Titles starting with K from Donald Heald Rare Books

London: William Mount & Thomas Page, [1734]. Copper-engraved sea chart, in excellent condition. 19 x 22 3/4 inches. A very attractive sea chart of southern Borneo, from the celebrated Third Book of the 'English Pilot' This very attractive sea chart depicts Kalimantan, now the Indonesian section of Borneo and the adjacent part of the Java Sea. While the delineation of the coast is geographically well assured, the interior of the island is shown to be virtually unknown. Inhabited by fierce indig... more information

[Burma: 19th century]. (22 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches). 16 leaves (5 3/16 x 22 1/2 inches), each lacquered in red with elaborate overall decoration in gilt, 14 leaves with lines of black/dark brown lacquer text in square script (known as 'magyi-zi) recto and verso, two leaves with text on one side only. (Gilded decoration rubbed). Unbound between a pair of wooden coverboards, lacquered in red and with gilt decoration on outer surfaces, covers and text leaves with a single hole for tying. All within a dark red... more information

Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. Large quarto. (11 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches). Pp. XXIX [1], 504 pages. Title in blue and black, half-title, text in German. 210 plates and illustrations (a number mounted and/or folding, 61 in colour) of 203 catalogue entries, with 109 supplemental illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, original card slipcase. A fine copy of this beautifully-produced catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky&... more information

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1883. Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Very good condition apart from a skillfully repaired tear in the top margin, skilfully repaired tears at the left and right edges, some marginal soiling, and several minor remnants of an ink stamp in the top left corner of the sheet. 26 1/8 x 17 inches. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics. The revival of interest in Greek ceramics was led by the travellers and cognoscenti who visited Greec... more information

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1883. Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Very good condition apart from a few surface abrasions in the corners and faint remnants of an ink stamp in the top left corner of the sheet. 26 1/8 x 17 inches. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics. The revival of interest in Greek ceramics was led by the travellers and cognoscenti who visited Greece and southern Italy in the mid to late-18th century. The Greek vase as an art form was firs... more information

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1883. Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Very good condition. 24 x 14 1/4 inches. 26 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics. The revival of interest in Greek ceramics was led by the travellers and cogniscenti who visited Greece and southern Italy in the mid to late-18th century. The Greek vase as an art form was first brought to the attention of an appreciative wider audience with the publication of a number of ... more information

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1883. Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Very good condition. 16 1/4 x 23 inches. 17 1/2 x 26 inches. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics. The revival of interest in Greek ceramics was led by the travellers and cogniscenti who visited Greece and southern Italy in the mid to late-18th century. The Greek vase as an art form was first brought to the attention of an appreciative wider audience with the publication of a number of well... more information

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1883. Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Very good condition. 24 1/2 x 16 inches. 26 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics. The revival of interest in Greek ceramics was led by the travellers and cogniscenti who visited Greece and southern Italy in the mid to late-18th century. The Greek vase as an art form was first brought to the attention of an appreciative wider audience with the publication of a number of ... more information

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1883. Colour-printed lithograph by Ernst Wasmuth. Very good condition. 14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches. 26 1/2 inches x 17 1/2 inches. From "Griechische Keramik", Genick's superb work on Greek ceramics. The revival of interest in Greek ceramics was led by the travellers and cogniscenti who visited Greece and southern Italy in the mid to late-18th century. The Greek vase as an art form was first brought to the attention of an appreciative wider audience with the publication of a... more information

[London: Day & Son, 1842-1849]. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe, coloured by hand, mounted on card in imitation of a watercolour (as issued). Fine condition, apart from overall light toning, and slight cockling to paper. 12 7/8 x 19 9/16. Card 16 3/8 x 24 1/8 inches. A fine example from the deluxe issue of David Roberts' monumental works on the Middle East: 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia', considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th centu... more information

[Philadelphia: published by the author, 1835-36]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, printed by Lehman & Duval of Philadelphia. 15 15/16 x 11 1/8 inches. A striking image from Lewis's "Aboriginal Portfolio." KeeMeOne (or KeeMeeWun) is listed as a signer of the Fond du Lac treaty of 1826 between the United States and the Chippewa, which re-confirmed the Prairie du Chien treaty ceding rights to mineral expliration and mining in Chippewa land. This treaty was also signed by Lewis Cass, Thomas Mc... more information

Pencil and watercolour, heightened with gum arabic, within artists's brown-lined border. signed in brown ink. Framed and glazed. 13 x 9 1/8 inches. A fine, technically excellent original botanical illustrations to L'Horticulteur Français de Mil Cent Cinquante. Little is known of Maubert other than the extensive body of published work, which includes illustrations for Francis Boott's Illustrations of the genus Carex (London: 1858-1867); H.Jaubert & E.Spach Illustrationes plantarum Or... more information

London & New York: Field and Tuer [and others in London], Scribner & Welford [in New York], 1888. 56pp. list of subscribers (pp.iii-lviii) to this work; 6pp. list recording the subscribers to "Falkner's History of Kensington 1820" (pp.lix-lxiv), 7pp. publisher's advertisements. Half title, with imprint and manuscript limitation notice of the verso. 3 maps on 5 lithographic sheets. Publisher's brown morocco, covers with gilt fillet at outer border, containing the title in gilt ... more information

London: [Wilson & Ogilvie for] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. Hand-coloured lithograph by Fairland from a drawing by William Nicholson, after a painting by William Shiels. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing. approximately 9 x 11 1/2 inches. approximately 12 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. A beautiful and carefully observed portrait of one of the most historically important breeds of cow, from David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the... more information

Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph. 15 x 10 7/8 inches. A 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 of life. The son of a Seneca mother and the Dutch trader John O'Bail, Ki-On-Twog-Ky or Cornplanter was one of three principal leaders of the Iroquois Con... more information

[Vienna: 1826-1833]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by Wilhelm Sandler. Very good condition apart from some minor foxing. 14 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches. 20 3/4 x 13 5/8 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

[Vienna: 1826-1833]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by Wilhelm Sandler. Very good condition apart from some minor foxing. 14 3/8 x 9 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: P. Didot l'ainé, 1809-1819. Etching with engraving by Berteau, Pillement, and Duparc after Melling, with later professional hand-coluring. Proof before title. Very good condition. 20 1/8 x 33 1/2 inches. 26 3/8 x 41 1/8 inches. A fine view of Kiâhd-Hané, the Sultan's pleasure ground, from Melling's grand work 'Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore' Born in Lorraine in 1763, Antoine Ignace Melling, artist and voyager, was trained in a... 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. 11 x 18 1/4 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 limited ... more information

London: John Boydell, 17 July 1775. Engraving, coloured by hand, by William Elliott. (One expertly repaired tear and some dust soiling to margins). 14 1/8 x 19 7/8 inches. 19 5/16 x 24 5/16 inches. Kilgarren, or rather 'Cilgerran Castle stands on a precipitous, craggy promontory overlooking the river Teifi where it merges with the Plysgog stream. The Teifi here is just at its tidal limit, so the castle was able to control both a natural crossing point and the passage of seagoing ships. We cannot be su... more information