Authors starting with V from Donald Heald Rare Books

Amsterdam: Gerard Valk & Petrus Schenk, circa 1700. Engraving with lovely early colour, excellent impression. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition, with the exception of a printers crease in bottom left section of map. 18 3/16 x 20 5/8 inches. 20 7/8 x 24 9/16 inches. A stunning map showing the southwest provinces of China, by the celebrated Dutch publishers Schenk and Valk. Following the decline of the Blaeu and Jansson publishing houses, Schenk and Valk became the leading mapmakers in Amster... more information

Amsterdam: Valk, c. 1703. Engraved with period outline colour. Browned at the edges, minor offset. Slight losses due to oxidation. 23 x 19 3/8 inches. 24 5/8 x 20 3/4 inches. Attractive Dutch map of Franche Comté Franche Comté or the Free County of Burgundy paid historically for its freedom in being frequently invaded by France, Burgundy, Germany and Switzerland before being permanently bound to France by Louis XIV. This example of the map appears to be a very early impression as the grid of... more information

Amsterdam: [circa 1700]. Copper-engraved map, full period hand-colouring. 21 1/8 x 25 1/4 inches. Highly decorative map of North and South America showing California as an island and here with full period hand colouring. This decorative map by the Valk brothers is after a similar map by Carol Allard, first published circa 1696. Cartographically, both Allard and the Valks borrow heavily from the De Wit map of 1675, naming the Great Lakes, showing California as an island and with a Terra Esonis and Fretum An... more information

The Hague, 'et se trouve à Paris': Chez Muiser, Fils, & Fournier, 1768. 12mo. (6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches). [1]-8, 1-316 pp. Half-title. (Without the two final leaves giving the 'approbation censoriale' and the 'privilège' issued later [see below]). Contemporary sheep-backed figured paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by double gilt fillets, lettering-piece in the second compartment. A fine copy of the first edition of on... more information

Leiden: Pierre vander Aa, [circa 1730]. Engraved map, with an outer decorative frame printed from a separate plate (lower margin trimmed to image area of frame border and remargined). 11 1/2 x 16 inches. The third state of Van der Aa's map of eastern Canada, noted for its decorative engraved frame border. First published in 1714, Van der Aa used the De L'Isle map of 1703 as the basis for his own map, with a similar mapping of the Great Lakes. In the present third state, the engraved frame border h... more information

Leiden: [circa 1720]. Copper-engraved map. (Expert restoration along the side margins). 18 x 21 1/4 inches. Decorative early 18th century map with California as an island. This map was first issued in the German edition of Montanus's De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld in 1671. "The map [i.e. the plate] was later acquired by Pieter Van der Aa and used in at least two of his works ... Van der Aa altered the plate removing the decorative cartouches and applying an entirely new one containing the title ... more information

London: John Boydell, 2 November 1765. Copper engraving, coloured by hand, by Isaac Taylor, from Richard Earlom's design after van Herp. 19 3/8 x 25 1/4 inches. A very fine genre picture, expertly interpreted by Earlom and Walker. The artist of the original work is probably Willem van Herp (not Harp as in the title): the most likely candidate from amongst a prolific family of 16th-century Flemish painters. This good-humored scene shows the interior of a Flemish tavern. A number of guests sit around a t... more information

London: John Boydell, 1 December 1764. Copper engraving, coloured by hand, by William Walker, from Richard Earlom's design after van Herp. 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches. A very fine genre picture, expertly interpreted by Earlom and Walker. The artist of the original work is probably Willem van Herp (not Harp as in the title): the most likely candidate from amongst a prolific family of 16th-century Flemish painters. A riotous scene, full of movement, set in an anteroom in a Flemish tavern. In the foreground a ... more information

Signed 'J Van Huysum' (lower right). Pencil and watercolour, crowned shield with fleur-de-lys watermark. 19 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches. A captivating image of a triple-stemmed spray of spurge laurel with small green flowers with red centres. Jacob van Huysum was born in Amsterdam in about 1687, a member of a renowned family of professional flower painters who enjoyed considerable success in Holland. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659- 1716), and his brother Jan van Huysum (1682-1749). Jacob painted in... more information

Signed `J Van Huysum' (lower right). Pencil and watercolour, crowned shield with fleur-de-lys watermark. 19 5/8 x 12 5/8 inches. A fine image of two stems, the longer topped by a mass of small white flowers, the second much shorter showing the black berries. Jacob van Huysum was born in Amsterdam in about 1687, a member of a renowned family of professional flower painters who enjoyed considerable success in Holland. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659-1716), and his brother Jan van Huysum (1682- 174... more information

Signed 'J Van H' (lower right). Pencil and watercolour, `IV' watermark. 19 1/2 x 13 1/16 inches. A beautiful image of a single Mallow stem with pink flowers. Jacob van Huysum was born in Amsterdam in about 1687, a member of a renowned family of professional flower painters who enjoyed considerable success in Holland. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659-1716), and his brother Jan van Huysum (1682-1749). Jacob painted in much the same manner as his brother, and as with his brother's work, ... more information

Signed `J Van Huysum' (lower right). Pencil and watercolour, `IV' watermark. 20 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. A fine image of a single stem of elder with two bunches of small green flower buds and five main leaves. Jacob van Huysum was born in Amsterdam in about 1687, a member of a renowned family of professional flower painters who enjoyed considerable success in Holland. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659-1716), and his brother Jan van Huysum (1682-1749). Jacob painted in much the same manner as his b... more information

Signed `J Van Huysum' (lower right). Pencil and watercolour, crowned shield with fleur-de-lys watermark. 20 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches. A beautiful image of a single branch of the European lime tree with two small bunches of small green flower buds, flecked with red and yellow, attached to the lower part of the stem. Jacob van Huysum was born in Amsterdam in about 1687, a member of a renowned family of professional flower painters who enjoyed considerable success in Holland. His father was Justus van Huysum (... more information

[Vienna: 1806]. Mezzotints, on wove paper, by J. P. Pichler. Proof before letters, the second signed in the plate `Jan Van Huisium fec.' (margins skillfully strengthened on verso).19 7/8 x 15 1/8 inches approx. 24 3/8 x 18 inches, and smaller. Gilt frame. A very rare pair of proof mezzotints after the work of Jan van Huysum: the 'last of the great Dutch masters' (Mitchell), the `Phoenix of Flower Painters' (Weyerman) "It is the fate of some painters to be celebrated in their lifetime o... more information

London: John Boydell, 1781; 1778. Mezzotints, by Richard Earlom, proofs before titles (some small expert repairs to margins). 20 x 18 5/8 inches approx. 23 1/2 x 18 inches approx. A very rare pair of fine proof mezzotints after the work of Jan van Huysum: the "last of the great Dutch masters'' (Mitchell), the "Phoenix of Flower Painters." (Weyerman) Proofs, both before titles, the first before the motto was added to the Earl of Orford's coat-of-arms. "It is the fate of some... more information

London: John Boydell, 1781. Mezzotint, by Richard Earlom (some paper abrasion to outer blank margins). 20 x 18 5/8 inches. 26 x 19 1/2 inches and smaller. A very fine mezzotint after the work of Jan van Huysum:: the "last of the great Dutch masters'' (Mitchell), the "Phoenix of Flower Painters" (Weyerman). "It is the fate of some painters to be celebrated in their lifetime only and to be disregarded by later generations...Other painters pass their lives in obscurity only to be a... more information

Boston: B.W.Thayer & Co., [1841]. Quarto. (11 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches). Without text, 14 lithographs (1 folding), printed by Thayer & Co, after drawings by Van Lennep (4), Mrs. Hitchcock (4), Joseph Peckham (1) and others. An important selection of early lithographic views of Massachusetts. This charming series are all printed by the important early Boston lithographers B.W.Thayer & Co. and come from Edward Hitchcock's Final report on the geology of Massachusetts (Amherst & Northampton, 1841... more information

[Amsterdam: Jansson, circa 1658]. Hand-coloured copper engraved map. Extensively and expertly restored where image had been cut. 19 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches. A good copy of this rare early map of China. This attractive and important map was first published in Jansson's Atlas Novus in 1658, but remains relatively rare as it appeared in only a few editions of the atlas. It was re-issued from the 1690s onwards by Valk & Schenk who added their imprint to the plate just under the sea-battle between the two w... more information

London: Robert Sayer, circa 1740. Hand-coloured copper engraving, laid down on early board mount. Good condition apart from some light soiling, minor foxing, and a few small bits of adhesive residue in the margins. Trimmed to plate mark on all sides. 10 15/16 x 15 3/4 inches. 11 1/8 x 16 inches. A panoramic view of the thriving port city of Jakarta, the Indonesian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. Originally a village known as Javakarta, Jakarta was renamed Batavia in 1619, when it was captured... more information

Haarlem: Published by Pieter Soutman, circa 1644. Mixed method, engraving and etching. Printed on fine laid paper, with a watermark of a sun. In excellent condition. Image size: 15 11/16 x 10 ¾ inches. 16 x 11 1/8 inches. 20 7/16 x 15 inches. A magnificent portrait of , from a series of portraits of the Hapsburg royals published by Pieter Soutman. This stunning portrait is from a suite of engravings published by Pieter Claesz Soutman. Executed by some of the most noted seventeenth century engravers,... more information