NATURAL HISTORy ANd SCIENCE, LOTS 1-15

Lots 1–15

1 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES) BACHMAN, REV. JOHN The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854.

3 vols. 4to, original 3/4 black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g., pale yellow endpapers. Complete with half-titles and 155 handcolored lithographed plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after John James and John Wodehouse Audubon, each with tissue guard. Minor rubbing to boards; rear board threatening to detach from vol. 1; intermittent light foxing; darkening to endpapers, vol. 2. Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois $3,000-5,000

2 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. New York: American Heritage, 1966.

2 vols. Folio, publisher’s gilt-lettered brown cloth, marbled endpapers, slipcase. First edition. Illustrated with 431 color plates, some fold-out, reproduced from the collection at the New York Historical Society. Light wear to slipcase. Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois $200-400 3* AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES Ornithological Biography; or, An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America... Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1831-1849.

5 vols. Large 8vo, contemporary 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g. First edition of Audubon’s text written to accompany the elephant folio edition of The Birds of America. Rubbing to boards at spines; bookplate Henry B. Humphrey tipped to front pastedown all vols.; intermittent foxing. Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois $1,000-2,000

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4* AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York: John James Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839], 1840-1844.

7 vols. Large 8vo, contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First octavo edition, complete with 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, with tissue guards, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text, half-titles, and subscriber’s list to each volume.

The octavo edition added 65 new plates to the double-elephant folio edition for a total of 500 plates, making it “the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time.” (Reese) Rubbing to boards; chipping to spine ends; darkening to endpapers, some vols.; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; scattered light brown spots. Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois $30,000-50,000

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5 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America. Introduction and descriptive text by William Vogt. New York: Macmillan, 1937.

4to, publisher’s quarter green cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., slipcase. Number 1,243 of 2,500 copies on rag paper. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 500 color plates. Slipcase worn and lacking spine; light fading to cloth. Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois $100-200 6* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT (American, 1785-1851) Purple Grackel, Quizcalus Versicolor. Plate VII, No. 11. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, from The Birds of America, ca. 1827. Framed and matted. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, date pending. Size of frame 40 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches. Property from the William S. Block Trust, Peoria, Illinois $2,000-4,000 7 BINGLEY, WILLIAM Animal Biography; or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy, of the Animal Creation, Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus. London: Richard Phillips, 1805.

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

8* DAWSON, WILLIAM LEON The Birds of California. New York: Devin Adair, 1940.

4 vols. 4to, publisher’s maroon and oatmeal clothbacked boards, gilt-lettered spines. Edition De Luxe, one of 350 copies signed by the author on the limitation page in vol. 1. With 110 color plates mainly after Allan Brooks, 30 photogravures, 120 duo-tone plates after Dickey, Pierce, Finely, and Dawson, and over 1,100 in-text illustrations. Soiling and fading to spines; ends bumped. Property from the Abbie R. Lukens Trust, Burr Ridge, Illinois $200-400

9 HALSTEAD, BRUCE W. Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1965.

3 vols. 4to, publisher’s quarter black over pictorial teal cloth. First edition. With numerous black and white and color illustrations. Light edgewear; otherwise fine. $200-400

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10 (BOTANY) GREW, NEHEMIAH The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And Several Other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society. London: Printed by W. Rawlins for the author, 1682.

[22], 24, [10], 212, [4], 221-304, [20]. Folio, contemporary blind-stamped mottled calf, rebacked, gilt-lettered spine, imprimatur announcement tipped to verso ff. facing title page from Christopher Wren of the Royal Society meeting wherein the author was ordered to print his lectures together in one volume. First edition of Grew’s seminal work on plant morphology and development, which illustrates the detailed microscopic and life-size anatomy of plant structure in 83 engraved plates (some fold-out) after Grew’s own drawings. The volume combines revisions of Grew’s five small published books with nine unpublished ‘discourses’ read to the Royal Society between 1675 and 1677.

p.144v with overall spotting; a few scattered brown stains to text; inner hinges cracked; light edgewear to boards with loss to corners; bookplate John Rutter Shafteshurp tipped to front pastedown; 1/4-inch tear to plate 8 and 1-inch tear at crease to plate 14; otherwise plates are in fine clean condition with no restoration. $1,500-2,500 12

11 (BOTANY) CURTIS, WILLIAM (British, 1746-1799) and (British, (1749-1831) The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed... London: Stephen Couchman, 1794-1798; 1803-1804; 1807-1809.

Vols. 7-12, 18-19, and 25-30 in 11. 8vo, full speckled calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels, giltdecorated spines. Illustrated with 581 hand-colored engraved plates (19 fold-out). Wear to boards; upper boards detached from vols. 7/8, 9/10, 26, and 30; light offsetting from plates; scattered light foxing. $800-1,200 (BOTANY) HOME, FRANCIS The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation. London and Edinburgh: T. Cadell, J. Bel, and W. Creech, 1776.

8vo, original calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label. Third edition. Rubbing to boards; evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown; hinges cracked; intermittent brownspotting. $200-400

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13 (ASTRONOMY) BAMFIELD, SAMUEL A New Treatise on Astronomy, or, Astronomy Opened: Being a Rational and Mathematic Enquiry into the True Principles and Nature of Astronomy, or Frame of Our Solar System. Exeter: Andre Brice, 1764.

Small 4to, contents rebound in modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, renewed endpapers, title page laid down, edges untrimmed, five folding plates. Author’s personal copy, with autograph corrections throughout and the autographed statement (“N.B.: a further acct. will be publish’d concerning this difficult matter and given gratis”) at the end. Some chipping to edges of leaves; toning and foxing to title page and a few interior pages as well. $150-250 14 (ASTRONOMY) FERGUSON, JAMES Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics. London: Printed for W. Strahan, et al., 1773.

4to, bound by Stephenson in 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt-lettered spine. New edition of “one of the earliest and most successful attempts to explain Newtonian ideas in popular terms.” (Babson 58, 1764 edition) Complete with 18 engraved plates, (17 fold-out). Hinges starting; edgewear to boards; some offsetting from plates; otherwise internally very clean. $300-500 15 (VON BRAUN, WERNHER) ORDWAY, FREDERICK I., AND MITCHELL R. SHARPE The Rocket Team. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1979).

8vo, quarter navy blue cloth over yellow boards, gilt-lettered spine, photo-pictorial dust jacket, unclipped. Third printing. Signed by space scientists and aerospace engineers Frederick I. Ordway III, Dieter K. Huzel, Major General John B. Medaris, and Walter Haeussermann, members of the Von Braun Rocket Team, responsible for numerous scientific and technological advancements in the 1930s and 1940s. Von Braun is considered one of the fathers of rocket science and is remembered for his central involvement in the advancement of the Nazis’ rocket development program in 1920s and 1930s Germany, particularly for the creation of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II. Light soiling to edges of boards; otherwise fine.

[Together with:] Autographed letter signed (“Ruth Van Saurma”), one page, October 12, 1987 laid in. To Elisabeth Seewald, “in appreciation of your work for the cause of the German-Americans, from the Friends of the German Culture, Huntsville, Alabama.” $600-800