Authors starting with K from Donald Heald Rare Books

Melbourne: Pfaff Pinschof & Co., 1 January 1890. Photogravure, on India paper, mounted onto thick wove paper. 19 1/8 x 31 1/8 inches. 24 1/8 x 34 1/2 inches. A fine copy of this lively view of the winner's enclosure for the 1886 Victoria Derby held at Flemington racecourse, Melbourne, Australia The Victoria Derby has been held at the Flemington course in November every year since 1855. The first race was won by Rose of May. The present scene, painted by Austrian-born artist Carl Kahler, shows Tride... more information

London: Printed for T. Lowndes, 1772. 2 volumes, 8vo. xii,414pp. plus six engraved plates; iv,423,[9]pp. plus folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, spines ruled in gilt, gilt morocco labels, binding edges tooled in gilt. Minor shelfwear, bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. Small stain in upper portion of a dozen leaves near front of first volume, else quite clean internally. A handsome set. Second English edition. The second English edition, translated by George Reinhold Forster, after the Swe... more information

Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, 1770 [vol 1]; London: Printed for the Editor, and sold by T. Lowndes, 1771 [vols 2-3]. 3 volumes, 8vo. (8 x 5 inches). Engraved folding map, 6 engraved plates. List of Subscribers in vol. 2.Publisher's blue paper boards (rebacked with labels renewed). An exceptional copy of the first edition in English, first issue with the Warrington imprint, of "one of the most important and reliable eighteenth- century accounts of American natural history, social organizati... more information

Utrecht: J. v. Schoonhoven, 1772. Copper-engraved folding map, engraved by Carel Jacob de Huyser, full period hand-colouring. 22 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches. Large and detailed map from a rare edition of Kalm's Travels. This map was published within the rare first Dutch edition of Kalm's Travels, the "most trustworthy description of Swedish settlement in 18th century Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania" (Howes). Between 1748 and 1749, Peter Kalm, a noted Swedish naturalist and student of Linnae... more information

Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. Large quarto. (11 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches). Pp. XXIX [1], 504 pages. Title in blue and black, half-title, text in German. 210 plates and illustrations (a number mounted and/or folding, 61 in colour) of 203 catalogue entries, with 109 supplemental illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, original card slipcase. A fine copy of this beautifully-produced catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky&#... more information

Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., 1972. 4to. (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). 413 pp. 110 color plus 126 black and white plates plus numerous illustrations in text. Text in English and Japanese. Publisher's cloth, housed in publisher's slip case. An important illustrated catalogue of Japanese glass from the Edo period, with each item annotated in both Japanese and English. Scarce. ... more information

circa 1780. Engraving. Printed on laid paper. Collector mark bearing the initials E.O printed in blue ink on verso of sheet. In excellent condition. Image size: 22 x 15 1/16 inches. 25 ¾ x 16 5/8 inches. 31 x 21 ½ inches. A captivating portrait by Raphael Morghen after a painting by Angelica Kauffman, one of the first female members of the Royal Academy. This impressive portrait was painted by the celebrated artist Angelica Kauffman and engraved by the renowned Italian printmaker Raphael Morg... more information

Edinburgh: published by Daniel McIntosh, sold in London by Boydell & Co., and Colnaghi & Co., 1 August 1814. Aquatint, printed in brown ink, coloured by hand, by John Clark. 14 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. 18 9/16 x 24 11/16 inches. A lively view of Georgian Edinburgh. A fine view of a windy day on one of the most fashionable streets of the period: in the foreground a stagecoach is leaving, laden with passengers and apparently pursued by a late-comer who gestures in an attempt to attract the attention of a... more information

London: Day & Haghe for Ackermann & Co, 1836. Large quarto. (14 1/2 x 10 inches). 4pp. letterpress text. Lithographed title, 12 lithographed plates after Kay (6), Harry (4), Kay and Harry (1) and E.N.Kendall (1), printed by Day & Haghe. Original upper wrapper. Each leaf separately window- mounted and tipped onto a backing board, the 16 mounted leaves contained within a single limp cloth portfolio, all within a single green straight- grained morocco-backed cloth box, titled in gilt on spine. A f... more information

London: printed for G. Nicol, 1788. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson by I. Heath after I. Russell, 16 engraved plates and maps (comprised of 1 folding map, 1 folding coastal profile, 3 views, 3 portraits and 8 other plates), extra-illustrated with 1 plate from the 1803 fifth edition of the same work. [with:] John Pearce HOCKIN (1773?- 1831). A supplement to the account of the Pelew Islands. London; printed for Captain Henry Wilson by W. Bulmer & Co, sold by G. & W.Nicol [and others]... more information

Text by Roland Barthes, John Cage, Kirsty Gunn, Ovid & Pliny. New York: Peter Kruty Editions & Julie Cencebaugh, 2001. Large quarto. (12 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches). 42pp. (8pp. of pink paper, 34pp. of thick white paper). "Half- title" label in blue and black mounted on the 3rd pink page at the front, 2pp. letterpress. 24 pages of illustrations (16 single page [6 of these hand-coloured]; 8 double-page [3 of these hand-coloured]) all by Keeley. Original pink thick card boards, with design printed ... more information

London: Printed at the Expense of the Society for the Encouragement of Learning, by S. Richardson, 1738. Quarto. (10 x 8 inches). 2 engraved folding maps, engraved title vignette repeated on verso of the final leaf, ornamental tailpiece. Uncut and largely unopened. Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. ... more information

Charlestown: 1831. 27,[1]pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Some light rubbing to extremities. Minor foxing. Very good. Hall Kelley's call for Oregon Emigration This is the first major proposal by visionary promoter Kelley, all of whose schemes came to nothing, but whose ideas encouraged many others. This pamphlet outlines his well- reasoned plan for settlements in Oregon near the mouth of the Columbia River, with a woodcut plan of one of the proposed settlements printed on t... more information

New York: Edward Walker, [1846]. Engraved folding pocket map, full period hand-colouring. Folds into publisher's blindstamped cloth covers, title stamped in gilt on the upper cover. 23 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. New York in 1846 with the city's Masonic Lodges identified. A brightly coloured depiction of lower Manhattan, as far north as 34th street, with parts of Brooklyn and Williamsburg. The map shows the city divided into wards with the streets named, and includes the routes of the many ferries acro... more information

[1776 or later]. Original ink wash, heightened with white, calligraphic title beneath `The Death of General Wolfe' with an original ink wash vignette of a grief-stricken putti leaning against a memorial urn on a pedestal, the pedestal with the lettering `AEt/ 35', to the left of the pedestal a drum, two standards and a cannon barrel, this vignette flanked by the words `Obiit Patriam pugnando.'. Inscribed on verso: `Indian Ink drawing by my grandfather George Kendall b. 21 Mar 1753/ Henry [?] Ke... more information

New York & Philadelphia: Plon Brothers of Paris for D. Appleton & Co. and George S. Appleton, 1851. Folio. (23 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches). 12 fine hand- coloured lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, by Bayot (11) or Bayot & Bichebois (1) after Nebel, printed by Lemercier in Paris, 1 lithographed map. Text in publisher's lettered yellow wrappers, the plates loose as issued, housed in a contemporary half purple morocco over tan cloth portfolio, all housed in a purple morocco-backed red b... more information

Index by the Rev. Robert Watts. London: printed for J. Churchill, 1713. Quarto signed in 2s. (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches). (Lacking the front blank and blank A1 [i.e. blank leaf between the Dedication and the start of the bibliography], Kk1 and Kk2 cut down without affecting the text area but likely supplied from another copy at an early date, light dampstaining). 19th-century red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, the border between the leather and marbled paper ruled in gilt on the covers, spine in... more information

Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, [1687]. Copper-engraved map, full period hand-colouring, heightened with gold. In excellent condition. 20 7/8 x 25 inches. A very fine copy of the second state of this spectacular map: the second printed chart of New York, Long Island and southern New England, with a large integral inset which includes the first separate map of the River Hudson Issued in the fourth part of Van Keulen's Zee-Fakkel, this highly important chart is only pre-dated by Arent Roggeveen's ext... more information

Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, [1687]. Copper-engraved map, full contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gold. 20 7/8 x 25 inches. A very fine copy of this excellent and very early chart of French Guiana. This beautifully-finished map was published by innovative Dutch cartographer and publisher ,Johannes van Keulen, in the 1687 second edition of the third volume his Sea-Atlas [or Zee-Fakkel]. The chart concentrates on Cayenne (now the capital of French Guiana) and coast to the north-west almost to t... more information