History Books

An extra <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings&amp;query=The%20French%20Court%20And%20Society&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The French Court And Society</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson (English).</li><li>The French Court and Society, Reign of Louis XVI and First Empire.</li><li>London: Richard Bentley &amp; Son, 1881.</li><li>Title pages printed in red and black, extra illustrated with the insertion of numerous additional tipped plates, some hand colored from contemporary sources.</li><li>Bound in full tan crushed morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, covers ruled and paneled with interlocking panels of gilt fillets, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, green silk morie endpapers, green morocco doublures, volume 1 doublure with a fine inset oval watercolor miniature of a lady of court signed indistinctly “Guigui_ _ _, by Bayntun Riviere."</li></ul>

The French Court and Society

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> edition of Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Albert%20J.%20Beveridge&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Albert J.&nbsp;Beveridge</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Albert J.&nbsp;Beveridge (American).</li><li>Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.</li><li>Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, covers ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt.</li></ul>

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858

A British railway <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of India by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Colonel%20Henry%20Ravenshaw%20Thuillier&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier</a>.<ul><li>Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier (English).</li><li>Railway Map of India. Railways Brought up to October 1895. </li><li>Scale: 1 Inch = 48 miles or 1:3,041,280.</li><li>Calcutta: Published under the direction of Colonel H. Thuillier, R.E., Surveyor General of India,&nbsp;October 1890.</li><li>Photozincograph map.</li><li>Partly printed in color, with additional hand-coloring.</li><li>Dissected into 50 sheets and mounted on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>&nbsp;A comprehensive railway map of British India, including the subcontinent and Burma, also displaying the main road networks, navigable canals, steamship routes, and telegraph connections across the peninsular. This publication by the Survey of India Office includes a useful ‘References’ key giving information on the differing gauges in use across the region, and a color code highlighting the lands under direct British administration in pink, ‘Tributary States’ in yellow and ‘Independent and Foreign Possessions’ in Green. A notice records the price for color as ‘Five Rupees’, as against ‘Four Rupees’ without. Prepared under the direction of Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier, who as his father before him, served as Surveyor General of India from 1887 to 1895. Here Baluchistan is shown as an enclave of the British Raj. This strategically important territory lies in modern-day Pakistan, and is situated around the natural fort town of Quetta located high in the Chiltan mountains. It came under direct British rule in 1876, securing the vital Bolan Pass though which British troops under the command of General Michael Biddulph passed during the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878 to 1880. The railway connecting the remote province to the Raj proper was built through the pass in 1887. The map also contains an early route highlighted in crayon showing a journey by sea to Bombay, and thence via Daman to the Indian Princely State of Baroda. Other towns underlined in crayon include Kurrachee, Lingsugur, Raichur, and Hyderabad.

Railway Map of India

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> set of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Shelby Foote (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;1958-1974.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>Signed flat by Foote on tipped-in page in Volume I.</li><li>Volume I spine tan and gray with red and black lettering, volume II spine tan and red with blue and black lettering, volume III spine tan and blue with red and black lettering, dust jackets protected in mylar coverings, prices cut in Volumes I and III, uncut in Volume II, top edges of text blocks on Volumes I and II dyed gray, lightly stained, top edge of text block on Volume III dyed blue.</li></ul>

The Civil War: A Narrative

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> (US) of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=Perestroika&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Perestroika</a>.<ul><li>Mikhail Gorbachev (Russian).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harper &amp; Row,&nbsp;1987.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>254 pages.</li><li>Signed flat by Gorbachev to the title page.</li><li>Spine blue with white and yellow lettering, dust jacket protected with a mylar covering.</li></ul>

Perestroika

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first state of Arctic Explorations by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Elisha%20Kent%20Kane&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elisha Kent Kane</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Elisha Kent Kane (American).</li><li>The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55.</li><li>Philadelphia: Childs &amp; Peterson, 1856.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>With engraved vignette titles, engraved portrait frontispieces of Kane and Grinnell, 18 engraved plates with tissue guards, 3 maps, one of them folding, folding isothermal chart, and numerous wood engravings in the text.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's dark brown wave-grain cloth, gilt-lettered spine, decorative blind frames to boards, enclosing blind ship vignettes to front.</li></ul> This edition with folding map without "Kane Sea" labeling the expanse between Smith Strait and Kennedy Channel: the appellation was inserted only after an American historian of Arctic exploration, Colonel Peter Force, wrote to the publishers demonstrating that Kane's discovery of the strait had been suppressed. "In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent participated in two Arctic expeditions and by the time of his death in 1857 was regarded as a true American hero and one of the nation's most popular authors … Little went right in the second expedition [but] there were many notable achievements … The discoveries of Kennedy Channel, the Kane Basin, a record north of 80° 10'N, and the sighting of the Humboldt Glacier were important firsts for Kane."

Arctic Explorations

Detailed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Oman, with Muscat marked, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Philippe%20Vandermaelen&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Philippe Vandermaelen</a>.<ul><li>Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgian).</li><li>Partie de L'Arabie. Asie No 92.</li><li>Brussels: 1827.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Showing part of the Arabian peninsula, including Oman, with Muscat and the island of Marirah also marked. Published in the Atlas Universel de Geographie, the first atlas to have every map on the same scale, 1:1,641,836. Because of this standardization it was the first time that some areas of the world were shown with any detail. However, the interior of the peninsula is mostly blank and some of the coastal features are incorrect.

Belgian Map Of Oman

A 17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Turkish Empire by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;objectTypes=Book&amp;query=Frederick%20De%20Wit&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frederick De Wit</a>.<ul><li>Frederick De Wit (Dutch).</li><li>Turcicum Imperium.</li><li>Amsterdam: circa 1688. </li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The second state of De Wit's map of the Turkish Empire, without 'Johannes Lhulier Sculp' in the bottom right border and with his own imprint in the title cartouche. Some more detail has been added in the interior of Arabia (in the region of modern Riyadh), and, strangely, in Italy &amp; Germany. The title cartouche features three men in turbans above two western slaves.

Dutch Map Of The Turkish Empire

17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Dutch Spice Islands.<ul><li>Jodocus Hondius II (Dutch).</li><li>Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch).</li><li>Moluccae Insulae Celeberimae.</li><li>Amsterdam: 1640.</li><li>Fine original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Early map of the islands of Ternate, Timor, Tidore and Makian, off the coast of Halmahera, orientated with north to the right with an insert map of the Dutch East India Company's trading post on Bachian Island. This chain was a focal point of the VOC's lucrative spice trade. Despite Blaeu's name on the plate, this map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius II (son of the engraver of Speed's county atlas). When Jodocus died in 1629 many of his plates were sold to Willem Blaeu, who added his name to the plates and used them to publish his first atlas in 1630. Angered by the sale, Hondius's brother-in-law Jansson had these plates slavishly copied for the family atlas.

Dutch Map Of Moluccas

An early 19th century description of Constantinople, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Adam%20Bergk&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Adam Bergk</a>.<ul><li>Johann Adam Bergk (German).</li><li>Beschreibung von Constantinopel... Nebst einem Plane und einem Prospekte dieser Stadt, so wie einer Charte von den Dardanellen.</li><li>Leipzig: Industrie-Comptoir, circa 1807. </li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Three folding engraved plates.</li><li>Wrappers, front printed with title.</li></ul> A German-text description of Constantinople, illustrated with a map and prospect of the city, and a map of the Dardanelles.

German Map Of Constantinople

A mid-19th century town plan of New York City by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John%20M.%20Atwood&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John M. Atwood</a>.<ul><li>John M. Atwood (American).</li><li>Map of the City of New York with the Adjacent Cities of Brooklyn &amp; Jersey City, &amp; The Village of Williamsburg.</li><li>New York: Ensign &amp; Thayer, 1849. </li><li>Original color.</li><li>Folded into cloth gilt covers, with booklet, with titlepage.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A folding plan of New York City with insets of Jersey City and Upper Manhattan. Of interest is the list of 'strokes of bell', for fire alarms of each district. The text is an extensive gazetteer.

Map Of New York City

An early English chart of the east coast of Newfoundland on two sheets, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry%20Southwood&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry Southwood</a>.<ul><li>Henry Southwood (English).</li><li>The Coast of New Found Land From Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista.</li><li>London: W. &amp; J. Mount and T. Page, 1748. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The east coast of Newfoundland from Bonavista south to Trepassy, orientated with north to the right. Insets show St John's Harbor and Trinity Harbor. The chart was engraved by James Clark and first published in John Thornton's Atlas Maritimus in 1676. This example was published in an edition of Mount &amp; Page's The English Pilot. The Fourth Book Describing The West India Navigation... Also, a New Description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina. This was the first sea atlas of America containing charts only from English sources.

English Map Of Newfoundland

An 18th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Liguria with a prospect of Genoa by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Baptist%20Homann&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Baptist Homann</a>.<ul><li>Johann Baptist Homann (German).</li><li>Status Reipublicae Genuensis nec non Prospectuum Celeberrimae eiusdem Urbis et Portus Geographica simul et Topographica Descriptio.</li><li>Nuremberg: circa 1730.</li><li>Original color with additions to the prospect.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A fine map of the Republic of Genoa. Beneath the map is an elaborate allegorical title cartouche depicting the achievements of the Republic. Below that is a prospect of the city with a key to important places.

German Map Of Genoa

The world as known to the Ancients, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Giovanni%20Maria%20Cassini&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Giovanni Maria Cassini</a>.<ul><li>Giovanni Maria Cassini&nbsp;(Italian).</li><li>Mappa Mondo Antico Diviso Nell'Uno e nell'Altro Continente secondo la mente di Guglielmo Sanson.</li><li>Rome: 1801.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A double-hemisphere map showing the contemporary outline of the world but with references from ancient history and myth. Neither Australia nor New New Zealand are named, Sri Lanka is marked Taprobana and America 'Atlante' or Atlantis. Published in the rare Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale, it is decorated with allegorical figures of the four continents in the corners.

Italian Map Of The Ancient World

First <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">plate</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate&amp;query=Ortelius&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ortelius</a>' map of the Holy Land.<ul><li>Abraham Ortelius (Belgian).</li><li>Palestinae sive Totius Terrae Promissionis Nova Descriptio Auctore Tilemanno Stella Sigenens.</li><li>Antwerp: 1574.</li><li>Latin text edition.</li><li>Colored.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The Holy Land after Stella, showing the route of the Exodus, printed from the first of three very similar plates. All three have the same two large strapwork cartouches; however this plate has five ships and three sea-monsters, while the second has only one monster, and the third only three ships and no monsters.

Belgian Map Of Palestine

A 17th century Italian map of Tartary by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Giovanni%20Giacomo%20De%20Rossi&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi</a>.<ul><li>Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian).</li><li>La Gran Tartaria divisa nelle sue parti principali..</li><li>Rome: 1683.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A chart of Sumatra and the tip of the Malay Peninsula, orientated with north to the left. Published in Jansson's sea-atlas, it was first issued 1657, a decade after the Dutch seized Malacca from the Portuguese. The map also marks the Aceh sultanate on the northern tip of Sumatra: during the 1650s the Dutch encouraged revolts against Aceh rule in order to gain control of tin deposits in the area.

Italian Map Of Tartary

An early 17th century Dutch <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Holy Land by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jodocus%20Hondius&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jodocus Hondius</a>.<ul><li>Jodocus Hondius (German).</li><li>Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol: Palestina.</li><li>Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1630. </li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A fine, dark impression of this map of the Holy Land, orientated with north to the left, showing the Mediterranean coast between Beirut and Gaza. The decorations include strapwork cartouches for the title and scale and a vignette of Jonah being thrown overboard to the whale. Unusually for maps engraved by Jodocus Hondius for his editions of the Mercator atlas, this map is copied from an Ortelius map, Terra Sancta, A Petro Laicstain perlustrata....

Dutch Map Of The Holy Land

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Prussian and Russian occupation of the Duchy of Warsaw by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Ernst%20Knittel&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Ernst Knittel</a>.<ul><li>Johann Ernst Knittel (German).</li><li>Neue militairische Situations=und Post=Carte von Polen und Preussen von I.E. Kinittel. Nouvelle Carte militaire et routiere de la Pologne et de la Prusse par I.E. Knittel.</li><li>Nuremberg: Friedrich Campe, 1812. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A separate-issue map of the Duchy of Warsaw as the Prussians and Russians occupied the country after Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow. It places emphasis on the post roads, which would have been the main lines of communication for the occupying army. At the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars the Polish people saw Bonaparte as the best chance for them to regain their country after the three Partitions inflicted on them by Austria, Russia and Prussia. Polish Legions fought with the French in Europe, Egypt and the West Indies, and were rewarded with the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. However, as Napoleon's army fled from Moscow, the Russians followed, overrunning the Duchy and occupying it until the Congress of Vienna (1815) divided it between Russia and Prussia.

German Map Of Poland

17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Sumatra marking Singapore, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jan%20Jansson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jan Jansson</a>.<ul><li>Jan Jansson (Dutch).</li><li>Sumatrae et Insularum Locorumque nonnullorum Circumiacentium Tabula Nova.</li><li>Amsterdam: circa 1657.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A chart of Sumatra and the tip of the Malay Peninsula, orientated with north to the left. Published in Jansson's sea-atlas, it was first issued 1657, a decade after the Dutch seized Malacca from the Portuguese. The map also marks the Aceh sultanate on the northern tip of Sumatra: during the 1650s the Dutch encouraged revolts against Aceh rule in order to gain control of tin deposits in the area.

Dutch Map Of Sumatra

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Classical Turkey and Cyprus by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nicolas%20Sanson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nicolas Sanson</a>.<ul><li>Nicolas Sanson (French).</li><li>Asia Minor in Epitomen Contracta, Magnas Regiones, seu Provincias Representans, in quibus Populi, Primariae Urbes, Locaque Praecipua Notantur.</li><li>Paris: Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, circa 1731. </li><li>Original outline color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A map of Asia Minor, first published by Pierre Moullard Sanson in 1697, but this example published by Gilles Robert du Vaugondy, who took over his business in 1731.

French Map Of Ancient Turkey

A detailed 18th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the Mediterranean Sea, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Louis%20Andr%C3%A9%20Dupuis&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Louis André Dupuis</a>.<ul><li>Louis André Dupuis (French).</li><li>Carte de la Mer Méditerranée. 1785.</li><li>Paris: 1785.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined, dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and detailed sea-chart of the Mediterranean. The same year Dupuis published similar charts of the Baltic, Black Sea and the Danube.

French Map Of The Mediterranean

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> second edition of Edward Newman's History Of Insects.<ul><li>Edward Newman (English).</li><li>A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; Being a new and greatly improved edition of the Grammar of Entomology.</li><li>London: John van Voorst, 1841.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>288 pages.</li><li>Engravings throughout the text.</li><li>Bound in late nineteenth-century brown half calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, bookplate</li></ul> Though nominally a manufacturer, Edward Newman (1801-1876) devoted much of his leisure time to natural history, in particular insects. He was a founder of the Entomological Club and housed its collections and library in his residence, and he served as editor of the Entomological Magazine. He was a founder of the Entomological Society of London, serving as president between 1853 and 1854, and was elected to the Linnean Society, the Zoological Society, and the Royal Microscopical Society, as well as a number of foreign scientific societies. ‘Newman's publications up to 1838 focused on entomological subjects. His first paper, in 1831, “Polyommatus argiolus, melitaea euphrosyne and selene”, was published in the Magazine of Natural History, and a year later his more important work, Sphinx vespiformis: an Essay, appeared; it was regarded as an attempt at a new system of classification. In 1832 he began an anonymous series of notes in the Magazine of Natural History, which were reprinted in 1849 as The Letters of Rusticus, chiefly discussing the bird and insect life of Surrey. His pseudonym, Rusticus, was a secret known not even by his closest friend, the naturalist Edward Doubleday (1810–1849). In 1835 he published the Grammar of Entomology, of which a more extended second edition was issued in 1841, under the title A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; this was later issued as The Insect Hunters, or, Entomology in Verse (1858)’ (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

A Familiar Introduction To The History Of Insects

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first issue <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Prints%2520and%2520colour%2520plate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">color plate</a> portraits of the Emperors of Turkey.&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a se of 28.</li><li>John Young (English).</li><li>From the series Recueil des Portraits des Empereurs Ottomans.</li><li>London: W.Bulmer and Co., 1815.</li><li>Mezzotint portraits printed in color and finished by hand.</li><li>Watermarks on the paper are dated 1808.</li><li>Each is presented framed.</li></ul> Arguably the greatest series of color plates on the Ottoman Empire, with engravings after portraits by a Greek peasant ‘who displayed such proofs of natural talent as to induce the Emperor Selim to patronize him’. Young's work was first commissioned and patronized by Selim III, but production was halted in 1807 when the Sultan was assassinated by the Janissaries. Mahmoud II became Sultan in 1808 and in 1810 he gave Young permission to continue publication.

A Series Of Portraits Of The Emperors Of Turkey

A 17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the British Isles on two sheets.<ul><li>Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (French).</li><li>Les Isles Britanniques; qui Contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande.</li><li>Paris: 1692. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Early edition of Sanson's map of the British Isles, redrawn on a larger scale by Jaillot at the request of Sanson's heirs, first published in the Atlas Nouveau from 1674. During the course of this map's life Jaillot had three pairs of plates engraved, with only minor changes. This is the second state of the second pair, with the lines of longitude and latitude that were added in the first year of issue. The third state has the date 1696. A very decorative map, with fine baroque title and scale cartouches and an inset of the Orkneys and Shetland Isles.

French Map Of The British Isles

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=First%2520Edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> copies of The Years Of Lyndon Johnson.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Robert A. Caro (American).</li><li>The Years Of Lyndon Johnson [the Path To Power, Means Of Ascent, Master Of The Senate, The Passage Of Power].</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Alfred A. Knopf,&nbsp;1982-2012.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>All volumes signed on the title page by Caro.</li><li>Each in its dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Years Of Lyndon Johnson

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles%20Marvin&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Marvin</a>'s book on <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Travel%2520and%2520Exploration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exploration</a>, Reconnoitring Central Asia.<ul><li>Charles Marvin (English).</li><li>Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering adventures in the region lying between Russia and India.</li><li>London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1884.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>421 pages.</li><li>With frontispiece, folding map, and 7 wood-engraved illustrations.</li><li>Bound in the orginal pictorial cloth, gilt.</li></ul> Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGregor, Alikhanoff, etc.

Reconnoitring Central Asia

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> in English of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Memoirs%20Of%20The%20Baron%20de%20Tott&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Memoirs Of The Baron de Tott</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Baron de Tott (French).</li><li>Memoirs of the Baron de Tott, on the Turks and Tartars. Translated from the French, by an English Gentleman at Paris, under the immediate Inspection of the Baron.</li><li>London: Jarvis, circa 1785.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, spine gilt extra.</li></ul> Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Vergennes. His knowledge of Turkish language and customs and his ideas for extending trade and diplomatic relations recommended him to the duc de Choiseul for the post of consul in the Crimea. On his return to Constantinople in 1769, he set about reorganising the army and navy and fortifying the banks of the Black Sea. He was promoted again to the post of inspector general in the Levant and travelled with Sonnini between 1776 and 1778. In spite of strong criticism from more prejudiced quarters, this highly successful work set new standards of objectivity in its description of the Ottoman Empire.

Memoirs Of The Baron de Tott, On The Turks And Tartars

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?creators=John%2520Addington%2520Symonds&amp;query=John%20Addington%20Symonds&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Addington Symond</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?query=Sketches%2520And%2520Studies%2520in%2520Italy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sketches And Studies in Italy</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>John Addington Symonds (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Smith, Elder, &amp; Co,&nbsp;1879.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters vellum with linen boards, gilt-tooling and red calf label on spine, top edges gilt.</li></ul>

Sketches And Studies In Italy

An <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> edition of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Art%2520and%2520Design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">art book</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20History%20Of%20Painting%20In%20Italy&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The History Of Painting In Italy</a>, bound in <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Vellum" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vellum</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Abate Luigi Lanzi (Italian).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Henry G. Bohn,&nbsp;1847.</li><li>Illustrated frontispiece.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters vellum with marbled endpapers, ornate gilt-tooling and red label on the spines, top edges gilt. </li></ul>

The History Of Painting In Italy

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a>, Federal Edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings&amp;query=The%20Works%20Of%20Benjamin%20Franklin&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Works Of Benjamin Franklin</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12 volumes.</li><li>Benjamin Franklin (American).</li><li>Compiled and edited by John Bigelow.</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;G.P. Putnam's Sons,&nbsp;1904.</li><li>Limited to 1,000 copies of which this is 398.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters red morocco with marbled boards, gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Works Of Benjamin Franklin

A finely bound and <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Illustrated" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">illustrated</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets&amp;query=History%20Of%20English%20Furniture&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A History Of English Furniture</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Percy%2520MacQuoid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Macquoid</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4 volumes.</li><li>Percy Macquoid (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Lawrence &amp; Bullen,&nbsp;1904.</li><li>Color plate frontispiece with colored plates, illustrations, and etchings throughout.</li><li>Bound in three-quarters brown morocco with linen boards, covers and raised band spines are gilt-tooled, top edges gilt.</li></ul>

A History Of English Furniture

A folding chart of the environs of Constantinople.<ul><li>Louis André Dupuis (French).</li><li>Carte de la Ville de Constantinople et du Bosphore de Thrace 1785. Carte Réduite des Côtes de la Grece et de L'Archipel. Carte de la Mer Marmora. Plan du Serrail.</li><li>Paris: 1785.</li><li>Dissected and laid on linen as issued.</li></ul> Three charts and a small town plan on one sheet. The largest is a chart of the Bosphorus including a plan of Constantinople with a 55-point key. The other two charts are of Greece and the Aegean, showing the approaches to Constantinople from the west, and the Sea of Mamora, the eastern appraoches. The plan is of the Topkapi Palace, again with a large key. The same year, Dupuis published similar charts of the Mediterranean, Baltic, Black Sea and the Danube.

French Map Of Constantinople

A 17th century map of China.<ul><li>Jan Van Loon (Dutch).</li><li>Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio.</li><li>Amsterdam: Schenk &amp; Valk, circa 1690. </li><li>Original color with additions. </li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Decorative map of China, with ornate cartouches for the title and scale. Van Loon's map first appeared in Jansson's Atlas Novus in 1658, and as a late addition to the atlas is relatively uncommon. This example was published by Schenk &amp; Valk from the 1690s, with their names added under the vignette sea battle.

Dutch Map Of China

An 18th century double-hemisphere world map.<ul><li>Peter Conrad Monath (German).</li><li>Typus Orbis Terrarum.</li><li>Nuremberg: 1758.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> An uncommon and decorative world map, with female allegorical figures of the four continents - America and Europe at the top, and Asia and Africa at the bottom. California is shown as an island and there is a suggested North West Passage. New Zealand is connected to the huge Terra Antarctica.

German Map Of The World

An 18th century map of Venice with a prospect of the city.<ul><li>Homann Heirs (German).</li><li>Iconografica Rappresentatione della inclita Citta di Venezia..</li><li>Nuremberg: 1762.</li><li>Original color with additions.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A very detailed town plan of Venice derived form the larger plan by Ughi with an extensive key, and a prospect of the city underneath the map.

German Map Of Venice

A two-sheet map of Ireland.<ul><li>Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (French).</li><li>Royaume d'Irlande divisée en ses Provinces...</li><li>Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, circa 1700.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and decorative map of Ireland, from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's Atlas Nouveau, with fine baroque title and scale cartouches and an inset showing Ireland's position it relation to the rest of the British Isles. It is based on Sanson's map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson's heirs.

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