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[MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:  The Naked and the Dead. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. Later printing dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- The Deer Park. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- The Fight. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- The Last Night. New York: Targ Editions, 1984. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE one of 250 copies SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Tough Guys Don't Dance. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Leather gilt. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, most FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED BY MAILER where indicated, all in original boards, cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus (34-62). Persio tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato. Francesco Stelluti (1577-1653), translator. Rome: G. Mascardi, 1630.  Small 4to (207 x 148 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Persius, full-page engraved plate depicting a bee as seen under a microscope, 5 small engravings. (O4 with 1-in. paper flaw affecting 7 lines of text Contemporary vellum gilt (upper hinge starting). Provenance: Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715) English stateman and poet (armorial bookplate dated 1702); David Garrick (1717-1779) Shakespearean actor and playwright (bookplate)FIRST EDITION of Stelluti's translation, and THE FIRST BOOK TO CONTAIN ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL OBJECTS AS SEEN THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE. Stelluti, a friend of Galileo and a founder of the Accademia Dei Lincei, used a microscope given to his fellow founder Federico Cesi by Galileo, which he used to make detailed observations of insects.   Stelluti's illustrations of the honeybee first appeared in an extremely rare broadside by Cesi in 1625 (known in two copies), but the Persio contains the first such illustrations to appear in a book. Garrison-Morton 259; Nissen ZBI 3988; Wellcome I:4917.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). Raum und Zeit. Offprint from: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Volume 18. Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1909.8vo. Original wrappers (minor losses with repairs to spine ends, some minor creasing or spotting); cloth folding case.   FIRST SEPARATE EDITION.   "In this paper 'Space and Time,' read by Minkowski in Cologne only a few months before his death, he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the relativity theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional space-time continuum... Minkowski maintained that the separation of time and space is a false conception; that time is itself a dimension, comparable to length, breadth and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions..." PMM 401.[With:] MINKOWSKI.   A group of offprints, comprising: "Ein Kriterium fur die Algebraischen Zahlen." A reprint of a work Minkowski wrote as a student under David Hilbert at Konigsberg. 1899. -- "Uber die Annaherung an Eine reelle Grosse Durch Rationale Zahlen." Offprint from: Mathematische Annalen. Vol. 54. 1899. -- "Quelques Nouveaus Theoremes dur l'Approximation des Quantites a l'Aide de Numbres Rationnels." Offprint from: Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques. 1900. -- "Zur Geometrie der Zahlen." Offprint from: Mathematiker-Kongresess. Vol. 8, Issue 13. 1904. -- Together, 4 offprints, all in original wrappers.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

QUINCY, John, M.D. (d. 1722). Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Compleat English Dispensatory, in Four Parts. London: A. Bell, T. Varnam & J. Osborn, and W. Taylor, 1718.  8vo (195 x 119 mm). Title printed within double-rule border, woodcut tail-piece. (Soiling throughout, some marginal chipping, some creasing.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf, later red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some rubbing, some chipping). Provenance: Thomas Powell Hornby Park (signatures and annotations, 1782).  FIRST EDITION of Quincy 's work. "At a time when differences between apothecaries and physicians were acute, Quincy, an apothecary, managed to secure widespread acceptance as a writer on medical subjects" and his work "long outlived its author and"¦became the basis of later dispensatories" (Howard-Jones, "John Quincy, M.D....," In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 6, No. 2, 1951, p. 149). ESTC T61384.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SPAIN - MINING LAWS].   GALVEZ, Josef de.  Real Ordenanzas para la Direccion, Regimen y Gobierno del Important Cuerpo de la Mineria de Nueva-Espana y de su Real Tribunal General de Orden de su Majestad. Madrid: [Royal Press], 1783.Folio (297 x 207 mm). Engraved frontispiece of the royal arms by Fabregat, paraph of Josef de Galves on p.214. (Some minor marginal worming to a few leaves not affecting letters, some minor spotting.) Contemporary blind-tooled Spanish calf (a few repairs, some light soiling).FIRST EDITION, A RARE BOOK OF MINING LAWS FOR NEW SPAINGalvez, appointed special commissioner charged with making reforms in Mexico's governance, was influential in leading the replacement of the Mexican provinces with 12 intendencias in 1786.   Mining was the most important economic activity in Mexico during the colonial period.   The Real Ordenanzas transcribes royal degrees relating to mining in New Spain, and provides information relating to the discovery of new mins, the operations of old mines, the training of workers, and the introduction of new technology and the role of the Tribunal de la Mineria. Only miners born in Spain were allowed to posses copies of the work.   Sabin calls it a "rare and valuable compendium of the old mining laws and mineral customs."   Palau 203088; Porrua (1949) 7552; Sabin 56260.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Second Session of the Senate of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New York, January 4th, 1790.... New York: John Fenno, 1790.  Folio (295 x 171 mm). (Some spotting.) Modern calf gilt. Provenance: Chris? F.? Ellery (signature, partially clipped).  FIRST EDITION, including information about the first census, the creation of the seat of government in Washington D. C., treaties with the Indians, and laws in the territory south of the Ohio River Evans 22982.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

CAUS, Salomon de (1576-1626?). La pratique et demonstration des horloges solaires. Paris: Jerome Drouart, 1624.  Folio (385 x 237 mm). Engraved diagrams on N2r and Q1r. Woodcut diagrams throughout, including several full-page, the diagrams on a1v, G1r, H1r, K1r, K2r, R1v and S2v with volvelles or attachments (several detached, lacking overslip on E2r), the diagram on R1v printed on an overslip and pasted in. Compass printed on vellum laid in at N1r.(A few leaves wrinkled and frayed, a few small holes or tears affecting text and images, dampstaining, marginal chipping, some soiling.)   Contemporary vellum (defective). Provenance: J. D. Labarre (early signature on title-page); a few early manuscript annotations.   FIRST EDITION OF CAUS' RARE WORK ON SUNDIALS, inspired by the work of Vitruvius, and including the dissertation on the 35th proposition of Euclid following the dedication. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only 4 copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 45 years, each with varying numbers of volvelles present, and most defective.   Berlin Kat. 1745; Brunet I:1691. Sold not subject to return for lack of any movable volvelles.Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HILL, John, Sir (1716?-1775).   A Decade of Curious Insects: Some of them not describ'd before: Shewn in their Natural Size.   London: Printed for the author, 1773.4to (plates 290 x 227 mm, text 277 x 215 mm). 10 hand-colored engraved plates. (Some minor dampstaining to outer margins.) Modern green cloth. Provenance: E. W. Classey (bookseller's ticket).  FIRST EDITION, A WIDE-MARGINED COPY, of Hill's scarce work. English botanist John Hill is best-known for his  British Herbal, and  Vegetable System. SCARCE: according to  American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 45 years. Nissen  ZBI 1938.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

A group of 27 works in 28 volumes of children’s books and fables printed by a variety of Fine Presses, comprising: ARNOLD, Thomas James (ca.1804 – 1877). Reynard the Fox after the German Version of Goethe. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. 4to. 60 illustrations after the designs of Wilhelm von Kaulbach and 12 engravings by Joseph Wolf. Half morocco, titles gilt. LIMITED EDITION, number 355 of 400 deluxe copies printed, SIGNED by Roberts Bros. -- Winter, Milo (1888-1956). Billy Popgun. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 4to. 8 color plates by the author. Vellum-backed boards, titles gilt, top edge gilt. Very light rubbing to the corners. Stated first edition. LIMITED EDITION, number 11 of 350 copies, of which only 300 were for sale. -- Aesop’s Fables. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. 4to. Numerous illustrations after original, Florentine woodcuts. Original vellum-backed boards, slipcase, top edge gilt. LIMITED EDITION, number 825 of 1500 copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. -- Mother Goose: Twenty Nursery Rhymes. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem: 1970. 4to. 20 illustrations by Philip van Aver. Original tan linen, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Grabhorn-Hoyem Bibliography 40. -- And 23 more. --Together 27 works in 28 volumes, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B. C.). Analyseis Geometricae Sex Librorum Euclidis.   [Strasbourg]: Josias Rihelius, 1566.    Small folio (301 x 173 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations throughout. (Title slightly browned with gutter margin repair.) Modern half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, 2 red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (a few tiny scuffs).    FIRST EDITION of Christian Herlin and Conrad Dasypodius 's analysis of the first six books of Euclid's Elements.   Herlin and Dasypodius taught mathematics in Strasbourg and designed the second astronomical clock in the Strasbourg Cathedral. The clock represented the synthesis of the most advanced scientific knowledge of the day in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and physics, and was only replaced in 1842.  [With:] EUCLID. Euclidis Elementorum Libri XV. Graece & Latine.   Paris: Hieronymum de Marnef & Gulielmum Cauellat, 1573. 8vo (158 x 103 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, numerous in-text woodcut diagrams. Modern half green morocco paste-paper-covered boards, smooth spine gilt, gilt-lettered (some wear, old shelf label at foot of spine). Provenance: contemporary inscriptions; Francis Brethren (inscription); unidentified stamp from a Jesuit Seminary. Second edition, a corrected reimpression of Cavellet 's 1533 Edition, widely used in the 16th Century.   Adams E-1001.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[FINE BINDINGS] "“ HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Blithedale Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852.    2 volumes, 8vo (195 x 120 mm). 20th-century polished calf gilt, , dark red and green morocco leather letter-pieces gilt, top edge gilt, stamp-signed BAYNTUN (some minor chipping); slipcase. FIRST EDITION.  [With:] BARRIE, James Matthew, Sir ( "J.M. Barrie") (1860-1937). The Little Minister. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. 3 volumes, 8vo ( 184 x 121 mm). 20th-century tan calf gilt,   green and tan morocco lettering-pieces   gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed BAYNTUN (some very minor scuffs); slipcase. FIRST EDITION.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES].  Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the Second Session of the Second Congress. Philadelphia: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1793.Folio (310 x 191). (Minor spotting or soiling to a few leaves.) Contemporary marbled boards (modern rebacking and recornering).    Provenance: Western Reserve Historical Society (bookplate with withdrawn stamp, blind stamp).FIRST EDITION, with p.167 misnumbered 267. Including information about the Fugitive Slave Act (later superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment) and the Judiciary Act of 1793. Evans 26332.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DORE, Gustave (1832-1883), illustrator -- FONTAINE, Jean de La (1621-1695). Fables de La Fontaine. Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, 1867.    2 volumes, folio (428 x 311 mm). Half-titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, borders and titles printed in red, 85 wood-engraved plates by Dore printed on chine paper and mounted, numerous engraved vignettes, and engraved head-and-tailpieces. (Some spotting, a few short tears not affecting plates or text.) Contemporary half morocco gilt, marbled boards, spines in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands gilt (some light wear). Provenance: Librarie Tulkens (ticket, Brussels, Belgium).  Second edition, first issue, the "Edition De Luxe" in two volumes, including the first appearance of the engraved portrait frontispiece. The first edition of this work was issued serially in 58 parts starting 1866. As an artist prodigy, by the age of 15, Dore was employed as a caricaturist for Le journal pour rire. By the time he created the wood-engravings for this present work, he had been working in the medium for over 2 decades. Lyons, Books: A Living History, 2011.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

IRVING, John Winslow (b. 1942). The 158-Pound Marriage. New York: Random House, [1974].  8vo. Original publisher 's green quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards tamped in bronze and green (head and tail of spine very slightly sunned); first-issue dust jacket printed in green, white, orange, and black (some very minor chipping or toning).  FIRST EDITION, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET priced $5.95. By 1974, Irving had already won a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and four years after the publication of this work, he would publish The World According to Garp.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SALINGER, Jerome David ( "J.D.") (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.    8vo. Publisher 's original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered (a few small stains, some light rubbing to extremities); original first issue dust jacket printed in red, black, and yellow, cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover, flap priced at $3.00 (some toning and chipping, a few stains); glassine (chipped).    FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without "Reprinted July 1951" on copyright page. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the $3.00 price on the front flap and with the Lotte Jacobi photo credit on Salinger's portrait on the rear panel. The novel 's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes. "The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices"”anger, contempt, self-pity"”but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54).  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

RUSCELLI, Girolamo (1518-1566). Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova. [Venice, 1574].Engraved map of Mexico with hand-coloring 220 x 293 mm. (Two small marginal wormholes, tiny paper flaw just affecting portion of rule border, a few small stains.) Topographical features including the present-day Mississippi River, Italian text verso. FIRST EDITION, second state, with plate-mark on the top edge, cross-hatching to the graduation marks in the border, and without the added names and features of the 1598 third state. One of the earliest obtainable maps of Mexico and the American Southwest. Ruscelli's map of New Spain is an enlargement of Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map, but here depicting the Yucatan as a peninsula, rather than an island.   Wagner NW Coast 48 (the map is "the same as No. 18 [i.e. the 1548 issue of the map] with trifling changes").    Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De Re Metallica Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Minerology & Mining Law from the Earliest Times to the 16th Century. Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER, translators. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912.Folio (346 x 211 mm). Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations reproducing the 1556 woodcuts. Publisher's original full vellum, smooth spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, black lettered in 3 compartments, 2 edges uncut (some very minor wear, some browning to edges); original brown dustjacket with manuscript lettering to front cover (soiled, chipped, rubbed). Provenance: Charles F. Rand (inscription, stamp on dustjacket).  FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER to Charles F. Rand: "To Charles F. Rand with Compliments of H.C. Hoover." This first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy was translated from the first Latin Edition of 1556. Duveen, p. 5; Hoover 28; Norman 21.  Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- DENHAM, Dixon, Major (1786-1828), and Captain Hugh CLAPPERTON (1788-1827). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824"¦ Extending Across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. London: John Murray, 1826.  2 volumes in one, 4to (268 x 211 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 32 engraved plates (one hand-colored), 11 in-text woodcut illustrations (2 plans), 6 engraved maps (5 full-page, one folding). (Some occasional spotting or offsetting.) Modern half calf over green cloth gilt, smooth spine gilt, 3 black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges faintly marbled, marbled endsheets (chipping to lettering-piece, some small scuffs). Provenance: W. Conway (signature).  FIRST EDITION of important explorations in Africa. The first volume is an official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Clapperton and Oudney were the original members of the party, to which Denham was added, but whose "arrogance, malice, and contempt for his colleagues from the start soured relations between them" (DNB). This famous "Bornu Mission" provided the earliest European report on the Central Sudan and Northern Nigeria. From the Mediterranean they reached Murzuk and Bornu on the west of Lake Chad, and eventually Sokota. Failing to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, Denham explored Lake Chad, and Oudney and Clapperton journeyed westward to the Niger. Clapperton continued alone after Oudney's death at Murmur, reaching Sokota and rejoining Denham at Kuka. On the second expedition Clapperton had been promoted to Commander and was sent back to Sokota to open up trade with the west coast. He died in 1827, having crossed Yoruba Country and the Niger. He was survived by his "servant" Richard Lander who carried on alone. Lander brought Clapperton's journals back to England and wrote the "Life of Clapperton" which appears in this second work. Hilmy, p. 172 (Narrative).  Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[VAN ALLSBURG, Chris (b. 1949)] "“ A group of 11 works in 11 volumes illustrated and most written by VAN ALLSBURG, comprising:  The Polar Express. 1985. FIRST EDITION, later issue with Caldecott medal on cover. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“The Z Was Zapped: A Play in Twenty-Six Acts. 1987. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“Two Bad Ants. 1988. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG laid in. "“The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. 1979. "“Just a Dream. 1990. "“The Wretched Stone. 1991 "“The Widow 's Broom. 1992. "A Special Preview of The Widow 's Broom" Laid in. --Probuditi! 2006.  [With:] A group of 3 works in 3 volumes written by Mark HELPRIN (b. 1947), illustrated by VAN ALLSBURG, and published in [New York] by Ariel-Viking, comprising: Swan Lake. 1989. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“A City in Winter. [1996]. "“The Veil of Snows. [1997].    Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, all published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company (except where noted), 4to and 8vo, illustrated, all in Publisher 's cloth stamped in silver, gold, black, bronze and/or blind-stamped,   all except one volume in ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Etudes sur la Biere, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procede pour la rendre inalterable, avec une theorie nouvelle de la fermentation. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876.8vo. 12 lithographed plates; numerous in-text illustrations. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS (some minor chipping or spotting, a few repairs to spine, upper wrapper detaching); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Colonel Broza? (presentation inscription).FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Pasteur on half-title: "Au Colonel Broza? son compatriot et son ami. L Pasteur." Etudes sur la Biere discussed the practical problems of brewing and "recapitulated the series of debates over fermentation in which Pasteur had been embroiled since the publication of Etudes sur la Vin. Pasteur sought to prove that the 'diseases' of beer are caused by foreign micro-organisms and proposed a reformed brewing process to eliminate them" (Norman 1658). Garrison-Morton 2485; Heirs of Hippocrates 1898.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[FROST, Robert (1874-1963)]. A group of 7 works by or about Frost, comprising:American & British Verse from The Yale Review. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Original printed boards. FIRST EDITION. -- A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, June 1942. Dust jacket Later edition. -- A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, March 1943. Dust jacket. Later edition. -- A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. -- A Masque of Mercy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. -- ADAMS, Frederick B. To Russia with Frost. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. Slipcase. FIRST EDITION. -- LATHEM, Edward Connery and THOMPSON, Lawrance, editors. Robert Frost: Farm-Poultryman. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth Publications, 1963. Original printed dust jacket. Provenance: Lawrance Thompson (signature, Princeton, 23 April 1971). FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, all in original publisher 's cloth, cloth-backed boards or printed boards, most with original dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine.  Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma CotnerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Planters Manual: Being Instructions for the Raising, Planting, and Cultivating all sorts of Fruit-Trees, whether Stone-fruits or Pepin-fruits, with their Natures and Seasons. Very useful for such as are Curious in Planting and Grafting. London: Henry Brome, 1675.  8vo (157 x 90 mm). Engraved title-page "The planters manuell" on A1v (imprint cropped with old repair), publisher 's advertisements on final 2 leaves, several woodcut initials and head-pieces. (Some soiling and minor chipping.) Modern calf gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt.    FIRST EDITION of Cotton's English translation of R. Triquet's Instructions pour les Arbres Fruictiers, published in Paris by A. Bertier in 1653, according to F. Cardew 's Instructions pour les Arbres Fruictiers (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, October 1950). ESTC R18563, Henrey 42; Hunt 337; Janson p. 111; Wing C-6388.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

ARCHIMEDES (287?-212 B.C.), APOLLONIUS PERGAEUS (fl. 225 B. C.), and THEODOSIUS.   Archimedis Opera --Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri IIII --Theodosii Sphaerica: methodo nova Illustrata, & Succinctae Demonstrata. London: William Godbid for Robert Scott, 1675.  3 works in one volume, 4to (202 x 151 mm). 29 folding engraved plates. (Without the leaf with glossary of mathematical symbols inserted before A3, often lacking; some browning or offsetting, a few short tears to folds of plates).   Contemporary mottled calf (neatly rebacked preserving old lettering-piece). Provenance: unidentified bookplate verso of title-page partially removed. FIRST EDITION of Barrow's translation of the known works of Archimedes, the first four books of the Conics of Apollonius, and the Spherics of Theodosius. Includes Barrow's Lectiones opticae, which were revised and corrected by Newton: "these lectures, in Latin, form [Barrow's] most important book, in which some of his remarkable optical discoveries are published for the first time and which undoubtedly influenced Newton" (Babson 249). ESTC R6704.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

JOBLOT, Louis (1645-1723). Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes, tant simples que composez, avec des nouvelles observations faites sur une multitude innombrable d'insectes, & d'autres animaux de diverses especes, qui naissent dans les liqueurs preparees, & dans celles qui ne le sont point. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1718.2 parts in one volume, 4to (248 x 185 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, first leaf of text engraved, 34 engraved plates. (Some minor browning or spotting, a few rust spots.) Contemporary specked calf, spine gilt. Provenance: Dom. S. Aloys. Cantiliac S. J. (stamp on title-page); L. M. (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TREATISE ON PROTZOA. Though Joblot is better-known for his work with microscopes from the 1754 edition of this work, this first edition of his Descriptions "established Joblot as the first French microscopist. The first part of the book described several microscopes and their construction and introduced some improvements, including the use of stops (diaphragms) in compound microscopes to correct for chromatic aberration" (DSB). Nissen ZBI  2113.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). The Divine Comedy"¦ A Verse Translation with Introduction & Commentary by Allen Mandelbaum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980-84.    3 volumes. 8vo. Illustrated after drawings by Barry Moser. Original cloth (minor soiling to Vol. I); Vols. II-III in dust jackets.    FIRST EDITIONS illustrated by Moser. SIGNED BY MOSER on title-pages. ANNOTATED BY MOSER IN VOLUME I with underlinings in red, notes and additions to the colophon in preparation for an unrealized Pennyroyal edition.  [With:] A later paperback edition of the Mandelbaum/Moser Inferno, [n.d.], SIGNED BY MOSER on title-page. "” 2 exhibition booklets to accompany the exhibitions for "Inferno: Drawings by Barry Moser for the California Dante" at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and Galeriaforma in Genoa in 1980, respectively, each signed by Moser on the title-page, each one of 250 copies printed by the Pennyroyal Press. "” 2 illustrated exhibition cards for the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, in 1981, each signed by Moser. "” HOMER. The Odyssey of Homer. Tranlsated by T. E. Shaw. Preface by Jeremy M. Wilson. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1981. 8vo, UNBOUND FOLDED SHEETS. LIMITED EDITION, one of 2,000 copies SIGNED BY MOSER AND WILSON. "”And another copy in unbound folded sheets.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

VRIES, Hugo de (1848-1935). Die Mutationstheorie. Leipzig: Veit & Comp., 1901.  First volume in 3 parts only (lacking the second volume, also in 3 parts), 4to (246 x 171 mm). 8 chromolithographed plates; numerous in-text illustrations. Original green printed wrappers, uncut (minor chipping, a few repairs to spines, some toning). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DE VRIES: "Den hern E. K G Rose Van den Schigver Hugo de Vries." De Vries formulated his Laws of Mutation, suggesting that new species developed through a series of small random changes, through intensive study of Oenothera lamarckiana, a species of evening primrose, in 1886. His theory buttressed Darwin's evolutionism. Although the mutants were later discredited as the plant was shown to be a permanent hybrid, "The principle of mutation...remains a cornerstone of evolution theory" (Norman). Dibner  Heralds of Science 36; Garrison-Morton 240; Norman 2169.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848.8vo (219 x 138mm). Half-title, frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. (Some light mostly marginal toning to plates, text generally clean, upper fore-corner bumped slightly affecting c.30 pages at beginning.) Late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards, with original printed front wrappers to each part bound in at rear (front cover detached, minor wear to spine ends and extremities, corners lightly bumped, some rubbing to boards).    FIRST EDITION, bound from the original monthly parts, with most early issue points listed in Smith, including 2-line errata, first state vignette title, "Capatin" for "Captain" in last line on p. 324, "if" missing in   line 9 on p. 426, no period at end of last line on p. 582. Smith I:8.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Portfolio of plates for Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response. Bestiare d 'amour.   [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1985].  8vo. 48 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose as issued with additional suite of plates in cloth chemises; housed together in original vellum-backed cloth folding case.    LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 suites of plates, each signed and numbered in pencil by Moser, this copy designated "AP." This being among the first 25 suites which contain an additional suite of engravings on Fusuma Gray paper, each signed by the artist and lettered "M/25". Pennyroyal Checklist 42. Accompanied by a copy of the trade edition of Master Richard 's Bestiary. Translated by Jeanette Beer. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, [1986]. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1792.  4to (285 x 230 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved plates (2 folding), 4 engraved maps and charts (3 folding). (Tiny spots to a few leaves.) Contemporary half calf, blind-tooled and gilt, marbled boards (some rubbing, upper joint just starting); blue cloth folding case. Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, 5th Baronet (armorial bookplate).  FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE INCIDENTS IN THE WHOLE OF MARITIME HISTORY" (Hill). Following a request by West Indian merchants to George III, Sir Joseph Banks recommended that the Admiralty fit out the Bounty for a voyage to collect bread-fruit trees from Tahiti for shipment to the West Indies. Banks also recommended Lieutenant Bligh as commander of the voyage on which Fletcher Christian sailed as Master's Mate. Reaching Cape Horn in 1787 and encountering fierce head winds, Bligh retreated across the South Atlantic to round the Cape of Good Hope and sail south to Australia and New Zealand to Tahiti. This is the first official account of the voyage and mutiny, edited from Bligh's journals by James Burney under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks while Bligh was on his second bread-fruit voyage. The year of publication also marked the court-martial proceedings against fourteen returned mutineers, three of whom were hanged. Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Kroepelien 93; NMM 1:624; Sabin 5910.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[JACKSON, Andrew]. EATON, John Henry. Some Account of General Jackson, Drawn up from the Hon. Mr. Eaton 's very circumstantial Narrative, and other well-established information respecting him. By a Gentleman of the Baltimore Bar. Baltimore: Henry Vicary, 1828.8vo (175 x 105 mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary sheep (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece, some light wear).  FIRST EDITION, printed in February of Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. "I have honestly endeavoured to set forth a just and fair account of the transactions which I relate...The Honourable Mr. Eaton...has enjoyed, a familiar intercourse with General Jackson for many years, and has long been commissioned to exert a senatorial voice in the councils of the nation. He must, herefore, be deemed a voucher that scorns to deceive and cannot be himself misled" (Prolegomena, p.vii). Sabin 21732.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SCHINZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1777-1861). Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Reptilien. Zurich: Schaffhausen,   1833.  2 volumes, 4to (336 x 235 mm). Plates and explanatory text bound separately; lithographed title in plate volume; 103 lithographed plates, all but one with hand-coloring. (Title leaf to text volume slightly soiled, some minor mostly marginal soiling or very light spotting to a few plates.) Contemporary cloth-backed boards (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Freiherrn G. A. von Liebenstein (bookplates and shelfmarks). FIRST EDITION of Schinz's lavishly illustrated survey of most of the known genera and species of reptiles and amphibians extant at the time of publication. The work was part of a larger natural history series by Schinz including volumes on mammals, birds, and fishes. The designer of the plates, Carl Joseph Drodtman, was known for the exacting scientific details and fine aesthetic presentation of images on a plate. Nissen ZBI 3671.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Additional suite of plates for Twelve American Writers. [Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1974].  8vo. 12 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose as issued in cloth portfolio.    The additional suite of plates which accompanied the limited edition of 50 copies of Twelve American Writers, each SIGNED BY MOSER.   Printed by Moser for Dwyer & Cronin Booksellers, Amherst, it is the first commissioned book of the Pennyroyal Press. Accompanied by a signed prospectus for Twelve American Writers, illustrated with a small wood engraving of Mark Twain. See Pennyroyal Checklist 9.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco 1849. San Francisco: Max Burkhardt, 1886.    Lithograph with hand-coloring, visible area 495 x 877 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall toning, a few small spots, some staining from old framing.    First published in 1849 with several 19th-century reissues. Panoramic view of San Francisco, delineating the intersection of Montgomery Street and California Street. Key in lower margin identifying several ships, businesses, and ho mes. The present edition was "corrected by a committee of pioneers," consisting of Richard M. Sherman, William Heath Davis, and Ferdinand Vassault. RARE: we trace only one copy of any edition of this view at auction in the last 45 years.   Reps 344 (state IX).Frame:   24 1/4 x 39 1/4 inches.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

FREER, Martha Walker (1822-1888). A uniformly bound set of her works, all   London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:  Marguerite D'Angouleme. 1854. 2 volumes. -- Jeanne D'Albret. 1855. 2 volumes. -- Elizabeth de Valois. 1857. 2 volumes. -- Henry III. King of France and Poland. 1858. 3 volumes. -- History of the Reign of Henry IV. 1860. 2 volumes. -- Henry IV & Marie de Medici. 1861. 2 volumes. -- The Last Decade of the Glorious Reign. Part III of the History of the Reign of Henry IV. 1863. 2 volumes. -- All FIRST EDITION, all 8vo (187 x 115 mm), all marbled endsheets, all engraved portrait frontispieces, many with tissue guards. (Lacking frontispiece to Jeanne D'Albret vol. II, some offsetting). Uniformly bound in late 19th-century blue calf gilt, green spine, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 compartments with brown morocco lettering-pieces, all edges gilt (a few front covers nearly free, some rubbing). Together, 7 works in 15 volumes, condition generally good. Provenance for the lot: R.D. Jackson (bookplate); John F. Fleming (1910-1987).For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DOYLE, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930).  The Valley of Fear. New York: George H. Duran, 1914.  8vo. Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Original red cloth gilt (tiny tear at foot of spine just touching publisher's imprint); publisher's pictorial dust jacket (some chipping, some creasing or minor soiling).  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, which, according to Green and Gibson, preceded the English edition by more than 3 months. VERY RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, gilt-lettered and with a color illustration on the front panel, with a blurb on the back panel and publisher's advertisements on the flaps. Green and Gibson A39(c).Property from the Collection of Mr. Gregory ThomasFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630) and Jacobus BARTSCH (ca 1600-1633). Tabulae manuales logarithmicae ad calculum Astronomicum... Strassburg: Johann Pastorius for Theodor Lerse, 1700.    8vo (158 x 94 mm). Letterpress tables throughout. (A few spots, some minor dampstaining to outer foremargin.) Contemporary vellum, edges stained red (hinges starting, some soiling). Provenance: Henryk Latuszkiewicz   (signature). Second edition, the first obtainable edition, preceded by an edition of 1631 known in only one copy (which is defective). Following Kepler's death, his son-in-law, Bartsch, sought to publish a more affordable edition of the logarithms from Tabulae Rudolphinae. Publication was halted for financial reasons.   French mathematician Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt published the present edition in 1700 with a new introduction. Caspar 99.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

O'CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964). Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1952].  8vo. Original yellow cloth; original dust jacket (some minor restoration at head of spine panel and upper extremities, light soiling). Provenance: Barry Moser (bookplate).FIRST EDITION OF O'CONNOR'S FIRST BOOK.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

COQUEBERT, Antoine Jean (1753-1825). Illustratio Iconographica Insectorum"¦ Paris: Typis Petri Didot, [1798/9]-1804.  3 parts in one volume, 4to (328 x 253 mm). 30 hand-colored engraved plates. Contemporary paper-backed boards, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance: Hans W. Taeuber (bookplate); Librairie Jacques Lechevalier (bookseller's ticket). FIRST EDITION OF COQUEBERT'S SCARCE WORK.   Complete copies of this important entomological study of insects in the Museum of Natural History in Paris are very rare, as the publisher's stock was destroyed by fire. Coquebert was a noted French naturalist and councilor to the royal court at Amiens and Rhiems.   A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY. Nissen ZBI 957.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus (1624-1677). Hecatosteae I[-II]. Observationum Physico-Medicarum ad Societatem Naturae Curiosorum in Germania. Augsburg: Theophil Goebel and Joannis Schonig, 1675.Small 4to (205 x 158 mm). Engraved title, 12 copper engraved plates. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) Later half calf (some minor rubbing, hinges starting).  FIRST EDITION of Welsch's study on materia medica in the 17th century, including plates after Melchoir Haffner illustrating minerals and plants used for preparing medicinal treatments. Welsch, a German doctor from Augsburg, was accepted as a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, the present-day Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina,   in 1676. Krivatsy 12929.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1819-1901)] -- BENSON, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), and Viscount Reginald Brett ESHER (1852-1930), editors. The Letters of Queen Victoria A Selection from her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861. London: John Murray, 1907.    3 volumes, 8vo (221 x 147 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards, engraved illustrated, 2 manuscript pages laid in. (Spotting.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in 3 compartments, top edges gilt, other edges uncut (spotting to edges and endsheets). Provenance: Althorp (tipped-in ANS, Northampton: 23 December 1908), gifted to: Harry Manfield (18555-1925) (bookplate).  FIRST EDITION, the first of 3 series of 3 volumes each containing The Letters of Queen Victoria. This set was a Christmas and New Year 's gift to British Liberal Party politician and prominent Freemason Harry Manfield. [Laid-in:] Autograph material from members of Victoria 's circle, comprising: an unsigned note mentioning Johanna Clara Louise Lehzen, who was Princess Victoria 's governess and later lady in attendance; partly printed document signed requesting the release of Henriette Vernet and forgiving her debt.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HAYE, Thomas and Jacques VINCENT. Regle horaire universelle pour tracer des cadrans solaires sur toutes sortes de plans regulaires, declinans & inclinez. Paris: Jacques Vincent, 1716.  4to (222 x 164 mm). 46 engraved plates (3 folding). (Minor marginal losses to a few plates, a few plates with minor repairs, a few separations to folds of folding plates, some minor soiling or spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving portion of old spine, lettering-piece, and endpapers, some staining). Provenance: Bourdet Delongchamps? (signature, initials on verso of a few plates); Jean Condamin (signature 1939).FIRST EDITION of Haye and Vincent's extensive treatise on gnomics and the formation and use of sundials. Haye, a manufacturer of sundials, presents several models with descriptions of the instruments and directions for their use. Houzeau and Lancaster, 11591Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 22 books about books and book-collecting in the 19th- and 20th-century, including:  Book Collecting. Edited by Richard Booth. Florence, AL: House of Collectibles, 1976. 4to. Original publisher 's cloth, dust jacket. -- WOOLF, Leonard (1880-1969). Letters of Leonard Wolf. Edited by Frederic Spotts. San Diego, New York, and London: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1989. 8vo. Original publisher 's cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- BASBANES, Nicholas (b. 1943). A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. 8vo. Original publisher 's cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- BASBANES. Among the Gently Mad. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 8vo. Original publisher 's binding, dust jacket. First edition. -- SALISBURY, Laney and Aly Sujo. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. 8vo. Publisher 's original binding, dust jacket. -- MAYS, Andrea E. The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger 's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare 's First Folio. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Original publisher 's cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- And 18 others. Together 22 works in 22 volumes, all in original publisher's bindings, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.From the Private Collection of Richard CadyFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. CLAUSTRE, Andre de. Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, Roi de Perse.... Paris: Briasson, 1743.12mo (163 x 98 mm). Engraved frontispiece, folding map. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, edges red concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Bandar Abbas, Persia (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: B. Carra de Vaux (bookplate); Mr Geoffroy (signatures).  Second edition of Claustre's work, first published in 1742.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[BIBLE, in Cree] [The New Testament in the Cree Language.] Rev. William Mason, translator.  London: W. M. Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1859.  8vo (184 x 117 mm). Printed in Cree syllabics throughout. Contemporary sheep by Watkins with their ticket (some discreet repairs to hinges and spine).  FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST NEW TESTAMENT PRINTED IN CREE. Methodist (later Anglican) William Mason and his wife Sophia Thomas Mason translated several editions of the Gospel of St. John in the Plains Cree dialect between 1851 and 1857.   Following the publication of this edition of the New Testament, they published an edition of the whole Bible translated into Plains Cree in 1861-1862. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We trace no copies of this edition of the New Testament at auction since 1976.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629.Folio (334 x 204 mm). Woodcut title with a Garden of Eden scene signed "A Switzer" (remargined with minor losses); woodcut portrait; one full-page garden design woodcut; 109 full-page woodcuts, one small orchard plan woodcut; one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting. (Index leaves laid in at end, a few leaves supplied, a few leaves remargined or repaired, some browning or soiling). Contemporary blind-tooled calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some light wear).  FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT ENGLISH TREATISE ON HORTICULTURE, PRESUMABLY SIGNED BY JOHN PARKINSONParkinson was apothecary to James I, and later Royal Botanist to Charles I. He was a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617. One of the most eminent gardeners of the day, he kept a botanical garden at Long Acre in Covent Garden, close to present-day Trafalgar Square.   The presumed signatures of Parkinson occur on the verso of the engraved title (along with the note "Natury Secretarie"), and on the dedication leaf.   Parkinson commissioned specially cut woodblocks copied from drawings in other Latin herbals for his work, rather than rely on specialist printers who owned a set of illustrations to be used in multiple works.   "Since each block was the size of a full page and contained images of up to ten plants, the entire block had to be cut again if there were any mistakes...His books of plants would be the last to appear with wooden cuts, soon to be replaced by copperplate engravings...Yet the illustrations in the Paradisus are part of its charms" (A. Parkinson Nature's Alchemist, p.105). his work remains one of the best single sources of information on early 17th-century gardening practices and styles in England, "in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day" (Hunt).   Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489; Pritzel 6933.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

ADAMS, George (1750-1795).   Micrographia Illustrata, or the Microscope Explained.... London: for the author, 1747.4to (215 x 165 mm). 65 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf gilt (upper joint repaired, hinges starting). Second edition, a reissue of the first edition of 1746 with the 20pp. catalogue of Adams' instruments at the end.   In the Micrographia Illustrata, Adams gives credit to Leeuwenhoek and Trembley for their previous work on the Hydra, but he was criticized for his use of illustrations from the work of earlier authors, particularly Hooke and Lyonet, often without attribution. ESTC T53415.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Pictures from Italy. London: Bradbury & Evans for the author, 1846.  8vo (173 x 107 mm). Half-title; 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Wood-engraved vignette title and three wood-engravings in text by Samuel Palmer. 20th century polished tan calf gilt, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (a few tiny scuffs); green cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Dickens's account was first published in The Daily News entitled "Traveling Sketches - Written on the Road"; he reproduced the work in book form as Pictures from Italy, retaining only two of the original twelve chapter titles, and incorporating a number of textual changes, as outlined in Smith. Eckel, p. 126; Smith II:7For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. STOKER,   Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. New York: Books of Wonder / Harper Collins, 2000.  8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original quarter cloth; dust jacket.  FIRST TRADE EDITION illustrated by Moser, SIGNED by Moser on the title-page. Accompanied by the additional suite of plates printed at the Pennyroyal Press for the deluxe Pennyroyal issue, each signed by Moser.    [With:] 7 volumes by or about Stoker/Dracula from Moser 's library, several with sections marked or flagged for reference for his own illustrations for this work.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.). Euclidis Elementorum libri XV Graece & Latine... Paris: Apud Hieronymum de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1537.  8vo (164 x 104 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut printer's device at end; text in Greek and Latin; woodcut diagrams throughout. (Some minor browning or spotting, inkburn to the upper margin of a few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, hand-lettered on spine (lacking ties, soiled); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: extensive early mostly marginal ink notes and diagrams.     Reprint of the first Gracilis edition of 1557 incorporating the corrections from that edition. The woodblock vignette on the title-page and the printer's device at end depict the coat-of-arms of Jerome of Marnef. Adams E-1001.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SAN FRANCISCO]. GIFFORD, Charles Braddock and William Vallance GRAY. Bird's Eye View of the City and County of San Francisco, 1868. San Francisco: W. Vallance Gray and C. B. Gifford, 1868.    Three-color chromolithograph, visible area 520 x 748 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Three tears to side margins crossing image, some minor creasing to right margin, some overall browning or staining.  FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, showing a southwest view of the San Francisco peninsula, with Golden Gate in the upper right and Telegraph Hill bottom center. The view is based on a painting by Charles B. Gifford, which was copyrighted and published in 1868. A second state was published in the same year, and Reps records three additional states published in 1869, 1872, and 1873. VERY RARE IN ANY CONDITION: according to online records, we trace no example of this print at auction since 1918; we trace only 7 copies in institutions of any state. Reps 308.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DONLEAVY, James Patrick (1926-2017). The Ginger Man. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958.  8vo. Printer 's device on title-page in red. Original publisher 's black cloth, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped (a few stains); original publisher 's pictorial dust-jacket (some light chipping, spine sunned); glassine. Provenance: Harry Walker, Jr. (presentation inscription).    FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, revised issue.   PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DONLEAVY: "For Harry Walker, Jr., with highest regards J.P. Donleavy." First published in Paris in 1955, it was banned in the US and Ireland for obscenity.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870).   [Four Christmas Books].  The Chimes: A Goblin Story. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844]. 8vo (163 x 101mm). Half-title and 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield. FIRST EDITION, second state of the vignette title. Smith II:5.    The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846 [1845]. Half-title and 14 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise and Edwin Landseer; 2 pp. advertisements at rear (second state). FIRST EDITION. Smith II:6.    The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Half-title, 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, fourth state of the vignette title, 2pp. advertisements at rear; one or two stray spots. FIRST EDITION, fourth state of vignette title. Smith II:8  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 17 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone. FIRST EDITION. Smith II:9.    Together, 4 volumes, 8vo. (Some occasional very slight marginal toning or spots.) Uniform late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards).  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)] -- JERROLD, William Blanchard (1826-1884). The Life of George Cruikshank   in Two Epochs with Numerous Illustrations in Two Volumes. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882.  2 volumes, 8vo (186 x 125 mm). Frontispieces. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of approximately 170 portraits and plates (15 hand-colored, many folding), 66 woodcuts, 8 autograph letters, facsimiles of signatures. (Some light spotting.) 20th-century red crushed morocco sides gilt-decorated with facsimile signature, impish figures, and blind scrolls after Cruikshank, smooth spines gilt-letter and similarly decorated, top edge gilt, other uncut, stamp-signed by Nelly & Sons (some light rubbing).  FIRST EDITION. Cruikshank was one of Britain 's most prominent satirical illustrators, covering politicians, class, the monarchy, and everyday life. Autograph letters in this edition include examples by: Samuel Laman Blanchard, editor of George Cruikshank 's Omnibus in 1842; biographer John Forster, who revolved in the same circles as Cruikshank and Charles Dickens; Lord Houghton, who served as pall-bearers for Cruikshank 's funeral (p. 237); former Prime Minister of the U.K. William Ewart Gladstone, and others.    For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DUHAMAL DU MONCEAULE, Henri Lewis (1700-1782). The Elements of Agriculture. Philip Miller, translator. London: P. Vaillant & T. Durham & R. Baldwin, 1764.  2 volumes, 8vo (203 x 123 mm). 14 copper engraved plates. (Some light toning.) Contemporary polished calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges speckled red (some scuffs and chipping to extremities). Provenance: Penn Libraries (shelfmarks "Library, Ben Damph. Forest").  FIRST EDITION of Duhamel 's treatise, which was a significant contribution to the advancement of technology for agriculture and well recognized in France. Philip Miller revised and translated the work from the French, making the technological advances developed in France available to a wider readership, particularly farmers in English. ESTC T130245.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.). -- BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood. Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818.  Demy 8vo (202 x 121 mm). Engraved frontispiece printed in red and black with Bewick 's engraved thumbprint and facsimile signature, engraved printer 's device on title-page, profusely illustrated with wood-engravings by Bewick. (Some spotting, some toning.) 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, (some chipping). Provenance: Mr. Jife (signature); R.W. Martin (bookplate, Longbenton, [Northumberland]).  FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies printed, variant A with "Auld Clouty" wood-engraving at bottom of page XVI, and with last line in page 248 reading "road of honour and honesty." Engraver Thomas Bewick is credited for reviving wood-engraving during the 18th-century and illustrated several editions of Aesop 's Fables throughout his career. He worked on the present work in 1812 before it was published in 1818. This present work is part of Bewick 's third edition of Aesop 's fables, and highlight 's his pioneering method of "white-line" engraving (Uglow, p. xiii). Roscoe 45c; Uglow, Nature 's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, 2006.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise.... London: MacMillan and Co., 1869.2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; 2 folding maps, 6 plates. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt (recased preserving original endpapers, spines slightly leaned). Provenance: Marshall S. Foster (signatures). Second edition,   published in the same year as the first edition. "On the basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, it is clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written" (DSB). During his travels in the East Indies from 1854-1862, Wallace formulated the principle of natural selection.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French by Joseph Donohue. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011.  8vo. Illustrated with 23 wood engravings by Barry Moser; extra suite of wood-engraved plates in separate portfolio. Original leather stamped in silver; extra suite of plates loose as issued in cloth chemise; housed together in original cloth clamshell case.    FIRST EDITION illustrated by Moser, DELUXE PENNYROYAL ISSUE, number 18 of 250 copies, signed by Moser and Donohue, ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES, each individually signed by Moser.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HILL, John, Sir (1716?-1775).   Essays in Natural History and Philosophy.... London: for J. Whiston and B. White, 1752.  8vo (202 x 123 mm). (Some minor browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving old spine, some light wear).  Provenance: a few early notes on endleaves.FIRST EDITION.   Despite Hill's quarrel with the Royal Society, he was an enthusiastic microscopist, and he presented the results of several of his studies in the field of botany, medicine, and geology-chemistry to the Society.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

ELLIS, John (1710-1776).   An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines and other Marine Productions...Commonly Found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland.  London: for the author, 1755.  4to (260 x 203 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 40 engraved plates (6 folding). (Some offsetting or light browning.) Modern quarter calf. FIRST EDITION, including an additional unnumbered plate with the earliest depiction of Cuff's aquatic microscope not called for in Nissen. Ellis includes a description of a large octopus observed near the North Pole by a whaling party in   the summer of 1753. Nissen ZBI 1281.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[EINSTEIN, Albert]. HECHT, Selig (1892-1947). Explaining the Atom. New York: The Viking Press, 1947.8vo. Numerous in-text illustrations. Original cloth; publisher's pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping.) Provenance: Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein (bookplate, see below); acquired from Weinstein by the present owner.   FIRST EDITION, accompanied by a photocopy of a 29 April 1947 letter sent by Albert Einstein to Rabbi Weinstein on Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists stationery. In his message, Einstein remarks: "Dr. Hecht has succeeded in giving, clearly and simply, an authoritative account of the scientific steps, both theoretical and experimental, that have led to our present knowledge of nuclear fission." Also laid in are photocopies of correspondence between the Thomas Sills and Dr. John Stachel, first editor of the Einstein Papers Project, in which Sills reports that Rabbi Weinstein is "known for his work in antinuclear and peace movements." Einstein apparently gave several copies of Hecht's book as gifts with an accompanying letter.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com