Titles starting with E from Donald Heald Rare Books

London: Published by Lloyd Brothers & Co., circa 1858. Albumin photograph mounted on card as issued. Very good condition apart from some light soiling in the margins. 13 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches. 19 1/4 x 14 3/16 inches. A stunning image from the series "Portraits of Eminent British Artists" by one of the leading figures of early Victorian photography. This beautiful photograph depicts the renowned British historical painter Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) during the height of his popularity. Born... more information

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London: James Daniell, Dec. 9, 1799. Mezzotint in colours by John Murphy. 19 x 23 1/2 inches. Northcote, who worked as pupil and assistant to Sir Joshua Reynolds for five years from 1771, produced works in a number of genres: portraits, historical and subject pictures, morally instructive scenes and during the 1790s animal painting. The present image of the eagle (a Christian symbol of the triumph of good over evil) encountering a fox (a universal symbol of guile) seems to offer both a fine double-portr... 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. 11 3/4 x 19 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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New York & Philadelphia: J.J.Audubon and J.B.Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844. Hand-coloured lithograph by J. T. Bowen, after J.J. Audubon. Very good condition. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 6 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches. A fine print from the first octavo edition of "The Birds of America": one of the "most beautiful, popular, and important natural history [works] published in America..." (Ron Tyler) Shortly after the publication of the hugely successful Havell edition of 'The Birds of America'... more information

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[circa 1819]. Watercolor and gouache. Unsigned (the etched plate, however, signed by Selby). 8 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches. A fine original watercolour study for plate LXXIV of the Water-birds volume of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology: "the finest and largest book about British birds" (Jackson). Prideaux John Selby was a versatile gentleman naturalist, born in Alnwick, Northumberland, he inherited Twizell House and its estate in 1804, and throughout his life did not neglect his duties ... more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. Colour-printed lithograph. 14 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches. Frederic Cozzens was one of America's greatest marine artists. Like nearly every other great marine artist, he was thoroughly acquainted with every aspect of ship construction and the art of sailing. He is best known for his paintings of great American yachts of the latter half of the 19th century, which were commissioned by many of New York's leading yachtsmen. In 1884, he expanded his audience by m... more information

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Paris: Chez l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge, 1705. Engraved with period outline colour. Two joined sheets of laid paper. Excellent condition with upper margin close shaved, small area of expert restoration to upper right corner, old folds. 25 5/8 x 26 3/8 inches. Second state of an important early map of India, China, Japan, Indonesia and the Phillipines by the celebrated French cartographer, Guillaume de L'Isle. Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726) was the son of a cartographer and a pupil o... more information

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London: R. Ackermann, 1 June 1817. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by J.C. Stadler. 13 5/8 x 19 inches. 17 7/8 x 21 5/8 inches. A fine view of East India House after an artist whose work "shows great truth and accuracy" (DNB) An important record of one of the vanished landmarks of London: East India House, in Leadenhall Street in the City of London, was demolished in the 1860s, and the new Lloyd's building now stands on the site. Thomas Hosmer Shepherd was probably the ... more information

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London: Thomas Jefferys, November 1762. Engraving, by Peter Mazell. 11 1/8 x 19 1/2 inches. 18 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches. A fine and rare image of Guadaloupe in the West Indies, taken during the English occupation of the island from 1759 to 1763. Fort Royal is situated on the west coast of Basse-Terre (the more rugged of the two islands that make up the bulk of Guadaloupe) and is near the present-day town of Deshaies. The British attempted, unsuccessfully, to capture the French colony of Guadaloupe in 1666, 169... more information

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Philadelphia: Augustus Kollner, 1856. Lithograph, printed in colours and finished by hand, by and after Kollner (visible sheet size: 19 x 30 3/8 inches). Matted and framed. Provenance: Martin P. Snyder. The Snyder copy of this large rare view: "It is pleasant here, right on the banks of the noble Delaware, opposite Philadelphia" (Walt Whitman). "Camden, New Jersey [home of Walt Whitman from 1873-1892], slopes gently towards the river in the foreground of the view. The urban presentation ..... more information

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London: Robert Sayer and John Bowles & Son, [no date]. Hand-coloured engraving, printed on laid paper backed with a 20th-century archival sheet. Very good condition apart from some light soiling and a 5/8" tear along the bottom edge of a larger skillfully repaired tear that runs through the right side of the image and spans the height of the sheet. 13 3/4 x 19 5/8 inches. 18 3/4 x 24 1/8 inches. A very fine image of Kensington Palace and its expansive grounds. Erected in 1661 for the Earl of Nott... more information

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Printed and Sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-yard, John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey [sic.] near Stocks Market." London [1731]. Copper-engraving, with period outline colour, on two joined sheets, overall size 41 3/4 x 25 5/8 inches. Third state (of 5). Good condition apart from expertly repaired tears to folds. A fine copy of the famous Beaver map. "One of the first and most important cartographic documents relating... more information

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London: S. & J. Fuller, [1843]. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by T.Sutherland. (Cut to the edge of the plate area on three sides). 12 1/8 x 19 1/4 inches. 15 3/8 x 19 3/8 inches. A fine print from the 'Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes' series: a 'benchmark' sporting print in terms of the "quality of painting, engraving and printing" (Lane) Herring is an outstanding and imaginative artist who at an early age showed an aptitude ... more information

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London: printed for the Author, sold by all booksellers, 1773. Folio. Mezzotint portrait of the author by Richard Houstan after Francis Cotes, engraved frontispiece, 80 engraved plates, (12 by and after J. Hill, 1 by Hill after Jan van Huysum, 8 by C.A. Edwards, Boyce, B. Cole or others, 59 unsigned). 55 plates with fine partial or full hand-colouring by a later early-19th-century hand, 63 of the plates with some or all of the plant names neatly altered in ink to their Linnaean equivalents in a single earl... more information

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London: printed for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder & Co., and H. Woodgate, [1756-]1757. Folio. (17 1/4 x 10 5/8 inches). Engraved uncoloured frontispiece, 60 uncoloured engraved plates (plate 20, facing p.237, with one fruit hand-coloured at an early date), most plates unsigned but including work by C. Edwards & Darly, J.Hill, Boyce, Philips, B. Cole, Ed. Alton and others, after Edwards, J. Hill, Van Huysum and others (Plate 60 with 12-inch tear somewhat crudely repaired, old brown staining to low... more information

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London: printed for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder & Co., and H. Woodgate, [1756-]1757. Folio. (15 3/4 x 10 inches). Engraved emblematic frontispiece, 60 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, most plates unsigned but including work by C. Edwards & Darly, J.Hill, Boyce, Philips, B. Cole, Ed. Alton and others, after Edwards, J. Hill, Van Huysum and others. Eighteenth-century red morocco, covers with elaborate border of a wide gilt fillet enclosing a decorative roll tool, ... more information

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Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1809-1813; l'Imprimerie Royale, 1817-[1830]. Copper engraving. Very good condition apart from a light water stain in the left margin and some very minor foxing in the margins and the bottom part of the image. 19 1/4 x 31 7/8 inches. 25 7/8 x 39 3/4 inches. A fine plate from 'Description de l'Egypte', the seminal publication by the French government detailing the results of the Napoleon's pioneering military and scientific expedition to Egypt (1798-180... more information

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New York Graphic Society, 1984. 4to. Cloth, Dust Jacket. 272 pp., black and white illustrations ... more information

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London: F.J.Sarjent, 1 April 1810. Aquatint, printed in colours with hand-colouring, by Sarjent. (Two small expertly repaired tears to blank margins). 15 3/4 x 23 3/8 inches. 19 x 25 3/4 inches. A beautiful and rare large format view of Edinburgh. Francis Sarjent drew, engraved and published this rare view of Scotland's capital city. This panoramic image is balanced and enlivened by the figures in the foreground of an old sailor (telescope under one arm), who stands talking to two young boys whilst th... more information

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Edinburgh: published by Daniel McIntosh, sold in London by Boydell & Co., and Colnaghi & Co., 1 August 1814. Aquatint, printed in brown ink, coloured by hand, by John Clark. 14 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. 18 9/16 x 24 11/16 inches. A lively view of Georgian Edinburgh. A fine view of a windy day on one of the most fashionable streets of the period: in the foreground a stagecoach is leaving, laden with passengers and apparently pursued by a late-comer who gestures in an attempt to attract the attention of ... more information

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