Titles starting with A from Donald Heald Rare Books

Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 23 1/ 2 x 15 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 un... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 23 1/ 4 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 unt... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his de... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until hi... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his de... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until his de... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until hi... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/4 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until h... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until hi... more information

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[Boston: Matthew Clark, 1790]. Large folio. Letterpress dedication, with text and certificate of recommendation (amended and signed in manuscript by Osgood Carleton) on the verso. 18 map sheets engraved by Joseph H. Seymour (fl.1791-1822) or John Norman (1748-1817) joined to form nine large irregularly-shaped charts, each within an archival quality mat. Printed Americana of the greatest rarity: a highly important marine atlas and an outstanding example of enterprise and artistry from the early Federal era... more information

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Nuremberg: [1751-]1767. Fine hand-coloured engraved plate. 19 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. A fine print from one of the greatest Nuremberg natural history books: "Delices Physiques Choisies, ou choix de tout ce que les trois regnes de la nature renferment de plus digne des recherches d'un amateur curieux, pour en former un cabinet choisi de curiositez naturelles."… Knorr was one of the leading proto-geologists of the eighteenth century as well as an excellent engraver, painter and art dealer. B... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until h... more information

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[London?: 1781 or later]. Mezzotints, on laid paper. Proof before letters, the second signed in the plate `Jan Van Huisium fec.' (margins skillfully strengthened on verso). 19 7/8 x 15 1/8 inches approx. 24 3/8 x 18 inches, and smaller. A very rare, apparently unrecorded, pair of proof mezzotints after the work of Jan van Huysum: the 'last of the great Dutch masters' (Mitchell), the `Phoenix of Flower Painters' (Weyerman) "It is the fate of some painters to be celebrated in their life... more information

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London: John Boydell, 1781; 1778. Mezzotints, by Richard Earlom, proofs before titles. 20 x 18 5/8 inches approx. 23 x 17 3/8 inches approx. A very rare pair of fine proof mezzotints after the work of Jan van Huysum: the "last of the great Dutch masters'' (Mitchell), the "Phoenix of Flower Painters." (Weyerman) "It is the fate of some painters to be celebrated in their lifetime only and to be disregarded by later generations...Other painters pass their lives in obscurity only t... more information

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London: William Faden, circa 1808, maps dated 1778-1808]. Large folio. (22 7/8 x 17 ½ inches). Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress contents leaf. 55 engraved maps or charts, hand-coloured, hand-coloured in outline or with touches of hand-colouring, by Faden, Laurie & Whittle, L.S. de La Rochette, Henry Roberts and others (1 on a single page, 38 double-page, 16 folding). (The four hemisphere maps and the map of the western Mediterranean shaved with slight loss to imprint or image area, 2 ot... more information

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Brussels: Imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Color printed lithograph by J. Goffin, fils. 24 x 16 1/ 2 inches. Delightful South American palm tree print from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil" J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 until h... more information

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[Boston: William Norman, 1798-1801]. Copper-engraved sea chart, with an early ink manuscript notation at centre, in very good condition. 21 1/4 x 17 inches. A very rare and finely engraved sea chart from John Norman's 'American Pilot,' one of the earliest maritime maps of the Georgia and South Carolina coasts, here in the second of three states. This map was originally published as part of the first edition of John Norman's The American Pilot, 1791, and was preceded only by Mathew Clark... more information

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London: Robert Havell, 1818]. Large folio. (22 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches). 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Havell after William Havell, each with black ruled border at the edge of the image and a buff wash border, on thin card, all on guards. Expertly bound to style in dark green straight-grained morocco, covers with fine decorative border composed from fillets and an arabesque roll-tool of stylized foliage, spine in eight compartments with double raised bands, the bands highlighted in gilt, lettered ... more information

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Brussels: imprimerie typographique veuve Monnom, 1903. Colour printed lithograph. 22 1/2 x 14 7/8 inches. A fine Palm tree print, in the tradition of Carl von Martius, from "Sertum palmarum Brasiliensium ou relation des palmiers nouveaux du Brésil." J. Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist and traveller, collected widely in Brazil between 1868 and 1897. He was director of the Manaos botanical museum from 1883-1889, and finally director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro from 1889 ... more information

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Original pencil, bodycolour and watercolour by Audebert. Fine condition. Framed and glazed. Visible sheet size: 6 x 20 inches. This fine watercolour gives some insight into the working methods of one of the most highly respected pioneers of a golden era in natural history publications in France Although the present drawing is unsigned, it is clearly by Audebert. Jean-Baptiste Audebert was born in Rochefort. A painter by training, his interest in natural history was stimulated by a commission to help with ... more information

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