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    • Loudon (Jane). [Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, London: William Smith, 1841(?)]
      Mar. 07, 2024

      Loudon (Jane). [Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, London: William Smith, 1841(?)]

      Est: £150 - £200

      Loudon (Jane). [Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, London: William Smith, 1841(?)] [Loudon, Jane]. [Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, London: William Smith, 1841(?)], part volume only, title page lacking, containing 24 hand-coloured lithograph plates, end of preface dated 1841, incomplete text lacking all after N4 (p. 96), occasional light spotting, contemporary green half calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, joints lightly rubbed, slim 4to QTY: (1)

      Dominic Winter Auctions
    • AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: SMITH WILLIAM D. (1839-1864) American Orderly Sergeant who served in the American Civil War with the
      Mar. 21, 2015

      AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: SMITH WILLIAM D. (1839-1864) American Orderly Sergeant who served in the American Civil War with the

      Est: £200 - £300

      AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: SMITH WILLIAM D. (1839-1864) American Orderly Sergeant who served in the American Civil War with the 53rd Regiment of Indiana Infantry. An interesting collection of documents relating to the Civil War career of Smith, including two partially printed commission documents appointing him as a Sergeant in 1862 and Private Sergeant in 1864, two discharge certificates, March & April 1864, various Property Returns prepared by Smith and submitted to the Quartermaster General's office, including lists of Camp and Garrison equipage, monthly returns of clothing received and issued in the field, May & June 1864, various Special Requistion forms for trousers, shirts, haversacks, pouches, camp kettles, mess pans etc., further documents acknowledging the receipt of various items including ink stands, field desk, mules, horses, wagons, tents, clothing etc. Most of the documents bear various signatures of officials, largely associated with the 53rd Regiment. Some light overall age wear, G to about VG, 30 The 53rd Regiment of Infantry, Indiana Volunteers was organised at New Albany and Indianapolis, Indiana, from 19th February 1862. The regiment numbered 1000 men and were soon called into action, moving from Indiana to Mississippi and Tennessee, where they became involved in General Grant's central Mississippi campaign. Smith himself was killed in action at the Battle of Atlanta on 22nd July 1864, almost exactly a year before his regiment was disbanded.

      International Autograph Auctions
    • Attributed to William Smith (19th Century) circa 1839
      Jun. 19, 2012

      Attributed to William Smith (19th Century) circa 1839

      Est: £120 - £180

      Attributed to William Smith (19th Century) circa 1839: Portrait of Thomas Howe half-length wearing jacket and white collar oil on mill board 30 x 25cm,

      Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
    • 1 vol. Humphreys, H.N.; Westwood, J.O. British Butterflies and Their Transformations. London: William Smith, 1841.
      Sep. 22, 2011

      1 vol. Humphreys, H.N.; Westwood, J.O. British Butterflies and Their Transformations. London: William Smith, 1841.

      Est: $500 - $800

      1 vol. Humphreys, H.N.; Westwood, J.O. British Butterflies and Their Transformations. London: William Smith, 1841. 4to, contemp. full red morocco, gilt, spines gilt, a.e.g.; joints & spine ends rubbed, corners slightly bumped. With additional hand-colored title + 42 hand-colored plates, tissue guards. Light to moderate foxing & spotting to first several plates, other very occasional light foxing.

      Freeman's | Hindman
    • SMITH, William (1769-1839). Stratigraphical System of British Organized Fossils, with reference to the specimens of the original geological collection in the British Museum: explaining their state of preservation and their use in identifying the
      Apr. 08, 2009

      SMITH, William (1769-1839). Stratigraphical System of British Organized Fossils, with reference to the specimens of the original geological collection in the British Museum: explaining their state of preservation and their use in identifying the

      Est: £10,000 - £15,000

      SMITH, William (1769-1839). Stratigraphical System of British Organized Fossils, with reference to the specimens of the original geological collection in the British Museum: explaining their state of preservation and their use in identifying the British strata. London: E. Williams, 1817. 4° (322 x 246mm). Collation: a4 (1a1 + s1) b2 B-P4 R4 S2. 69 leaves (R4 blank). 2 hand-coloured tables, the first folding and engraved, the second double-page and letterpress. (Tables repaired and mounted on guards, very light offsetting to folding table.) Modern morocco, titled in gilt on spine, original blue printed wrappers bound in, uncut (wrappers restored and re-inforcedP). Provenance: O.C. Marsh (ink ownership inscription to verso of front wrapper). FIRST EDITION OF SMITH'S DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FOSSILS FOUND IN DIFFERENT GEOLOGICAL STRATA IN ENGLAND. Smith had sold his own enormous fossil collection to the British Museum in 1816. A second part, announced on the contents page, was never published. In his preface Smith explains that he deemed illustrations unnecessary, since 'reference is constantly made to another work of the Author's now publishing by Mr. Sowerby, which consists chiefly of engravings' (i.e. Strata Identified, see lot 24). Smith's interest in fossils was purely practical; he regarded them as signposts for the identification of geological strata. Not only did his limited knowledge of biology cause him occasional errors of identification, but, more surprisingly from the modern viewpoint, he failed to realize that he had provided a relative dating system for different strata. Nevertheless, both the present work and lot 24, together with his geological map, helped pave the way for the development of modern geology. As the DNB states, 'his position as the real founder of stratigraphical geology has never been questioned'. Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899), the pioneering palaeontologist, famous for being one of America's earliest supporters of Darwin and his epic feud with arch rival palaeontologist, Edward Drinker Cope, identified and described 80 new forms of dinosaurs and thirty-four new genera. EXTREMELY RARE; Copac gives copies at Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, Bristol, BL, and King's College London. OCLC adds Essex and the British Geological Survey in the UK and Eyles adds the Geological Society. ABPC records only three copies sold at auction since 1976: one was the Norman copy (bound with Strata identified, Christie's New York, Oct 29, 1998, lot 1300, $50,000, later in Maggs cat. 1307 163); the other two were both sold at Bonhams in 2002 and 2006, both defective lacking a table. Previous to this the last copy of Stratigraphical system came up for auction at Christie's in 1962. Challinor 86; Eyles 20; Norman 1960; Ward & Carozzi 2075.

      Christie's
    • SMITH, William (1769-1839). Strata Identified by Organized Fossils, containing prints on colored paper of the most characteristic specimens in each stratum . London: W. Arding for the author, J. Sowerby, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, [et al.],
      Apr. 08, 2009

      SMITH, William (1769-1839). Strata Identified by Organized Fossils, containing prints on colored paper of the most characteristic specimens in each stratum . London: W. Arding for the author, J. Sowerby, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, [et al.],

      Est: £8,000 - £12,000

      SMITH, William (1769-1839). Strata Identified by Organized Fossils, containing prints on colored paper of the most characteristic specimens in each stratum. London: W. Arding for the author, J. Sowerby, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, [et al.], June 1, 1816 and October 1, 1816. First 2 parts (only, of 4, 4° (307 x 258mm). Collation: 10 leaves, paginated [4] 1-16. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 8 hand-coloured or hand-tinted engraved plates, of which the frontispiece and 2 plates printed on plain paper (the frontispiece and plate 4, Lower Chalk, on thick paper), 5 on coloured paper, and 1 on paper tinted on the printed side only, frontispiece and plates 1-3 numbered (frontispiece numbered '1' and plate 1 numbered '2'), the remainder unnumbered, all but the frontispiece with engraved captions. (Occasional very light offsetting to text, frontispiece and plates 1, 4 and 7 lightly spotted, plates and text leaves very slightly frayed at edges, plate 5 slightly chipped at top margin.) Original printed blue paper wrappers, contained in a recent red morocco backed cloth box, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt (wrappers lightly creased and soiled, stitching gone). Provenance: J. Wharton (contemporary ink ownership inscription to upper wrappers). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF SMITH'S RAREST WORKS. The fine engravings of fossils are the work of James Sowerby (1757-1822), whose British Mineralogy (see lot 26) is advertised here on the rear wrappers. The work is a highly original presentation of Smith's discovery of the correlation of particular groups of fossil types with different geological strata, with each fossil group printed on a differently coloured paper, intended to match the shade of the respective geological stratum depicted. Smith originally intended to publish the work in seven parts, but only four were published. The only copy to have sold at auction since 1975 was the Norman copy, which although complete, lacked the original wrappers (Christie's New York, Oct 29, 1998, lot 1300, $50,000; NB this was bound with Stratigraphical System, see lot 25, and was later in Maggs cat. 1307 163). Previous to this, the last copy sold was at Hodgsons in 1949. Challinor 79; Dibner Heralds 94; Eyles 14; Norman 1959; Ward & Carozzi 2074. (2)

      Christie's
    • SMITH, William (1769-1839). A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland. London: John Cary, August 1, 1815.
      May. 24, 2002

      SMITH, William (1769-1839). A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland. London: John Cary, August 1, 1815.

      Est: $30,000 - $50,000

      Large hand-colored engraved wall-map printed on 15 numbered full sheets (each approx. 545 x 645 mm), including title sheet, and with an additional general full-sheet map, mounted on guards and bound to form a codex. Coal-rich areas printed in black aquatint and colored over in gray wash, the remaining colors supplied by hand in watercolor, the general map colored in outline, sheet X with an explanatory color-key. (Mapsheet XII with diagonal crease/tear repaired on verso and with lower right corner renewed, small split along platemark on mapsheet XV, few soft handling creases on title, few very minor pale foxmarks, occasional minor marginal soiling.) Contemporary half calf gilt, marbled paper boards (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, repairs to corners). Provenance : Marquess of Hertford (Ragley Hall armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED LARGE-SCALE GEOLOGICAL MAP OF ANY COUNTRY, "A MAJOR CARTOGRAPHIC AND SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT" (DSB), second issue, on J. Whatman paper watermaked "1812," and with mapsheet VI numbered "No. 38" in manuscript but not signed by Smith. No more than about 400 copies of the map were published, of which fewer than 100 are known to survive. Smith continued making small revisions and alterations to his map, and five consecutive series or issues of it have been distinguished by Joan M. Eyles. Of the first unnumbered series only a few copies are known; the present copy belongs to the second series, consisting of 100 copies numbered 1-100 and signed by Smith between 2 November and 17 December 1815 (the 3rd and 4th issues are numbered a1-a100 and b1-b100, and the 5th, issued in and after 1817, is unnumbered and unsigned). The original plates were melted down at some time after 1877. Smith, a civil engineer with a passion for geology, made a far-reaching discovery during his work for the Canal Company in the 1790s. As work on the canals progressed, Smith became familiar with the different geological strata through which the canal passed. He also collected fossils along the way, and he gradually came to realize that individual strata had a characteristic fossil content that could be used to distinguish them from other lithologically similar strata -- "a concept virtually unrecognized by the geologists of that period" (DSB). By 1799 he had classified the strata in their correct order of succession, a major achievement. During this period Smith also began to color maps to show the geological outcropping of different beds in the local hills. In 1801 he issued a printed prospectus for a projected work on the geological strata of England, which was to be accompanied by a map, but the project lay dormant until 1812, when John Cary, the London map engraver and publisher, offered to publish Smith's map on the very large scale of 5 miles to the inch. "Plates were specially engraved, and Smith himself decided what place names were to be inserted. During 1813 and 1814 he added the geological lines; and when the coloring was carried out he insisted on the use of a novel feature--each formation was colored a darker shade at its base to make clear how the beds were superimposed... By March 1816, 250 copies of the geological map had been colored and issued to subscribers..." (DSB). Based entirely on Smith's own discoveries, the map, which was issued with an explanatory Memoir, covers approximately 65,000 square miles and is a cartographical tour de force. The stratigraphical succession of 21 different sedimentary beds or groups of beds is indicated by different colors, with darkened edges showing superposition, and separate colors being used for large masses of granite or other crystalline rocks. Lead, tin, and copper mines, salt and alum works, collieries and canals are indicated by special symbols. "A comparison of his 1815 map with a modern geological map of England, on the same scale, shows the extent of his knowledge. Errors, of course, were made... but the amount of correct detail that Smith recorded is amazing and still impresses modern geologists" (DSB). J. Eyles, "William Smith... a bibliography...," in Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5 (1969), pp. 87-109, nos. 12-13; Grolier/Horblit 94; Norman 1957; PMM 274; Tooley, Maps and Mapmakers, p. 58; Ward-Carozzi 2072-2073.

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