Titles starting with B from Donald Heald Rare Books

London: Published by J R Smith, No 83 Oxford Street, Sept. 6, 1784. Hand-coloured mezzotint. With early colour. State ii/iii with title in closed letters and with the artist and engravers name and address. Printed on wove watermarked paper. Collectors stamp on verso of sheet. In excellent condition with the exception of being trimmed on the margin on all sides. Image size: 10 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. 15 x 9 15/16 inches. This stunning mezzotint is one of the most celebrated prints of Emma Lady Hamilton, who is... more information

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Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-72. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. 19 x 12 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 limited edit... 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 hi... more information

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London: printed for Benjamin White, 1771 [Third edition]. Hand-coloured copper engraving, on fine laid paper. Very good condition. Browning in extreme right margin well outside the platemark. 14 x 10 3/8 inches. 20 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches. A fine image from Catesby's 'The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands', "the most famous colour-plate book of American plant and animal life...a fundamental and original work for the study of American species" (Hunt). A native ... more information

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[Berlin: 1785-1797]. Engraving, coloured by hand, by Ludwig Schmidt after Krüger Jr. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 7 5/8 x 14 1/4 inches. 9 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches. A superb image from the greatest 18th-century work on fish, 'Ichthyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére des poissons', by Marcus Bloch. Bloch was born in Anspach, Germany and practised as a doctor in Berlin. He later devoted himself to the study of natural history,... more information

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[Rome: Petrus de Turre, 4 November 1490]. Copper-engraved map of the Balkans and the Adriatic, in very good condition apart from small repairs to the lower corners, an old repair to the lower blank area of the centre fold and some surface abrasions with a little loss to the centre fold. 16 1/8 x 22 inches. A highly important and elegant map from the second edition of the 'Rome Ptolemy' This map is one of the earliest and most important printed maps of the region embracing the Balkans, Albania and ... more information

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[London: Henry Bohn, 1845]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by McGahey, printed by Day & Haghe. Image size: 12 3/8 x 17 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches. A fine image from Catlin's 'North American Indian Portfolio', one of the most important accounts of Native American life. "This dance...was...exceedingly picturesque and pleasing...repeated at intervals of every half hour during the whole night...continued in the morning until about nine o'clock, at which time the pla... more information

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Eichstatt: 1613, 1st edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 21 1/8 x 17 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, in ... more information

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[Regensburg]: [1734-1745]. Engraving, printed in colours with additional hand colouring. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing. 12 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches. 15 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches. A fine image from one of the first works to use colour printing successfully, and the first published work to include work by the greatest botanical artist of the eighteenth century: Georg Dionysius Ehret. This fine plate comes from Weinmann's magnum opus 'Phytanthoza Iconographia' (Re... more information

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Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-72. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. 28 3/8 x 20 1/4 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 limi... more information

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Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-72. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. 18 3/8 x 15 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 limited ... more information

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[London: T. Boys, 1842]. Hand-coloured lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys, printed by Charles Hullmandel. 16 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches. 17 x 12 5/8 inches. French wash-line mat, gold and wood frame. A very fine image from Boys' 'London As It Is': a work 'of considerable importance' (Abbey) Abbey writes of the work London As It Is from which this beautiful image comes: apart "from the beauty of its plates, it records London at a period when good pictorial records were few. The London of t... more information

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Vienna: Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, [1855-1856]. 'Nature printed' in brown ink, with titling and imprint in black, by the Vienna Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 18 1/2 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,... more information

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[Doncaster]: W. Sheardown and Son, [1825]. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Thomas Sutherland. 11 7/8 x 16 1/8 inches. 15 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches. From the original 'Doncaster Gazette' series of the 'Winners of the Great St. Leger Series': a 'benchmark' sporting print in terms of the "quality of painting, engraving and printing" (Lane) "In 1825 The Doncaster Gazette commissioned Herring to paint a series of pictures of the winners of the St. Leger s... more information

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Amsterdam and New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-72. Colour-printed lithograph, on fine hand-made paper. Excellent condition. 37 x 24 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 limited edit... more information

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Paris & London: E. Savary & Cie and Gambert, Janin & Co., [circa 1857]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by Traviès, printed by Lemercier of Paris. 21 1/8 x 14 5/8 inches. A fine lithograph by one of the greatest ornithological artists of the 19th century, from his finest work 'Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables.' The slow, gentle, silent, gliding and swooping flight of the Barn Owl at dusk is one of the unforgettable sights of the bird world. Here an adult owl prepares to take flig... more information

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[London: Published by E. Gambart & Co. and Joseph Hogarth, 1854]. Tinted lithograph with additional hand-colouring and touches of gum arabic, mounted on card in the manner of a watercolour. Lithographed by Harding after a work by the celebrated marine painter Clarkson Stanfield. Signed in pencil by Stanfield in lower right corner and title written in pencil in lower left-hand corner. Very good condition apart from some minor foxing in the image, a bit of light soiling on the mount and a small water sta... more information

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London: Published by Colen Campbell, 1725. Engraved by Henry Hulsbergh. On laid paper. Two repaired tears in the bottom margin, well outside image. 19 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. From Colen Campbell's "Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect" Vitruvius Britannicus is one of the great eighteenth-century English architectural works. It illustrates, in a way, the social revolution that occured in the first half of the 18th century under the governance of Robert Walpole. Noble country estates ... more information

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London: Published by George and George Townly Stubbs, 20 February, 1794. Stipple with etching. State ii/iii, with the title in closed letters and engraved inscription: 'G. Stubbs Pinxt.*** Geoe Townly Stubbs Sculp't. Engraver to his /Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. / BARONET / London Publish'd Feby. 20th 1794, by Messrs Stubbs, Turf Gallery, Conduit Street.'. 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches. A lively portrait of the Prince of Wales's famous racehorse Baronet, by the master equine painter G... more information

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