Authors starting with J from Donald Heald Rare Books

Dark brown body colour on prepared paper. Inscribed "N.2...Stück" and "am 9ten Aprill 1791--nach der Natur ge[zeichnet?] von JEW," ink collector's stamp "Linel-Smlg. No." followed by pencilled number "1046" (all on verso). A high quality image that clearly is drawn from life, as the inscription claims. The artist's use of a dark prepared ground recalls the work of Barbara Regina Dietsch and her family. A search of Nissen's index of artists reveals on... more information

[Venice: J. Baptist Pasquali, No date but 1739]. Woodcut by Jackson, printed from four blocks in buff, violet-gray, light brown and dark violet- brown, dedicated to Smart Lethieullie. Image Size: 15 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches. [Kainen 18]. Cut to the edge of the image and backed onto '1823' wove paper. A fine example of Jackson's work: one of the extraordinary chiaroscuro woodcuts from his very rare masterpiece: 'Titiani Vecelii Pauli Caliarii Jacobi Robusti et Jacobi de Ponte Opera selectiora a J... more information

[Venice: J. Baptist Pasquali, No date but 1743]. Woodcut by Jackson, on two sheets, printed from four blocks in buff, warm gray, brown and dark brown, left sheet dedicated to Sir Robert Hoblyn. Overall image size: 22 x 30 inches. Individual sheet size: 28 1/4 x 20 inches. [Kainen 32]. Fine condition. A fine untouched example of Jackson's work: a pair of the extraordinary chiaroscuro woodcuts from his very rare masterpiece: 'Titiani Vecelii Pauli Caliarii Jacobi Robusti et Jacobi de Ponte Opera sele... more information

[Venice: J. Baptist Pasquali, No date but 1742]. Woodcut by Jackson, on two sheets only (of 3, lacking the left sheet), printed from four blocks in light grayish umber, medium brown, dark gray and dark brown), right sheet dedicated to Sir Erasmus Phillipps. Overall image size: 22 x 34 3/4 inches. Individual sheet size: 28 1/4 x 20 inches. [Kainen 25]. Fine condition. A fine pair of untouched examples of Jackson's work: two of the extraordinary chiaroscuro woodcuts from his very rare masterpiece: '... more information

[Venice: J. Baptist Pasquali, No date but c.1739-1745]. Woodcut by Jackson, one sheet (only, of 2), printed from four blocks in buff, light brown, dark gray. Image Size: 15 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches. [Kainen 23]. Fine condition. A fine example of Jackson's work: one of the extraordinary chiaroscuro woodcuts from his very rare masterpiece: 'Titiani Vecelii Pauli Caliarii Jacobi Robusti et Jacobi de Ponte Opera selectiora a Joanne Baptista Jackson, Anglo ligno coelata et coloribus adumbrata' - one of t... more information

Paris: chez Gihaut frères, [circa 1835-1840]. 2 volumes, folio. (20 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches). Lithographed throughout: titles with integral vignette, 1p. plate list for both volumes at the back of the first vol. (and repeated on the verso of the title to the second vol.), 104 fine lithographic plates, those in vol. I by and after Jacottet (some with the figures by Bayot), those in vol.II by and after Jacottet and Bayot and printed by Auguste Bry. Original near-uniform purple half morocco over textured pa... more information

Vienna: 1797-1804. Copper engraving with lovely early colour. Hightened with irridescence. Printed on laid paper. Plate 281. In perfect condition. Image size: 16 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. 16 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 19 x 13 inches. A stunning botanical print of a fairy rose, from Jacquin's seminal book on the royal garden at Schonbrunn. In 1752, the Dutch physician and botanist Gerard van Swieten, an old friend of Jacquin's father, invited the young Nikolaus, aged 25 at the time, to come and study in Vienna. ... more information

Paris: Alexis Hubert Jaillot, 1696. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour and gold embellishments, in excellent condition. 24 3/8 x 37 ¼ inches. A highly decorative map of Normandy by Alexis Jaillot, an exceptional example with gilt embellishments One of the most important figures in French cartography, Nicolas Sanson initiated the great school of French geographers. Born in Abbeville in 1600, Sanson established his first printing house in Paris in 1638. He soon became geographer to the kin... more information

Paris: Depot de la Marine, circa 1720. Copper-engraved map, later published by the Depot de la Marine. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition, apart from a vertical and a horizontal crease where the chart was folded. Image size: 23 ¼ x 31 7/8 inches. 26 ¾ x 39 ¼ inches. A stunning sea chart of the English Channel from one of the most celebrated French atlases "Le Neptune Francois" With the establishment of the Paris Observatory in 1667, a series of surveys by triangul... more information

"Paris" [but Amsterdam]: "chez Hubert Jaillot" [but Pierre Mortier], 1692- 1693. 3 volumes, folio. (25 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches). Letterpress title printed in red and black with small engraved vignette, 1 folding letterpress text leaf "Les vies des anciens solitaires...". Hand-coloured engraved title, engraved frontispiece "Table des Cartes" with hand- coloured border surrrounding an onlaid central letterpress panel listing the contents, 94 only (of 100) engraved maps hand... more information

Paris: 1695. Engraved map. 21 1/4 x 28 1/2 inches. An important French mapping of Canada during King William's War and the "first printed information, however tenuous, on the geography of the region to the north and west of Lake Superior" (Kershaw). This important map of Canada by the French cartographer Jaillot, published in the midst of King William's War, focuses on the French possessions, and identifies the Hudson's Bay Company forts taken by the French: Fort Nelson, Moose River, ... more information

Paris: 1695. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. 21 1/4 x 28 inches. Beautifully engraved map of North America, here in the rare first state with California as an island. Although similarly titled to Jaillot's earlier map of 1674, this map is on a slightly smaller scale. Like Jaillot's earlier map, however, it is beautifully engraved and based on the mappings by Sanson. "The attractive title cartouche engraved by C. Simmoneau is adorned with two tropical birds" (Burden... more information

[Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: n.d.]. Gouache, heightened with gilt, on dark brown-toned paper, with unrelated ink script, an official woodcut "Jeypoor Government stamp" and a small oval ink stamp. Sheet size: 13 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. Framed. A modern beautifully-executed image of a turban, on re- cycled paper from an earlier era. The juxtaposition of the sophistication of decorated turbans with the relative simplicity of the official stamp, of the bright colours of the painting with the toned drabness... more information

[Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: n.d.]. Gouache, heightened with gilt, on dark brown-toned paper, with unrelated ink script, an official woodcut "Court Fee Stamp Jaipur Government". Sheet size: 13 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches. Framed. A modern beautifully-executed image of a turban, on re-cycled paper from an earlier era. The juxtaposition of the sophistication of decorated turbans with the relative simplicity of the official stamp, of the bright colours of the painting with the toned drabness of the paper is par... more information

[Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: n.d.]. Gouache, heightened with gilt, on dark brown-toned paper, with unrelated ink script, an official woodcut "Jeypoor Government stamp" and a small oval ink stamp. Sheet size: 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Framed. A modern beautifully-executed image of a turban, on re- cycled paper from an earlier era. The juxtaposition of the sophistication of decorated turbans with the relative simplicity of the official stamp, of the bright colours of the painting with the toned drabness of... more information

[Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: n.d.]. Gouache, heightened with gilt, on dark brown-toned paper, with unrelated ink script, an official woodcut "Court Fee Stamp Jaipur Government". Sheet size: 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Framed. A modern beautifully-executed image of a turban, on re-cycled paper from an earlier era. The juxtaposition of the sophistication of decorated turbans with the relative simplicity of the official stamp, of the bright colours of the painting with the toned drabness of the paper is par... more information

[Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: n.d.]. Gouache, heightened with gilt, on dark brown-toned paper, with unrelated ink script, an official woodcut "Jeypoor Government stamp" and a small oval ink stamp. Sheet size: 13 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches. Framed. A modern beautifully-executed image of a turban, on re- cycled paper from an earlier era. The juxtaposition of the sophistication of decorated turbans with the relative simplicity of the official stamp, of the bright colours of the painting with the toned drabness... more information

[Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: n.d.]. Gouache, heightened with gilt, on dark brown-toned paper, with unrelated ink script, an official woodcut "Court Fee Stamp Jaipur Government". Sheet size: 13 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches. Framed. A modern beautifully-executed image of a turban, on re-cycled paper from an earlier era. The juxtaposition of the sophistication of decorated turbans with the relative simplicity of the official stamp, of the bright colours of the painting with the toned drabness of the paper is par... more information

[Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: n.d.]. Gouache, heightened with gilt, on dark brown-toned paper, with unrelated ink script, an official woodcut "Court Fee Stamp Jaipur Government". Sheet size: 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches. Framed. A modern beautifully-executed image of a turban, on re-cycled paper from an earlier era. The juxtaposition of the sophistication of decorated turbans with the relative simplicity of the official stamp, of the bright colours of the painting with the toned drabness of the paper is par... more information

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & Lea, 1822-1823. 3 volumes (text: 2 vols., octavo [9 1/2 x 6 inches]; atlas: 1 vol., quarto. [12 x 9 1/8 inches]). Text: half-titles. Atlas: 11 engraved plates and maps (2 double-page maps after S.H. Long by Young & Delleker; 1 double-page plate of geological cross-sections; 8 plates [1 hand-coloured] after S. Seymour [6], T.R. Peale [1] and one unassigned, engraved by C.G. Childs [2], Lawson [1], F. Kearney [2], W. Hay [1], Young & Delleker [1]). Text: original grey-br... more information