Titles starting with A from Donald Heald Rare Books

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his dea... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/4 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until hi... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his dea... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his dea... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 23 1/ 4 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 unti... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 23 1/ 2 x 15 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 unt... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his... more information

Nuremberg: [1751-]1767. Fine hand-coloured engraved plate. 19 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. A fine print from one of the greatest Nuremberg natural history books: "Delices Physiques Choisies, ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un amateur curieux, pour en former un cabinet choisi de curiositez naturelles."… Knorr was one of the leading proto-geologists of the eighteenth century as well as an excellent engraver, painter and art dealer. Bo... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until hi... 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 & New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Quarto. (13 1/4 x 10 inches). Half-title. 28 mounted coloured plates, 86 leaves of uncoloured plates, all after Munnings. Original oatmeal-coloured cloth, lettering blocked in black on upper cover and spine, g.e. (spine worn at head and foot). Trade edition of the first edition of this important record of the artistic career of Britain's greatest 20th-century equestrian artist. 'There was never yet a great artist ... more information

[London: William Faden, circa 1808, maps dated 1778-1808]. Large folio. (22 7/8 x 17 ½ inches). Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress contents leaf. 55 engraved maps or charts, hand-coloured, hand-coloured in outline or with touches of hand-colouring, by Faden, Laurie & Whittle, L.S. de La Rochette, Henry Roberts and others (1 on a single page, 38 double-page, 16 folding). (The four hemisphere maps and the map of the western Mediterranean shaved with slight loss to imprint or image area, 2 ot... more information

London: J. Senex, circa 1721. Copper-engraved map by John Harris, with full modern colour, printed on laid paper, in excellent condition apart from the loss of the lower right corner (well outside platemark) and a re- backed centerfold. 20 5/8 x 24 ¾ inches. A stunning plan of Rome, by the celebrated English mapmaker John Senex. A contemporary of Herman Moll, John Senex was one of the most successful mapmakers during the golden age of English cartography. He issued a series of atlases with John Maxw... more information

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/ 2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until hi... more information

[London: Robert Havell, 1818]. Large folio. (22 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches). 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Havell after William Havell, each with black ruled border at the edge of the image and a buff wash border, on thin card, all on guards. Expertly bound to style in dark green straight-grained morocco, covers with fine decorative border composed from fillets and an arabesque roll-tool of stylized foliage, spine in eight compartments with double raised bands, the bands highlighted in gilt, lettered ... more information

Brussels: imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Colour printed lithograph. 22 1/2 x 14 7/8 inches. A fine Palm tree print, in the tradition of Carl von Martius, from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil." J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 u... 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