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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") (1832-1898).   The Game of Logic.   London: Mac Millan and Co., 1886.    8vo. Wood engraved diagrammatic frontispiece, numerous diagrams in text; 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end; complete with original printed envelope containing the separate card diagram (envelope torn with old tape repairs, flap of envelope detached, card with a few short tears and one crease); COMPLETE WITH 9 ORIGINAL COUNTERS, 5 gray and 4 pink (with two additional pink and one additional gray counter laid in). Original red cloth gilt, black coated endpapers (front endpaper disbound with minor chipping, a few gatherings or leaves disbound, separations to hinges); quarter morocco folding case.RARE SUPPRESSED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 50 COPIES BOUND AT DODGSON'S REQUEST. Dodgson was not satisfied with the first issue, initially intended to be printed in an edition of 500 copies, so the issue was suppressed.   In a letter to the publishers of 5 December 1886, Dodgson complains that Baxter used "old type, which obliged him to damp the paper so much that the letters print a little too thick ... and the crooked printing showed me that, to get the best results, it does not do to trust the local printers" (Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, pp. 216-217). "A mystery edition which is rarer than would be expected" (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 193).[With:] CARROLL. The Game of Logic. London, 1887. With original printed envelope and separate card diagram (lacking counters). Second edition.  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HOLBEIN, Hans (1497-1543). The Dances of Death, through the various stages of Human Life: wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in Forty-Six Copper plates. London: W. Smith and Co., for John Scott & Thomas Ostell, 1803.  4to (179 x 144 mm).   Additional engraved title for "Le Triomphe de la Mort," dated 1786, frontispiece portrait, 46 engravings by David Deuchar after Holbein. Contemporary blue morocco gilt, covers with floral border, anchor tools in corners, upper cover with central ornament of Garter badge and collar surmounted by a crown and with anchor underneath, flanked by the initials "G. R.III.", smooth spine in 6 compartments (hinges starting, some light wear). Provenance: George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland (binding); his third son, William Henry, Duke of Clarence (1765-1837), later King William IV (bookplate); his eldest illegitimate son George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence (1794-1842), English peer (his bookplates as Col. FitzClarence and the Earl of Munster); John Gerard Heckscher (1837-1908), American book collector (bookplates). A COPY FROM KING GEORGE III'S LIBRARY. In terms of his contribution to the arts, he is best remembered for his book collecting; his library was available to scholars and became the foundation of a new national library (see Ayling, George the Third, 1972, p. 195-198). George Augustus FitzClarence served in the Peninsular War, was wounded twice, and escaped capture by the French. He became brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1819 and served as A.D.C. to his father, King William IV, from 1830 to 1837, becoming Earl of Munster in June 1831. His Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England, illustrated with hand-colored plates, was published in 1819.  Hans Holbein's series of woodcuts was first published in 1536. In this edition, 46 Dance of Death plates are within separately engraved borders in four different designs. 30 of the woodcuts are copied from Wenceslaus Hollar's 17th-century designs. Brunet III:258; Oppermann 1154 ("very rare edition").  Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[CRIME]. Russell County, Virginia. Five Hundred Dollars Reward. Whereas a certain John BROWN (alias BONDS) and RICHARD BARROW, did in the month of April 1795 commit, the county of Russell, in the state of Virginia, a most horrid and deliberate MURDER and ROBBERY.... [Virginia:] January, 1797.Square 8vo broadside (197 x 167 mm). Three words added to one of the suspect's descriptions in a contemporary hand ("hath fair hair"). (A few stains, including rust-stain from old paperclip in lower margin.)"A MOST HORRID AND DELIBERATE MURDER AND ROBBERY" of Francis Peter Teubeuf, who in 1790 purchased 55,000 acres in the frontier of southwestern Virginia. On election day in April 1795, Teubeuf encountered two men - Richard Barrow and John Brown, who arrived at his house to purchase horses.   Instead, they attacked and killed Teubeuf, wounded his son and niece, and looted his home.  As explained in the broadside, Brown and Barrow were captured in New Design, Illinois in May 1796, but they later escaped. They were never captured.   The broadside includes detailed physical descriptions of each. VERY RARE: Not in McDade, Evans, Bristol, or Shipton & Mooney.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

BARTOLI, Pietro Santi (ca 1635-1700).   Columna cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata.... Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1704-1708.Oblong folio (350 x 465 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved dedication leaf, engraved section title "Stylobates columnae Antoninae," 79 engraved plates (of 80, lacking plate 2), numbered 1-77 and I-III. (Some minor soiling, some minor marginal worming.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, edges stained red (rebacked preserving original spine). Second edition of this depiction of the Antonine Column in Rome, erected between AD 172 and 196 to commemorate the victories of Marcus Aurelius.   WITH THE RARE EXTRA PLATES labeled I-III and including the section title, not called for in the Berlin Katalog. Berlin Kat  3623; Cicognara 3605.Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

STARR, Amory Reily (1847-1906). Amory R. Starr... Texas Real Estate Agency...Marshall, Texas. St. Louis: A. Gast & Co., [ca 1874].Oblong 12mo (85 x 129 mm). Illustrated lithograph trade card on heavy card stock. (Tiny chip to upper left corner, very minor soiling). Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan.RARE LITHOGRAPHED TEXAS TRADE CARD, printed by the Gast firm in St. Louis. The small detailed scene shows surveyors at work depicting various surveyor's instruments. The Gast firm lithographed the General Land Office maps of Texas counties, and produced several notable images of Texas. Amory Reily Starr, who identifies himself as "successor to Jas.   H. Starr & Son," assumed control of the James H. Starr and Son land agency, which had belonged to his father and uncle, in 1873.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.). Euclidis Megarensis Mathematici Clarissimi Elementorum Geometricorum Libri XV"¦ Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1537.  Folio (298 x 202 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations. (Title torn crossing letters with old repair verso and lower corner renewed, closed tear on p.181 repaired, title slightly soiled). Contemporary vellum (endpapers renewed, slightly soiled). Provenance: Christen Sorensen Longomontanus (1562-1647), Danish astronomer (signature on title); Alexander Campbell (armorial bookplate). FIRST HERVAGIUS EDITION OF EUCLID IN LATIN, containing the complete works derived from Zanetti's 1505 translation, and including comments by Campanus, Hypiciles, and the rare preface by Philip Melanchthon, removed by censors in many copies.   DANISH ASTRONOMER CHRISTEN SORENSEN LONGOMONTANUS'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE.   Longomontanus was Tycho Brahe's assistant at the astronomical observatory of Uraniborg in 1589. There, Brahe, Longomontanus and Kepler worked to try to develop a theory to predict longitude at oppositions with complete accuracy. He had good "skill at manipulating observational data, and he may have played an important role in Tycho's remarkable research on the lunar theory" (DSB). He visited Frauenburg, where Copernicus had made his observations, and took a master's degree at Rostock. He was elected in 1605 to a professorship in the University of Copenhagen, where we became chair of mathematics in 1607, a position he held until his death.   Longomontanus developed Tycho's geoheliocentric model of the universe to public acceptance. When Tycho died in 1601, he had not yet completed his program for the restoration of astronomy.   Though the observational aspects were complete, Longomontanus selected and integrated the data into accounts of the motion of the planets and presented the results, which he published in his Astronomia Danica of 1622.   Though Kepler's Rudolphine Tables of 1627, based on Tycho's observations, are often believed to be more accurate than any previous tables, Longomontanus's tables, published in 1622, also based on Tycho's observations, were demonstrably more accurate. With several marginal annotations, presumably in Longomontanus 's hand. Adams H-974; Houzeau Lancaster 832.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

PHELPS & ENSIGN, Publishers. Phelps & Ensign's Traveller's Guide, and Map of the United States...  New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1841 [copyright 1837].  Steel-engraved wall map of the United States on 5 sheets hand-colored in outline, 671 x 987 mm visible area, framed (unexamined out of frame). Map within ornate border, insets of a world map, chief rivers of the world, principal mountain ranges, and the text of the Declaration of Independence reproducing the signatures and with a cartoon rendering of the signing, inset plans of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and the District of Columbia; several steel-engraved vignettes in bottom margin (see below). (Some overall browning, some cracking or minor losses, a few stains.)  With vignettes in lower margin, including portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson.   With vignettes of the Landing of the Pilgrims, the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Bunker's Hill, and Washington's farewell to his army, and with a large engraved vignette of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.    Phelps and Ensign's map was issued with various copyright dates, from 1837 to 1840.   The present edition includes Stephen F. Austin's colony in Texas, and reaches further west than most maps of the period, extending to the Rockies, and including Missouri territory, New Mexico, and Texas as a separate political entity.   RARE: OCLC locates only three copies of this edition, none of which include the steel-engraved vignettes in the lower margin.  Property from the Collection of Julie Riedl, Whitefish Bay, WisconsinFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Bacchanalia. Ten Woodengravings by Barry Moser with Six Epigrams from the Anthologia Graeca newly Translated by D. L. Graham. Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1970.Folio. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose as issued in original blind-embossed blue wrappers (some fading and discoloration to covers).  LIMITED EDITION, one of 35 copies. ACCOMPANIED BY FOUR ADDITIONAL PROOF SHEETS OF THE PLATES, each captioned and signed in pencil by Moser ( "a.p. Moser 1970").   An extremely rare copy of the first book printed under the Pennyroyal Press imprint. "This was the first Pennyroyal book to use wood engravings. It was done under the aegis of graduate course in printmaking at the University of Massachusetts taught by the eminent printmaker, Fred Becker""”Pennyroyal Checklist 4.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TEXAS - EARLY NEWSPAPERS]. Gaceta Del Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Coahuila y Tejas. [Leona Vicario or Monclova:] Imprento del Gobierno del Estado, a cargo del C. Sisto Gonzalez, [1832 or early 1833?].Broadside (309 x 210 mm). Woodcut vignette of an eagle holding a shield at head. (Horizontal crease, small marginal inkspot.)   Provenance: Darrel Brown (sold Heritage, December 2007). RARE PROSPECTUS FOR AN EARLY TEXAS NEWSPAPERGaceta was first printed on Friday, 11 January 1833 and was published through 1835.   Though the printing schedule changed often, copies were initially issued every Monday and Friday, and readers could get copies for "un peso cada mes, para la capital, y diez reales para afuera franco de porte" [one peso each month, for the capital, and ten reals for outside carriage-free].   The prospectus cites a need for a newspaper in the region that would keep readers well-informed about both local and national news.   Gaceta was well-read, but its popularity was challenged by Diario del Gobierno, a government publication which was released at about the same time.   Copies of Gaceta are known in only two institutional collections: the Saltillo Archives, and the Texas State Library.   VERY RARE: According to online records, this is the only copy of this prospectus to appear on the market at auction.   Not in Charno; not in Streeter. CHECK STREETER.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SACRO BOSCO, Johannes de (fl. ca 1230-1240). Sphaera mundi, cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stockel, 1499.Small 4to (208 x 139 mm). Collation: A-C6 D4 E-G6 H4 I6 . 49 leaves (of 50, lacking I6, blank). 39 lines. Types: 160, title and headings; 81, text (leaded); 73, commentary. Capital spaces, with capitals, initial strokes and underlines supplied in red. Woodcut printer's device at end hand-colored in red and green, 28 woodcuts in-text, a few hand-colored in outline in red, one full-page. (Some browning or staining.) Later vellum (some minor soiling). Provenance: Diagram on title-page and marginal notes and diagrams throughout in a contemporary hand; Jois Henrici (17th-century inscription on title)A close reprint of Landsberg's edition of ca 1497, the first to be published with commentary by Wenzel Faber von Budweis (1455-1518), an astronomer, astrologer and theologian from Bohemia. Sacro Bosco's Sphaera Mundi, in which he sets out the basic principles of spherical astronomy, was widely commented upon, corrected and republished across Europe. First written in about 1220, the Sphaera Mundi is "a small work based on Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators antedating the De sphaera of Grosseteste. It was quite generally adopted as the fundamental astronomy text, for often it was so clear that it needed little or no explanation. It was first used at the University of Paris and from the middle of the thirteenth century it was taught in all the schools of Europe. In the sixteenth century it gained the attention of mathematicians, including Clavius. As late as the seventeenth century it was used as a basic astronomy text" (DSB XII, p. 61).RARE: according to online records, only one copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 50 years; ISTC traces only 12 copies at institutions worldwide. BMC III 655; Goff J420; GW M14592; HC 14123; not in BSB-Ink.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

CUSHING, William Barker (1842-1874). CDV. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, [ca.1862].100 x 62 mm. Portrait on lettered mount. RARE IMAGE OF THE DESTROYER OF THE CSS ALBEMARLE.   Cushing, an officer in the United States Navy, was known for engaging in risky attacks on Rebel installations.   The CSS Albemarle, a steam-powered ironclad gunboat ram, dominated the Roanoke River and approaches to Plymouth through the summer of 1864.   On the night of 27-28 October 1864, Cushing and 21 men worked their way up the Roanoke River in an attempt to capture the Albemarle, where they were spotted by a sentry and came under heavy fire.   Cushing rammed his steam launch into the Albemarle at full speed, and when her spar was against the ironclad's hull, Cushing detonated the torpedo's charge.   The raid blew a hole in the Albemarle's hull, and she sank immediately.   For his leadership in sinking the CSS Albemarle, Cushing received the Thanks of Congress, and five ships in the U.S. Navy have been named USS Cushing in his honor.[With:] WELLES, Gideon. Rebel Ram Albemarle. Letter from the  Secretary of the  Navy, in answer to A resolution of the House of Representatives of the  2d of May, in regard to the rebel ram which recently participated  in the  rebel attack on Plymouth. [Washington, D. C.: House of Representatives, 1864]. Discussing the CSS Albemarle.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. Descripcion de las Yndias del Norte 2. [Madrid, 1622].  Copper engraved map of America, 283 x 366 mm.  RARE SPANISH-PRINTED MAP OF AMERICA.   The 1622 edition of Herrera's map, preceded by a printing of 1601, features the title in the upper left (rather than the upper right, as in the 1601 edition). "On this map the most noticeable feature used is the distinctive narrow Florida peninsula. The lack of any great detail still reflects the official policy of protecting Spanish knowledge of the New World; despite this the outline of the map is accurate. The only name to appear in North America is 'la florida'" (Burden 197). The map also shows a small portion of present-day Baja California. RARE: according to online records, only 4 copies of this map have appeared auction in the last 25 years.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor 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

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

[SAN FRANCISCO]. OTIS, Fessenden Nott (1825-1900).   City of San Francisco from Rincon Point. New York: C. Parsons, 1855.Lithograph with hand coloring, visible area 655 x 1150 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall browning, a few tiny spots, some white spots to upper right sky or margin.  A RARE EARLY VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO, lithographed immediately following the Gold Rush, showing the view from the corner of Fremont and Harrison Streets on Rincon Hill, with a panoramic view of the city including Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Mount Tamalpais, Telegraph Hill, Angel Island, and Yerba Buena Island.   The foreground shows the gardens of William F. Babcock, who had arrived in San Francisco in 1852, and who gained control of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1854.  Fessenden Nott Otis, a New York landscape artist and topographical draftsman, was also a ship's surgeon.   He served the United States Mail Steamship Company on their Panama to California route from 1853 to 1859, during which he executed the drawing from which this lithograph was taken.   VERY RARE: according to online records, only one example of this print has sold at auction in the last 40 years. Baird, Historic Lithographs of San Francisco, 33; Reps 274.Frame - 37 x 54 inches.For 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

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

[UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of Congress. [Monthly issues:] Jan.1-Feb. 1 1779, Feb. 1-Mar. 1 1779, Mar. 1-Mar. 30 1779. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1779. [Weekly issues:] Mar. 31-Apr. 10 1779 through Dec. 20-Dec. 31, 1779. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1779.  41 issues (complete), part I: folio (382 x 237 mm, folded to size);   parts II-XLI: 8vo (192 x 118 mm). (Title to part I backed repairing separations to folds and chipping, some minor browning or spotting.) Modern half calf gilt, edges untrimmed. Provenance: James Ewing (signature, part I title); County of Cumberland (signatures on titles).   RARE AS A COMPLETE SET IN PARTS OF THE RARE WEEKLY JOURNALS OF CONGRESS In 1779, the Continental Congress faced a difficult year of financial and supply shortfalls, the British burning of Norwalk and Fairfield Connecticut, and the fall of Savannah.   As the Continental Congress continued deliberations, delegations voiced objections that the Journals were being published only in annual form (see preceding lot), making it difficult for them, during debate, to refer back to actions previous voted upon. In early 1779, it was decided to issue weekly issues of the Journals. The editions were no doubt very limited, and due to their ephemeral nature, few have survived. Evans locates two complete cpoies (at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia). The American Antiquarian Society online catalogue shows the institution holding only 23 of the 41 issues. A full list of all the issues with pagination and Evans citations is available on request. Evans 16585-16624, 17205.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

UNGER, Franz (1800-1870). Chloris protogaea. Beitrage zur Flora der Vorwelt. Leipzig: in Commission bei W. Engelmann, [1841]-1847.  Folio (350 x 257 mm). 50 tinted lithographed plates (3 double-page); Plate XXXIX number printed on an overstrip and pasted in. (Some spotting or soiling, a few tiny holes in the corner of Plate L.) Contemporary boards with modern rebacking and recornering (some light rubbing). ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED PALEONTOLOGICAL WORKS by a pioneer of paleobotany. Franz Unger was Professor of Botany and Zoology in Graz. The Chloris, his major publication, includes more than 120 new species of tertiary plants, illustrated and classified under known genera of the day. Copies of Unger's work are RARE ON THE MARKET: American Book Prices Current traces only one copy in the last 45 years. Nissen BBI 2024; Stafleu and Cowan 15,595.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor 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

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

[CONFEDERATE ARMY]. Appomattox Parole for Private N[oel] E. Burton, Company F, 13th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry.  1 page, partially printed, accomplished in manuscript, Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10th, 1865, tears and small chips affecting letters, creased, stained. A pass signed by Elijah Benton Withers, Lieutenant Colonel, 13th Regiment of the North Carolina Infantry. In full: "The Bearer, Private N. E. Burton of Co. F 13th Regt. of N.C.I., a Paroled Prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia, has permission go to [to] his home, and there remain undisturbed. E. B. Withers, Lt. Col. Comdg. 13th Regmt. N.C.I."A RARE CIVIL WAR PAROLE FROM APPOMATTOXGeneral Order 43, dated April 11, 1865, stated that officers and enlisted men of the Army of Northern Virginia must carry a printed certificate from Appomattox Court House in order to be identified as a paroled prisoner.  The 13th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry was organized at Garysburg, North Carolina, in May 1861 with 1,100 men, recruited from Caswell, Mecklenburg, Davie, Edgecombe, and Rockingham counties. Ordered to Virginia, the unit shared in the many campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg (March-July 1862) to Cold Harbor (May-June 1864), and endured the hardships of the Petersburg trenches south of the James River.   They took part in the Appomattox campaign from March to April 1865, during which the rebel army endured 500 casualties. General Robert E. Lee was determined to make one last attempt to escape the closing Union forces to reach supplies at Lynchburg. The rebel troops advanced, initially gaining ground, before they were stopped in their tracks by the Union infantry, surrounding Lee on three sides. Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, and the Appomattox campaign was the final engagement of the war in Virginia.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor 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

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

[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

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

LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Autograph endorsement signed as President ( "A. Lincoln"), 30 December 1864.  1 page, 56 x 76 mm, cut from a larger sheet, 9 partial lines in a different hand verso, some minor marginal staining.   In full: "Let these men take / the oath of Dec. 8 / 1863 & be discharged. / A. Lincoln / Dec. 30, 1864." One of hundreds of pardons Lincoln granted in accordance with his "Proclamation of Pardon" of 8 December 1863.[Matted and framed with:] LINCOLN. "Proclamation of Pardon." Washington, D.C.: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, February 18, 1864. 6pp.,16mo.   A reduced contemporary reprint for circulation of General Orders, No. 64. EXCEEDINGLY RARE CONTEMPORARY PRINTING of Lincoln's Proclamation of Pardon in which he sets forth terms by which rebels could "resume their allegiance to the United States."   Included in the Proclamation is the wording of the oath itself.   VERY RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this printing has sold at auction in over 100 years: The Benson J. Lossing copy, sold Anderson Galleries, 1912. [Also matted and framed with:] LINCOLN. Carte-de-visite. Providence, RI: Salisbury, Bro. & Co., n.d. Based on A. Berger's 1864 portrait, mounted on a white mat blind-embossed with eagle, cannons, flags and palmfronds.   Provenance: All of the above acquired at the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1994; Gene Griessman, noted Lincoln scholar, author, and reenactor.  For 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

FERSEN, Eugene, Baron (1873-1956). Science of Being. New York: J.F. Tapley Co., 1923.  12mo (173 x 100 mm). Illustrated title-page printed in brown and gold, text printed in brown and gold, numerous decorations and illustrations throughout; "Information for the Reader" pamphlet laid-in. (Dampstaining to lower margin and gutter.) Publisher 's original limp faux alligator, gilt-stamped device on upper cover, peach watered silk endpapers, edges gilt, original peach silk bookmark (old cellotape repairs, upper hinge starting); original box (some light wear). Provenance: Anna Kluepfel (presentation inscription); Mabel Baker (correspondence laid in); gifted by the previous to the present owner.  FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FERSON in gold: "To Anna Kluepfel as a token of friendship from Svetozar 25 XII 1923." Svetozar was the childhood nickname of Ferson. Ferson emigrated to the United States and was granted U. S. Citizenship in 1923, the year of publication of the present work.   At that time, he had to renounce his Baronial title. Mabel Baker, the previous owner, reportedly met Ferson at a dinner party in Seattle in 1946.    The present copy is RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BOX, WITH THE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET ALSO PRESENT, entitled "Information for the Reader."   We trace no other presentation copy on the market at auction.Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of the Congress...Volume I (Sept. 5, 1774-Jan. 1, 1776) through Volume XIII (November 1787-November 1788). Philadelphia and New York: R. Aitken, John Dunlap, John Patterson, David Claypoole, 1777-1788.  13 volumes, 8vo (each approximately 182 x 116 mm or smaller). (Some browning or spotting, a few letters occasionally just shaved.) Modern half calf gilt. Provenance: A few early signatures shaved in Vols. I, IV (Ingersoll?), and VI; Senate Secretary's Office, then U.S. Senate Library (inscription, stamp, and surplus duplicate stamp, Vol.XII); George D. Todd (stamp, Vol.XIII). FROM REVOLUTION TO CONSTITUTION: A COMPLETE SET OF THE JOURNALS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESSCONTENTS:Vol. I, Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1 1776. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1777 (Evans 15683). Vol. II, January1, 1776 to January1, 1777. York-Town, PA: John Dunlap 1778 (Evans 16137). Vol. III, January 1, 1777 to January 1, 1778. New York: John Patterson [1778] (Evans 21527). Vol. IV, January 1st, 1778 to January 1st, 1779. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, [1779] (Evans 16584). Vol V, January 1, 1779 to January 1, 1780. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1782 (Evans 17766). Vol. VI, January 1st, 1780 to January 1st, 1781. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, [1781] (Evans 17392). Vol. VII, For the Year 1781. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1781 (Evans 17767).   [With the index correctly numbered VII].Vol. VIII, First Monday in November 1782 to First Monday in November 1783. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1783 (Evans 18266). Vol IX, Third Day of November 1783 to Third Day of June 1784. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, [1784] (Evans 18840). [Without the rare August addendum as often.]Vol. X, From the First Monday in November, 1784. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1785 (Evans 19316). Vol. XI, 3d Day of November 1785 to 3d Day of November 1786. [Philadelphia:] John Dunlap, [1786] (Evans 20068). [With the title incorrectly numbered Volume XII].Vol XII, Sixth Day of November 1786 to Fifth Day of November 1787. [Philadelphia:] Published by Order of the Congress, 1787 (Evans 20772).   Vol. XIII, 5th Day of November 1787 to 3d Day of November 1788. [Philadelphia:] John Dunlap, [1788] (Evans 21526). The Journals were issued by the government's printers Robert Aitken, John Patterson, John Dunlap and David Claypoole. The printing of Vol.II was interrupted when the British seized Philadelphia in the summer of 1777, and most copies of the volume were printed by both Robert Aitken and John Dunlap The set incorporates the full text of the Declaration of Independence including the names of the Signers, the minutes of the debates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and the proposed Constitution.    Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TEXAS - EARLY NEWSPAPERS]. Gaceta, Del Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Coahuila y Texas. Volume 3, No. 97. [Monclova], 29 July 1835.4pp, bifolium. Woodcut eagle device at head. (Horizontal crease, old tape repair with browning, some minor wrinkling.) Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Darrel Brown (sold Heritage, December 2007).RARE ISSUE OF AN EARLY TEXAS NEWSPAPERBetween 1829 and 1835, the government of Coahuila and Texas issued four periodicals, of which Gaceta was the second most prominent.   This issue includes a July 8 communication from Rafael Eca y Musquiz, Minister of the Supreme Court, to don Miguel Falcon, Governor of the State, whereby President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna has asked Musquiz to assume the Executive Power of the state to "calm the spirit of discord in Texas and to apply the severity of the law to those who attempt to pervert the tranquility and excite commotion" (translated). In May, then-governor Agustine Viesca left Monclova with the government archives intending to establish Bexar (present-day San Antonio) as the capital of the department of Texas. The issue includes an editorial commenting on the actions of Viesca and the two opposing parties within the government of Mexico: "We believe, without fear of error, that in the Texas Colonies there does not exist aims of overthrowing the government..." (translated). The editorials printed within this issue are in support of General Cos' 5 July Proclamation, issued at Matamoros, warning the inhabitants of the three departments of Texas (San Antonio de Bexar, La Bahia, and Nacogdoches) that any actions in favor of the former authorities will cause war.   45-days after this issue, General Cos commenced his march with 500 soldiers from Matamoros to San Antonio, igniting the first fire in Texas' battle for independence.   See Streeter, Bibliography of Texas, Part II, vol.III, pp.261-263. VERY RARE: Only one other copy of this issue of Gaceta is known; it is held in the Saltillo Archives.   Not in Charno; not in Streeter. CHECK STREETER BIBLIO QTD HERE.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

MOSER, Barry. Twelve Woodengravings of Cirsia & Various Thistles with sundry notes gathered, engraved & privately printed for Gray Parrot by Barry Moser. West Hatfield, MA: Privately Printed at the Pennyroyal Press for Gray Parrot, 1978.109 x 162 mm. UNFOLDED SHEETS UNBOUND. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose in board folder with Moser 's note "Cirsia in sheets, unfolded complete."    CIRSIA IN SHEETS, UNFOLDED.  LIMITED EDITION, one of 35 copies, WITH EACH ENGRAVING SIGNED BY MOSER. This copy not signed by artist and binder as bound copies appear to be. This rare privately printed edition could be ordered bound or in sheets. Accompanied by the original printed announcement for the publication illustrated with a wood engraving of a thistle, signed by Moser.   Also with an illustrated invitation to a lecture by Moser entitled "Eryngium & the White Knight: Botanical Motifs in Illustration," on 13 May 1983 at the Yale Law School Auditorium; and 2 copies of a botanical proof printed by for private use by Moser reproducing a plate from The Flowering Plants of Massachusetts, each signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [M]6.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[REPORTS] -- Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Washington, D.C.: George W. Bowman, 1861.  Volume XI only, 4to (289 x 216 mm). 13 engraved plates (5 folding), 32 maps and profiles (28 folding). (Dampstained, many of the folding plates and maps with splits and tears along folds, Warren 's General Map detached through the cartouche, but all parts present.)Spotting throughout, some stains, some tears to folds of maps.) Original publisher 's brown blind-stamped cloth (defective with contents becoming loose).    Senate Issue including the RARE WARREN MAP. Considered to be the first accurate representation of the region, the "Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean," commonly known as "Warren 's General Map," was not present in all volumes of the present work. Warren 's General Map draws on decades of government sponsored explorations and surveys, starting with those of Lewis and Clark. While most of the map was complete by 1854, it was not fully finished by the time the railroad survey report was first published in 1855, explaining its absence in some editions.    Secretary of War Jefferson Davis proposed four routes of exploration to determine a route for a new railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.   The present volume reports on the exploration of the fourth route, along the 32nd parallel from Central Texas to El Paso, following William H. Emory 's military reconnaissance of 1846-1847 to the Ghila River, Fort Uma, and San Diego. The House and Senate issues differ only in arrangement of constituent reports. Howes P-3; Wagner-Camp 266c. Sold with all flaws.  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 5 wood-engraved plates for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1982].    Various sizes. Matted together surrounding a very rare solitary example of the letterpress label "Drink Me" (without the usual wood engraving of the bottle attached to it which appeared on p. 43 in the published edition), printed in colors by Harold McGrath, six passes through the press; framed. EACH PRINT SIGNED AND CAPTIONED   BY MOSER in pencil, and designated as artist 's proof ( "ap").    Comprising: "The White Rabbit," "The Pool of Tears," "The King of Hearts," "The Enormous Puppy," and "The Cheshire Cat."  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

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

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

[BANGS, Samuel, printer] -- [MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR]. TAYLOR, Zachary. Quartel general, Exercito de Ocupacion, Corpus Christi, 8 de marzo, de 1846. Orden, num. 30. [Corpus Christi: Samuel Bangs & George W. Fletcher, 1846].  4to broadside (297 x 202 mm). Printed in Spanish, endorsed in ink verso in a secretarial hand, "77 Z.P. Taylor 23, Mar: 1846." (Slight toning, creased.) FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH, published the same day as an edition in English printed in the Corpus Christi Gazette Extra.   Taylor announces that his army will cross to the other side of the Rio Grande and promised that civilians will be well-treated, and that any provisions will be pad for "a los mejores precios."   The Gazette Extra for March 8 explains: "The orders of General Taylor (No. 30) have been printed in Spanish, and will be circulated among the Mexicans residing along the frontier. Nothing could have taken place better calculated to allay the fears and quiet the apprehensions of the residents along the border than the issuing of this order"”explaining the objects of the American Army in advancing upon the frontier."A SCARCE SAMUEL BANGS IMPRINT FROM CORPUS CHRISTI.   Bangs, who was printing the Corpus Christi Gazette, was also working as a job printer for the army and private individuals (see Jenkins 457-459). EXCEEDINGLY RARE: This Spanish-language edition not in Winkler; OCLC locates only one copy at Yale. See Winkler 28 (for the English-language edition).Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SAN FRANCISCO]. SWASEY, William F., Captain. View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7. Before the Discovery of Gold.   San Francisco: Bosqui Eng. & Print Co.,   1884.  Lithograph with hand-coloring, 502 x 548 mm visible area, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall browning, some surface staining, a few mostly marginal tears or losses occasionally crossing image.  RARE BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO by noted California engraver Edward Bosqui, showing the early layout of streets, naming Clay, Kearney [sic], Washington and Montgomery Streets.   A key in the lower margin identifies ships and early buildings, and two arrows mark the trails to the Presidio and Mission Dolores.   Reps 343 (state II with the date).Frame size - 32" x 33"For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, illustrators. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1903. 8vo. Pictorial title-page printed in black and blue, pictorial frontispiece, 25 illustrations (19 full-page and 8 in-text), leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Original publishers’ pictorial cloth stamped in red, white, and black and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorated endpapers (slightly cocked spine, some light rubbing); publisher’s printed dust jacket (some minor chipping with one small chip from the head of the spine preserved). FIRST EDITION, fourth issue of London’s enduring adventure novel set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p 119. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[CRIME]. The Confession & Dying Words of Samuel Frost, Who is to be Executed this Day, October 31, 1793, for the Horrid Crime of Murder. Worcester, MA: [Isaiah Thomas] Mr. Thomas's Printingoffice [sic], [1793].Broadside (visible area 458 x 388 mm). Woodcut of a public hanging top left, text printed in four columns within black borders. (Some small losses affecting borders or letters repaired verso along old folds, some minor staining.) Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame).  RARE BROADSIDE PRINTED BY ISAIAH THOMASIn Samuel Frost's confession, he readily admits to killing his father (a crime for which he was acquitted), and admits to killing Captain Allen (the crime for which he will be executed).   About his early life, he says: "My mother is dead; I always regarded her, and ever thought my father had no affection for her, and that he used her ill; this induced me to kill him, which deed I executed on the 23d of September, 1783;...My mother died when I was about fourteen years old, and I always supposed her death was occasioned by the bad treatment she received from my father." The broadside also includes others' accounts of Frost.  Evans records three versions of this rare broadside, two of wihch include a poem after Frost's life story (not present in this issue). Evans 22521; Sabin 105351.From the Private Collection of Richard CadyFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[TEXAS]. Report of the Commissioner of the Court of Claims. Printed by order of the legislature of the State of Texas. Austin: John Marshall & Co., 1857.8vo (214 x 137 mm). 22pp. (Some browning or spotting.) Folded as issued, partially uncut, unsewn with stab-holes for sewing. Provenance: Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, Sale 319, Lot 528.FIRST EDITION. Including James C. Wilson's notice of retirement, 1 June, 1857.   "In retiring from this Office, I beg leave to present to you, and through ou to the Legislature, the following Report. No written statement of all that has been done in the office can possibly be made" (p.3).   Also including James O. Illingsworth's report of certificates issued: "It will require at least four competent courts in this office during the session of Legislature...to perform the duties" (p.22). RARE EARLY TEXAS IMPRINT: we trace no other copies of this imprint at auction in at least 50 years .Winkler 902.Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

STIFF, Edward. The Texan Emigrant: Being a Narration of the Adventures of the Author in Texas, and a Description of the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, Towns, Bays, Harbors, Rivers, Institutions, and Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country.... Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1840.8vo (194 x 120 mm). Engraved folding map of Texas hand-colored in outline (a few separations to folds); 2 full-page wood-engraved illustrations; 1p. publisher's advertisements at end. (Some offsetting of map to title, some spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled sheep, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (upper joint starting, some overall wear). FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE MAP of Stiff's popular work on Texas. At least 7 subsequent editions were issued, none of which included the map. "By an independent thinker, and not always favorable to Texas and the United States. In fact, somewhat of a Tory in politics. Notwithstanding, one of the best books on Texas issued during the Republic. Very scarce" (Raines pp.195-196).   The two woodcuts show early views of Galveston City and Bay and the Battle of San Jacinto. Graff 3989; Howes S-998; Streeter Texas 1367 ( "Here conventional accounts of the physical features of Texas and of its cities and towns are interspersed with gossipy comments on various named individuals and on life in Texas in general, making it quite an entertaining book").  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS].  The Journals of the Proceedings of Congress. Held at Philadelphia, from January to May, 1776. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken, 1776.  4 parts bound in one, 8vo (195 x 119 mm). [2], 1-93; 1-70; [71]-146, INCLUDING THE TITLE-PAGE which is usually lacking in most copies; 147-237pp.   (Some spotting and browning throughout.) Contemporary sheep (worn, joints starting, losses to spine ends); red quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: V. L. Howard (several signatures on pastedown and front free endpaper dated 1777; Henry Howard (signature); Caleb Dorsey (early signature on half-title of second work); pencil note about W. Howard's sale, 26 March 1831;   Lucy C. Hank Finley (signature, Baltimore). THE RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING OF THE CONGRESSIONAL JOURNALS FOR 1776 - THE "CARTRIDGE PAPER" EDITION The Bradford family had the contract to print the Journals of Congress through 1775, after which, beginning with these journals, the contract was moved to Robert Aitken.   The journals were issued in monthly parts, although whole runs generally disposed with the monthly titles issued in February and March (as here, none were issued in January and April).   After April, Aitken was told to cease publication, and his "Waste Book" at the Library Company of Philadelphia records that he had sold only 80 copies of this edition. In the fall of 1776, Aitken was contracted to reprint all of Congress's earlier journals from 1774 through April 1776 as the first volume of the collected Journals of Congress. Once the work commenced, Aitken disposed of the remaining January to April edition, giving them to the Army to be used as cartridges (hence the "Cartridge Paper" edition). These Journals of early 1776 cover some of the most critical moments of the Revolution. As only 80 copies survived, the present edition is perhaps the rarest of all of the early Journals of Congress. Evans 15145. [Bound after:] Journal of the Congress of the United States of America; Continued. Philadelphia: William & Thomas Bradford, at the Coffee-House 1776. 8vo. With half-title. Covering September through January, 1775. The last issue printed by the Bradford family before the contract was moved to Aitken. Evans 15186.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[PUBLISHER'S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. BARRIE, James Matthew (1860-1937). The Little Minister. New York: Loveff, Coryeff and Company, 1892.  2 volumes, 8vo. Etched plates, title and initials printed in red. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Publisher's mint green cloth, wrap-around gilt floral design, top edges gilt, others uncut (a few very small spots to edge). Provenance: Harrison Hayford (bookplate).  A SUPERB COPY OF THIS RARE BINDING.  From the Private Collection of Richard CadyFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

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

AESOP (ca 620-560 B.C.). Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum Index proxima refertur pagella. Tubingen: Ulrichus Morhardum, 1546.  8vo (151 x 95 mm). Title printed within woodcut border with hand-coloring, 17 woodcut decorative initials. (Abrasion with minor loss to border on title, some browning or staining.) Later half calf gilt, marbled boards, edges stained red (some overall wear). Provenance: Unidentified inscription on title-page; F. J. Pith? (early signature, annotations); unidentified stamp; Crosby Gaige (1883-1949) (bookplate). A rare 16th-century edition of Aesop's Fables, printed in Greek and Latin, here printed with an index. Also included, are Homer, Ranarum & Murium Pugna (24pp. printed in Greek and Latin); Musaeus, Deero et Leandro (26pp. printed in Greek and Latin); Agapeto, Exposito Capitum Damonitoriorum.... (44pp. printed in Greek and Latin); Hipp.  Ivsivrandum (4pp.); and 17pp. in Greek.  From the collection of Broadway producer Crosby Gaige. Brunet II 99. [Bound with:] CLENARDUS, Nicolaus.  Institutiones absolutissimae in Graecam linguam. Cologne: Martinus Gymnicus, 1546. Text in Greek and Latin. Copies of either work are exceedingly scarce on the market at auction.    Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

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

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

[NEWSPAPER]. Our Camp Journal. Vol 1, Nos. 1 (April 1, 1863), 3 (September 7, 1863); 5 (January 15, 1864), and 6 (April, 1864). Various places.  Civil War Regimental newspapers are rare in any form or condition.   Our Camp Journal is a fine example of the genre, a full-size multi-sheet paper typeset on a press with woodcut vignettes.   No. 1 was published from a "Camp near Alexandria, Va."; No. 3 was published from "Ft. Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y."; No. 5 was published in the winter quarters with the "Army of the Potomac, Va.," and No. 6 was published from "Headquarters, First Division, 2nd Army Corps, Va." Content includes recent war news including events in the western theater, regimental sketches from other units in the brigade and division, news from the home front and obituaries.   [With:] Evening Whig, 4 April 1865. [Richmond]: William Ira Smith, 1865. "Publication being resumed this afternoon with the consent of military authorities." All of the above were preserved by Corporal B. F. Batcheler, Company E.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

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

[UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. [Set of Ten Weekly Issues of the Journals of Congress for the Year 1779]. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1779.  10 issues (of 41), 8vo (220 x 135 mm). (Some browning, spotting, or staining, a few tiny holes or tears, occasionally with repairs or affecting letters.) CONTEMPORARY WRAPPERS OR STAB-SEWN AS ISSUED, SEVERAL UNCUT AND UNOPENED (some soiling or chipping to wrappers). CONTENTS: Monday, March 1st to Tuesday, March 30th, 1779. 56pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16587.Monday, April 19th, to Saturday, April 24th, 1779. 24pp. Original wrappers. Evans 16590. [Laid-in:] Single sheet, being the title-page for Extracts from the Journals of Congress, published Philadelphia, John Dunlap, 1776.Monday, May 17th, to Saturday, May 22d, 1779. 24pp. Original wrappers. Evans 16594. Monday, May 24th, to Saturday, May 29th, 1779. 20pp. Original wrappers. Evans 16595.Monday, July 5th, to Saturday, July 12th, 1779. 9pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16601.Monday, July 19th, to Saturday, July 24th, 1779. 14pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16603.Monday, July 26th, to Saturday, July 31st, 1779. 16pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16604. Monday, August 23d, to Saturday, August 28th, 1779. 14pp. Stab-sewn.   Evans 16608.Monday, September 6th, to Saturday, September 11th, 1779. 10pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16610.Monday, November 29th, to Saturday, December 4th, 1779. 12pp. Evans 16622. AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF SEVERAL INDIVIDUAL WEEKLY PRINTINGS OF THE JOURNALS OF CONGRESS. Congress's proceedings were printed more or less annually, but shortly after the Declaration of Independence, Congress recognized the necessity of publishing their proceedings in a more timely fashion. During 1779 only, the proceedings were printed in individual monthly and weekly issues, with these more frequent printings being issued in very small numbers. EACH IS THEREFORE EXTREMELY RARE, and known in only a few institutional copies. Early American imprint collector Michael Zinman, who pursued all of the variant printings of the  Journals of Congress was only able to obtain 11 of these weekly issues.  Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant MittlerFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[U.S. DEPT. OF STATE] "“ Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the nineteenth ultimo, a Copy of the Maps and Report of the Commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent, for Ascertaining the Northern and Northwestern Boundary between the United States and Great Britain. Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 18 March 1828.  Oblong folio (409 x 508 mm). Letterpress title-page, one leaf of commissioner 's text, 8 lithographed maps with partial hand-coloring (one folding). (Chipping, staining and creasing with a few tears.) Disbound (stabholes in left margins).  Rare set of maps denoting the boundaries between the United States and Great Britain in the Great Lakes region after the War of 1812 according to the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent. Each map is "shaded on the British side with red, and on the American side with blue" with information about the commissioners and surveyors (Decision of the Commissioners). "Neither the series nor individual maps is recorded in Phillips or Karpinski. The only copy located by the Union Catalog is in the U. S. State Department Library. This folio edition is not to be confused with the octavo edition that consists only of text" (Streeter sale 1080).  For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

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

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