Authors starting with Z from Donald Heald Rare Books

London: Richard Iones, 1581. 100 leaves. Woodcuts on first titlepage and in text. Small quarto. Full gilt morocco by Middleton, spine gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Trimmed close, affecting headlines but not text, some leaves with minor staining and soiling, else good. First English edition of a primary account of Peru The first English edition of one of the most important early histories of the Spanish conquest of Peru, first published in Spanish in 1555. Zarate was sent by the Spanish Crown to... more information

Venice: Antonio Zatta, [1778-1788]. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. 14 3/4 x 22 1/8 inches. An unusual map of Canada depicting the region bounded by the Ottawa River and Hudson Bay. This map is actually one of the 12 sheets which go to make up the Italian edition of John Mitchell's map of North America. The scale of the Italian edition is identical to the original, but it includes numerous additional annotations. The importance of Mitchell's map is difficult to over emphasize: it is... more information

Venice: Antonio Zatta, [1778-1788]. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. 14 3/4 x 22 1/8 inches. An unusual map of Canada principally depicting Lake Superior, but with an inset of the tip of Florida and the Bahamas. The apparently strange juxtaposition of Florida and Lake Superior is explained by the fact that this map is actually one of the 12 sheets which go to make up the Italian edition of John Mitchell's map of North America. The scale of the Italian edition is identical to the original... more information

Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1926-1960. 35 'années', most in parts, bound into 30 volumes, quarto. (12 x 9 1/4 inches approx.). Numerous plates (some mounted, coloured, original pochoirs or lithographs) after Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and many others, numerous illustrations, supplements bound in as required (see below). (Lacking 'Année' 9, issue No.9-10, and the index volume). Variously bound: t... more information

Florence: 1744. Copper-engraving by Bernardo Sgrilli after Zocchi, the figures by Zocchi. 21 7/8 x 29 ¼ inches. A very fine image of 18th- century Florence by one of the four greatest view painters of the period `The Hospital and Piazza of Santa Maria Nuova… The portico which renders this piazza one of the most beautiful in Florence was designed by Bernardo Buontalenti. The construction of the loggia progressed at slow and infrequent intervals: the first campaign took place 1612-16 under the ... more information

Florence: 1744. Copper-engraving by Baldassare Gabbugiani of Rome after Zocchi. 23 3/8 x 30 5/8 inches. A very fine image of 18th-century Florence by one of the four greatest view painters of the period `The Strozzi Palace and the Street leading to the Ponte Santa Trinita… [In] the foreground [is] the magnificent Renaissance palace begun in 1489 for Filippo Strozzi. The names of several designers and architects have been associated with the palace: Benedetto da Maiano, Guliano da Sangallo, and Cronaca... more information

London: [the first:] J.R. Smith, W. Humphreys & Birchall; [the second:] J. Young, 9 September 1780 and 12 September 1784. Mezzotints, the first by John Raphael Smith, the second by John Young. 13 5/8 x 10 3/4; 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches. 18 3/8 x 13 1/2; 17 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches. Two very fine mezzotints by two of the greatest engravers of their day, after the society artist Joseph Zoffany. These two fine character studies represent what are probably Zoffany's only two works in this genre, and perhaps we... more information

[Mulhouse, Alsace, France: Engelmann père & fils for Jean Zuber, circa 1850]. Folio. (19 1/4 x 14 inches). Lithographed throughout: uncoloured title, 73 images by Engelmann after P.A. Mongin, J.J. Déltil, J.M. Gué, Zippélius, Ehrmann, Fuchs and others on 41 sheets (15 sheets with fine contemporary hand-colouring, 4 of these heightened with gum arabic, including two images in both coloured and uncoloured state). (The final sheet cut dwon and loosely inserted, the 4th and 5th ... more information