Description:
London, 1800. Hand-coloured and colour-printed aquatint, stipple and line engraving by Caldwell. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England. "Begonias as we see them in glasshouse and garden today are a modern development unknown in Thornton's time, when a few species had been introduced to Europe. The particular species he chose for this picture, Begonia nitidia [Dryander], had not long been brought in from Jamaica by Sir Joseph Banks. Regarded as a fine plant then, there was as yet no hint of the important part it was to play one hundred years later in the breeding of the modern small-flowered bedding begonias, Begonis semperflorens. Historically, this picture is of interest as showing a basic species almost at the time it was originally introduced. It is itself an attractive plant with a smooth shiny stem and large glossy green leaves. The way its parts shine, reflecting what light there is, is such an outstanding characteristic of the plant that it provided part of…
Read More Search Results: Titles starting with O from Donald Heald Rare Books
You searched for:
- Bookseller inventory: Donald Heald Rare Books (titles starting with O)
- Bookseller: Donald Heald Rare Books
Results 1 - 20 of 168
The Oblique-Leaved Begonia
by THORNTON, Robert John (circa 1768-1837). - Philip REINAGLE
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$3,574.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
NZ$3,574.62
FREE shipping to USA
The Oblique-Leaved Begonia
by THORNTON, Robert John (circa 1768-1837). - Philip REINAGLE
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$3,574.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London, 1800. Hand-coloured and colour-printed aquatint, stipple and line engraving by Caldwell. Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches. Fine condition. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England. "Begonias as we see them in glasshouse and garden today are a modern development unknown in Thornton's time, when a few species had been introduced to Europe. The particular species he chose for this picture, Begonia nitidia [Dryander], had not long been brought in from Jamaica by Sir Joseph Banks. Regarded as a fine plant then, there was as yet no hint of the important part it was to play one hundred years later in the breeding of the modern small-flowered bedding begonias, Begonis semperflorens. Historically, this picture is of interest as showing a basic species almost at the time it was originally introduced. It is itself an attractive plant with a smooth shiny stem and large glossy green leaves. The way its parts shine, reflecting what light there is, is such an outstanding…
Read More Item Price
NZ$3,574.62
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different Noblemen and Gentlemen originally written; The Whole tending to establish fixed Principles in the Respective Arts
by REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$22,979.70FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803. Quarto. (14 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches). Stipple engraved portrait of the author by W. Holl after S. Shelley, 27 engraved or aquatint plates (including 12 hand-coloured, 3 tinted, 12 uncoloured; 12 with overslips, 1 folding, 1 double-page), numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations (2 with overslips). Uncut in original printed pink paper boards. Rebacked in pink paper at an early date. A spectacular copy, uncut in original printed boards, of the first edition: a classic work on landscape gardening in which Repton lays out and illustrates what he considered to be the fixed principles which should be adhered to in any large scale landscape improvement. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He was particularly noted for his "Red Books." These were produced for each individual client and were made…
Read More Item Price
NZ$22,979.70
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different Noblemen and Gentlemen
by REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$25,533.00FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: J. Taylor, 1803. Quarto. (to be measured). Stipple engraved portrait of the author by W. Holl after S. Shelley, 27 engraved or aquatint plates (including 12 hand-coloured, 3 tinted, 12 uncoloured; 12 with overslips, 1 folding, 1 double-page), numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations, 2 with overslips. (Small neat repairs to folding plate). Full, straight grain, red morrocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands with black and green morocco labels. Boards and spine elaborately gilt with tools related to the book's themes of landscaping and gardening. Inner denttelles. First edition in a magnificent red morocco binding of the classic work on landscape gardening in which Repton lays out and illustrates what he considered to be the fixed principles which should be adhered to in any large-scale landscape improvement. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth…
Read More Item Price
NZ$25,533.00
FREE shipping to USA
Observations on Doctor Arbuthnot's Dissertations on Coins, Weights and Measures
by LANGWITH, Benjamin (c. 1684-1743)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$323.42FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Dan. Browne, 1747. Quarto. (9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches). [4], 43, [1]pp. Errata leaf at the rear. Disbound. First edition. Langwith was an antiquary and natural philosopher from Yorkshire and was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was the author of this reply, posthumously edited by his widow, to the physician, scholar, and mathematician Dr. Arbuthnot's "Tables of Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins." Chapters include discussions on the Roman pound, Roman ounce, the value of Roman money and Denarius in English coin, and Roman measures of capacity for solids and liquids. ESTC T115421.
Item Price
NZ$323.42
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Observations sur la Construction de la Carte de l'Océan Oriental ou Mers de Indes, pour servir vaisseaux du roy, dressée au dépost des cartes, plans & journaux de la marine, par ordre de M. le comte de Maurepas, 1740
by BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$7,659.90FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
[Paris]: Jacques Guerin, 1740. Quarto. (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 inches). 35pp.Contemporary manuscript corrections in text on pp.7, 12, 21, 28, and 30. (Small tear at outer margin of first leaf). Contemporary paper-backed boards Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (library shelf marks, blind stamps) The rare first edition of Bellin's extensive account of his map of the Indian Ocean. The work includes lengthy separate analyses of the coasts of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to the Red Sea, Madagascar and other isles in the Indian Ocean, and the coasts and isles of Asia from the Red Sea to China. In addition to these geographic locations, observations made in the regions by various explorers are cited. The cartographer Bellin was employed for more than five decades in the French Hydrographic Service, where he served as the first "Ingénieur hydrographe de la Marine." Commissioned to develop new surveys of the coasts of France and then the known coasts of the world, these were published, respectively, as Le…
Read More Item Price
NZ$7,659.90
FREE shipping to USA
Observations addressed to the shipping, the agricultural, and the commercial interest, on the Impolicy of the Free Trade System pursued by His Majesty's Ministers
by [RICHMOND, William]
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$340.44FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Newcastle: Edward Walker, 1826. 8vo. (9 x 5 5/8 inches). 84pp., including tables. Stitched. Provenance: Sir John Gladstone (1764-1851, inscribed "Fasque" at the head of the title) Kress C.1739.
Item Price
NZ$340.44
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Observations sur la Construction de la Carte de l'Ocean Meridional, pour servir vaisseaux du roy, dressée au dépost des cartes, plans & journaux de la marine, par ordre de M. le comte de Maurepas, 1739
by BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$7,659.90FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
[Paris]: Jacques Guerin, 1739. Quarto. (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 inches). 18pp. Contemporary paper-backed boards. The very rare first edition of Bellin's extensive account of the "Ocean Meridional." The work includes lengthy separate analyses of the coasts of Africa and of South America as recorded on the map. In addition to geographic locations, observations made in the regions by various explorers are cited. The cartographer Bellin was employed for more than five decades in the French Hydrographic Service, where he served as the first "Ingénieur hydrographe de la Marine." Commissioned to develop new surveys of the coasts of France and then the known coasts of the world, these were published, respectively, as Le Neptune Français in 1735 and the Hydrographie Français between 1756 and 1765. Bellin also published a Petit Atlas Maritime with 580 charts and plans of harbors, issued in five volumes in 1764. The present work was later published as one of thirty reprinted pamphlets in the author's Recueil des…
Read More Item Price
NZ$7,659.90
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Observations on Certain Documents Contained in No. V & VI of "The History Of The United States For The Year 1796," in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted
by HAMILTON, Alexander (1755-1804)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$25,533.00FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia: Printed [by William Duane] Pro Bono Publico, 1800. 8vo. (8 13/16 x 5 1/78 inches). 37, [1], lviii pp. 19th-century half morocco marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. Second edition of the infamous Reynolds pamphlet in which Hamilton confesses to his affair with Mrs. Reynolds. The second edition of the infamous "Reynolds pamphlet," in which Hamilton describes his affair with Maria Reynolds and admits to paying off a blackmailer. Hamilton had paid Mrs. Reynolds' husband to keep the affair secret, and in turn, Hamilton was blackmailed by her husband, who falsely implicated Hamilton in participating in Reynolds' own illegal speculation practices. In the pamphlet Hamilton takes the extraordinary step of admitting to adultery in order to clear his name of the financial scandal. While mostly successful in its purpose, it destroyed any hope of a political career on the national stage, and provided salacious ammunition for Hamilton's enemies. This scarce edition was published by Hamilton's…
Read More Item Price
NZ$25,533.00
FREE shipping to USA
Ocelot or Leopard Cat from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
by AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$16,170.90FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: John James Audubon, 1842. Hand-colored lithograph by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia after a drawing from nature by Audubon. Sheet: (21 3/16 x 27 3/8 inches). A charming image of an ocelot eyeing a catfish from Audubon's Quadrupeds, the greatest 19th-century work of natural history illustration produced in America. This fine plate of the American big cat is from the Imperial folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, produced entirely in the United States. The production of the Quadrupeds was begun by Audubon and his sons at about the same time as the commercially-successful octavo edition of The Birds of America. Unlike the double-elephant folio, the Quadrupeds was produced entirely in the United States. Reese notes, "by 1843 the Audubon family business was a well-oiled machine, involving John James, his two sons, and various in-laws and friends. The octavo Birds was still in production when J. T. Bowen began to produce the plates for the elephant folio edition of…
Read More Item Price
NZ$16,170.90
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Offering of the Mandan Indians
by BODMER, Karl (1809-1893)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,617.09FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Paris, Coblenz and London, 1842. Aquatint engraving by Himely after Bodmer, proof on india paper mounted, blindstamp. Rare India proof of the Himely plate. This title was printed from two separate plates: one by Himely with heavy use of aquatint and three horseman to the left of the mid-ground and no birds, and a second by L. Weber with light use of aquatint, particularly in the foreground, no horsemen and numerous birds Bodmer painted this potent scene of a Mandan skull shrine in November of 1833, shortly before the onset of winter. The shrine was located near the burial ground of Mih-Tutta-Hang-Kusch, and was related to the Mandan beliefs regarding the human body after death and was used as a fasting ground for those seeking supernatural powers. Bodmer and Prince Maximilian overwintered at Fort Clark, between the Knife and Heart Rivers in the territory of the Mandans and the Hidatsas, and made full use of their time to record in detail the life, history and beliefs of the Indian Tribes around…
Read More Item Price
NZ$1,617.09
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Offering of the Mandan Indians
by BODMER, Karl (1809-1893)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,021.32FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
[Leipzig: Schmidt and Guenther, 1922. Aquatint engraving by L. Weber after Bodmer. The Weber version of this image, 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 title was printed from two separate plates: one by Himely with heavy use of aquatint and three horseman to the left of the mid-ground and no birds, and a second by L. Weber with light use of aquatint, particularly in the foreground, no horsemen and numerous birds. Bodmer painted this potent scene of a Mandan skull shrine in November of 1833, shortly before the onset of winter. The shrine was located near the burial ground of Mih-Tutta-Hang-Kusch, and was related to the Mandan beliefs regarding the human body after death and was used as a fasting ground for those seeking supernatural powers. Bodmer and Prince…
Read More Item Price
NZ$1,021.32
FREE shipping to USA
Ohio
by UNITED STATES, General Land Office - C. ROESER, Principal Draughtsman, G.L.O.
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,531.98FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Washington, D.C.: General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer], 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of Ohio showing towns, rivers, roads, railroads, among other landmarks. The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War, much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War, the Homestead Act, the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West (with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States), together engendered an incredible increase in westward settement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for…
Read More Item Price
NZ$1,531.98
FREE shipping to USA
Okee-Maakee-Quid, a Chippeway Chief
by MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$3,149.07FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1836. Hand-coloured lithograph. 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. It was at the 1826 Fond du Lac treaty council, that McKenney was first introduced to the esteemed Chippewa chief and canoe maker Okee-Maakee-Quid, who upon McKenney's request, made him a canoe. In this print, the chief is depicted in a costume once owned by a Sioux chief. The Chippewa (Ojibwa) were the most widespread and powerful tribe in the Great Lakes area. McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War…
Read More Item Price
NZ$3,149.07
FREE shipping to USA
Old Faithful in Eruption
by JACKSON, William Henry (1843-1942)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$2,553.30FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
[Denver, 1880. Mounted albumen photograph, on period card mount measuring 22 x 18 inches. Image size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. Light horizontal crease through the image. An image which helped create Yellowstone National Park. Jackson began his career in photography in 1858, working as a retouching artist in a studio in Troy, N.Y. In the 1860s, after serving briefly in the Union Army, he worked at several studios in Vermont before moving to Omaha, Nebraska in 1867 where he established his own studio. He worked on an extensive series of views for the Union Pacific Railroad, which earned him enough notice to be recruited by Ferdinand Hayden for the U.S. Geological Survey team. With the Survey, Jackson explored and photographed vast areas of the West, including Yellowstone and parts of Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. Jackson's artistic growth as a landscape photographer evolved and quickly matured when he was hired by Hayden. Influenced by Thomas Moran, a painter on the survey, and photographers C.…
Read More Item Price
NZ$2,553.30
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Old Panama and Castilla del Oro. A narrative history of the discovery, conquest, and settlement by the Spaniards of Panama, Darien, Veragua, Santo Domingo, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Nicaragua, and Peru, including the four voyages of Columbus to America, the discovery of the Pacific Ocean by Vasco Nunez de Balboa, a description of the Aborigines of the Isthmus, accounts of the search for a Strait through the New World, and early efforts for a Canal, the daring raids of Sir Francis Drake, the Buccaneers in the Caribbean and South Seas, the sack of the city of Old Panama by Henry Morgan, and the story of the Scots colony on Caledonia Bay. With Maps and Rare Illustrations
by ANDERSON, Dr. Charles L. G.
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$170.22FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Washington: Press of the Subwarth Company, 1911. Octavo. (9 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches). [xv], 559pp. Folding color map, frontispiece, and 40 plates. Publisher's decorative cloth, stamped in gilt with a design of a ruin on the cover. This work presents an early history of the discovery and exploration of Panama by the Spaniards and Columbus. It contains a significant amount of material on the buccaneers, the Darien Colony, and Sir Francis Drake, plus an extensive index and bibliography including printed sources in Spanish, English, and French.
Item Price
NZ$170.22
FREE shipping to USA
Old Topsail Inlet to Shallotte Inlet Including Cape Fear
by [North Carolina]
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$468.10FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1922. Large folding nautical chart, printed on heavy paper stock. Uncolored with minor wear including smudge stains and dark brown speckled stains. A rare original coastal survey of the Cape Fear area including Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Bald Head Island, Carolina Beach, Caswell Beach, Oak Island, Holden Beach, and a map of Old Topsail Inlet to Masonboro Inlet in the bottom right corner. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline, create nautical charts of the coast, and help increase maritime safety since its founding, and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy, pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the…
Read More Item Price
NZ$468.10
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Oldsmobile Design
by GURR, R. H.
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$4,681.05FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
1955. Mixed media on paper. Signed "Henry Gurr" R. H.Gurr worked for both Ford and Lincoln in Detroit during the early 1950's. He was the author of several books on the subject of auto design: "How to Draw the Car of Tomorrow" - 1952, and "Automobile Design: The Complete Styling Book" - 1955. At about that time he moved to California and got a job as a designer for Disney Land. This handsome back view of an Oldsmobile 88 demonstrates many stylistic features of the period. in fact, it is a quintessential 1950's American car. The Museum of Automobile Art & Design website.
Item Price
NZ$4,681.05
FREE shipping to USA
More Photos
Olive sided Flycatcher. From "The Birds of America" (Amsterdam Edition)
by AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$204.26FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. Image size: 18 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 26 3/4 x 39 7/8 inches (approx). [Pl. 174]. 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 Item Price
NZ$204.26
FREE shipping to USA
Omphalodes scorpioides
by ETTINGSHAUSEN, Constantin Freiherr Von (1826-1897), and POKORNY, Alois (1826-1886)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$272.35FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Vienna: Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1856. 'Nature printed' in brown ink, with titling and imprint in black, by the Vienna Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 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 achievement is almost certainly incidental as von Ettingshausen's intention was to present a detailed anatomical portrait using the highly exacting method of nature printing. John Lindley writes "Attempts were long since made to obtain Botanical portraits by printing from the plants themselves, flattened and otherwise prepared for the purpose... The process of the Imperial Printing Office [Hof- und Staatsdruckerei] at Vienna, to which the name of Nature-Printing has been happily applied.. is a great improvement upon the old method, inasmuch as it represents not only…
Read More Item Price
NZ$272.35
FREE shipping to USA