Titles starting with T from Donald Heald Rare Books

Paris & London: Goupil & Vibert, and E. Gambert, Junin & Co., [circa 1853]. Tinted lithograph, coloured by hand, by Franco, Goupil blindstamp beneath title. 13 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches. 20 1/4 x 25 7/8 inches. A very finely worked still-life of flowers and fruit after the artist Gronland. A natural history lithograph of the highest quality, with great care paid to the hand-colouring of each individual fruit: the ripe peaches and grapes rest on a bed of vine leaves with a sprinkling of auriculas and... more information

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Paris, London, New York and Berlin: Goupil & Cie., 1 October 1853. Tinted lithograph, coloured by hand, by Bouvier, Goupil blindstamp beneath title (small marginal tear). 13 5/8 x 17 1/2 inches. 20 1/4 x 25 7/8 inches. A finely worked still-life of flowers, fruit and game. With great skill Bouvier shows a classical arrangement of still life centering on a dead Snipe or Woodcock, heaped with foliage, azaleas and dahlias, all resting on a stone pedestal. Surrounding this arrangement are some carefully p... more information

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Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1858. Quarto. (12 x 9 1/4 inches). Half-title, title with wood-engraved vignette, 6pp. list of subscribers. Folding lithographed map printed in two colours with the route marked by hand, 14 plates (7 mounted chromolithographs, 6 tinted lithographs, 1 uncoloured wood-engraving), 8 wood-engraved illustrations (2 full page). (Some spotting). Publisher's brown cloth, covers blocked in blind, the upper cover lettered in gilt, spine blocked in gilt, neatly rebacked retaining the... more information

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London: R. Ackermann, 1 October 1837. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by J. Harris (expert repairs, one just touching image area). 12 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches. 21 7/8 x 16 3/4 inches. A fine copy of the original issue on 'Whatman Turkey Mill' paper showing the Windsor coach at full speed "In 1837 and 1839, Ackermann published many aquatints after Cooper Henderson's pictures of which 'The Taglioni!!!'... is the best. Devoid of setting, except for a line for the road, ... more information

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Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph by Albert Newsam (signed on stone). Very good condition.14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. 20 14 x 14 3/4 inches. A fine image from McKenney and Hall's "Indian Tribes of North America": with Albert Newsam's signature in lithograph Tah-Chee, (d. 1848) also known as "Dutch," and "Captain William Dutch" was a revered Cherokee chief and talented hunter, who acquired a significant amount of land for his tribe along the Canadia... more information

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Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph by J. T. Bowen. In excellent condition. 13 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. 18 x 12 3/4 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. Also occasionally referred to as the "medicine man", Tai-O-Mah or Taimah, ... more information

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New York: Henry T. Thomas, 1893. Heliotype. Very good condition apart from a mild crease in the lower right corner, some light soiling, and minor foxing in the margins. A few small losses in the top right corner of the sheet. 15 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches. 17 3/4 x 22 5/8 inches. A fine plate depicting Mr. Oliver H.P. Belmont's four-wheeled trap at Bellevue Avenue, Newport in August 1892, from the nineteenth-century publication 'Sporting Incidents'. Originally developed as a means of transport during... more information

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[London: by the Author, 1845-1863]. Hand-coloured lithograph by John Gould and H.C.Richter. Wove paper. Some spotting. 15 x 21 15/16 inches. A fine image from John Gould's great folio work 'The Mammals of Australia'. A group of three coastal sheathtail bats (Taphozous Australis) shown emerging through a fissure in the rock from their roost: a typically striking print from Gould and Richter. These delightful animals, endangered by the disturbance of their natural haitat, are native to the nort... more information

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Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1679. Folio. (19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches). Title with engraved vignette. Additional engraved title, 2 engraved section titles, 8 double-page plates from the designs of C. le Brun, by Sebastien le Clerc and others, 32 emblematic half-page illustrations after Jacques Bailly, 3 engraved head- or tailpieces, 2 engraved initials, extra-illustrated with 4 additional plates by le Clerc after le Brun, lacking the single leaf `Avertissement' (Some light old dampstaining, leaf Pp wit... more information

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Paris: Mabileau & Co., 1913. Hand-coloured pochoir print. Very good condition apart from some light soiling in the left margin. 14 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches. 17 3/4 x 35 3/8 inches. Pictured here in a car of his own design, Nazzaro wins the 1913 Targa Florio by a margin of over an hour. The Gamy-Montaut prints document various historical events in the early history of motorized transportation, including Power Boat Racing, Motorcycle and Motor Car Racing, Motor Car Touring, Zeppelins and Airplanes. Having ... more information

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[Doncaster]: W. Sheardown & Sons, [1826]. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by C. Hunt, 'Minerva head' blindstamp. 12 x 16 1/4 inches. 16 9/16 x 22 1/4 inches. A fine print from the 'Winners of the Great St. Leger Series', started by John Frederick Herring and ably continued here: David Dalby's "portraits of horses are very fine" (Charles Lane). David Dalby "was born in 1794 and is noted as an animal painter in a York directory in 1815. Within five y... more information

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London: John Arrowsmith, February 15, 1842 [issued 1850]. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour. 25 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. A very fine map of Tasmania, depicting the island during an especially fascinating period in its settlement, by one of the great London mapmakers From the London Atlas, Jan. 1, 1850. Van Diemans Land became Tasmania in 1853, at the same time its last shipment of convicts arrived from England. Abel Tasman (1609? - 1659), a Dutch navigator, discovered the island in 1642 and na... 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 3/4 x 11 1/2 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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Edinburgh & London: [1877]. Hand-coloured lithograph by Day & Son. Sheet size: 22 3/8 x 16 7/8 inches. A very fine plate from Ravenscroft's 'The Pinetum Britannicum. A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees' Ravenscroft's work is the third (in order of publication) of the three great coniferous iconographies of the nineteenth century, following Bedford and Lambert. The very fine plates fall into two categories: botanical studies of details of the needles and fruit of the in... more information

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London: The Curwen Press for Arthur Ackermann, December 1981. Coloured offset-lithograph by the Curwen Press, signed in pencil by the artist (lower right just beneath the image) In pristine condition. 13 5/8 x 20 3/4 inches. 19 5/8 x 25 1/8 inches. A very fine signed print from the one of the greatest bird artists of the 20th century. An exquisite image of a flock of teal coming in to land in the wetlands on a mid-winter's afternoon. Sir Peter Scott was best known in later life for his work as a foun... 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. 15 1/4 x 19 1/2 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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[London: Day & Son, 1842-1849]. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe, coloured by hand, mounted on card in imitation of a watercolour (as issued). Fine condition. 9 7/8 x 13 13/16 inches. Card 16 x 22 1/4 inches. A fine example from the deluxe issue of David Roberts' monumental works on the Middle East: 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia', considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th century. Roberts' masterpiece was issued in 41 parts over seve... more information

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[New York]: Julius Bien & Co, [1882]. Tinted lithograph by Julius Bien & Co. (Small tears to original fold and a repaired tear in the left margin). 18 3/4 x 30 1/2 inches. 19 7/8 x 32 5/8 inches. A fine image from "one of the grandest publications of the scientific explorations in the American West", by arguably one of the greatest American topographical artists who recorded this important era of westward expansion This magnificent image is from the atlas volume of the official governmen... 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 1/2 x 14 3/4 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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London: John Boydell, 1 July 1777. Engraving, coloured by hand, by J.B. Michel. (Expert repair to upper margin just touching image area). 16 5/8 x 22 7/8 inches. 19 1/8 x 24 inches. A lively scene from the Flemish master of the interior genre picture. Born in Antwerp, David Teniers was the son of David Teniers I. He became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1632-3 after an apprenticeship to his father, with whom he also collaborated. In 1637 he married Anna, the daughter and heiress of Jan Breugh... more information

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