Miscellany from Donald Heald Rare Books

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: 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

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1888. Folio. (15 7/8 x 12 inches). Title, dedication and some text leaves printed in red and black, half-title. 50 chromolithographic plates by McLagan & Cumming of Edinburgh after Gibb. (Perforation stamp to title). Original half-red morocco, rebacked. Limited edition of 1,090 copies, this one of 1,040 with printed facsimile signature of the… Read more about this item

Paris: Sebastian and Gabriel Cramoisy, 1657. 2 Volumes. Folio. (14 x 9 inches). Volume I: [x]4 é-ó4 A-MMMmm4. [30] [1]-808 [42]. 880 pp. Half-title, title printed red and black with large woodcut device of Cramoisy, engraved frontispiece of dedicatee Nicolaus Foucquet, who was Louis XIV's minister of state for finance, by François de Poilly after Charles de Brun, dedication,… Read more about this item

Constantinople and Egypt: Unpublished, 1845. Portfolio. 42 watercolors hinged onto 22 period card mounts, 7 signed by Preziosi, 1 signed by Beaumont, ranging in size from 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches to 13 x 20 1/2 inches, all with contemporary ink manuscript caption titles on the mount, some additionally captioned by the artists. Housed in burgundy cloth chemise… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions G. L. M. 79 Avenue de Segur. Type printed by Les Presses des Editions G. L. M. [Guy Lévis Mano, typographer (1904-1980)]; heliogravures printed by Les Presses de Breger, 1935. 4to. (9 1/2 x 7 inches). pp. 52. Foliated in pencil 1-18 including 5 original photographs. Number 388 out of 1000 copies on papier velin from a… Read more about this item

Augsburg: Albrecht Schmidt, 1744. Folio. (14 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Folio. (14 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches) 12 hand-coloured copper-plate engravings heightened with silver and gold leaf on rectos of thick handmade laid paper bound into a slim volume. 12 ff. Each plate has an engraved title, several with accompanying humorous 4-line rhyming verses in German and Latin.… Read more about this item

Dublin, Ireland: Hime at his Musical Circulating Library No. 34 College Green, No 40 College Green, 1810. Folio. ff. 25. Sheets: (12 3/4 x 9 inches). Plates: (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches). 25 copper-plated engraved pieces of sheet music printed in black. Most sheets hand-foliated in ink. With the ownership signature in ink on the back of songs… Read more about this item

Washington, DC, 1895. Archive. Sheet sizes variable. Over 60 ink and pencil manuscripts and typescripts, including copies, ledgers, letters, and US Government correspondence on paper. This remarkable archive of manuscript materials tells the story of "Linconia," Abraham Lincoln's failed 1861-62 scheme to resettle free black Americans in the Chiriqui province of what is now Panama. "You having been… Read more about this item

Dresden: Galerie Emil Richter, 1926. Original woodcut printed in black on Japan paper. Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil by Kollwitz. Numbered 2 of 100 copies. But one of 25 copies on thick, white Japan, conforming to Klipsten's variant state VIII.b. Plate mark: (14 1/8 x 11 3/4 inches). The great unemployment during Germany's inflationary years after WWI prompted… Read more about this item

Paris: Georges Richar (Les Èditions de Minuit). Printed by l'Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris, 1970. Oblong 4to. (7 3/8 x 10 inches). Number 25 of 25 copies printed in black on handmade laid paper from Auvergne by Moulin Richard-de-Bas with 5 additional etchings on China paper and an original drawing (from a total edition of 175; plus 17 non-commercial copies:… Read more about this item

New York: Parasol Press, Ltd. Printed by Crown Point Press in Berkeley, California, 1970. (22 x 30 inches). Linocut in black and tan on Arches paper with watermark, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 30/50. There were also 10 artist's proofs. The first state of a limited edition Thiebaud linocut of one of his central Pop Art motifs: the… Read more about this item

Berkeley, California: Crown Point Press, 1964. Etching in black on Rives BFK wove paper. (8 x 4 5/6 inches). Etching number 9 from an edition of 15. Signed and dated by Thiebaud in pencil with a small drawing of a heart in red color pencil, on Rives BFK wove paper with watermark. An early signed etching of one of… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. 8vo. (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches). [viii], 299 pp. In light brown cloth. Cover blind stamped. Spine lettered in gilt. Ownership signature First edition, first issue in publisher's original cloth binding. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a semi-fictional biography that chronicles the life and experiences of one Larry Livingston,… Read more about this item

1800. Depicting couples from various regions with accoutrements, as named in each lower margin, unsigned. Image size: (10 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches). Sheet size: (13 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches) The group consists: 1. Di Pesco Costanza Contado di Molise 2. Paese di Sessano Provincia Contado di Molise 3. Massagronica Provincia si Chiete Abruzzo Citra 4. Passe di… Read more about this item

Hartford, Connecticut; Paris: James Thrall Soby; Cahiers d'Art, 1934. 4to. (12 x 9 1/4 inches). 104 heliogravures of Man Ray's photographs and rayographs. With a portrait by Picasso. Texts by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), and Tristan Tzara. First edition, second issue with the publisher's fictitious "second edition." Inscribed by Man Ray on front wrapper verso… Read more about this item

London; Mannheim; The Hague and Amsterdam: Chez C. Josi, 42, Gerrard Street, Soho Square; Chez Artaria et Fontaine; Chez les Frères van Cleef, 1828. 2 volumes. Folio. (21 2/5 x 16 1/4 inches). First edition. 1 of 100 copies. Vol. I: [i]-xxxiv [1]-18. Rest unpaginated. 105 mounted plates on 101 sheets in mezzotint, aquatint, roulette work, and other engraving… Read more about this item

London: William Tegg, 1876. 4to. (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches). 96 pp., 47 lithograph plates on 45 sheets. Publisher's red cloth, gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine, fore edge gilt. A delightful volume of lithographic plates by the Junior Etching Club, a prestigious organization instrumental in the revival of etching in late-Victorian England, with… Read more about this item