Authors starting with T from Donald Heald Rare Books

Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, Jr.; New York: T.R. Tanner, 1840. 156pp. plus one folding map: "A Map of Philadelphia and Adjacent Country: 1840." Black and white, 11 x 14¾ inches. 16mo. Gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Despite the title, there is only one map. It shows the city and its western suburbs in an arc, from Chester in the South, to Norristown in the West, to Andalusia in the north. The map is probably an updated version of the map with the same title published as a separate by Tanne... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1825. Engraved with full, period colour. Mild off-set throughout. Repaired 6" split at bottom of center fold. 23 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches. A fine example of Tanner's updated map of New York Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas, was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed from the best and most recent surveys. They were finely engraved on a large-scale, printed on high quality paper, and carefully... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, [1823]. Copper-engraved map, with full original color, n very good condition.23 3/4 x 31 1/4 inches. A World map by one of America's first great cartographers The objective of depicting a three dimensional sphere on a two dimensional sheet of paper has challenged mapmakers since Classical times. Mercator's solution was to straighten all of the longitudinal meridians, making them perpendicular to the lines of latitude. The consequence of this projection was that while lan... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1825. Copper-engraving with full period color. 23 1/8 x 28 inches. 23 3/4 x 31 3/8 inches. An important early mapping of Ohio and Indiana: the significant second issue, reflecting new boundaries in northern Indiana created by Indian treaties. Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas, was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed from the best and most recent surveys. They were finely engraved on a large- s... more information

Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, 1825. Folio. (23 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches). Letterpress half-title, 1p. index and 18pp. text. Engraved title with vignette of the "First Landing of Columbus in the New World, 21 fine hand- coloured engraved map sheets (16 maps on 16 double-page sheets; 1 map on one folding sheet; and 1 map on 4 double-page sheets), some expert restoration to corners. Expertly bound to style in half brown straight- grained morocco over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine divid... more information

Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, 1846. Copper-engraved map, on banknote paper, with original hand-colour. Good condition with some expert restoration to margins and old folds. 22 7/8 x 29 5/8 inches. An important and rare map of Mexico and the southwestern United States, depicting Texas in its largest form, the 1846 "Second edition" of the celebrated Tanner map. The present map embraces all of modern Mexico and the southwestern United States of America, and prominently features the new state of Texas w... more information

Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, 1823. Folio. (23 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches). Letterpress half-title, 1p. index and 18pp. text. Engraved title with vignette of the "First Landing of Columbus in the New World", 18 fine hand- coloured engraved maps (16 double-page, 2 folding). Expertly bound to style in half-calf over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine gilt and divided into seven compartments by fillets and roll tools, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration ... more information

Philadelphia: published by Henry S. Tanner, 1834. Hand-coloured map in sections backed onto linen and edged with green silk, sheet size: 49 3/4 x 62 7/8 inches, 'engraved by H.S. Tanner, assisted by E.B. Dawson, W. Allen, and J. Knight', with integral decorative title vignette after J.W. Steel, the map surrounded by numerous small panels including 2 extensions to the area covered by the map, 6 more-detailed maps of environs of various eastern cities, 8 city plans, a number of elevation profiles of r... more information

Philadelphia: H.S.Tanner, 1826. Engraved folding pocket map, on banknote paper, with original outline hand-colouring, accompanied by the original red roan gilt covers, titled in gilt "Mexico.", modern red cloth chemise, all contained within a modern red morocco-backed slipcase, titled in gilt on spine. Includes inset titled Map of the Roads &c. from Vera Cruz & Alvarado to Mexico, as well as inset tables of distances and statistics. The map in good condition apart from a few splits at fold... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1825. Copper-engraving with full period colour. 29 3/8 x 23 3/4 inches. 31 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches. One of the earliest state maps of Illinois and Missouri: this the revised second issue with significant changes to the mapping of the Mississippi headwaters and with an early depiction of the beginnings of the Santa Fe Trail. Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed ... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1825. Copper-engraving with full period colour. 22 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches. 24 x 31 inches. An excellent copy of Tanner's map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas, was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed from the best and most recent surveys. They were finely engraved on a large- scale, printed on high quality paper, and carefully hand colored. Because of the g... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1825. Copper-engraving with full period color. 23 3/8 x 30 11/16 inches. 23 7/8 x 30 3/4 inches. Tanner's 1825 map of Kentucky and Tennessee. Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed from the best and most recent surveys. They were finely engraved on a large-scale, printed on high quality paper, and carefully hand colored. Because of the great expense invol... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1825. Copper-engraving with full period color. 29 x 23 7/8 inches. 31 x 23 7/8 inches. Important second issue of Tanner's map of Louisiana and Mississippi, depicting vast changes to Indian lands. Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas, was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed from the best and most recent surveys. They were finely engraved on a large-scale, printed on high quality paper, and car... more information

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1844 [but 1845]. Folio. (17 3/8 x 14 1/8 inches). Engraved title with integral vignette, 1p. publisher's notice dated September 25, 1844, 1p. letterpress table of contents. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece showing comparative lengths and heights of rivers and mountains, 71 hand-coloured engraved maps. Original blue half morocco over light blue cloth-covered borads, titled in gilt on upper cover 'Tanner's / Universal / Atlas. / 1845.', light blue endpapers ... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1831. Folding pocket map, copper-engraved by Tanner, period hand colouring in outline. Within original roan covers, covers bordered in gilt, the upper cover titled in gilt 'Illinois & Missouri'. (Short separations at folds, light offsetting). 22 3/4 x 27 inches. A rare pocket map issue of Tanner's map of Illinois and Missouri. Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were... more information

Paris: Tardieu, 1808. Engraved map with period outline hand colouring, on four folded sheets, each dissected into 60 sections and linen-backed, as issued, with the original chemise and box. Fine condition. together 50 x 57 3/4 inches. An extraordinary copy of a rare, separately-issued, French edition of one of the great large-scale maps of the early United States: this issue the first to name Michigan Territory. Based on the first state of Aaron Arrowsmith's map of the same name, Tardieu's improved... more information

Paris: 1664. Quarto. [2],96 [i.e., 91],21pp. Minor soiling, Very good. Disbound. An extensive list of tariffed items, divided into two sections, with "Sorties" (exports) and "Entrees" (imports). Imports listed include many different kinds of wood, including numerous colonial products, some American, such as ebony and cedar; sugar; cotton; indigo; and various kinds of skins, including beaver pelts. The second part of this work is a royal edict concerning the lowering of tariffs on goo... more information

London: printed for T. Cadell, 1787. Quarto. 2pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. 1 folding engraved map with routes marked by hand in colour, 4 engraved plans (2 folding) with positions and troop movements marked by hand in colours. Contemporary figured calf, the flat spine divided into six compartments by Greek-key and other roll tools, black morocco label in the second compartment, the others with overall repeat decoration in gilt. A key work concerning the southern campaigns of the American Rev... more information

[Paris: 1627]. Copper-engraved map, insets of polar regions. 16 x 21 3/8 inches. Scarce first state of Tavernier's separately-issued map of North America, including insets of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. In 1627, Tavernier, the most important mapseller and publisher in France, published a set of the four continents after Bertius, though possibly without his permission. Although crediting Bertius, the map more closely follows the Hondius mapping of 1618, with the completed northwest coast line, si... more information

New York: D. Appleton & Co, [n.d. but circa 1876-1879]. 3 volumes bound from the original 60 parts, large quarto. (12 7/8 x 10 inches). Steel- engraved additional titles and plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Red morocco gilt by the Rowfant Bindery of Cleveland, Ohio, the covers panelled in gilt with arabesque cornerpieces incorporating stylized anthemion tools, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third compartments, the others with repeat tooling in g... more information