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HOOKE, Robert (1635-1702).   Micrographia: Or Some Psychological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. London: for James Allestry, 1667.  Folio (298 x 198 mm). Title-page with engraved arms of the Royal Society, 38 engraved plates (32 folding), woodcut head-pieces and initials. (Some very minor spotting or soiling.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (sympathetically rebacked preserving original spine, edges and corners neatly restored); calf folding case gilt. Provenance: W. P. Collins (booksellers stamp rear flyleaf).   FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the title dated 1667 instead of 1665, of "he most influential work in the history of microscopy, containing the discoveries made with Hooke's newly perfected compound microscope. Micrographia was not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopical observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 262; Grolier/Horblit 50; Keynes 7; Norman 1092;   PMM 147.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870).   Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz".  London: Richard Bentley, 1838.  3 volumes, 8vo (200 x 117 mm). Half-titles to vols. I&II with advertisements verso, publisher's advertisements vols.I&III. Etched frontispiece to each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank. (Some very minor offsetting.) 19th-century polished tan calf gilt, maroon and brown lettering-pieces gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (a few small scuffs); original covers bound in.  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH NOVEL TO FEATURE A YOUNG CHILD AS A PROTAGONIST, with the "Fireside" plate at p.312 in vol.III, and authorship ascribed to "Boz" on each title-page. Dickens opposed the "Fireside" plate, and also objected to having "Boz" on the title-page; the plate was replaced with the "Church" plate, and his name was added to the title-page in later issues. Eckel, p.59-60; Gimbel A27; Smith I:4. A FINE COPY.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BURROWS, George (1832-1909). On Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation; And on the Connection between Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846.  8vo (222 x 140 mm). 6 hand-colored lithographic plates; 4pp. advertisements at beginning, 16pp. advertisements at end. (Some very minor spotting to preliminary leaves.) Original maroon blind-stamped cloth gilt (some light wear, spine sunned). Provenance: London Hospital Medical College (shelf label on spine, stamps).    FIRST EDITION of Burrow 's research, which was critical in dispelling the earlier hypothesis by Monro-Kellie that the blood volume in the brain remains constant. Burrows "demonstrated that the amount of blood in the brain can vary and this may be responsible for clinical signs," making this publication a "milestone in the study of cerebral vascular physiology" (McHenry). The advertisement at the read is a publisher 's catalog "Corrected April 1846." McHenry, Garrison 's History of Neurology, P237.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BERGMAN, Torben Olof, Sir (1732-1784). Physical and Chemical Essays. Edmund Cullen, translator. London: J. Murray, 1788.  2 volumes only (of 3, lacking Vol.III, published 1791), 8vo (207 x 125 mm). 2 folding tables; 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: note indicating a 1996 purchase at Maggs Bros. Second edition of this English translation of volumes I and II of the Opuscula physica et chemical. Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist, was the first chemist to use the A, B, C. etc. system of notation for chemical species. According to Neville, the second edition is so rare that Bergman's bibliographer stated he had never seen a copy (Neville, p. 125).  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955).   A group of offprints, comprising:  "Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizitat. [Parts I and II]." Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse, VI. Berlin: Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1927.  2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (255 x 184 mm). Original printed orange wrappers (minor creasing). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Theodor Kaluza (1885-1954) published a paper in 1921 where he linked gravitation and electromagnetism using Einstein 's gravitation equations for 5 dimensions, instead of 4. In February 1927, Einstein published these "papers on the five-dimensional theory are two short communications" where "his improved treatment [of the Kaluza theory] turns out to be identical with the work of Klein" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord, pp. 344, 333).  [With:]  EINSTEIN. Walther MAYER (1887-1948). "Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizitat." [With:] "Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizitat. Zweite Abhandlung." Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse. XXV, XII. 25 (1931) [Part I] and 12 (1932) [Part II]. Berlin: Der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1931-1932.    2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (258 x 182 mm). Original printed orange wrappers (browning, brittle, some annotations). FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS. "In 1931 Einstein and Walter Mayer reformulated Kaluza 's 5-dimensional [unified field] theory retaining a 4-dimensional space-time" (Norman 701).  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS].   Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee House, 1774.  8vo (186 x 110 mm). Half-title, title with woodcut seal. (Some pale spotting.) Modern calf; blue cloth folding case.  FIRST EDITION OF THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRST CONGRESSFIRST ISSUE, with the half-title, title, and 132pp. The title-page bears the seal of the Congress, showing twelve hands representing the twelve participating colonies supporting a column topped with a Liberty Cap resting on the Magna Charta, framed by the motto "Hanc Tuemur Hanc Nitimur" ("This we defend, this we lean upon").  Committees of Correspondence resolved to hold a Continental Congress in June of 1774, and delegates from twelve colonies (none from Georgia) gathered in Philadelphia in the fall.   Delegates included: Samuel Adams, John Adams, Roger Sherman, John Jay, Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Edmund Pendleton, and Henry Middleton. On October 14, the Congress adopted a Declaration of Rights, and agreed to an Association governing imports and exports and boycotting British goods. They drafted an Address to the People of Great Britain and an Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec. They agreed to reassemble on May 10, 1775 for what was to be the Congress that broke with England. Evans 13737; Howes J-263; this issue not in Sabin.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY] -- A group of 2 works related to scientific inquiry, comprising:  VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Les Singularites de la Nature. Paris or Geneva: [Cramer], 1768. 8vo (190 x 118 mm). Woodcut on title-page. (Light toning or occasional staining.) Modern quarter calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some minor rubbing). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Voltaire 's work containing his observations of natural history, science, law, medicine, philosophy, and religion. Cioranescu 64840.  [With:]  BROWNE, Thomas, Sir (1605-1682). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into very many Received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths, Together with the Religio Medici Together with many more Marginal Observations, and a Table Alphabetical at the end. London: Printed by J.R. for Nath. Ekins, 1672. 4to ( 222 x 162 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some browning or light offsetting.) Later roan gilt, spine gilt(front joint repaired, some rubbing). Sixth and last edition of Browne 's popular work, corrected and enlarged with additional explanations, in which he refutes superstitious contemporary beliefs based on empirical observations in line with the Baconian method. The work is organized into books based on the renaissance scale of creation: mineral, vegetable, animal, man art, geography and history, and astronomy and the cosmos. Keynes 79; Wing B5165.    Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

NABOLL, Nathan.   Green's Register for the State of Connecticut: With an Almanack, For the Year of our Lord, 1790. Calculated for the Meridian of New-London, Lat. 41.23. North. New London: T. Green & Son, [1790].  12mo (133 x 76 mm). [2], 79, [14] pp. (Browning and spotting, lacking final blank.) Sewn into contemporary wrappers without backstrip (some soiling or chipping). Provenance: Josephus E. Comstock (signature, front wrapper); Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 15 December 2005, Sale 323, lot 64). FIRST EDITION of this rare 18th-century Connecticut register, listing corporations, tax collectors, ministers, civil officers, justices of the peace and details of the faculty at Yale.   With an early printing of the United States Constitution (pp.36-48).   Also including details about taxes and ferry fares.   With a few leaves bound in upside down, and the final text leaf pasted to the lower wrapper. Drake Almanacs, 455; Evans 21779.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES - TREATIES]. Wanskaps och Handels Tractat Emellan Hans Maj:t Romungen af Swerige Och The Forente Staterne i Norra America.... Traite d 'Amitie et de Commerce entre sa Majeste le Roi de Suede et Les Etats Unis de l 'Amerique Septentrionale.... Stockholm: Royal Press, 1785.4to (400 x 340 mm sheets). Text printed in two columns in Swedish and French, with the notice of American ratification on the final three pages printed in English Swedish and English. Folded as issued, uncut and unsewn. Provenance: Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA, 15 December 2005, Sale 323, Lot 94).FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST REGULAR TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COMMERCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND A NEUTRAL POWER. The third treaty made by the United States with a power other than France, negotiated by Benjamin Franklin. Though the treaty was concluded on April 3, 1783, it was not printed until this Stockholm publication, likely in a small edition for official use, not widely circulated. The United States and Sweden, a major maritime power of the period, granted each other most-favored nation trade status, agreeing on rules for trade in times of war and peace, and establishing a framework for consular representation. Sabin 100931.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[DON QUIXOTE, in English] -- CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616). The Life & Exploits of Don Quixote, de la Mancha or The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote: From the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra by T. Smollett, M.D. to which is prefixed, some Account of the Author 's life. In Two volumes. Tobias Smollett, translator. London: J.F. Dove for J. Waller, 1818.    2 volumes, 12mo (126 x 63 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title. (Very minor spotting.) Contemporary light green calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled (some chipping or rubbing, hinges starting). Provenance: Harry F. Marks (bookseller 's stamp); W. & G. Folye, Ltd. (bookseller 's ticket).  Later edition of Smollett 's English translation of Don Quixote, first published in 1755, and remaining very popular. Smollett "endeavored to retain the spirit and ideas without servilely adhering to the literal expression of the original; from which, however, he has not so far deviated, as to destroy that formality of idiom so peculiar to the Spaniards, and so essential to the character of the work" (Translator 's Aim, p. xv).    For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BARRETT, Francis (ca 1770-80, d. 1802 or later). The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer. London: for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1801 [but 1875].  4to (285 x 220 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 22 engraved plates (5 with hand-coloring). (Lacking final advertisement leaf, some very minor soiling.) Later half cloth uncut (rebacked preserving portion of original spine, some light wear).    Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1801. "Composed in the Christian tradition, The Magus was a farrago of Renaissance alchemy and natural and talismatic magic that fitted contemporary Gothic taste... The book's most startling feature was a set of gargoyle-like portraits of demons conjured up in ritual magic ceremonies" (DNB).Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[HOUSTON, Sam]. Two imprints bound together, comprising:  Life of General Sam Houston. Washington: J.T. Towers, [1852?].   FIRST EDITION. Raines p.226; Sabin 33192. -- BURNET, David Gouverneur. Review of the Life of Gen. Sam Houston, as Recently Published in Washington City by J.T. Towers. Galveston: News Power Press Print, 1852. FIRST EDITION. Graff 495; Raines p.37; Winkler 295.2 works bound in one, 8vo (245 x 157 mm). (Some browning, spotting or staining.) Stab-sewn in contemporary wrappers (wrinkled and soiled, a few tears with losses). Provenance: Several early annotations on wrappers a few leaves; acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 228).   The second work is the FIRST PAMPHLET PRINTED IN TEXAS ON A HORSE-POWERED PRESS. Burnet wrote his review of Houston's life in response to Charles Edwards Lester's Sam Houston and HIs Republic, which was factually inaccurate.   According to Raines, Burnet wrote to a friend: "'I have some idea of answering some of its misstatements and in order to do so am anxious to collect all the facts possible relating to the campaign of "˜36. The book is full of falsehood"”every truth is turned upside down.' He bemoaned Houston as "the prince of Humbugs," and detailed errors, exaggerations, and what he called outright lies. No one seems to have doubted that Houston had himself written the book. ...About the same time an anonymous pamphlet appeared, printed by J.T. Towers in Washington, entitled Life of General Sam Houston, obviously derived from the Lester volume....The Towers pamphlet, he said, is but a repetition of the same falsehoods and the same absurd distortions of character" (see Raines 126n). The Center for American History at the University of Texas holds a copy of these two works bound together.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A collection of works by or about Dickens, comprising:Pictures from Italy. London, 1846. First Edition.Hard Times. London, 1854. First Edition in Book form.  The Uncommercial Traveller. London, 1861 [1860]. First Edition in Book form.Sketches by Boz. London, 1837.   2 volumes. Third edition.Sketches by Boz"¦ Second Series. Complete in One Volume. London, 1837.American Notes. London, 1842. 2 volumes. Second edition.  In Memoriam. Extract from The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. IX, No. 50, February, 1864.A Child 's History of England. London, 1854-59. 3 volumes. Later edition.[CASWALL, Edward]. Sketches of Young Ladies"¦ By "Quiz." London, 1838. Eighth edition.FOSTER, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. London, 1874-73-74. 3 volumes. Later issues.    Together 10 works in 16 volumes, various 8vo sizes. (Occasional minor marginal toning). Uniform late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards, a few hinges starting).  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BRAY, Thomas (1658-1730).   Apostolick charity, its nature and excellence consider 'd. In a discourse upon Dan. 12. 3. preached at St. Paul 's, at the ordination of some Protestant missionaries to be sent into the plantations. London: E. Holt for William Hawes, 1700.  8vo (200 x 150 mm). Title printed within double rule border. (Lacking final blank.) 20th century half morocco gilt.  Third edition, preceded by editions of 1698 and 1699, issued with "A circular letter to the clergy of Mary-land" (caption title, here pp. 31-32), which was previously published separately (see Wing B4291). The third edition also includes an unnumbered 8pp. section with the caption title, "Proposals for the encouragement and promoting of religion and learning in the foreign plantations", which was also published separately.  Thomas Bray was the founder of parish libraries in the United States, and particularly in Maryland.   He was the found of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He is considered the first advocate of the public library in America. SCARCE: According to online records, no copy of any edition of Bray's pamphlet has appeared at auction in over 60 years. Church 770; ESTC R434; Sabin 7473.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

TRUSLER, John (1735-1820).   Proverbs Exemplified, and Illustrated by Pictures from Real Life. Teaching Morality and a Knowledge of the World. John Bewick, illustrator. London: 1 May 1790.  12mo (161 x 85 mm). Wood-engraved vignette on title-page, 50 wood-engravings by John Bewick. (Some occasional spotting, some creasing.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some chipping, covers rubbed, front cover nearly free).    FIRST EDITION of these moralizing tales for children by Reverend John Trusler, who published on a wide variety of subjects, including etiquette, medicine, and gardening. In Proverbs Exemplified, Trusler explains well-known proverbs by providing commentary on illustrations by wood-engraver, John Bewick, who was the brother of fellow wood-engraver Thomas Bewick. Thomas Bewick, often cited for reviving wood-engraving during the 18th-century, is best known for his work in  The History of British Birds.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

PARE, Ambroise (1510?-1590). De Chirurgie ende alle de Opera. Haarlem: Harman Kranepol for Hendrick Laurensz, 1627.  Folio (292 x 192 mm). Title printed in red and black with printer's device; in-text woodcuts throughout. (Title soiled with small loss affecting imprint repaired, a few rust-holes touching letters, the first few leaves frayed affecting shoulder notes, a few minor stains.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some minor wear). Provenance: Jean Jacob de Gruytere (signature); Henri-Marcel Van Mock (signature, 17 February 1755); Dr. Leboucq (bookplate).  Fourth collected edition in Dutch, a reprint of the 1604 edition, printed by the same printer as the 1615 edition with his device on the title-page.   According to Doe, the Dutch editions were far superior to the "very inferior" Latin edition.   The Dutch editions used the same woodblocks as the French editions. Pare, one of the most notable surgeons of the European Renaissance, is considered one of the fathers of modern surgery and forensic pathology, and was a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine. Doe pp.193-4.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TEXAS]. Map of Bexar County, Texas. San Antonio and Austin: Samuel Maverick & John H. Traynham, 1889.  Engraved map of Bexar County, visible area 560 x 444 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). (Archivally backed and conserved, creases from old folds, discoloration from old tape repairs verso, a few small separations or losses). Map surrounded by letterpress and engraved advertisements, a few with engraved vignettes. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 332).  FIRST EDITION, printed after an official map of the county issued by the General Land Office.   The surrounding advertisements are a rich source of local business information of the time. Traynham's own ad features prominently promoting his services as a map dealer and expert on Texas emigration. And early Lone Star Brewing ad ("Brewers of the Celebrated 'Pilsener') is placed top center, adjacent to an ad for the Alamo Ice Factory. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: we trace no other copies of this map in any institution or at sale.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES].  Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Eighteenth Congress...December 1, 1823...  Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1823.  8vo (225 x 140 mm). (Some browning or spotting, a few leaves dampstained.) Modern calf.  Provenance: Coast Artillery School (bookplate); New York State Library (duplicate sold stamp); Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, Sale 319, Lot 92).  FIRST EDITION, including the full text of the Monroe Doctrine, delivered to the Congress on December 2nd, establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MARTINEZ CARO, Ramon. Verdadera idea de la primera campana de Tejas y sucesos ocurridos despues de la accion de San Jacinto, por D. Ramon Martinez Caro. Mexico: Imprenta de Santiago Perez, a cargo de Agustin Sojo, Calle de Tiburcio núm 14, 1837.8vo (196 x 120 mm). Remboitage binding of 18th-century Spanish calf gilt (some light wear, a few repairs); original pictorial wrappers bound in. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 382).   FIRST EDITION, the first Mexican printing of the secret Treaty of Velasco and other documents relating to the Texas Revolution. "Eyewitness account of the Texas Revolution written by Santa-Anna 's private secretary [who] was captured at San Jacinto and imprisoned with Santa-Anna"¦. An insider 's view of the whole campaign, the capture at San Jacinto, the negotiations for the treaty, and life as a prisoner" (Basic Texas Books 138). "To Texans struggling for independence, General Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna was a bête-noir. He was held responsible for both of the tragedies of 1836"”the Fall of the Alamo and the Goliad Massacre"”but his defeat at San Jacinto by inferior numbers of Texans under Sam Houston relieved some of the pain. The present book"¦is remarkably well documented and includes the general 's own report to the Ministry of War" (Fifty Texas Rarities 16). VERY RARE: according to online records, only three copies (including the present copy) have sold at auction in the last 60 years. Graff 22695; Howes C-155; Sabin 10950.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SELDEN, Dudley (1794-1855). Conveyances on Record in the Registrar 's Office: from the 1st January, 1825 to the 1st January, 1838. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1838.8vo (244 x 145 mm). 4 folding street maps printed on onion skin of Harlem Commons. (One map with closed tear, some spotting). Original floral blind -embossed cloth, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (minor losses to spine ends, a touch of wear to corners, small stain lower cover). Provenance: John Adriance (inscription with note, "Not to be loaned under any circumstances"); John H. Southard (gift inscription from previous).FIRST EDITION, a collection of legal documents relating to the ownership of land in Harlem, and including a section entitled "Deduction of the Title to Harlaem Commons" relating to the 1666 grant of Governor Richard Nicolls. Selden acquired over 300 acres of land in Harlem in 1825 from the heirs of one of the original grantees of land in Harlem pursuant to Governor Nicoll's 1666 grant.   John Adriance's brother, Isaac, represented that the land claim in Harlem was based on the new Harlem patent, a grant of confirmation to the freeholders and inhabitants of Harlem (printed in the present copy). [Tipped in:] 1p. manuscript copy of an 1832 deed between Dudley Selden and his wife to George Marshall. "THIS BOOK IS VERY SCARCE," and was likely printed only for members of the family. (Sabin 78969).Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[KENT, Rockwell, illustrator]. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New York: Random House, 1928.  2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated by Kent. Original gilt-lettered linen (some light soiling and staining to joints, text block splitting after first quire); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Edith Morton Scotter? (signature on front free endpaper, dated 1928); Barry Moser (bookplate).  LIMITED EDITION, number 885 of 924 copies SIGNED BY KENT.    [With:]  [KENT, Rockwell, illustrator]. VOLTAIRE, Jean Francois Marie Arouet de. Candide. New York: Random House, 1928. 4to. Illustrated by Kent. Original cloth gilt (spine and board edges a little darkened, some rubbing to gilt). LIMITED EDITION, number 364 of 1470 copies SIGNED BY KENT. Accompanied by 3 later trade editions of Kent 's Candide, New York, 1929, 1936 and 1975, respectively, 4to, original bindings, dust jackets or slipcases as issued (some chipping to dust jackets). [KENT, Rockwell, illustrator]. ROBINSON, Selma. City Child. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1931. 8vo. Illustrated by Kent. Original cloth; dust jacket. First Trade Edition.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

RAMOS ARISPE, Miguel. Memoria que el Doctor D. Miguel Ramos de Arispe, Cura de Borbon, y Diputado en las Presentes Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias de Espana por la provincia de Cohauila, una de las cuatro internas del oriente en el reyno de Mexico, presenta a el augusto Congreso, sobre el estado natural, politico, y civil de su dicha provincia, y las del nuevo reyno de Leon, nuevo Santander, y los Texas. Cadiz: Jose Maria Guerrero, 1812.4to (205 x 149 mm). (A few minor spots). Modern wrappers; blue cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of this "short but excellent account of the four Internal Provinces of the East as observed by Ramos Arizpe before he left his home in Saltillo in Coahuila at the end of 1810 to attend the Spanish Cortes as a delegate from Coahuila. It is addressed to the King and describes the government of the four provinces, has brief notes on their important towns, and discusses such subjects as 'Character of the People', 'Public Education', 'Breeding of Cattle', 'Commerce' and 'Defects of the System of Government' and makes various recommendations'' (Streeter, notes to American edition). Howes R-26; Sabin 67670; Streeter Texas 1050.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[PHYSICS] -- A group of 9 periodicals and offprints in 13 volumes, comprising:    An Introduction to the Fourth Dimension. Dearborn, MI: Henry Ford Trade School, N.d. 12mo. Binding intact. -- EDDINGTON, Arthur S. The Physical Society of London. Report on the Relativity Theory of Gravitation. London: Fleetway Press, Ltd., 1920. Provenance: S. H. Spark? (signature). Second edition. -- HELMHOLTZ, Hermann. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1882, 1883 & 1895. 3 volumes. Provenance: George Eugene Uhlenbeck (stamped). -- HUBBLE, Edwin. "A Spiral Nebula as a Stellar System, Messier 31." Contributions from the Mount Wilson Observatory. No. 376. Reprinted from the Astrophysical Journal, Volume LXIX, 1929. N.p.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1929. Binding intact (rubbed, darkened). Provenance: Herbert McLean Evans (bookplate). -- KLEIN, Felix. Elementarmathematik vom Hohern Standpunkte Aus. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1911 & 1913. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Second edition. -- KLEIN, Felix. Gesammelte Mathematische Abhandlungen. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921 & 1922. 2 volumes. Provenance: George Eugene Uhlenbeck (stamped). -- KLEIN, Felix. Vorlesungen Uber Die Entwicklung Der Mathematik. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. Part I. Provenance: Abraham Pais (signature). -- PLANCK, Max. Zur Dynamik bewegter Systeme. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1908. -- REES, Abraham. The Cyclopaedia; or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. N.p.: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820. 4to. -- Together, 9 works in 13 volumes, all 8vo except where indicated, numerous illustrations, all in original paper wrappers (some chipping), all FIRST EDITION except where indicated, condition generally good.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[BIBLE, in English]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ Faithfully Translated into English. Antwerp: Daniel Vervliet, 1600. 4to. Title printed within woodcut border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous woodcut initials. (Foremargin of title and first few leaves renewed not affecting letterpress, some browning or soiling.) Contemporary calf, sides with gilt emblem of the Society of Jesus, edges gauffered and gilt, with a note in the binder's hand on the paste-down (worn, rebacked); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: William J. Connery (bookplate). Second edition. Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- [AFRICA] -- Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discover of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: C. Macrae, 1790.  4to (292 x 228 mm). Engraved folding map frontispiece. (Some spotting, a few short tears in map, some short tears.) Contemporary half calf, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (top joint repaired, overall rubbing). Provenance: John Thomas Stanley, Esquire of Alderley (bookplate).    FIRST EDITION, published by The African Association, which was created to inform the British of African geography and was founded in 1788. The large engraved frontispiece map depicts Northern Africa and was compiled by J. Rennell, who was a geographer, pioneer of oceanography, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London in 1830.  Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. A group of 3 multiple color block prints from the Pennyroyal Press edition of Frankenstein, [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1983].    Each c.240 x 285 mm, sight size. EACH SIGNED BY MOSER in pencil. Separately matted and framed. "Frankenstein marks the first instance of the use of multiple color blocks prints in a Pennyroyal book"¦""”Pennyroyal Checklist 29.  Comprising:     "All joy was but a mockery," "No father had watched my infant days," and "Farewell."Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

GREELY, Adolphus W. (1844-1935). Report of the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888.  2 volumes, 4to. 6 maps and charts (one folding), numerous plates and illustrations. Original half calf gilt (some rubbing and wear). Provenance:    FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED laid-in: "For Capt. Schaff['s friend?] with compliments of A. W. Greely U. S. Army Mch. 28, '89."   The official report of Greely's ill-fated expedition to explore the northwest coast of Greenland, during which most of the party would perish before the could be rescued in 1884.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. The Holy Bible. Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments. New York: Viking Studio, 1999.  Folio. Illustrated with over 230 woodcuts by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket; in original shrink-wrap.    FIRST TRADE EDITION of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. Accompanied by a video cassette trailer for the documentary film by Kessler Brothers, "A Thief Among the Angels," The Pennyroyal Caxton, new in shrink-wrap.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MARIANI, Paul. Timing Devices: Poems. Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1977.Full sheets, 328 x 620 mm (328 x 156 mm., folded). FOLDED UNBOUND SHEETS. Illustrated with 5 wood-engraved plates by Barry Moser; plus a folding polyptych plate at back containing the same five engravings.    FIRST EDITION of Mariani 's first book of poetry. LIMITED EDITION, one of 175 copies SIGNED BY MOSER AND MARIANI. Accompanied by another set of gathered unbound sheets, without the additional folding plate, unsigned.  Pennyroyal Checklist 18 ( "This book marks the beginning of a long relationship with a man I consider one of the brightest poets working in America today.").    [With:]    [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MARIANI, Paul. Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected, and Revised Poems. North Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, [2012].  8vo. Frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated with wood engravings by Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, number 10 of 10 copies reserved for the author and illustrator, of an edition of 50 copies SIGNED BY MARIANI AND MOSER, with an additional impression of the folded triptych from the wood engravings, signed by Moser in pencil.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

ADAIR, James (1709?-1783). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia.  London: for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775.  4to (268 x 210 mm). Engraved folding map. (Some minor offsetting of map.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving original spine).  FIRST EDITION of the "best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them" (Howes). Adair lived and traded among several tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, and Chickasaw. ESTC T86841; Graff 10; Howes A-38; Sabin 155.Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. The Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting forth the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms. The Letter of the Twelve United Colonies by their Delegates in Congress to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, their Humble Petition to his Majesty, and their Address to the People of Ireland. Collected together for the Use of Serious Thinking Men, by Lovers of Peace. London: N.p., 1775.  8vo (200 x 122 mm).   (Title very slightly soiled, a few leaves trimmed close just shaving catchwords.) 20th century calf gilt (small tear at head of spine, light wear, front flyleaf disbound). Provenance: A few early 20th-century annotations on flyleaves. FIRST LONDON EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the balance of the text uncorrected, of one of the most significant precursors to the Declaration of Independence.   The pamphlet reprints the Declaration of Causes and Necessity (first published by William and Thomas Bradford in Philadelphia in the same year), and three other texts first published by the Bradfords: The Twelve United Colonies...to the Inhabitants of Great Britain; The Olive Branch Petition; and An Address...to the People of Ireland.   This issue was presumably subsidized by Richard Champion, an American sympathizer and ally of Edmund Burke, and the printer appeals to American sympathizers on the title-page: "Read with Candor : Judge with Impartiality." RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only 3 examples of this pamphlet have sold at auction in the last 45 years.   Adams, American Controversy, 75-149b; Sabin 15522.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LEMAIRE, Charles (1800-1871). Le Jardin Fleuriste, journal general des progres et des interets horticoles et botaniques. Ghent: F. & E. Gyselinck, 1851-1854. 4 volumes, 8A (240 x 157 mm). Half-titles. 405 lithographic plates (of which 403 are printed in color and finished by hand, occasionally heightened with gum-arabic, 26 are folding, 2 are uncolored folding plates), numerous illustrations, some full-page. (Some spotting or offsetting, a few quires becoming loose or disbound.) Contemporary calf-backed boards (some wear, hinges starting). FIRST EDITION. This fine periodical has a definite preference for the exotic: there are about 60 orchids shown, a similar number of bromeliads and many other plants suitable only for the hot-house in northern Europe. There is some confusion about the number of plates, caused by the double-numbering of most of the folding plates. Nissen calls for 430 plates, but Stafleu and Cowan record a number of double-numbered plates which are the folding plates in the present copy. Nissen BBI 2338; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 4376.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BRADFORD, Thomas Gamaliel (1802-1887). A Comprehensive Atlas Geographical, Historical & Commercial. New York: Freeman Hunt & Co, 1835.Folio (323 x 262 mm). Engraved frontispiece, pictorial title-page, 10 engraved plates, and 66 engraved maps colored in wash and outline. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) Original marbled boards (neatly rebacked).   THE FIRST AMERICAN ATLAS TO INCLUDE A SEPARATE MAP OF TEXAS Later (second?) edition of Bradford's folio atlas, preceded by an edition published in Boston in the same year. At least 4 versions of this atlas are dated 1835: the earliest, published in Boston, does not include a separate map of Texas, and later editions include only one page of descriptive text. The present copy includes the separate map of Texas paginated "64A," and two accompanying pages of text, paginated "64B" and "64C."The map of Texas, based on Stephen F. Austin's map, depicts land grants rather than counties.   The city of Austin does not appear, but Austin's Colony is named, and the map of shows Mustang Wild Horse Desert shown in the south, the Nueces River as the southwestern boundary.   Phillips Atlases 770; Sabin 7260; Taliaferro, Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library 248 ("Evidently, not all copies of Bradford's atlas contained this map"); Wheat Transmississippi 408-410.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BRUGUIERE, Jean Guillaume (1749-1798). Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c. Paris: Panckoucke, 1791.  4to (313 x 230 mm). Half-title; 95 engraved plates (5 double-page). (A few small spots, some minor dust-soiling to a few leaves.) Original boards uncut (rebacked in modern calf gilt, some rubbing). Provenance: California Academy of Sciences (blindstamp on title-page). FIRST EDITION of Bruguiere's contribution to Panckoucke's  Encyclopedie Methodique.   Bruguiere, who accompanied Kerguelen-Tremarec on his first voyage to the Antarctic in 1773, named more than 140 marine genera or species.   Jean-Baptiste Lamarck named the genus Bruguiera in his honor.   RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one copy of this work has sold at auction in the last 45 years.  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

CORTES, Hernando (1485-1547) and Francesco Antonio   LORENZANA (1722-1804). Historia del Nueva-Espana, escrita por su escalarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes. Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770.Small folio (269 x 192 mm). Title printed in red and black; engraved frontispiece, 32 engraved plates, one engraved folding plate of the great Temple of Mexico; 2 folding maps. (A few tears to folds of maps with old repairs verso, some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, hand-lettered on upper cover, lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (overall soiling, some light wear). Provenance: J. F. Arriaya (signature upper cover); 5 plates with manuscript notes verso, with some showthrough. FIRST EDITION of this "important and highly esteemed work, containing the celebrated letters of Cortes to the Emperor Charles V. This edition is illustrated with copious notes and documents, together with facsimiles of the Mexican mode of representing the tributes paid by the different towns in Mexico. These pictures, more complete and colored like the originals are included in Lord Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico" (Sabin). "Pages 322-328 contain an account of the voyage of Cortes to the peninsula of California and notices of later expeditions to 1769. The map of Castillo was inserted to illustrate this account, which Lorenzana states was copied from the original in the Archives of the Marquesado, that is, of the Cortes family. Since that time the original has never appeared, so we are still at a loss to know whether Castillo or Lorenzana put the name 'California' on the map" (Wagner, Spanish Southwest 152). Palau 63204; Sabin 16938.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MANN, James ( "James") (1759-1832). Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Denham: H. Mann and Co., 1816.    8vo (237 x 145 mm). (Browning and offsetting, a few tears with minor losses to blank leaves.) Original publisher 's gray printed boards, lettering-piece printed in blue on paper, uncut and unopened (some chipping or staining).    FIRST EDITION of "the primary record of medicine during the War of 1812," (Garrison-Morton 2161.1). It contains a "Dissertation on Dysentery" which won the Boylstonian Prize Medal in 1806, as well as an observation on the Winter Epidemic of 1815-16, denominated Peripneumonia Notha, as it appears at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts. Mann served as an Army Hospital Surgeon and as a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He served three years in the American Revolution and another three years in the War of 1812. His "chapter on surgery (pages 206-33) is especially invaluable for its first-hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds" (Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, GS4). Howes M-258; Garrison-Morton 2161.1.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

FUCHS, Leonhart (1501-1566).  Histoire des Plantes de M. Leonhart Fuschsius, avec les noms Grecs, Latins & Fracoys. Paris: Arnold Byrkman, 1549.8vo (165 x 98 mm). 519 woodblock prints with early hand-coloring. (B2 printed in facsimile on laid paper, a few short tears or holes occasionally just touching letters, a few shoulder notes just shaved.) Later limp vellum (soiling). Provenance: Marginalia in an early hand; Maison de Poesis Fondation Belmont (small stamp on title and a few other leaves). Presumed second edition in French. Nissen records two Paris editions of 1549: a folio edition published by Jacques Gazeau, and the present edition.   Fuchs' work, "perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published" (PMM), was first published in Latin as De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes in Basel in 1542. The popularity of Fuchs' work in France is evidenced by the numerous editions which appeared in quick succession from 1549 through 1558.   RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this scarce reduced edition of Fuchs, published in Paris by Arnold Byrkman, has sold at auction in the last 50 years. OCLC locates only 5 copies of this edition worldwide. Nissen BBI 665; not in Brunet, Hunt, NLM/Durling, or Wellcome.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

WILKINSON, John Gardner (1797-1875). On Colour and on the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All Classes. With Remarks on Laying Out Dressed or Geometrical Gardens. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for John Murray, 1858.  8vo (222 x 140 mm). 8 chromolithographic plates or lithographs with hand-coloring (including frontispiece), numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some occasional very light spotting.) Original publisher 's pictorial cobalt cloth gilt by Edmonds & Remnant with their ticket (some rubbing). Provenance: Eric Stanley Quayle (1921-2001), British bibliophile (bookplate, 1965).  FIRST EDITION. Wilkinson, considered to be the father of British Egyptology, set for the present work "to see England rival, and if possible excel, other countries in all the various branches of aesthetic art...to show how important it is that all classes of the community should appreciate the beautiful, and encourage the production of good works" (Preface, p. [v]).    Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SMOLLETT, Tobias George (1721-1771). The History and Adventures of an Atom. London: Robinson and Roberts, 1769.  2 volumes, 12mo (165 x 99 mm). Printer 's device on title-pages. (Lacking half-titles, some browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spines gilt, red morocco letter-pieces gilt (rubbed, joints separating, some chipping to extremities). Provenance: old signature effaced; G. Abrims? (signature, 1824).  FIRST EDITION, second state with the date in title corrected in Volume II. This work was published anonymously, though an editor of an edition of Smollet 's works in 1790 claimed that Smollett wrote this satire of English politics during the Seven Years ' War. Smollett is best known for picaresque novels, and influenced Charles Dickens. ESTC 006326884; Rothschild 1923.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[FACSIMILE"”GUTENBERG BIBLE]. Biblia Sacra. Paterson, New Jersey: Pageant Books, 1961    2 volumes. Folio. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; publisher's cloth folding cases.    LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 sets. "This is the first Gutenberg facsimile ever printed in the United States and only the second in the world. The reproduction derives from the Insel Verlag edition which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin and the copy in the Standischen Landesbibliothek in Fulda, considered by authorities to be the most beautifully illuminated of the 47 copies known to exist. The text pages have been printed by lithography and the illuminated pages by sheet-fed gravure. The paper used is 100 per cent rag content made especially for this book.   A VERY FINE COPY.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MAGNI, Pietro Paolo (b. 1525). Discorsi intorno al sanguinar i corpi humani il modo di ataccare le sanguisuche e ventose a far frittioni e vesicatorii. Rome: Bartolomeo Bonfadion e Tito Diani, 1584.4to (226 x 164 mm). Engraved title within architectural border, 11 engraved plates. (Engraved title bound in on a stub, some minor spotting or staining.) Later mottled calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Robert J. Moes (bookplate).FIRST EDITION of Magni's treatise on the art of bleeding and the use of leeches in therapeutic medicine.   Magni, an Italian surgeon in Piacenza, was a practitioner of phlebotomy, and also wrote a treatise on cautery. The fine engravings are by Adamo Ghisi,   and depict the methods that can be used for bloodletting on various places on the body. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one complete copy of this edition of this work has sold at auction in the last 40 years. Mortimer Italian II, 267; Wellcome I, 3959.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[FINE BINDINGS] -- A group of 4 works in 5 volumes in finely bound, comprising:CUNNINGHAM, Peter. The Story of Nell Gwyn: and the Sayings of Charles the Second. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852. Later calf gilt, stamp-signed LEIGHTON. Provenance: W. J. Thoms (inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY CUNNINGHAM to W.J. Thoms. "“ TREVELYAN, George Otto, Sir.   The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. 2 volumes. 20th-century green crushed levant stamp-signed BUMPUS LTD. Second edition. [Tipped in:] MACAULAY. Autograph note signed ("Macaulay"), to Mrs. Drummond, 8 March 1837, on Papier Satine. -- STERNE, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey. London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1894. Contemporary tan morocco gilt, stamp-signed RAMAGE. Another edition. -- [VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1819-1901)]. HOLMES, Richard R. Queen Victoria 1819-1901. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Contemporary dark brown crushed levant gilt, stamp-signed RIVIERE AND SON. Provenance: Acquired from W.&G. Foyles Ltd., 119-125 Charing Cross Rd., London (sticker); Winnie Hearndon (inscription), gifted to; Annie Paxton (inscription, 1908). NEW EDITION. QUEEN VICTORIA'S SIGNATURE TIPPED IN. -- Together, 4 works in 5 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally fine.    For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[PALLAS, Peter Simon].   Dierkundige beschouwingen, Eenige Zoorten van zeldzame Dieren door naauwkeurige Beschryvingen, Afbeeldingen en Verhandelingen opgeheldert: Vertaald meet aanmerkingen verrykt en thans op nieuw in 't licht gebragt. In VI stukken met plaaten. [BODDAERT, Peter, translator]. Rotterdam: Johannes Jakobus Meyneken, [1793/95].  4to (265 x 207 mm). 10 engraved plates with hand-coloring; engraved headpieces. (Minor losses to lower margin of a few leaves, some minor mostly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary calf-backed boards gilt, uncut and unopened (some wear). A rare later edition. The first edition of Boddaert's annotated translation of parts of Pallas' Spicilega Zoologica was published in 6 parts in 1767-1770; a second edition was published by Esveldt & Holtrop in 1779. The present edition is a reissue of the 1767-70 edition, adding a new title-page and 6 section titles.   According to Wood, the present edition is "one of the many editions of the author's Dierkundig Mengelwerk" (see Wood p.511). Plates depict several species of antelopes, bats, an opossum, and the tufted puffin. Landwehr,  Color Plates, 154; see Nissen  ZBI 3072.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SMITH, Robert (1689-1768). A Compleat System of Opticks, in Four Books. Cambridge: for the Author, 1738.  2 volumes, 4to (290 x 225 mm). 83 engraved folding plates. (Some spotting or browning, primarily to plates, V1-4 on slightly shorter leaves.) 20th-century quarter calf antique, edges stained red.  FIRST EDITION, with sections on light, color, the theory of vision, the production of optical and perspective instruments including telescopes and microscopes, and astronomical discoveries. Smith's work was influential in establishing the corpuscular theory of light as the dominant theory in the 18th-century. As Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Smith was influential in establishing Newtonian science at Cambridge. Houzeau-Lancaster 3323.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MEURSIUS, Johannes (van Meurs) (1579-1639). Denarius Pythagoricus. Sive, De Numerorum, usque ad denarium, qualitate, ac nominibus, secundùm Pythagoricos. Leiden: J. Maire, 1631.  4to (189 x 143 mm). Woodcut device on title-page. (Some spotting or browning, a few leaves creased.) Contemporary vellum (recased, endpapers renewed, some soiling, a few tiny chips to spine). Provenance: Alexandri Pollini (contemporary signature); Colonna Family (Libraria Colonna stamps).  FIRST EDITION of Meursius 's scientific treatise related to Pythagoras ' number theory and the Pythagorean Theorem. Meursius was a Dutch classical scholar and a professor of Greek and History in both Leiden and Zealand. The present copy comes from the collection of the Colonna family, a papal noble family of Rome. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only three copies of this work have sold in the last 45 years.    Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[PUBLISHER'S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [ARMSTRONG, Margaret, designer].  BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Pippa Passes. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1900. 8vo. Numerous illustrations by Margaret Armstrong. Original green cloth gilt-decorated, upper cover with floral canvas onlay, after a design by Margaret Armstrong (very slight rubbing to extremities; please note the lot only includes one copy of the book).  FIRST EDITION, A BRIGHT COPY. From the Private Collection of Richard CadyFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner's, 1926.8vo. Original dark green cloth, stamped in red (very slightly leaned); pictorial dust jacket (spine panel toned, some light chipping, a few short separations to folds, small dampstain to foot of spine, some minor soiling).FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY'S FIRST NOVEL. Hemingway's earlier works established his reputation in literary circles, but by 1925, he had not gained broader public recognition, which he attributed to his restrictive contract with Boni and Liveright, who published his earlier works. He wrote Torrents of Spring in a few weeks in November of 1925, and Boni and Liveright rejected it quickly.   "I have known all along," Hemingway wrote Fitzgerald, that the firm "could not and would not be able to publish it as it makes a bum out of their present ace and best seller Anderson" (Selected Letters, p. 183).   The contract broken, Hemingway signed with Scribners, and The Torrents of Spring was published on 28 May 1926. Hanneman A4a.Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SCIENCE "“ BINDINGS] "“ 12 works in 15 volumes about science with fine bindings, comprising:  ADLER, Mortimer J. The Four Dimensions of Philosophy. 1993. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ADLER. -- BOYLE, Robert. The Skeptical Chymist. 1997. -- DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man. 1998. 2 volumes. -- DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. 1987. -- EDDINGTON, A.S. and EINSTEIN, Albert. On Relativity.1999. -- FRANKLIN. Experiments and Observations on Electricity. 1996. -- HALES, Stephen. Statical Essays: Containing Haemastaticks. 2000. -- HOOKE, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. 1995. -- LYELL, Charles. Principles of Geology. 1997. 3 volumes. -- NAPIER, John. The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms.[With:] MacDonald, William Rae. A Catalogue of the Various Editions of Napier 's Works. 1997. -- NEWTON, Isaac. A Treatise of the System of the World. 1993. -- VESALIUS, Andreas. The Illustrations of the Works of Andreas Vesalius. 1993. -- Together, 12 works in 15 volumes, all published New York, NY by Gryphon Editions or Norwalk, CT by the Easton Press, several privately printed for the members of the Classics of Science Library, some with title-pages in red and black, many with laid-in notes from the editors, all in original leather bindings, raised bands, gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves, attached bookmarks, 10 as new in original shrink-wrap, condition generally fine.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HUARTE, Juan (1529?-1588).   Examen de Ingenios. The Examination of Mens Wits. In Which, by Discovering the Varietie of Natures, is Shewed for What Profession Each One is Apt, and How Far She Shall Profit Therein. Richard Carew, translator. London: Adam Islip, 1604.  8vo (174 x 128 mm). Woodcut printer 's device on title-page, woodcut head-and-tail-pieces and initials, numerous in-text woodcuts. (A few repaired tears, some dampstaining.) Modern calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some rubbing, joints starting). Provenance: a few annotations in early hand.  Third edition in English of Huarte 's work, first published in Spanish in 1575, and then   translated into Italian by M. Camillo Camilli in 1582. Carew translated the work from the Italian into English. Cornish translator and antiquary Carew was known for his Survey of Cornwall (1620). Huarte 's ' work is considered to be "the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology" (Garrison-Morton). ESTC 006193407.  Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BALZAC, Honore de (1799-1850).   Etudes de moeurs au XIXe siecle.... Paris: Madame Chales-Bechet, 1834.  One volume only (of 12, Vol. V comprising Part I of the second series) 8vo (217 x 128 mm). Engraved plates with hand-coloring, several with remarques. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.   20th-century crushed levant gilt, edges gilt and uncut, black calf doublures gilt, stamp-signed and dated by G. Mercier de Son Pere, 1913 (some slight rubbing to joints or spine); original wrappers bound in. Provenance: Lowther family (bookplate numbered 63934); Raymond Claude-Lafontaine (gilt stamp on doublure). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The present single volume, the first volume in the second series, Scenes de la vie de province, includes the first publication of Eugenie Grandet, widely considered to be Balzac's first great novel. Etudes de moeurs au XIXe siecle was published in 12 volumes comprising three series each in 4 volumes: Scenes de la vie privee, Scenes de la vie de province, and Scenes de la vie parisienne. THE LOWTHER FAMILY COPY.  [With:] BEYLE, Marie Henri ("Stendhal") (1783-1842).   De l'amour. Paris: Librairie Universelle, de P. Mongie, 1822. One volume only (of 2, lacking volume II), 12mo (153 x 89 mm). Half-title. 20th-century morocco gilt, sides with central gilt arabesque, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 with red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt, turn-ins gilt, stamp-signed by R. Petit.   Provenance: Lowther family (bookplate on pastedown, hand-numbered 61396).  FIRST EDITION. "Ouvrage fort recherche: son "titre" en est une raison, qui, sans dominer les autres est un fait. Un livre hardi et froidement realiste qui fit sensation a l'epoque" (Carteret II, 346). THE LOWTHER FAMILY COPY.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BELLAMY, Daniel, the Elder (1687-?). Ethic Amusements. BELLAMY, Daniel, the Younger (ca 1715-1788), reviser. London: W. Faden, 1768.  4to (267 x 212 mm). 2 engraved section titles, 44 engraved plates, 27 vignettes and 8 other engravings, many by G. Bickham. (Lacking one preliminary leaf, a few short tears not affecting text, some spotting, staining, or offsetting.) 18th-century half calf, marbled boards gilt, edges marbled, (rebacked, some light wear). Provenance: C.A. (long inscription in an early hand bound in, some early annotations).  FIRST EDITION of Bellamy the Elder's work, which was revised by his son, Bellamy the Younger, who was a Chaplain of Petersham and Kew in Surry. This work contains five parts, the first of which is "The Comforts of Philosophy: in five books, from the Latin of Boetius" (p. v).   The inscription notes: "Botius ' [sic] Consolations of Philosophy was a favorite book with King James I when a prisoner in England and confined at Windsor Castle. It was a popular work among the writers of that day, and which had been translated by Chaucer. Indeed it would be difficult to find, out of the sacred writings, a more admirable text book for meditation under misfortune. It is the legacy of a noble and enduring spirit, fortified by sorrow and suffering, bequeathing to all its successors in calamity, the stores of eloquent but simple reasoning, by which it was enabled to bear up   against the various ills of life, it is a talisman which the unfortunate may treasure in his bosom, or like the good King James, lay it nightly on his pillow. C.A."  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BRICKELL, John (c.1710-1745). The natural history of North-Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants. Dublin: James Carson, 1737. 8vo (194 x 120 mm). Folding map, 2 engraved plates. (Some minor chipping to a few leaves.) 20th-century half calf, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt (joints slightly rubbed). Provenance: Frank C. Deering (1866-1939), Americana collector (morocco booklabel).FIRST EDITION, THE FRANK DEERING COPY. Brickell compiled his Natural History of North-Carolina from his own first-hand observations, though much of his work is taken from John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (1709). "Brickell took the book of Lawson, reworked it in his own fashion extended or curtailed and brought it to his time...there is, besides, much more language relating to the social condition of the Colony in Brickell...while Lawson sticks close to the natural, economic, and Indian history of the province (Stephen B. Weeks, Libraries and Literature in North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century). ESTC T143839; Howes B-762 (calling for the folding engraved map and 4 plates); Sabin 7800 (calling for the folding engraved map and 2 plates, as here).Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MATTSON, Morris (1809?-1885). The American Vegetable Practice, Or a New and Improved Guide to Health, Designed for the Use of Families. Boston: Daniel L. Hale, 1841.  2 volumes in one, 8vo (225 x 135 mm). 24 chromolithographs, one folding engraving, 9 in-text woodcuts. (Spotting throughout.) Contemporary reverse calf, green morocco lettering-piece gilt (worn). Provenance: R.H. Crosby (early signature).  FIRST EDITION of both volumes of Mattson's work, a major advance in practical medicine. Mattson was a Physician to the Reformed Boston Dispensary, a Lecturer on Physiology, and the Practice of Medicine. In this work, he broke with Thomsonian medicine, popular in the 19th-century, which focused on ridding the body of toxins through natural herbal remedies, instead presenting a more accurate and well-researched treatise, considered superior to previous publications regarding botanical approaches to medicine. Of the many illustrations throughout are chromolithographs depicting plants or plant parts, and a folding double plate engraving of the human skeleton, and woodcuts of various parts of human anatomy. [Laid in:] Several leaves of manuscript notes, comprising formulas for cures using plant material.    Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Sketches by Boz...New Edition, Complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837-1839.  8vo (210 x 125 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title, 38 engraved plates by Cruikshank. (A few small spots or stains.) 20th-century red crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son; original wrapper to part X bound in; red cloth folding case.   FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY DICKENS TIPPED IN: Autograph note signed ("Charles Dickens"), to John Hardwick. Devonshire Terrace, 1 December 1850. 1 page, 8vo, on a bifolium. "I shall be delighted and book myself accordingly." John Hardwick (1790"“1875) was presiding magistrate at Great Marlborough Street Magistrate's Court in Soho.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). The Lithographs of Chagall. Vol. I: Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1960; Vol. II: Monte Carlo and Boston: Andre Sauret and Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc., 1963; Vol. III: Paris: Andre Sauret, 1969; Vol. III: Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc., 1969; Vols. IV, V and VI: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1974, 1984, 1986.  6 volumes, 4to. Text in English, German or French corresponding with place of publication, 28 original lithographs (including dust jackets and frontispieces), numerous reproductions of Chagall 's lithographs. Original publisher 's cloth; original lithographed dust jackets (chipping to a few volumes, slight rubbing to spine ends); original glassines (chipping); original board slipcases for vols. III-IV. Provenance: Randy Barcelo (1946-1994), Cuban artist (embossed stamp).  FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of vols. I-IV; FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of vol. III; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of vols. V-VI. [With:] Duplicate copies of Volumes III and IV.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[EUCLID]. SCARBURGH, Charles, Sir (1616-1694). The English Euclide, Being The First Six Elements of Geometry, Translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and useful Supplements. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705.  Folio (349 x 224 mm). Half-title; engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater on the title-page; numerous woodcut and typographic diagrams throughout. (Some minor mostly marginal dampstaining or spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, some light wear, hinges reinforced). Provenance: Benedict Library (bookplate).FIRST EDITION of Scarburgh's translation of Euclide, published from his manuscript by his son.   Physician and mathematician Sir Charles Scarburgh was an original fellow of the Royal Society. Wallis, British Euclids p.5.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

OVID (43 B.C.-17? A.D.). Ovid 's Verwandlungen in Kupfern Vorgestellt und mit den Nothigen Erlaeuterungen versehen. Vienna: Ignaz Alberti, 1791.  3 volumes, small 4to (222 x 159 mm). Text in German, engraved title-pages, 135 (of 140?) engraved plates. (Spotting, trimmed, some browning.) 20th-century black leather, spine gilt-lettered (some rubbing or light chipping).    FIRST GERMAN EDITION of Ovid 's Metamorphoses profusely illustrated with copperplate engravings.    Property from the Estate of Mr. Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, ColoradoFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

METIUS, Adriaan. Arithmetica et Geometria nova. --Primum mobile: astronomice, sciographice, geometrice. Franeker: Uldericus Balck, 1625, 1631.  2 works in one volume, 4to (195 x 147 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut initials and diagrams; one etched folding plate, one woodcut folding plate. (A few early manuscript annotations, one diagram shaved, short tears to folds of woodcut plate, some minor dampstaining or spotting to a few leaves.) Later half vellum. Provenance: Johannes Petrus (presentation inscription); Liber Illustris Coll. Albensis (i.e. the college in FeheÌr, then in Hungary, but present-day Alba Iulia Romania, inscription); Thome B. Sz... Volgyi (signature, 1702). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO JOHANNES PETRUS, a public notary and Metius's friend. Metius spent time with Tycho Brahe before becoming professor of mathematics and astronomy at Franeker in 1600, where Descartes attended his lectures. Elzevir issued an edition of the first part of this work in 1626. Joannes Janssonius separately issued an edition of the Primum mobile  in 1631. RARE: According to online records, only one other copy of this work has sold at auction in the last 50 years.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Third Session of the Senate of the United States. Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, December 6th, 1790. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791.Folio (315 x 191 mm). (Ee1 with portion of upper corner and foremargin torn away affecting a few letters, wormtrack to upper margin of several leaves, some minor browning and spotting.) Contemporary calf (worn, covers detached or detaching). Provenance: Chris? F.? Ellery (signature on title-page); Western Reserve Historical Society (bookplate, withdrawn stamp).FIRST EDITION. The third session includes the formation of the Bank of the United States, the establishment of the Treasury department, and includes acts to admit Kentucky and Vermont into the Union as new states. Evans 23901.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

GILBERT, Samuel (d. 1692). The Florists Vade-mecum, Being a Choice Compendium of whatever Worthy Notice hath been Extant for the Propagation, Raising, Planting... the Rarest Flowers and Plants... Together with the Gardiners Almanack. London: for Thomas Simmons, 1682.  12mo (134 x 72 mm). 2 woodcut diagrams in-text. (Lacking the engraved portrait, D1, G10, and M8 torn with minor loss to text, several repaired tears.) Modern calf antique.  Provenance: W. Musgrave (1655-1721), British physician and antiquary (signature); William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish botanist (signature, 1798); manuscript note describing the publication of the work on front free endpaper.  FIRST EDITION.   The almanack has a separate title-page, "The gardeners almanack...With monthly directions what ought to be done in either kitchin or flower-garden," and covers the period 1683-1697. William Musgrave was elected to the Royal Society in 1684, and he was elected to the Royal College of Physicians in 1692. William Forsyth was a founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the genus Forsythia is named in his honor.    Henrey 157; ESTC R30408.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com