Search Results: Titles starting with I from Donald Heald Rare Books

[Frankfurt, 1627. 15 1/8 x 12 7/16. Copper engraved map. Uncoloured, on laid paper. The first Modern European map of India. Copper engraved map of modern-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, published by Wilhelm Fitzer the successor to Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Israel de Bry (1565-1609), the sons of Theodor de Bry. This version of the map includes the original Mughal seal with its contents in Persian Script. The map is closely related to that of William Baffin, its use of original script in Jahangir's dynastic seal in the upper right precludes the De Bry edition having been derived directly from the printed Baffin map. Baffin is widely understood to be the author of the manuscript map on which the printed map is based, having prepared it for Sir Thomas Roe's 1617 geographical commpendium on India. Susan Gole, in Early Maps of India, lists six states or editions of the Baffin map of India but did not record the present version. A comparison of this edition with the original Baffin… Read More

Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. Image size: 37 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches. Sheet size: 26 3/4 x 39 7/8 inches (approx). [Pl. 366]. 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 edition facsimile of the greatest bird book ever printed: the Havell edition of John James Audubon's well-loved "Birds of America". The Curators of the Teyler's Museum in Haarlem, Holland made their copy of the original work available for use as a model. The Museum, founded in 1778, bought their copy through Audubon's son as part of the original subscription in 1839. After long deliberation, the extremely complex but highly accurate process of colour… Read More

Paris: printed by François-Ambroise Didot l'ainé, published by Alexandre Jombert, jeune, 1783. Large quarto. (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). Half-title, title with wood-engraved vignette, letterpress dedication with engraved armorial headpiece printed in colours. 11 engraved plates (10 folding) printed in colours "en manière de pastel" by Louis-Marin Bonnet "premier Graveur en ce genre", each plate hinged to the upper margin of the relevant caption leaf, as issued. Contemporary tree calf, covers bordered in gilt, flat spine divided in compartments with gilt roll tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers The first edition of a work of great importance to the history of the development of colour printing. One of the most successful eighteenth century experiments in colour-printing, this is the only book illustrated by Bonnet, the inventor of pastel manner engraving, or "gravure en maniere de pastel." The crayon manner technique for… Read More

[Leipzig: Schmidt and Guenther, 1922. Aquatint engraving by Hürlimann and Himely after Bodmer, issue with date. 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 image was printed from plates attributing the print to three different engravers: 'Ch. Vogel', 'Himely' and 'Hürlimann et Himely'. A highly atmospheric scene executed by Bodmer during the winter of 1833-1834 when the travelers stayed at Fort Clark on the banks of the upper reaches of Missouri River. The hide-wrapped poles represent the sun and the moon, which in turn are symbols of two of the most powerful Mandan deities: the Lord of Life (creator of all things) and the Old Woman Who Never Dies, who was associated with corn and buffalo. The Mandan standing before the effigies is apparently seeking the help of… Read More

Paris and Coblenz, 1842. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by Vogel. Titles in German and French. 1st state. A highly atmospheric scene executed by Bodmer during the winter of 1833-1834 when the travelers stayed at Fort Clark on the banks of the upper reaches of Missouri River. The hide-wrapped poles represent the sun and the moon, which in turn are symbols of two of the most powerful Mandan deities: the Lord of Life (creator of all things) and the Old Woman Who Never Dies, who was associated with corn and buffalo. The Mandan standing before the effigies is apparently seeking the help of these sacred beings. In Mandan life no important decisions or undertakings were made without this sort of consultation, which generally involved fasting and offerings or sacrifices. Karl Bodmer's images show great versatility and technical virtuosity and give us a uniquely accomplished and detailed picture of a previously little understood (and soon to vanish) way of life. Swiss-born Bodmer was engaged by Prince… Read More

Paris, Coblenz and London, 1842. Aquatint engraving by Ch. Vogel after Bodmer, proof on india paper mounted, issue without imprint or English title, blindstamp. Rare India proof of the Vogel plate. This image was printed from plates attributing the print to three different engravers: 'Ch. Vogel', 'Himely' and 'Hürlimann et Himely'. A highly atmospheric scene executed by Bodmer during the winter of 1833-1834 when the travelers stayed at Fort Clark on the banks of the upper reaches of Missouri River. The hide-wrapped poles represent the sun and the moon, which in turn are symbols of two of the most powerful Mandan deities: the Lord of Life (creator of all things) and the Old Woman Who Never Dies, who was associated with corn and buffalo. The Mandan standing before the effigies is apparently seeking the help of these sacred beings. In Mandan life no important decisions or undertakings were made without this sort of consultation, which generally involved fasting and offerings or sacrifices. Karl… Read More

Vienna: Johann Singriener for Lukas Alantse, 1520. [8], 151, [32]pp.; [56] leaves. Contemporary green-stained vellum. Some light wear and soiling, ties lacking. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good, in unsophisticated original condition. Important classical geography in a contemporary sammelband. A contemporary sammelband containing a pair of works by two important early geographers. Solinus (ca. 250 A.D.) was a Roman geographer of some repute. His Polyhistor... was first published by Nicholas Jenson in Venice in 1473. Mela was the earliest Roman geographer, writing around 43 A.D. Both works have extensive indexes. Only four copies of either title located by VD16 online. An interesting and handsome volume combining the two most important geographical sources of the ancient world. VD16 S6965, M2312.

Florence: Philippo di Guntia, 1729. Large 8vo. (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). [7], 284 ff. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered direct in gilt (covers a bit soiled and bowed) The classic masterpiece of early Italian prose. This series of one hundred novellas set against the background of a plague-ridden Florence would have a profound influence on Renaissance literature throughout Europe. Although dated 1527 on the title, this edition, edited by Stefano Orlandinin and printed at the cost of Salvatore Ferrari, was in fact printed in Venice in 1729 as a facsimile of the Giunta 1527 edition. It is sometimes referred to as the Consul Smith edition, after Joseph Smith (1682-1770), the British consul at Venice, and noted book collector, who was involved in its production. Adams, B 2147; Brunet I, 999; Graesse I, 440.

[London: J. Carpenter, 1827. Lithograph, after Langlois, printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. This plate, from Charles Le Brun's study of human types and animals, demonstrates the resemblance between a man and a horse. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) was a painter, architect, designer and author. He studied with Vouet and Poussin. Being acquainted with Colbert, he became one of Louis XIV's primary assistants in the designing and decorating of Versailles and other royal building projects. He also wrote an essay on physiognomy: an edition was published in 1827 ("Dissertation sur un traité de Charles Le Brun concernant le rapport de la physionomie humaine avec celle des animaux"). The present image is from this edition, which included lithographic plates printed by Engelmann Graf Coindet & Co. after various artists.

London: Published and Sold by the Author at his House in Dorset Court near Parliament Street, 1777. 3 volumes. Folio. (20 1/2 x 14 inches). First edition. 104 engraved plates in both hand-colored and uncolored states plus 4 hand-colored engraved plates of botanical details. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title, preface, subscription list, explanation of classes. Each uncolored plate with an accompanying descriptive letterpress leaf. Unpaginated. Contemporary full calf with roll-tooled gilt foliate, gilt-patterned board edges, bindings uniform across set, seven raised bands forming eight compartments on a richly gilt-patterned spine, gilt-lettered red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment and brown morocco in third, all edges gilt and sprinkled red Excellent example of Miller's prodigious Linnæan herbal with plates in two states. "An immense work . . . illustrated in a style of unprecedented elegance." [Lettsom] "More beautiful and more accurate than any since the world began."… Read More

Boston & Cincinnati: stereotyped and printed by Fulsom, Wells & Thurston of Cambridge, Mass. for Weeks, Jordan & Co. of Boston and Edward Lucas & Co. of Cincinnati, 1838. Folio. (19 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches). Engraved additional title with integral hand-coloured decorative pictorial surround, 39 hand-coloured engraved maps and town-plans (34 maps [one double-page], 5 town-plans), by G.W.Boynton and others. Contemporary light brown half morocco over embossed cloth-covered boards, brown morocco title label on the upper cover, lettered in gilt, the spine divided into five compartments by wide semi-raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers Provenance: Theodore Sutton Parvin (1817-1901, Burlington, Iowa, inscription dated 15 August 1838 on additional title) A fine copy of "one of the first American general atlases to supplement the maps with lengthy geographical descriptions" (Ristow), with detailed maps of the 28 States, and including an excellent early map of the Republic of… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1844. Large quarto. (12 1/16 x 9 5/8 inches). [15], 144pp. 62 hand-coloured plates. Publisher's red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Second edition, "greatly enlarged," of this classic catalogue of mollusca with beautifully hand-colored plates. Thomas Brown was a British naturalist and malacologist. He gained the title of captain in 1811, after rising through the ranks of the Forfar and Kincardine Militia, which he joined at the age of 21. Brown created paintings for the first European edition of Wilson's American Ornithology and edited Oliver Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature, In 1838, he became a curator of the Manchester Natural History Society's Museum and was later elected fellow of the Linnean Society and president of the Royal Physical Society. He wrote a number of natural history books which he also illustrated and coloured. First published in 1827 (with only 53 plates), this enlarged edition of Brown's beautiful catalogue of mollusks of the… Read More

London: Colnaghi, 1828. Folio. (19 15/16 x 13 1/2 inches). 2pp. descriptive text, headed 'reference to the plates', 2pp. list of subscribers, 1 uncoloured lithographic battle-plan, 12 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by Charles Hullmandel after Reinagle, occasionally heightened with gum arabic. (Light marginal dust-soiling to a few plates). 20th-century half sheep, upper cover with mounted red morocco label titled in gilt within a gilt border, spine in seven compartments with wide raised bands, the bands tooled in gilt, the second compartment lettered in gilt, the others with overall tooling in blind. A complete set of this vivid eye-witness record of the sea-battle in the bay at Navarino between the Turkish fleet and the allied British, French and Russian fleet under the overall command of Admiral Codrington. A dramatic record of the action at Navarin by Reinagle, who was on board H.M.S. Mosquito. No title was issued with this series. Following on from the success of the present work,… Read More

New York: Eliphalet M. Brown Jr., 1856. Elephant folio. 6 lithographic plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by G.W. Lewis (1), J. Sarony & Co (4) and Boell & Michelin (1), all after Heine. Without the lithographed title (as usual). Magnificent and very rare complete set of Heine's elephant folio-sized lithographic record of Perry in Japan: in scale, scope, and quality of execution, this work includes what is arguably the finest lithographic work ever produced in the United States. William Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip, the first, the greatest and the rarest of which is the present group consisting of a title and six plates. These were overseen by the expedition's daguerreotypist Eliphalet Brown, who was also an excellent artist and lithographer. The total number of sets of printed is not known, but, it is recorded that Brown gave… Read More

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1830. 8vo. (9 7/8 x 6 11/16 inches). viii, 388. [4] pp. The final [4] pp. contains a list of political caricatures recently published by M'Lean. Half calf over marbled boards, flat spine ruled in six compartments, lettered in the second The very rare text volume, limited to 100 copies published, that accompanied Gillray's famous collection of satirical prints Widely considered the father of the political cartoon, James Gillray used his vicious humour and unparalleled draughtsmanship to produce some of the greatest political satire in history, providing foundations for an unapologetically British art form. His lively cartoons of George III, Napoleon I, William Pitt, and countless other characters were extremely popular with the public at the time and left a lasting impression upon eighteenth-century politics in England. Indeed, the author of Illustrative Description, possibly the publisher Thomas M'Lean, observes that his subject is 'universally allowed to have been the most… Read More

London: J.E. Adlard for Henry G.Bohn, 1866. In two volumes; 8vo. (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches). Deluxe issue of the 'tenth edition.' [Vol. I] viii, 264; [Vol. II] viii, 265, (1) pp. Illustrated with 313 hand-coloured etchings on 180 plates, including 3 hand-coloured maps (1 folding). Publisher's red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spines in six compartments with raised bands, black and brown morocco lettering-pieces in the second and fourth compartments, the others with alternate decoration of either a large tool of a shoulder-length portrait of an Indian, or a tool showing a crossed peace-pipe and tomahawk, marbled endpapers, gilt edges Deluxe coloured issue, one of twelve copies with the plates printed in outline and entirely coloured by hand. In 1845, London publisher Henry Bohn took over the publication of George Catlin's work Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians. Bohn styled the "10th edition" on the title page and altered the title to… Read More

[London: J. Carpenter, 1827. Lithograph, after Rochard, printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. (Expertly repaired tear to right margin). This plate, from Charles Le Brun's study of human types and animals, demonstrates the resemblance between a man and an eagle. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) was a painter, architect, designer and author. He studied with Vouet and Poussin. Being acquainted with Colbert, he became one of Louis XIV's primary assistants in the designing and decorating of Versailles and other royal building projects. He also wrote an essay on physiognomy. Renewed interest in the subject resulted in new edition was published in 1827 ("Dissertation sur un traité de Charles Le Brun concernant le rapport de la physionomie humaine avec celle des animaux"). The present image is from this edition, which included lithographic plates printed by Engelmann Graf Coindet & Co. after various artists.

[London: J. Carpenter, 1827. Lithograph, after Langlois, printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. This plate, from Charles Le Brun's study of human types and animals, a collection of goat, sheep and ram eyes, was intended to show stupidity as demonstrated by the eye. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) was a painter, architect, designer and author. He studied with Vouet and Poussin. Being acquainted with Colbert, he became one of Louis XIV's primary assistants in the designing and decorating of Versailles and other royal building projects. He also wrote an essay on physiognomy: an edition was published in 1827 ("Dissertation sur un traité de Charles Le Brun concernant le rapport de la physionomie humaine avec celle des animaux"). The present image is from this edition, which included lithographic plates printed by Engelmann Graf Coindet & Co. after various artists.

London: printed by J.L. Cox & Sons for Wm. H. Allen & Co, 1840. 2 volumes, small folio. (14 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches). Half-titles. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece view of the Himalayas by J. Clark after Lt.Col. R. Smith, 1 hand-coloured plate of a geological section of the Himalayas, 3 uncoloured lithographic plates of fossils, hand-coloured lithographed plan of the botanic garden at Saharanpore and 96 hand-coloured natural-history plates, drawn on stone by Maxim Gauci and others, coloured by John Clark[e] or Mr.Barclay, after Vishupersaud, Miss Drake, W. Saunders, Luchmun Sing, J.T. Hart and others, printed by Graf & Soret (comprising: 2 plates of mammals, 2 plates of birds, 2 plates of insects, and 90 botanical plates). Expertly bound to style in half green morocco over period green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, top edge gilt First edition of this "pioneering ecological study" (Rix) on the trees, shrubs and flowers of… Read More

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937. 8vo. (9 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches). 36pp. Illustrations throughout. Folder with extra suite of 17 electrotypes in rear pocket. Publisher's patterned cloth boards. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this no. 691, printed by the Curwen Press from design by Meynell. This fascinating work looks at the illustrations of the iconic English poet, painter, and figure in the field of visual arts, William Blake. "17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver, 8 of the egravings also reproduced from Blake's original proofs, all printed from line blocks. 16 drawings for the engravings reproduced in collotype" (Dreyfus). Dreyfus 110.