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1841307881Roma: Dalla Tipografia Salviucci 1841. Battistelli. Color lithograph with hand colored embellishments. Measures 15" x 10 7/8"<br/> <br/> Beautiful print of two species of geckos from "Iconografia della Fauna Italica Per Le Quattro Classi Degli Animali Vertebrati" published between 1832-1841. <br> <br> Carlo Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte 1803-1857 was a French biologist and ornithologist. As the nephew of Napoleon and the 2nd Prince of Canino he was raised in Italy but moved to Philadelphia shortly after marriage where he worked alongside Alexander Wilson updating his seminal "Wilson's Ornithology or History of the Birds of the United States." After his return to Europe he published "Iconografia della Fauna Italica" describing the animals of Italy and later a similar work comparing birds he observed in Philadelphia with those in Italy. He worked closely with other prominent scientists and naturalists throughout his career including John Edward Gray John James Audubon and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar. This is a lovely example of his work.<br/> <br/> Dalla Tipografia Salviucci unknown
1836A50673London: John van Voorst 1836. vii 67 1 4-Ads . . HB. 8vo in 4s orig. cloth spine lightly faded with small tear to cloth; endpapers browned. Gatherings partly unopened; 3.5cm closed tear to fore-edge of one page. Good. Bookplate of Marshall Laird. First edition. Charles Lucian Bonaparte 1803-1857 was a French biologist and ornithologist who wrote extensively on American and European ornithology. He was the nephew of Napolean Bonaparte. John van Voorst hardcover
1838045726London: John Van Voorst 1838. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Ex-library copy from non-circulating institutional library spine and joints clear-coated with handwritten call label on lower spine two book plates mounted on front fixed endpaper. vii684 pp. Cloth split and neatly mended along upper front joint. Front flyleaf slightly chipped along fore-edge and with minor loss to top corner. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1838045893London: John Van Voorst 1838. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Horizontal crease/bend to upper front board with mended separation of cloth along upper front joint otherwise modest shelf wear. Toned endpapers clean interior. vii684 pp. Scarce. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1832B7064London: Whittaker Treacher & Arnot. 1832. Binding: Calf boards backed in morocco. Uppers with blind framing and Trinity College Cambridge gilt stamps. Spines with 5 raised bands gilt lettering in compartments 2 3 and 5 remaining decorated in gilt with 3 different bird motifs stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. Notes: Regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon Alexander Wilson 1766 –1813 was a Scottish-American poet ornithologist naturalist and illustrator. George Ord dubbed him the “Father of American Ornithologyâ€<br><br> Size: 8vo. 220 x 145 mm. Illustration: Very good example of this set complete in 3 volumes. Complete with 98 brightly handcoloured plates including frontispiece of Wilson in vol I lovely handcoloured bird frontispieces in vols II and III. Illustrations are dynamic and expressive depicting birds hunting or with kill including other birds with young in flight etc. Vol I front hinge split after title. Volume: 3 volumes Pages: Vol I Blank 2. Half title. Blank 2. Frontispiece. Title. Printer’s imprint. Contents v-vii. Blank. Life of Alexander Wilson ix-cvii. Blank 2. Pp. 1-408 pp. Blank 2. Vol II Blank 2. Half title. Blank 2. Frontispiece. Title. Printer’s imprint. Contents iii-vii. Blank. Pp. 1-390. Blank 2 Vol III Blank 3. Frontispiece. Title. Printer’s imprint. Contents iii-viii. Pp. 1-521. Blank 3. Category: Book Natural History; Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot. hardcover
1831106682Edinburgh: Constable & Co 1831. Hard cover. Very good/No jacket. Four volume set. Bound in leather with marbled endpapers and fore edges. Each in its own slipcase.<br /> <br /> Covers shelf-worn with some scuffing on spines. Hinges are cracked but attached and bindings are secure. Includes black and white illustrations. Some foxing but all text and images are clear and bright. Constable & Co unknown
1878K094Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1878. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A near fine hardcover in the origInal binding rebacked. All edges gilt. Popular Edition three volumes in one. Part I Includes section of b&w engraved plates 76 by Wilson and 27 by Bonaparte. Most reduced in size to four per page. Vol. I 214 pp; Vol. II 390 pp.; Vol. III 426 pp. Includes Spencer F. Baird's 'Catalogue of North American Birds.' One page Editor's Preface to this edition apparently lacking. Porter & Coates hardcover
18321156177London: Whittaker Treacher & Arnot 1832. Hard cover. Fair/No jacket. Three volume set. Illustrated with black and white engravings.<br /> <br /> Cover boards are soiled and worn along edges. Front hinge of Volume I is cracked but cover remains attached to spine. Cover of volume III is detached Each volume's binding is secure. Text blocks are tanned and foxed with foxing visible in the margins of some pages but engravings are bright and text is unmarked and legible.<br /> <br /> As is. Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot unknown
183160558Edinburgh: Constable and Co. 1831. 3/4 leather. very good. 4 Volumes. 24mo. 6" x 4". Frontispieces in each volume frontispiece for volume 1 is bound in before the introduction. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over green cloth. Red leather title labels. Four raised bands. Marble endpapers and edges. Some occasional foxing. Corners slightly bumped. Bookplates of former owner in front pastedowns of each volume. Name of another prior owner in each volume. A handsome set. This is the first European edition of Wilson's American Birds. Originally published in America in 9 vols in quarto. The first three volumes are arranged to be accessible to the general reader and the ornithologist. Volume 1 is prefixed by a biographical memoir by Mr. Hetherington. The fourth volume contains the American Ornithology of Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte. Besides the frontispieces these works do not reproduce any of the plates from the original. Constable and Co. unknown
1825823871825. BONAPARTE Charles Lucian. American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds Inhabiting the United States Not Given by Wilson. With Figures Drawn Engraved and Coloured from Nature. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Carey 1825-1833. 1st ed. 4 Volumes. Folio. vi 2 105; vii 3 95; 4 60; 4 142 pp. 27 plates. In orig. morocco-backed boards with corners. Collates complete. Vols. 1 3 & 4 have been rebacked in morocco with backstrips laid down. Boards are rubbed. Contents are moderately foxed and toned as usual particularly Vol. 4. A few leaves with short closed tear to the margin. Final several leaves of Vol. 4 with dampstaining to the fore-edge margin. Remarkably the hand-colored plates are free of foxing and very clean. A very good set in slipcases. Bennett p. 16. Sabin 6264. In this work Bonaparte finished what Alexander Wilson started in his monumental work of the same title-and the first such work by an American. Of Bonaparte's work Bennett writes "This admirable supplement to Wilson is in the same format as the original 9 volume series and is regarded as an essential part of the work the whole being the most important work on American birds prior to Audubon and a collectors' item of absolutely basic importance" p. 16. This set is almost invariably found foxed as here with pronounced foxing to Vols. 1 2 & 4 while much milder in Vol. 3. But the plates in this set many retaining their tissue guards are remarkably bright. unknown
182571529Philadelphia:: Carey Lea & Carey 1825-1833. First edition. old half red morocco over marbled boards. There is some offsetting foxing particularly to the tissue overleaves and age-toning particularly to Vols. II-IV as is usually the case. This discoloration affects the text primarily; the lovely plates are largely free of it. Light rubbing to the bindings; all are tight and sound. . Folio. Illustrated with 32 hand-colored engraved plates. Additional postage applicable for this set of oversized volumes. Carey, Lea & Carey, hardcover
180832275Philadelphia: The Wilson volumes published by Bradford and Inskeep. Printed by Robert Carr; R. & W. Carr; VII-IX by Samuel F. Bradford printed by Thomas H. Palmer; the Bonaparte volumes published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Vol.I Carey Lea Carey Vols. II and III and Carey & Lea Vol. IV all Printed by William Brown 1808-1812; 1824-1825; 1825-1833. 13 volumes. First Edition of this rare textual and illustrated work that is considered to be the First Outstanding American Ornithology and the First Great American Colour- Plate Book. Volumes I-VI are first issue Volumes VII VIII and IX reissued with the alterations and corrections by Ord made after further ornithological information had been gleaned and First Edition of the Bonaparte volumes with the first volume in rare first state. The nine Wilson volumes beautifully illustrated with 76 superb hand-coloured engraved folio plates by Alexander Lawson J.G. Warnicke G. Murray and Benjamin Tanner from original drawings by Wilson depicting a vast array of American birds. The Bonaparte volumes are illustrated with 27 additional richly hand-coloured folio plates from drawings by Titian Ramsay Peale A. Rider and plate 10 by Audubon and A. Rider Folio 36 x 27 cm. and Folio 38 x 29 & 39 x 32 cm. The Wilson volumes in contemporary mottled calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines gilt decorated within compartments separated by fine gilt tooling two compartments lettered and numbered in gilt some volumes restored at the backs to style and in effort to match the original spine panels though the tooling is slightly different considering the unavailability of the original tools. The four Bonaparte volumes in fine period red morocco over marbled paper covered boards. The spines fully decorated in gilt. vi 158; xii 167; xvi 120; xii 100; xii 122; xx 100; xii 138; xi 162; ccxxiii i 298 4 General Index pp. Complete viii 105; x 95; iv 60; iv 142 pp. Quite a handsome set in pleasing condition the usual spotting in places usually from offsetting from the plates a few expert repairs to old closed tears in the text the plates all quite well preserved with much less spotting or browning than is usually found. One volume with a bit of evidence of old damp at the edges of the prelims. Vol. VI with a bit more spotting or foxing than the others as is usual due to the paper this confined to some of the textual pages An excellent set. The Bonaparte volumes in very handsome bindings as well some of the usual offsetting and browning throughout the volumes as is typical with the paper used. Generally in all volumes the plates are quite clean and the spotting is confined to the text and tissues. The paper used for the text in these sets was prone to foxing and offsetting spotting and splotching but fortunately the paper used for the plates was of a better quality and so as in the copies being offered here the plates are generally quite clean with some minor spotting on occasion and then usually confined to the outer margins. The bindings on the Bonaparte volumes are in original state and offer a very handsome and especially appealing presence. FIRST EDITION OF TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY AND COLOUR-PLATE PRINTING INCLUDING THE FIRST GREAT WORK ON AMERICAN BIRDS. “The story of Alexander Wilson's spasmodic rise from Scottish peddler and failed poet to the father of Amrican ornithology is a cloyingly American story. Numerous "types" those we recognize from the writings of Benjamin Franklin through the literature of James Fenimore Cooper to the Jacksonian businessman emerge in his journey. It is a journey that takes him from the small town of Paisley in West Scotland to the shores of Delaware where he lands a penniless immigrant over vast tracks of the eastern United States and finally to Philadelphia; here like Franklin he finds renowned associates from Charles Wilson Peale to Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine and the international recognition that he had craved since his first poetic jottings as a youth in Scotland. The tragic irony of this American story is its truncation; indeed it is Alexander Wilson's exhaustingly extreme dedication to his ornithological studies and the illnesses contracted during his Leatherstocking-esque roamins through the forests that kill him at the age of forty-seven just as he attains the station in life he so desires. An immigrant who embraced so fully the "American Dream" of constant industry leading to financial and personal reward Wilson achieved his dream but scarcely lived to enjoy it. Perhaps though Wilson did achieve what he truly desired; in 1805 frustrated by attempts to gain help in publishing his ornithology he swore to continue on his own even if it killed him: "I shall at least leave a small beacon to point out where I perished." Ord p. 61. This declaration transcends Americanness; Wilson seemed to fear that in the vast cauldron of humanity he would be subsumed. His Ornithology then which has earned him title of the father of American ornithology seems the work of a talented and driven man whose desires in life were met too well by the American attitudes and mores of the early nineteenth century.†The book is of considerable importance. Vols. VII-IX revised by George Ord were reissued in 1824-1825<br> The Bonaparte volumes were designed as a supplement to Wilson's American Ornithology. Originally intended to be issued inn 3 vols. 1825-1828 it is now considered imperfect without the final 4th volume 1833. Born in 1803 Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist and a nephew of Napoleon. He emigrated to the United States from France and Italy in 1822 but before leaving Europe he had already discovered a warbler new to science the moustached warbler and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel. On arrival in the United States he presented a paper on this new bird which was later named after Alexander Wilson.<br> On his arrival in America Bonaparte set about studying the ornithology of the United States and updating Wilson's Ornithology. The revised edition was published between 1825 and 1833. His other publications included "Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology" in the Journal of the Philadelphia Academy and "Synopsis of the Birds of the United States" in the Annals of the Lyceum of New York. In 1824 Bonaparte attempted to get the then unknown John James Audubon accepted by the Academy of Natural Sciences but this was opposed by the ornithologist George Ord who disliked Audubon's dramatic bird poses and considered him to be "a back-country upstart who romanticized his subject matter" according to the Audubon Galleries.<br> At the end of 1826 Bonaparte and his family returned to Europe. He visited Germany where he met Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar and England where he met John Edward Gray at the British Museum and renewed his acquaintance with Audubon. In 1828 the family settled in Rome. In Italy he was the originator of several scientific congresses and lectured and wrote extensively on American and European ornithology and other branches of natural history. Between 1832 and 1841 Bonaparte published his work on the animals of Italy Iconografia della Fauna Italica. He had also published Specchio Comparativo delle Ornithologie di Roma e di Filadelfia Pisa 1827 presenting a comparison between birds of the latitude of Philadelphia and Italian species. He created the genus Zenaida for the mourning dove and its relatives. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1845.<br> In 1840 he became Prince of Canino and Musignano after his father's death and became involved in politics particularly the anti-Austrian party that he joined in 1848. He did not however lose interest in his favourite studies for he organized and presided over several scientific congresses in Italy. He visited Sir William Jardine in southern Scotland and began work on preparing a methodical classification of all the birds in the world visiting museums across Europe to study the collections. In 1854 he became director of the Jardin des Plantes. In 1855 he was made a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He published the first volume of his Conspectus Generum Avium before his death the second volume being edited by Hermann Schlegel.<br> Bonaparte was extremely prolific and is responsible for coining Latin names for a large number of bird species. As of August 2019 in the online list of birds maintained by Frank Gill and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee IOC Bonaparte is credited as the authority for 165 genera 203 species and 262 subspecies. wiki<br><br>Fine Bird Books p.114; Sabin 104598; Nissen IVB 992; Wood p.630; BM Natural History p. 2333 The Wilson volumes published by Bradford and Inskeep. Printed by Robert Carr; R. & W. Carr; VII-IX by Samuel F. Bradford, printe hardcover
1878mon0000051867PORTER AND COATES 1878-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback volume 2 only with some damage minor tears or rips to spine and creasing and discolouring to pages due to age. Still very useable. PORTER AND COATES hardcover
1832GT1106London: Whittaker Treacher & Arnot; Stirling & Kenney Edin. 1832. Hardback. Fine. 8vo. 3 volumes octavo set with portrait frontis of the auther Alexander Wilson. Pub. original grey boards with new paper labels to the new grey matching spines. CLEAN TEXT BLOCK AND CLEAN UNCOLOURED ORIGINAL PLATESWith a continuation by Charles Lucian Bonaparte and notes etc. by Sir William Jardine Bart. 408pp;390pp;523pp with 27; 59;76 un-coloured plates and a continuation by Charles Lucian Nonaparte 18 plates. The original plates of both authors were re-engraved by Lizars on a smaller scale and uncoloured in this three volume set. <br/> <br/> Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot; Stirling & Kenney [Edin]. hardcover
1832654304Whittaker Treacher & Arnot 1832. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. First Jardine Edition with illustrative notes and life of Wilson by Sir William Jardine. In Three Volumes. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson in first volume and 97 hand-coloured engraved plates by W. H. Lizars after Wilson and others. Each 6 x 9 in. cvii 408; 390; 523pp. including index. Uniformly bound in quarter red morocco over green cloth boards with gilt stamped titles and decorative device on spines. Overall a nice set with wear to the corners and rubbing along the edges; usual foxing to the frontispiece else a Very Good set. Internally clean and all the plates are fresh and bright with just a faint traces of offsetting to the facing pages; binding are tight and all hinges/boards intact. Anker 534; Sabin 104598 ref. the American Edition // Considered the first major scientific work published in the United States 1808-1814 and the most important publication on American ornithology before Audubon. Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot unknown
1831mon0000122441Edinburgh Constable 1831-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1836 Four volumes1-4 in acceptable condition from constable pocket editions on dark green cloth - vol I has splits down side spine seams & Vol II is missing part of spine cover whilst vol III & IV are intact but all slightly loose bindings Edinburgh Constable hardcover
1877BB1704London Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin Chatto & Windus 1877. First Edition thus from 1808. Half-Morocco. Fine. A superb 3-volume British edition of this classic American bird book the “first major scientific work published in the United States†Burtt and Davis p. 333 here in its final state with notes and Life of Wilson by Sir William Jardine and with the largest number of plates. Demy 8vo 211 x 140mm: cv14088Cassell catalogue; vii14951; vii1540pp with tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson in shooting attire and 103 chromolithographed plates featuring Lizar's attractive re-engravings of Wilson's originals. Publisher's dark green morocco-backed red cloth spines richly gilt with hawk vignette top edge gilt black coated end papers. Pages and plates virtually pristine light foxing to opening leaves of each volume; label blacked out on fly leaves. Nissen 996 Chatto & Windus imprint. Anker 533. Sitwell p. 155-57. Reese 3 "the first American work to use color plates to convey scientific information and the first real combination of text and color illustration produced in the United States." Anker 533 and 534. Originally published in nine folio volumes with 76 hand-colored engravings between 1808 and 1814 in a subscribed edition of 400 copies then updated and expanded after Wilson's death by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano. Wilson was almost entirely eclipsed in popular awareness by John James Audubon and his Birds of America 1827–1838 but Wilson not Audubon is the true founder of American ornithology and this work is the foundational account of North American birds. This edition reprints Wilson's original text and Bonaparte's "continuation" and includes Jardine's later notes see Zimmer I pp. 64-65 which Neville Wood quoted in Allibone III 2765-2766 calls "by far the best edition." Matching entirely in format binding pages and plates the Chatto & Windus edition of 1876 see Sitwell. Indeed sets have appeared in commerce with the Chatto & Windus imprint to Volume I and that of Cassell Peter & Galpin to Volumes II and III. The publishing firm Cassell was founded in 1848 by John Cassell and taken over by Thomas Dixon Galpin and George William Petter in 1855 when it began trading as Cassell Petter & Galpin. The imprint did not become Cassell Petter Galpin & Company until 1878 with the arrival of a new partner Robert Turner. Petter resigned in 1883 and from 1888 the company was known simply as Cassell & Co. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Cassell Petter & Galpin [Chatto & Windus] unknown
18284341Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel Augustus Mitchell 1828. FIRST EDITIONS. I. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards gilt spine; some wear to extremities offsetting from plates. Ex-libris David Bixler and Lee Lawrence Stopple with their bookplates. II. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards gilt spine; some wear to extremities offsetting from plates. Ex-libris David Bixler and Lee Lawrence Stopple with their bookplates. I. First edition of "the first truly great American ornithology . . . absolutely basic as a collector's item" Bennett. Wilson's Ornithology was an artistic scientific and commercial undertaking of magisterial proportions. His plates depict 320 figures of 262 species including 39 that were entirely new and 23 that were for the first time described sufficiently to distinguish them from European species with which they had been confused. <br /> II. First edition with the rare first issue of Volume 1. The work was subsequently purchased by Carey Lea and Carey and published under their aegis. Intended as a supplement to Wilson's American Ornithology Bonaparte describes 60 birds supposedly not treated in the original work. Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel Augustus Mitchell unknown
187123726Philadelphia. Porter & Coates 1871. Hardcover. sm4to 25.5cm in 3 volumes cxxxii214 & 390 & viiixvi9-426pp. original green cloth leather spine labels gilt titles the upper cover of volume three is heavily damp stained and slight dished affecting the first few pages 3/4 the set would otherwise be fine sgc. - Contains a biography of Alexander Wilson and then detailed information of each species. Philadelphia. Porter & Coates hardcover
1818664Leghorn Italy 1818. 4to. 250 x 210 mm. 9 ¾ x 8 ½ inches. 6pp. approximately 1000 words. Autograph letter signed written in ink in very legible hand folded. Remnants of an impressed seal paper stock a bit browned edges frayed with a few small holes and cuts at folds all expertly reinforced with Japanese paper. Confidential and quite rare letter written by Thomas Appleton U. S. Consul in Leghorn Italy to Thomas Aspinwall the American Consul in London requesting Aspinwall's assistance in publishing the manuscript written by Louis Bonaparte entitled Documens historiques et réflexions sur le gouvernement de la Hollande. " I am in possession of the original manuscript which I have received from the hands of the author a work of about 1800 pages.by the late King of Holland.it contains all the important events of his life comprising all the documents relative to his reign.his letters to and from the Emperor Napoleon". Appleton expresses the importance of the work and how it will be avidly received by the world being "the most important work offered to the press during the revolution". Appleton cautions confidentiality repeatedly "although it does not contain a sentence that would cause the slightest umbrage" and says that Napoleon will pay for the printing but that it may be advisable to try more than one printer "in order to excite a competition". The letter goes on to stipulate that the author requires "one hundred copies such as shall be printed for sale and twenty-five other copies to be handsomely bound & printed on 'grand et beau papier velin'. . . The author gives his sacred word of honor that on other person but myself is in possession of the work nor shall it be given to any one but to the person whom I may dispose of it who shall when paid for by him be the compleat & sole proprietor of this work." It continues with mention of compensation to Aspinwall and other details The first edition of Louis Bonaparte's three volume work appeared in Paris in 1820 followed quickly with editions printed in Ghent Brussels and Bruges the same year. Thomas Appleton 1763-1840was appointed by George Washington as the first U. S. Consul to Livorno Italy. He honed his skills as a diplomate in the 1780's while living in Paris and associating with Thomas Jefferson then Ambassador to France. He became a lifelong friend and correspondent of Jefferson and over the years acted as Jefferson's agent in France and Italy. To supplement his income as consul general Appleton became an art dealer and was one of the first to ship sculpture and paintings to Boston and was instrumental in establishing a taste for the classical style of European for an American audience. Thomas Aspinwall 1786-1876 a Harvard lawyer had been appointed consul to London by President James Madison a position he held for 38 years from 1815 to 1853. His distinguished career was highlighted began with his participation in the War of 1812 where he lost an arm at the battle of Lake Eire and promoted to the rank of Colonel. He was also an important collector of Americana while in Europe and a catalogue of his collection was published in Paris in 1833. Much of the collection which included a Columbus Letter was purchased en-bloc by Samuel Barlow and can be found listed in the noted Bibliotheca Barlowiana published in 1864 and again in 1889. Napoleon proclaimed his brother Louis King of Holland in 1806. From the first the emperor reproached him for being too easy on his subjects. By 1809 Napoleon was considering annexing Holland in order to arrest the trade the Dutch secretly conducted with England. In 1810 failing to negotiate successfully with either England or Louis the Emperor dispatched French troops against the Dutch capital. Louis abdicated and fled his kingdom which on July 9 Napoleon annexed to France. Styling himself the Comte de Saint-Leu Louis lived for some time in Bohemia Austria and Switzerland. He spent his later life in Italy largely occupied with literary pursuits. Carl Canon American Book Collectors pp. 66 103. See biographical references to Appleton online-database American National Biography and for Aspinwall there is a short notice in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography I p. 111. . unknown
1812Alibris.0019318Londres: Chez Guillaume Miller 1812. First edition. 1/4 leather. Good. No dust jacket as issued. . Good. Not in Worldcat. Front board detached. Light dampstaining to edge of pages not affecting engravings Includes: illustrations diagrams. Marbled endpapers and boards. Chez Guillaume Miller hardcover
1804132961804. A Paris de l'Imprimerie ImpÂŽriale 1804. Un document au format in-8 222 x 148 mm de 8 pp. Edition originale. Document d'importance quant ˆ l'instauration de l'Empire en France le premier relatif ˆ la nomination de Bruix La Touche-TrÂŽville Songis Marescot Gouvain-Saint-Cyr Beauharnais Regnaud de Saint-Jean-d'AngelyBaraguay-d'Hilliers et Junot au titre de Grands Officiers de l'Empire. A la suite de cette disposition on trouve d'intÂŽressants dÂŽcrets visant ˆ signifier la date du couronnement de l'Empereur et le dÂŽroulement de la cÂŽrÂŽmonie un texte rÂŽgissant le costume des ministres ainsi qu'un texte de loi dÂŽcrivant la LÂŽgion d'honneur''. Petite marque brune angulaire. Rares rousseurs. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1892261981892. Paris / Berlin / New York Boussod-Valadon et Cie 1892. Dimensions cuvette : 653 x 453 mm marges. Peu commune et importante 908 x 657 mm photogravure rÂŽalisÂŽe sur papier fort d'aprÂs une toile de Glazbbrok. DÂŽchirures marginales. Epreuve constellÂŽe de claires rousseurs. Du reste belle condition. b42961 unknown
1846K7GAIGO8ZLIMNaples 1846. Large 4to 32.5 x 23.5 cm. Stamperia e cartiere del Fibreno Contemporary green wrappers. With a vignette of two fish on the title page. 97 1 blank 1 1 blank pp. First and only edition of the standalone version of a systematic classification of European species of fish by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte 1803-1857. This publication - in Latin but with an Italian title - was also published as part of the proceedings of the 7th congress of Italian scientists held in Naples in 1845 at which Bonaparte presided over the zoological commission. "As early as 1831 Bonaparte became interested on the great principle of classification and was critical of Cuvier's concepts. In ichthyology Bonaparte made use of the location the structure and the relationships of the branchiae in the classification of fishes. Bonaparte tried to establish our knowledge of various zoological groups once and for all and published numerous synopses conspectuses and catalogs" DSB.Binding worn with the head of the spine damaged and a large tear at the back repaired with tape. Some foxing throughout but otherwise in good condition.l Dean I p. 149 1845.2; DSB II pp. 281-283; Mulder Bosgoed Bibliotheca ichthyologica et piscatoria 591. unknown
1815AQ27912Paris: Chez Firmin Didot 1815. Two volumes bound as one. xxv 5 358; 4 389pp 1. With half-titles. Contemporary half-calf marbled boards tooled in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting/staining. An early edition of Napoleon’s second surviving brother Lucien Bonaparte prince de Canino's 1775-1840 heroic epic poem inspired by the life of Charlemagne first printed in 1814. . 8vo. Chez Firmin Didot hardcover
