Titles starting with K from Donald Heald Rare Books

[no date but circa 1840?]. Watercolour view of Kakabeka Falls (Ontario) over pencil, on Whatman Turkey Mill wove paper, inscribed in pencil beneath the image. Excellent condition. Image size: 11 x 15 1/2 inches. 20 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches. A fine original watercolour of the spectacular scenery bordering Lake Superior This is a very fine early watercolour of a great natural wonder, likely painted by one of the several traveling English artists who captured the natural majesty of the Canadian wilderness in the e... 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 Greece... 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 w... 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 w... 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

New York: Fowler & Wells, 1856. 12mo. (7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches). 12pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. 2 full-page maps, the first printed by J.J. Colton using 'aeorgraphy', extra-illustrated with two related newspaper cuttings laid down on the front pastedown. Original dark brown cloth, the covers elaborately blocked in blind, the spine divided into compartments by blind rules, lettered in gilt in the first compartment (neat repairs to head and foot of spine). First edition of "a goo... 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 centur... more information

Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion, 1765. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in excellent condition. 16 x 19 inches. A very attractive and detailed map of the American Southwest and Baja California, by a respected Amsterdam cartographer This highly detailed map, with beautiful full original colour embraces the area from what is now central Arizona and southern California down to Sonora and the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico. The map depicts the region during an especially fascinating time in its dev... 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 McKe... 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 Ori... more information

Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1825. Copper-engraving with full period color. 23 3/8 x 30 11/16 inches. 23 7/8 x 30 3/4 inches. Tanner's 1825 map of Kentucky and Tennessee. Henry Tanner's A New American Atlas was the most distinguished atlas published in America during the nineteenth century. The maps were carefully constructed from the best and most recent surveys. They were finely engraved on a large-scale, printed on high quality paper, and carefully hand colored. Because of the great expense invol... 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 Conf... 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 V... 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 V... 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 ed... more information