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mapping the real lots 1 – 75
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Mapping the Real
Lots 1 – 75
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(anatoMY) DEnnY, D’aRcY
[Phrenology and psychology: a plan of a human head of good shape for a standard type, showing some thirfty faculties of human nature, all located from bone]. Biggin Hill, Kent, circa 1930.
Broadside, featuring an engraved map of the soul, with minor loss at faint vertical fold and general wear. Unframed.
Denny, who also published a work against permanent taxation, apparently was a reformer in the late phase of phrenology, arguing here that “quality is a greater factor in intelligence than size.” one copy recorded at the British Library. Property from the Collection of Ronald Kuntz, sugar Grove, Illinois $200-400 Quarter leather over contemporary boards (44 cm. tall), with expected wear; rebacked, with gilt lettering to spine and seven raised bands. Contents collated as complete. Illustrated with 89 plates; two gatherings of which pull loose from the binding, which is otherwise sound. seven dated ownership inscriptions, from 1832 until 1956, noted in various hands on front endpaper; undecipherable signature to end of text. With short catalogue for Verbeek publishing house on verso of final leaf. Accompanied by envelope of correspondence, including letter of gift to Dr. sidney schulman, famed Chicago neurologist. Plates and text preserved in remarkable condition, with minor soiling to a handful.
the accompanying letter of gift provides a comprehensive description: “I had great fun tracking down a book that might be appropriate for you. I wanted to find early anatomical plates of the nervous system, more particularly the brain, but I settled for this 1761 edition of the opposite | Lot 1
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(anatoMY) EuStacHI, BaRtoLoMEo and BERnHaRD aLBInuS
Bernardi Siegfried Albini. Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum. Bartholomaei Eustachii, anatomici summi. Auctor recognovit, castigavit, auxit, denuo edidit. Leiden: Joannem & Hermannum Verbeek, 1761. second edition.
plates of Eustachius with a text by Albinus (the Latinized name used by a famous professor of anatomy at Leiden; his real name was Bernhard Siegfried Weiss). Eustachius finished these fine copper plates in 1552, but only a few were published during his lifetime and his text was lost for the most part. the plates were found in the early 18th century and given to the current Pope (of all things) and he gave them to his physician who published a 1714 edition in Rome... I have the word of Charles singer, historian of anatomy and physiology, that if Eustachius had published these plates when he finished them, he would have been recognized with Vesalius and Leonardo as a founder of modern anatomy. His plates are not beautiful, as are those of Vesalius, but in many respects they are more accurate and his plate of the sympathetic nervous system, base of the brain and origin of the cranial nerves is supposed to be particularly fine.” Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $600-800
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(aStRonoMY) cELLaRIuS, anDREaS
Soliscirca orbem terrarum spiralis revolutio. Amsterdam, 1660.
An engraved celestial chart from Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus. Unframed (42 x 50 cm.); vibrantly handcolored. Property from the Collection of Charles and Nancy Frahm, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000 4*
(aStRonoMY) cELLaRIuS, anDREaS
Planisphaerium Copernicanum sive systema universi totius. Amsterdam, 1660.
Another engraved astronomical chart from Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus. Unframed (42 x 50 cm.); vibrantly hand-colored. Property from the Collection of Charles and Nancy Frahm, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000
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Scientia eclipsium ex imperio, et commercio Sinarum illustrata.... Rome: A. De Rubeis, 1747.
Later sewn binding, in stiff paper wrappers (25 cm. tall), with manuscript titles to spine. With engraved title page and numerous tables. Collated as complete. this work draws together two earlier works on the science of eclipses, by simonelli (156 pages, including 16 pages of tables) and Kegler (106 pages). Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 6
(aStRonoMY) [SWEDEnBoRG, EManuEL]
De telluribus in mundo nostro solari, quæ vocantur planeae: et de telluribus in coelo astrifero: deque illarum incolis; tum de spiritibus & angelis ibi; ex auditis & visis. London, 1758.
Bound in vellum boards (25 cm. tall), with typescript label to front board. University of Chicago Library bookplate to front pastedown and blind stamp to title page, with pencil marginalia.
An anonymously-published work on the plurality of worlds from swedenborg, later translated as Concerning the Earths in our solar system, which are called planets; and concerning the Earths in the starry heaven; together with an account of their inhabitants, and also of the spirits and angels there. swedenborg is particularly sympathetic to the creatures of Mars. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 7
(aStRonoMY) [FELIcE, FoRtunE BaRtHELEMY DE]
Physicae experimentalis et matheseos regij quondam... nunc vero imperialis annae professoris de Newtoniana attractione unica cohaerentiae naturalis caussa dissertatio physico-experimentalis elenchtica adversus Dn. G. E. Hambergerum. Annae: Ex Typografica Imperialis Conlegij, 1766. Later printing.
Bound in stiff paper wrappers (22 cm. tall), with manuscript titles to spine. Collated as complete, with 172 pages. Browning to contents, while title page (unrecorded on oCLC) remains crisp. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200
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(BotanIcaLS) BESLER, BaSILIuS, after
I. Melanthium hispanicum maius II. Melanthium sativum flore simplici III. Melanthium damascenum. [Nuremberg], [1613].
Engraving with hand-coloring from Hortus Eystettensis. Framed and matted (sheet size: 52 x 36 cm). Property from the Collection of Michael and Nancy McCaskey, Winnetka, Illinois $400-600
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(BotanIcaLS) BESLER, BaSILIuS, after
two hand-colored engravings from Hortus Eystettensis. [Nuremberg], [1613].
Chamaeleon niger vulgaris. No text on verso, watermark present. together with Cucumis afininus; Latin text on verso, watermark present. Both matted and framed (sheet size: 51 x 41 cm). Minor toning and slight creasing to both. $1,000-2,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) (FInE PRESS)
two proof plates of early woodcut World maps comprising artist’s proof copy of Sylvanus’ world map.Venice: 1511. Place names printed in red, signed in the margin, Bruce Beck, Imp. ‘83. together with publisher’s proof copy of Ruysch’s Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula. Rome: 1507.
Printed on 2 sheets joined, signed in the margin by sarah Burnham Mertz, printer, and speculum orbis Press. Both are matted and framed (45 x 58 cm., sight). $400-600
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(caRtoGRaPHY) JaILLot, aLEXIS HuBERt
Mappe-monde geo-hydrographique, ou description generale du globe terrestre et aquatique en deux plans-hemispheres. Amsterdam or Paris: [1691].
Hand-colored engraved twin-hemisphere world map on two sheets. Coat-of-arms of and dedication to the Dauphin of France at center top edge. Matted and framed (58 x 98 cm., sight). $2,000-3,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) [GIBSon, JoHn]
A new map of the whole continent of America, divided into North and South America and West Indies, with a descriptive account of the European possessions, as settled by the definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris, Feby. 10th, 1763, compiled from Mr. D’Anville’s Maps of that continent, and corrected in the several parts belonging to Great Britain, from the Original Materials of Governor Pownall, MP. London: Robert sayer and John Bennett, 1777. Later printing.
Copper-engraved map, printed on four sheets, joined as two (108 x 123 cm. total), with period hand-coloring in outline. Inset of the Arctic regions of North America, with Greenland and Iceland included. table along left side. With printing of a portion of the 1763 treaty of Paris above the cartouche.
An apparently unrecorded intermediary state of Gibson’s wall map, between stevens and tree 3c and 3d. Incorporating new political divisions brought about by the 1783 treaty of Paris; “all the lands between the Lakes,” as yet uncolonized. $2,000-4,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) SPEED, JoHn
America, with those known parts in that unknown worlde both people and manner of buildings described and inlarged. London: Bassett and Chiswell, 1626. Fourth state [1676]. English text on verso.
Hand-colored engraved map (41 x 53 cm.); matted and framed.
This is the first atlas map to represent California as an island. The map is surrounded by decorative vignettes illustrating the indigenous peoples and cities of the Americas. With legend at lower left corner referring to Abraham Goos of Amsterdam, an engraver. $2,000-4,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) HonDIuS, HERnIcuS
America septentrionalis. Amsterdam, 1639.
Hand-colored engraved map of North America (48 x 60 cm.); matted and framed. French text on verso.
this important map of North America had great influence in perpetuating the theory of California as an island. the title cartouche features several Native Americans and two comely mermaids flank the imprint cartouche. This is the rare, first state with the imprint cartouche blank and French text on verso, published between 1639-1649.
Lightly toned overall; closed tear at bottom centerfold. $1,000-2,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) SotZMann, DanIEL FRIEDRIcH
Die vereinigten staaten von Nordamerika. Nuremberg: 1804.
Hand-colored engraved German map of the United states, based on Arrowsmith and Lewis’s maps of 1795 and 1796 (56 x 69 cm, sight.); matted and framed.
Engraved for Daniel Ebeling, who began compiling data for his Atlas von Nordamerika in the 1770s. the plan was for eighteen maps, sixteen of which would be separate states. Due to his death, only ten are known to have been issued and there are only a handful of complete sets known, making it a rare example of cartographic Americana. $1,000-2,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) BLaEu, WILLEM
Nova Virginiae tabula, from Le theatre du monde, ou, nouvel atlas. Amsterdam, 1643-1650.
Hand-colored engraved map (sheet size: 48 x 59 cm.); matted and framed. French text on verso.
the early settlement of Jamestown is noted as Iamestowne. the map was derived from Capt. John smith’s map of 1612, which was the first to depict the Bay and its tributaries with any accuracy. the plate was engraved by Dirck Grijp and originally published by Jodocus Hondius Jr. in 1618. It was purchased by Willem Blaeu shortly after Hondius’ death (1629), with Blaeu’s imprint replacing that of Hondius. $800-1,200
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(caRtoGRaPHY) JanSSonIuS, JoHannES (after J. DE LaEt).
Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium, et Virginia. Amsterdam, 1636.
Hand-colored engraved map (40 x 51 cm., sight); matted and framed. With French text on verso.
Depicting Dutch settelments along the eastern seabord, including an insular Manbattes (Manhattan). Also includes an early depiction of the Great Lakes. First state, with the heart-shaped cartouche. $800-1,200
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(caRtoGRaPHY) JanSSonIuS, JoHannES
Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentiumqus regionum. Nova descriptio. Amsterdam, circa 1644.
Hand-colored engraved map (40 x 51 cm., sight); matted and framed. With French text on verso. Depicting the southeast as it extends from the southern part of Chesapeake Bay to Northern Florida.
Improving on the Hondius map of 1606, with Chesapeake Bay correctly indicated as a large bay and the Carolinas and Georgian coasts depicted more accurately. Bar scale above the neat line on the lower margin with cartouche held by cherubim; left cherub with tail. $800-1,200
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(caRtoGRaPHY) JaILLot, aLEXIS HuBERt
Partie de la Nouvelle France. Paris, 1695. second state.
Engraved map (54 x 72 cm., sheet); unframed. A map of Canada by the French cartographer, focusing on his nation’s possessions. Offering the first printed information on the geography to the north and west of Lake superior (Kershaw, p. 158). In this second state, the original 1685 date has been altered in the cartouche. $1,000-2,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) RoBERt DE VauGonDY, DIDIER
Partie de l’Amérique Septent. qui comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada. Paris: Vaugondy, 1755. second state.
Copper-engraved map (50 x 65 cm., sheet), with period hand-coloring in outline. Large inset map of the Great Lakes titled Supplement pour les lacs de Canada.
Published at the time of the French and Indian War, this map provides regional views of the period. With large decorative cartouche by Choffard. second state (Kershaw), with the addition of “I. Charlton” in James Bay. $600-800 21
(caRtoGRaPHY) BuacHE, PH. and J.a. DEZaucHE
Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles Antilles reduite de la grande carte angloise de Popple. Paris: 1780.
Hand-colored engraved map (50 x 93 cm., sight); two joined sheets, depicting the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and the northern tip of south America. Possessions of the region are shown via a color-coded key at right, beneath a block of explanatory French text. $800-1,200
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(caRtoGRaPHY) tannER, HEnRY ScHEncK
Ohio and Indiana ... Improved to 1825. Philadelphia: H. s. tanner, 1825. second issue.
Copper-engraving (59 x 71 cm., plate mark; 60 x 80 cm., sheet). With full period color.
An early mapping of Ohio and Indiana, reflecting new boundaries in northern Indiana created by Indian treaties from 1818 and 1819. other changes include additions of many new roads, including trail extending from Fort Wayne to Fort Dearborn. $600-800
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(caRtoGRaPHY) tannER, HEnRY ScHEncK
Illinois and Missouri by H. S. Tanner. Improved to 1825. Philadelphia: H. s. tanner, 1825. second issue.
Copper-engraved map (75 x 60 cm., plate mark); unframed. With full period color.
one of the earliest state maps of Illinois and Missouri, in its revised second issue, with significant changes to the mapping of the Mississippi headwaters and an early depiction of the beginnings of the santa Fe trail. With a number of new Illinois counties added. $1,500-3,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) (PRE-FIRE cHIcaGo)
Map of Cook County, Illinois. Chicago: s.H. Burhans & J. Van Vechten, 1862.
Compiled and drawn from record and actual surveys by W. L. Flower. Engraved hand-colored wall map (179 x 135 cm.) of Chicago and Cook County as it was before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Chipping and small losses have been repaired at top and bottom edge; discolored tape repairs at top edge; varnished overall; backed with modern linen; on contemporary rollers. Includes business directories, list of County Post Offices, views of residential, public, and business. Decorative border contains nine advertising vignettes at both right and left sides. Inserted illustrations depicting Rosehill cemetery, thomas Cook’s farm house, and scenes of Randolph street. $6,000-8,000
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(caRtoGRaPHY) (PoSt-FIRE cHIcaGo)
Blanchard’s guide map of Chicago. Rufus Blanchard, 1872.
Engraved folding pocket-map (56 x 43 cm.), which folds into publisher’s lettered paper covers; street guide tipped to inside wrapper (14 pages). With full contemporary hand-coloring.
A street map of Chicago showing the city just one year after the Fire. the limits of the burnt region are outlined by a thin dotted line. the accompanying pamphlet provides index to city’s streets via letter-number grid. With city’s parks, public buildings, and railroads also identified. $1,000-1,500
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(caRtoGRaPHY) BLancHaRD, RuFuS
Blanchard’s guide map of Illinois. Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1872.
Folding pocket map (56 x 42 cm., sheet), folds into publisher’s lettered stiff paper wrappers. sixteen pages of publisher’s catalogue and ads mounted to inside wrapper. With full period hand-coloring.
Following the 1871 Fire, Blanchard relocated his shop from Lake street, in the burnt district, to nearby Clark street, where he began to publish a new series of pocket maps, “in flexible cases with price reduced.” $400-600
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(caRtoGRaPHY) coLton, J. H
Illinois [with inset: Vicinity of Chicago]. New York: J.H. Colton & Co, 1856. second issue.
Engraved map (43 x 34 cm., sheet), folding into original brown cloth covers, elaborately blocked in blind, with the upper cover titled in gilt. small tears to folds. Advertisement for Colton as front pastedown. $400-600
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(caRtoGRaPHY) cHaPMan, SILaS
Chapman’s sectional map of Wisconsin with the most recent surveys. Milwaukee: J. A. Hall & Co., 1855.
Folding pocket-map (23 3/4 x 32.5 cm., sheet), with ornamental border. Folding into publisher’s cloth, with letterpress label on upper cover and bookseller’s advertisement to front pastedown. Lithographed by F. Mayer of New York, with period hand-coloring in outline.
Rare variant of Chapman’s sectional map of Wisconsin, first issued in 1853, with J. A. Hall’s imprint replacing that of Chapman. Depicts the southern half of the state, with counties, towns, waterways, and railroads (both existing and proposed) identified. $400-600
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(caRtoGRaPHY) coLton, J.H.
The western tourist and emigrant’s guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minesota [sic.], Missouri, and Nebraska ... Accompanied with a large and minute map. New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1854 [map dated 1855].
Folding pocket map (54x 67 cm., sheet), folds into publisher’s red cloth covers; decoratively stamped in blind, with upper cover titled in gilt. 89 pages of text and28 pages of ads mounted to inside wrapper. With full period hand-coloring.
title page revised to account for newly-established territory of Nebraska and updated throughout to account for development along Midwestern frontier. $400-600
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(caRtoGRaPHY) PaRKER, natHan H.
Parker’s sectional & geological map of Iowa exhibiting her iron, lead, copper, coal and other geological resources and all rail roads completed in progress and projected. Compiled from the U.S. surveys and other official records. New York: J. H. Colton & Co.; Chicago: Kenn & Lee, 1856.
Engraved folding pocket map (83 x 118 cm., sheet), printed on two joined sheets, with ornamental border. Folds into publisher’s red cloth covers; decoratively stamped in blind, with upper cover titled in gilt. With full contemporary hand-coloring. Inset map titled Map showing the connections between Iowa and Eastern rail roads. With table of railroads and advertisements for land agents.
the famed large pocket map of Iowa commissioned by Nathan H. Parker, a partner in the banking and land agency firm of Parker, Dole & Co., and issued as an inducement for settlement and investment in the region. $400-600
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(caRtoGRaPHY) cHaPMan, SILaS
Sectional map of the State of Iowa compiled from the United States surveys and other authentic sources. Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1868.
Folding pocket map (62 x 85 cm., sheet); folds into publisher’s cloth covers, with title gilt-stamped on upper cover. Lithography by L. Lipman of Milwaukee, with full period hand-coloring.
Printed note on rear cover, signed in print by surveyor General Warner Lewis, states that “this map of the State of Iowa was projected by Major Jas. A. Reid from the original plates on file in this office ... [I]t has been carefully compared and is correct.” $400-600
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(caRtoGRaPHY) (RaILRoaDS)
Cram’s township and rail road map of Michigan. Chicago: George F. Cram, circa 1890.
Folding map (60 x 48 cm., sheet), with 24 page index. original paper covers worn and discolored. With two insets: Isle Royale in Lake superior and a map of the upper peninsula. the text describes the routes of the 29 railroad lines that were operating at the time. $400-600
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(cHIcaGo) BEnnEtt, EDWaRD and DanIEL BuRnHaM
The plan of Chicago. Chicago: the Commercial Club, 1909. Copy number 720 of 1650.
Cloth boards (32 cm. tall), with gilt-stamped title and top-edge gilt. some bumping to corners and general edge-wear. Illustrated throughout with photographic images, maps, and architectural drawings. Commercial Club bookplate to front pastedown, with owner’s name obscured. With errata slip bound between pages 14-15. $1,000-2,000
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(cHIcaGo) (StREEt-VIEW)
Chicago: a history in block-print. Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1934.
Red illustrated wrappers (30 cm. tall), with wear to spine. Illustrated with over 50 woodblock prints. With text by James Alton James (Professor of American History, Northwestern University) and block-prints executed by the advanced class in design under the direction of Clara MacGowan, Assistant Professor of Art, Northwestern University. $100-200
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(cHIcaGo) VaRIn, RauL
(French, 20th Century ) A group of five prints depicting nineteenth century scenes of Chicago. All published by A. Ackermann & sons, 1927-1931.
Engraved acquatints. Dimensions of largest being (55 x 67 cm. sight); all matted and framed. Each signed by Varin at bottom right margin.
Prints include: (1) Michigan Avenue looking south at Van Buren Street, 1889; (2) Corner of State and Washington Streets, Chicago; (3) A view from Michigan Avenue from Randolph Street; (4) Chicago in 1831 with a view of Fort Dearborn and John Kinze’s Residence; and (5) La Salle Street from Court House Square, Chicago. edition 22/ 125, signed R. Varin bottom right $600-800
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(cHIcaGo) caRButt, JoHn
Biographical sketches of the leading men of Chicago. Photographically illustrated. Chicago: Wilson, Pierce & Co., 1876. Expanded edition.
Black calf (32 cm. tall), elaborately decorated. With gilt edges and neat repairs to joints. Illustrated with 123 albumen photographic portraits, each mounted within a printed gilt border on thin card leaf, some leaves with mounted photographs on both recto and verso.
typically featuring anywhere from 62 to 99 albumen prints, the present copy boasts 123, by John Carbutt and others. $2,000-4,000
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cuRRIER, natHanIEL
View of New York from Brooklyn Heights. New York, 1849.
Lithograph (33 x 43 cm., sight), with hand-coloring after F. Palmer. Framed and matted. $2,000-4,000
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(EnGInEERInG) BocKLER, GEoRGES anDREaS
Theatrum machinarum novum. Nuremberg, 1673. second edition.
Contemporary binding of three-quarter vellum over boards (34 cm. tall), with spine lifted and twisting at top. Manuscript titles to spine. With contemporary signature to engraved title page and twentieth century stamp of Chicago collector. Engraved title page loose; table of contents trimmed. Contents collated as complete: 44 pages, followed by 154 plates. Browning to final few plates, otherwise plates are remarkably bright.
Baroque machines depicted include: windmills, paper mills, a roasting-spit, and a fire-engine. $600-800 39
(EnGInEERInG) StuRM, LEonHaRD cHRIStoPH
Vollstandige muhlen baukunst .... Augsburg: J. Wolff, 1718. First edition.
three-quarter leather over marbled boards (34 cm. tall); general wear, with some loss to spine and remnants of shelf-mark. Contemporary German library stamp to title page, with nineteenth century German bokseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Engraved title page. Contents collated as complete: 35, [1] pages of text in Gothic script, followed by 51 plates; remarkably bright.
treatise on mills and hydraulic machinery, with an early depiction of the paper-making process. $400-600 40
(EnGInEERInG) (StaGE coacHInG)
A group of five works on stage coaching, including: (1) tom Bradley, The old coaching days in Yorkshire. Leeds: Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company, 1889; (2) Birch Reynardson, Down the road or reminiscences of a gentleman coachman. London: Longmans, Green and Company, n.d; (3) Captain H. E. Malet, Annals of the road or notes on mail and stage coaching in Great Britan. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1876; (4) Charles G. Harper, Stagecoach and mail in days of yore: a picturesque history of the coaching age. London: Chapman and Hall, 1903 (two volumes); and (5) Harry Ellesworth Cole, Stagecoach and tavern tales of the old Northwest. Cleveland: the Arthur H. Clark Comapny, 1930. Property from a Private Collector $200-400
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(EnGInEERInG) BuIcK MotoR coMPanY
A group of three blueprints for early Buick automobiles (66 x 91 cm. each). $400-600
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(HoMER) DIVuS, anDREaS
two early Latin translations of Homer by Andreas Divus, published by Burgofrancho in Venice:
Homeri poetae clarissimi Odyssea, 1536. Later three-quarter leather over papered boards (17 cm. tall), with gilt lettering to red and black compartments on spine. University of Chicago Library bookplate to front pastedown. Contents collated as complete: 251 numbered leaves, followed by colophon and [8] leaves of index. With title page and final leaf reinforced.
And, Homeri poetarum omnium principis Ilias, 1537. Later three-quarter leather over marbled boards (16 cm. tall), with gilt ornamentation to spine and gilt lettering to red leather compartment. University of Chicago Library booplate to front endpaper, with additional plate of Italian bookseller to pastedown. Contents collated as complete: 277 numbered leaves, followed by register and preceded by 16 un-numbered leaves, constituting a life of Homer and an index. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $600-800 43
(HoMER) caStELLIon, SEBaStIEn
Homeri opera graeco-latina, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia. Hoc est: Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, et Hymni .... Basel: Nicolaum Brylingerum, 1561.
Block-stamped pigskin boards (34 cm. tall). Bookplate of Andre Phillipe, ArchivistePaleographe to front pastedown, along with that of University of Chicago Library. Damp-staining to margins, effecting text on sme pages. Contents collated as complete, with 292 numbered pages for the Illiad, followed by a further 317 numbered pages for the odyssey, with Latin maginalia throughout the latter.
A bilingual edition prepared for educational purposes, with Greek and Latin text en face. In his preface, Castellion warns readers not to elevate Homer’s works above sacred writings. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $400-600 44
(HoMER) BaccELLI, GIRoLaMo
L’Odissea d’Homero: tradotta in volgare Fiorentino. Florence: Appresso il sermatelli, 1582.
Vellum boards (17 cm. tall), with manuscript titles to spine; some soiling to edge of front board. University of Chicago Library bookplate to front pastedown. Contents collated as complete. title page, followed by 678 numbered pages, followed by single leaf with errata and register. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $400-600
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(HoMER) ScHREVEL, coRnELIuS
Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi. Cum Latina versione accuratissima indiceque Graeco locupletissimo rerum ac variantium lection. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1656.
two volumes. Boards (24 cm. tall) bound in tree calf, with elaborate gilt ornamentation to spine and gilt lettering to red leather compartments. Marbled endpapers, with University of Chicago Library bookplate. Contents collated as complete, with engraved title page and seven preliminary leaves, followed by 716 numbered pages. second volume with 536 pages, followed by an index of 22 leaves. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $400-600 46
(HoMER) HoBBES, tHoMaS
Homer’s Odysses, translated by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. With a large preface containing the vertues of an heroique poem. Written by the translator. London: Printed for J. C. for W. Crook at the Green Dragon without temple-Bar, 1675.
Contemorary full leather boards (16 cm. tall), untitled; rear board detached and front hinge starting. With bookplate of M. C. Lang as well as that of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana of the University of Chicago Library. Contents collated as complete. togeher with Matthew Arnold’s work On translating Homer. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $600-800
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(HoMER) VILLoISon, JEan-BaPtIStE GaSPaRD D’anSSE DE
Homeri Ilias ad veteris codicis Veneti fidem recensita.... Venice: typis et sumptibus Fratrum Coleti, 1788.
Modern rebinding, with ornamental half-leather over cloth boards (40 cm. tall). Contents collated as complete, with Prolegomena in Latin (i-lx), followed by 120 and 532 numbered pages, with text and commentary in Greek.
A scholarly edition published after Villoison’s discovery of the tenth century codex known as Venetus A, featuring ancient scholia and marginalia. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $600-800
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(HoMER) PoPE, aLEXanDER
The Iliad of Homer. Philadelphia: J. Crukshank, W. Young, M. Carey, etc., 1795. First American edition.
Full leather boards (18 cm. tall), with lettering to red leather compartment worn. Front hinge weak. With contemporary inscriptions to front endpaper and University of Chicago Library bookplate to front pastedown. Contents collated as complete: 484 numbered pages. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $400-600
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Homerou poiesis [romanized from Greek]. Munich: Officinae Bremensis, 1923-1924. Copies 42 of 615.
2 volumes, rebound in quarter leather over marbled boards (35 cm. tall), with simple glt lettering to spine. topedge gilt. Contents collated as complete, with signature marks in Greek type. Finely printed on Zanders paper.
Founded in 1911, the Bremer Press was based upon the model of Doves Press. A year after moving from Bremen to Munich, they published Homer’s two works, with Greek letters cut on calligraphic lines. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $800-1,200
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Didelphis Virginiana, Pennant, Virginia Opossum, plate LXVI, no. 14. Lithograph (50 x 67 cm., sheet) with hand-coloring from the Imperial folio edition of The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.t. Bowen, 1839-1844. Matted and framed. Property from the Estate of Wilson Jaffee, Aspen, Colorado $400-600
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Putorius Agilis, Little Nimble Weasels, Aud & Bach, plate CXL, no. 28. Lithograph (50 x 66cm., sheet), with hand-coloring from the Imperial folio edition of The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.t. Bowen, 1845-1851. Matted and framed. Property from the Estate of Wilson Jaffee, Aspen, Colorado $2,000-4,000
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American Elk-Wapiti Deer, Cervus Canadensis, plate LXII, no. 13. Lithograph with hand-coloring from the Imperial folio edition of The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J. t. Bowen, 1845. Framed and matted (56 x 69 cm.). Light toning to paper; light cockling along lower edge; otherwise fine condition. Property from the Collection of Margaret McCurry, Chicago, Illinois $4,000-6,000 53
Group of four hand-colored lithographic prints (17 x 27 cm.) from the octavo edition of The birds of America, c. 1839. Consisting of: (1) Wilson’s Petrel --Mother Carrey’s chicken, plate 460, no. 92; (2) Common Gallinule, plate 304, no. 61; (3) Spotted Sandpiper, plate 342, no. 69; and (4) Yellowbreasted Rail, plate 307, no. 62. All are matted and in fine condition. $300-500 54*
Horned Grebe, Podiceps Comnitus, plate CCLIX. Engraving (58 x 70 cm.), with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring, from The birds of America, 1827. Property from the Estate of Mrs. Leonard s. Florsheim, Jr., Lake Forest, Illinois $400-600
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Florida Jay, Garrulus Floridianus, plate 87, no.18. Engraving (97 x 66 cm., sheet), with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring from The birds of America, J. Whatman 1830. Matted and framed. Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. schrank, Bonita springs, Florida $3,000-5,000
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Bay Breasted Warbler, Sylvia Castanea, plate 69, no. 14. Engraving (63 x 94 cm., sheet), with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring from The birds of America, J. Whatman, 1829. Property from the Collection of Karen sage Keilt, Carefree, Arizona $3,000-5,000
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Gold Winged Woodpecker, Picus Auratus, plate 37, no. 8. Engraving with etching, aquatint, and handcoloring from The birds of America, J. Whatman, 1826. Framed and matted (66 x 53 cm.). Fine condition. $4,000-6,000 58
American Woodcock, Scolopax Minor, Gmel., plate CCLXVIII, no.54. Engraving with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring from The Birds of America, c. 1827. Matted and framed (66 x 96 cm.). Fine condition. Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. schrank, Bonita springs, Florida $3,000-5,000
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Brown Creeper, Certhia Familiaris; California Nuthatch, Sitta Pygea, plate CCCXV, no. 83. Engraving (63 x 94 cm., sheet), with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring from The birds of America, J. Whatman, 1837. Property from the Collection of Karen sage Keilt, Carefree, Arizona $2,000-4,000 60*
Bachman’s Warbler, Sylvia Bachmanii, plate CLXXXV. no 37. Engraving (48 x 40 cm), with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring, from The birds of America, c. 1833. Matted and framed. Property from the Estate of Carol Monsees, Winnetka, Illinois $2,000-4,000
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Orchard Oriole, Icterus Spurius, plate 42, no. 9. Engraving wiith etching, aquatint, and handcoloring from The birds of America, 1823. Matted and framed. (sight: 49 x 39 cm) Property from the Estate of Carol Monsees, Winnetka, Illinois $2,000-4,000
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Yellow bellied woodpecker, Picus Varius, plate CXC, no. 38. Engraving (58 x 40 cm., sheet), with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring from The birds of America, 1834. Matted. Property from the Collection of Edward t. Pollack Fine Arts, Portland, Maine $1,000-2,000 63
Arctic Yager, Lestris Parasitica, plate CCLXVII, no. 54. Engraving (91 x 64 cm., sheet) wiith etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring from The birds of America, 1835. With J. Whatman 1836 watermark present. Chips to all edges; lightly faded. Property from the Collection of Edward t. Pollack Fine Arts, Portland, Maine $1,000-2,000
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Fork-tailed Petrel, Thalassidroma Leachii, plate CCLX, No. 52. Engraving (45 x 62 cm., sheet), with etching, aquatint, and hand-coloring from the Havell edition of The Birds of America, 1834. Matted. Property from the Collection of Edward t. Pollack Fine Arts, Portland, Maine $1,000-2,000
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(natuRaL HIStoRY) (EDWaRDS, GEoRGE, after)
Group of 12 engravings (24 x 20 cm., sight), with hand-coloring from A natural history of uncommon birds. London, 1743-1760. All matted and framed. Property from the Estate of Ralph Loucks, Chicago, Illinois $800-1,200 66
(natuRaL HIStoRY) catESBY, MaRK
Buteo Specie gallo parvonis, The Turkey Buzzard, plate 6. Engraving with hand-coloring from The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. London, 1754. Matted and framed. Fine condition. $300-500
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(natuRaL HIStoRY) BuRKE, DR. EDGaR
In october 1925, the Ideal Racing Pigeon Club was officially chartered by the American Racing Pigeon Union. Dr. Edgar Burke (1889-1950), a New Jersey surgeon and avid sportsman, joined the club in the 1930s and proceeded to paint the portraits of the prize-winning pigeons that he bred and entered into competition. Burke’s handsome portraits reflect his work with Eugene V. Connett III, the publisher of the Derrydale Press, for whom he was commissioned to illustrate two works: Feathered game (1929) and Upland game bird shooting in America (1939).
the present archive includes 12 gouache-on-board paintings by Dr. Burke’s of his racing pigeons (14 x 17 cm., on average): four of them individually framed and accompanied with certificates documenting the details of their winning races (e.g., nickname, registration number, distance, average speed, weather and wind conditions); two of them individually framed with anecdotal details supplied in typescript; and another six (8 x 8 cm. each) housed together in a single frame, with typescript information about their racing histories provided on the verso, along with an image of the Ideal Racing Pigeon Club’s trophy.
Also included is a pigeon race timing clock made in Germany by Robert Plasschaert, documenting the unique method of timing pigeon races, as well as the Ideal Racing Pigeon Club’s Charter, with 16 of its original members identified in manuscript and signed by the secretary and President of the American Racing Pigeon Union (Edward Barnes and E. van Wulfen).
Property from the Collection of Edward t. Pollack Fine Arts, Portland, Maine $6,000-8,000
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(VoYaGES--EaSt) (cHIna)
An archive of photographic, manuscript, and printed materials from Charles Davis Jameson, an American engineer who worked in China at the close of the nineteenth century.
the photographic materials include a large photo album, partially captioned, with 386 photographic prints of rural China; a leporello album with 24 colorized photographs; five loose photographs pasted to boards, of a Chinese monk with weapons (reproducing images found in other albums). With 15 further albums (circa 1895-1913), housing over 800 photographs documenting landscape, engineering projects, Chinese people, British royalty, and the domestic life of ex-pat Westerners.
Condition note: portions of the archive have sustained damp-staining and many of the photographs have sustained some degree of fading. Property from the Collection of David Brown, Memphis, tennessee $4,000-6,000
Cultural materials include the 102 page typescript “Notes in shansi and Honan China” (dated 1897), in which Jameson offers amateur anthropological pronouncements, as well as the typescript entitled “The evolution of China and Japan: the difference in results and why?” (undated; incomplete fragment of 9 pages).
original engineering-related materials include typescripts of two reports by Jameson on Chinese coal mines (Lin tcheng and tse Chow), with illustrated maps and details about labour conditions for miners, and a copy of Jameson’s 1919 report to the Chinese Government Railways on the Chouchiakou-Hsiangyang Line, comprising 43 mimoegraphed pages, with 2 fold-out maps, and illustrated with 71 photographs (unrecorded by oCLC).
Personal materials include a series of diaries (1903, 1906, 1910, 1917), with hundreds of manuscript entries; a commonplace book of approximately 60 pages, mostly filled with poetry; and a 10 page autograph letter to Jameson’s mother (1911).
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(VoYaGES--EaSt) (JaPan)
An unbound photo album of late-nineteenth century Japan, featuring 22 pasteboards positioned loose between two wooden boards, with calligraphic paper pasted to their fronts. With 46 colorized photographic prints (21 x 25 cm.) mounted to verso of wooden boards and to both sides of each of the pasteboards. Depicting landscape, ritual, costume, and habits of everyday life. $1,000-2,000
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(VoYaGES--WESt) DRYDEn, JoHn
The conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: in two parts. Acted at the Theater-Royal. London: Printed by H. Hills, for Henry Herringman, 1678. third edition.
Later binding; three-quarter leather over marbled boards (22 cm. tall), with plain gilt lettering to spine. With toning to paper and corner torn to page 85, effecting some text. $200-400 70A
(VoYaGES--tHE WESt) tHWaItES, REuBEn GoLD
The Jesuit relations and allied documents: travels and explorations of the missionaries in New France, 1610-1791. The original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations and notes; illustrated by portraits, maps, and facsimiles. Cleveland: the Burrows Brothers Company, 1896-1901. set number 665 of 750.
73 volumes total. Bound in buckram, with black lettering to spine. With soiling to a handful of spines and minor foxing to contents. Property from the collection of Larry Mandel, Ann Arbor, Michigan $1,000-2,000
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LaHontan, LouIS aRManD, BaRon DE
New voyages to North America. Containing an account of the several nations of the vast Continent; their customs, commerce, and way of navigation upon the lakes and rivers... To which is added a dictionary of the Algonkine language, which is generally spoke in North-America London: Printed for H. Bonwicke, et al., 1703. First Englishlanguage edition, with revised contents.
two volumes. Later binding; three-quarter leather over cloth boards (19 cm. tall); generally scuffed, with rubbing to joints. Contents trimmed, with a handful of tears (some repaired). Illustrated with 20 plates, one of them folding, and 2 folding maps; lacks the frontispiece to the second volume. Last leaf features publishers’ advertisement. title page to second volume pasted to first page of contents. $800-1,200 72
LEWIS, MERIWEtHER and WILLIaM cLaRK
History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Mississippi, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. By the order of the Government of the United States. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep and Abm. H. Inskeep of New York, 1814. First edition, with folding map in expert facsimile.
two volumes. Full leather boards (22 cm. tall), with simple gilt ruling to spine; gilt lettering to red leather compartment. Contents foxed. With ownership inscription to title page of second volume. Illustrated with five maps and charts. The large folding map is supplied in expert facsimile.
Covering some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months, Lewis and Clark retrieved the first reliable information concerning the areas acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. $10,000-12,000
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(VoYaGES--WESt) McKEnnEY, tHoMaS LoRaInE and JaMES HaLL
History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits from the Indian gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1836 (volume I) / Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1842 (volume II, second issue) and 1844 (volume III).
three volume set, bound to style in green morocco over period green moire cloth-covered boards (52 cm. tall). spine with raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in the second and fourth; the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Illustrated with 120 hand-colored lithographic plates after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James otto Lewis, P. Rhindesbacher, and R. M. sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph trembley, Henry Dacre and others, and printed and colored by J. t. Bowen and others. Volume III features two lithographic maps and one table printed on the recto of one leaf; with 17 pages of lithographic facsimile signtuares of the original subscribers. When President Jackson dismissed him from his position as superintendent of Indian trade, thomas McKenney was able to turn his attention towards the documentation of a rapidly disappearing culture, soon joined by the Illinois journalist-lawyer-banker James Hall. Their text, including both individual biographies and a general history of the indigenous peoples of North America, has become famed for its colored portraits, which included faithful copies of original oils by Charles Bird King; all but four of which were destroyed in the Smithsonian fire of 1865. $70,000-90,000
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