NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND MEDICINE

Lots 211–247

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211* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) LIZARS, W.H. AND ROBERT HAVELL Purple Grackle, Quiscalus Versicolor. Plate VII, no. 11, from The Birds of America, 1827. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, 1836. Fully pasted to board. Framed and matted. 26 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches (visible). Property from the Estate of Henrietta Lizars Connell, Denver, Colorado and London, England $3,000-5,000 212* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT White-crowned Pigeon, Columba Leucocephala. Plate CLXXVII, no. 36, from The Birds of America, 1827, on J. Whatman, 1833. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, 1833. Framed and matted. 29 x 23 7/8 inches. $5,000-7,000

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214 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Red-throated Diver, Colymbus Septentrionalis. Plate CCII, no. 41, from The Birds of America, 1827, on J. Whatman Turkey Mill, date trimmed. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, 1834. Water damage affecting left third of plate. Framed and matted. 38 x 25 2/4 inches. $2,000-4,000 215 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Buffel-headed Duck, Fuligula Albeola. Plate CCCXXV, no. 65, from The Birds of America, 1827, on J. Whatman, 1837. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, 1836. Framed and matted. 25 x 36 3/4 inches. $2,000-4,000

216 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Black Guillemot, Uria Grylle. Plate CCXIX, no. 44, from The Birds of America, 1827, on J. Whatman, 1836. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring. 26 x 28 3/4 inches. $800-1,200

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217 (GOULD, JOHN, after) RICHTER, H.C. A group of three lithographs with hand-coloring heightened with gum arabic from A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Hummingbirds, (London, 1849-61), comprising Oreotrochilus melanogaster, Eucephala hypocyanea, and Eulampis holosericeus. Uniformly framed and matted. 28 1/2 x 21 3/4 each. $600-800

218 VANNI, VIOLANTE, attrib. A pair of watercolor studies from Storia naturale, Florence, 18thcentury, pen and watercolor on laid paper, comprising Fagiano delle China, Phasianus Sinensis, CCLX, and Beccaccia Scherzosa, Scolopax coloribus varia, natura lusus, CDXLIX. The work was compiled by Saviero Manetti; Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni were the artists and engravers. The present studies are attributed to Vanni. 18 x 14 inches each. $300-500

219 NOZEMAN, CORNELIUS A pair of hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche vogelen, (Amsterdam, 1770-1827), comprising the male and female partridge, Tetrao Perdix. 21 x 14 1/3 inches each. $100-200

220 AMACHUASTEGUI, AXEL Pajaros del mundo. Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, (1959).

3 vols. Folio, publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards, giltlettered spines, text in Spanish. With 73 color plates. Spines lightly soiled; otherwise fine. Property from a Private Collection $200-400 221 BAKER, E.C. STUART The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. London: John Bale, Sons, 1921.

2 vols. 3/4 brown morocco over green cloth, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. Reprinted from the Bombay Natural History Society’s Journal, with corrections and additions. With over 70 color plates. $100-200

222 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. $100-200

223 BUTLER, ARTHUR G. British Birds with Their Nests and Eggs. London: Brumby & Clarke, (1896-98).

6 vols. Folio, 3/4 red calf over cloth. gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels. With color and black and white lithograph plates throughout. $100-200

224 STUDER, JACOB AND THEODORE JASPER Studer’s Popular Ornithology. The Birds of North America. New York and Columbus: J.H. Studer, 1881.

Folio, publisher’s gilt-lettered brown morocco, a.e.g. With 119 color lithograph plates by Theodore Jasper. Rubbing to boards at edges; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; light toning to extremities of some leaves. $300-500

225 WILSON, ALEXANDER American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814.

9 vols. bound in three. Folio, 3/4 green calf, gilt-lettered spine labels. With list of subscribers, half titles and 76 hand-colored engravings by Alexander Lawson, G. Murray, Benjamin Tanner and J. G. Warnicke, from original drawings by Wilson. [Together with:] The Natural History of Birds … Not Given by Wilson. By Charles Bonaparte. Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell; Carey, Lea & Carey, 1825-1833. 4 vols. in one. Folio, bound in matching 3/4 green calf. With 27 hand-colored engravings by Titian Ramsay Peale and Alexander Rider. Foxing and browning to plates in all volumes and some offsetting; rubbing to binding; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; one plate detached.

First edition of the first color plate American bird book published in America, together with its four-volume continuation. Wilson, whose work was published more than a decade before Audubon’s appeared, is considered the father of American ornithology.

Literature: Anker 533 (“the classical work of American ornithological literature”); Bennett, p.114; Fine Bird Books, p.114 (“the first American bird book with coloured plates published in America”); Nissen IVB 992; Reese 3; Sabin 104598; Wood, p.630; Zimmer, p.679.

Provenance: J.C. Bowring, bookplate $7,000-9,000

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226 AGASSIZ, LOUIS Histoire naturelle des poissons d’eau douce. Neuchtal (Switzerland): Institut Lithographique de H. Nicolet, 1839-1842.

2 parts (of 3) in one vol. Oblong 4to, marbled boards with blind-stamped calf borders. With 41 plates, some hand-colored. Rubbing to boards; backstrip detached from spine; lacking part three (Anatomie des salmones); dampstaining affecting margins of some plates. $1,000-2,000

227 (BOTANY) BOULGER, G.S. Familiar Trees. London: Cassell, n.d. [c. 1886]

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled board, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. Illustrated with color chromolithograph plates throughout. Light rubbing to boards at spines; scattered light brownspotting. $100-200

228 (BOTANY) HULME, EDWARD Familiar Wild Flowers [and] Garden Flowers. London: Cassell, n.d. [c. 1886]

10 vols. total. 8vo, uniformly bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. Illustrated with color chromolithograph plates throughout. Light rubbing to boards at spines; scattered light brownspotting. $200-400 229 (BOTANY) PARKINSON, JOHN Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of Large Extent. London: Tho. Cotes, 1640.

Vol. 1 (of 2) only. Folio, full calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label. With numerous in-text woodcuts. Wear to boards; intermittent foxing; lacking additional engraved title. $600-800

230 COUSTEAU, JACQUES The Living Sea. New York: Harper & Row, (1963).

8vo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cream boards, original pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Cousteau on the title page, “Souvenir d’une soiree pour moi memorable!/Jacques Cousteau.” Light soiling to boards; marginal chipping to jacket with some loss to ends of spine. $100-200

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234 231 DARWIN, CHARLES The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: D. Appleton, 1872

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Numerous in-text illustrations and publisher’s advertisements at rear. Soiling to boards; ends bumped; intermittent foxing. [Together with:] The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. New York: D. Appleton, 1892. Vol. 2 (of 2) only. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Second edition, revised. With publisher’s advertisements at rear. Light soiling and wear to boards; ends bumped; intermittent foxing. $100-200

232 DARWIN, CHARLES The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. New York: D. Appleton, 1873.

8vo, rebound in maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First American edition. Ex-library copy, with stamp to front pastedown and call number to foot of spine. Hinges starting; some wear to leaves. [Together with:] The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. New York: D. Appleton, 1898. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Third edition. With fold-out map and two fold-out plates. Ex-library copy with call number to foot of spine and stamp to fore edge; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; previous owner’s ex-libris to f.f.e.p. $200-400

233 DARWIN, CHARLES On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing. London: John Murray, 1862.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. With fold-out plate, lacking publisher’s advertisements at rear. Minor soiling to title page; otherwise fine. $600-800

234 EINSTEIN, ALBERT Black and white portrait photograph by Suse Byk inscribed in the margin, “Fur Frau Elise Lippman/ Albert Einstein 1930.” Framed and matted with commemorative plaque of Einstein’s achievements. Size of frame 20 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. $3,000-5,000

234A FERGUSON, JAMES The Young Gentleman and Lady’s Astronomy. London: A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768.

8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. First edition. With seven fold-out plates. Corners bumped; scattered light brownspotting. $300-500

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235* GLAUBER, JOHANN Operis mineralis. Frankfurt: Matthaei Meriani, 1651.

3 parts in one. 8vo, full vellum. Bound with Miraculum mundi. Oder aussführliche Beschreibung der wunderbaren Natur, Art, und Eigenschafft, dess grossmächtigen subiecti... Frankfurt: Thomas Mathias Gotzens Buchh, 1653. Wear and soiling to boards; previous owner’s manuscript notations to f.f.e.p.; pencil marginalia throughout. Property from the Collection of Lethorne Mulder, Schererville, Indiana $200-400

236* GOLDSMITH, OLIVER An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. London: A. Fullarton, 1853-55.

2 vols. 4to, 3/4 calf over brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. With engraved portrait frontispiece, extraillustrated title pages, and 72 engraved color plates. Light wear to boards; intermittent foxing. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 237 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. London: Richardson, et al., 1822.

6 vols. 8vo, blind-stamped green calf, gilt-decorated and -lettered spines, red morocco spine labels. New edition, with corrections and additions. With numerous engravings, some fold-out. Rubbing to boards; intermittent light foxing. [Together with:] A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. London, Edinburgh, and Dublin: A. Fullarton, 1847. 2 vols. 4to, green calf, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, red morocco spine labels. With extraengraved title page and color plates. Wear to boards; hinges starting. $200-400

238 JARDINE, WILLIAM The Naturalist’s Library [Ornithology]. Edinburgh and London: W.H. Lizars, and Stirling and Kenney, 1834.

10 vols. 8vo, original 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels. Includes: The Birds of Western Africa (2 vols.), HummingBirds (2 vols.), Gallinaceous Birds (3 vols.), Parrots, Nextariniade, or Sun-Birds, and Flycatchers. With 283 engraved color plates. Light wear to boards; ends chipped on some vols.; offsetting from plates to tissue guards. $700-900

239 LYDEKKER, RICHARD The Royal Natural History. London: Frederick Warne, 1893-1896.

6 vols. 4to, quarter blue calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spines. With 72 chromolithographed plates. Light rubbing to boards; minor scattered foxing. $300-500

240 MALLET, PIERRE La Science des nombres. Premiere partie du coeurs mathematic abrege… Paris: Chez l’autheur, 1651.

12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked, with original spine laid down. Engraved borders, woodblock devices and diagrams in-text. $100-200

241 WANLEY, NATHANIEL The Wonders of the Little World; or, A General History of Man: Displaying the Various Faculties, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind. London: C. Taylor et al., 1788.

4to, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, giltlettered spine. With six engraved plates. Wear to boards; ends chipped; intermittent brownspotting; offsetting from plates. Property from a Private Chicago-area Collection $100-200 242 (NATURAL HISTORY) Cassell’s Popular Natural History. London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, n.d.

4 vols. 4to, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered green morocco spine labels. Illustrated with over 500 color engravings throughout. [Together with:] Harmsworth Natural History. London: Carmelite House, 1910. 3 vols. 4to, 3/4 red morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Illustrated. (7 total) $100-200

243* BRIAN, THOMAS AND JOHANN R. STOLBERG Der Englische wahrsager aus dem urin/oder gewisse wahrsagungen aus dem wasser-glase... Hamburg: Gottfried Leibezeiten, 1693.

Small 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With 100 pp. in manuscript at rear with handwritten prescriptions and recipes for medicines. German translation of Thomas Brian’s The pisse-prophet, or, Certaine pisse-pot lectures. Wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the pisse-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks and empiricks, or other methodicall physicians) who pretend knowledge of diseases, by the urine, in giving judgement of the same, London, 1637. Soiling to boards; darkening and dampstaining to some leaves. Property from the Collection of Lethorne Mulder, Schererville, Indiana $200-400

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244 FLEMING, ALEXANDER Autographed note signed (“Alexander Fleming”), one page, on Ministry of Health Emergency Medical Service Sector 6 letterhead (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches), October 9, 1947. A prescription for penicillin lozenges, prescribed to John Crawford. Fleming won a Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin. Framed and matted. Size of frame 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. $100-200

245 GLISSON, FRANCIS Anatomia hepatis . . . de lynphe ductibus. Amsterdam: Johannes Ravesteinii, 1659.

12mo, full contemporary calf, very old tape to spine with manuscript title, engraved title page. Second edition of the first accurate account of the liver and the independent study of the lymphatics. Considered the most important book to date on the physiology of the digestive system. With two folding plates, half-title plate to p. 305, and eight woodcuts in text. Binding slightly soiled with a small tear to rear board. $200-400 246 HARVEY, WILLIAM Opera omnia: a collegio medicorum Londinensi edita. London: G. Bowyer, 1766.

4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine. With engraved frontispiece portrait and plate illustrating the veins opposite p. 68. Rubbing to edges and extremities of boards with some loss to spine; ex-libris Johns Hopkins Library tipped in front pastedown; marginal chipping to some leaves; offsetting from plates. $300-500

247 RUSSELL, RICHARD A Dissertation on the Use of Sea Water in the Diseases of the Glands. London: Printed for W. Owen, 1769.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 modern morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate illustrating examples of the windpipe, lungs, heart diaphragms and liver. $100-200