Titles starting with Q from Donald Heald Rare Books

Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1836. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. 18 7/8 x 13 1/4 inches. A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life. A courageous Shawnee chief, Quatawapea, also known as Colonel John Lewis, was rumored to have be... more information

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London: June 1st., 1802. Hand-coloured and colour-printed aquatint and stipple engraving by Hopwood. 21 3/4 x 17 1/8 inches. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England. "The Quadrangular Passion Flower [Passiflora quadrangularis L.] is so widely cultivated in South America that its precise country of origin cannot now be determined. It is indeed handsome and its colours so vivid that, far from the picture being sombre like that of the Blue Passion Flower, and although c... more information

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New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854; 1854; 1857. 3 volumes, large 8vo. (11 x 7 1/2 inches). 155 hand-finished colour lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen from drawings on stone by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, after J.A. and J.W. Audubon. (Minor foxing, principally to the tissue-guards). Modern half blue morocco gilt, over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with quadruped motifs, a.e.g. Housed in cloth slipcases. Audubon's final great natural history work, with plates and descriptions of the qu... more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895-1896. Chromolithograph, on later mount. In good condition apart from small repaired tears to upper left corner and lower margin. Image size: 13 x 19 3/4 inches. A stunning hunting print from one of America's most celebrated sporting artists. Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) is remembered as one of America's best-loved sporting artists. His evocative hunting and shooting prints capture the drama of the sport and provide an invaluable visual record of rur... more information

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Amsterdam: Published by Carel Allard, circa 1675. Engraving. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition with the exception of being trimmed within the plate mark on all sides. Light crease through center where it has been folded. Skillfully repaired tear on bottom margin. Bottom right corner has been reattached. A number of tiny tear on upper edge of sheet. Image size: 14 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches. 16 1/8 x 20 inches. This fascinating, satirical print of a Quakers' meeting was executed by Carel Allard af... more information

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Paris: Chez Vidal, Graveur, Rue de la Harpe, No. 181, circa 1760. Colour-printed stipple engraving. In excellent condition. Image size: 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. 15 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. 16 1/16 x 18 3/4 inches. A magnificent impression of this breathtaking colour-printed genre print, exhibiting the best of French Rococo art. Genre painting came back into favour when the Academy admitted Watteau's "The Pilgrimage to Cythera" to its ranks in 1717. From that point on a fashion for decorative gen... more information

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Paris: Chez Maurice Le Garrec, successor d'Edmond Sagot, 1921. Folio. (18 1/2 x 15 inches). 36 variously-sized cliché-verre plates numbered 1-40 (one plate includes five images), each plate with the pencilled edition number "32/150" and the publisher's stamp on the verso, each matted to a uniform size. Unbound as issued within original brown cloth portfolio, title blocked in gilt on the upper cover, cloth ties. A rare portfolio of cliché-verre prints by notable artists of t... more information

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London: James Wyld, 2 May 1831. Large engraved map (50 x 90 inches, if joined), on six sheets, hand-coloured in outline. In good condition. A spectacular large scale map of Quebec and other districts in Lower Canada by one of the most important figures in the history of Canadian cartography. This very rare and beautifully-executed map is Joseph Bouchette's cartographic masterpiece, and is here in its most desirable form: it was available on six sheets (as here), four sheets backed on to linen, or diss... more information

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Watercolour over pencil with scratching out and gum arabic, inscribed in pencil on verso. 16 3/4 x 22 3/4 inches. A spectacular view of Quebec from across the St. Lawrence River: the colours all as bright as the day it was painted 'Every visitor at Quebec ought to cross the river with the ferry-boat, and view the city from the summit of this delightful spot. From this place there is a fine view of the east side of the Upper Town, where every prominent object can be distinctly seen, such as the grand b... more information

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London: Feb. 1st., 1804. Hand-coloured and colour printed in stipple and line engraving by Cooper. 22 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England. "This striking and distinctive plant, called by Thornton the `Queen' in this plate, and later the `Queen Flower', but more usually known as the `Bird of Paradise Flower' from a fanciful resemblance to that bird, is a native of South Africa, and one the most colourful plants of the showy flora ... more information

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Haarlem: Published by Pieter Soutman, circa 1644. Mixed method, engraving and etching. Printed on fine laid paper, with a watermark of a sun. In excellent condition, with the exception of being trimmed within the platemark on all sides. Image size: 15 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. 16 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches. A stunning portrait of Queen Joan I, by Jonas Suyderhoef, one of the most celebrated Dutch portrait engravers. Jonas Suyderhoef, was one of the most eminent seventeenth century Dutch engravers. His refin... more information

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London: Published by W. H. Pyne, 1818. Hand-coloured aquatint, heightened with touches of gum arabic. Very good condition apart from some light foxing and a 1 7/8" loss along the right edge of the bottom margin. 10 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches. 10 5/8 x 13 inches. A beautifully coloured print from "The History of the Royal Residences...," William Henry Pyne's comprehensive collection of plates depicting the interiors of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Ha... more information

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London: (1748-) 1754 [Second edition]. Hand-coloured copper engraving. Excellent condition. Sheet size: 12 3/4 x 18 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) Trained as a botanist, Catesby travelled to Virginia in 1712 and remained there for seven years, sending back to England co... more information

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