Botany from Donald Heald Rare Books

Amsterdam and Leiden: François Halma and Pieter vander Aa, 1702. Two parts in one volume. Folio. (16 1/2 x 11 inches). First Latin edition. ******2 A-M2 Figs. 245. [32] [1]-48 [1]-490. 570 pp. 245 engraved plates of plants by Joseph Mulder, all unsigned but one, with Latin plant names. Half-title, engraved allegorical frontispiece, letterpress title printed red and black… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. White, at Horace's Head, Fleet Street, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, 1807. Folio. (22 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches). First edition. [x]2 a-c1 B-2X1[x]6. [4] [i]-[vi] [1]-98. 108 pp. 47 hand-colored engraved plates, 42 of which are after Ferdinand Bauer, 3 after James Sowerby, 1 after Franz Bauer, and 1 after Georg Dionysius Ehret. 41… 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

London: Printed by Adam Islip for John Bill, 1616. Folio. (11 1/4 x 7 inches). First English edition. [x]4 A-Sss4. [18] 732 [18]. 768 pp. Title, The Contents, Dedication to Lord Robert, Dedication to Sir Peregrine Bartie, Surflet to the Courteous Reader, Seed Table, Books I-VII, Table of the Matters, Table of New Additions. Woodcut printer's ornaments, head and… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1839. 8to. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). Third edition. [i]-xi 1-570 1-32. 614 pp. With six copper-plate engraved plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Title, Preface, Contents, Books I-IV, Appendix, Explanation of the plates, Index, Bookseller's catalogue. Publisher's green cloth boards ruled in blind and pictorially blind-stamped on both… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row. Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, 1832. 4to. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). Volume I: Second edition with supplement. xxiv 1-742 1-16. 782 pp. Publisher's green cloth boards blind paneled and pictorially blind-stamped on front and back boards, title stamped gilt on spine, yellow endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown … Read more about this item

Antwerp: Joseph Jacops, 1682. 4to. (7 3/4 x 6 inches). pp. (xl), 1-74, (2), 75-296, (26). Engraved frontsipiece and coat of arms after prefatory text. 14 additional engraved plates, most are folding. Contemporary calf with raised bands in six compartments, gilt tooling, gilt title on second compartment. First edition of Sterbeeck's fascinating botanical treatise on citrus fruit, includes… Read more about this item

Paris: J. Rothschild, Libraire de la Société Botanique de France et des Sociétés Zoologique et Géologique de Londres, 14 Rue de Buci. Printed by E. Donnaud at 9 Rue Cassette, 1864. Folio. (23 x 15 1/2 inches). 40 chromolithographic plates. Unpaginated, 248 pp. Contemporary Morocco-backed mottled boards, spine with raised bands in six gilt-tooled compartments, marbled endpapers. A… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Le Rouge, Rue des Grands Augustins, 1789. 21 cahiers in 4 vols. Folio. (11 x 8 inches). First edition. Complete. Volume I: Cahiers 1-5: "Traite des edifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensiles des Chinois, graves sur les originaux dessines a la Chine," 30 pp., 128 copper-plate engravings. Volume 2: Cahiers 6-10: 113 plates. Volume 3: Cahiers 11-15:… Read more about this item

Nuremberg: Johann Friedrich Frauenholz, 1800. 6 vols.; folio. (20 x 15 inches). Engraved hand-colored plan and 37 fine hand-colored aquatint plates. Publisher's neat blindstamp to a few plate margins. Original printed wrappers with marbled paper spines, labels on covers of all six volumes, within a cloth chemise and quarter green morocco clamshell box. [Together with:] HEIDELOFF, Victor (1757-1817). Merkwürdigste… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1783. 2 volumes, folio. (17 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches). 3 engraved titles, 2 pp. letterpress list of plates numbered 1-200. 206 hand-colored engraved plates, numbered in manuscript in the upper margin just within the platemark at a contemporary date. Contemporary full red morocco, covers bordered in gilt, spines with raised bands in seven compartments, lettered… Read more about this item

London: Printed for the Author by Messrs. Reeves and Son, 150 Cheapside, 1831. 4to. (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). Unpaginated, 148 pp. Pencilled foliation to 70 that skips four leaves: between 20 and 21, 29 and 30, 48 and 49, and 50 and 51, ff. 74. 20 hand-colored plates. 62 subjects in the text with the "easiest method… Read more about this item

Folio. (17 5/16 x 13 9/16 inches). 20 plates, each measuring 15 3/8 x 12 7/16 inches, most signed "F.M. Stanton"or initialed "F.M.S." Contemporary green half calf over red boards, green gilt label. Provenance: Christie's New York, 15 November 2004, lot 38. A lovely unique album of botanical watercolors. Oriental tinting was a painting technique much… Read more about this item

London: Published and Sold by the Author at his House in Dorset Court near Parliament Street, 1777. 3 volumes. Folio. (20 1/2 x 14 inches). First edition. 104 engraved plates in both hand-colored and uncolored states plus 4 hand-colored engraved plates of botanical details. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title, preface, subscription list, explanation of classes. Each uncolored plate with… Read more about this item

London: Printed by B. M'Millan, 1816. Folio. (18 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches). vi, lxvi, 316, iv. First edition. 123 leaves of mounted dried grass specimens, each with captioned overslips, 35 leaves in introduction with mounted seed samples, errata slip pasted to contents leaf verso, some offsetting from samples to opposite letterpress, small ink stamp to front pastedown, all… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Didot Jeune, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, 1783. 6 volumes. 8vo. (7 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches). General title page in Vol. I within hand-colored engraved border, titles in Vols. II-VI within ornamental borders. Volume I: [12] 32 pp., rest unpaginated. Introduction at beginning complete with half-title, volume title page, 2 pp. advertisement, engraved table of contents printed… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Martyn, 10 Great Marlborough Street, 1796. 3 volumes. Folio. (13 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches). 102 watercolors over etched line. 90 distinct watercolors with 12 variants. 1795 Volume: Unpaginated, 86 pp. Manuscript title page and 42 watercolors over etched line. 1796 Volume I: Unpaginated, 130 pp. Manuscript title and 30 watercolors over etched line, each with manuscript… Read more about this item

London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co., sold by J. & J. Boydell and G. Nicol, 1794. Oblong folio. (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches). Half-title. 10 hand-coloured aquatints engravings (1 folding, 3 double-page), each with one or more overslips, and 6 aquatint plates printed in black with a single tint added (4 with one or more overslips), 2… Read more about this item

London, 1799. Sheet size 23 x 17 inches. Hand-coloured and colour-printed mezzotint engraving by Earlom. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England. "Truly a magnificent sight in full flower, this plant is rightly named the Superb Lily [Lilium superbum L.]. A… Read more about this item

5 works in 6 volumes. Early issues (1842-1849). 4to. (10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches). 304 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Uniformly bound in contemporary green calf gilt by Riviere. Spines with raised bands in six compartments, morocco lettering-pieces in second and third compartments, others with repeat overall decoration in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A complete set of Early… Read more about this item