NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND MEDICINE

Lots 161–189

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161* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Hooping Crane. Plate CCLXI, no. 53, from The Birds of America, 1835. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, watermarked J. Whatman, 1835. Framed and matted. 37 3/4 x 27 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of Wilton and Melissa Jaffee, Aspen, Colorado $20,000-30,000

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162* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Great Blue Heron, Area herodius. [Plate CCXI], from The Birds of America, 1834. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill, 1834. Framed and matted. 38 x 25 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of Wilton and Melissa Jaffee, Aspen, Colorado $50,000-70,000

163* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Red-Breasted Merganser. Plate 101, no. 8, from The Birds of America, 1837. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, watermarked J. Whatman 1837. Framed and matted. Property from the Estate of Dr. Robert H. Barter, Washington, DC $8,000-12,000

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165 164* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Golden-eye Duck, Clangula Vulgaris. Plate CCCCIII, no. 81, from The Birds of America, 1837. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, watermarked J. Whatman, 1837. Framed and matted. 32 x 42 inches. Property from the Estate of Virginia H. Rogers, Chicago, Illinois $2,000-4,000

165* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Yellow Bird or American Goldfinch, Carduelis Americana. Plate 33, no. 7, from The Birds of America, 1830. Engraving with etching, aquatint and handcoloring, watermarked J. Whatman 1830. Framed. 40 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Brand, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000

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166* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BOWEN, J.T. Douglass Squirrel, Sciurus Douglassi. Plate XLVIII, no. 10, from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1844. Lithograph with hand-coloring. Framed. 36 x 30 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Virginia H. Rogers, Chicago, Illinois $500-700

167* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BOWEN, J.T. Severn River Flying Squirrel, Pteromys Sabrinus; Rocky Mountain Flying Squirrel, Pteromys Alpinus. Plate CXLIII, no. 29, from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1848. Lithograph with handcoloring. Framed. 36 x 29 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Virginia H. Rogers, Chicago, Illinois $500-700

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168 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The American Wildlife Heritage.8 vols. [Together with:] The Selected Birds [and] Selected Quadrupeds of North America. Kent, OH: Volair Limited, 1978-1979.

10 vols. total, lacking vols. I-II of The American Wildlife Heritage, Selected Birds [and] Quadrupeds slipcased together. 8vo, publisher’s red morocco gilt, silk endpapers, a.e.g. $200-400

169* (GOULD, JOHN, after) RICHTER, H.C. Two lithographs with hand-coloring from A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Hummingbirds, (London, 1849-61), comprising Dorifera Johannae and Cyanomyia Cyanocephala. Uniformly framed and matted. 26 x 19 inches each. Property from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Brand, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 170 AMACHUASTEGUI, AXEL Pajaros del mundo. Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, (1959).

3 vols. Folio, publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards, gilt-lettered spines, text in Spanish. With 73 color plates. Spines lightly soiled; otherwise fine. Property from a Private Collection $400-600

171 BERG, BENGT Min Van Fjallpiparen. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1917.

8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Number 31 of 80 copies. With numerous black and white plates of bird eggs. Wear to boards; backstrip beginning to detach; hinges starting. $200-400

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172 BINGHAM, W. Animal Biography; or, Authentic Anecdotes. London: Richard Phillips, 1805.

3 vols. 8vo, finely bound in polished half calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. Frances Evelyn “Daisy,” Countess of Warwick, (being the famous Daisy of song), bookplate. Third edition, with fold-out frontispiece plate to vol. 1. Minor wear to boards; light intermittent foxing; darkening to some leaves. Property from a Private Chicago-area Collector $200-400

173 BREHM, ALFRED EDMUND Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs. Leipzig and Vienna, 1921.

13 vols. 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. With numerous color and black and white plates. Wear to boards; ends chipped. $100-200 174 BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE Natural History, General and Particular. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1785.

9 vols. 8vo, fine gilt-tooled tree calf, gilt-tooled and lettered spines. Second edition, stated. With 308 engraved plates, including frontispiece, seven folding plates, and two folding maps. Fenwyke armorial bookplates tipped to front pastedown, all vols.; offsetting from frontispiece; scattered light foxing. Property from a Private Chicago-area Collector $2,000-4,000

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175 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER A History of The Earth and Animated Nature. London: A. Fullerton, n.d.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 navy calf over pebbled boards, giltlettered red leather spine labels. With engraved frontispieces, hand-colored additional titles, and 73 engraved plates with hand-coloring. Light wear to boards; scattered minor brownspotting; offsetting from some plates to tissue guards; otherwise fine. $100-200

176 GROHMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED Ideenmagazin fur liebhaber von garten, Englischen anlagen, und fur besitzer von landgutern. Leipzig: Baumgartner, 1798-1799.

Parts 1-9 (of 48) bound in one vol. 4to, contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards. Third editions of parts 1-8; second edition part 9. With 79 engraved plates, some hand-colored. Binding deteriorated and worn; lacking title pages of parts 7 and 8; intermittent foxing and light marginal soiling. $200-400 177 KIRBY, W.F. European Butterflies and Moths. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1882.

4to, contemporary 3/4 black morocco over green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, a.e.g. With 62 chromolithographed plates, all but one hand-colored. Rubbing to boards; intermittent foxing heaviest at endpapers; scattered pencil marginalia. $100-200

178 LOWE, EDWARD JOSEPH Ferns: British and Exotic. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1861-63.

6 (of 8) vols. only, comprising vols. 1-2, 4-6, and 8. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. With 363 (of 479) color plates and in-text engraved head-pieces. Light rubbing to boards; hinges slightly tender. $200-400

179 PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH Paxton’s Flower Garden. Revised by Thomas Baines. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1882.

3 vols. 4to, 3/4 green calf over cloth, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels. With 108 chromolithographed plates. Rubbing to boards; light offsetting from plates to tissue guards; minor intermittent foxing. $200-400

180 STRUTT, JOHN JACOB Two engravings with hand-coloring from Sylva Britannica, c. 1822-1826, comprising The Tutbury Wych Elm and The King Oak in Lavernake Forest. Matted. 14 1/2 x 20 inches each. $100-200

181 WILSON, ALEXANDER American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1832.

9 vols. in three. 8vo, bound by Wright in full green morocco with gilt fillet borders and gilt-tooled spines, a.e.g. With frontispiece portrait to vol. 1 and 97 hand-colored engraved plates. Light wear to boards at hinges; minor offsetting from plates to tissue guards; scattered brownspots. Property from a Private Chicago-area Collector $4,000-6,000

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182 (NATURAL HISTORY, SHELLS) A group of six prints, comprising two copperplate engravings from Freiderich Martini’s Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, (Nuremberg, 1769-1826); three aquatints with hand-coloring from George Perry’s Conchology, or, The Natural History of Shells, (London, 1811); and a hand-colored copperplate engraving by Pietro Antonio Pazzi from Nicolai Gulatieri’s Index testarum conchyliorum, (Florence, 1742). All matted. Size of largest 21 x 16 1/2 inches. $200-400

183 (NATURAL HISTORY) A group of four natural history titles with color plates, 19th-century.

European Butterflies and Moths. By W.F. Kirby. London: Cassell, 1898. 4to, original pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, red and black, a.e.g. With 59 (of 61) plates, all but one hand-colored. Rubbing to boards at edges; ends bumped; intermittent foxing; some leaves detached from backstrip. The Fruit Grower’s Guide. By John Wright. London: J.S. Virtue, n.d. Vol. 2 (of 3) only. 4to, original green cloth, a.e.g. With numerous color plates. Wear to boards; ends bumped; scattered minor brownspotting; light offsetting from plates. Annual Report of the State Botanist of New York. By John Peck. Albany: James B Lyon, 1896. 4to, original gilt-lettered green cloth. Illustrated with color plates. Wear and light soiling to boards; bookplate tipped to front pastedown. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Caged Birds, British and Foreign. By W.A. Blackston, et al. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, n.d. 4to, publisher’s gilt-decorated green cloth, a.e.g. Illustrated with numerous chromolithographed plates. Wear to boards; spine torn and frayed; hinges starting; light intermittent soiling; some leaves detached from backstrip. $200-400 184 (ANATOMY) ELLIS, GEORGE VINER Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the Size of Life, Representing the Dissection of the human Body, with Descriptive Letter-Press in Demy Octavo. London: James Walton, 1867.

Folio, 3/4 calf over green silk, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers. First edition, plate volume only, complete with 58 hand-colored lithographs. Long crease to title page pressed down with clear tape; intermittent foxing, affecting some plates. $200-400

185 (ANATOMY) RIVES, LANDON, ed. Anatomy of the Brain, from the Celebrated Dissections of John Lizars, MD. Cincinnati: H.W Derby, 1854.

Folio, contemporary gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards. Complete with 15 color plates. Wear to boards; moderate intermittent foxing; light offsetting from plates; small circular burn mark at upper right corner of most leaves and upper board. $100-200

186 (SURGERY) HEISTER, LAURENCIO D. Instituciones chirurgicas, y cirugia completa universal. Madrid: Pedro Marin, 1778.

Vol. 3 (of 4) only. 8vo, original calf, gilt-tooled and lettered spine. With 13 engraved fold-out plates. Wear to boards; ends chipped; intermittent foxing; light offsetting from plates. [Together with:] An American Text-Book of Surgery for Practitioners and Students. Edited by William W. Keen and J. William White. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1893. Thick 4to, contemporary calf, gilt-lettered spine. Profusely illustrated. $50-100

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188 (APOLLO 12) BEAN, ALAN Apollo: An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker. Shelton, CT: Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998.

4to, publisher’s decorative blue cloth stamped in silver, dust jacket. First printing. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Numerous color illustrations. Fine. Property from a Private Collection $100-200

189* VON BRAUN, WERNHER The Mars Project. Urbana, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 1953.

8vo, publisher’s printed boards, dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed on the title page to Donald Jackson. Light wear to dust jacket; hinges tender. Property from the Collection of Donald Jackson, Colorado Springs, Colorado $100-200

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