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 o... 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 sel... 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 ... more information

[Venice: J. Baptist Pasquali, No date but 1743]. Woodcut by Jackson, printed from four blocks in dark buff, medium brown, gray and dark brown, dedicated to Paulina Contarina. Image Size: 21 3/4 x 15 inches. Sheet size: 28 1/4 x 20 inches. [Kainen 30]. Fine condition. A fine untouched 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, An... more information

London: B.T. Batsford, 1949. (11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches). Cloth. xvi, 747 pp., monochrome frontispiece, 7 text illustrations, index.Very good condition. Spine a bit faded ... 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 ki... 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. 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 triangulation were conducted of the coasts of France. The findings were organized ... 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-colore... more information

Paris: A Paris chez Janinet, rue Haute Feuille, No. 5. Et chez Efnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques, a la Ville de Coutances, No. 259, July 1788. Mixed method colour print, printed in yellow, blue, red, pink and black inks from five plates. Two registration marks in plate. In excellent condition with wide margins. Image size: 14 x 11 inches. 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches. 21 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. This print is a breathtaking impression of one of Janinet's most famous prints, from a series of boudoir scenes exe... more information

Vienna: Artaria & Comp., 1798. 16 ¼ x 21 ¼ inches. A fine view of the city of Worms, a river-port on the Rhine, twelve miles north-north-west of Mannheim Hand-coloured aquatint etching by Ziegler after Janscha, with contemporary ruled and wash border. Accompanying the plate is a descriptive leaf of letterpess text, in French and German, with a contemporary manuscript English translation beneath `After passing the little island of Neusatz, the Rhine arrives at Worms… situated in the... more information

Amsterdam: 1636 [but 1653]. Engraving with period outline colour. 16 1/8 x 19 3/4 inches. 19 1/2 x 23 3/8 inches. Jansson's map of China is identical to Blaeu's, for all practical purposes. It pre-dates the great boon to European mapping of China brought by Father Martino Martini in the 1650s. Though certain elements are in place, vast stretches of the interior are based on rumor and reports of earlier Jesuit missionaries. The Great Wall, for example, is shown but without any accuracy. Large port... more information

[Amsterdam]: Jansson, [n.d. but circa 1659]. Hand-coloured copper engraved map in excellent condition. 19 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches. A handsome early Dutch map of Japan This map of Japan was Jansson's second. It represents a considerable improvement on the first, (1646), which was a re-issue of Luis Teixeira's 1595 map. Jansson's 1659 map adds to Teixeira's knowledge the discoveries of Martin Vries, a Dutch explorer, who set out in 1643, and revelations found in Father Martino Martini's ma... more information

Paris: Vilquin, Palais Royal, No. 20., circa 1830. Colour printed aquatints. Printed on wove paper. "Le Courier De La Malle": in excellent condition with the exception of being trimmed within the platemark on all sides. A number of small tears along the edges of the sheet. A small area on the bottom margin has been infilled. Image size: 13 ½ x 21 ½ inches. Sheet size: 16 5/8 x 23 7/8 inches. "La Diligence": in excellent condition with the exception of two expertly repaired... more information

London: printed for John Stockdale, 1787. 8vo. (8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches). 1 engraved folding map, hand-coloured in outline, 1 folding letterpress table. Contemporary calf gilt, the covers with neat restoration to the corners and edges, expertly rebacked to style with the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, red morocco label in the second compartment, modern morocco-backed slipcase. The first English edition of Jefferson's famous work. This is the only book-length work by Jef... more information

French translation by the Abbé André Morellet. Paris: chez Barrois l'ainé, 1786. Octavo. (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches). Half-title, 4pp.errata. 1 folding letterpress table, 1 folding engraved 'Map of the country between Albermarle Sound and, Lake Erie, comprehending the whole of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, with parts of several other of the United States' by Samuel Neale, uncoloured and printed on two joined sheets (as issued). Contemporary French marbled calf, ... more information

London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1778. Folio. (21 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches). 23 engraved maps on 30 sheets, hand-coloured in outline. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century half russia over original marbled paper boards, spine gilt in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece, black morocco-backed cloth box. The very rare 1778 issue of 'The American Atlas': the most important 18th century atlas for America, and an irreplaceable snapshot of the land as it was... more information

London: Thomas Jefferys, 26 March, 1770. Copper-engraved map with original outline and wash colour, in excellent condition. 21 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches. A rare and extremely fine eighteenth-century set of sea charts of Amelia Island, presented on one sheet, produced by the British royal cartographer This superb map sheet contains three maps of Amelia Island, in northeastern Florida and vicinity, and was at the time the most accurate sea chart of the area ever produced. The great skill of Thomas Jefferys, who h... more information