Titles starting with G from Donald Heald Rare Books

Paris: Printed by Bertauts, [no date but circa 1845]. Tinted lithograph. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and several skillfully repaired small tears and losses in the margins. 12 3/4 x 17 1/8 inches. 15 1/4 x 19 inches. An extremely rare lithograph depicting a group of Ioway Indians who traveled to Paris with George Catlin in 1845. This fascinating group portrait is an extremely rare lithograph depicting a group of Ioway Indians who accompanied the American painter George Catlin t... more information

London: B. Moss, 31 December 1852. Aquatint, coloured by hand, by James Pollard. 12 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches. 17 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches. A fine quality image, engraved by James Pollard from his own drawing. Re-issue of a plate first published by T. Helme in 1831 and depicting the famous sportsman George Osbaldeston (1787-1866), "at the Newmarket Houghton meeting [of 1831, where] he performed an extraordinary feat. He undertook to ride two hundred miles in ten consecutive hours for a bet of a thousand guineas,... more information

Paris: [Mabileau & Co.], 1903. Hand-coloured pochoir print. Very good condition. approximately 14 1/8 x 31 1/8 inches. approximately 17 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches. The pass for the lead made by Gabriel over the very recognizable "Shovel-nose". Mors, the driver behind Gabriel, had limited success in these races, this 70 horse power chain-driven car being the exception. There is some confusion as to the actual number on the car during this race, with some records indicating #6 rather than #168 as sho... 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

Paris and Strasbourg: Levrault, [1807-] 1835. Stipple-engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand with water-colour, engraved by Bouquet. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and creasing, minor foxing, and several small light brown spots in the margins. 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches. 15 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches. A masterpiece of pomological illustration by one of the greatest fruit painters of the 19th century, from Duhamel du Monceau's 'Traité des arbres fruitiers', a wo... 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

Paris: Chez Filhol or vueve Filhol, l'imprimerie de Gillé or Gillé fils, 1804-1815. 10 volumes, 8vo. (10 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Half-titles. 720 engraved plates. Contemporary English green straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with simple paneling in gilt and blind, spines gilt in six compartments with double raised bands, the bands highlighted in gilt, lettered in gilt in the second, third and fourth compartments and with decoration at the head and foot of the spine, gilt turn-ins, brown gl... 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. 17 x 12 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, this ach... more information

New York: Published for the Author, Daniel Giraud Elliot, [1870]-1872. Hand-coloured lithograph, finished with gum arabic, after Joseph Wolf by J. Smit, printed by P.W.M. Trap. Very good condition. 23 3/4 x 18 13/16 inches. A beautiful image from the most splendid of Elliot's great monographs, "A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants." The magnificent size and beautiful colouring of the plates after Joseph Wolf's charcoal drawings reflect the importance which Elliot att... more information

New York: Published for the Author, Daniel Giraud Elliot, [1870]-1872. Hand-coloured lithograph after Joseph Wolf by J. Smit and J.G. Keulmans, printed by P.W.M. Trap. Very good condition. 15 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches. 18 x 23 1/4 inches. A beautiful image from the most splendid of Elliot's great monographs, 'A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants'. The magnificent size and beautiful colouring of the plates after Joseph Wolf's charcoal drawings reflect the importance which Ell... more information

[New York]: Pantheon Books, 1957. 4to. (12 x 9 inches). Plates. Publisher's black cloth backed linen boards, upper cover lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt, lacks dust jacket and slipcase. ... 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. 25 1/4 x 36 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

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1858. Small octavo. (7 x 4 3/4 inches). Decorative additional title by Francis Lydon, printed in colours from woodblocks and finished by hand, 13 plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, numerous uncoloured wood-engraved illustrations (a few full-page). Later dark green half morocco over green cloth-covered boards by Bayntun of Bath, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, the others with repeat decoration i... more information

Eichstatt: 1640, 2nd edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 20 3/4 x 16 1/4 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 and peppers. Besler was, ... more information

London: 1981. Silkscreen. Number 2 from an edition of 4. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right. Very good condition. 25 1/8 x 16 3/4 inches. 30 x 22 1/4 inches. A lively early print by the progressive contemporary British artist David Ferry. A printmaker and photomontage specialist who has lectured and exhibited his works worldwide, David Ferry was born in Blackpool in 1957. After studying at the Blackpool College of Technology, he trained at the prestigious Camberwell School of Art and Crafts and t... more information

1771-75: Published by Carlo Palese, Venice. Hand-coloured copper engraving, printed on laid paper. Very good condition apart from some light soiling. 14 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches. 18 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. A charming plate from "Descrizione delgi Animali," one of the most superb Italian natural history books of the eighteenth century. A pupil of the celebrated Italian engraver Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), Innocente Alessandri was an accomplished Venetian engraver. He is best known for the numerous p... more information

London: Published by John Boydell at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand, 1750. Engraving with hand-colour. Printed on watermarked laid paper. In excellent condition with the exception of a small crease on right margin. Image size: 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches. 13 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches. 15 x 20 1/2 inches. A striking view of Gaunant Mawr Waterfall in Northern Wales, from Boydell's series of plates "Collection of One Hundred Views in England and Wales." Towards the middle of the eighteenth centur... more information

[Vienna: 1826-1833]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by Wilhelm Sandler. Very good condition apart from some minor foxing. 15 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches. 20 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches. A very fine image of a Brazilian exotic, from the de luxe large paper hand-coloured issue of Pohl's masterpiece. Pohl's magisterial Plantarum Brasiliae, one of the most important Brazilian floras, was based on the observations and collections that Pohl made while travelling in Brazil from 1817 to 1821. Published upon his return to ... more information

Paris: Mabileau & Co., 1913. Hand-coloured pochoir print. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 15 3/4 x 28 3/8 inches. 17 3/4 x 35 3/8 inches. Organized in 1906 by the Automobile Club of France, the Grand Prix was divided into multiple racing classes based on weight. The lowest of these four classes included motorcyles and tricycles. Here Graeme Fenton races a Clement autocyclette equipped with Pneu Dunlop tires. The Gamy-Montaut prints document various historical events in the e... more information

[Paris: 1801-1806]. Engraving with hand-colouring. Proof before title. 22 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches. Barraband's image effortlessly captures the beauty of one of the most beautiful North American birds Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745- 1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of Sèvres. His ... more information