NATURAL HISTORy AND MEDICINE | LOTS 60-106

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60* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Barred Owl, Strix nebulosa, plate XLVI, no 10. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring from The Birds of America, c. 1827. Laid to board. Framed and matted. 37 x 24 inches visible. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado

Provenance: The Old Print Shop, New York, New York. $1,500-2,500

61* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Marsh Hawk, Falco cyaneus, plate CCCLVI, no. 72. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring from The Birds of America, c. 1827. Laid to board. Framed and matted. 37 x 24 inches visible. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado

Provenance: The Old Print Shop, New York, New York. $1,000-2,000

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62 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Florida Cormorant, Carbo Floridanus, plate CCLII, no. 51. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring from The Birds of America, J. Whatman Turkey Mill, 1835. Framed and matted. 25 1/2 x 38 inches. $3,000-5,000

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63 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT White-headed Eagle, Falco Leucocephalus, plate CXXVI, no. 26. Engraving with etching, aquatint and handcoloring from The Birds of America, J. Whatman, 1831. Framed and matted. 28 1/4 x 35 3/4 inches. $6,000-8,000

64 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Richardson’s Jager, Lestris Richardsonii, plate CCLXXII, no. 55. Engraving with etching, aquatint and handcoloring from The Birds of America, J. Whatman, 1835. 26 1/4 x 38 3/4 inches. $1,500-2,500

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65 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Uria Brunnichii, plate CCXLV, no. 49. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring from The Birds of America, J. Whatman, 1834. 25 1/2 x 38 3/4 inches. $800-1,200

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66 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Goosander, Mergus Merganser, plate CCCXXXI, no. 67. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring from The Birds of America, J. Whatman, 1836. Framed and matted. 26 1/8 x 38 3/4 inches. $3,000-5,000

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67 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Dusky Petrel, Puffinus Obscuris, plate CCXCIX, no. 60. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring from The Birds of America, J. Whatman, 1836. 26 1/8 x 38 3/4 inches. $1,000-2,000 68 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BOWEN, J.T. A group of six hand-colored lithographed plates from the octavo edition of The Birds of America, 1852. Matted. 6 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches each. $500-700

69* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) BOWEN, J.T. Felis Concolor, The Cougar, plate XCVII, no. 20. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1845-1854. Framed and matted. 21 1/4 x 27 3/8 inches. Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Jr., Aspen, Colorado $2,000-4,000

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70 Attributed to Joseph Bartholomew Kidd (Scottish, 1808-1889) Yellow Winged Sparrow Painting after the engraving by John James Audubon, from The Birds of America, c. 1827, plate CXXX, no. 26. oil on board 18 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches.

Provenance: Christie’s New York, New York, 1981. $4,000-6,000

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71 BEWICK, THOMAS A History of British Birds. Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick, 1797-1804.

2 vols. 8vo, decorative calf, gilt, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. Boards scuffed; inner-hinges starting; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; scattered brownspotting. $500-700

72 (BUFFON, LECLERC) SONNINI, CHARLES SIGISBERT Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des poissons; ouvrage faisant suite a l’Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, composee par LeClerc De Buffon... Paris: De L’Imprimerie De F. Dufart, [18031804]

13 vols. 8vo, original 3/4 calf over pink paper boards, gilt-lettered spines, pages uncut. First edition, series from the work, Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere, (1799-1808), complete in 127 volumes. With engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1 and 79 copper-plate engravings of fish eggs, fish, and fossil fish after Buffon throughout (80 total). Rubbing to boards; bookseller’s inventory sticker to foot of spine, vol. 1; scattered brownspotting. $400-600

73 CATESBY, MARK An Recinoides &c.…Anguis &c., plate 46. Engraving with hand-coloring from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and The Bahama Islands, 1754. 13 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches. $400-600

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74 DRESSER, HENRY EELES A History of the Birds of Europe… London: By the Author, 1871-1881.

Vols. 2-3 (of 9) only. 4to, full red morocco, giltstamped and -lettered spines, t.e.g. Profusely illustrated with chromolithographed plates. Wear and fading to boards; inner-hinges cracked; intermittent foxing; light offsetting from some plates. $800-1,200

75 SCHALDACH, WILLIAM J. Fish. Collected Etchings, Drawings and Water Colors of Trout, Salmon and Other Game Fish. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937.

Folio, publisher’s gilt-stamped and -lettered blue cloth. Limited edition, number 266 of 1,500 copies. Rubbing and light soiling to boards; hinges tender. $40-60 76* (ORNITHOLOGY, STUDER, JACOB) JASPER, THEODORE A Most Valuable Illustrated Work, for all Lovers of Beautiful in Nature and Art: The Birds of North America Drawn from Life. Columbus, Ohio, n.d. [c. 1880]

Folio, original printed blue wrappers. With 56 color lithographed plates by Theodore Jasper. Disbound; wear and soiling to wrappers; foxing; dampstaining and darkening to some plates; lacking rear wrapper. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $200-400

77 (ORNITHOLOGY, WILSON, ALEXANDER) BREWER, T.M. American Ornithology. With Notes by Jardine. New York: H.S. Samuels, 1852.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 red morocco over brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Profusely illustrated with color plates throughout. Edgewear; foxing; darkening to edges of leaves. $300-500 78 (ORNITHOLOGY) A collection of books pertaining to birds and bird watching, in two boxes. $300-500

79 (ORNITHOLOGY) SELBY, JOHN Solan Gannet and Gadwell Duck. Engravings with hand-coloring from Illustrations of British Ornithology, c. 1820. Size of each 20 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches. $400-600

80 MERIAN, MARIA SYBILLE Cacao. Hand-colored engraving from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, (The Hague, 1726). 19 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches. $500-700

81* (QUADRUPEDS) The Child’s Alphabet of Quadrupeds. New York: John McLoughlin, n.d. [c. 1890]

Thin 4to, original printed blue paper wraps. Disbound; soiled. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $80-120

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82 (DUCK STAMPS) A collection of 12 signed lithographs with accompanying duck stamps, comprising the years 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 2006. $200-400

83* (FISHING, POETRY) A group of two books of poetry about fishing.

Oppian’s Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients in V. Books. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1722.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 crushed green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped and -lettered spine, t.e.g. First edition in English, with list of subscribers at rear. Oppian lived in the reign of Marcus Aurelius and was a favorite of the Roman Emperor because of his skill in poetry. Halieuticks, a poem on fishing, is dedicated to Marcus Aurelius. Front board detached; intermittent brownspotting; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns.

[Together with:] Fishing. A Translation from the Latin of Vanier. Book XV. Upon Fish. By John Duncombe. London: R. Triphook, 1809. 8vo, rebound in 3/4 green crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Minor rubbing to boards; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; scattered brown spots. Property from the Collection of Scott Snyder, West Valley City, Utah

Literature: Lowndes 1726; Brunet IV: 196; Westwood & Satchel, 164. $200-400

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84 (BOTANY) CULPEPER, NICHOLAS The Complete Herbal... London: Thomas Kelly, n.d. [c. 1850]

4to, full tree calf, gilt-stamped and -lettered spine. Complete with engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved hand-colored plates. Wear to boards; scattered foxing; some plates beginning to detach from text block. $200-400

85 (BOTANY) Two hand-colored engravings including Caleolis Radicibus Fibrosis Folus erecto laciniatis, by William Curtis, from The Botanical Magazine (London, 1787), and Musa, Banana, Pican, by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, from Phytanthoza Iconographia (Regensburg: 1737-1745). Size of largest 20 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches. $200-400 86* (BOTANY) EMMONS, EBENEZER Agriculture of New-York. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1851.

Vol. 3 (of 5) only. 4to, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Illustrated with numerous engraved color plates of fruit. Edgewear; ex-library copy with “Polytechnic Institute Spicer Library” stamp to f.f.e.p. and title page; darkening to some plates. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $100-200

87 (BOTANY) ROSCOE, WILLIAM Hedychium Longifolium. Hand-colored engraving from Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae (Liverpool, 1828). 21 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches. $100-200 88 (BOTANY) TREW, CHRISTOPHER JACOB Hyacinthus XVII, Marie de Medicis. Engraving with hand-coloring from Hortus Nitidissimis (Nuremberg, 1744). 21 x 14 3/4 inches. $200-400

89* (BOTANY) A collection 111 chromolithographs of fruit and flowers from [Nursery Specimens.] Rochester, New York: J.W. Thompson, [c. 1880]. Bound in giltstamped calf reinforced with black tape to spine. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $200-400

90 (BOTANY) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE A group of 20 chromolithographed plates of fruit and nuts published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, c. 1900-1910. $100-200

91 (BOTANY) US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE A group of 20 chromolithographed plates of fruit and nuts published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, c. 1900-1910. Matted. $100-200

92 (BOTANY) Wild Flowers of the United States. By Harold William Rickett. New York: McGraw-Hill, n.d. [1966]

2 vols. Series 2 only. Large 4to, publisher’s dark brown buckram, gilt-lettered spine, glassine, slipcase. Wear and fading to slipcase; glassine torn. [Together with:] Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. By Gordon Dunthorne. Washington, D.C., 1938. 4to, publisher’s oatmeal buckram, green and gilt cover label to upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated throughout with full-page color plates. Limited to 2,500 copies. Minor wear to slipcase; spine darkened. $200-400

93 BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE A Natural History, General and Particular; Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c.... London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1781.

2 (of 8) vols. only. 4to, 3/4 calf over marbled boards. First edition. With engraved portrait frontispiece and 52 color plates. Rubbing to boards; previous ownership inscription to title pages; intermittent brownspotting; some leaves darkened. $500-700

94 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. London: A. Fullarton, 1847.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over gilt-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Illustrated throughout with numerous hand-colored or partially hand-colored plates. Soiling and wear to boards; spotting and light soiling to some plates; inner-hinges starting. $300-500

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95* HOOKE, ROBERT Micrographia Restaurata: or, The Copper-Plates of Dr. Hooke’s Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscope... London: John Bowles, 1745.

Folio, 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards, giltlettered spine. Second edition. Complete with 33 engraved plates, two fold-out. Boards rubbed; spine chipped with some loss; upper board threatening to detach; ex-library copy with “Collegio Sancti Davidis” bookplate tipped to front pastedown; light intermittent brownspotting. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $1,000-2,000 96 MILLAR, G.H. A New, Complete and Universal Body, or System, of Natural History; Being a Grand, Accurate, and Extensive Display of Animated Nature. London: Printed for Alex Hogg, [1785]

Folio, full tree calf, rebacked, gilt-ruled and -lettered spine, red calf spine label. With engraved frontispiece and 79 (of 85) engraved plates. Minor edgewear; 1-inch tear to corner of frontispiece; light ghosting from plates. $300-500 97 RICHARDSON, SIR JOHN The Museum of Natural History; being a Popular Account of the Structure, Habits, and Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom... Glasgow: William Mackenzie, 1870.

2 vols. 3/4 calf over brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. With additional engraved title and numerous engraved plates, mostly hand-colored. Wear to boards and spines; inner hinges starting; intermittent light foxing. $200-400

98 98* (ORTHOPEDICS) ANDRY DE BOISREGARD, NICOLAS L’Orthopedie, ou l’art de prevenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformites du corps... Paris: Chez La Veuve Alix; Lambert & Durand, 1741.

2 vols. 8vo, full mottled calf, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines. First edition. Complete with engraved frontispiece and 14 engraved plates. Few scattered brown spots. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $3,000-5,000

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99* (ORTHOPEDICS) SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE The Comparative Histology of the Femur. Vol. 35, no. 3. [and] Vol. 61, no. 8. By J.S. Foote. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1913-1916.

8vo-4to, publisher’s printed wrappers. With illustrated plates throughout. Together with duplicate copies of loose plates from Vol. 35, no. 3. Wear and soiling to wrappers. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $100-200

100* BEAUMONT, WILLIAM Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. Plattsburgh: Printed by F.P. Allen, 1833.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Illustrated with in-text engravings. Dampstaining to title page; foxing throughout. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $300-500 101 [HUNTER, JOHN] The Gravid Uterus. S.l., 1770. Manuscript copy of lecture notes, 87 leaves. 8vo, bound in full calf, giltlettered red calf spine label. $100-200

102 HUNTER, JOHN A Treatise on the Venereal Disease. London: [For the Author], 1786.

4to, full calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label. First edition. Complete with seven engraved plates. Rubbing to boards at spine; ex-library copy with “Scion College Library” stamp to verso of title page and manuscript notation of library ownership to front pastedown; scattered brownspotting; light dampstaining to lower portion of all plates. $600-800

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103* HUNTINGTON, OTIS WOODWARD, et al. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Washington, D.C., 1870-1888.

8 vols. Mixed issues, comprising: Surgical, vol. 1, part 1 (first issue); vol. 2, part 3 (first issue) vol. 2, part 3 (second issue); Medical, vol. 1, part 1 (second issue); vol. 1, part 2 (first issue); vol. 1, part 3 (first issue); with Statistics, Medical and Anthropological... 2 vols. 4to, full green gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white illustrations. Dampstaining and soiling to boards; backstrip detached from text block on one volume; dampstaining and brownspotting to leaves throughout. Property from the Collection of Dr. James Milgram, Lake Forest, Illinois $200-400

104 JACKSON, ROBERT A Treatise on the Fevers of Jamaica, with Some Observations on the Intermitting Fever of America... Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1795.

8vo, full blind-stamped calf, gilt-lettered spine. First American edition. With four pages publisher’s advertisements at rear. Rubbing to boards; first and last few leaves detached; text-block bound upsidedown; leaves darkened. $100-200 105 LAENNEC, R.T. Traite de L’Auscultation mediate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur. Paris: J.-S. Chaude, 1826.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, giltlettered brown morocco spine labels. Second edition. Complete with four double-page engraved plates. Rubbing to boards; ends bumped; few scattered brown spots. $600-800

106 SKODA, JOSEPH Abhandlung uber Perkussion und Auskultation. Vienna: J.G. Ritter, 1839.

8vo, quarter brown cloth over speckled boards, printed paper spine label. First edition. In this work Skoda “classified the various sounds obtained on percussion according to their musical pitch and tone... following Skoda’s work, percussion at last gained general acceptance as a diagnostic procedure” (Garrison-Morton). Rubbing and wear to boards with some loss; spine frayed and torn; scattered brown spots.

Literature: Garrison-Morton 2676. $400-600