Titles starting with M from Donald Heald Rare Books

Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-72. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. 18 5/8 x 11 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

Paris: 1771. Engraving, coloured by hand. "J. Mulder sculpt." Framed. 14 3/4 x 10 7/8 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 finishe... more information

Paris: Charles Bance & Aumont, circa 1800. Aquatint engraving printed in colour à la poupée on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, and a skillfully repaired small loss in the left margin. Trimmed close to plate mark on all sides. 18 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches. 18 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches. A striking beautifully coloured engraving after the renowned 17th-century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. A representation of Rubens' sister-in-law, Susanna Lu... more information

circa 1810. Hand-coloured engraving by Basire after a drawing by the architectural draughtsman Hugh O'Neill. Printed on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, and a mild water stain in the top margin. 13 5/16 x 17 3/4 inches. 14 5/8 x 20 7/8 inches. A picturesque view of the spires and surrounding landscape of Oxford's historic Magdalene College, from "The Oxford Almanack." The Oxford Almanack was a series of broadsides annually published by O... more information

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994. 2 volumes, quarto. (10 x 8 inches). Text vol: title printed in red and black, numerous illustrations, some tinted, some coloured, a few mounted; "Blow Book": 4pp. of operating instructions in Spanish and English, otherwise illustrated throughout with double-page illustrations by Vija Celmins, Jane Hammond, Glenn Ligon, Justin Ladda, Philip Taaffe, or William Wegman, each leaf illustrated on one side only, each leaf with a rectangular strip excised fr... more information

[Leipzig: Schmidt and Guenther, 1922]. Aquatint engraving by Ch. Vogel after Bodmer. 12 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches. From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. (David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 85, p.18) This spiritually charged scene of great ritualistic significance to the Assiniboin (or Stoney) Indians was painted ... more information

Amsterdam: Peter Schenck, c. 1750. Engraved with full, period colour. Mild soiling in margins, several small tears and losses at edges. 18 3/8 x 22 1/8 inches. 22 1/8 x 26 1/4 inches. A handsome map of Great Britain celebrating the ascendancy of William III. A highly detailed map of Great Britain that commemorates in elaborate, Baroque cartouches the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that brought William of Orange to the British throne. Beneath a portrait of William, who is attended by a trumpet blowing cherub a... more information

London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. Folio. (12 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches). Double-page engraved map of New England and New York. Without errata leaves as usual. (Expert restoration to title and map). Expertly bound to style in 18th-century calf, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, brown morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, the others with overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. A first edition of the greatest history of New England: a landmark in colonial New Eng... more information

London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. Folio. (12 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches). Double-page engraved map of New England and New York. Without errata leaves as usual. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century speckled calf, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, maroon morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, the others with overall repeat decoration in gilt. A first edition of the greatest history of New England: a landmark in colonial New England history, The first edition of what Howes cal... more information

[Nuremberg]: 1750-1773. Engraving, coloured by hand, by J.J. or J.E.Haid. Very good condition. 17 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. 20 x 14 1/4 inches. A very fine image from Trew's 'Plantae Selectae', one of the greatest of all eighteenth-century botanical books, drawn by the greatest of eighteenth- century botanical artists, George Dionysius Ehret. Linnaeus, wrote to Trew, in Latin, that "The miracles of our century in the natural sciences are your work of Ehret's plants...nothing to equal them w... more information

Paris: [C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827-1833]. Stipple engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand, engraved by Langlois. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing. 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches. A beautiful image from "Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs": one of greatest flower books ever published by the most celebrated flower painter of all time. Pierre-Joseph Redouté was one of the world's great flower painters. Born into a family that had been painters for at lea... more information

[Paris: 1812-1814]. Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, engraved by Legrand. Very good condition. 21 7/8 x 14 3/8 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

New York: Published [by Colton] for Hoyt, Fogg, & Breed, Portland, Maine, 1871. Full period color, 12¼ x 15¾ inches. Minor repairs. A folding sheet map with time tables for various Maine railroads printed on the verso. An interesting example of a Colton map that has been adapted for a special purpose. The map originally appeared in 1855 in Colton's Atlas of the World. This revised edition was especially prepared for railroad use through the addition of the railroad time tables on t... 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. 19 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, this... more information

London: Edward Owen, 1753. Quarto. 46pp. plus two folding tables. Light staining to last leaf. Slight worming in outer margin of last few leaves, not affecting text. Very good. Disbound. Pamphlet dealing with international law and the British seizure of Prussian ships. The second table is entitled, "List of all the Prussian ships taken by British armaments at sea, during the last war, as well those detained for examination only, as those judicially proceeded upon, together with the judgments given in... more information

Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Lithograph, hand-colored and printed by J. T. Bowen after a Charles Bird King portrait done in 1835. In excellent condition.11 x 9 inches. 18 x 12 3/4 inches. A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' of an eminent Cherokee leader, who encouraged his people to adopt elements of white culture to preserve their homeland, and later accepted removal to Arkansas where he was killed by fellow Cherokees. Major Ridge, Nunna Hidihi in Cherok... more information

London: Published by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, May 22, 1787. Mezzotint. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition with the exception of two skilfully mended tears in upper margin outside the platemark. Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches. 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches. 12 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches. This is a lovely rich impression of this hunting scene which perfectly demonstrates Seymour's artistry and Burford's skill as an engraver. James Seymour is recognized as one of the earliest English sporting arti... more information

Signed 'J Van H' (lower right). Pencil and watercolour, `IV' watermark. 19 1/2 x 13 1/16 inches. A beautiful image of a single Mallow stem with pink flowers. Jacob van Huysum was born in Amsterdam in about 1687, a member of a renowned family of professional flower painters who enjoyed considerable success in Holland. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659-1716), and his brother Jan van Huysum (1682-1749). Jacob painted in much the same manner as his brother, and as with his brother's work, ... more information

Eichstatt: 1640, 2nd edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 20 3/4 x 16 3/8 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

Eichstatt: 1713, 3rd edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 20 7/8 x 16 7/8 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