Natural History 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: Printed for the Author by James Dixwell, in St. Martin's Lane. And sold by John Sewell, Bookseller in Cornhill; B. White and Son, Fleet Street; and P. Elmsley in the Strand, 1788. Two volumes in one. 4to. (10 1/2 x 8 inches). Part I: [6] [i]-xx [1]-101. Part II: [2] [i]-xxvii [1] [1]-76. 234 pp. Part I: Engraved… 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

Charleston: Printed and published by C. C. Sebring, No. 44 Queen-street, 1826. 8vo. (5 1/2 x 9 inches). First edition. Signed "1-17" in fours, "18" in two. [i]-vi [7]-140. 140 pp. Title, Deposit statement, Dedication to Samuel L. Mitchell, Preliminary Remarks, Elements of Philosophy I-XLV, Directions to the Binder, Index. One engraved plate with diagrams opposite p.18 titled "For… Read more about this item

New York: John James Audubon, 1848. Hand-colored lithograph by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia after a drawing from nature by Audubon. Sheet: (21 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches). Iconic image of a Hare-Indian Dog from the first edition of Audubon's Quadrupeds, the greatest 19th-century work of natural history illustration to be produced in America. "As long as our civilization… Read more about this item

New York: John James Audubon, 1847. Hand-colored lithograph by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia after Audubon. Sheet: (20 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches). "As long as our civilization lasts, America will be in debt to this genius." [Peterson] "This beautiful Deer is found variously dispersed over the western portions of the North American continent, where it was first… Read more about this item

New York: John James Audubon, 1845. Hand-colored lithograph by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia after Audubon. Sheet: (21 1/4 x 27 inches). The Black American Wolf from the first edition of Audubon's Quadrupeds, the greatest 19th-century illustrated natural history work to be produced in America: "As long as our civilization lasts, America will be in debt to this genius."… Read more about this item

New York: John James Audubon [Victor Audubon], 1848. Three volumes. Elephant folio. (27 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches). First edition. Three lithograph title-pages, three leaves of letterpress contents. 150 hand-colored lithograph plates by John T. Bown of Philadelphia after John James Audubon and John Woodhouse Audubon, the backgrounds after Victor Audubon. Expertly bound to style in purple half morocco… Read more about this item

New York: Julius Bien. Printed by the New York Lithographing, Engraving, and Printing Company, 16 and 18 Park Place, 1870. 4to. (12 x 9 1/2 inches). Edition of 50. [i]-viii [1]-150. 158 pp. 30 numbered and card-mounted albumen silver photographic prints with printed titles. Half-title, Photo of Moore's Lake, Title printed red and black, List of Views, Table of… Read more about this item

London: Vols. I-V: Printed for the Author, at the College of Physicians, in Warwick-Lane. Vols. VI-VII: Printed by George Sidney, Northumberland Street, Strand, 1806. 7 volumes. 4to. (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches). [Uncommon Birds:] 4 parts in 4 volumes. 211 etched plates by and after Edwards, 210 of which finely hand-colored, 1 of "Un Samojeed" uncolored, with dates… 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: J. Purser for the Author, 1766. Large oblong folio. (18 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches). On laid paper with text and plates mounted on guards throughout. 24 etched plates all by Stubbs. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century half Russia over 18th-century marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt in seven compartments with raised bands, red Morocco lettering-piece in the… Read more about this item

Nuremberg: auf kosten der Raspichen Buchhandlung, 1782. Folio. (15 1/2 x 9 7/16 inches). 64 pp. Engraved allegorical vignette on title, engraved portraits of Christoph and Johann Christoph Gottwald, 49 engraved plates of shells, starfish, and coral, engraved tailpiece. Contemporary German gray marbled boards, spine with gilt paper label and gilt in compartments, red edges. Provenance: Dr. J.… Read more about this item

Bath, 1783. Watercolour on laid paper with manuscript description on verso of the fine gold-leaf frame. Image size: 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. Framed size: 22 1/4 x 18 inches. Thomas Robins, a native of Bath, was an enigmatic artist known for his watercolors. A small number of signed watercolors in the Broughton Collection at Cambridge University have… Read more about this item

Paris: Lacombe [parts 1-4]; Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey [parts 5-16]; Paris: Chez l'Auteur [parts 17-20], 1781. 20 parts in 2 volumes, folio. (18 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches). Twenty engraved titles printed in red, yellow, blue or black, and twenty engraved lists of the plates. 200 plates (zoological [54], ornithological [26], botanical [60], and mineralogical [60]), each present in… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. 2 vols. Folio. (13 3/4 x 10 inches). 86 lithographed plates, of which 85 are beautifully hand-coloured. Magnificent contemporary binding of full blue-green morocco richly gilt, a.e.g. by Clyde. One of the rarest and most beautiful iconographies of Butterflies in a superb full morocco binding. The author's intention (as laid… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Debrett, Piccadilly, 1790. 4to. (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches). First edition, deluxe issue. A2 a6 B-Pp4 Qq2 a-e4. 128 ff. [18] [1]-299 [39]. 356 pp. 65 finely hand-colored engraved plates. Engraved title-page vignette of the view in Port Jackson. Title, Dedication, Advertisement, List of Subscribers, List of Plates, White's Journal, Appendix, Diary of the… Read more about this item