Re: Occasional List available

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>Donald A. Heald Rare Books 
>124 East 74th Street, New York, NY   10021
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>Tel. 212-744-3505 / Fax. 212-628-7847 / Email: Heald @aol.com
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>We are pleased to announce our Fall 1996 Occasional List of 102 selections
>from our stock, being: 
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>27 Botanical books and manuscripts published between 1660 and 1885.
>Highlights include: The largest botanical book ever published, James
>Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala; a large paper copy of Mary
>Lawrance's Roses; the finest work on fruit, Poiteau's Pomologie Francaise; a
>work of outstanding rarity, Prevost's Collection des Fleurs; a 17th century
>manuscript Tulip album; and a collection of 138 water-colour drawings of
>Orchids by Elise Nees von Esenbeck
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>30 Ornithological books and manuscripts published between 1555 and 1896.Highli
>ghts include: An exceptionally fine and complete copy of the Bien Audubon;
>the rarest colour-plate work on American Ornithology, Captain Thomas Brown's I
>llustrations of...American Ornithology; a fine copy of Gould's Birds of
>Australia; Edward Lear's Illustrations of..the Family...Parrots; and an
>extraordinary collection of 143 paintings of birds by Thomas Lewin.
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>13 Natural History and Science books and manuscripts published between 1687
>and 1900. Highlights include: A magnificent album of 18th century Chinese
>water-colours of Fish on vellum; a first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophia
>e Naturalis Principia Mathematic; and a fine copy of Daniel Giraud Elliot's
>Monograph of the...Family of Cats.
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>11 Atlases, published between 1595 and 1825. Highlights include: A fine copy
>of Ortelius' 1595 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; an important Visscher Composite
>atlas; and a first edition of Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.
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>9 Americana, published between 1677 and 1876. Highlights include: A first
>edition, first issue of George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio; and
>the Streeter copy of William Hubbard's Present State of New England.
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>6 Travel books, published between 1810 and 1876. Highlights include: a rare,
>coloured copy of Catherwood's Views of Monuments in Central America; and
>Humboldt's Vues des Cordillhres.
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>6 European colour-plate books, published between 1776 and 1851. Highlights
>include: a fine copy of Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei. 
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>Copies sent upon request.
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>Dear Lisa and Don: Please send me a copy of this catalog. I probably won't
buy anything, but i  would like to see look it over anyway. See you in Boston.
Best regards,MG
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