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WATSON, JOHN FORBES, AND JOHN WILLIAM KAYE. The People of India: a Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of ...
Sold for US$ 56,250 inc. premium
BRASHER, REX. 1869-1960. Birds and Trees of North America. Chickadee Valley near Kent, CT: 1929-1932.
Sold for US$ 53,750 inc. premium
THOMSON, JOHN. 1837-1921. Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the ...
Sold for US$ 52,500 inc. premium
FOUJITA, TSUGUHARU, illustrator. JOSEPH, MICHAEL. A Book of Cats. New York: Covici Friede, 1930.

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2002 ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. 1474-1533. Orlando Furioso...di duovo ristampato con nuova giunta di cinque canti....[with] Espositione di tuttii vocaboli, et luoghi difficili.... Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1549. US$ 625
£414
€484
2003 [ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. 1474-1533.] TOSCANELLA, ORAZIO. Bellezze del Furioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto; Scielte da Oratio Toscanella, con gli argomenti, et allegorie de i canti, con l'allegorie de i nomi proprii principali dell'opera, et con i luochi communi dell'autore, per ordine di alfabeto; del medesimo. Venice: Pietro dei Franceschi & nephews, 1574. US$ 437
£290
€339
2005 BINDING—ARMORIAL. BERTHIER, GUILLAUME FRANCOIS. 1704-1782. Les Pseaumes traduits en Francois, avec des reflexions. Paris: Merigot le jeune, 1788. US$ 875
£580
€678
2006 BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON. 1769-1821. Autograph Endorsement ("NP") as Emperor, in margin of a Letter Signed by Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1 p, folio (with integral blank), Paris, August 14, 1811, US$ 1,500
£995
€1,163
2007 BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON. 1769-1821. Document Signed ("Napol"), 1 p, legal folio, St. Cloud, June 23, 1810, in scribal Italian, US$ 1,000
£663
€775
2009 BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated Latin manuscript on vellum. [Northern French, likely Paris, c.1440.] US$ 7,750
£5,142
€6,013
2010 [COLOGNE CHRONICLE.] Die Cronica van der Hilliger Stat Coellen. [Cologne]: Johann Koelhoff the Younger, August 23, 1499. US$ 2,125
£1,409
€1,648
2011 ESTIENNE, HENRI, editor. HOMER & OTHERS. Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis. Geneva: Henricus Stephanus II, 1566. US$ 5,000
£3,317
€3,879
2012 GIMIGNIANI, GIACINTO. 1606–1681. Scherzi e giuochi diversi de putti. [Rome: 1647.] US$ 1,875
£1,244
€1,454
2016 LOUIS XV, LOUIS XVI, AND MARIE ANTOINETTE. MARRIAGE CONTRACT SIGNED BY FRENCH ROYALTY.
US$ 20,000
£13,270
€15,518
2017 MARIA THERESA, Empress of Austria. 1717-1780. Document Signed ("Maria Theresia"), 13 pp recto and verso, folio, US$ 3,125
£2,073
€2,424
2018 MENGHI, GIROLAMO. Fl.1580. Fustis daemonum adiurationes formidabiles. BOUND AFTER: Flagellum daemonum exorcismos terribiles.... Venice: Malduram, 1607-1608.
US$ 812
£539
€630
2020 [REYNARD THE FOX.] SCHOPPER, HARTMANN. Opus poeticum de admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes.... Frankfurt: [per Petrum Fabritium, impensis Sigismundi Feirabent, & Simonis Huteri], 1567. US$ 937
£622
€727
2022 XENOPHON. c.430-c.355 B.C.E. Opera. Basel: Andreas Cratander, 1534.
US$ 525
£348
€407
2023 ANGKOR WAT—PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. An album of 93 matte gelatin silver print photographs of Angkor Wat, approximately 7 x 9 inches, 1930s, US$ 2,375
£1,575
€1,842
2027 BERKLEY, GEORGE. D.1747. HILL, JOHN, editor. The Naval History of Britain. London: T. Osborn and J. Shipton, et al., 1756. US$ 525
£348
€407
2028 BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1754-1817. A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. London: printed for George Nicol, 1790. US$ 52,500
£34,835
€40,735
2029 BLIGH, WILLIAM. 1754-1817. A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty.... London: for George Nicol, 1792. US$ 6,250
£4,147
€4,849
2032 [COOK, JAMES. 1728-1779.] HAWKESWORTH, JOHN. An Account of the Voyages ... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. US$ 3,750
£2,488
€2,909
2033 COREAL, FRANCISCO. 1648?-1708. [Voyages de Francois Coreal aux Indes Occidentales contenant ce qu'il y a vû de plus remarquable pendant son séjour depuis 1666 jusqu'en 1697.....avec une relation de la Guiane de Walter Raleigh & le voyage de Narborough a la mer du Sud par le Detroit de Magellan, &c. Paris: Andres Cailieau, 1722.] US$ 625
£414
€484
2034 COXE, WILLIAM. 1747-1828. Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America.... London: T. Cadell, 1787. US$ 625
£414
€484
2035 EUROPEAN TOUR. WEBB, LOUISA AUGUSTA. Manuscript on paper, 930 numbered pp recto and verso (a few blank), entitled "Letters from Abroad," folio (320 x 200 mm), across Europe, 1862-1868, US$ 2,500
£1,658
€1,939
2037 [GIBSON, WALTER MURRAY. 1822-1888.] The Shepherd Saint of Lanai. Honolulu: Thos. G. Thrum, 1882. US$ 1,062
£704
€824
2038 HAKEWILL, JAMES. 1778-1843. A Picturesque Tour of Italy, from Drawings Made in 1816-1817. London: John Murray, 1820. US$ 500
£331
€387
2040 HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON. 1769-1859. Lithographed portrait Signed and Inscribed, US$ 25,000
£16,588
€19,397
2041 ITALY—JOURNAL & SKETCHBOOK. FREEMAN, HENRY. Manuscript Journal, US$ 6,875
£4,561
€5,334
2042 JANSSONIUS, JOANNES. 1588-1664. Cinquiesme parte du Grand Atlas, contenant une parfaicte description du monde maritime. Amsterdam: Jansson, 1650.
US$ 12,500
£8,294
€9,698
2044 LONDON MAP. CRUCHLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK. Cruchley's New Plan of London and Its Environs, Extending Six Miles Round St. Paul's.... London: G. F. Cruchley, 1843. US$ 5,625
£3,732
€4,364
2046 MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. 1764-1820. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. London: T. Cadell, et al, 1801.
US$ 3,125
£2,073
€2,424
2048 MIHASHI CHOKAKU (NAKANE GENRAN). Chikyu ichiran zu. [The Earth at a Glance.] Osaka: Onogi Ichibei; Kyoto: Umemura Saburobei; Edo: Suharaya Ichibei, 1783 (Tenmei 3).
US$ 9,375
£6,220
€7,274
2049 NAUTICAL. SMITH, JOHN, CAPTAIN. 1580-1631. The Sea-Mans Grammar and Dictionary, Explaining all the Difficult Terms in Navigation: and the Practical Navigator and Gunner: in Two Parts. London: Randal Taylor, 1691. US$ 625
£414
€484
2051 PHILLIP, ARTHUR. 1738-1814. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay. London: for John Stockdale, 1789. US$ 4,375
£2,902
€3,394
2052 SCOTT, ROBERT FALCON, CAPTAIN. 1868-1912. Autograph Letter Signed ("Robert Scott"), 2 pp, 12mo, conjoined leaves, Chelsea, October 16, 1905, to H.M. Mann, US$ 2,500
£1,658
€1,939
2053 THOMSON, JOHN. 1837-1921. Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented. London: Sampson, Low, 1873-1874. US$ 53,750
£35,664
€41,705
2054 TONSBERG, NIELS CHRISTIAN. Norge, fremstillet i Tegninger. Christiania: Udgiverens Forlag, 1848. US$ 875
£580
€678
2055 TURGOT, MICHELLE ETIENNE, MARQUIS DE SOUSMONS. 1690-1751. Plan de Paris, commencé l'année 1734. Achevé de Graveur en 1739. [Paris: 1739 or 1740].
US$ 16,250
£10,782
€12,608
2056 ALBUM—COMPANY SCHOOL. Album containing 44 fine watercolor sketches and 74 albumen print photographs, US$ 4,375
£2,902
€3,394
2057 ALBUM—WATERCOLORS. Album assembled by Catherine Whinyates of Allahabad, c.1802, US$ 1,375
£912
€1,066
2058 BAKER, WILLIAM H., AND JOHN BURKE. Album containing 96 photographs by William H. Baker and John Burke, US$ 18,750
£12,441
€14,548
2059 [BEATO, FELICE, and others.] Album titled in manuscript "Photographic Views of Delhi & Lucknow ... Collected by W.J.H. in 1858, at Delhi," containing 16 images of Delhi and 15 of Lucknow, all by Felice Beato, US$ 47,500
£31,517
€36,855
2060 [BEATO, FELICE. 1832-1909.] Panorama of Delhi taken from the Jamma Masjid, US$ 35,000
£23,223
€27,157
2061 [BEATO, FELICE. 1832-1909.] Panorama of Lucknow taken from the Great Imambara, US$ 25,000
£16,588
€19,397
2062 [BEATO, FELICE. 1832-1909.] Panorama of Lucknow taken from the Kaiserbagh, US$ 13,750
£9,123
€10,668
2064 BOMBAY, SECUNDERABAD, AND ELSEWHERE. Album containing approximately 65 photographs, US$ 1,062
£704
€824
2066 COLEBROOKE, HENRY THOMAS. 1765-1837. A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language. Calcutta: printed at the Honorable Company's Press, 1805. US$ 4,000
£2,654
€3,103
2067 DANIELL, THOMAS AND WILLIAM. Oriental Scenery ... Containing ... Views of the Architecture, Antiquities and Landscape Scenery of Hindoostan. [London: Free-School Press for Thomas and William Daniell, 1812-1816. ] US$ 15,000
£9,952
€11,638
2068 DELHI DURBAR. WHEELER, J. TALBOYS. The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi. London: Longmans, [1877]. US$ 2,500
£1,658
€1,939
2069 DOG SHOW ALBUM. Album containing 20 photographs of the Patiala Championship Dog Show, US$ 1,500
£995
€1,163
2070 [D'OYLY, CHARLES. 1781-1845.] [Antiquities of Dacca. London: J. Landseer, c.1814-1827.] US$ 4,375
£2,902
€3,394
2071 [D'OYLY, CHARLES, AND CHRISTOPHER W. SMITH.] [Indian Dead Game. Patna: privately printed at the Behar Lithographic Press, 1830.] US$ 4,375
£2,902
€3,394
2072 GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948. US$ 25,000
£16,588
€19,397
2073 HARDINGE, CHARLES STEWART. 1822-1894. Recollections of India. London: Thomas McLean, 1847. US$ 10,000
£6,635
€7,759
2074 HOME, ROBERT. C.1750-1836. Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan. London: Bowyer, 1794. US$ 687
£456
€533
2076 HUNZIKER, JAKOB. B.1831. Nature's Selfprinting: a Series of Useful and Ornamental Plates of the South Indian Flora ... Taken from Fresh Specimens in Facsimile Colors. Mangalore: Botanautographed and Published by J. Hunziker, Basel Mission Press, 1862. US$ 47,500
£31,517
€36,855
2077 JACOB, SAMUEL S., AND THOMAS H. HENDLEY. Jeypore Enamels. London: W. Griggs, 1886. US$ 2,000
£1,327
€1,551
2078 JACOB, SAMUEL SWINTON. 1841–1917. Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1890. US$ 3,125
£2,073
€2,424
2081 LUARD, JOHN. 1790–1875. Views in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar. London: [1838]. US$ 2,750
£1,824
€2,133
2082 MICA ALBUM. Album containing 49 paintings, mid-19th century, watercolor on mica, US$ 687
£456
€533
2083 MILITARY. [ENTHOVEN, PERCY.] Diary of the march of the 55th Field Battery R.A., from Ahmedabad to Saugor. [India?: privately printed, c.1898.] US$ 1,500
£995
€1,163
2084 MOTORING—ALBUMS. A pair of albums, containing upwards of 350 photographs, US$ 3,750
£2,488
€2,909
2085 NANGA PARBAT—HIMALAYAS. HERRLIGKOFFER, KARL M., AND HANS HOFMANN. Schicksalsberg Nanga Parbat. Radebeul: Imago Strahlbild, [1955]. US$ 812
£539
€630
2086 PRINSEP, JAMES. 1799-1840. Benares Illustrated in a Series of Drawings. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1831-1833. US$ 3,750
£2,488
€2,909
2087 PUNJAB. Original Sketches in the Punjaub. By a Lady. London: Dickinson, 1854. US$ 11,250
£7,464
€8,729
2089 SCOTT, ALLAN NEWTON. Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency. London: Lovell Reeve, 1862. US$ 7,500
£4,976
€5,819
2090 SOLTYKOFF, ALEXIS. 1806-1859. Indian Scenes and Characters: Sketched from Life. London: Smith, Elder, 1859. US$ 18,750
£12,441
€14,548
2091 SOLVYNS, FRANS BALTASAR. 1760-1824. The Costume of Hindostan Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engraving; with Descriptions in French and English, Taken in the Years 1798 and 1799. London: J. Hayes for E. Orme, 1807 [plates watermarked 1818]. US$ 3,125
£2,073
€2,424
2092 TOD, JAMES. 1782-1835. Annals and Antiquities of Rajas'than. London: Smith, Elder, 1829-1832. US$ 2,375
£1,575
€1,842
2093 WATSON, JOHN FORBES, AND JOHN WILLIAM KAYE. The People of India: a Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan. London: India Museum: 1868-1875. US$ 80,500
£53,413
€62,461
2094 WIGHT, ROBERT. 1796-1872. Illustrations of Indian Botany; or Figures Illustrative of each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants. Madras: J.B. Pharoah for the Author, [1838]-1840. US$ 2,750
£1,824
€2,133
2095 WILLIAMSON, THOMAS. The Costume and Customs of Modern India; from a Collection of Drawings by Charles Doyley. London: Edward Orme, [plates watermarked 1821]. US$ 3,125
£2,073
€2,424
2096 ANGLING. HALFORD, FREDERIC M. Dry Fly Entomology. A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout & Grayling with the 100 Best Patterns of Floating Flies. London: Vinton, 1897. US$ 1,375
£912
€1,066
2097 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America. New York & Philadelphia: J.J. Audubon & J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. US$ 45,000
£29,858
€34,916
2101 BOTANICAL PRINTS. Large group of upwards of 700 loose botanical prints, mainly hand-colored engravings but some chromolithographs and a few woodcuts, US$ 2,000
£1,327
€1,551
2102 BRASHER, REX. 1869-1960. Birds and Trees of North America. Chickadee Valley near Kent, CT: 1929-1932.
US$ 56,250
£37,323
€43,645
2103 BURTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER DE. 1743-1818. Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou Description des Fossiles. [Brussels]: the Author, 1784. US$ 5,250
£3,483
€4,073
2104 CHAUMETON, FRANÇOIS PIERRE. 1775-1819. Flore médicale. Paris: Panckouke, 1814-1819.
US$ 1,875
£1,244
€1,454
2105 CONCHOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY PRINTS. Large group of approximately 350 loose prints, US$ 1,375
£912
€1,066
2106 CURTIS, WILLIAM. 1746-1799. The Botanical Magazine; or Flower Garden Displayed. London: for W. Curtis, 1787-1806.
US$ 3,125
£2,073
€2,424
2107 DRESSER, HENRY EELES. 1838-1915. A History of the Birds of Europe. London: by the Author, 1871-1881.
US$ 2,125
£1,409
€1,648
2108 GEOLOGY. ROSENKRANTZ, ALFRED. 1898-1974. Four manuscript notebooks, 96 pp, [Copenhagen], 1916, in Danish, with 11 mounted pen & ink illustrations and 5 original photographs. US$ 375
£248
€290
2109 JARDINE, WILLIAM. 1800-1874. The Naturalist's Library. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1843. US$ 3,125
£2,073
€2,424
2110 JARDINE, WILLIAM. 1800-1874. 40 miscellaneous volumes of The Naturalist's Library. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, [1850s-60s]. US$ 2,500
£1,658
€1,939
2111 LEMAIRE, CHARLES, et al. Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe. Ghent: 1845-1865. US$ 1,875
£1,244
€1,454
2113 MORDAUNT DE LAUNAY, J.C.M., AND J.L.A. LOISELEUR-DESLONGCHAMPS. 1. Herbier général de l'amateur, deuxième série. Paris: Audot [-H. Cousin], 1839-1844. US$ 1,187
£787
€921
2115 ORBIGNY, CHARLES DESSALINES D'. 1806-1876. Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle. Paris: Abel Pilon, [1867-1869?]. US$ 1,375
£912
€1,066
2116 ORCHIDS—WATERCOLORS. 3 studies of orchids, pencil, watercolor and gum arabic, [France, early 19th century], US$ 1,875
£1,244
€1,454
2117 PAXTON, JOSEPH. 1801-1865. The Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. London: Orr and Smith, et al, 1834-1843. US$ 2,375
£1,575
€1,842
2118 SCLATER, PHILIP LUTLEY. 1829-1913. The Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine Genus Calliste. London: John van Voorst, 1857.
US$ 1,125
£746
€872
2120 WARNER, ROBERT. C.1815-1896. The Orchid Album. London: B.S. Williams, 1882-1884.
US$ 6,875
£4,561
€5,334
2122 ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. A History of the University of Oxford, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: for R. Ackermann, 1814. US$ 1,125
£746
€872
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