Authors starting with G from Donald Heald Rare Books

Melbourne: Hamel & Ferguson, 1864. Chromolithograph. Printed on thick wove paper. In excellent condition. 6 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches. 10 x 13 3/16 inches. A fascinating print depicting a group of cowboys robbing a stagecoach in Australia. This rare print was executed and published in Melbourne. It conveys the wild lifestyle in Australia at mid-century, by depicting a desperate robbery of a stagecoach. Three masked men hold the royal mail coach at gun point in New South Wales. The startled customers react i... more information

circa 1920. Etching. Number 14 from an edition of 50. Titled, annotated and signed by the artist in pencil. Excellent condition. 9 x 12 inches. 10 15/16 x 14 3/4 inches. A finely rendered landscape by one of the key figures of late American Impressionism. Born in North Manchester, Indiana, the painter and printmaker Daniel Garber was one of the most prominent and innovative members of the Pennsylvania School of Impressionism, a group of painters based in New Hope, Pennsylvania that depicted the picturesque... more information

circa 1920. Etching. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil. Very good condition apart from some light soiling. Trimmed on all sides. 5 3/16 x 6 7/16 inches. 6 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches. A finely rendered landscape by one of the key figures of late American Impressionism. Born in North Manchester, Indiana, the painter and printmaker Daniel Garber was one of the most prominent and innovative members of the Pennsylvania School of Impressionism, a group of painters based in New Hope, Pennsylvania that depicted th... more information

[Paris: Esnault, c. 1810]. Hand-coloured aquatint on laid paper, engraved by Monsaldi after Garbizza. Very good condition apart from some light soiling and a few small losses along the edges of the sheet. Slight discolouration of the paper due to age. 14 5/8 x 18 1/4 inches. 16 x 20 1/8 inches. This beautifully coloured, picturesque plate of the famous Parisian bridge connecting the Louvre to the French Academy most likely comes from 'Vues des plus beaux edifices publics et particuliers de la ville de ... more information

Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1606. 2 parts in one volume, folio. (11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Letterpress title to part II. Engraved title to part I, 1 engraved folding map, numerous woodcut diagrams. (Appreciable old dampstaining to engraved title and the following leaves to B2, I4-L6, Z1 to the end). Early 20th-century vellum, covers panelled in gilt and blind with central lozenge-shaped arabesque ornament blocked in gilt, the flat spine with fillets in gilt and blind, and author, title and date of publication ... more information

Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, 1605. [9],351,[6] leaves. Main text printed in two columns. Small quarto. Full dark green crushed morocco by Auguste Fontaine, elaborately stamped in gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Hinges lightly rubbed; closed tear to leaf 332, else fine. The foundation work on the De Soto Expedition One of the basic works on the De Soto Expedition, written by the half Spanish-half Peruvian historian of the New World Garcilaso de la Vega ("El Inca"), the first distinguished man of l... more information

Washington, D.C.: for the Trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, [1872]. Total of thirty-five albumen prints, 5¼ x 4 inches, mounted to lithographed, gilt mounts with letterpress titles, each mount measuring 12 x 10 inches. Plus a contents leaf, printed in blue. Without the title leaf, often lacking. Laid into original red roan portfolio, stamped in gilt and blind, string-ties, new backstrip in matching red morocco. Minor wear to edges of some mounts, an occasional light stain or fox m... more information

Paris: circa 1834. Aquatint printed in colours and finished by hand. Second state with the imprint "A Paris chez Hocquart aine Succr de Basset rue St. Jacques No. 64. Depose. New-York Published by Bailly Ward & Co.". 12 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. 17 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches. One of the most beautiful aquatint views of New York. Weahawk in New Jersey (now Weehawken) offered New Yorkers a pastoral retreat and was a popular picnic area, with a ferry running from Canal Street. Burr and Hamilton fought thei... more information

Paris: Published by Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq St. Honore, circa 1810-1815. Engraving with superb original colour. Printed on laid watermarked paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 6 7/8 x 11 inches. 8 ¼ x 11 5/8 inches. 10 ¼ x 14 7/8 inches. This witty caricature, satirizing two English tourists in Paris, comes from a series of extremely rare prints entitled "Le Supreme Bon Ton," which chronicle the fashions and pursuits of the Parisian elite at the beginning of the n... more information

Paris: au Jardin Baujon, & chez Ch. Bance, [no date but circa 1817-1818]. Hand-coloured copper-engraved plate by Lerouge after Garneray. In fine condition apart from some expert repairs to tears to blank margins. 11 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. 14 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches. A snap-shot view of the visit of King Louis XVIII to the Baujon pleasure gardens and the 'Aerial Walk-ways' in particular This precursor of the modern roller-coaster was opened in Paris in 1817. As the view shows, it had two separate but ... more information

Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1873. 4 volumes in three (text: 2 vols., large 4to [12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches]; atlas: 2 volumes in one, folio [20 1/8 x 15 1/2 inches]). Text: titles in red and black, half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, 1 plate of medals, 12 maps and charts (5 coloured, 5 tinted), numerous illustrations (39 full-page); atlas: 12 maps, (2 double- page); 9 plans (2 double-page); 1 tinted lithographic aerial view; 48 plates on 40 sheets (6 double page, 2 engraved, 10 hand-coloured lithographs, 1 chromol... more information

Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1873. 4 volumes (text: 2 vols., large 4to [13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches]; atlas: 2 volumes, folio [19 1/2 x 15 inches]). Text: titles in red and black, half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, 1 plate of medals, 12 maps and charts (4 coloured, 6 tinted), numerous illustrations (39 full-page); atlas: 12 maps, (2 double-page); 9 plans (2 double-page); 1 tinted lithographic aerial view; 48 plates on 40 sheets (6 double page, 2 engraved, 10 hand-coloured lithographs, 1 chromolithograph, 27 tinted... more information

Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1873. 4 volumes in three (text: 2 vols., large 4to [13 1/4 x 10 inches]; atlas: 2 volumes in one, folio [19 1/2 x 15 inches]). Text: titles in red and black, half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, 1 plate of medals, 12 maps and charts (8 coloured), numerous illustrations (39 full-page). (Some light spotting); atlas: 12 maps, (1 folding, 1 double-page); 9 plans (2 double-page); 1 tinted lithographic aerial view; 48 plates on 40 sheets (6 double page, 2 engraved, 10 hand- coloured lith... more information

Boston: printed and published by Garrison and Knapp, 1832. Octavo. (9 1/2 x 6 inches). Original wrappers, letterpress title to upper cover, letterpress 'Prospectus of The Liberator, a weekly journal' on the lower cover (wrapper and title page with old dampstaining, wear to margins of leaves to p.29). First edition in original wrappers. Important early critique of the Colonization Society by one of the leading lights of the Abolitionist movement. The second section of the work contains the statement... more information

London: William Faden, [1776]. Copper-engraved sea chart on a full untrimmed sheet, in excellent condition. 32 1/2 x 25 2/3 inches. A very rare and highly detailed sea chart, the most important map of South Carolina's Port Royal Sound and Hilton Head made during the Revolutionary War, in here in the first state. This very finely engraved and immensely detailed chart was superior to all other maps printed of the region, and the most important portrayal of the Port Royal Sound available in the early days... more information

[London: Jefferys and Faden, 1776]. Copper-engraved sea chart, on a full, untrimmed sheet, in excellent condition. 30 x 21 3/4 inches. A very rare and highly important sea chart of South Carolina's Hilton Head area, made during the Revolutionary War, here in the first state. This finely engraved map was the finest sea chart of the area available in the early days of the Revolutionary War, and most certainly would have played an important role in the development of strategies by various commanders. It e... more information

London: J. Budd, 1808. Octavo. (8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches). 2pp. advertisements for works published by J. Budd, 16pp. advertisements dated March 1, 1808 for works printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Later light brown calf by Zaehnsdorf, the covers with a triple fillet gilt border with small flower-head cornerpieces, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, brown morocco in the third, small brown morocco lettering-piece at foot of spine, the o... more information

London: J. Budd, 1808. Octavo. (8 x 5 1/8 inches). iv, 381pp. Later half olive calf over marbled paper covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, dark brown morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. The first English edition of the first substantial published account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The first British edition of the Gass narrative, printed in a large and elegant format as opposed to the American edition. The 2pp. intr... more information

circa 1792. Engraving, coloured by hand, by Tardieu, after Gatteaux. 22 7/8 x 19 5/16 inches. Gatteaux was a sculptor and medallist; among his accomplishments was the invention of a machine for duplicating sculpture. He also designed and engraved paper money, lottery tickets, tax stamps and other official and legal paper, of the sort represented here, which may be examples of his work. Included are paper currency of various issues during the early years of the Republic, centered on an amusing engraving of... more information

Philadelphia: E. A. Balch, 1856. Wall map, 37½ x 56½ inches, with extensive contemporary colour. Six engraved pictorial inserts plus sixteen map inserts. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, on contemporary rollers. colour bright and clean. Very good. A lovely wall map of Saratoga County, the most famous spa in mid- nineteenth century America. Each township is separately coloured, and individual property owners are located and named throughout the county. There... more information