Titles starting with N from Donald Heald Rare Books

[London: T. Boys, 1842]. Hand-coloured lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys, printed by Charles Hullmandel, deluxe edition, mounted on card (as issued). Very good condition. 15 7/8 x 12 3/8 inches. (of mount) 20 3/4 x 14 3/8 inches. 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 picto... more information

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[Philadelphia: published by the author, 1835-36]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by J. Barincou after Lewis, printed by Lehman & Duval of Philadelphia. Wove paper. 19 x 11 3/4 inches. A striking image, from Lewis's "Aboriginal Portfolio." The Aboriginal Portfolio represents the first attempt to publish a collection of portraits of North American Indians preceding the works of Catlin, and McKenney and Hall. It is also one of the earliest large projects in American lithography, and one of ... more information

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[Philadelphia: published by the author, 1835-36]. Lithograph, coloured by hand, printed by Lehman & Duval of Philadelphia. 17 15/16 x 11 1/8 inches. A striking image from Lewis's "Aboriginal Portfolio." The Aboriginal Portfolio represents the first attempt to publish a collection of portraits of North American Indians preceding the works of Catlin, and McKenney and Hall. It is also one of the earliest large projects in American lithography, and one of the first large visual works to dea... more information

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[Paris: c. 1805]. Colour printed aquatint. Registration marks on top and bottom margins. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 21 15/16 x 21 1/2 inches. 25 1/8 x 17 3/8 inches. 25 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches. A stunning colour printed aquatint, proof before titles, of Napoleon at the height of his power. A resolute campaign to disseminate the Imperial image throughout the new French Empire was part of Napoleon's effort to establish a popular new dynasty. Depictions his triumphs in batt... more information

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1812. Stipple and engraving. Colour printed a la poupée, with additional hand colour and goldleaf highlights. Proof before title. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition with the exception of being trimmed within the platemark. Glue residue around edges of sheet on verso of print, not visible from the front. Image size: 9 9/16 x 12 9/16 inches. 12 9/16 x 15 1/8 inches. This is a superb colour printed portrait of Napoleon II, with elaborate gold leaf details and heavy hand colouring. In additi... more information

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Paris: c. 1830. Lithograph. 19 1/4 x 14 inches. 27 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches. Exquisite lithographic portrait of Napoleon after David. The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Josephine (December 2, 1804) was one of two immense paintings made by Jacques-Louis David in his role as official court painter to the Emperor. This print is, as it were, a quote from that painting, singling out Napoleon, who is raising a crown heavenward. In the painting, he is about to crown his wife Josep... more information

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Eichstatt: 1613, 1st edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 21 x 17 1/2 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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Paris: Imprimerie de Didot jeune, 1802-16. Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, engraved by Langlois. 20 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Pierre-Joseph Redouté was one of the world's great flower painters. Born into a family that had been painters for at least two generations, Redouté went to Paris in 1782 with his brother where they worked as scene painters for the Théâtre italien. Redouté painted flowers in his spare time. The search for subjects led him ... 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 1/4 x 11 1/4 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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Vienna: Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, [1855-1856]. 'Nature printed' in brown ink, with titling and imprint in black, by the Vienna Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 19 x 11 1/4 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, thi... more information

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Eichstatt: 1640, 2nd edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 20 3/4 x 16 1/4 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,... more information

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Dark brown body colour on prepared paper. Inscribed "N.2...Stück" and "am 9ten Aprill 1791--nach der Natur ge[zeichnet?] von JEW," ink collector's stamp "Linel-Smlg. No." followed by pencilled number "1046" (all on verso). A high quality image that clearly is drawn from life, as the inscription claims. The artist's use of a dark prepared ground recalls the work of Barbara Regina Dietsch and her family. A search of Nissen's index of artists reveals o... more information

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Eichstatt: 1613, 1st edition. Hand-coloured engraving. 21 x 17 1/2 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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Vienna: Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, [1855-1856]. 'Nature printed' in brown ink, with titling and imprint in black, by the Vienna Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 19 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, thi... 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 1/4 inches. 22 3/4 x 15 7/8 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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London: printed by H. Baldwin, sold by Almon & Debret, P.Elmsley and R. Baldwin, 1780. [bound with:] William PITT, Earl of Chatham (1708-78). Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham to the House of Lords, entitled, a Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. Which was rejected, and not suffered to lie on the table. London: printed for J. Salmon, 1775. 1p. publisher's advertisem... more information

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London: printed by William Clowes for John Murray, 1823. Quarto. (10 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches). Small format errata slip tipped in before p.1 of the text. 30 engraved or aquatint plates (11 hand-coloured) by Edward Finden, J. Curtis and others after Robert Hood (8) and George Back (15), Hood & Back (1) and J. Curtis (6), 4 folding engraved maps. Contemporary diced russia gilt by Poole & Harding of Carnavon, Wales, spine in six compartments with wide semi-raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt fill... more information

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London: printed by William Clowes for John Murray, 1823. Quarto. (11 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches). Uncut. 31 engraved or aquatint plates (11 hand-coloured) by Edward Finden, J. Curtis and others after Robert Hood (8) and George Back (15), Hood & Back (1), J. Swan (1) and J. Curtis (6), 4 folding engraved maps. Original boards, uncut, (rebacked, inner hinges repaired). Second quarto edition in boards: this edition is considerably scarcer than the first. In 1819, Lieutenant John Franklin, a career Naval Officer ... more information

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London: A.Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1836. 1 volume bound in two, 4to. (11 x 8 5/8 inches). 16 plates on india paper mounted, after Back (13) and B. Waterhouse Hawkins (3), (7 lithographed by Haghe or Day & Haghe, 9 steel-engraved by E. Finden), 1 folding engraved map, numerous illustrations. (Some light spotting or browning to the margins of the plate mounts). 19th-century blue half morocco over pebble-grained cloth covered boards, bound for Philip Hammond with his gilt armorial blocked on the cove... more information

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London: Richard Bentley, 1843. 8vo. (8 7/16 x 5 1/4 inches). 3 engraved maps on 2 sheets (one of the sheets folding). 19th-century calf, covers bordered with a single gilt fillet, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by gilt fillets and a broken rule in blind, black morocco label in the second compartment. A fine copy of the first edition of this description of the expedition of Dease and Simpson in the Arctic. This important work contains a "biographical sketch of the autho... more information

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