[BOTANY - HORTICULTURE].

Bloemkundig woordenboek bevattende eene beschrijving van meer dan 2200 gewassen, (waaronder 170 van de mooiste heiden) zoo boomen, heesters als planten...Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp & zoon, [1821]. 8vo. Contemporary red sprinkled paper wrappers, with a printed paper title-label on the spine.

[2], L, 521, [1 blank] pp.First edition of this extensive work on the cultivation and multiplication of plants and trees, accompanied by an introduction which explains the basics of horticulture. The work discusses hundreds of plants in alphabetical order, and gives important facts about their growth and development. All mentioned plants were considered suitable for Dutch gardens. The work was very accessible and easy to read for the general public. According to Van Eeden, it was so popular, that the publisher still received inquiries for it in the 1860s. However, since the information in it was no longer up-to-date by this time, the work was edited and re-published in 1868 as Hortus Batavus. The present work, however, is the first edition.With a red ownership stamp ("Ex Libris J. Visser, Rotterdam") on the front wrapper and the title-page, the printed price of the work on the title-page has been corrected by hand. The edges and corners of the wrappers are frayed and the spine is damaged, with loss of material at the head and foot. The work is occasionally very slightly foxed and the edges are lightly browned. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Eeden, F. W. van, Hortus Batavus, introduction; Stafleu & Cowan 1626; not in Pritzel.

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[BOTANY - DRAWING].

[Various flowers. (On verso): a sketch of a grape branch with grapes and leaves].[Netherlands, 17th century]. Drawings (48.8 x 28.9-29.2 cm). Black chalk drawings, occasionally heightened with white chalk, including some light brown watercolours, on grey 17th-century handmade paper without watermark. In manuscript 'Martagon' in brown ink. In lower right corner in manuscript the number "3" in ink. Framed.

We have not succeeded in identifying the artist of these beautiful drawings. We know no other drawing that is clearly from the same hand. Two artists are mentioned as possible candidates, Govert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam) and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621 - Amsterdam - 1674). The present drawings are probably made around the middle of the 17th century in Holland. The composition is similar to some papers in florilegia, such as Theodor de Bry (1611/1612 to 1641 and later), but they never show so many species and the flowers on a sheet. This study could be a sketch for a painting, not necessarily a floral still life, possibly a landscape. In fine condition.l Cf. Bernt, Die niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. 4, nr. 209 (München 1979); Schatborn, 'Een toeschrijving aan Govert Flinck', in: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 22 nr. 2/3 (1974), pp. 111-121.

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BOTELHO, Sebastião Xavier.

Memoria estatistica sobre os dominios Portuguezes na Africa oriental.Lisbon, José Baptista Morando, 1835. 8vo. With six folding lithographic plates in the back, including maps of the Maputo, Inhambane, Quelimane and Mocambo bays, as well as a plan of its capital Maputo and a view of the residence of the Portuguese "capitão generales" (Captain-General) of Mozambique, a position which Botelho himself had held. Contemporary calf.

[1], [1 blank], 400, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.A rare 19th century work on Mozambique, which was a colony of the Portuguese empire at the time. Sebastião Xavier Botelho (1768-1840) was the "capitão general" of this colony from 1825-1829, or the commander-in-chief of the army. His work offers a rare geographical description of Mozambique. The author describes every region of the colony in detail, aided by the maps in the back of the book. He based the information in this work on his own experiences, but also made use of maps and documents he found in the colonial archives.According to Innocencio, Botelho initially published the book for his friends, thus making it a scarce work. It was well received in Lisbon, however, and a second part followed in 1837. Critics abroad were less enthusiastic. Colonialism was not widely supported anymore, so a work like this was highly scrutinised. According to the anonymous reviewer of the Edinburgh Review, Botelho mostly succeeded in highlighting the mismanagement in the Portuguese colonies.With a later paper ticket of a Porto-based bookseller mounted on the recto of the first free flyleaf. The spine shows some signs of wear, some scoring to the front board, a partially repaired tear in the gutter margin of the first lithographed map, slightly foxed throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Memoria estatistica sobre os dominios Portuguezes na Africa oriental. Por Sebastião Xavier Batalho. In: the Edinburg Review, Vol. 64 (130), pp. 411-428, 1837; Innocencio 7, p. 224 & 461; Porbase 379226 (7 copies); Worldcat 831418831 (4 copies).

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BOTERO, Giovanni.

Aggiunte fatte ... alla sua ragion di stato ove si tratta dell’... con una relatione del mare.Including:2 [part 1]) Dell’eccellenze de gli antichi capitani libri due. ...3 [part 4]) Dell’agilita della forze del prencipe libri due. ...4 [part 3]) Della riputatione del prencipe libri due. ...5 [part 2]) Discorso della neutralita [del prencipe] ...6 [part 5]) Discroso[!] intorno alla fortificatione ...7 [part 6]) Relationi del mare ...Rome, Giorgio Ferrari, 1598. A preliminary part and 6 text parts in one volume. 4to. With a general title-page and 6 part-titles. Set in an italic type (cut by Robert Granjon) with incidental roman. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?).

[22], [2 blank]; 72; 46, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank]; 15, [1 blank]; 14, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the first modern treatise on oceanography, by Giovanni Botero (1543/44-1617), along with the first editions of the same author’s extensive additions to and expansions of his great 1589 treatise on political philosophy, Della ragion di stato libri dieci, which forcefully argues against the amoral view in Machiavelli’s 1532 Il princepe (The prince). Parts 2-4, for example, discuss the qualities that a ruler needs, with 31 pages devoted to the importance of reputation, which he had covered in half a page in 1589. His arguments that a ruler without morals cannot maintain a stable state certainly remain relevant today! Part 1 discusses great rulers of classical antiquity and part 5 discusses fortification. Botero wrote while employed by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, his moral views were closely tied to his religious beliefs as a Catholic, Jesuit and admirer of Thomas Acquinas, and his ideas supported the Counter-Reformation, but his publications were widely read in many languages and appear to have had a mostly unacknowledged influence on a broad spectrum of writers, including Walter Raleigh, Tommaso Campanella, Thomas Hobbes, Edward Misselden, Montesquieu, Christopher Polhem and Veit Ludwig van Seckendorff.The treatise on oceanography is wholly new here and also ahead of its time. In nine chapters it covers the relative proportions of sea and land; the depth of the sea; the reasons why seas do not rise, even though rivers flow into them; physical qualities, including salinity and colour; dynamic aspects, including waves, tides and currents (3 chapters) and the geographical divisions into seas and oceans.The seven parts of this work were clearly designed to be issued together (the general title-page lists each of the 6 text parts and is followed by an index to each part in the same order), though each has its own series of page numbers and quire signatures. The parts are not numbered, but the preliminaries of the text parts are dated, giving nearly the same order as the title-page and indexes from 1 February to 5 March 1598. An English translation of the 1589 Ragion di stato recently appeared in the series Cambridge texts in the history of political thought, which notes its great importance and that in spite of its enormous influence it remains little known among today’s scholars. The present additions have also been unjustly overlooked. With a contemporary(?) owner’s name on the title-page, difficult to make out, a few contemporary manuscript notes in the fore-edge margin (some slightly shaved: although the endpapers may be contemporary.The second and fourth text parts (following the order on the title-page) are here interchanged. With a tear along the gutter fold at the foot of the general title-page, mostly marginal water stains and about 4 sheets slightly browned, but otherwise in good condition and complete with all three blank leaves. An unjustly overlooked work by a political philosopher who was ahead of his time, including the first modern treatise on oceanography.l ICCU CNCE 7296; USTC 816583; cf. Cipolla, Guns and sails in the early phase of European expansion 1400-1700, p. 166 (1659 Venice ed.); for Botero and his work: Botero (Benedittini & Descendre, eds.), Della ragion di stato (2016); Botero (Robert Bireley ed.), The reason of state (2017); Peter Burke, “Tacitism, sceptisism, and reason of state”, in: Cambridge history of political thought 1450-1700, pp. 479-499; Reinert & Carpenter, German language economic best sellers ...: also introducing Giovanni Botero ...”, in: Rössner, Economic growth and the origins of modern political economy (2016).

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[BOTTLE IN BOOK FORM].

Esprit de Francklin ... Le B[on].homme Richard.Chalonnes sur Loire, Fremy frères, Bottrel et Cie., [ca. 1830]. Blown glass bottle made in the form of a book (15 x 10 x 3 cm plus 1.5 cm neck and lip). The "spine" is covered with gold-tooled red morocco, with 7 horizontal rolls dividing it into 5 fields plus a smaller 6th at the foot, the title and the French form of Franklin's pen-name in fields 3 and 4 and a decoration in fields 1, 3 and 5, the "boards" covered with paper, each with an lithographed rectangular decorative border enclosing an oval laurel wreath around an oval paper overlay with a lithographed view, that on the front board showing Benjamin Franklin and that on the back board showing a man in the distillery, each with accompanying texts above and below the wreath. The paper sides (but not their overlays) have a slight reddish cast.

A lovely early example of a "blook" (an non-book object made to look like a book) or faux book, in this case a bottle for spirits that could be kept on a bookshelf where it would appear to be a book. The spine title, Esprit de Francklin was used (with k rather than ck) for an 1828 French collection of Franklin's Poor Richard writings (announced in Bibliographie de la France on 15 December 1827), but here it is a joke: "esprit" like the English "spirits" can refer to distilled alcoholic drinks. The lithographed image on the front of the bottle shows a three-quarter view, full-length portrait of Benjamin Franklin (apparently fairly young, since he is not fat and only slightly balding). The lithographed image on the back shows a man wearing an apron whom Gruel supposed was peeling potatoes, but there is distilling equipment on the floor behind him and on closer examination the supposed potatoes appear to be lemons, presumably for making spirits.On 8 November 1822 the distillery Frémy frères & Bottrel received a 5-year brevet d'invention "pour des bouteilles en verre de diverses dimensions, ayant la forme d'un livre, et destinées à renfermer des liqueurs" (Bulletin des sciences technologiques I (1824), p. 384. They apparently continued to manufacture them for about 25 years. While the Franklin book bottle that Gruel describes and illustrates looks almost exactly like ours and its sides appear to be printed from the same plates, its engraving and spine consistently spell "Franklin" with a k and ours with a ck, and the engraved texts differ in content, arrangement and style. Gruel's lacks the 4-line verse on ours.The sides have a rubbed spot at Franklin’s feet and the feet of the man in the distillery, where the bottle has a slight bulge, one of the bottom outer corners is somewhat chipped, but the whole is still in good condition. A novelty faux book, a liquor bottle disguised as a book and an unusual French Benjamin Franklin item.l L. Gruel, “Recherches sur les reliures-bouteille”, in: Bulletin du bibliophile (1902), pp. 323-326 (a variant with the brevet on the front rather than the poem, front and spine illustrated); for blooks in general: M. Dubansky, Blooks: the art of books theat aren’t (2016); for bottle terminology: https://sha.org/bottle.

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BOUCHÉ, Peter Friedrich.

Naturgeschichte der Insekten, besonders in Hinsicht ihrer ersten Zustände als Larven und Puppen. ... Erste Lieferung.Berlin, in der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1834. 8vo. With 10 lithographed plates. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.

[8], 216.First edition of a study on larvae and pupae by the German entomologist and botanist Peter Friedrich Bouché (1784-1856), who was the institutional gardener at the Botanical Garden at Schöneberg. It includes many different insects, describing the appearance of their larvae and pupae and the process of their metamorphoses, also depicted on the lithographed plates. The title-page mentions this work to be the first instalment, but no subsequent instalments were published. From the entomological library of Jacques d'Aguilar, author of Histoire de l'entomologie (2006). Somewhat browned, not affecting the plates, otherwise in good condition. Binding very good.l Hagen I, p. 77; Horn & Schenkling 2093.

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BOUCHER, François.

Receuil de fontaines inventées par ...With: Second livre de fontaines inventées par ...Paris, Gabriel Huquier, [1736]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal 4to (32 x 24 cm). With 2 series of 7 finely etched and engraved plates of water fountains, including 2 title-prints, the first series with only the names of the artist François Boucher and publisher Gabriel Huquier, the second also with the name of its engraver Pierre(-Alexandre?) Aveline. 19th-century gold-tooled dark mottled sheepskin, gilt edges.

7, 7 engraved ll.Two rare print series (part 2 especially rare) showing beautiful, rich and decorative designs for fountains by François Boucher (1703-1770), famous French painter and decorative draughtsman, professor and later director of the Paris Academy, inspector of the Gobelin manufacture at Paris, and "premier peintre du Roi". The present two series show some of his best work, richly decorative forms in an early rococo style, incorporating (mostly wingless) putti, naked water nymphs (naiads), merfolk, a satyr, Neptune in his seahorse-drawn chariot, other water gods and godesses, shells, dolphins, sea monsters, a swan and other animals. Some were actually built: the Neptune print may have inspired Barthélemy Guibal's 1750 Fontaine de Neptune at the Place Royale in Nancy. Extra inserted: 18th century engraved copy of plate 6 of the first series, showing a rich design with two Tritons blowing shell trumpets, unsigned.From the Library of Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), co-founder of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, with his book-label. The last print is slightly worn at a former fold and about half show small marginal holes or marginal restorations, none approaching the plate edge and otherwise in very good condition and with large margins.l Berlin Kat. 3581; J. Fürstenberg, La gravure originale dans l'ill. du livres Franç. = Die Original-Graphik in der französ. Buchillustr., 1975, no. 63 (this copy); KVK & WorldCat (5 copies part 1 ,1(?) copy of part 2); P. Jean-Richard, L'oeuvre gravé de F. Boucher, 1978, 1090-1097 & 216-222.

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BOUDARD, Jean-Baptiste.

Iconologie tirée de divers auteurs. Ouvrage utile aux gens de lettres, aux pöetes, aux artistes, & généralement à tous les amateurs des beaux-arts.Vienna, Johan Thomas von Trattner, 1766.3 volumes. 8vo. With Trattner’s engraved device on the 3 title-pages. Contemporary half calf.

[16], 203, [8]; [2], 219, [8]; [2], 208, [12] pp.The second edition of an interesting iconographical dictionary by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Boudard (1710-1768) who spent most of his active life in Italy, from 1749 to his death in 1678 at the Bourbon court in Parma. The first edition, with parallel texts in French and an Italian translation by his friend Abate Giuseppe Pezzana, was published in Parma in 1759. The terms iconology, used by Boudard, and iconography have both been used from at least the 17th century, but most authors do not distinguish the two. After an important introduction on iconography in general, follow the 630 emblems, arranged alphabetically and based on the most influential iconographical work of the 17th century, Cesare Ripa’s Iconologica. Boudard found Ripa's work so indispensable for his classes at the local Academy of Fine Arts that he published this "digest", picturing allegorical emblems of virtues, vices, emotions, arts, sciences, including series of mythological subjects, the continents, the seasons, the senses, the works of mercy, the Beatitudes etc. The present copy includes A6, the leaf containing emblems 11 and 12: "Adulation" and "Adultere", sometimes lacking (perhaps the adultery emblem was considered inappropriate for some audiences).With the owner’s inscription of Julie Lang, a round owner’s stamp with the initials "B.K." on the first free endleaf of each volume and the handwritten inscription, "Erhalten im Jahre 1822 …" on the first free end-leaf in vol. 1. In very good condition. The binding shows some very slight signs of wear, mostly around the corners.l Praz, p. 28; Thieme-Becker, 4, p. 436; Vinet, 876.

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BOUGARD, René and John Thomas SERRES.

The little sea torch: or, true guide for coasting pilots.London, J. Debrett for the "author" [Serres], G. & W. Nicol, et al. [printed by T. Rickaby], 1801. Large folio (47 x 30 cm). With 20 numbered aquatint plates containing 137 coastal profiles, and 12 partly numbered engraved plates containing 24 maps of port cities, harbours, islands and the Strait of Gibraltar. All coastal profiles and maps beautifully and subtly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary boards.

VI, 144, [5] pp.First English edition, with aquatint profiles, of Bougard's Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer, a marine pilot guide to coastal navigation originally published in 1684 and extensively revised for the present edition by Serres. The coastal profiles cover the British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, and the islands included among the maps include Corsica, Malta and Corfu. The coastal profiles show many spectacular cliffs and rock formations, numerous light-houses (an important source for their history), fortresses and occasionally other buildings, as well as ships and smaller boats, a large view of the whole city of La Valette on Malta, and even three smoking volcanoes (Vesuvius, Stromboli and Etna). The text includes information on the Barbary Coast, and islands and coasts en route to the East Indies. This is the first major revision to the maps and views of the Petit Flambeau, which saw only minor changes of content from 1684 to 1716 and no more in the editions (to 1789) before the present.With a contemporary owner's signature on the title-page (Peter Rye) and the lovely armorial bookplate of the Philadelphia publisher and bibliophile Moncure Biddle (1882-ca. 1952). Spine subtly restored, but otherwise fine and wholy untrimmed.l Abbey, England 344; Cat. NHSM, p. 218; Pastoureau, Bougard N (5 copies); Phillips & LeGear 2852.

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[BOUHOURS, Dominique].

Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugene. Dernière edition. ... Sur la copie imprimée à Paris.Amsterdam, "Jaques le Jeune" [= Daniel Elzevier], 1671. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, woodcut publisher's device (armillary sphere) on title-page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Polished gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1840?), each board in a panel design. A pencil note on an endleaf attributes the binding to "Muller" on grounds unknown to us, but he was active from 1834, which accords well with the date of the present binding.

[8], 438, [9], [1 blank] pp.First Netherlands edition, in the same year as the first Paris edition but including revisions from the second Paris edition, of a self-consciously elegant work with six conversations between two friends, presented as models of eloquence by the distinguished French Jesuit priest, essayist and neo-classical critic Dominique Bouhours (1628-1702). It gives a good picture of salon society in 17th-century Paris, which served as a model for much of the world. The upper class literary public received it very favourably, praising the delicacy and purity of the author's style. With owner's inscription on an endleaf. With a small marginal ink stain on the title-page and a few corners showing old folds, but still in very good condition. Hinges professionally restored and binding otherwise very good. Attractively bound Elzevier edition of a literary work with six conversations demonstrating the art of eloquence.l Adams, Rawles & Saunders F123; Berghman 1346; Landwehr, Emblem and fable books 226; Willems 1440.

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BOUHOURS, Dominique.

Vie de S. François Xavier, Apotre des Indes et du Japon. Edition de la Société Catholique de la Belgique.Leuven, Vanlinthout and Vandenzande, 1822. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.

559, [1 blank] pp.Belgian edition of the very popular "Life of François Xavier" by Dominique Bouhours, (1628-1702), a French Jesuit and a famous literary author at the time of Louis XIV. Xavier's life is especially interesting for his travels and work as a missionary in Japan and elsewhere in the Far East. The present life was first published in 1682 and remained popular for almost two centuries. Slightly foxed and some old ink annotations on first endpapers. Good copy.l Alt-Japan-Katalog 243; this edition not in Cordier.

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BOULTEN, F.A.

[Manuscript ledger recording the time spent working on infrastructural projects].[London?,] 1952-1955. Folio. Lined journal, each page ruled for monthly tallies, with some extra annotations. Contemporary cloth.

[48] pp.Manuscript ledger recording the work hours of F.A. Boulten, from 1952 to 1955. Although Boulten's specific field of work, or even the company he worked for, is not stated, he worked on engineering and infrastructure projects in the British colonies, the Commonwealth and other states in Britain's sphere of influence (most notably Iraq). Each day he devoted 1 to 3.5 hours to multiple power plants, oil terminals, bridges, dams and harbours. As Boulten worked on most of the projects before construction had started, it is probable that his firm was related to the initial financing of the project. A probable suspect for the latter is the Colonial Development Corporation, founded by Great-Britain after World War II for the economic development of its colonial territories. The CDC provided loans for many of the projects mentioned in the ledger. These projects include: the power stations of Aden, Melbourne and Singapore, the oil jetties at Al-Faw near Basra, the harbours of Sierra Leone, Lagos and Mombasa and in Iraq the Adhamiyah Bridge, Darbandikha Dam, Taq Taq Bridge, Lake Tharthar and the Mujarah Canal.Boulten worked 7.5 hours, five days in a week and mentions the days the office was closed, Bank Holidays, sick leave and days off, including one to have an X-ray taken. One of his off days was 2 June 1953, Coronation Day, and he drew a crown above the name of the month. On 15 February 1952 he marked the funeral of King George VI, but spent the day at the office. Binding worn at the extremities; slightly thumbed; in very good condition.

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BOURGES, Jacques de.

Relation du voyage de Monseigneur l'evesque de Beryte, vicaire apostolique du royaume de la Cochinchine, par la Turquie, la Perse, les Indes, &c. jusqu'au royaume de Siam, & autres lieux.Paris, Charles Angot, 1683. 8vo.With:(2) PALLU, François. Relation abregée des missions et des voyages des evesques François envoyez aux royaumes de la Chine, Cochinchine, Tonquin, & Siam.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (3) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions des evesques François aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonquin, &c. Divisée en quatre parties.Paris, Charles Angot, 1684. (4) Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1672, 1673, 1674 & 1675.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (5) Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1676 & 1677. Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. 5 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

[8], 167, [1]; [6], 51, [1 blank]; [16], 248; [16], 389, [1 blank]; [16], 170, [1] pp.In 1659 the Société des Mission Etrangères (Paris Society of Foreign Missions), a society of secular priests, was established in Paris as an answer to the decline of the Portuguese mission. The two chief founders were appointed as bishops in the Vatican: Lambert de la Motte as bishop of Beirut, with jurisdiction over Cochin-China, four provinces of southeast China and the island of Hainan, and François Pallu as Bishop of Heliopolis (Baalbek), with jurisdiction over Tonkin, Laos, and five provinces of southwestern China. The starting point of the Mission was Siam (Thailand), but the 5 accounts combined here also give considerable information on China, Vietnam and the East Indies. Ad 1 is the third edition of the first published account of Thailand by a Frenchman.With an early owner's inscription on title-page ("Ex libris Hérisson"). A very good copy.l Cordier, Sinica, cols. 826-828; Lach & Van Kley III, pp. 1185-1196.

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[BOURGUET, Louis].

Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des pétrifications dans les quatre parties du monde.The Hague, Jean Neaulme, 1742. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 60 folding engraved plates with 441 illustrations of fossils and shells. Modern half calf, gold-tooled spine.

XVI, 163, [1 blank]; 91, [1] pp.First edition of an extensive treatise on palaeontology by the French archaeologist philosopher and mathematician Louis Bourguet (1678-1742). The first part is a compilation of letters relating to Bourguet's previous work, Lettres philosophiques, wherein he compares the processes of the mineral world to processes of the living world. The second part contains sixty plates of fossils, including those unearthed by the author mostly from Switzerland or taken from the works of Lang and Scheuchzer. The 441 illustrations are accompanied by concise explanatory text, a comprehensive bibliography of palaeontology, and a list of international areas where fossils have been found.With the top margin of the title-page trimmed off without losing text and some wormholes, not affecting the text. Good copy.l Honeyman 450; Nissen, ZBI 498; Poggendorff I, cols. 260-261.

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BOUSTEAD, Hugh.

The wind of morning. The autobiography of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead.London, Chatto & Windus, 1974. Large 8vo. With 8 double sided plates with multiple images, and 4 maps. Orange cloth with title information in gold on spine, with dust jacket, designed by John Woodcock with a photo of a caravan of people on camels on front cover and one of H. Boustead on a horse on the back, title information in purple on front cover and on spine of dust jacket.

240 pp.The autobiography of Colonel Sir (John Edmond) Hugh Boustead (1895-1980), a British military officer and diplomat who served in numerous posts across several Middle Eastern Countries, for example in Ethiopia, Sudan, Aden, and the Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia. He had a remarkable military career, for which he received a knighthood, multiple military crosses and other honours. He started as a midshipman with the Royal Navy before switching to the British Army to fight in France during the First World War and later in Turkey, the Mediterranean, and even in Sudan with the Camel Corps. Boustead ended his career as the ambassador to Abu Dhabi from 1962 until his retirement in 1965. He wrote the present work during the first few years of his retirement, to be published in 1971. The present copy is one of the third impression, which was printed and published in 1974.Slight foxing throughout (including on the dust jacket, not on the outside of the covers), a few brown stains on pp. 56-57 and 59, mostly in the margins and not affecting the legibility of the text. Overall in good condition.

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