which is first state with woodcut border). Scattered spotting and staining, pages trimmed. John Wilson Croker's copy, with bookplates of Frederick William Cosens and Samuel Cabot pasted inside the front board. Vol. II title page mounted, title page and Bartholomew Faree well soiled, loss to upper corner. <br><br> Jonson's 1616 publication of the Workes of Benjamin Jonson in folio marked… Read More

Basel : Nicolaus Kessler, 1488. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [Incunable : Textus Sententiarum magistri Petri Lombardi] Basel: Nicolaus Kessler, 22 September 1488. Folio, 31 x 23 cm. Bound in later 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Solid binding and cover. Gothic letter, printed in two columns, 55 lines. Woodcut calligraphic first initial on first leaf. Rubricated lettering throughout, with opening initials drawn by hand in red. Fine printer's device, white on background, on rear leaf. 281 leaves. Lacking 2 blank leaves, 132 & 281. [Collation: a10, b-i8/6, k-p6/8, q-s6, t8 (lacking t6 blank), A-Q8/6, Qr6 [sic], R6, S8 (lacking one blank in this signature), T6, V8] Some worming. Contemporary handwritten notes on rear blank leaf. <br> The principal work of Peter Lombard, the 12th century philosopher and scholastic theologian. The work is a collection of core statements of the church fathers first written circa 1150 A.D. Lombard's work was widely read and became one of… Read More

Philadelphia : D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. [Landmark Work in 19th Century Ethnology with Exquisite Colored Portraits of American Indians] 3 volume set. Octavos. Bound in publisher's morocco, stamped in blind. Minor shelf wear to covers. All edges gilt. Yellow paper end pages. A handsome, crisp set. Collated, complete: iv, 333; xvii, [1], 9-290; iv, 17-392 pp. 120 colored plates by J.T. Bowen, most after Charles Bird King, some by James Otto Lewis and George Cooke. According to Howes, the plates are "the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed." Charles Bird King was employed by the War Department to paint portraits of visiting Indian delegates. King painted from life Indian leaders of at least twenty tribes, including: Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. Most of King's original paintings in the Indian Gallery of the War Department, were destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire at the Smithsonian Castle. As a result,… Read More

Boston: S.D. Strong, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. [The Republic of Texas: Texas as an independent nation] Folio, 41 x 33 cm. Bound in publisher's quarter green leather over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered brown morocco cover label. Rebacked, with original spine preserved. Held in custom-made, leather-backed, and marbled clamshell case. Corners and spine heavily rubbed. Hand colored. Illustrated with 51 sheets of maps, tinted lithographic title page, including the double page United States Map. Map 42 depicts the Republic of Texas, showing the republic's constituent colonies and grants. Some toning, offsetting. Light restoration work to a few maps. Old dampstain to rear plates, mostly marginal. "This is the Bradford 1838 Illustrated Atlas, without the text and with the addition of ten maps: two hemispheres, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Europe (3), Africa, Asia, and Pacific Ocean... However, many of the maps in this 1841 edition are somewhat different… Read More

London : Graves & Warmsley, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [Mid-Nineteenth Century Middle East: Plate Books] Tall folio, 21 1/8 x 14 1/2 in. Bound in publisher's red cloth boards. Rebacked, with renewed leather spine. Illustrated with twenty-six tinted lithographs, including title. Drawn on stone by Joseph Nash. Generally clean, with minor staining primarily around the bottom margin. Refs: Atabey 1334; Abbey, Travel 379.

Philadelphia : Printed by C. Sherman, for the editor, 5605, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [First Jewish Translation of the Pentateuch into English: The Standard American Jewish Bible during the 19th Century] 5 volume set; 20 cm. Bound in contemporary tooled calf. Good bindings and covers. Minor shelf wear, rubbing, but sound. Marbled end sheets. Added title page in Hebrew. Text is printed in Hebrew and English on facing pages. Clean, unmarked pages. (p. 22 in Leviticus is creased). Early inscription from 1881 to "Mosley from Brother Abraham, 1881, Cincinnati." v.2 lacks the blank end pages. Contents: v.1. The book of Genesis.; v. 2. The book of Exodus.; v. 3. The book of Leviticus.; v. 4. The book of Numbers.; v.5. Deuteronomy. <br> Leeser's was the first English translation of the Torah by a Jewish translator. Prior to its publications, English Jews used the King James translation. Isaac Lesser (1806-1868) was a Jewish-American newspaper editor (The… Read More

Washington, D.C: Unique Works, Joan Andrew, 1981. First Edition. Art, Prints & Posters. Very Good. Signed. [Images of the Burger Court and Reagan-Era Senate] 129 hand drawn images of the United States legislature, Supreme Court, and the notable trial of John Hinckley, Jr. Almost all images are dated and copyrighted by the artist at the lower margin. Dimensions of the sketches are mostly 17.5 x 23 inches. One smaller group of images are 17.5 x 14 in. The artist Joan Andrew (b. 1941) sketched these Courtroom and Senate scenes in Prisma colored pencil while in attendance for use by the national news media. Joan Andrew was employed by the Washington Post and CNN as a sketch artist from 1981-1984; illustrating the proceedings in the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Senate, and United States District Court. Andrew is a graduate of the University of Colorado, and an award-winning painter, sculptor, and weaver. Andrew's 129 sketches include: <br> 57 sketches of Supreme Court Justices… Read More