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[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

PORTA, Giambattista della (1535?-1615). Natural Magick...in twenty books. London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658.Folio (277 x 174 mm). Engraved title-page; letterpress title printed in red and black; numerous woodcut illustrations. (A few short marginal tears or paper flaws, some minor browning, minor wrinkling to first and last few leaves). 20th-century sheep (some wear). Provenance: K.C. (blindstamps); a few 20th-century marginal notes in pencil and red underlinings. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Porta's Magiae naturalis libri viginti, first published in 1558.   This translation follows the expanded edition of 1589. Porta's compilation of science and pseudo-science includes sections on changing metals, counterfeiting precious stones, medical remedies, perfume, cookery, and "burning gasses," or optics. ESTC R33476; Norman 1726; Wing P-2982.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959).  An Autobiography. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1932.  Square 8vo. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations; decorative section titles printed in red and black. Original black cloth decorated in red and gold in Wright's design (some slight wear, hinges loose); original pictorial dust jacket with Wright's design printed in red and black (separated along rear fold, losses, dampstaining).  FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT: "To Carey...Frank Lloyd Wright /57."Property of the Caraway FamilyFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939.  8vo. (A few tiny pale stains to the first few leaves.) Original pictorial beige cloth (some light soiling, minor spotting to endleaves); facsimile dust jacket; cloth folding case.  FIRST EDITION, WITH STEINBECK'S SIGNATURE tipped to front free endpaper.   Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940 for this novel. Goldstone & Payne A12a.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BURBIDGE, Frederick William Thomas (1847-1905).  The Narcissus; its History and Culture. London; L. Reeve & Co., 1875.8vo (244 x 165 mm). Half-title; 48 lithographed plates with hand-coloring. (Some minor spotting to a few preliminary leaves.) Original publisher's cloth gilt (spine sunned, some minor wear to extremities, hinges starting). Provenance: W. R. Price (signature). FIRST EDITION of Burbidge's study on the genus Narcissus. "In offering this short history of a popular genus of hardy bulbs, my object has been to assist horticulturists and amateurs by adding coloured figures to the excellent review of the genus which originally appeared in the 'Gardener's Chronicle' (1869)'" (Preface, p.[vii]).   Nissen BBI 297; Great Flower Books p.83.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LE MONNIER, Pierre Charles (1715-1799). Institutions Astronomiques, ou Lecons Elementaires d'Astronomie, pour servir d'Introduction a la Physique Celeste and a la Science des Longitudes.  Paris: Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1746.4to (248 x 190 mm). 15 copperplate engraved folding plates. (Small pale spots to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (joints starting, some light wear). FIRST EDITION of Le Monnier's best-known work, the first important general manual of astronomy in France.   The framework of the Institutions Astronomiques was essentially a translation of John Keill's Introduciton ad vera Astronomic (London, 1731), but Le Monnier included important additions and new tables of the sun and moon.   Houzeau & Lancaster 9244.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Christmas Books].  A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.   Second edition, first state, with title-page printed in red and blue and dated 1843, with yellow endpapers, and with the balance of the text corrected (but without "Second Edition" on the title-page). Provenance: Sold at The Old Curiosity Shop (bookplate, description laid in). Eckel, pp.110-115; Smith II:4. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: Bradbury and Evans for Chapman and Hall, 1845. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Eckel, pp.116-118; Smith II:5. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans for the Author, 1846 [i.e. December 1845]. FIRST EDITION. Eckel, pp. 119-120; Smith II:6. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. FIRST EDITION. Vignette title-page Eckel variant 4. Eckel, pp. 121-23; Smith II:8. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. FIRST EDITION. Eckel, pp. 124-25; Smith II:9. Together, 5 volumes, 8vo. (Some browning or spotting.) Original publisher's cloth gilt (some light staining or wear, a few small repairs); all housed in red half morocco slipcase. Provenance for the lot: William Joseph Connery (bookplates).  Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[HERBAL] -- [Hortus sanitatis. De herbis et plantis...] [Strassburg: Johann Pruss, ca 1497?].  Folio (approximately 287 x 195 mm), disbound. 155 leaves only (of 360), most with hand-coloring. (Some minor soiling, spotting or browning to some leaves.) Leaves loose in a pigskin binding blind-stamped "PS" and dated 1613 on upper cover (lacking clasps and catches, minor wear). Provenance: H.M. Fletcher (purchased with another dealer, Sotheby's London, 15 April 1988); acquired by Harold Berliner (printer and typographer) and D. Steven Corey (librarian); later sold PBA Galleries 23 February 2006, sale 326, lot 107. Most of the woodcuts of plants in the Pruss editions were previously used in Johann Gruninger's edition of the Gart der Gesundheit.   Many of the other woodcuts are direct or reverse copies of those used in Meydenbach's first edition of the Hortus Sanitatis. The present partial copy was apparently acquired by Berliner and Corey with the goal to collaborate on a leaf book.   Corey made a study of the book and completed an introduction, but the project was never completed. See Goff H-487; see Hain-Copinger 8941; see Nissen BBI 2363.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

TREMBLEY, Abraham (1700-1784).   Memoires pour servir a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce.... Leiden: Jean & Herman Verbeek, 1744.  4to (263 x 206 mm). Engraved head- and tail-pieces; 13 engraved folding plates. (Mostly marginal dampstain to a few leaves, a few small spots, minor soiling to a few leaves.) Modern leather, uncut. FIRST EDITION. "In 1740 the scientific world was electrified by Trembley's discovery that the green hydra (Chlorohydra viridissima) was definitely an animal, even though it contained chlorophyll and --a fact even more astonishing--possessed powers of multiplication from artificial division hitherto thought to be unique to plants" (Norman 2094).Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator].   SOYINKA, Wole. Outsiders. Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1999.  8vo. Frontispiece by Barry Moser. Original cloth-backed mottled boards.  FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 15 copies hors commerce copies (of 265 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine paper), this copy designated "Artist 's Copy 5 of 5," SIGNED BY SOYINKA AND MOSER. Soyinka was the Nobel laureate in 1986.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HALE, Thomas (fl. 1750).   Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening.... London: for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder, and H. Woodgate, [1756-]1757.  Folio (420 x 260 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 60 engraved plates. (Some minor soiling, spotting or offsetting, ca 50 leaves with minor marginal worming.) Contemporary English blind-panelled calf (neatly rebacked and repaired). Provenance: William McElwain Talbot (gift inscription, 1978). FIRST EDITION, intended as a companion to the Compleat Body of Husbandry (London, 1756). Issued in 60 weekly parts, each including "descriptions and cultural details concerning the various products of the garden under the time of year in which they flower or fruit, the phrase name used by Linnaeus for each plant is given, and each is referred to in its place in [Linnaeus's] sexual system, which is explained. Advice is offered on what to do each month in the kitchen, flower, and fruit gardens" (Henrey p.98).   Henrey III.776; Hunt 559; Nissen BBI 880.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). Essai sur l'histoire du polype, insecte. Paris: Chez Durand, 1744.8vo (172   x 116 mm). 22 engraved folding plates. (Title soiled with old tear repaired.) Modern half morocco, uncut.  FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Baker's work first published in 1743 in English, in which he examines the physiology of the polyps, including their reproductive systems, diseases, and the means of locating them. Wellcome II, p.8.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

WESTON, Richard (1733-1806). The Gardener 's and Planter 's Calendar. Containing the Method of Raising Timber-Trees, Fruit-Trees, and Quick, for Hedges. London: T. Carnan, 1778.  12mo (172 x 103 mm). (Some occasional light staining.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked with new endpapers, some rubbing to corners). Provenance: J. Bryan (contemporary signature); Pamela Lister (bookplate).    Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of Weston's work first issued in 1773, which contains extensive information on raising tress, preparing orchards, and planting vegetables and flowers. Weston included directions for garden management throughout the year, new advancements in gardening, an appendix, and a catalog of seeds and plants for use in various gardens (title-page). English Botanist Weston was the Secretary to the Leicester Agricultural Society and published numerous works on horticulture. Henrey 1485;   Henry II, p. 396.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 Second Congress Begun and Held...November 5th, 1792.... Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1792.  Folio (340 x 204 mm). (Some chipping or small losses to margin, some browning or soiling.) ORIGINAL MARBLE WRAPPERS (spine perished, some chipping); morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: Mary Burnham Kinsman (signature, 1926).  FIRST EDITION, including information about the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, and the Judiciary Act of 1793, and about proposed legislation regarding compensation of the president and vice president. Evans 26333.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950). The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. New York: Frank Shay 1922.  8vo. Frontispiece and vignettes. Original plain tan wrappers (joint starting), stapled, within original printed apple green wrappers with vignette on front (soft crease to front wrapper, some minor loss of pigment); orange quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Perry Molstad (bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent); acquired by the present owner from a descendant of John Fleming. FIRST TRADE EDITION, ONE OF 15 COPIES BOUND IN APPLE GREEN WRAPPERS. The first trade edition of The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver consisted of 500 copies printed on regular paper.   Of these, all but 75 were bound in orange wrappers.   Frank Shay, the publisher, had the remaining 75 copies bound in five different colored wrappers (15 of each): red, dark green, apple green, yellow, and blue.   "Simultaneously with the first edition there were printed five copies on Japan vellum, having the same title-page as the regular edition, but differing from the regular edition in that the endsheets were omitted...The only one I have seen was bound in red wrappers. Mr. Shay has no record or recollection of what other colors were used on these five copies" (Yost 15).   A FINE COPY OF THIS RARITY.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. [Antwerp, 1612?].Engraved map with hand-coloring, 443 x 574 mm. Decorative cartouche, galleons and ships, Spanish text verso. (Some minor browning or staining, minor marginal chipping.)FIRST EDITION, third state with Ortelius' name lower right.   According to Burden, "the most important introductions on the east coast are the Indian name WINGANDEKOA, and just to the north an inlet. They both originate from the unsuccessful English attempts at colonising the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina. It has been suggested that the inlet could be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay on a printed map." Burden 64.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.   Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.    Folio. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket.  FIRST TRADE EDITION, First Printing.   SIGNED by Moser on the title-page.    [Accompanied by:] A dummy binding by the Harcourt bindery for the Pennyroyal Press limited edition of Moser 's Frankenstein, folio, quarter morocco. INSCRIBED BY MOSER: "This is a prototype of the Frankenstein binding from harcourt bindery that I gave to my daughter to use as a diary when she was in junior high school. Barry Moser." Followed by 3 pp of diary entries including mentioning traveling with her father "for Poqipsee [sic] New York avec father. went to the house Wilderstien [sic], the house dad will be using for beauty & the beast," and goes on to describe her own thoughts for a story.    [With:]    SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. The Annotated Frankenstein. With Introduction and Notes by Leonard Wolf. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977. 4to, original quarter cloth, with some sections highlighted by Moser indicating some references for the subjects of his illustrations for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Frankenstein (1983), also within the note at end on the illustrated editions of Frankenstein. Also with 9 other related works from Moser 's library on Frankenstein.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

JUSSIEU, Antoine Laurent (1748-1836). Genera Plantarum Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita. Paris: Veuve Herissant and Theophile Barrois, 1789.8vo (201 x 126 mm). Errata leaf at end. (Some browning, worm hole to upper margin of last ca 45 leaves not affecting text.)   Contemporary sheep gilt (old repairs to joints, some wear). FIRST EDITION of Jussieu's fundamental work on the classification of plants, the first to arrange "plant genera in a natural system based on the correlation of a great number of characteristics...Some of the elements of Genera plantarum...remain a part of the present-day system of botanical classification" (Norman). Hunt 703; Norman 1194; Stafleu & Cowan 589.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[FINE BINDINGS] -- A group of 5 works in 7 volumes with finely bound, comprising:  COMBE, William. Thomas Rowlandson, illustrator. The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. --The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of Consolation.   --The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife. London: Ackermann, 1821. 3 volumes. 20th-century red calf gilt. Later editions. [With:] BARHAM, Richard Harris Dalton. The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels. London: Richard Bentley, 1870. Vol. I only (of 2). 20th-century blue morocco gilt. Annotated edition. "“ CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1890. Original publisher 's pictorial green cloth gilt; folding case. Later issue. BAL 3429. -- THACKERAY, William Makepeace ("Michael Angelo Titmarsh"). Rebecca and Rowena. A Romance Upon Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Original pictorial boards; slipcase.   -- THACKERAY. Doctor Birch & his young friends. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Original pictorial boards; slipcase. -- Together 5 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012)]. A group of 16 works illustrated by Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), including:  STOCKTON, Frank R. (1834-1902). The Griffin and the Minor Canon. New York, Chicago, and San Francisco: 1963. 8vo. Publisher 's original binding, dust jacket.. Stated first edition. -- JARRELL, Randall (1914-1965). The Animal Family. New York: Pantheon, 1965. 12mo. Publisher 's original decorated blue cloth, dust jacket. -- SEGAL, Lore. (B.1928). The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. 2 volumes. 12mo. Publisher 's original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. Stated first edition. -- OPIE, Iona and Peter (Editors). I Saw Esau: The Shoolchild 's Pocket Book. Cambridge, MA and London: Candlewick Press and Walker Books, 1992. 8vo. Publisher 's original boards, dust jacket-- And 9 more. -- Condition generally good. -- Complete list available upon request.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

EVELYN, John (1620-1706). The Diary of John Evelyn. Austin DOBSON, introduction. London & New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited & The MacMillan Company, 1906.    3 volumes, 8vo (221 x 140 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces, titles printed in red and black, 11 engraved portraits, 3 engraved maps (1 folding), 38 engraved views (2 folding), 3 facsimile title-pages, one folding facsimile autograph letter, one folding pedigree of the Evelyn family. (Some offsetting, some staining to preliminary leaves, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half   morocco, green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (spines sunned, some light chipping or staining).    LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 unnumbered copies of the "Edition de Luxe." Evelyn's diary was first published in 1818 and was immediately well-received. While the publication of Samuel Pepys ' diary a few years later became more widely known, the publication of The Diary of John Evelyn paved the way for Pepys ' success (Harris and Hunter, John Evelyn and His Milieu, 2003, p. 2).    Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LEUPOLD, Jacob (1674-1727). Theatrum machinarum hydrotechnicarum. Schau-Platz der Wasser-Bau-Kunst. Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel, 1724.  Folio (364 x 236 mm). Half-title; 51 engraved plates (A few repairs to title just touching letters, some browning.) Contemporary tree calf gilt, modern red morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover (rebacked preserving original spine, some light wear). FIRST EDITION of the Theatrum machinarium hydrotechnicarum, second of a ten-volume series entitled Theatrum machinarum, each volume of which is complete in itself. Leupold was one of the major transmitters of the machine designs and technological images of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the Sienese painter, sculptor and architect whose writings and drawings provided the chief source of inspiration (albeit one not always recognized) for several generations foe engineers" (Norman). Norman 1339.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

CASSINI, Jacques (1677-1756). Elements d'Astronomie. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1740.4to (248 x 190 mm). 21 engraved folding plates. (Some very minor spotting, mostly marginal dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: Early annotation on flyleaf; William S? (signature on title-page).  FIRST EDITION of Cassini's manual. His principal areas of interest were the study of planets and their satellites, including the structure of Saturn's rings and the observation and theory of comets and the tides. While his observations yielded important results, his biases as a Copernican and not a Newtonian diminished their theoretical value.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BUTLER, Joseph (1692-1752). The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. London: for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736.  4to (262 x 204 mm). Half-title. (Short marginal tears to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt, tan morocco lettering-piece gilt (some light rubbing, 4-in. separation along upper hinge and spine). Provenance: Frank J. Hogan (1877-1944), American attorney and book collector (morocco booklabel).FIRST EDITION of Butler's response to deist rejection of orthodox Christianity, which "remained for a century the chief buttress of Christian argument against unbelief" (Durant, The Age of Voltaire, 1965, p.125). THE FRANK J. HOGAN COPY. ESTC T67971; PMM 193.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com