Miscellany from Donald Heald Rare Books

1809. Each pencil sketch on a sheet 10 x 8 inches. Matted to 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Minor toning and soiling. Very good. This pencil drawing by William Daniell, likely created as a preparatory work for his engraved portraits in A Collection of Portraits Sketched from the Life (1809-1814), offers a rare glimpse into the intricate process… Read more about this item

Paris: Luciano Anselmino, 1975. Folio. Box: (21 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches). Sheet of Man Ray print: (20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches). Image of Man Ray print: (15 x 13 1/2 inches). Blue cloth clamshell document box with inset printed panels containing unpaginated pp. 26 signed Henry Miller text titled "La Logique Assassine" in seven gatherings with a… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. 8vo. (9 1/8 x 6 inches). xviii, 625 pp. With 'corrigenda' slip. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered gilt. The first edition of the influential work that introduces the groundbreaking field of game theory, offering a mathematical framework for analyzing strategic interactions in competitive situations, revolutionizing economic theory and interdisciplinary studies. Theory of… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and John Brindley, in New Bond Street, 1730. 8vo. (7 3/4 x 5 inches). First edition. A-H4. viii, 55 [1]. 64 pp. Title, Dedication to the Neo-Palladian architect Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington (1694-1753), Treatise. Woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. Bound to style in contemporary… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John Bioren, No. 88, Chesnut-street, and John Haviland and Hugh Bridport, No. 26, North Fifth-street, 1821. Three volumes bound in two with supplement. 8vo. (8 1/4 x 5 inches). First edition. Vol. I: [i]-x [ii] xi-xii [1]-263 [1]. 278 pp. Title, Deposit, Preface, Table of Contents, Contents of the Plates, On the Grecian Orders, Errata. Vol. II: [i]-[xvi]… Read more about this item

Dublin: Printed by Robert Jackson, Meath-Street, 1790. 4 volumes. 8vo. (8 x 4 3/4 inches). Second edition. 542 pp. 557 pp. 526 pp. 573 pp. Contemporary full tree calf, spine ruled gilt into six compartments with gilt-lettered red morocco label in second Comprehensive early history of the Quakers, a central religious and political group in colonial America. … 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

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

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

London: Printed for T. Carnan, 1778. 12mo. (6 3/4 x 4 inches). (12), 336 pp. Contemporary calf, front and back covers ruled gilt, spine ruled gilt into 6 compartments, gilt lettering on second and third compartments. Provenance: J. Bryan (contemporary signature); Pamela Lister (bookplate) The second edition, corrected and enlarged, of Weston's classic treatise on landscape gardening. … 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). 52 pp. 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