Authors starting with P from Donald Heald Rare Books

c. 1970. Gouache on composition board. Signed, "Dom Pacitti". 16 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches (visible). Framed. 25 1/4 x 31 1/4 inches. Striking controntation with an early 70's Ford grille This is a dramatic, confrontational drawing by Dom Pacitti of the type of hidden headlight grille popular in the early 70's. Though the idea of concealing headlights had been around since before World War II, it only became popular in the mid-60's at the same time intricate chrome grilles were catching on.... more information

c. 1980. Mixed media on paper, cut out and laid on a larger sheet. Signed, "Dom Pacitti". 9 1/4 x 25 inches, visible. Framed. 17 1/2 x 32 3/4 inches. The epitome of the American sports car by car stylist, Dom Pacitti That car racing has influenced car design is as interesting as it is obvious because the modern American sports car itself embodies not just aerodynamics but also the sense of danger, the antagonism of competition, the thrill of triumph and superiority of motor racing. This smooth, sl... more information

Wolverhampton & London: R.Paddy and F.Jukes, 10 September 1793. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Francis Jukes, with engraved title and explanatory text beneath image in English and French. 16 5/8 x 23 1/4 inches. 21 7/8 x 32 5/16 inches. A very fine pastoral scene and an excellent example of the picturesque, beautifully printed in colours and finished by hand The text beneath the image reads: "Dudley Castle is said to have been built by one Dodo, or Dudo, a Saxon, about the y... more information

London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer, 1755 (but 1757 or 1758). Copper-engraved map by Thomas Kitchin, with full original colour, with contemporary manuscript additions, lower centerfold strengthened outside of image area, in very good condition. 21 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches. A great French and Indian War map from Palairet's 'Atlas méthodique.' This is Palairet's most important map, a fascinating and artistically virtuous depiction of the political situation as it existed at... more information

London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, repaired area in blank space in lower left of image, lower centerfold strengthened, otherwise in very good condition. 21 5/8 x 29 1/3 inches. A highly decorative map, depicting the World shortly before the great era of Pacific voyages This fascinating and attractive map showcases the world in twin hemispheres. While the general outlines of most regions are familiar to the modern observer, one will no... more information

London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer, 1754. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in very good condition. 29 5/8 x 29 1/3 inches. A highly decorative map of the Americas, evincing Palairet's uniquely elegant aesthetic style This artistically virtuous map embraces the entirety of North and South America, and also takes in the western extremities of Europe and Africa. South America is very well defined, and is divided into the various Spanish domains and Portuguese Brazil. North... more information

London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, lower centerfold strengthened outside of image area, in very good condition. 21 5/8 x 29 3/8 inches. A highly attractive map of North America, shown on the eve of the French and Indian War This very fine map, with its magnificent original colouring evinces a unique aesthetic quality that was the signature of Palairet. It captures the continent the year before war broke out between Britain and the all... more information

[London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer], 1754. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in very good condition except for several creases parallel to center fold. 21 1/2 x 29 1/8 inches. A highly decorative map of South America, evincing Palairet's uniquely elegant aesthetic style This artistically virtuous map embraces the whole of South America, and is divided into the various Spanish domains and Portuguese Brazil. The map is adorned with a highly elegant title cartouche of a... more information

[Translated from German by F.W.Blagdon]. London: printed by A. Strahan for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, T. Cadell, jun. & W. Davies and J. Murray & S. Highley, 1802-1803 [pre-publication watermarks]. 2 volumes, quarto. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). 1p. errata in each volume. 55 engraved or engraved and aquatint plates, plans and maps, most by or after G. Geissler (45 hand- coloured, 25 folding, 4 double-page), 29 vignette illustrations (23 hand- coloured). Expertly bound to style in half russia over conte... more information

[Translated from German by F.W.Blagdon]. London: printed by A. Strahan for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, T. Cadell, jun. & W. Davies and J. Murray & S. Highley, 1802-1803 [pre-publication watermarks]. 2 volumes, quarto. (10 1/4 x 8 inches). 1p. errata in each volume. 55 engraved or engraved and aquatint plates, plans and maps, most by or after G. Geissler (45 hand- coloured, 25 folding, 4 double-page), 29 vignette illustrations (23 hand- coloured). Contemporary brown speckled calf with simple gilt too... more information

London: printed for John Stockdale, 1812. 2 volumes, quarto. (10 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches). 55 engraved or engraved and aquatint plates, plans and maps, most by or after G. Geissler (45 hand-coloured, 25 folding, 4 double- page), 29 vignette illustrations (23 hand-coloured). (vol. I title page backed, repaired tear to one plate). Later cloth, flat spines with a red morocco lettering piece. Scarce second edition in English of "an extremely charming colour plate book" (Tooley). Tooley goes on to observe ... more information

Buenos Aires: En venta en la casa de los S[eño]res Fusoni H[erna]nos, [1864]. Oblong folio. (12 x 17 3/4 inches). Lithographed throughout, title- page, 52 tinted plates printed by J. Pélvilain. Expertly rebound to style in red morocco-backed red pebble-grained cloth covered boards, the spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat panelled decoration in gilt, the covers with wide outer rule in blind enclosing a thin inner gilt rule, yellow glazed ... more information

New York: Currier & Ives, 1855. Lithograph, coloured by hand. (Two small tears to blank margins). 22 x 28 1/8 inches. An idyllic scene of a successful American gentlemen, his wife and family in the country on a fine May morning, from an original by Fanny Palmer. 'A scene set before a country house. The building has a square tower, a canopied balcony, and arched windows. A lawn slopes down to a stone fence with a gate in it, in front of which in the foreground a man and boy looking at each other are... more information

[New York: Currier & Ives, 1864]. Lithograph, coloured by hand. Cut to the edge of the image. Visible image size: 17 1/4 x 27 inches. Matted, framed and glazed. One of Currier & Ives greatest images, an emblem of the great westward push and the realisation of the American Dream 'A passenger train moves forward, diagonally, toward the lower right corner of the print. Thick black smoke billows out the smokestack. There is a river with a riverboat and ... [three] sailboats in the right background&#... more information

[New York: Currier & Ives, 1868]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, drawn on stone by James Merritt Ives. Visible image size: 17 3/8 x 26 3/4 inches. Matted, framed and glazed. Trimmed to just outside image. A spectacular image of the West from the best known lithographic printers of the 19th century. 'A paradigm of the Old West. In the foreground, the populace of a small settlement of log buildings turn out to see a railroad train whose cars bear the legend "Through Line, New York, San Francisco... more information

New York: Currier & Ives, 1868. Hand-coloured lithograph by James Merrit Ives after Fanny Palmer. 21 1/4 x 30 1/2 inches. A poignant image, demonstrating the triumph of the human spirit. In the foreground, uprooted trees bob in the current, using a roof as a raft two men pole themselves and nine others to safety, one of their companions holds tight to reins of a mule swimming beside the roof, whilst two others rescue furniture and a barrel. In the mid-ground: a large white-painted house with second-flo... more information

New York: N. Currier, 1853 [but 1915]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by Palmer. 22 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. A fine image of the last extreme clipper ship from the Westervelt yards in New York. The second impression of this great image, taken from the original stone in 1915. `The "Sweepstakes" was built in the famous New York yards of Jacob A. Westervelt in 1853, from the design of Daniel Westervelt, a son of the ship builder. She was the last extreme clipper ship built in the... yards and was owned b... more information

New York: Currier and Ives, 152 Nassau Street, 1861. Hand-coloured lithograph. Very good condition. 15 3/4 x 20 1/8 inches. 19 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches. A wonderful view of New York, with Staten Island seen in the distance. In the foreground, a man, woman and child stand on the bank of Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, while horse-drawn carriages ride along the shore. Fort Lafayette, sits on a small island in the the middle-ground. Frances Flora Bond Palmer, known as Fanny, worked for Nathaniel Currier for more than tw... more information

Cinncinnati: J.A. & U.P.James, 1847. 12mo signed in fours and eights. (8 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches). 189pp. Original printed front wrapper, with spine and rear wrapper in matching paper. Front wrapper soiled and stained. In near fine condition internally, very clean and fresh. Untrimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. First edition, second issue, with corrections made on pages 31 and 121 and without the errata slip tipped in at page 189. Waves of overland immigration engul... more information

Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P.James, 1847. Large 12mo, signed in 4s and 8s. (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches). 189pp. (Corners rounded, some small tears, old marginal creasing, some spotting). Original brown paper printed wrappers, uncut with letterpress printed wrappers (tears to wrappers with loss), modern brown cloth and card folder, all within a modern brown morocco- backed brown cloth slipcase, red morocco label. The very rare first issue, in unsophisticated condition The rare first edition, first issue of one of t... more information