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“ONE OF THE FINEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORKS EVER PRINTED,” WITH 500 HAND-COLORED PLATES AND AUDUBON’S AUTOGRAPH TIPPED IN
AUDUBON, John James. Birds of America. New York, 1861. Seven volumes. Lockwood Audubon, an early octavo edition, containing 500 superb tinted and hand-colored lithographic plates, with numerous in-text anatomical wood-engravings, with an inscription by Audubon tipped to the front pastedown: “I remain yours truly & sincerely attached, John J. Audubon.” In publisher’s full morocco bindings. $60,000.
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EXTREMELY SCARCE PROSPECTUS FOR THE DOUBLE ELEPHANT FOLIO OF AUDUBON’S BIRDS OF AMERICA, BOUND WITH VOLUME I OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE COMPANION TEXT
AUDUBON, John James. Ornithological Biography. Philadelphia, 1831. Extremely scarce printed Prospectus for the Double Elephant Folio of Birds of America, bound with Volume I of the first American edition of the companion text to Birds of America. $26,000.
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ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS ON PARROTS:
SCARCE SUPPLEMENT TO LEVAILLANT’S PERROQUETS
BOURJOT SAINT-HILAIRE, Alexandre. Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets. Paris, 1837-38. Tall first quarto edition of Bourjot Saint-Hilaire’s continuation of Levaillant’s great two-volume set of Perroquets (1801-05), with folding table and 110 (of 111) beautifully lithographed and hand-colored parrots by Johann-Carl Werner, official ornithological artist to the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. $25,000.
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AUDUBON’S QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA, BOASTING 155 HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS—“THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT SPECIMENS OF THE ART”
AUDUBON, John James and BACHMAN, John. Quadrupeds of North America. New York, 1854. Three volumes. Early edition of Audubon’s “breathtaking accomplishment… the most naturalistic depiction of American mammals ever done.” $19,500.
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VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL PARTS OF HARRIS’ LARGE FOLIO FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA
HARRIS, William Charles. Fishes of North America. New York, 1893-98. First edition of Harris’s vivid late 19th-century study of North American fish and angling. With 40 splendid chromolithographic plates of North American fish and over 100 in-text wood-engravings. $18,500.
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MAXWELL’S TREATISE ON ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM, 1873
MAXWELL, James Clerk. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford, 1873. Two volumes. First edition, first issue, of Maxwell’s most detailed and comprehensive work, advancing ideas that would become essential for modern physics, including the landmark hypothesis that light and electricity are the same in their ultimate nature. $16,500.
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“THE MOST COMPLETE WORK OF ITS KIND… A PRODUCTION OF UNRIVALLED INTEREST AND BEAUTY”
MICHAUX, F. Andrew. North American Sylva.WITH: Nuttall’s Continuation. Philadelphia, 1859. Altogether, five volumes. Lovely early edition of Michaux’s landmark work and its continuation by Nuttall, illustrated with a total of 277 splendid hand-colored plates. A beautiful set in full publisher’s morocco. $16,500.
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“ONE DAY IN 1961, A MAN WEARING A SPACESUIT… WILL LITERALLY TAKE A RIDE THAT WILL BE OUT OF THIS WORLD”: THE ASTRONAUTS, SIGNED BY SHEPARD, GLENN AND THE OTHER MEN OF PROJECT MERCURY
CAIDIN, Martin. The Astronauts. New York, 1960. First edition, second printing (following the first by one month) of this introduction to Project Mercury, inscribed “To Steven & Christopher Rose with warm personal regards—The Astronauts” and signed by all seven of the original astronauts: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Walter W. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, Virgil I. Grissom, John H. Glenn, Jr., M. Scott Carpenter and Leroy B. Cooper, Jr. $16,000.
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“THE WHOLE OF SCIENCE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REFINEMENT OF EVERYDAY THINKING”
EINSTEIN, Albert. Out of My Later Years. New York, 1950. First edition of Einstein’s second collection of social science-related articles, addresses, speeches, letters, and papers covering the period before, during, and after the Second World War, inscribed by him in German to a fellow scientist, “Dr. Blunck mit herzlichen Wünschen aber ohne die Zumutung, das Zeug t—sachlich zu lesen” (Dr. Blunck, With heartfelt wishes but without the unreasonable expectation to actually read these ramblings). $15,500.
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“THE MOST COMPLETE WORK OF ITS KIND… A PRODUCTION OF UNRIVALLED INTEREST AND BEAUTY”
MICHAUX, F. Andrew. North American Sylva. WITH: Nuttall’s Continuation. Philadelphia, 1859. Three volumes bound in two (as issued). Altogether, five volumes. Lovely early edition of Michaux’s landmark work and its continuation by Nuttall, illustrated with a total of 277 splendid hand-colored plates, a beautiful copy in full publisher’s morocco. $15,000.
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