Search Results: Authors starting with L from Donald Heald Rare Books

Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1650. 4to. (9 1/4 x 7 inches). [6], 340, [6]pp. Engraved printer's device on title-page, engraved head-piece and initial on the dedication leaf, 26 engraved illustrations (including one full-page). Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece First edition of an important work of optics and the musical nature of the refraction of color. La Chambre, a protege of Cardinal de Richelieu, served as physician to Chancelier Seguier and Louis XIII, and entered the Academie Royale in 1666. The present work was instrumental in the development of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat's eponymous principle, as well as the experiments by Newton which led to his publication of Opticks in 1704. Following Aristotle in deriving a link between the color specturm and musical theory, La Chambre theorized all colors being encompasses within white light and arranged colors over two octaves (with the seven colors of Aristotle at… Read More

London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1799. Original copper engraving. This detailed map shows the south eastern part of Alaska. A fine copy of this engraving from Robinson's edition "usually considered to be the best one in English ... [and is] extremely rare" (Hill), picturing and charting La Perouse's ill-fated voyage round the world. "La Pérouse's expedition was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the west coast of North America ... The charge to the expedition [which took place between 1785 and 1788] was to examine such parts of the region as had not been explored by Captain Cook; to seek for an interoceanic passage; to make scientific observations on the various countries, peoples, and products; to obtain reliable information about the fur trade and the extent of Spanish settlements in California; and to promote the inducements for French enterprise in that quarter ... La Pérouse and his men did important geographical research ... The voyage also… Read More

Amsterdam: Raphael Smit, 1658. Fourth edition; 12mo. (5 7/8 x 3 9/16 inches). Title page, [xiv], [1], 354 pp., [index,, xxx pp.]. Bound to style in full red morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled paper covered slip case, aeg François Pierre de La Varenne, renowned chef de cuisine to Nicolas Chalon du Blé, Marquis d'Uxelles, left an important mark on the world of gastronomy with this ground-breaking work, Le cuisinier françois. This seminal book, published in Paris, became the founding text of modern French cuisine, sparking a culinary revolution as it played a pivotal role in steering French gastronomy away from the heavily spiced, Galenic, and elaborate cuisine of the Middle Ages. La Varenne's approach emphasized expressing ingredients' natural flavours, leading to a shift in the use of spices. Imported spices from far-away lands like saffron, cinnamon, cumin, ginger, and others, except for pepper, were replaced by locally sourced herbs such as parsley, thyme, bay leaf, chervil, sage,… Read More

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, preface, half-title, table of contents, index, errata. Engraved and woodcut head and tail-pieces, historiated initials, and printer's type-ornaments throughout. Volume II: á4 é6 A-SSSss4 TTTtt6. [20] [1]-820 [68]. 908 pp. Volume title, title printed red and black with large woodcut device of Cramoisy, Syllabvs Forvm, preface, index, appendix. Marginal annotations in ink manuscript in both volumes. Text in Latin. Volume I in contemporary mottled full calf with gilt fillets, six raised bands forming seven compartments on an elaborately gilt-tooled spine, re-backed with original laid down, gilt-lettered title in second… Read More

Paris: Chez H. J. Jansen, 1800. 3 volumes (text: 4to [11 3/4 x 9 inches]; atlas: folio [21 x 13 1/2 inches]). Atlas: Engraved title, folding map, and 43 plates. Half titles in the text. Text and atlas uncut. Text in contemporary blue patterned paper-covered boards, rebacked to style; atlas bound to style in period uniform blue patterned paper covered boards, paper spine labels. A fine uncut set of the first edition of the official published account of the search for La Pérouse, by the naturalist on the d'Entrecasteaux expedition. After three years had passed with no news of the fate of the La Perouse's ships, in 1791 a new expedition was launched with the dual mission of searching for La Perouse but also making inquiries into the natural sciences and commerce of the region. "Rear-Admiral Bruny D'Entrecasteaux received command of the expedition which consisted of two ships of about five hundred tons burden [La Recherche and L'Espérance] ... Proceeding via the cape of Good Hope to Tasmania,… Read More

London: John Boydell, 1768. Engraving, coloured by hand, by Philip Charles Canot. A fine example of van Laer's 'bambocciata' compositions, ably engraved by one of the great late 18th century engravers working in London. The title notes that the original picture, from which this engraving is taken, was 29 inches by 38 inches. Dutch painter and printmaker, [Van Laer was ]... active mainly in Rome, [where] he established a reputation as the inventor of the bambocciata (Fr. bambocciade), a variety of painting characterized by its small size, naturalistic style and references to contemporary Italian popular culture. He attracted many followers in Italy, known as the Bambaccianti. Peter Charles Canot (1710-1777) '...was a native of France, who came to England in 1740, and remained...till he died. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766, and was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, when that degree was first instituted. He exhibited at the Society of Artists,… Read More

London: John Boydell, 1769. Engraving, coloured by hand, by Philip Charles Canot. A fine example of van Laer's 'bambocciata' compositions, ably engraved by one of the great late 18th century engravers working in London. The title notes that the original picture, from which this engraving is taken, was 29 inches by 38 inches. Dutch painter and printmaker. [Van Laer was ]... active mainly in Rome, [where] he established a reputation as the inventor of the bambocciata (Fr. bambocciade), a variety of painting characterized by its small size, naturalistic style and references to contemporary Italian popular culture. He attracted many followers in Italy, known as the Bambaccianti. Peter Charles Canot (1710-1777) '...was a native of France, who came to England in 1740, and remained...till he died. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766, and was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, when that degree was first instituted. He exhibited at the Society of Artists,… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam & Co, 1856. Quarto. (12 x 8 3/4 inches). 526 pp.; 111 lithographic plates, about half of which are duotone, and some printed in colors. Quarter modern morocco over contemporary cloth, top edge gilt. First edition, posthumously printed, of this influential manual by an esteemed Greek Revival architect - "the last of the best of the architectural vade mecums." Lafever was an influential Greek Revival architect, writing three books on Greek designs and details. This work, combines a history of architecture with a survey of a wide range of ancient and modern styles, all written in a style suited for Lafever's general readership of 19th-century Americans. As such the present work continues his goal established in earlier books, such as Beauties of Modern Architecture (1839), of reaching those who he termed the "everyday workman." illustrated with nearly 250 engravings. One historian calls The Architectural Instructor "the last of the best of the architectural vade mecums" from the… Read More

Paris: Edme, 1772. Folio. (19 3/4 x 13 1/8 inches). Engraved frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after Sullier, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Baptiste Michel after Harguinier, engraved title vignette by and after Prevost, engraved arms of Charles-Eugene de Lorraine on dedication, 56 hand-coloured engraved plates by B. Michel Adam [femme Fessard], F.A. Aveline, C. Baquoy, Benard, Ch. Beulier, L. Bosse, Prevost and others after Harguinier, Lafosse, Saullier (19 folding), and 7 engraved headpieces by Delaunay, Hubert, Levilain, Lucas, Mlle Massard, Mesnil, Michel after Le Carpentier, type-ornament headpieces, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary calf, covers bordered with gilt double fillet, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt retaining the original red morocco lettering piece, period marbled endpapers Deluxe hand-coloured first edition of the best 18th century French work on equine medicine and the anatomy of the horse. Cours d'hippiatrique is distinguished not only by Lafosse's… Read More

Copenhagen: C. Steen, 1820. 4to. (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Letterpress title and list of plates. 35 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates. 19th century red morocco, by Charles de Samblanx, covers elaborately panelled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges Provenance: Jules Albert Baudoin Marie Ghislain, Vicomte de Johnghe (armorial bookplate). Lovely example of a rare Danish color plate costume book of the local trades and military. "Civil and military costumes of Denmark, street vendors, small merchants. Colas states there was an edition dated 1818 [the present edition undated] ... The plates in this work were also issued as part of Lahde's Kjobenhavns Klaederdragter" (The Exotic and the Beautiful). The present example in a lovely binding by noted Belgian binder Charles de Samblanx. Colas 1721; Lipperheide 1044; Bobins, The Exotic and the Beautiful II:407.

Paris: Huquier and others, 1768. 18 suites and 4 unassigned plates in one volume, folio (21 5/8 x 14 inches). Engraved throughout. 150 leaves with 13 titles and 161 plates, all after Lajoue (1 folding, 1 hand-coloured reverse-printed 'vue d'optique' plate), most plates mounted to size, some plates cut to the edge or into the plate area. Green morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative border tooled in gilt, expertly rebacked to style, spine in compartments with double raised bands, lettered gilt Provenance: F.A. Magliss (inscription dated 1905? on the verso of the second plate in the 16th suite) A unique 'sammelband' including the greatest engraved work produced from Jacques de Lajoue drawings: a celebration of French rocaille at its peak, as executed by an exuberant master. Jacques de Lajoue 'is one of a group of masters who, during the last years of Louis XIV's reign, reacted against the conventional austerity and heaviness of form that characterised the art of the 17th century. Gillot, Watteau,… Read More

Washington, D.C., 1814. Folio, uncut. (13 1/2 x 8 inches). 9pp. Gathered signatures, stab stitched. Ink ownership signature of "Thomas Worthington, Esq." at top of first page. A Senate slip-bill printing of language eventually included in the final act of the United States Congress governing the Yazoo land scandal. The first time in American History that a Federal Court had overridden a state law. In 1795, the Georgia legislature granted much of the land in the present state of Alabama to four land companies, which in turn sold shares to numerous investors all over the country; however, charges of bribery were raised and the grant was rescinded the following year. This left the investors high and dry, and many of them sued Georgia to prevent the rescinding of the sale which had made their investments worthless. The State of Georgia tried to void the fraud-induced sales, but in 1810 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Fetcher v. Peck that the voiding of the sales was unconstitutional, the first… Read More

London: Dan. Browne, 1747. Quarto. (9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches). [4], 43, [1]pp. Errata leaf at the rear. Disbound. First edition. Langwith was an antiquary and natural philosopher from Yorkshire and was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was the author of this reply, posthumously edited by his widow, to the physician, scholar, and mathematician Dr. Arbuthnot's "Tables of Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins." Chapters include discussions on the Roman pound, Roman ounce, the value of Roman money and Denarius in English coin, and Roman measures of capacity for solids and liquids. ESTC T115421.

1835. [Text] 4 vols; 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches). [Album historique] Folio (18 1/8 x 13 inches). [Atlas hydrographique] Folio (25 11/16 x 19 1/8 inches). [Text:] Vol. I: pp. [6], xli, [1], 558, [2] with folding map at rear, showing the route of The Favorite. Vol. II: pp. [4], 481, [1]. Vol. III: pp. [4], 510, [1]. Vol. IV: pp. [4], 480. Text volumes with in-text woodcut illustrations throughout. [Album historique:] 72 finely engraved sepia plates from drawings by Paris, Barthélemy Lauvergne from Toulon, the expedition's draughtsman, and Sainson, the Astrolabe's voyage draughtsman, most with the full or partial blindstamp made for the edition. [Atlas hydrographique:] Title, Table of Contents, 11 engraved maps on 10 sheets (8 of which are double-page). Text volumes in publisher's original printed wrappers. Extra-illustrated with an original publisher's paper wrapper for the eleventh fascicle with pink paper table of contents label adhered to its cover. Album and atlas uniformly bound in original… Read More

Madrid, 1750. [8],347,[3]pp. Two folding maps, folding view, and folding table. (Tear in margin of first map, closed tear in the view). Contemporary mottled Spanish calf, spine ornately gilt with leather label. Second Spanish edition, translated from the French. A history of the kingdom of Algiers written by the French Consul, first published in Amsterdam in 1725. The view shows Algiers, while the map shows the greater Barbary states. Palau 328227.

Paris: Librarie J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1884. Small folio. (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). 24 lithographed plates by Bergeron (numbered 1-22, plus 4 and 7 bis). Publisher's green cloth, covers bordered in blind, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers A beautifully illustrated monograph on clematis, including American species. The work is based on the specimens grown by the author at the Arboretum de Segrez, at the time one of the largest collection of such plants in the world. Nissen BBI 1149.

London: T.Bensley for John Murray, H.Hunter and T.Holloway, 1804. Three volumes in five, large 4to. (13 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches). 3 engraved title vignettes, 173 plates by William Blake (1), Thomas Holloway and others, after Henry Fuseli and others, about 361 engraved text illustrations (one on India paper mounted) by Blake (3), Thomas Holloway and others after Fuseli and others. Scattered foxing. Contemporary blue straight grained morocco, covers with a wide elaborate Greek key border, spines in six compartments with semi-raised double bands, lettered in the second, third, fourth and fifth compartments, the others tooled in gilt, brown endpapers, gilt edges Provenance: Charles W. Burr (bookplate) A very fine set of this influential work with four images engraved by William Blake and the whole work overseen by Henry Fuseli. Lavater's work was first published in German ("Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe") between 1775 and 1778. Fuseli, a friend from… Read More

[Amsterdam], 1725. Folio. (15 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. Folding engraved frontispiece, engraved list of plates within a decorative surround, 72 engraved plates, maps and broadsides on 73 leaves (5 of the single-page plates cut to the edge of the image and mounted [as issued], 45 double-page, 19 folding and including 10 which combine both engraving and letterpress text), one plate loosely inserted, 2 with sections of blank margins torn away, some other clean tears occasionally affecting the image area. Contemporary Dutch speckled calf, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, repeat decoration in gilt in the others A very rare collection of contemporary satirical prints relating to the financial exploits of John Law and his infamous Mississippi Bubble. John Law (21 April 1671 - 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself,… Read More

[France]: Privately Printed, 1929. 8vo. [4], 365, [1]pp. Original wrappers and spine label bound in the rear. Full dark blue crushed morocco, bound by Riviere & Son. Stated at the head of the title as "The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition," Lawrence published this edition to combat piracies.

New York: The Limited Editions Club. Printed by Heritage Printers on Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper; silkscreens printed by George Drexel at Osiris Printing on Whatman paper, 1989. Imperial folio. (21 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches). First edition. Numbered 18 of 400 copies. Signed by the artist in pencil on the colophon. With 8 original color silkscreens. Plate marks: (19 1/4 x 14 inches). Sheet sizes: (21 1/2 x 16 inches). Bound in full midnight blue Japanese cotton with gilt lettering, within a suede-lined dark blue clamshell box with gilt stamp label A signed epic production of the Book of Genesis with eight striking silk-screen illustrations by the seminal American painter of the Black experience, Jacob Lawrence. Each of these eight Jacob Lawrence prints describes a passage from the Book of Genesis in the King James version of the Bible. As Lawrence explained, "My inspiration came from memories of the preachers at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, the Church in which I was baptized and which… Read More