AUDUBON’S BIRDS AND QUADRUPEDSIN MATCHING PUBLISHER’S BROWN MOROCCO29. Audubon, John James and John Bachman. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in theUnited States and Their Territories [with] The Quadrupeds of North America. 10 volumes comprising:The Birds of America. 7 volumes. 500 hand-colored lithograph plates. * The Quadrupeds of NorthAmerica. 3 volumes. 155 hand-colored lithograph plates. (Royal Octavo) 26.5x18 cm. (10½x7”),original matching full publisher’s blindstamped brown morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbledendpapers, all edges gilt. Second Octavo Edition.New York: V[ictor] G[ifford] Audubon, 1854-56A beautiful matching set of Audubon’s two classic natural history works. The Birds of America,is a landmark ornithological work and perhaps the most important American color-plate bookof the 19th century. The plates for this edition were reduced and modified from the originalHavell engravings for the double-elephant folio. The images were reduced by camera lucidaand some of the backgrounds entirely changed or greatly modified. To the original plate countincluded in the double-elephant folio edition, the octavo edition adds 65 new images for atotal of 500 plates, making it “the most extensive color plate book produced in America up tothat time” (Reese). The Quadrupeds of North America was a collaboration between the elderAudubon and his sons, John Woodhouse and Victor Gifford, along with the Lutheran minister,John Bachman. They traveled through much newly explored territory, illustrating many speciesthat are scarce or endangered today. The two works today are highly desirable, matching setssuch as the present are somewhat scarce. Bookplate of Seymour Cunningham of Litchfield,Connecticut in each volume, pasted atop another unknown bookplate in most. Prospectus frompublisher George R. Lockwood for the pair of works in both the octavo and folio formats laid inas well as a list of the works of John James Audubon available from C.S. Francis & Co., a secondcopy of the Francis list is mounted to the inside of the front cover of Volume 1 of the Birds.Spines darkened, some rubbing to joints, a few small scuffs to leather, four volumes with hingesreinforced, a few other hinges starting; some browning and foxing at front and rear of volumes;all tissue guards present, plates largely brightly colored and free of foxing; internally near fine,bindings very good or better.(60000/90000)Lot 29Page 10
30. Auger, Edouard. Voyage en Californie (1852-1853). [iv], 238 pp. (8vo) 17x10.4 cm. (6¾x4”)modern morocco-backed marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. First Edition.Paris: Librarie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1854Issued as part of a long French series of lively travel books, “Bibliotheque des Chemins deFer,” intended to be sold as light reading to train passengers. Because Auger was a sightseer inCalifornia and not involved in the scramble for gold, his account projects a more dispassionateview than most contemporary gold rush narratives. His description of a cockfight in Panamais highly unusual, and he devotes an entire chapter to lynchings, several of which he describesas an eyewitness. He regarded the religious revivals that he witnessed in the mining camps as aspectacle worthy of the Middle Ages. Cowan (II), p. 23; Howes A393; Kurutz 24; Norris 154;Rocq 15679. Corners rubbed; foxing throughout; very good.(250/350)31. (Aviation) Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation. Curtiss Aeroplanes advertising booklet.32 pp. Illustrations from photographs. 15.5x8.5 cm. (6x3¼”) original wrappers.Garden City, Long Island, NY: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, c.1920Scarce advertising piece for Curtiss bi-planes. Includes a list of notable Curtiss achievements.Rubber-stamp of the Philadelphia distributor inside front cover. Light wear; very good.(200/300)32. Baily, Francis. Journal of a tour in unsettled parts of North America in 1796 & 1797. xii, 439 pp.22.5x13.5 cm. (8¾x5¼”). original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.London: Baily Brothers, 1856Presentation copy from one of the author-publisher’s family, inscribed at the top of the titlepage:“From Miss Baily, Tavistock Sq.” This has been neatly and only partially crossed out.There is an additional inscription below, “Mrs. H.B. Stowe with the Editor’s sincere respects,”undoubtedly Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared four years prior tothe present book, which was edited by A. de Morgan. One of the earliest and most significantnarratives of travel by an Englishman in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, not published tillnearly 60 years after the event. As a young man, Baily, who was to become President of theRoyal Astronomical Society, traveled from Baltimore to Natchez by riverboat, and returnedby land up the Natchez Trace. The narrative is of great importance for its observations ontopography, vegetation and the life of the river, including descriptions of all the places he visited,which included Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., Charleston, Pittsburgh,Wheeling, Limestone, Columbia, Cincinnati, Port William, Louisville, Fort Massac, Natchez,Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Nashville and Knoxville. On the way he met Daniel Boone andZebulon Pike. Buck 52; Clark III, 74; Howes B40; Sabin 2770; Rader 230. Formerly theproperty of Gates College, with faint rubberstamps to front endpapers, faint trace from removedbookplate, spine stained from removal of label. Minor wear to extremities, hinges cracking atendpapers, some light foxing to contents, else very good.(500/800)33. Bancroft, George. History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. 9volumes. <strong>With</strong> 6 engraved frontispieces; occasional maps and plans. 22.5x14.5 cm. (9x5¾”), half tancalf & marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers & edges.Boston: Little, Brown, 1866-1871Attractive set of Bancroft’s oft-published work. Some minor scuffing to spines and corners, elsevery good.(300/500)Page 11
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