Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
30th May 1974
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/16
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mood of every variety of Objects of Art, bds. £8158 Paris, 1861-72 Several volumes are now out of print. Art Bibliography : Papitton, Traité de la Gravure en Bois, 2 vols. 8vo. plates and cuts, old calf, 18s Paris, 1766 JANSEN, Origine de la Gravure en Bois, 2 vols. 8vo. 20 plates, calf, 24s 1808 Heinexen, Idée générale d’une Collection compléte d’Estampes, thick 8vo. 30 plates of Sacsimiles, old calf’, 368 1771 These three works, from the library of Jackson, the wood engraver, are necessary to collectors of Prints and of early woodcut-books, Atheneei Naucratite Deipnosophistarum libri quindecim, ex optimis codicibus nunc primum collatis, Grece et Latine, ed. Schweighaeuser, 14 vols. whole bound russia, gilt edges, £5. 5s Argent. 1801-7 Army List, published by the War Office, con- taining a List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines, from 1758-1841 (wanting 1760, 62 and ’*68—together 83 vols. 8vo. mo- rocco and calf gilt, a valuable Military Direc- tory, £8. 1758-1841 Important for historical researches, Astronomical Society’s Memoirs, com- plete set from the commencement in 1822 to 1871, being Vols. I—XXXVIII, 38 vols. in 45, roy. 4to. with separate Index in 8vo. a large number of jime plates of Astronomical Instru- ments, Eclipses, §c. wrcut, rare, £28. 1822-71 This set is quite complete; in that state, copies very rarely occur in the market. Atlases: SPRUNER, Historisch-Geographischer Hand- Atlas, 3 parts in 1 vol. folio, 91 owtline colowred maps, hf. russia, £4. Gothe, 1850-53 Van Loon. Klaer lichtende Noort Ster, ofte ZEE-ATLAS, waer inne vertoont werde de Gelegentheyht van alle de Zee-kusten des Aerdgebodens, roy. folio, elegant coloured frontispiece and 45 double maps, a few of them by Janszon, all carefully COLOURED, with beautifully illuminated Coats of Arms, ete. vellum, calf back, £10. Amst. 1661 A very valuable work, unmentioned by Asher in his ex- cellent Bibliography of the Atlases and Maps relating to the New Netherlands, although its North American charts are different from all the Atlases and Charts examined by Asher. It is unquestionably the best Atlas representing the coasts of the now United States yet published to that time, and proves that the Brothers Van Loon were accurate and painstaking geographers. Some of the maps are naturally reproductions from the great Atlases of Blaeu, Laet, and Jansson, and the name of the latter appears occasionally, but the differences which make the book important are to be found in the delineations of regions which were daily becoming better known,’ such as the European colonies in North America. This Atlas seems to be the original, or earliest existing form of a series of Dutch maps mentioned by Asher, to which belongs even the Chartbook of Pieter Goos. His statement that Goos’s maps were different from and superior to all anterior works of the kind, suffices to fix the value of the Atlas of Van Loon. Goos (Peter) Sea Atlas, or the Watter-World, wherein is described all the Sea-Coasts of the knowne World, folio, 40 maps folded and coloured, with a short English teat, hf. calf, £3. 16s Amsterdam, 1670 This is a rare and according to Asher a very important set of Charts, so far as the geography of Anglo-America is concerned, However, the chief map of those territories is identical with the corresponding plate in Van Loon’s Atlas, although indeed the two plates which give a general repre- sentation of Western America are not the same. Donoxker’s (Hendrick) Sea Aruas: Pascaerten, a@ collection of 26 large maps, coloured, six of which relate specially to America, each 26 inches by 224, the inscriptions in Dutch, some- times Dutch and English, but with a short Spanish text prefixed, vellum, from the library of the Marquis of Astorga, £10. 1671-74 An Atlas of the highest importance for the history of American Chartography; and yet to all appearance totally unknown. Not only are the maps different from all those mentioned in Asher’s series (84 in number), but in several instances they contain the first mention of towns that are now flourishing. Doncker had already engraved the Atlas which bears the name of Goos as publisher , but the above volume is quite a different work, and of far greater interest. Amongst the names of towns which appear here for the first time in printed maps, are Salem in Massachusetts, and Warwick and Providence in Rhode Island. But many other entries will be similarly found to show the character of these maps as documents of prime importance. The absence of this atlas from the printed lists of Americana that I have been able to consult, and especially from the essay of Mr. Asher, proye not merely that an exhaustive work on the early maps of New Netherland has yet to be written, but also the great rarity of the volume. ; Azara, Descripcion é Historia del Paraguay y del Rio de la Plata, Tomo I, sm. 4to. calf, 73 6d ~ Madrid, 1847 15 Piccadilly, London. Balfour (E.) Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as also the Forests of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, roy. 8vo. half calf, 20s Madras, 1862 A yaluable Catalogue, giving the Latin and Native Names. Baudry, Grammaire comparée des Langues Classiques, Ire. partie, Phonétique, 8vo. sd. 4s 6d Paris, 1868 Beagle, Voyage of the, under the command of Capt. Firzroy, 1832-36, edited by C. Dar- win, F.R.S. Fossil Mammalia, by Professor R. Owen, ' 32 plates, hf. calf, £2. 2s 1840 Mammalia, by G. R. Waterhouse, 32 co- loured plates, and 8 of Structure, hf. calf, £3. 38 1839 Birds, by J. Gould, 50 coloured plates 1841 Fish, by L. Jenyns, 29 plates, hf. calf, 30s 1842 Reptiles, 1 vol. 20 plates, hf. calf, 25s 1843 — a complete set, as described above, 5 vols. in 3, royal 4to. hf. moroceo, EXTREMELY RARE, £16. 1839-43 The parts priced can be had separately. Beddome’s Flora Sylvatica, or Figures and Descriptions of the Timber Trees of India, parts I and II, roy. 4to. 23 plates, sd. 7s 64 Madras, 1868-9 Beddome, Icones Plantarum Indie Orientalis, parts I-IV, roy. 4to. 80 plates, sd. 20s Madras, 1868-9 Beddome (Major R. H.) Ferns of Southern India, being Descriptions and Plates of the Ferns of the Madras Presidency, royal 4to. 4to. 271 outline plates, bds. £2. 15s The Author in his capacity of Inspector of Forests has made abundant use of the opportunities afforded him, so that he may be considered a worthy successor to Dr. Wight in the field of Indian Botany. The plates of this work are accurately drawn, and each one has in addition a magnified figure of the frond or distinctive structure. Beechey (Capi. F. W.) Zoology of the Pacific and Behring’s Straits during a Voyage in H. M.S. Blossom in 1825-28, 4to. 47 finely co- loured plates by Sowerby, presentation eopy Jrom the author to Sir J. Richardson, and from him to Dr. J. L. Gray, with autograph letter inserted, cloth, £3. 5s 1839 Belcher’s (Sir E.) Voyage round the World, performed in.H.M.S. Sulphur, 1836-42, 2 vols. 8yvo. plates and woodcuts, cloth, 16s 1843 Bentham (G.) et J.D. Hooker, Genera Plan- tarum ad exemplaria imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus servata definita, Vol. I, in three parts, large 8vo. (pub. £3. 5s) cloth, 36s 1862-67 Contents: Ranunculaceas—Cornaceas, Bibles: German. Bisex Teutsch, das ist alle Bucher Alts und Niws Testaments, 2 vols. 8yo. ¢ Vol. 2 slightly wormed), bd. 25s Zisrych, Christ. Froschover, 1549 Hebrew. Bieta Sacra Hebraica et Chal- daica (Hebrew Bible, with the Targums and Masoras, and the Rabbinical commentaries of Aben Ezra, Kimchi, Rashi, and others, edited by Buxrorr, with the Trpertas or Masoretic key in Latin), in 2 vols. folio, bound?, £3. Basel, Konig, 1618 —— the same, Large Paper, 2 vols. folio, a fine copy in vellum, £4. abid, 1620 Bible Plates. Historie des Ouden en Nienwen Testaments, door Prerer Mortier, 2 vols. large folio, LARGE PAPER, with upwards of 400 beautiful engravings by Picart and others, in the original calf gilt. £4. Amst. 1700 This copy is not merely “avant les clous,” but the im- pressions throughout are wonderfully brilliant and delicate, and the condition in every respect unexceptionable. Bible Illustrations. Morrrer, ‘Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, 2 vols. folio, above 400 beautiful plates by Picart and others, GOOD ImMPREssIons, old citron morocco, gilt edges, £4, Amst. 1700 Bibliophiles: Réimpressions des Ouvrages rares et curieux faites pour une Société de Bibliophiles : BripriiorHEguE Libre, tirés a cent exemplaires Téres a Prix et Liste de toutes les Personnes avec lesquelles la Reine a eu des liasons, 18mo. 3s 6d Imprimé par les presses de la Société, Neuchatel, 1874 Le CaLtempoure en Action, anecdote tirée des Annales secrétes des chevaliéres de l’Opera, 18mo. 6s 7b. 1874 3 Trois Dectamations esquelles l'Ivrogne, le Putier et le Joueur de dez, reimp. sur Véd. de 1556, 18mo. 9s San Remo, 1874. Ecote (1’) des Maris Jaloux, reimp. sur V’éd. de 1698, 18mo. 8s ab. 1874 MoIne (le) Sécularisé, avec notice bibliograph- iques par P. L. Jacob, 18mo, 9s 1b. 1874 Granp ALcanprE frustré; ou les derniers efforts de Amour et de la Vertu, avec une __ notice par M. P. Lacroix), 18mo. 10s 7d. 1874. Bibliography. Georgii (T. Bookseller in Leipzig) Allgemeines Europaisches Biicher- Lexicon, mit Supplementen, 8 vols. in 4, small folio, hf. bd. neat, £2.16s Leipzig, 1742-58 The most valuable portion is Vol. V, 1753: Auteurs francois du XVme au XVIlIme Siécle; this being the first Catalogue of French books on an extensive scale. Bijoux Indiscrets (Les) 2 vols. 18mo. curious plates, tree-marbled calf extra, gilt edges, fin copy, £2. 8s Au Monomotapa, n.d. (1750) Bion et Moschus: Moschi Siculi et Bionis Smyrnzi Idyllia omnia, hactenus non edita,. acc. Phanoclis eligia, gr@ce et latine (edente Meckercho), small 4to. Editio princeps,, jine copy in vellum, 20s Brugis flandvrum, 1565 “Les poésies de Bion et de Moschus avaient été jusqu’ alors confondues avee celles de Theocrite; elles sont reunies. pour la premiere fo's dans ce recueil ci-dessus.”—Brunet. Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, con un Discurso Critica da Ugo Foscolo, Pickering’s Elegant Ldition, 3 vols. sm. 8yo. pretty plates after Stothard, half morocco, uncut, top edge gilt,, LINZ W. Pickering, 1825 Boczace (Jean) Le Decameron (traduit par A. de Magon) 5 vols. 8vo. portrait and 116 Sine plates after Gravelot, Eisen, Cochin, and others, without title to Vol. I, for which that- of “Lstampes Galantes” is substituted, French calf, gilt edges, £10. Londres (Paris) 1757-61 Boccaccio, The Decameron, or Ten Days” Entertainment, plates, 2 vols. in 1, sm. 8vo. plates, half morocco, 208 Griffin, 1822 An uncastrated edition, with certain passages in Italian. Bojanus (L. H.) Anatome Testudinis Europex, folio, 40 beautifully engraved. plates, portions of which are coloured, (pub. about £5.) half calf, Dr. J. EB. Gray’s copy, £2.10s Vilnw, 1819: Bonaparte (C. L.) Iconographia della Fauna Italica: Mammiferi e Uccelli, folio, 24 coloured plates, half calf, £3. 10s Roma, 1832-41 The above contains the Mammals and Birds, complete — the other two vols. of the work contain the Fishes and Am- phibia. Bonaparte, Iconografia della Fauna Italica, Amfibia, @ portion of this section of the work, 9 coloured plates and letterpress, folio, bds. 108 Roma, 1832-41 Bonhomme (H.) Dernier Abbé de Cour, étude (histoire et de moeurs an XVIIle Siécle, 12mo. sd. 1s 6d 1873 Bonomi and Arundale, Gallery of Anti- quities in the British Museum, with Descrip- tions by Brrou, 2 parts in 1 vol. 192 jigures of interesting subjects, represented on 57 ela- borate plates, many coloured, (pub. £2. 12s 67) cloth, 16s 1844 Borrow (George) Romano Lavo-Lil: Wordbook of the Romany, with many pieces in Gipsy, specimens of their poetry, etc. sm. 8yo. ¢lor/, 9s 1874 An invaluable collection, the result of thirty years’ labour on the part of the veteran author. But he rashly meddles with comparative Philology, and cites the Welsh word Aber, as akin to ‘‘ Abri—out, not within.” Boston Journal of Natural History, Vols. I —VII (manting of Vol. IV nos. 3 and 4, and of Vol. V no. 4) 5 vols. and 5 parts, 8vo. numerous plates, three vols. hf. calf, the vest sd. £6. 108 Boston, 1837-63 Boston Natural History Society’s Me- moirs, being a New Serres of the Boston Journal of Natural History, Vol. I, compLetTE in 4 parts, large 4to. 24 fine plates, sd. 25s 1866-69 Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, 8vo. portrait, calf, 3s 6d 1807 Botanical Tracts by Agardh, Balfour, Cleg- horn, Carruthers, A. Gray, Henslow, and others, 8vo. and 4to. 50 in a parcel, mostly presentation copies to Dr. J. EL. Gray, 15s Bouchet, les Serées de Guillaume Bouchet, sieur de Broncourt, 3 vols. 12mo. calf, fine copy, £5. Lyon, Simon Rigaud, 1615 Sterne was indebted to this facetious writer for many of the conceits embodied in his works.