Authors starting with H from Donald Heald Rare Books

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, spi... more information

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London: William Hacke & Robert Morden, [1699]. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in excellent condition. 24 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches. An extremely rare and historically important map relating to the Scottish settlement of New Edinburgh in Panama The present map is the extremely rare first state of this beautiful work that illustrates the "Darien Scheme." William Paterson, the Scottish founder of the Bank of England returned to his homeland with a solution for the nation's eco... more information

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Naples: chez l'Auteur, 1779. Engraving, coloured by hand, by Georg Abraham Hackert. (Small chips to outer blank margins). 14 7/8 x 21 1/4 inches. 20 11/16 x 26 9/16 inches. A fine view of the Nera Valley in Umbria, southern Italy. The view shows the ruins of the bridge of Augustus over the River Nera with the hill-top town of Narni visible in the background. Jacob Philipp or Johann Philipp Hackert was born in Prenzlau. He travelled extensively within Europe and was one of a group of artists who achi... more information

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Augsburg: Published by Johann Jakob Haid, circa 1730. Mezzotint. Printed on laid paper. In good condition with the exception of some foxing across the margins. Small paper loss in upper left corner of sheet. Image size: 12 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches. 12 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches. 15 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. A striking scientific portrait of Albrecht von Haller, from Johann Jakob Haid's celebrated series of mezzotint portraits. Johan Jakob Haid came from a German family of artists and printmakers. Haid worked initially w... more information

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Augsburg: J. J. Haid et fils, circa 1770. Mezzotints in excellent condition. 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (approx.). 17 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches (approx.). 22 1/2 x 16 inches (approx.). A beautiful and extremely rare series of fashionable ladies' hats and hairstyles from pre-Revolutionary France Of the standard bibliographies, only Lipperheide mentions this series. They are exceedingly rare plates, most likely created as decorative prints to illustrate the exorbitant hairstyles and chapeaux of fashionable ladies ... more information

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London: Hurst and Robinson, [1824]-1825. Title-leaf, 16pp. plus twenty-one handcolored aquatints and twenty-one leaves of explanatory text. Small folio. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco label. New endpapers. An occasional light fox mark, but on the whole very clean internally. A lovely copy. Wonderful Caribbean Views A handsome book of views devoted entirely to Jamaica, showing scenes in the capital, on plantations, and in the interior. Trained as an architec... more information

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New York: E.P. Dutton, [1910]. 2 volumes, quarto. (10 13/16 x inches). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Edgar Williamson on mounted india paper, 9 chromolithographic plates of fishing flies, 18 colour charts, 16 photogravures of fish and fishing spots on india paper mounted, 22 text illustrations; second volume with 33 actual fishing flies displayed in sunken compartments on nine heavy board mounts. Maroon half morocco gilt to style, marbled endpapers, top... more information

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London: S. & J. Fuller, July 1845. Aquatint, coloured by hand, by C. Hunt, 'Minerva head' blindstamp, marked 'Proof' lower left. 12 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches. 17 5/8 x 22 inches. A very fine and rare proof print from the 'Winners of the Derby Stakes at Epsom Series', started by John Frederick Herring and ably continued here: "as a recorder of horses and the turf between 1840 and 1882, Harry Hall had no equal" (Charles Lane) Harry Hall "lived at Newmarket throughout his... more information

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London: J. Hall, No. 83 Berwick Street, April 30, 1791. Copper engraving. In excellent condition. Image size: 17 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches. 20 1/2 x 15 inches. 24 1/2 x 18 3/16 inches. A lovely copy of Reynolds' distinguished portrait of Richard Sheridan, the famous politician and dramatist. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was a renowned British dramatist and politician. His witty plays exhibit the finest development of the comedy of manners in 18th-century England, and he was one of the most admired... more information

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New York: 1916-1917. 9 parts, 8vo. (9 x 6 1/8 inches). Plates. (Minor dampstaining in part I). Publisher's wrappers. Scarce auction catalogues from the sale of the famed Halsey collection, "the largest and most important sale of prints ever held in the United States" (preface). These parts cover Americana (including naval prints and New York views), Sporting Prints, French Engravings, Stipple Engravings, English Mezzotints, Nineteenth Century Prints, Old Masters, Napoleon/French Revolution,... more information

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Melbourne: 1851. Period outline color, 18 x 28¼ inches. Dedication to "His Excellency Sir Chas. A. Fitz Roy, Knt., Governor of New South Wales." Cloth backed and folding into green cloth covers. A rare early separate map of Victoria and the neighboring Port Phillip District of New South Wales. The map is filled with a great wealth of detail. Settlement and counties are almost completely confined to the southwestern portion of Victoria, with many parts still completely unknown. Southeas... more information

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London: Published by J. Deeley, 95 Bewick St. Soho, Feb. 1, 1812. Coloured aquatint. Printed on wove paper watermarked J. Whatman. In excellent condition with the exception of two small mended tears on the right margin. Two small mended tears on upper margin. Crease along left corner. Tiny skillfully mended tear on left margin. Image size: 12 7/8 x 19 1/8 inches. 14 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches. 16 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches. A dramatic view of Newark Castle in Nottinghamshire. The site became a fortified castle during t... more information

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London: Macmillan & Co, 1880. Quarto. (12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Title printed in red and black with vignette on india paper mounted, half-title. 48 plates (22 heliogravures printed by Amand Durand after various artists, 26 original etchings by various artists including Samuel Palmer [1], J.McN. Whistler [1], Francis Seymour Haden [1], Legros [1], Herkomer [1] and others). Original brown morocco-backed pebble-grained cloth, the flat spine lettered in gilt. A fine uncut copy of the third edition with ori... more information

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Boston: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. Folio. (15 1/16 x 11 5/8 inches). 40 proof wood-engravings (38 signed by the engravers) all on india paper tipped onto thick paper backing sheets and preceded by thick paper matts each printed with the title, artist and engraver. Red half morocco by R.W. Smith, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third compartments. The atlas volume from a limited edition, with India proof plates In the text Hamerton gives biographical ... more information

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New York: Printed and sold by John and Andrew M'Lean, 1788. 2 volumes, 12mo. (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches). vi, 227; vi, 384pp. Expertly bound to style in contemporary tree calf boards with Greek key scroll gilt pattern, neatly rebacked with gilt ornaments, morocco labels in red and black. Rare first edition of the most important work of American political thought ever written and according to Thomas Jefferson "the best commentary on the principles of government." With an important provenance of an... more information

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[Florence: Société Chalcographique, circa 1800-1803]. Hand-coloured engraving, after Tischbein, on laid paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 10 1/2 x 14 inches. 13 1/2 x 21 inches. A spectacularly beautiful image from a highly important work which remains a unique record of Sir William Hamilton's great collection of classical antiquites. This plate is from the scarce Florence edition of Tischbein's famous work on Sir William Hamilton's second and grea... more information

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[Florence: Société Chalcographique, circa 1800-1803]. Hand-coloured engraving, after Tischbein, on laid paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 8 x 14 1/8 inches. 14 x 20 7/8 inches. A spectacularly beautiful image from a highly important work which remains a unique record of Sir William Hamilton's great collection of classical antiquites. This plate is from the scarce Florence edition of Tischbein's famous work on Sir William Hamilton's second and great... more information

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[Naples: Francesco Morelli, 1766-1767]. Engraving, hand-coloured in red and black. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor creasing. 6 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. 18 3/8 x 14 inches. A neo-classical masterpiece from the greatest 18th-century work on the arts of the Ancient World. A very fine image from a work by Hugues d'Hancarville titled Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities... Antiquités Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines. Tirées du Cabinet de M. Hamilto... more information

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[Naples: Francesco Morelli, 1766-1767]. Engraving, hand-coloured in red and black. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing, and slight creasing. 6 5/8 x 5 inches. 18 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. A neo-classical masterpiece from the greatest 18th-century work on the arts of the Ancient World. A very fine image from a work by Hugues d'Hancarville titled Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities... Antiquités Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines. Tirées du Cabin... more information

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London: 'C. Shepherd', October 25, 1775. Mezzotint engraving, 14 x 10 inches, superb impression with full margins. A striking and very rare mezzotint portrait of John Hancock as president of the Continental Congress. This portrait was already highly valued in 1904, when S.V. Henkels described the Hampton L. Carson copy of this print as being 'Of extreme rarity, in beautiful condition with wide margin. The only copy I ever saw'. Henkels' assessment was borne out by the eventual hammer p... more information

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