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CALIFORNIA BOOK FAIR
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CALIFORNIA BOOK FAIR
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Narrative of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed in surveying the islands of the eastern archipelago
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. 2 volumes, 8vo. 5
maps (3 folding and housed inside the pocket in volume
one), 30 plates (including 10 tinted lithographed views).
Publisher's purple cloth, covers blocked in blind and gilt,
spines faded.
First edition of a classic account of a surveying voyage in the
far east.
(#34359) $ 4,500
EDWARD
BELCHER
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American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of Birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson
Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell [vol I]; Carey, Lea &
Carey [vols II & III]; Carey & Lea [vol IV], 1825-1828-1828-
1833. Four volumes, small folio (15 x 12 inches [vols. 2 and 4]
and 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches [vols. 1 and 3]. 27 hand-colored
engraved plates by Alexander Lawson (11 after Titian R.
Peale, 15 after A. Rider, and 1 after J.J. Audubon and A. Rider).
Foxing to the text, particularly in vols. 3 and 4, though the
plates clean throughout. Vols. 2 and 4 uncut. Publisher's half
red morocco and marbled paper covered boards.
First edition, first issue of this important American
ornithological work, with the plates beautifully hand
colored.
(#34816) $ 7,500
CHARLES LUCIAN
BONAPARTE
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Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres par quelques Missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus ... [including Piccolo's report on California].
Paris: Le Clerc, 1724. Volume 5, 8vo (6 1/8 x 3 3/8 inches). 2
engraved folding maps. Contemporary mottled calf, spine
with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled
endpapers.
Includes an important early Jesuit account of California,
illustrated with a noted map by Father Kino.
(#30504) $ 2,000
CALIFORNIA -
EUSEBIO KINO
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Constitution of the State of California
San Francisco: Printed at the Office of the Alta California,
1849. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches). Uncut. 19pp. Stitched,
later red cloth four fold chemise, all within a red morocco-
backed cloth slipcase, titled in gilt on the spine. Provenance:
Henry Lafayette Dodge (1810-1856, inscription dated 1850,
U.S. Indian Agent in New Mexico, killed by Apache).
The rare first separate printing of California's first
Constitution: this is one of the most important and difficult
to obtain state Constitutions, and includes the very rare
three-page "Address" found in only a few copies.
(#25098) $ 10,000
CALIFORNIA
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Journey to the Gold Diggins by Jeremiah Saddlebags.
New York: Stringer & Townsend, [1849]. Oblong 8vo (5 1/2 x
9 inches). 63, [1]pp. Pictorial title and 112 wood engraved
comic illustrations. Original green lower wrapper (upper
wrapper, which repeats the title is lacking). Housed in a
modern cloth slipcase.
Rare first edition of among the earliest caricatures of the
Forty-Niners: a classic of California Gold Rush comic book
literature.
(#29954) $ 9,500
CALIFORNIA
GOLD RUSH
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Lectrokit "A" [An electrical circuit playset for children, in the original box].
Pasadena, CA: 1946. Includes 4 original Rayovac batteries,
two small light bulbs, four coils, many metal brackets, two
plastic capsules containing screws and bolts, miniature
screwdriver, all mounted as issued in the original color
printed box. With the handbook of instructions and a 1p.
advertisement.
The building blocks for a young electrical engineer at the
dawn of the computing age.
(#33144) $ 600
DE VEL
INDUSTRIES
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Tratado Elemental de la Destreza del Sable
Mexico : Imprenta de Arizpe, 1809. Small 4to 7 7/8 x 5 3/4
inches. 13 engraved plates (2 folding). . Contemporary
Mexican sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering
piece (minor wear to head and tail of spine).
The first illustrated work on fencing published in Mexico.
(#31038) $ 4,750
SIMON DE
FRIAS
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Album of 36 photographs of Granada and the Alhambra
[Granada: circa 1890]. Oblong folio. 36 mounted
photographs, on the original grey card mounts with gilt
borders. Contemporary dark purple morocco, expertly
rebacked to style.
Grand Tour album of photographs of the Alhambra.
(#34832) $ 4,800
RAFAEL
GARZON
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A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery under the command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke ... through the interior parts of North America to the Pacific ocean, during the years 1804, 1805 & 1806.
Pittsburgh: Printed by Zadok Cramer, for David M'Keehan,
Publisher and Proprietor, 1807. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 inches).
262pp. . Contemporary tree sheep, flat spine divided into
compartments with blind rules, lettering in gilt in the
second. Provenance: John Statesir (inscription dated 1823).
A rare unsophisticated copy in the original binding of the
first edition of the earliest published firsthand account of
the Lewis and Clark expedition: "one of the essential books
for an Americana collection" (Streeter).
(#35013) $ 14,000
PATRICK
GASS
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Noa Noa: Voyage de Tahiti
[Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1926]. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches).
204 pages. With mounted collotypye reproductions of
Gauguin's watercolors, drawings, photographs, and
woodcuts. Publisher's coarse raffia, upper cover and spine
lettered, publisher's dust jacket.
Limited edition reproducing Gauguin's original manuscript.
(#26374) $ 3,250
PAUL
GAUGUIN
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Britton & Rey's Map of the State of California.
San Francisco: Lithographed by Britton & Rey, 1860.
Lithographed map. Linen-backed. Sheet size: 30 1/4 x 24 3/4
inches.
Extremely rare map of California.
(#24045) $ 12,000
GEORGE
GODDARD
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A Journal of the Last Voyage perform'd by Monsr. de La Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the mouth of the Missisipi [sic.] River
London: Printed for A. Bell, B. Lintott and J. Baker, 1714. 8vo
(7 x 4 1/2 inches). [2], xxi, [9], 205, [5]pp. Engraved folding
map. Expertly bound to style in period speckled calf, spine
with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco
lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat
decoration in gilt.
First edition in English of this first-hand account of La
Salle's ill-fated expedition, and Joutel's subsequent
incredible journey north to Quebec, through Texas,
Arkansas, the Mississippi, and Illinois.
(#29987) $ 12,500
HENRI
JOUTEL
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The Wonders of Yosemite Valley, and of California ... with original photographic illustrations, by John P. Soule ...
Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871. 8vo (10 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches).
Half-title, text bordered with red rules. 10 mounted
original albumen photographs. (Scattered minor browning
and staining). Original blue publisher's cloth decorated in
gilt and blind, recased into blue cloth, portion of original
spine retained.
First edition of a noted photographically illustrated early
guide to Yosemite.
(#27875) $ 1,500
SAMUEL
KNEELAND
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Views in South America, from original drawings made in Brazil the River Plate, the Parana, &c.
London: Thomas McLean, [1852]. Folio. Lithographed title,
dedication to Prince Albert with list of plates on verso, 26
tinted lithographed plates, lithographed plan. Expertly
bound to style in dark blue morocco backed period cloth
covered boards, large central morocco label on the upper
cover, flat spine lettered in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers
and pastedowns.
Among the rarest lithographed view books concerning
South America.
(#34437) $ 37,500
WILLIAM GORE
OUSELEY
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The Campaign against Italian East Africa 1940/41. The Lees Knowles Lectures given at Cambridge University 1951
[London: privately printed], 1962. Tall quarto. Typescript.
[1], 18, 20, 19, [3] leaves. Color folding map of central Africa,
with additions in manuscript. Modern red morocco backed
cloth. Provenance: Sir John Marriott (presentation
inscription from Platt on the front endpaper).
Unpublished typescript of three lectures given by the
commander of the Sudan Defence Force during the East
African Campaign.
(#34997) $ 850
WILLIAM
PLATT
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Histoire Naturelle des Orangers.
Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Hérrisant le Doux, 1818-[1820].
Small folio. Half-title, 2pp. dedication to the Duchesse de
Berry, 109 fine stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and
finished by hand after Poiteau by V. Bonnefoi, Chailly, Dien,
Gabriel, Legrand, T. Susémihl and Texier. Scattered minor
foxing. 19th century full green morocco, covers bordered in
gilt, spine with double raised bands in six compartments,
lettered in the second and third compartments, the others
with a repeat decoration in gilt, glazed yellow endpapers,
gilt edges. Housed in a cloth box. Provenance: Barons of
Brownlow, Belton House (armorial bookplate).
First edition of this beautiful work depicting sweet and
bitter oranges, lemons, limes, citrons, and grapefruit.
(#33456) $ 25,000
JOSEPH ANTOINE
RISSO
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Original typescript proposal for the television series Star Trek, being Roddenberry's retained file copy, with holograph corrections: an early draft of the famed "Star Trek is ..." document.
Space, the final frontier [i.e. Los Angeles]: Stardate 1312.4
[i.e. March to May 1964]. 26 sheets (being a cover sheet and
pages numbered 1-25). The cover sheet inscribed in red
pencil "File" in the upper right corner. Cross outs and
corrections in Roddenberry's hand on page 17, concerning
the character Mr. Spock. Housed in a black morocco box.
Provenance: sold by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett-
Roddenberry, Christie's East, 18 June 1998, lot 61.
Roddenberry's original typewritten and corrected draft of
the pitch for Star Trek.
(#34812) $ 45,000
GENE
RODDENBERRY
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments ... The Seventh Edition.
London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell [and others], 1792. 2 volumes,
8vo. [iii]-xv, [1], 488; [iii]-viii, 462pp. Lacks half-titles.
Expertly bound to style in half russia and period marbled
paper covered boards.
Eighteenth century edition of Adam Smith's first published
work.
(#34586) $ 3,750
ADAM
SMITH
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Somaliland Campaign. 1902-1904. Telegrams. 19th October 1902 to 4th August, 1904.
London: War Office, 1905. Small folio. [2], xix, [1], 725, [1]pp.
Modern half calf and cloth boards. Provenance: Ministry of
Defense, Whitehall Library (inked stamp); HW (booklabel).
A primary source on the British actions against the Dervish
uprising.
(#34996) $ 2,000
SOMALILAND
CAMPAIGN
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Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre de Espana a Indias de 12. de Octubre de 1778.
Madrid: Pedro Maran, [1778]. Quarto. Title printed in red
and black. Engraved armorial frontispiece. Contemporary
red morocco, Spanish royal arms in gilt on the covers, spine
with raised bands, green morocco lettering piece in the
second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in
gilt, gilded endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in an oatmeal
cloth box with a leather label.
An important work, detailing commercial regulations
between Spain and the Americas: in a contemporary red
morocco binding with arms.
(#33317) $ 4,250
SPAIN -
CONSEJO DE INDIAS
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Medical Botany: or, illustrations of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain.
London: John Churchill, 1831. 4 volumes, octavo (9 1/4 x 5
5/8 inches). 185 hand colored engraved plates by or after W.
Clark, C.M. Curtis, G. Reid, G. Spratt, Weddell.
Contemporary calf, covers bordered with a gilt roll tool,
expertly rebacked to style.
A fine set of the first edition of this valuable work illustrated
with high quality plates.
(#34786) $ 4,000
JOHN
STEPHENSON
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Album d'Oiseaux [cover title].
[France: circa 1860]. Folio. 12 watercolours by G. Varnier
(each approx. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches), each mounted on grey
card and then a grey card matt with an octagonal opening,
the matts with gilt edges to the openings and thin black ink
ruled border. Contemporary French brown morocco,
covers panelled in gilt and blind, the central panel of the
upper cover lettered in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands,
gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, gilt metal
clasps, expertly rebacked with original spine.
A charming series of decorative watercolours of birds in
botanical settings.
(#34906) $ 5,750
G . VARNIER
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Severall Chirurgicall Treatises
London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, 1676. Quarto (12 1/2 x 7
1/2 inches). [16], 498, 79, [1], [14]pp. Contemporary mottled
calf, spine with raised bands, later paper label, worn.
Provenance: Jonathan Fisher (signatures dated as early as
1692); Jacobus Fisher (signature dated 1707); John Hare (early
signature).
First edition of a landmark in western medicine.
(#34621) $ 3,000
RICHARD
WISEMAN
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The Orchid Album, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants
London: B.S. Williams (I-VIII) and B.S. Williams & Son (IX-
XI), 1882-1897. 11 volumes, large quarto (11 7/8 x 9 3/4
inches). 527 lithographic plates by John Nugent Fitch (1
double-page), hand-coloured, printed in colours and
finished by hand, or printed in colours, wood-engraved
full-page portrait of Williams in vol.IX. Original publisher's
binding of brown decorated cloth, the upper cover and
spine blocked in gilt and black, the lower cover in blind, gilt
edges.
A very fine complete set of this important record of all of
the greatest orchid varieties discovered and described
during the nineteenth century, with beautiful illustrations
of the highest quality by John Nugent Fitch.
(#34778) $ 20,000
ROBERT
WARNER
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Mexican News.
New York: American Art Union, 1853. Engraving, sheet size:
25 x 21 3/8 inches.
An iconic mid-19th century American image.
(#34922) $ 1,875
RICHARD CATON
WOODVILLE
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