Titles starting with L from Donald Heald Rare Books

[London]: 1839. Lithograph by Shotter Boys. Printed in colours by Charles Hullmandel, deluxe edition, trimmed to the subject as issued, mounted on archival mount. 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. A very fine image from Boys' 'Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen &c': ''a work of exceeding beauty' (Abbey) and one of the most important in the history of English colour-printing. This print represents part of what was the first serious challenge to the supremacy in Engla... more information

Paris: Chez l'auteur rue s.Jacques au dessous de la rue Mathurins a l'Enseigne de la Place des Victoires, 1740. Copper-engraved wall map, with original outline colour, of four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets, backed onto old linen, with contemporary wooden rollers, overall in very good condition. 49 x 55 inches. A rare and monumental wall map of Africa by a great French master of cartography. Jean-Baptiste Nolin was one of the most accomplished and certain... more information

Paris: [Mabileau & Co.], 1911. Hand-coloured pochoir print. Very good condition. approximately 31 x 15 1/8 inches. approximately 35 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Modern lightning. The Gamy-Montaut prints document various historical events in the early history of motorized transportation, including Power Boat Racing, Motorcycle and Motor Car Racing, Motor Car Touring, Zeppelins and Airplanes. Having observed the rapidly growing interest in cars and racing during the early years of motor cars, Ernest Montaut ( ... more information

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving. Very good condition. Trimmed inside plate mark on three sides. 11 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches. 13 x 9 3/4 inches. 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 most important work was undoubtedly the 300 or... more information

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by hand, engraved by Bouquet, printed by Langlois. Very good condition. Trimmed within plate mark on three sides. 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches. 13 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches. 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 S... more information

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by hand, engraved by Bouquet, printed by Langlois. Very good condition. Trimmed within plate mark on three sides. 11 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches. 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 S... more information

Paris: M[ademois]elle DuVal, dated 1679 [but 1688]. Copper-engraved wall map, with original outline colour, from Duval's "Carte de Geographie," on four unjoined sheets, expertly re-margined with laid paper on two sides of each sheet, compensating margins at the places where the maps were previously joined. Each sheet 19 1/8 x 23 5/8 inches, if joined the sheets would form a map measuring 34 x 45 inches. A magnificent seventeenth century wall map of the Americas and the Western Hemisphere by ... more information

Paris: Chez l'Auteur Rue St. Jacques au dessus de la Rue des Mathurins a lensgne. de la Place des Victoires, 1740. Copper-engraved wall map, with original outline colour, composed from four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets, backed onto old linen, with contemporary wooden rollers. 49 x 55 inches. First state of a rare and monumental wall map of the Americas by a great French master of cartography. Jean-Baptiste Nolin was one of the most accomplished and certainl... more information

Paris: Chez l'Auteur Rue St. Jacques au dessus de la Rue des Mathurins a lensgne. de la Place des Victoires, 1740. Copper-engraved wall map, with original outline colour, on four unjoined sheets, each 21 5/8 x 28 inches, if joined would form a map measuring approximately 40 x 49 1/2 inches, in excellent condition. A rare and highly decorative large-scale map of the Americas, and one of the finest masterpieces produced by the Nolin family. Jean-Baptiste Nolin was one of the most accomplished and certain... more information

Paris: "chez l'Auteur sur le quai de l'Horloge", 1700 [1718]. Copper- engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. 21 x 28 1/4 inches. A foundation map of America. "In 1700, Claude and Guillaume De L'Isle [first] published their foundation map of North America. What better way to usher in the eighteenth century cartographically than with this significant and influential map. It encapsulates an era in which the French exemplified a reliance on scientific mapping and beautiful... more information

Paris: "Chez l'Auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge", 1700 [circa 1708]. Copper- engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches. A foundation map of America. "In 1700, Claude and Guillaume De L'Isle [first] published their foundation map of North America. What better way to usher in the eighteenth century cartographically than with this significant and influential map. It encapsulates an era in which the French exemplified a reliance on scientific mapping and... more information

Paris: 1746. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Table at the bottom left. 21 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches. Mid-18th century French map of North and South America showing the latest Russian and English discoveries in the Arctic: one of the earliest depictions of the discoveries of Bering's second expedition. This decorative map by Le Rouge shows North and South America, with the discoveries of Charlevoix and Condamine added in Canada and the Amazon, respectively. Interestingly, it also show... more information

Paris: Typographie Chr. Krüsi, 1885. Small folio. (15 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches). [4], [1, verso blank], 47 pp. French text in two columns. 31 albumen photographs on captioned mounts (one signed in the image by Samuel Bourne, another by Robert Phillips, the others unsigned). (Scattered foxing to the text, repaired tear to one text leaf). Publisher's red pebbled cloth, front cover decoratively tooled with a gilt and black border and titled in gilt, rear cover with a decoratively tooled black border, spin... more information

Paris: Société Française d'Editions d'Art, 1898. Quarto. (10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches). Two-colour decorative title and additional title, numerous illustrations, many printed in a tone, 128 plates printed recto and verso of 64 leaves, most printed in a tone. Contemporary dark blue half morocco by J. Kauffmann, the flat spine with an overall design incorporating an onlaid shaped red morocco panel lettered in gilt with the author and title, the area above tooled with small flowerheads a... more information

Paris: Chez J.B. Nolin le Fils Geografe sur le Quay de l'Horloge du Palais a l'Enseigne de la Place des Victoires entre le Rue de Harlay et le Pont Neuf, 1740. Copper-engraved wall map, with original outline colour, of four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets, backed onto old linen, with contemporary wooden rollers, overall in very good condition. 49 x 55 inches. A rare and monumental wall map of Asia by one of the great French masters of cartography. Jean-Bap... more information

Paris: 1684. Engraved with period outline colour. Good condition, expertly repaired split at centerfold and parallel tear from the base. Mild toning due to age. Small crease lower left. 16 1/4 x 20 3/4 inches. 18 x 24 inches. Pierre Duval was Nicholas Sanson's nephew, and his work was primarily editing and augmenting Sanson's innovative cartography. He and Hubert Jaillot were most important in bringing Sanson's work to the world, both in improved editions and in bringing to print previously un... more information

Paris: Published by Verlag von Goupil Cie., Berlin, Coupil et Co., New York, Goupil et Cie. Paris et London, 1854. Hand-coloured lithograph. Goupil Publishers blindstamp, Paris. Good condition apart from some overall light foxing and a 2" loss in the bottom right corner. 17 1/8 x 17 5/8 inches. 19 3/8 x 26 1/4 inches. A fine plate from the series 'Les Touristes', which chronicled Guérard's trip through Switzerland, Savoy and Bavaria. Set in a congested street of the German town of S... more information

London: J. Edwards, 1794 [plates watermarked 1794]. Folio. (15 7/8 x 12 inches). Text in English and French. Hand-coloured engraved title in French, 45 hand-coloured engraved plates (1 unnumbered anatomical key plate, 44 plates of butterflies and moths and their transformations numbered I-XLIV). Extra-illustrated with the engraved frontispiece from the first edition. Contemporary dark green straight grained morocco, by C. Hering (with his binder's ticket on the front endpaper), covers bordered in gilt,... more information

Paris: Chez l'Auteur Sur le Quai de l'Horloge, 1701. Engraved Simmoneau with period outline colour. Minor soiling and discolouration in top margin and top of centerfold of the map. Skilfully repaired tears at the top of the centerfold, otherwise good condition. 18 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches. 20 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches. This handsome, topographical map of Spain and Portugal is from Atlas de Géographie, De l'Isle's great atlas. Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726) was son of a cartographer and ... more information