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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 220

Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae. Rome: Scheus, 1646. Folio, first edition, engraved title, separate title for the second part, illustrated with forty engraved plates extraneous to the collation, some folding, and four of which are engraved tables, page 513 contains a large typographical table, and was folded by the original binder to assure that it was not trimmed too closely; Jesuit geographical family tree repaired on the verso, ownership inscription of Stephan Spleiss (1623-1693) on ffep, with a few notes in the text; contents generally good, in contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over paper boards, ties lost, edges stained blue, 12 x 7 3/4 in.

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Lot 221

Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Musaeum Kircherianum, ed. Filippo B(u)onanni (1645-1723) Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1709. Folio, engraved portrait and 171 engraved plates, contents clean, in contemporary speckled sheepskin, worn and defective. Kircher presided over the collections Alfonso Donnino left to the Jesuits when he died in 1651. This illustrated catalog provides a snapshot of the diverse interests of European collectors in the early modern period.

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Lot 222

Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) China Monumentis. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansson a Waesberg & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667. Folio, engraved title, engraved vignette on typographical title, typographical title torn with 1 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. C-shaped lacuna to the blank margin; full-paged engraved portrait of Kircher in his library; large folding map of China, large folding table of Eastern languages torn and repaired, two full-paged engraved plates of Syriac inscriptions; large folding map of Asia torn with slight reparable loss, tape repairs, on ink spot, detached from book; full-paged plate of the miraculous cross of Saint Thomas in India; eleven text engravings mainly depicting people; full-paged engraving of the Mughal Emperor; three text engravings of animals; full-paged standing portrait of Kam Hi, the second emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty; two full-paged engravings of typical regional Chinese types, each with six frames; full-paged standing portrait of the Jesuit astronomer Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592-1666); full-paged standing portrait of Matteo Ricci and Li Paulus Magnus; two full-paged engravings of a Japanese woman with a bird in two different domestic settings; text engraving of an Indian religious rite; full-paged engraving of a Chinese temple; folding engraving of a Chinese painting; text engraving depicting a Japanese religious rite; text engraving of the Buddha on a lotus; full-paged engraving of a seated many-armed Buddha on a lotus with Sanskrit inscription; two repeated text engravings: the Japanese and Indian rites; full-paged anatomical Brahma man engraving; ten text engravings illustrating a Hindu Brahman tale, the first engraving, signed, Mm, pasted over the original imprint, which was mistakenly printed upside down; five full-paged engravings of Sanskrit; three large text engravings depicting a dragon fighting a tiger, seven mountains with reference to Ursa Major, and a carved idol; text engraving of a baby floating on a small raft in the middle of a lake; ten text engravings of botanical subjects; text-size engraving printed on an otherwise blank sheet extraneous to the collation (considered full-paged: Qqq); five text engravings of animals and birds; text engraving of an underground kiln; full-paged engraving of a bridge; text engraving of the great wall, with an elephant; text engraving of two large bells; eight text engravings of Chinese characters; text engraving of a calligrapher; lacking Hh2, the middle leaf of the index, and Hh4 ?blank. Plate count: engraved title; portrait of Kircher; two folding maps; two folding engravings; twenty-one full-paged engravings; and fifty-nine text engravings; bound in later leather, boards dry, rebacked, text leaves 15 x 9 1/2 in. Occasional spotting and tears.

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Lot 247

Mason, George C. (fl. circa 1870) Newport and Its Cottages. [Boston: Osgood & Co., 1875]. First edition, folio, 109 hinged leaves, text printed on the rectos only, illustrated with forty-five full-paged heliotype plates and other text illustrations, in the original blind tooled, and gold-lettered publisher`s morocco binding, with chamfered edges and inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., taffeta-textured endleaves and paste downs, binding intact without repairs, surface abrasions, corners bumped, foxing to fly leaves, 14 x 10 3/4 in.

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Lot 258

Mixed Lot, Classics, Casaubon, 18th Century, Four Volumes: Sir William Jones`s (1746-1794) Poeseos Asiaticae, London: Richardson for Cadell, 1774, some toning to leaves, printed in Oriental types, bound in later three-quarter red morocco. Catullus Tibullus et Propertius, edited by Johannes Antonius Vulpius, Venice: Bettinelli, 1786, in two volumes, illustrated with engraved frontispiece in volume one, engraved titles in both volumes, extremely well preserved in original limp marbled paper wrappers, untrimmed and unopened throughout, on very clean paper, with the publisher`s original letterpress labels intact on both spines; spines slightly sunned, minor water discoloration to exterior of spine, volume one. Isaac Casaubon`s Epistolae, Rotterdam: Fritsch and Böhm, 1709, folio, title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author opposite page 217, bound in full contemporary parchment, pages toned. (4).

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Lot 266

Morris, Earl H.; Jean Charlot; Ann Axtell. The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1931. First edition, two folio volumes, illustrated with photographs, colored plates, and folding plans, in publisher`s light blue cloth, slightly reflexed, 12 1/4 x 9 in. (2).

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Lot 272

Nigri, Stephanus (1475-c. 1540) [Heroica Philostrati & Dialogus Stephani Nigri: in qu[a]e quicquid apud Pausanium scitu dignum legitur, summa cum diligentia congestum est.] Milan: Minutiana, [1517]. Small folio, text printed in a clear Roman letter, with words and phrases in Greek; a-c6, A-D8, E6, F-Z8, AA-CC8, DD-EE6, FF10, lacking the final signature GG; the extensive ten-leaf errata apologizing for the poor Greek complete and present, comprising signature FF; contemporary marginal manuscript notes throughout; bound in full contemporary blind-rolled calf binding, with floral and bee motifs in the central compartment, flanked by an outer border of cherbus and acanthus, one cherub with a lute, holes from eight silk ties on both boards, ties lost, large contemporary parchment labels on front board, author and title on one and shelf mark on the other, ink title on fore edge, leather cracked along front joint, starting to crack at back, later end leaves, otherwise intact and unrepaired, very large margins throughout, printed on fine diaphanous paper throughout, minor water stain to fore edge, affecting only the blank margin, 11 x 7 1/2 in. The interlocutors in Nigri`s Dialogus include his former teacher, Demetrios Chalkokondyles (1423-1511); the work itself is dedicated to Jean Grolier.

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Lot 273

North, Roger (1653-1734) A Treatise on Fish and Fish-Ponds. London: by J. Goodwin, 1830. Folio, illustrated with eighteen hand-colored copper-plate engravings of fish after Eleazar Albin (fl. 1690-c. 1742), misidentified on the title page as "Ebenezer Albin," and on some plates as "Elizabeth Albin"; the colors of the plates are quite bright and finely done, the herring is enhanced with a glitter; rebound in full buckram, edges trimmed, some spotting and foxing, 12 5/8 x 8 3/4 in.

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Lot 290

Private Presses, Fourteen Volumes: Mostly 20th century, including small-format, limited edition (some numbered) titles from Huntington, Alderbrink, Chiswick, Fortune, Nonesuch, Thistle, Grabhorn, Fanfrolico, Stellar, Mill House, and other presses, including the Greek Odyssey and Iliad printed in Munich by the Bremer Press in 1923-24 in two folio volumes. (14).

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Lot 300

Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) Engravings from the Pictures & Sketches. Bayswater: Reynolds, 1820. In four large folio volumes. [and] Engravings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London: Genry Graves & Co., 1865, in three large folio volumes. All seven volumes illustrated with engravings after Reynolds throughout, bound in handsome uniform full gilt-tooled morocco, slightly rubbed, otherwise very good, each volume 19 1/4 x 13 1/4 in., occupying 15 inches of shelf space. (7).

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Lot 304

Rolle, Richard (1290?-1349) Speculum Spiritualium. [Paris: Hopyl, sumptibus Bretton (of London), 1510]. Large quarto/small folio, small woodcut of Christ crucified present on folio 208, along with the larger woodcut of the risen Christ with criblé background; lacking A1, A10, b2-7, and final A10; although the leaves lacking at the front and back were clearly lost after the book was bound, it seems likely that the inner leaves of signature b were lacking from day one; contemporary inscriptions of English owners at the front and back, free endleaves loose, along with manuscript waste guards, pastedowns have released from the inner boards, bound in full contemporary English blind-tooled calf over oak boards, lacking clasps, rebacked, old fabric repair to inside of front board, losses to leather on front board, 10 x 7 1/4 in.

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Lot 307

Russian Art and Architecture, Five Volumes: Folio, five volumes only of six, lacking volume 4, printed in Moscow, early 20th century, text in Russian throughout, illustrated, bound in matching publishers` bindings, corners bumped. (5).

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Lot 324

Tchou-Kia-Kien (fl. circa 1920) Le Theatre Chinois. Peking: Albert Nachbaur, 1927. Folio, limited edition numbered 140 of 500, illustrated with a full-paged plate of musical instruments, a colored full-paged plate of the mask work by General Kaing Wei, and five folding plates of theatre scenes printed in black and dramatically finished by hand and pochoir with vibrant colors, highlighted with gold stamping, on rice paper, one with a tear without loss, the rice paper mounted on stiffer stock, bound in publisher`s salmon-colored paper boards, with a color print of a mask set into the front board, letters stamped in gilt, 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.

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Lot 337

Titus Livius (59 BC-AD 17) Deche di Tito Livio Vulgare Hystoriate. [Venice: Bartolomeo de Zannis de Portesio for L.A. Giunta, 1511]. Folio, translated by Leonardo Bruni (1369-1444), title page printed in red and black, with woodcut and large printer`s mark; large woodcut border on the first page of text, and the first page of the third book, lacking the divisional page for book two with the large woodcut compartment and five other text leaves; ex libris Nathan Comfort Starr, with his bookplate inside the front board and penciled name on ffep, in a later binding, water stains, ink spots, small burn marks, tears, worming, and other damage to the leaves throughout, later marginal notes, some pages loose, title page thumbed, later parchment over boards, defective, 11 1/2 x 8 in. The text is illustrated with more than 400 cartoon-like woodcuts, originally created for the 1493 edition of the same Bruni translation, re-used in 1502 and again in this edition.

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Lot 341

Turkish, Egyptian and Armenian Imprints, Early 19th Century, Five Volumes: Saadi (b. 1184) Gulistan, Istanbul, 1856, large octavo, lithographic reproduction of an earlier book, half morocco binding with decorated paper boards, ex libris D.S. Robertson, with his bookplate, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Ibn al-Muqaffa (d. 756) Kalila wa Dimna, Cairo: Bulaq, 1835, octavo, 109 pages, text in Arabic through, each page printed within a ruled border, in half leather binding, textured boards; text with marginal water staining, text crisply printed, strong original type impression, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. The Bulaq or El-Amiriya Press was established by Mohammed Ali (1769-1849) in 1820 as the first official governmental printing firm in Egypt. They produced their first book in 1822. Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi (1591-1658) Ravat-ul-ebrar, Cairo: Bulaq, 1832, thick folio, pages printed within ruled borders throughout, bound in contemporary traditional-style red leather binding, with flap, tooled and ruled in blind, slightly rubbed, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. Nerses IV, Patriarch of Armenia (d. 1173) Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum Patriarchae, Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1837, small octavo, text printed in twenty-four different languages, at the Mechitharist monastery on Armenian the island of Saint Lazzaro in Venice, with portrait frontispiece, engraved title, and engraved medallions on the first page of text. Qur`an, [Leipzig, 1834], large quarto, text printed in Arabic in black ink throughout, title pages and other ornaments printed in red and black, text on each page within red rules, in contemporary fancy blind tooled large panel boards, attributed to Dobson, deftly rebacked and recornered, a.e.g., ex libris Owen Whitehouse, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament historian at Chestnut College, Cambridge, England, with his notes; one corner of the binding chipped with slight loss, some foxing to text leaves, 10 x 7 3/4 in. (5).

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Lot 345

Vatican Loggia, Two Plates by Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808) after drawings by Ludovico Teseo (1731-1782) after frescoes by Raphael (1483-1520) [from] Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, 1772-1777. Two copper-plate engravings, numbers I and III, depicting frescoed pilasters from the Vatican Loggia, each printed on two joined large folio sheets, some minor tears, minor spotting, and marginal water stains on plate III only; marginal water stain on plate I, 44 x 18 3/4 in. (2).

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Lot 348

Vernet, Carle (1758-1835) Tableaux Historiques des Campagnes d`Italie. Paris: Auber, 1806. Folio, portrait of Napoleon on a horse; twenty-three plates of battles from the Italian campaign; a hand-colored double page map of Italy; one plate of a battle in Egypt; a separate sub-title for the coronation of Napoleon with portrait medallions of the Emperor and Josephine; an account of the campaigns in Germany, and a supplement to the Italian and German campaigns illustrated with four additional full-paged plates, some scattered spots and minor foxing, in contemporary marbled leather, gold tooled, front joint starting to crack, corners worn, a.e.g., red spine label, 19 3/4 x 13 in.

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Lot 349

Viardot, Louis (1841-1918) The Masterpieces of French Art Illustrated. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., [c. 1883]. Two large folio volumes, profusely illustrated throughout, bound in publisher`s uniform blind and gilt-stamped brown morocco, inner gilt dentelles, very good, a.e.g., 15 x 11 1/2 in. (2).

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Lot 354

Weigel, Christoph (1654-1725) Historiae Celebriores Veteris [et Novi] Testamenti Iconibus Repraesentatae. Nuremberg: Officina Johannis Andreae Endteri, 1712.Two folio volumes, illustrated with an engraved title in each volume, 150 of 151 full-page engravings (lacking plate 143) in the Old Testament; and 105 of 108 full-page engravings in the New Testament (lacking plates 26, 27, 102; plate 1 misbound after plate 3); 255 of 259 plates in total, lacking four plates; water stains throughout both volumes, spotting, rust stains, discoloration and annotations, bound in uniform contemporary German half sheepskin and paste paper bindings, heavily rubbed, labels damaged, loss of leather, 17 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (2).

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Lot 355

Western Manuscripts in Latin, Three Volumes (1643-1769): Tractatus Theologicus de Uno et Trino, [and] Tractatus Moralis de Matrimonio, octavo, continental manuscript on paper in Latin, dated 1684, in brown ink throughout, signed and dated by the Ludovicus Mondran, approximately 475 pages, bound in contemporary parchment; large section of spine missing, library stamps of the Suplician Seminary Library in Washington D.C. on title and inside front board, old bookplate removed, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. Prolegomena de Philosophia, octavo, continental manuscript in Latin, dated 1769, with contemporary inscriptions on pastedown and ffeps, including that of Joannes Czinna in the colophon, and Stephanus Thaly and Joannes ?Kemenckzy in the preliminaries, unpaginated, ruled in pencil throughout, neat hand in brown ink, bound in contemporary mottled sheepskin, spine tooled in gilt, rubbed, stain on ffep, some thumbing, 7 x 4 3/4 in. Seemingly unpublished text which may have ties to Hungary, based on the orthography of the names in the front, includes a chapter entitled, "Elementa Psychologiae Prolegomena," and others on cosmology, practical philosophy, logic, and ontology. Prooemium in Libros Ethicorum, Rome: Lodovico Grignani, 1643, octavo, unusual continental text manuscript in Latin which begins with an engraved title page border printed with the inner compartment blank, presumably sold and packaged as a pre-bound blank book, 123 inscribed leaves, including some blanks between sections, text in a brown ink, bound in contemporary limp goatskin parchment, small break in the covering material with slight loss, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. The section starting on page ninety-three and continuing to the end, at page 123, is about meteors and comets. (3) [with] Humphreys, Henry Noel (1810-1879) manuscript with illuminated initials, folio, seven leaves, with four small original illustrations, including a small painting of a saint writing in a book, two line-fill illuminations, and a colored letter with knotwork, the illustrations on separate sheets of paper, tipped in, disbound, in a folder, 8 x 12 1/4 in.

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Lot 368

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) American Beaver, Plate XLVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 369

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) American Bison, Male, Plate LVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in. The bison stand on a promontory in the foreground, the herd rests behind him.

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Lot 370

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) American Cross Fox, Plate VI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 371

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Black American Wolf, Plate LXVII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal spotting, three short closed tears to blank margins; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 372

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Black Tailed Hare, Plate LXIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal spotting, old crease across the bottom third of the sheet, bisecting the image, with slight surface loss, most obvious in the vegetation; one closed tear, 2 inches long in left blank margin; edges toned; corners slightly bumped; good color; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 375

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Canada Lynx, Plate XVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, and framed; very slight foxing to the background, 25 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, frame is 36 x 31 in. overall.

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Lot 376

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Canada Porcupine, Plate XXXVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted; 20 3/4 x 25 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, frame is 36 x 31 in. overall, very good color.

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Lot 377

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Carolina Shrew, Plate LXXV. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted and framed, spotting, 15 3/4 x 22 in. visible through mat opening, 33 x 27 1/2 in. overall, including the frame.

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Lot 378

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Cat Squirrel, Plate XVII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 379

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Chipping Squirrel, Plate VIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 380

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common American Skunk, Plate XLII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted; 21 x 25 3/4 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, frame is 36 x 31 in. overall. The mother skunk snarls fiercely from atop the rotten log that protects her two kits.

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Lot 381

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common American Wildcat, Plate I. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor finger smudges in the blank background; 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, frame is 36 x 31 in. overall.

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Lot 382

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common Flying Squirrel, Plate XXVIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, one short closed tear to the blank margin, sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 383

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common Mouse, Plate XC. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal toning; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 384

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common Star Nose Mole, Plate LXIX. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal spotting, several closed tears in the blank margins, edges bumped with loss to outermost edges of the sheet; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 385

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Cougar, Male, Plate XCVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor edge toning, dusty with an old fold in the lower right blank margin; sheet: 28 x 22 in. The cougar has taken a black domestic cow.

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Lot 386

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Grey Fox, Plate XXI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, faint foxing; 25 1/2 x 20 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, frame is 36 x 31 in. overall.

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Lot 387

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Hare Indian Dog, Male, Plate CXXXII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, smudge in lower right corner, below publisher`s information; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 391

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Maryland Marmot, Woodchuck, or Groundhog, Plate II. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 392

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Nine-Banded Armadillo, Male, Plate CXLVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal toning, spot to blank margin in top left corner, and a fainter one above the succulent plant in the upper left; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 393

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Northern Hare, Plate XII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 394

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ocelot, Plate LXXXVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, slight marginal toning to the top of the sheet, small fold with 1/4 inch of loss in the lower left corner; sheet: 28 x 22 in. The ocelot is poised on a fallen tree over a pond, peering at a catfish in the water.

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Lot 396

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Pine Marten, Plate CXXXVIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted; 25 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, frame is 36 x 31 in. overall. Male and female pine marten vie for a dead catbird.

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Lot 397

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Raccoon, Male, Plate LXI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 400

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Sea Otter, Young Male, Plate CXXXVII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, two minor closed tears in the blank margin, and a larger one that intrudes into the background on the right side, behind the otter, with slight loss of surface along the tear itself; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 403

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Tawny Weasel, Plate CXLVIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in. The graphic struggle of weasel versus chicken.

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Lot 404

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Texan Lynx, Female, Plate XCII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal toning; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 405

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Texian Hare, Plate CXXXIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, very slight surface smudges; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 409

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Townsend`s Shrew Mole, Plate CXLV. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 410

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Virginian Opossum, Plate LXVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal spotting, corners bumped with slight loss, 1/2 inch piece missing from the blank margin near the lower right corner; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Lot 411

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) White American Wolf, Male, Plate LXXII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted, minor marginal toning, minor closed tears; sheet: 28 x 22 in. In this evocative image, the wild canine stands near the remains of a campfire, in full snarl, his tail between his legs, and front paw protectively covering a bone.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 412

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) White Footed Mouse, Plate XL. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, minor marginal spotting; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 413

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Wolverine, Plate XXVI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted; sheet: 28 x 22 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 415

Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Balsamita [and] Mentatestrum. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613. Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of three kinds of mint, printed on a large folio-sized sheet of laid paper, with typographical text on the verso, 21 1/4 x 18 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 417

Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Poma Amoris Fructu Rubro. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613. Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of a tomato plant printed on a large folio-sized sheet of laid paper, with typographical text on the verso, 21 x 16 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 418

Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Sorghum Fructu Rubro [et] Fructu Albo. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613. Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of two types of sorghum printed on a large folio-sized sheet of laid paper, with typographical text on the verso, 21 x 18 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 423

Manetti, Xaverio (1723-1784) Three Hand-colored Engravings of Birds, [from] Ornithologia Methodice, Florence, 1767-1776. Three folio-sized prints of a swan and two seagulls, uniformly framed, the seagulls somewhat foxed, 17 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (3).

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 437

Africa. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Africae Tabula Nova. Antwerp, 1587. Folio engraved map with contemporary hand coloring, double-glazed frame, some small marginal paper repairs, slight paper damage to lower border, even toning, 20 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 438

Beers, Frederick W. (1839-1933) Atlas of Long Island, New York. New York: Beers, Comstock, & Cline, 1873. Folio, with more than 100 hand-colored maps, including a map of the state of New York; another of Manhattan and Brooklyn; a five-panel folding map of Long Island (with tears and repairs), a double-page map of Brooklyn; and many others, including multiple maps for all major communities, including Flatbush, Jamaica, East New York, the Rockaways, Canarsie, Shelter Island, Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing, Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Brookhaven, Islip, and so on; some old repairs, thumbing, tears, in contemporary three-quarter leather and marbled paper boards, rubbed, with some damage, structurally intact, 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.

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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 439

Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673) Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Foederate. [and] Novum ac Magnum Teatrum Urbium Belgicae Regiae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, [1649]. Two large folio volumes, each with engraved title with typographical title in inner compartment printed on a separate slip and pasted onto the sheet, over a blank compartment, as found in other copies; illustrated with maps, views, and plans as called for in the index: 171 plates in the Foederate, and 142 plates in the Regiae; bound in full uniform contemporary gold-tooled red morocco with later repairs to spines and edges, a.e.g.; some of the repairs loosening, and becoming detached, boards rubbed, contents good, ex libris Baron Leverhulme [William Lever] (1851-1925) and Henry B.B. Beaufoy (1750-1795), with their bookplates, 20 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (2).

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