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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857.8vo (218 x 139mm). Frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. (Some mostly marginal toning to plates, text generally clean, final two text leaves and plate detached.) Late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards, with original printed front wrappers to each part bound in at rear (minor wear to spine ends and extremities, some rubbing to boards).    FIRST EDITION, bound from the original monthly parts, FIRST ISSUE, with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473. Hatton & Cleaver 307-330; Eckel 82-85; Smith I:12.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SCHULZE, Christian Friedrich (1730-1775). Kurtze Betrachtung derer versteinerten Holzer, worinnen diese naturlichen Corper sowohl nach ihrem Ursprunge, als auch nach ihrem eigenthumlichen Unterschiede und ubrigen Eigenschafften in Erwegung gezogen werden. Leipzig: Friedrich Hekel, 1754.  Small 4to (220 x 170 mm). One folding engraved plate. (Some minor browning.) Original plain blue wrappers (a few repairs, minor soiling). Provenance: Hoefer (early signature on title-page). FIRST EDITION, later summarized in Hamburgisches Magazin in 1755 (pp.354-359), of Schulze's early work on petrified wood.   Schulze studied at Leipzig and was a member of the Leipziger Ökonomische Sozietat. He gave the name "Pechstein" (in English, Pitchstone) to the dull black glassy volcanic rock he found near Meissen. RARE: we trace no copies of Schulze's early work at auction in the last 50 years. Wellcome V p.65.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni Van (1632-1723), Nehemiah GREW (1641-1712), Robert BOYLE (1627-1691). Recueil d'experiences et observations sur le combat, qui procede du melange des corps. Sur les saveurs, sur les odeurs, sur le sang, sur le lait, &c. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1679.  8vo (160 x 90 mm). Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate; 1p. publisher's advertisements at end.  FIRST EDITION.   In his introduction, Louis Le Vasseur describes the three articles, and explains their inclusion in the work. Grew's article, originally published in English, has been translated to French of the importance of his experiments. Boyle's treatise includes information on 24 experiments, 12 dealing with flavors, and 12 dealing with odors.   Le Vasseur explains that he decided to include Leeuwenhoek's article because his experiments and observations on blood and milk are worthy of the curiosity of scholars. The treatise by Leeuwenhoek contains five articles written between April 1674 and February 1678, providing observations for experiments conducted in April, June and July 1674, August 1675, and February 1678. The fifth article, apparently unrecorded in Dobell, may be published here for the first time. In these articles, Leeuwenhoek describes in particular the deformability and agglutination of red blood cells.   RARE: according to online records, only two copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 45 years. NLM/Krivatsy 4991; Wellcome III, 164Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SAMINIATI, Federico (fl. 1599). Tabulae astronomicae: quibus facile omnia capita, quae ad usum sphaerae primi mobilis praecipiuntur, confici possint... Fundamentum, apodixis... Methodus... quibus astronomiae studiosus, suo marte, per triangula plana & sphaerica omnes tabulas primi motus condere possit. Antwerp: Martinus Nutius, 1599.4to (212 x 167 mm). 3 engraved folding plates; woodcut diagrams in-text. (Some overall browning.) Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges (spine reinforced in old vellum manuscript waste, some soiling, small loss to corner, lacking ties). Provenance: Sancte Marie Curtis Orlandingorum (early inscription on title).  FIRST EDITION of Samianti's rare astronomical treatise on determining location using dialing and tables for the sun at different ascension and descension points. The second part of the treatise deals with fundamental geometry for the construction of dials following astronomical protocols.   Not in Adams; Riccardi 414-415.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

WATSON, James Dewey (1928 - ). The Double Helix A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.  8vo. 19 Photographic illustrations, 11 diagrams. (Some annotations.) Publisher 's original blue cloth lettered in gilt and blind (some minor rubbing or sunning to extremities); original printed dust jacket (some chipping to head-and-foot of spine and lower top joint, spine sunned).  FIRST EDITION, second issue of the author 's groundbreaking account of the events which led to the discovery of the structure of DNA, for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962.    Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). I Remember Grandpa. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 1987.  4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original boards; dust jacket.    FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. Accompanied by another signed copy (no dust jacket). Originally written in 1946 as a gift for Capote 's aunt, it was not published until three years before this illustrated edition.  [With:]    [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. RUDISILL, Marie. Sook 's Cookbook. Memories and Traditional Receipts from the Deep South. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1989.    4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original boards; dust jacket.    FIRST EDITION of a cookbook collected by Truman Capote 's aunt. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING FOR AN ILLUSTRATION, a portrait   of Truman Capote 's cousin, Jenny Faulk, signed and dated 1989. With a signed statement from Moser recounting his friendship with Rudisill which developed over the course of illustrating this book, and resulted in her sending Moser a gift of a family quilt with log cabin design, which Truman Capote had while he was a boy. THE ORIGINAL QUILT ACCOMPANIES THIS LOT.  The quilt:  A Pieced Cotton Log Cabin Quilt, circa 192573 x 65 inches.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserThe quilt, assembled a various pieces of cotton, exhibits several tears and areas where the filling has become exposed due to rough usage.   Areas of discoloration.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION] -- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin, printer.] Constitutions des Treize Etats-Unis de L'Amerique. Philadelphia and Paris: [Printed for Franklin by] Ph.-D. Pierres and Pissot, Father and Sons, 1783.  8vo (195 x 122 mm). Title-page with circular woodcut Great Seal of the United States: its first use in a printed book. (Some minor spotting to several leaves.) Contemporary French calf-backed paste-paper covered boards, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some minor toning or rubbing, short separation to upper joint at head of spine).  FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, one of 600 copies (there was also a large-paper issue of 100 copies). The work includes the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the treaties between the Untied States and France, the Low countries, and Sweden, and was translated by the Duc de la Rochefoucauld with over fifty footnotes by him. "Franklin's grand gesture in publishing and distributing these constitutions, about which there was an intense interest and curiosity among statesmen, was one of his chief achievements as propagandist for the new American republic" (Streeter). Howes C-716; Livingston, Franklin and His Press at Passy, pp.181-188; Sabin 16118; Streeter sale II:1035.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

NEISON, Edmund (1849-1940). The Moon and the Condition and Configurations of its Surface. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876.8o (226 x 160mm). Half-title, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 4 tinted lithographed plates, 24 (of 26) maps. (Light spotting, lacking: Key Map, Map I, a few short marginal tears.) Publisher's marron cloth, stamped in black, smooth spine gilt-lettered (stitching weak, spine faded, extremities a little worn); glassine. Provenance: Edward H. McLachlin (signature, 10 May 1894).  FIRST EDITION of Neisen's work, a translation and expansion of Johann Heinrich von Madler 's work. Neison was frequently published in the Selenographical Journal and co-founded the Selenographical Society with amateur astronomer William Radcliffe Birt. The present work is still prized by Selenographers and spurred interest in selenography, the study of the topography of the Moon.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Insectivorous Plants. London: John Murray, 1875.8vo (190 x 125 mm). Half-title; numerous in-text wood engravings after Darwin.   Original publisher's green cloth, covers decorated in blind, spine gilt (hinges just starting, some light wear to spine ends). Provenance: Rowland Ward (1848-1912), British taxidermist and founder of Rowland Ward Limited of Piccadilly, London (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, third thousand, with an updated errata slip. "These meticulous studies form a minor contribution to the evolutionary series by the study of the adaptations of such plants to impoverished conditions" (Freeman p.149).   Rowland Ward's firm specialized in taxidermy work on birds and big game trophies, and he was a well-known publisher of natural history books and big-game hunting narratives.   His father, Edwin Henry Ward, was also a taxidermist who traveled with John James Audubon.   Ward prepared bird skins for Audubon, which were later used in The Birds of America. Freeman 1219; Norman 601. A BRIGHT COPY.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America Being the First Session of the Second Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, October 24, 1791. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791 [i.e. 1792].  Folio (316 x 192 mm). (A few tiny spots on a few leaves, some minor darkening to outer margin.) Contemporary sheep (worn, joints starting, minor losses to spine ends). Provenance: James Bourne Ayer (bookplate).  FIRST EDITION, with p. 228 misnumbered 224. The Journal for the session includes information about the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the Presidential Succession Act debate and passage, the establishment of the U. S. Mint and Coinage, the first militia act, and the foundation of the Northwest Territory Acts. Evans 24911.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[BROADSIDES]. A group of   4 of Moser 's earliest printed broadsides from his Castalia Press. Comprising:  Whistler. The Red Rag. Castalia Press. Prospectus. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press, 1969]. Unfolded sheet, 303 x 207 mm. Illustrated with a small oval portrait of Whistler in mauve; title printed in red; text on verso.    One of an unspecified number printed. SIGNED BY MOSER beneath portrait. Regarding his first book Red Flag, Moser writes: "So inept at engraving wood was I, that I drew a portrait of Mr. Whistler on scratch-board and had a line etching made so that it would look like an engraving. The Castalia Press was started as part of the Art Department at Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass. in the Spring of 1969. It took a year for the first book to come off the press""”Pennyroyal Checklist 1. The text on verso announces The Red Flag as the first limited edition from the Castalia Press, which preceded his Pennyroyal Press. This announcement does not appear in the Pennyroyal Checklist.  [With:]  ONITSURA, Uejima. Thus too my lovely life Must end, another flower"¦ To fall and float away [Haiku]. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press], 15 November 1969. Broadside, 194 x 300 mm. Illustrated with a small flower device; printed in red. One of an unspecified number printed. SIGNED BY MOSER. "This broadside was an offshoot of the Death of Narcissus, printed more or less as part of the continuing set of exercises I was practicing to learn the craft of printing""”Pennyroyal Checklist [B]2.    [With:]    The Art of the Book. Announcement for an exhibit of handmade books from Leonard Baskin 's Gehenna Press held at the John Stark Gallery, Williston Academy, Easthampton, MA.   [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press, 1969]. 226 x 213 mm. Printed in red and black. One of an unspecified number printed. SIGNED BY MOSER.   Pennyroyal Checklist [B]3.  [With:]  MILTON, John. For what can Warr, but endless Warr still breed"¦[quotation from Paradise Lost]. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press], 15 October 1969. 103 x 329 mm. SIGNED BY MOSER.   "This was the first politically motivate bit of printing I ever did, protesting quietly the absurdity of war. Political commentary is a practice I 've maintained to this day""”Pennyroyal Checklist [B]4.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). An Address by Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain Delivered before members of the Congress of the United States "“ 19 May 1943. Stamford, Connecticut: Overbrook Press, September 1943.  4to (263 x 190 mm). Title printed in red and black. (Very slight toning to edges). Publisher 's original black boards, red gilt-lettered label on front cover (some minor scuffing, endleaves toned).  FIRST EDITION, one of 600 copies, of Churchill 's second speech before U.S. Congress urging cooperation between Great Britain and the U.S. Cohen A181.4; Woods A93(b).  Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

NICERON, Jean Francois (1613-1636).   La Perspective curieuse. Paris: widow of F. Langlois, 1652.  Folio (342 x 240 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 50 engraved folding plates (one double-page). (Neat early repair to lower corner of title-page, short marginal tear on one plate, some very minor soiling.) Contemporary brown sprinkled sheep, spine in 8 compartments with 7 raised bands gilt, tan and brown lettering-pieces gilt. Provenance: Frantz Carl Antoni von und zu Enzentriedt (armorial bookplate).Third edition, edited by Roberval, the first to contain Mersenne's important optical treatise L'Optique et las catoptrique. Niceron, a friar of the Minim order, studied perspective in Italy, where he taught mathematics.   In the first edition of this, his major work, he demonstrated a keen understanding of the science of perspective. The first edition of his work contained the first published reference to Descartes' derivation of the law of refraction.   Later editions of the work "simply provide more detail" (DSB).  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LINNAEUS, Carolus (1707-1778). Materia Medica, Liber I. de Plantis. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, 1749.  8vo (205 x 115 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece (bound to face p.1) and one engraved folding plate. (Some minor spotting, minor worming to gutter margin of first and last few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece and endpapers). Provenance: a few early annotations on flyleaf; engraved plate tipped to front free endpaper. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF LINNAEUS'S MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL WORK, including the Linnaean names of over 500 medicinal plants, including proper genera and species for several, and noting their medicinal effects.   Linnaeus never completed subsequent editions of his work, although unauthorized editions based on his dissertations on animals (Book II) and minerals (Book III) were published in 1763. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 45 years.    Soulsby 948; Wellcome III, 526.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

WESTON, Richard (1733-1806). The English Flora: Or, A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants and Fruits, Natives as well as Exotics, Cultivated, for Use or Ornament, in the English Nurseries, Greenhouses and Stoves, Arranged According to the Linnaean System. London: Printed for the Author, 1775.  8vo (232 x 139 mm). (Some creasing, occasional light spotting.) Original paper-backed boards, uncut and unopened (some light wear).  FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Weston's early English flora includes an extensive catalogue of seeds both domestic and foreign, an index in English referring to Latin names, and a general catalogue of seeds for various gardens. Weston was an English Botanist   connected to many horticultural and agricultural societies and published similar works on a variety of topics in those fields. ESTC T228382.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, April-September 1870.6 original parts (224 x 143 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 wood-engraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. (A few minor stains or spots.) Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (repairs to some spines, some minor mostly marginal chipping, soiling); green cloth folding-case.  FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. The "Edwin Drood Advertiser" is present in each part, as well as all the inserted advertisements listed in Hatton and Cleaver except: Dr. Jongh's ad in part I, the scarce "Cork Hat" ad in part II; p.1-2 of the Cassel ads in part III; 8pp. Chapman & Hall ad in part IV.   Part IV with the additional 8pp. Chapman & Hall ads not found in all copies; part VI with the printed slip "Price Eighteenpence" pasted over the original price of "One Shilling". Eckel pp. 96-98; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384; Gimbel A154.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

COMENIUS, John Amos ( "Johann Amos KOMENSKY" or "Jan Amos") (1592-1670). Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc est Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum, et in Vita Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura. Charles Hoole, translator. Alexander Anderson, illustrator. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1810.  12mo (173 x 104 mm). Numerous woodcuts. (Some marginal chipping, some creasing or browning.) Original publisher 's sheep gilt, edges sprinkled brown (rubbing, joints starting, a few wormholes to spine); quarter calf gilt folding case.    FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE FIRST CHILDREN 'S PICTURE BOOK, ENGRAVINGS BY THE FIRST WOOD-ENGRAVER IN THE UNITED STATES. "The World Around Us in Pictures was the first European schoolbook based on the principle of what is now called visual education. Each page consists of a woodcut of some subject or object and, underneath, a bilingual Latin-German text in two columns, which in simple terms explains the picture, with numerical references to the items shown"¦ it is the combination of text and picture which has made Orbis Pictus a milestone in the history of education" (PMM). Comenius was an important figure in the field of education. He wrote many books on education, many were translated into a variety of languages, such as the present work, which was translated from the original Latin and High Dutch by Charles Hoole in 1659 from the twelfth London edition with corrections and enlarged. "His universal importance rests on the pedagogic theories and writings of educations from the ages of four to twenty-four (Didactica, written 1632, published 1657)" (PMM). Anderson was a self-taught wood-engraver and produced the first wood-engravings in the United States. Muir, English Children 's Books, pp. 217-218; PMM 139. Not in Rosenbach or Welch.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). Beatrix Potter 's The Tale of Peter Rabbit a New Printing from the Original Line-blocks Made for the First Private Edition of 1901. Maurice Sendak, illustrator. Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd., 1995.  35 parts, 12mo. 34 line-block plates printed in dark brown. Original publisher 's green printed wrappers, each print laid in individual limp gray printed wrappers; original blue-gray cloth folding case, green painted lettering-piece gilt to spine, gray and brown stamped illustration to front cover (some very minor rubbing). Provenance: acquired from Justin G. Schiller, Ltd. (correspondence laid in).  FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, No. 111 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY SENDAK AND IAIN BAIN. Sendak introduced the present work, which contains "restrikes of all the surviving linecut zinc plates (34 of a total 42) that were used for printing the original 1901 private edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (Introduction, p. 5). Iain Bain was a Scottish historian of printing and served as the president of both the Thomas Bewick Society, and of the Printing Historical Society.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[CIVIL WAR] -- GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885.    2 volumes, 8vo (230 x 147 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces, numerous maps, numerous wood engravings, several facsimile letters (2 folding). (Some short tears, some spotting, slight offsetting.) Contemporary sheep gilt, red and black calf lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled (joints starting with previous repairs, some soiling, rubbed). Provenance: shelfmarks from previous owner(s).  FIRST EDITION of Grant's classic memoirs, written on his deathbed as a justification for his conduct in the Civil War.Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, WisconsinFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

CHOPIN, Kate (1850-1904). The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899.  8vo. Title-page printed in black and red. (Some minor spotting or staining.) Publisher 's pictorial green cloth uncut (darkened and soiled, separation along lower joint). FIRST EDITION of Chopin's novel, whose frank and sexual themes drew condemnation from contemporary reviewers. In light of these reviews, the publisher declined subsequent printings of the work, which is now regarded not only as a major early feminist work, but also a precursor to American modernist literature. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only 3 copies of Chopin's novel have sold at auction in the last 45 years. BAL 3246.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642).   Mathematical Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion. London: Samuel Baker, 1734.  4to (254 x 196 mm). Engraved table, numerous in-text illustrations. (Lacking final leaf of advertisements, title a bit browned.) Spine present only (lacking both covers, a few leaves becoming loose).   Provenance: The Franklin Institute (perforated stamp); sold Swann Galleries, 2014 (sale 2362, lot 310). Second edition, so stated on the title-page, apparently a reissue of the first edition with the title-page reset (see ESTC). of Thomas Weston's translation of Galileo's 1638   Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Mathematiche. Galileo's final work, the Discorsi "represents the first systematic attempt to extend the mathematical treatment of physics from statics to kinematics" (Norman). ESTC T119010.Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.    3 volumes, 8vo (246 x 162 mm). Engraved frontispieces and numerous in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). 20th-century half green polished calf gilt, marbled boards, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (spines sunned, a few tiny scuffs); board slipcase. Provenance: Unidentified signature on title-page vol.I (faded and partially shaved). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, first appearing as a weekly serial from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841, including short stories and two novels, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Gimbel A51; Smith I:6.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

WORLIDGE, John (1640-1700). Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered... and Dictionarium Rusticum: or, The Interpretaion of Rustick Terms. London: for Tho. Dring, 1687.Folio (318 x 197 mm). Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate; woodcut initials. (First and last few leaves frayed, "The Explanation of the Frontispiece" leaf bound in on a stub, some overall browning or staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed, corners repaired). Provenance: Thomas Jones (signature, 1763, inscription on recto of first leaf); a few 19th-century annotations.  Fourth edition of Worlidge's  Systema, which was first published in 1668, outlining general improvements, enclosing meadows and pastures and watering and draining them, and with information about clovers, vetches, Wiltshire long-grass, hemp, and flax.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[CHILDREN'S BOOKS] -- A group of 41 works in 42 volumes of children’s books, comprising:LOBEL, Arnold (1933-1987). Fables. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. 4to. Color illustrations by the author. Blue publishers cloth, dust jacket clipped. Stated first edition. SIGNED BY ARNOLD LOBEL. -- Song of Robin Hood. Selected and edited by Anne Malcolmson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947. 4to. Designed and illustrated by Virgina Lee Burton. Original black cloth with silver and red decoration, dust jacket clipped. -- Contes de Perrault. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1927. 4to. Illustrations by Felix Lorioux. Original cloth backed boards. -- KEIZOBURO, Tejima. Ho-Limlim: A Rabbit Tale from Japan. New York: Philomel Books, 1990. 4to. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. -- And 37 others. Together, 41 works in 42 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert (1834-1894). Etching and Etchers. London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor for MacMillan & Co., 1868.    4to (253 x 166 mm). Title printed in red and black, frontispiece etching, 35 etchings or drypoints   (5 double-page, 1 folding). (Very occasional spotting, light offsetting.) Maroon morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment gilt decoration in the rest, sides and turndowns gilt, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (some scuffs to sides). Provenance: Newton Hall, Cambridge (bookplate, initials J.S.).  FIRST EDITION, including etchings after famous etchers, including Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Jacques Callot, Samuel Palmer, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and others.    For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SMITH, Joseph Mather (1789-1866). Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1824.  2 parts in one volume, 8vo (230 x 142 mm). (Some spotting throughout, minor marginal chipping, some creasing.) Original publisher 's green boards, printed lettering-piece to spine, uncut and unopened (some staining, some chipping to spine). Provenance: A. W. Kennedy (early signature).  FIRST EDITION of this medical text, containing references to epidemics in the United States and the West Indies. Smith was born in New York, and practiced medicine in New York. He was one of the founders of the Medico-Physiological Society, contributing "Efficacy of Emetics in Spasmodic Diseases" to the first volume of the Medico-Physiological Society Transactions in 1817. He published many contributions to medical periodicals on cholera, Puerperal fever, and other epidemics. Smith also served as the editor of the New York Medical and Physical Journal and was President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Sabin 83362.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Serialized in: The National Era. Volume V, Nos. 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 34 [typographical error], 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 52. Washington, D.C.: June 5, 1851-December 25, 1851.  21 chapters in 26 parts only (of 40), folio, on a bifolium (each 685 x 486 mm). (Tears to folds affecting letters, some marginal chipping, some spotting or staining.) Provenance: E. McGregor (early signatures).   Prior to the publication of the first edition, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared serially in The National Era, which was printed weekly. In this serial form, Stowe's work was printed one chapter at a time.   The present run of issues comprises chapters: 1, 4-7, 9-19, 22, 24-27 (with Chapter 9 in two parts, Chapter 10 mis-labeled, Chapter 18 in three parts).   A RUN OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL PARTS AS PUBLISHED SERIALLY of Stowe's work.   The present run includes two numbers with no installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin: No. 34, August 21 1851 (with a note that Chapter 12 arrived too late for publication), and No. 51, December 18, 1851. Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in 40 installments between 1851 and 1852, and based on the reception, Stowe was approached by a Boston publisher to publish her work.   The first edition sold three hundred thousand copies in the first year, and by 1857, nearly two million copies had been sold.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION] -- A group of 3 works related to scientific education, comprising:    LEVER, Francis. Francis Lever, the Young Mechanic. London: John Harris, 1835. (132 x 108 mm). (Lacking most of quires A-B, some staining.) Original leather-backed cloth-covered boards (chipped, stained, text-block separating).   RARE. -- SLOANE, Thomas O 'Conor. Facts Worth Knowing Selected Mainly from The Scientific American for the Household, Workshop, and Farm. Hartford: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1890. (220 x 136 mm). (Some browning.) Contemporary sheep, morocco lettering-piece gilt (joints starting, rubbed). -- BRANNT, William T. and William H. WAHL (1848-1909), Editors . The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts, Covering the Latest, Most Important and Most Useful Discoveries in Chemical Technology, and their Practical Application in the Arts and the Industries. Philadelphia and London: Henry Carey Baird & Co. and Sampson Low, 1896. Printed table laid-in. Original publisher 's decorated red cloth (some minor soiling). Later edition. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all 8vo, engraved plates, all FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated.    Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Los Proverbios. Madrid: Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1864.The complete set of 18 etchings with aquatint and drypoint, with the lithographic title-page, on heavy wove paper, without watermarks, plates 245 x 355 mm, sheets 308 x 438 mm, some dampstaining, a few corners creased or chipped, a few sheets with short mostly marginal tears or creases, title-page gutter margin recto and plate 4 gutter margin verso with old adhesive.   Disbound with remnants of stab-sewing and sewing holes (occasionally with short tears) in the gutter margin, modern wrappers with modern adhesive.FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies, of Goya's print series, completed in the years between 1815 and 1824.   The original series comprised 22 plates, which were left with Goya's son Xavier on his departure from Spain in 1824; they remained hidden until Xavier's death in 1854.   Eighteen passed through two different owners before the came to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1862, where they were published in this first, posthumous edition in 1864.   Four remaining plates were discovered in Paris in the early 1870s, and were eventually published in the periodical, L'Art, in 1877.   (Deltiel 202-219; Harris 248-265).Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[GOREY - BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CONTRIBUTIONS]. A group of 8 works, comprising:  TOLEDANO, Henry. Goreography. San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. -- ROSS, Clifford & Karen WILKIN. The World of Edward Gorey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- WILKIN, Karen, editor. Ascending Peculiarity. Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey. New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt, 2001. FIRST EDITION. -- HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Who's Writing This? Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. FIRST EDITION, with Gorey's contribution "A Penchant for Pseudonyms." -- HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Antaeus. Issue No. 75/74, Autumn 1994. Hopewell, NJ: Antaeus, 1995. FIRST EDITION, with Gorey's contribution "Serious Life: A Locket." -- ROSS, Clifford & Karen WILKIN. The World of Edward Gorey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. LIMITED EDITION, number 293 of 300 copies SIGNED BY GOREY, ROSS and WILKIN of a total edition of 326. -- WILKIN, Karen, editor. Ascending Peculiarity. Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey. New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt, 2001. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WILKIN. -- TOLEDANO, Henry. Goreography. San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, all in original publisher's bindings as issued, condition generally fine.  Property from the Collection of Thomas J. BarrettFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[LINCOLN] -- SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967). Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939.  4 volumes, 8vo. Photographic frontispieces, illustrated. Original publisher's gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few tiny stains or scuffs); original slipcase (some chipping). Provenance: William Patrick McGowan (embossed stamps).  FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 203 of 500 copies SIGNED BY SANDBURG. Sandburg won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work.    Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, WisconsinFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HOLTZ, Helmuth Heinrich Diedrich (1833-1915). Pictorial letter sheet with 7 views, comprising: Hotel at Matagorda, Texas -- Church -- [top center: untitled illustration of eagle with spread wings, 2 banners, and foliage] -- Masonic Hall -- Courthouse -- Residence of Col. R. H. Williams -- Store of Mr. G. Burkhart. Hamburg: Lang, [ca. 1860].  8vo (273 x 214 mm). Lithographed pictorial letter sheet with conjugate blank leaf. (Light browning, some very minor wear along edges.) Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 222).     FIRST EDITION, A RARE TEXAS LETTER SHEET.   Though many examples of California letter sheets are known, only a few were made for Texas. Holtz also created large bird's-eye views of Indianola and Matagorda (Reps 3981 and 3986).  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). The Microscope Made Easy. London: R. Dodsley, 1742.  8vo (197 x 115 mm). 14 engraved plates (9 folding) and one folding table. (Tear to corner of plate 8 with loss of plate number, some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (rebacked to style, some light wear). FIRST EDITION.   Baker, who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for his scientific achievements, took an interest in microscopy, culminating in the publication of the present work, his first contribution to the field. [With:] BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). The Microscope Made Easy. London: J. Dodsley, 1769. 8vo (205 x 125 mm). 15 engraved plates (most folding), folding letterpress table.   (Some minor spotting or browning, a few short tears to folds.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving old lettering-piece, endpapers renewed). Fifth edition.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology. London: Williams and Norgate, 1864.Folio (375 x 304 mm). 12 double-page lithographed plates by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. (Dampstaining to lower corner, some browning.) Original brown gilt-lettered cloth (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some light wear). Provenance: Clinton Hall Association, N.Y., Mercantile Library (stamps on plates).FIRST EDITION, "the figures in the present Atlas are intended simply to aid students in comprehending the general arrangement of the bony framework of the Vertebrata, and some of its most important modifications" (Introduction). Nissen ZBI 2064.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Tabula novarum insnlarum[sic], quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant. Basel, 1554.  Woodcut map of North and South America, 312 x 409 mm. (A few tiny holes.) Burden State 7 with Latin text on verso, without the word "ova" before "Insula Atlantica quam..." in South America, and lacking Temistitian.Published in both Ptolemy's Geographia and Munster's own Cosmographia (as the present copy). The present copy of the map is from the 1555 Latin edition of Cosmographia, with the phrase "Insula Atlantica quam uo-/ cant Brasilii & Americam" in South America, Temistitan not named in Mexico, "ORBIS, QVI INSVLAS" the second line on the verso.First issued in 1540, Munster's map is the earliest map to depict all of the Americas, and the first to name the Pacific Ocean ("Mare Pacificum"). The ship is Magellans' Victoria, the only vessel of five to survive his voyage. Munster relied on Verrazano's accounts of the New World and on Marco Polo's accounts of eastern Asia when producing his map. Burden 12.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LAPLACE, Pierre Simon de, Marquis (1749-1827). The System of the World. 1809. $1,500.2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 124 mm). Half-titles; 4pp. publisher's advertisements in vol. II. (Minor spotting to a few leaves.) Original paper-backed boards, uncut.  FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH.   Laplace's important work on astronomy was translated by J. Pond, who notes: "The reader will find the angular measures and measures of time used by the author reduced in the margin to the sexigesimal system adopted in this country; this was thought better than altering the text o an original work of such importance" (Note, p.vi). The note is followed by a table of French measures on the facing page. A FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

O 'CONNOR, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955].    8vo. Original black cloth (minor rubbing to extremities); dust jacket (spine panel faded as usual with minor wear at ends, a few tiny nicks or chips). Provenance: "Walsh" (owner 's ink stamp on front pastedown); Barry Moser (bookplate).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "tyring" for "trying" on page 125.    [With:]    O 'CONNOR, Flannery. The Violent Bear It Away. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1960]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Accompanied by a copy of Sarah Gordon 's Flannery O 'Connor. The Obedient Imagination. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, [2000]. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Rome-Floyd County Library (bookplate and library label on spine panel); Barry Moser (signed bookplate).  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. The Holy Bible. Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments. North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999.  2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated with over 235 relief engravings by Barry Moser.   (Front flyleaf creased in Vol. I.)   Vol. I partially bound, sewn onto original vellum strips with linen and spine backing paper present; Vol. II in full vellum over boards with title stamped in gilt on front board and spine (slight discoloration to vellum on front cover); each volume housed in original cloth folding case (both with spine labels for Vol. II).    LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 copies on Zerkall Bible paper, out of a total edition of 430 copies, this copy out-of-series and signed by Moser at end of Vol II. The text for the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible follows the classic King James, or "Authorized" version, first published in 1611. The type is Galliard-Moser, designed by Matthew Carter and modified specifically for this project, and the type pages are composed and printed by Bradley Hutchinson of Digital Letterpress in Austin, Texas, after Moser 's designs and specifications. Mr. Hutchinson has rendered the computer-generated type into polymer printing plates and printed them letterpress, combining tradition with modern technology. The paper is Zerkall Bible, manufactured especially for this project and bearing the unique watermark of the Pennyroyal Caxton Press. The bindings are executed by the combined studios of Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton, of Easthampton, Massachusetts. Moser brought the experience of thirty years of engraving to bear on his illustrations for the King James Bible, the first edition in this century in which both the Old and the New Testaments are illustrated by a single artist. Working with a new medium known as resingrave, Moser has cut over 235 stunning illustrations which rank among his finest, and overseen the integration of these engravings into a seamless whole, what he has termed the "struggle to engage not only a sacred text but the greatest monument of our language; to grapple with typography and images befitting such sanctity and monumentality; and to wrestle with the devils and angels that reside therein." This book undoubtedly ranks among the greatest achievements of twentieth century fine bookmaking. With the original prospectus laid in.    [With:] 3 original preliminary pencil drawings by Moser for illustrations in The Holy Bible. Each 403 x 284 mm, each titled and signed by Moser. The subjects comprise: "Sanballat" (Nehemiah 2:10), "The Child" (Galatians 4:1), and "The Annunciation" (Luke 1:28).  [And:]    A trial binding dummy for the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, folio, linen-backed boards, inscribed by Moser in pencil on the front free endpaper: "This binding dummy is from the workshops of Sarah Creighton & Claudia Cohen is a prototype for the binding of the Pennyroyal Press edition of the King James Bible. The cover papers were made by Tim Barrett at his paper mill at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa. Barrett and I collected walnut husks around the mill building to dye the sheets. Unfortunately, the paper bruised and burnished, & the idea for a very humble biding was abandoned. / Barry Moser / 8.26.21."Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LACEPEDE, Bernard Germain de (1759-1825). Historie Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens. Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1788-1789.2 volumes only, 4to (253 x 182 mm). 63 engraved plates; 2 folding tables. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, red and orange lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: J. Fauquer Lamberg? (inscription on a separate sheet tipped in). FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive summary of amphibians and reptiles.   Lacepede befriended Buffon, who in 1785 appointed him sub-demonstrator in the Jardin du Roi.   Buffon proposed that he continue his monumental Histoire Naturelle, which he did with this work. The plates after de Seve depict the animals within their natural landscapes. Nissen ZBI 2350. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge, Including the Dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. London: William Pickering, 1828.  3 volumes, 8vo (197 x 120 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (spotting and soiling). Provenance: John Swaine (prize inscription, Manchester, June 1829).  FIRST EDITION of the collected works of one of most significant figures in English poetry and published during his lifetime. Keynes 60.  Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MOSER, Barry. Portraits"¦ Introduction by Ann Patchett. Afterword by Barry Moser. North Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 2006.  Folio. 161 engravings on wood and Resingrave by Barry Moser. Contents loose as issued in original cloth chemise and folding case.    LIMITED EDITION, one of 60 sets, signed by Ann Patchett, printer Vance and Barry Moser, this being COPY NUMBER 1, from the first twenty copies reserved for the artist. Contains 161 portraits of friends, family, artists, architects, writers, poets, and composers engraved on wood and Resingrave by Moser from 1970 to 2006 and collected here for the first time.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

FONTENELLE, Bernad LeBouyer de (1657-1757). Elements de la Geometrie de l'infinie Suite des Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1727.4to (250 x 189 mm). Woodcut device on title; engraved head-piece; one engraved folding plate. (Some minor spotting.) Modern half calf, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Provenance: The University of Keele Library, Turner Collection (presentation bookplate).   FIRST EDITION of Fontenelle's attempt at a theory of infinity. "In it he displayed his interest in the notion of infinity and his talent as a historian; in a few pages he retraces the history of the mathematical study of curved lines from Archimedes to Newton and Leibniz...According to Fontenelle, none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory to it; that is what he proposed to do" (DSB).  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MILNER, Henry Ernest (1845-1906). The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening. London: The Author and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Limited, 1890.  4to (310 x 237). Half-title, 10 etched sepia plates by J.R. Hutchinson, 12 wood-engraved plates (10 colored, 2 double-page). (Some light spotting.) Original publisher 's green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some rubbing to extremities, some light wear to corners).    FIRST EDITION of Milner 's text covering all aspects of landscape gardening. Milner was an English landscape architect and civil engineer. This present work spurred commissions for notable projects, including the 250 acres at Wembley Park for Sir Edward Watkin 's, the gardens at Friar Park for Sir Frank Crisp, and the parterre at Gatton Park for Sir Jeremiah Colman.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

TRABAUD, Jean.  Principes sur le mouvement et l'equilibre, pour servir d'introduction aux mecaniques & a la physique. Paris: Jean Desaint & Charles Saillant, 1741.4to (255 x 193 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces; 25 engraved folding plates (one with flaps). (Minor marginal chipping to a few plates, otherwise bright.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some light wear). FIRST EDITION, this copy including the section on Ellipse that is often lacking. "In the text Trabaud makes reference to Jean Bernoulli, Leibniz, Varignon, Descartes, de la Hire, and other authors represented in this collection" (Bibliotheca Mechanica, p.325).   The text includes two treatises: the first, containing several books, deals with all aspects of the movement of bodies and weights, percussions of bodies and statics, hydrostatics and equilibrium of fluids and hydrodynamics; the second shorter book deals with the formation of ellipse. Bibliotheca Mechanica pp.324-325.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

GROOM, Winston (b.1943). Forrest Gump. A Novel. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1986.  8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed boards; original dust jacket (minor wear to spine panel ends to extremities). Provenance: Barry Moser (bookplate).  FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GROOM on the front free endpaper.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870).  Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.3 volumes, 8vo (250 x 165 mm). Engraved frontispieces and numerous in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne ['Phiz']. Later polished red calf gilt, brown and black morocco lettering-pieces gilt stamp-signed by Charles E. Lauriat (upper cover to vol.III nearly detached, a few joints starting, some rubbing or wear).    FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, first appearing as a weekly serial from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841, including short stories and two novels, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Gimbel A51; Smith I:6.Property from the Estate of Charles and Lorraine Janda, Hinsdale, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637-1680).   The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects: Reduced to Distinct Classes, Confirmed by Particular Instances, Displayed in the Anatomical Analysis of Many Species.... London; for C. G. Seyffert, 1758.  Folio (402 x 250 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved device, 2pp. list of subscribers; 53 engraved plates. (Some spotting or browning.)   Contemporary calf gilt (covers detaching, front endleaves disbound and one gathering becoming loose, some wear).  FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Thomas Flloyd and with a life of Swammerdam by Boerhaave.    Dibner  Heralds of Science 191; Nissen  ZBI 4057; Norman 2037.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BRADLEY, Richard (d.1732). New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical; Explaining the Motion of the Sapp and Generation of Plants...The Fourth Edition...To which is added...   Herefordshire-Orchards. London: W. Mears, 1724.  8vo (182 x 116 mm). Title printed in red and black within double rule border; 11 copper engraved plates (8 folding). (Title inserted on a stub, some light browning.) Contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked to style, some light wear). Provenance: Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724), Scottish statesman (armorial bookplate); Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963), bookbinder (bookplate laid in). Fourth edition. The work comprises four tracts with continual pagination, describing a new system of vegetation, methods for improving flower gardens, a gardener's calendar, and two early letters published as Herefordshire Orchards. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt was the first woman to lecture at the male-only Grolier Club, and was inspired to help found the all-woman Hroswitha Club, which has since merged with the Grolier Club.   ESTC T112715; Henrey 501; not in Hunt.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727).   Universal Arithmetick, or a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. London: for J. Senex and W. and J. Innys, 1728.  8vo (198 x 112 mm). 8 engraved folding plates. (Some spotting or browning.)   20th-century calf, spine gilt (joints lightly rubbed, hinges reinforced). Provenance: Joseph D. Teitelbaum (bookplate).Second edition in English, preceded by an edition of 1720.   Newton's work was first published in Latin in 1707 as Arithmetica universalis. ESTC T18667.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). In eos quos de Mundi sphaera conscripsit libros, ac in Planetarum theoricas, Canonum Astronomicorum Libri II. Paris: Michael Vascosan, 1553.  Small 4to (227 x 161 mm). 26 woodcut diagrams designed by Fine, 27 tables; decorated initials. (Some staining, some creasing.) Contemporary limp vellum, hand-lettered on upper cover (soiled, a few holes, lacking ties); brown cloth folding case. Provenance: Early marginalia on a few leaves; Aloyeii Rodulphi (early signatures).  FIRST EDITION of Fines ' scarce text, used in universities for teaching Ptolemaic astronomy. Fine, French mathematician and cartographer, wrote many other works related to the use of astronomical equipment and description of innovative methods in astronomy and cartography. Adams F-476; Honeyman 1316.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HOWARD, John Eliot (1807-1883).   The Quinology of the East Indian Plantations. London: L. Reeve & Co.,, 1869-1876.    3 parts in one volume, folio (495 x 351 mm). Half-title; 15 lithographed plates (13 with hand-coloring), 2 mounted albumen photographs. (Some minor mostly marginal spotting to a few leaves.) Original publisher's green gilt-decorated cloth by Westley with their ticket (lower joint repaired, hinges starting, some very light wear to extremities, otherwise bright).  FRIST EDITION of Howard's rare work on growing quinine in South East Asia. As early as 1827, Howard showed interest in what would prove to be his life's work: the extraction of the anti-malaria drug quinine from the bark of the  Cinchona (Cinchonaceae) tree in South America. He published his first report on the subject in 1852. After the tree was introduced to India from the Andes, Howard examined the bark and produced this, his second major work, on his findings.   He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his important work. RARE: We trace only 4 copies of Howard's work at auction in the last 45 years. A BRIGHT COPY.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HEINLEIN, Robert (1907-1988). Methuselah's Children. Hicksville, NY: Gnome Press, [1958].8vo. (Browned as usual.) Original black boards, spine lettered in red; original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, minor chipping or soiling, occasional repairs verso).  FIRST EDITION, in Currey's priority 'A' binding with black boards lettered in red and the dust jacket with the publisher's address "80 East 11th St., New York 3" on rear panel. Currey p.233.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MARIOTTE, Edme (1620-1685). Oeuvres. Leiden: Pierre Vander Aa, 1717.2 parts in 2 volumes, 4to (247 x 195 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette; 26 engraved folding plates. (Some browning or offsetting, a few short marginal tears, some marginal worming to the first few leaves vol.I.) Contemporary vellum, hand-lettered on spine (some soiling, some minor worming to pastedowns and flyleaves). Provenance: Bibliotheca Viennensis Scholarum Ciarum de Virgem Fidelem (inscription on title, 1781).   First collected edition of the works of Mariotte. "Honored as the man who introduced experimental physics into France, Mariotte played a central role in the work of the Paris Academy of Sciences from shortly after its formation in 1666 until his death in 1684" (DSB). A WIDE-MARGINED COPY.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HENKEL, Johann Friedrich (1678-1744). Pyritologie, ou Histoire Naturelle de la Pyrite...on y a Joint le Flora Saturnisans...et les opuscules mineralogiques... Paris: Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1760.  4to (249 x 194 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved folding plates. (Some minor browning or spotting to a few quires, a few marginal pencil annotations.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, corners renewed, some light wear.)  FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Henckel's study on pyrites, first published in German in 1725.   German naturalist, chemist and mineralogist, Henckel was one of the pioneers of inorganic chemistry. His work on pyrites was influential on porcelain fabrication, particularly in Saxony, and in recognition of his contributions, he was named mining councilor to the elector of Saxony. The French edition was translated by Baron d'Holback, and the plates are by Pelletier and Patte.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818-1890). Ether and Chloroform; their Discovery and Physiological Effects. Boston: David Clapp, 1848.  8vo (230 x 150 mm). Original salmon wrappers uncut; cloth folding case.FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, containing printings of two papers: "Ether and Chloroform: A Compendium of their History, Surgical Use, Dangers, and Discovery," an offprint from Vol. I of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and "Anaesthetic Agents, their Mode of Exhibition and Physiological Effects," an offprint from the Transactions of the American Medical Association.   "Bigelow's speedy publication of Morton's discovery, and his subsequent advocacy of ether assured its adoption throughout the civilized world" (Garrison-Morton 5730).Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

FOOTE, Henry Stuart (1804-1880). Texas and the Texans; Or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-West. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1841.2 volumes, 8vo. (Some light spotting.) Publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, spines gilt-decorated (a touch of wear to corners). Provenance: John S. Littell (signatures, 22 April 1841); C. Walking? Littell (signatures, 24 September 1876) Joseph Y. Jeanes (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of "one of the most influential books on Texas in its time" (Jenkins). An important contemporary history of early Texas, "a very discursive account of Texas history down to the opening years of the Republic of Texas, but, with judicious skipping, a rather entertaining one" (Streeter).   Howes F-238; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 63; Sabin 25019; Streeter 1377. A BRIGHT COPY.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

ORFILA, Mathieu-Joseph Bonaventure (1787-1853). Elemens de Chimie Medicale. Paris: Crochard, 1817.    2 volumes, 8vo (196 x 123 mm). 14 copper-engraved plates. (Some staining, some spotting, a few tears mostly marginal.) 19th-century vellum-cornered boards, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges lightly speckled red (rebacked preserving endpapers and old lettering-pieces, corners bumped, some overall light wear).  FIRST EDITION of this scarce work by Spanish-born French toxicologist and Chemist Orfila, the founder of toxicology. His research provided clear evidence that toxins can be found in parenchyma and organic liquids, and he worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine. He studied asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, exhumation, and developed tests to identify the presence of blood in forensic contexts, and is credited as having been one of the first people to utilize the microscope to analyze blood and semen stains. Not only was he appointed physician to Louis XVIII in 1816, he was also a member of the French Academy of Science, and the recipient of the First Prize in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Valencia.    Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892). A Walk Across Africa or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1864.  8vo (222 x 141 mm). 2 folding color maps (one folding into rear pocket, one laid in). (Several short tears to folds of maps, occasional spotting.) Publisher's original green pictorial cloth gilt, smooth spine, gilt-lettered and decorated, front cover with blind-stamped border and gilt figure, by Edmunds and Remnant with their ticket (hinges weak).    FIRST EDITION of Grant 's account of his mission to find the source of the Nile with fellow Indian army officer, John Hanning Speke. "The two explorers and their porters now embarked on the 'long walk' on which Palmerston was later to remark and so provide Grant with the title of his book, A Walk across Africa" (DNB). Czech, p. 66 ("A monumental work of exploration").    Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

PORTA, Giambattista della (1535?-1615). Natural Magick...in twenty books. London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658.Folio (273 x 168 mm). Engraved title-page (repaired with portions provided in facsimile); letterpress title printed in red and black (marginal repairs affecting portion of rule border); numerous woodcut illustrations. (Lacking P2/3, provided in facsimile, several leaves frayed with occasional minor losses, some minor worming lower margin, some soiling or browning). Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving original spine, overall wear).  FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Porta's treatise which "epitomizes the combination of credulity and empiricism typical of the late Renaissance: uncritical reports of the marvelous and miraculous and holdovers from medieval books of secrets are mixes with attempts to define natural magic and to apply mathematical and experimental techniques in science" (Norman). ESTC R33476; Norman 1726; Wing P-2982.Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BAKER, Henry (1698-1774).  An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Polype... London: R. Dodsley, 1743.  8vo (200 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut illustrations in text. (Some spotting or browning.) Contemporary blind-ruled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece, hinges starting).  Provenance: Philip Earl Stanhope, likely Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope (1714-1786) Fellow of the Royal Society (armorial bookplate).  FIRST EDITION in which Baker describes his repetition of Trembley's systematic experiments of 1739.   Despite giving credit to Trembley and to Leeuwenhoek for his 1702 observations, Baker was criticized for publishing his work before Trembley's 1744 book. Wellcome II, p.88.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com