Recent Arrivals from Donald Heald Rare Books

Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Art Society. Printed by Kyoto Bijutsu Kyokai, 1903. Oblong orihon concertina-fold codex. (9 5/8 × 14 1/2 inches). First edition. 16 openings, 32 pp. 18 color-woodblock plates heightened with silver and textured inks including an architectural plan and 9 double-page spreads, all with Japanese title captions. Preliminary and terminal text in calligraphic Japanese with red woodblock… Read more about this item

London: Printed for the Editor; J. Ridgway, York-Street; H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and D. Holt, Newark, 1795. 4 volumes. 8vo. (8 1/4 x 5 inches). Book: (8 1/4 x 5 inches). Large folding maps: (21 x 16 1/2 inches). Complete first edition. 39 of 39 called-for plates. 9 engraved folding maps by Russell including the Washington map, 1… Read more about this item

The Hague: Pierre Husson, 1715. 2 volumes. 4to. (10 x 7 1/2 inches). "Nouvelle Edition Augmentée Considerablement." Vol. I: *-**4 A-Pp4. [i]-xvi [1]-293. 310 pp. Vol. II: 38 engraved plates, 33 are double-plates, 5 are folding. Woodcut head and tail-pieces, historiated initials, and illustrations in-text. Title printed red and black with woodcut printer's device, Dedication with engraved coat-of-arms, Avis,… Read more about this item

Augsburg: Heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1740. Folio. (13 3/4 x 20 2/3 inches). First edition. 2 works bound in one volume. 11 engraved calligraphic title pages in French and German (10 in first work, one in second), text in French and German, one engraved dedication leaf at beginning of first work, 102 fine engraved plates after Kleiner, 90 in… Read more about this item

London: B. B. Evans, Poultry, 1790. Contemporary hand-colored aquatint engraving on cream laid paper. Sheet size: 19 1/2 x 25 5/8 inches. Rare separately-issued print showing Captain Bligh and his loyal men being cast adrift from the Bounty: one of the best known and most desirable of all maritime images, and the only known likeness of the mutineer Fletcher… Read more about this item

New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, No. 285 Broadway. Printed by Edward O. Jenkins, 114 Nassau Street, New York, 1851. 8vo. (9 1/4 x 6 inches). First edition. [1]-378 [4]. 382 pp. Engraved frontispiece of Mount Zion by Burt, Title with Latin epigraph, Deposit statement, Contents, Text, Appendix, Publisher's advertisements. Four engraved views including Jerusalem by Burt (p.262), the… Read more about this item

London: Printed by John Haberkorn for the Author and Sold at His House in St. Martin's-Lane, 1754. Folio. (17 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches). First edition. [3] a-b2 A-G2 [161]. 182 ff. [4] [i]-x [1]-[28] [322]. 364 pp. Half-title, letterpress title-page printed red and black, engraved dedication to the Earl of Northumberland, Preface, Names of the Subscribers, General Proportions,… Read more about this item

Frankfurt: A. Kempner [part 2, E. Kempner], 1612. 2 parts in one volume, folio. (14 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches). Engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait of the author, 110 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates, title heightened in gold. Title mounted. Copper engravings, with expert modern hand-colouring. Contemporary red morocco, the covers panelled in gilt with foliate center- and corner-pieces, spine… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed by John Gill, 1777. Half broadsheet. (13 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). [A]2. [1]-4. 4 pp. Folded broadsheet printed on recto and verso on laid paper Revolutionary-era pamphlet on an act raising funds to fight against the British, issued by the Massachusetts House of Representatives. This leaflet issued by the House of Representatives of the… Read more about this item

Washington City [Washington, D.C.]: Westcott & Co, 1808. 8vo. 3 volumes. (8 1/4 x 5 inches). Vol. I: 147 [2] 4-135 [3]. 284 pp. Title, Deposit Notice, Publisher's Note. Vol II: 465 [1]. 466 pp. Title, Deposit Notice. Vol. III: 418 I [i-l] [4]. 472 pp. Title, Appendix, Index. Previous owner's small stamp on front pastedowns. Contemporary full sheep,… Read more about this item

New York: Printed by William Post, 749 Third Ave. Edited by M. de Beaujeu & Co., East 48th Street, 1913. 8vo. (9 x 6 1/8 inches). First English edition. [2] [1]-28. 30 pp. Color oval vignette frontispiece portrait of Beaujeu, Title, Dedication to author's wife, Text, Three black and white photo illustrations on two leaves at p.8 and p.20,… Read more about this item

Basel: Johannes Hervagen, 1537. Folio. (12 1/2 x 8 inches). Augmented edition. a-d4 a-z6 A-Z6 Aa-Dd6 [Ee]2. [24] [1]-599 [1]. 624 pp. Lacking the woodcut world map attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger and Sebastian Münster. Woodcut printer's devices on title and verso of last leaf, historiated initials, head and tail pieces, woodcut illustrations on pp. 127-29. Title, Contents,… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1866. 2 vols. [Second edition of Volume I, First edition of Volume II]. 8vo. (8 x 5 1/4 inches). [Vol. I:] vi, 302 pp. [Vol. II:] [ii], 263 pp.; 20-page catalogue dated June 1865. Bound by Edmond and Remnants, London, in original red cloth, gilt decorations and lettering Emily Eden, daughter of William Eden, first… Read more about this item

Strasbourg: [Josiam Rihel], 1560. Folio. (12 1/2 x 8 inches). a6 b5 c8 A-Zz6 Aaa5. 466 pp. Title, Armorial woodcut, Vorrede / Preface, Index, Register, Woodcut author portrait, Theils I-III, Register. Around 530 woodcuts in the text, several colored or partially colored. Two pages in older ink manuscript facsimile. Ink manuscript amendations to the index. Text in German; type… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1594. Hand-colored engraved map. A milestone in the art of mapmaking: this stunning full-color double hemisphere world map is the first to include decorative allegorical figures as a border. This striking map of the world, engraved by the Dutch master Jan van Doetecum, holds the distinction of being the first world map to use allegorical decorated borders,… Read more about this item

Venice: Giovanni Varisco et Compagni, 1566. 4to. (8 x 5 1/2 inches). Undated edition likely printed between 1559 and 1572, but not the 1561, 1564, or 1570 editions. Professor of Astronomy Gingerich posited 1564 as a date for this example, but to judge from other title pages of the same year, that is incorrect. [A]-M8. Foliated [1]-32, then paginated… Read more about this item

London: Printed for and Sold by Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter, Lane Fleet Street, 1750. Four works in one. 8vo. (8 x 5 inches). [Chinese Taste:] Second edition. 8, 8, 8, [2] 2. 28 pp. Engraved title and 60 engraved plates, 11 folding. [Country Gentleman's]: First edition. [4] 3-14. 18 pp. 25 engraved… Read more about this item

London: John Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in New Bond-Street, 1749. Oblong 4to. (8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). First edition. [6] 1-25 [1]. 32 pp. 47 copper engraved plates interspersed, 2 folding at rear. Title, Preface, Variety of New Plans. Printer's ornament on letter-press title. Quarter calf with tips bound to style in… Read more about this item

London: Taylor and Francis, for the Author, 1883. Folio. (21 3/8 x 14 1/2 inches). Volume III only with all 78 plates. 20th-century half red morocco and cloth, all edges gilt Provenance: The Avicultural Society, T.H. Newman Bequest (bookplate dated 1944) Volume III of the most comprehensive work on Asiatic ornithology of its time The present… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed by J[ames] Franklin for S[amuel] Gerrish, and Sold at his Shop near the Old Meeting House, 1718. 8vo. (7 x 4 1/4 inches). First edition. A-K4 L2 A-B4 C2. [8] [1]-76 [4] [1]-15 [1]. 104 pp. Title, Dedication to the South Church in Boston by Prince, An Ordination-Sermon by Prince, The Charge by Increase Mather, The Fellowship… Read more about this item