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The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants; particularly, those not hitherto described, or incorrectly figured by former authors, with their descriptions in English and French by CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749)

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Title: The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants; particularly, those not hitherto described, or incorrectly figured by former authors, with their descriptions in English and French
Author: CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749)
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Printed for Charles Marsh, Thomas Wilcox and Benjamin Stichall, 1754. 2 volumes, folio. (20 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches). Titles in French and English and printed in red and black, parallel text printed in double columns in French and English. 1 double-page hand-coloured engraved map, 220 hand-coloured etched plates (218 by and after Catesby, most signed with his monogram, plates 61 and 96 in volume II by Georg Dionysius Ehret). Period French mottled calf, spines with raised bands forming eight compartments, tooled gilt, gilt brown morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments, all edges gilt Provenance: Bookplates of John Wingfield Larking (1802-1891), diplomat and antiquarian The second edition of the "most famous colorplate book of American plant and animal life ... a fundamental and original work for the study of American species" (Hunt). A beautiful and vastly important work by the founder of American ornithology, this book embodies the most impressive record made during the colonial period of the natural history of an American colony and is the most significant work of American natural history before Audubon. Trained as a botanist, Catesby travelled to Virginia in 1712 and remained there for seven years, sending back to England collections of plants and seeds. With the encouragement of Sir Hans Sloane and others, Catesby returned to America in 1722 to seek materials for his Natural History; he travelled extensively in Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas, sending back further specimens. His preface provides a lengthy account of the development of this work, including his decision to study with Joseph Goupy in order to learn to etch his copper plates himself to ensure accuracy and economy. The end result is encyclopaedic: Catesby provides information not only on the botany and ornithology of the area, but also on its history, climate, geology and anthropology. Catesby writes in the preface of his method of working: "As I was not bred a Painter, I hope some faults in Perspective, and other niceties, may be more readily excused: for I humbly conceive that Plants, and other Things done in a Flat, if an exact manner, may serve the Purpose of Natural History, better in some Measure, than in a mere bold and Painter-like Way. In designing the Plants, I always did them while fresh and just gathered: and the Animals, particularly the Birds, I painted while alive (except a very few) and gave them their Gestures peculiar to every kind of Birds, and where it could be admitted, I have adapted the Birds to those Plants on which they fed, or have any relation to. Fish, which do not retain their colours when out of their Element, I painted at different times, having a succession of them procured while the former lost their colours... Reptiles will live for many months...so that I had no difficulty in painting them while living" (Vol.I, p.vi). The first edition was published in ten parts, with the final part appearing in 1743, plus the twenty plate appendix, which was issued four years later. Work appears to have begun on the present second edition almost immediately, if not simultaneously with the publication of the Appendix in 1747. According to Stafleu & Cowan, the second edition was published between 1748 and 1756. Recent discoveries have suggested that there are multiple issues of the second edition, including early issues that may partly be comprised by sheets from the first edition. Reese, Struggle for North America 16; Cf. Anker 94; cf. Dunthorne 72; cf. Fine Bird Books (1990) p.86; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.87; cf Hunt 486 (1st edition); cf. Jackson Bird Etchings p.76; cf. Meisel III, p.341; cf. Nissen BBI 336; cf. Nissen IVB 177; cf. Ripley Yale p.55; Sabin 11508; cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1057; Wood p.281 ('A rare printing'); E.G. Allen 'The History of American Ornithology before Audubon' in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, vol.41, part 3 (Philadelphia: October 1951); Amy Meyers & Margaret Pritchard Empire's Nature, Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Williamsburg, 1998); Edwin Wolf 2nd, A Flock of Beautiful Birds (Philadelphia, 1977), pp.5-7 (Catesby "was the first to observe and depict North American birds in their natural settings, combining ornithological details with botanic ones"); E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott, The Curious Mister Catesby (University of Georgia Press, 2015).

Depart Pour la Chasse Au Vol by WOUWERMAN, After Philips (1619-1668)

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Title: Depart Pour la Chasse Au Vol
Author: WOUWERMAN, After Philips (1619-1668)
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: Moyreau, 1740. Hand-coloured engraving on laid paper by Moyreau. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, and mild rippling. A fine composition showing the hunting party embarking on the hunt. This beautifully coloured print is one of many engravings Jean Moyreau (1690-1762) made of Wouwerman's paintings. Born into a family of Dutch artists in Haarlem in 1619, the prolific draughtsman and painter Philips Wouwerman was primarily renowned for his lively battle and hunting scenes. After an early elementary introduction to the art of painting by his father, Paulus Joostens, he trained with the landscape painter Jan Wynants (1620-1679) and briefly worked in the Hamburg studio of the history painter Everard Decker (d. 1647) around 1638. Wouwerman later returned to Haarlem, where he joined the Guild of St. Luke, which later elected him to the office of vinder in 1646. His elegantly rendered, distinctive works, which are characterized by their luminous colour and detailed, animated treatment of figures and landscape alike, were extremely popular in the seventeenth century as well as the nineteenth century, during which they were zealously collected. Among his varied and substantial repertoire of subjects, which included military and battle scenes, landscapes, travellers, animals and genre subjects, Wouwerman favored his hunting scenes. Cf. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, vol 14, p. 723.

Scott Fitzgerald - Presentation copy WITH author correspondence and source's annotations by TURNBULL, Andrew

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Title: Scott Fitzgerald - Presentation copy WITH author correspondence and source's annotations
Author: TURNBULL, Andrew
Seller: Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. xi, 364. Frontis. portrait photo. Illustrated with a section of b&w photo reproductions on coated paper. With notes, chronology, sources and index. Black cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt and green. Edges minimally discolored and lower corners slightly bumped, pencil annotations by author's source. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket, price unclipped: spine ends chipped, edge-wear. Author correspondence with source Mrs. Alfred Schweppe, a childhood friend of Fitzgerald in St. Paul, is laid in. This copy belonged to Dorothey Greene Schweppe who as a child was a neighbor and friend of Fitzgerald. On the front endpaper is a penciled note, apparently in the author's hand, with page references to "information furnished by your mother" and the source credit. A few pages are dog-eared and several have pencil annotations in Dorothey's hand. Additionally, laid in are: A Schweppe pencil sketch of the building and street where Fitzgerald resided in St. Paul.Four TLS from Turnbull dated May 1958 (reference to Fitzgerald mentioning Schweppe in his "Thoughtbook" at age 14; letter "peppered with insight;" and "I have found out that you played the following roles in Fitzgerald's plays ... ," one with the original envelope.A four-page photostat of TLS Schweppe's recollections of Fitzgerald in reply to Turnbull's questions, dated May 26, 1958.A four-page ALS Schweppe to Turnbull dated January 24, 1959 with additional recollections.Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve; correspondence in archival sleeves with acid-free backings.

The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, From the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young.. by Stenhouse, T. B. H.

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Title: The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, From the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young..
Author: Stenhouse, T. B. H.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Salt Lake City, UT: Shepard Book Company, 1904. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 761pp. Thick octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with a paper title label mounted to the spine. Frontis portrait of Brigham Young. Black and white illustrations. Extremities are moderately rubbed and bumped. Approx. 1 1/4" cracked closed tear to spine title label. Front hinge just a hair soft. Mormon apostate Stenhouse's massive and comprehensive history of life in Utah under the Mormon prophet Brigham Young. Flake: 8408.

Mrs. Malone by Farjeon, Eleanor

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Title: Mrs. Malone
Author: Farjeon, Eleanor
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1962 Unpaginated. Pictorial boards, bookplate to FFEP, else Fine; in matching dust jacket with a closed tear, light wear to extremities, price-clipped. Charming verse about Mrs. Malone by Farjeon, pictured in b&w by Ardizzone. Lovely little book. Scarce. . First American Edition. Illustrated Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Edward Ardizzone. 12mo.

Van Wijd En Zijd Uit Vroeger Tijd (From Far Away, and Days Gone By) by Silhouettes. Spoor, C (Cornelia "Nelly" Spoor) (Illus); Blaauw, Henriette (Auth)

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Title: Van Wijd En Zijd Uit Vroeger Tijd (From Far Away, and Days Gone By)
Author: Silhouettes. Spoor, C (Cornelia "Nelly" Spoor) (Illus); Blaauw, Henriette (Auth)
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Alkmaar: Gebr Kluitman, 1918 32 pgs. Pictorial boards with worn corners and edges, rebound with new cloth spine, a number of archival mends, previous owner's stamp to title page. Fairy tales and verse illustrated with lovely silhouette illustrations. . Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Nelly Spoor. 4to.

Confronting Gouldner: Sociology and Political Activism by Chriss, James J.

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Title: Confronting Gouldner: Sociology and Political Activism
Author: Chriss, James J.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781608466436
Description: Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016. Paperback. xxxiii, 241p., wraps, very good condition. Studies in Critical Social Sciences.

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