Titles starting with C from Donald Heald Rare Books

London: Published by Lloyd Brothers & Co., circa 1858. Albumen photograph mounted on card as issued. Very good condition apart from some light soiling in the margins. 14 x 9 5/8 inches. 19 1/4 x 14 3/16 inches. A stunning image from the series "Portraits of Eminent British Artists" by one of the leading figures of early Victorian photography. This beautiful photograph pictures the accomplished historical painter Charles West Cope (1811-1890) engaged in the act of sketching. The son of the lan... more information

[London?: 1715]. Broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Small folio. Antique style half calf and marbled boards. Some very minor foxing, else near fine. Maryland restored to the Lords Baltimore In 1689, following the Glorious Revolution, the royal charter to Maryland was withdrawn from the Roman Catholic Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, who had inherited the colony from his father, Cecil Calvert, Maryland's first proprietary governor, in 1675. While Maryland was in direct possessio... more information

Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1836. Hand-coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King's copy of James Otto Lewis' portrait made at the Butte des Morts council in 1827. 21 x 14 1/2 inches. An early impression and fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way o... more information

Philadelphia: J. and T. Doughty, 1830-1833-[1834]. 2 volumes, quarto. (11 x 9 1/4 inches). Text in two columns. 2 uncoloured steel-engraved titles with vignettes, 2 uncoloured steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, 49 plates (1 uncoloured wood-engraving, 1 uncoloured steel-engraving, 1 hand- coloured steel-engraving after Thomas Doughty and 46 hand-coloured lithographs by Thomas Doughty [23], M.E.D. Brown [11], J.G. Clonney [8] and others). Extra-illustrated with the front and rear wrappers from Vol. 1, n... more information

London: W. Brown and A. O'Neil, 1793. [2],xvi,266,[48]pp. plus twenty-nine plates. Contemporary reverse calf, sympathetically rebacked with original leather label laid down. Corners worn, boards a bit scuffed. Contemporary bookplate, defaced, on front pastedown. Minor soiling and foxing. Second edition, with additions. Price guide issued by the London Society of Cabinet Makers, intended to simplify the calculations for the "price of executing any piece of work." The text details extensive p... more information

Paris: 1771. Engraving, coloured by hand. Framed. 14 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches. 20 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. A very fine image from the most intriguing illustrated natural history work of the 18th century. The Metamorphosis is justifiably Merian's most famous work, resulting from her trip with her daughter Dorothea to Surinam in 1699. The two women spent two years studying and recording plants and insects under incredibly difficult conditions. They returned to Amsterdam with finished drawings, sketches, and spec... more information

[Paris: 1812-1814]. Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, engraved by Coutant. Very good condition, with the exception of some small losses at the top of the sheet edge, and a skilfully repaired 2" tear at top left. 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. A fine plate from Bonpland's "Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre" considered to be the apex of Redouté's achievement as a botanical illustrator. Throughout his career, ... more information

London: S. & J. Fuller and J.F. Herring, 15 July 1828. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by R.G. Reeve. 12 5/8 x 17 1/4 inches. 15 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches. A fine print from the 'Winners of the Derby Series': a 'benchmark' sporting print in terms of the "quality of painting, engraving and printing" (Lane) Herring is an outstanding and imaginative artist who at an early age showed an aptitude for handling both riding whip and pencil. At a young age, fate took Herr... 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

[London: Day & Son, 1842-1849]. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 13 1/8 x 19 3/8 inches. 15 5/8 x 22 1/4 inches. A fine example from David Roberts' monumental works on the Middle East: 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia', considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th century. Roberts' masterpiece was issued in 41 parts over seven years. It is beautifully lithographed by Louis Haghe, t... more information

Paris: chez l'Editeur.. Imprime par Sauniée, 1832. 19 5/16 x 23 ½ inches. A fine and rare separately issued view of the main French port on the north coast after `one of the earliest and most accomplished of English water-colourists' (DNB Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by Paul Legrand after Francia, printed by Sauniée. Francia (1772-1839) `was born at Calais…, and was brought early in life to London by his father, a refugee… He commenced to exhibit at the Royal Acad... more information

Vienna: Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, [1855-1856]. 'Nature printed' in brown ink, with titling and imprint in black, by the Vienna Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 18 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. 22 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches. A beautiful example from "most important work produced by nature printing ever published" (Stafleu). To the modern eye this plate has an almost photographic beauty to it, which, in aesthetic terms, foreshadows the work of the great early-20th century photographers such as Man Ray. However, ... more information

London: [E.G. Henderson & Son, 1857-1859]. Zincograph by C.T. Rosenberg, coloured by hand, printed by C.F. Cheffins & Sons. 14 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches. A beautiful image from one of the greatest 19th-century female botanical artists, originally published in the very rare 'The Illustrated Bouquet' Charlotte Caroline Sowerby was a member of a highly talented family that was involved at the highest levels in many aspects of natural history publishing in the middle of the 19th century. Unfortunately... more information

Eichstatt: 1713, 3rd editioin. Hand-coloured engraving. In excellent condition. 20 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. Basil Besler published "Hortus Eystettensis", the earliest large folio botanical, at Eichstatt near Nuremburg, in 1613. He worked on the drawings for the 374 copper engravings over a period of sixteen years using the plants in the garden of Bishop Johann Conrad von Gemmingen, his patron. Depicted in this florilegium were flowers, herbs, vegetables and newly discovered plants such as tobacco ... more information

[Paris: 1812-1814]. Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, engraved by Legrand. Very good condition. 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. A fine plate from Bonpland's "Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre" considered to be the apex of Redouté's achievement as a botanical illustrator. Throughout his career, Redouté enjoyed royal patronage, beginning with Marie Antoinette and including the Empress Josephine, for whom he s... more information

Monterey & San Francisco: August 29, 1846 - September 15, 1847. 27 numbers, quarto (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches) (vol.I, 21 issues) and folio (18 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches) (vol.II, 6 issues). Each 4pp. (No. 3 has large hole through both leaves with loss of some text, no. 5 is silked and separated at fold, no. 15 silked, no. 28 has small hole, no. 29 silked and separated at fold with small hole and corner missing, four numbers of volume II have small sections missing, either clipped or torn out). Contained in two h... more information

Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-72. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. 36 7/8 x 24 1/2 inches. 26 3/4 x 39 7/8 inches (approx). In October 1971, employing the most faithful printing method available, the best materials and the ablest craftsmen of their age, the Amsterdam firm of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., in conjunction with the Johnson Reprint Corporation of New York, set out to produce the finest possible limit... more information

New York: V.G. Audubon, [no date but circa 1849-1854]. Hand-coloured lithograph, after J.J. Audubon by E. Hitchcock, printed by J.T. Bowen. Very good condition apart from some slight marginal soiling. 9 x 5 1/4 inches. 7 x 10 1/4 inches. 'The plates are to my eye most beautiful' (John Bachman). A fine image from the first octavo edition of Audubon's final great natural history work on the quadrupeds of the United States (including Texas, California and Oregon), as well as part of Mexico, the Br... more information

Vienna: Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, [1855-1856]. 'Nature printed' in brown ink, with titling and imprint in black, by the Vienna Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 22 3/4 x 16 inches. A beautiful example from "most important work produced by nature printing ever published" (Stafleu). To the modern eye this plate has an almost photographic beauty to it, which, in aesthetic terms, foreshadows the work of the great early-20th century photographers such as Man Ray. However, this achievement is almost c... more information

Eichstatt: 1613, 1st edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 21 x 17 1/2 inches. Basil Besler published "Hortus Eystettensis", the earliest large folio botanical, at Eichstatt near Nuremburg, in 1613. He worked on the drawings for the 374 copper engravings over a period of sixteen years using the plants in the garden of Bishop Johann Conrad von Gemmingen, his patron. Depicted in this florilegium were flowers, herbs, vegetables and newly discovered plants such as tobacco and peppers. Besler was, in mo... more information