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

1970. Gouache on composition board. Signed, "Dom Pacitti" Striking confrontation with an early 70s Ford grille. This is a dramatic, confrontational drawing by Dom Pacitti of the type of hidden headlight grille popular in the early 70's. Though the idea of concealing headlights had been around since before World War II, it only became popular in the mid-60's at the same time intricate chrome grilles were catching on. Here against a dark brown background, the proposed Ford (XL?) swerves to avoid hitting the viewer (seated on a curb) showing its bright new bumper, grille and right front fender as well as a glimpse of the right side. The diagonal positioning allows the artist to maximize the dramatic display of beauty and agility.

1980. Mixed media on paper, cut out and laid on a larger sheet. Signed, "Dom Pacitti" The epitome of the American sports car by car stylist, Dom Pacitti. That car racing has influenced car design is as interesting as it is obvious because the modern American sports car itself embodies not just aerodynamics but also the sense of danger, the antagonism of competition, the thrill of triumph and superiority of motor racing. This smooth, sleek, dark car conveys an image of latent power that is as unmistakably American as an extravagant science fiction movie. Its dark blue with purple highlights and black windows imply stealth and unsularity, as well as impeccable craftsmanship.

Wolverhampton & London: R.Paddy and F.Jukes, 1793. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Francis Jukes, with engraved title and explanatory text beneath image in English and French on wove paper. A very fine pastoral scene and an excellent example of the picturesque, beautifully printed in colours and finished by hand The text beneath the image reads: "Dudley Castle is said to have been built by one Dodo, or Dudo, a Saxon, about the year 700; so that its present appellation of Dudley is a corruption of his name. This Castle stands on the summit of a Rockey [sic.] Hill, whose sides are beautifully wooded. It commands a most extensive prospect over five Counties, and into Part of Wales. It belongs to Lord Ward, whose Father was by King George the 3d.... created Viscount Dudley and Ward of Dudley." The still-standing ruin was built in the 12th century. It is one of several aquatint views by Francis Jukes of medieval architecture in advanced decay greatly enjoyed by the new Romantic… Read More

[London, 1780. Watercolour and gouache drawing, on laid paper. Titled and signed on verso. Peter Paillou was a British painter best known for his works of natural history. He worked for two leading 18th-century naturalists, Taylor White and Thomas Pennant, painting bird pictures, many of which were engraved and used as plates in Pennant's books.

[London, 1780. Watercolour and gouache drawing, on laid paper. Inscribed on verso "By Paillou / Given me by Mr. More" Peter Paillou was a British painter best known for his works of natural history. He worked for two leading 18th-century naturalists, Taylor White and Thomas Pennant, painting bird pictures, many of which were engraved and used as plates in Pennant's books.

Paris: Imprimerie National, 1793. Together 284 works bound in 6 volumes, 8vo. (8 x 4 3/4 inches). The Paine items 10pp. and 8pp. Early half calf and period pastepaper boards, flat spine in five compartments, red and black morocco labels. A pair of rare works by Paine which would lead to his imprisonment in France: bound within an extraordinary collection of revolutionary pamphlets concerning the fate of Louis XVI. With the French Revolution well underway, Edmund Burke published a sharp critique of the events in France. Taken aback and sharply disagreeing with his friend's views, Paine published the first part of Rights of Man, which would become among the most published works of the 18th century with upwards of 200,000 copies printed. His publication of the even more revolutionary second part of Rights of Man following the seizure of the French King and his family would lead the British government to charge Paine with libel, forcing him to leave England for Paris in September 1792, never to return.… Read More

London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer, 1754. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in very good condition. A highly decorative map of the Americas, evincing Palairet's uniquely elegant aesthetic style This artistically virtuous map embraces the entirety of North and South America, and also takes in the western extremities of Europe and Africa. South America is very well defined, and is divided into the various Spanish domains and Portuguese Brazil. North America is depicted on the eve of the Seven Years War. The English colonies running from Georgia up to Nova Scotia hug the Atlantic seaboard, while the massive French empire consisting of Canada and Louisiana extends through the heart of the continent. Quebec City, the capital of New France, is noted on the map. In the west, California is correctly shown to be a peninsula, while the Pacific Northwest is shown to be an enigma. Mexico and the numerous islands of the Caribbean are also portrayed. The map is adorned with a elegant,… Read More

Cinncinnati: J.A. & U.P. James, 1847. 8vo. (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). iv, 9-189pp. First edition, second issue, with corrections made on pages 31 and 121 and without the errata slip tipped in at page 189. This copy with t.p. date altered. Original sheep. Skillfully rebacked with black morocco lettering piece. One of the most complete accounts of life on the Oregon Trail. The tide of overland immigration which engulfed Oregon in 1843 was followed by even larger waves in subsequent years. The overland migration of 1845 was one of the largest, and it produced one of the most complete accounts of wagon trail life, in this work by Joel Palmer. His journal is the only contemporary account by a participant in the 1845 migration, which numbered some 3,000 people. "Most reliable of the early guides to Oregon; in addition, the best narrative by a participant in the overland migration of 1845, which more than doubled the population of Oregon" - Howes Also included in the work is a letter from Rev. Spalding about… Read More

Mexico: Imprenta de Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, calle del Espiritu Santo, 1787. Small quarto. [28], 344pp. 1 engraved portrait, 1 folding engraved map. (Abrasion on top edge of text block). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly rubbed, ties lacking). Housed in a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt. A primary source for information on the history of early California. An outstanding book on early California. Palou was a disciple of Father Junipero Serra (1713-1784) for many years, and his work is still the principal source for the life of the venerable founder of the California missions. "The letters from Father Serra to Father Palou [provide] interesting details on the various Indian tribes and their manners and customs, together with descriptions of the country...This work has been called the most noted of all books relating to California" (Hill). "Both a splendid discourse on the California missions, their foundation and management, and an intimate and… Read More

London, 1714. Broadsheet. 2pp., including printed docket title on verso. Ornamental initial. Disbound. Small folio. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Trimmed close, with slight loss to the first line of caption title and docket title. Minor foxing. The most enlarged of three editions of this title recorded by Hanson, who assigns all three a date of 1712. While Parliament did introduce certain paper taxes that year (to which this document appears to refer), this petition also refers to the "late" wars, which indicates it was actually published following the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Its discovery within a large bound collection of similar documents, nearly all of which may be dated conclusively to 1714 or 1715, and its reference to a "High Duty Impos'd Two Years Since upon Stock in Hand" strongly suggest a 1714 printing date. The petition protests new paper taxes, charging that the already-existing "Excessive Tax upon Paper, hath already much hindred the Printing of Learned and Useful… Read More

London: Printed for and Sold by Rob[er]t Sayer, Maps and Printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn in Fleet Street, 1766. 4to. Sheet: (9 1/8 x 7 1/8 inches). Plate: (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches). Complete first edition. [X1] A-C2. [2] [1]-12pp. 1-72 leaves with plates printed on rectos, versos blank. pp.158. ff.79. Watercolor-over-etched-line title with 72 watercolor-over-etched-line plates. This is the issue with Plate 14 showing a "Single Anemone." Ownership inscription of "Mary Robinson" in ink manuscript on title dated 1776. Contemporary full red morocco with wide decorative gilt borders, skillfully re-backed with spine richly gilt in six compartments, title in second compartment, flower device in rest, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt with blue and pink marbled endpapers. Laid paper with armorial watermark of Lucas van Gerrevink and J. Villedary near gutter This extraordinarily rare English Rococo flower book is one of the first pedagogical works on botanical illustration, with 72 beautiful… Read More

London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. Quarto. (12 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches). xxiii, 212, [2]pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Parkinson by James Newton, 26 engraved plates (1 plate after Alexander Buchan, 2 plates after S.H. Grimm and 24 after Parkinson). Contemporary marbled boards with vellum corners, rebacked in calf, retaining original red morocco lettering piece Large-paper copy of Parkinson's important illustrated account of Cook's first voyage. "Parkinson was engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany him and Captain Cook in the Endeavour to the South Seas, as natural history draughtsman ... After exploring Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and the Great Barrier Reef, the expedition reached Batavia. On leaving for the Cape of Good Hope, Parkinson succumbed to fever and dysentery and was buried at sea. Banks spoke highly of his 'unbounded industry' in making for him a much larger collection of drawings than he had anticipated. His observations, too, were valuable, and the vocabularies of… Read More

London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. Large 4to. (13 3/16 x 10 5/8 inches). xxiii, [1], 22, [2], 212, [2]pp. 26 engraved plates, map, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary polished calf ruled in gilt, edges tooled in gilt, spine gilt extra, gilt morocco label. Provenance: John Smyth of Heath (bookplate on front pastedown) Parkinson's important illustrated account of Cook's first voyage, with handsome plates and the rare explanatory remarks. An attractive, wide-margined copy of the first edition of this important narrative, with the rare section of Explanatory Remarks by John Fothergill in a very fine contemporary calf binding. Parkinson accompanied Capt. James Cook on his first voyage to the South Pacific and New Zealand, serving as draughtsman under naturalist Joseph Banks. As botanical artist for the Endeavor voyage, Parkinson produced a large number of magnificent botanical and natural history drawings of Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. His untimely death near the end of… Read More

Napoli: Tipografia del Vesuvio, 1838. Two volumes in one, octavo. (8 3/16 x 5 inches). viii, 308pp.; [8], 52pp. The second work inscribed by the author on the title. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper covered boards with vellum tips, flat spine gilt Provenance: Rothamsted Experimental Station (inked stamp on endpaper) A descriptive work on the cultivation of cereals, focusing on the regions belonging to the Kingdom of Naples. A lovely example, in a contemporary binding and bound with a second work on the wealth in Sicily, with information relating to both agriculture and manufacturing.

Paris: Ernest Leroux, 28, Rue Bonaparte. Printed by Imprimerie Durand in Chartres, Rue Fulbert, 1919. 4to, 11 volumes bound in 6. (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Études Diverses: 3 vols.; Géographie et Voyages: 7 vols.; Atlas: 1 vol. Études et Diverses Vol. 1, (1898): XLVI, 367 pp. with 1 map, 20 color plates, 107 illustrations, and texts in Cambodian, Laotian, and Thai. Vol. 2, (1898): 449 pp. with 1 map, 5 illustrations, and 70 plates of inscriptions. Vol. 3, (1904): XXI, 549 pp. with 1 map, 13 color plates, and 28 illustrations. Géographie et Voyages Vol. 1, (1901): 332 pp. with 18 maps and 140 illustrations. Vol. 2, (1906): 402 pp. with 8 maps and 155 illustrations. Vol. 3, (1900): 428 pp. with 15 maps and 40 illustrations. Vol. 4, (1902): XXVII, 296 pp. with 13 maps and 75 illustrations. Vol. 5, (1902): XLVII, 326 pp. with 8 maps and 137 illustrations. Vol. 6, (1911): 348 pp. with 4 maps and 79 illustrations. Vol. 7, (1919): with 3 maps and 85 illustrations. Atlas: Notices et Cartes (1903): 54 pp.… Read More

Wellington, New Zealand: Millwood Press, 1983. Oblong folio. 224pp. 82 mounted colored plates, some folding, after Payne. Original prospectus and related material laid in. Publisher's half burgundy morocco and cloth covered boards. Publisher's burgundy cloth box. Limited to 750 copies. Edition of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the publisher on a slip mounted on the front pastedown with a catalogue of Snaffles' works. Compiled by Mark Flower, with text by David Cameron and research by Caroline Juler. With a mounted Foreward signed by Princess Anne. Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 141.

London: published by Henry Graves & Compy, 1868. Engraving, by Charles Mottram. (Expert repair to tear in lower blank margin). A very fine engraved equestrian portrait, with full margins, of the Master of the East Sussex Hunt. Stephen Pearce 'trained at Sass's Academy in Charlotte Street, and at the Royal Academy schools, and in 1841 became a pupil of Sir Martin Archer Shee... Paintings by him of favourite horses in the royal mews (transferred in 1825 to Buckingham Palace) were exhibited at the Academy in 1839 and 1841, and from 1849, on his return from Italy, till 1885 he contributed numerous portraits and equestrian paintings to Burlington House.... Pearce was widely known as a painter of equestrian presentation portraits and groups, the most important of which is the large landscape Coursing at Ashdown Park, completed in 1869, and presented by the coursers of the United Kingdom to the Earl of Craven. For this picture, which measures ten feet long and contains about sixty equestrian portraits,… Read More

New York City: Graphis Inc, 1997. Folio. (13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches). 224pp. 250 black-and-white and color nude photographs. Illustrated publisher's boards with dust jacket. Fine copy. The second volume of the Graphis series, dedicated to the art of nude photography, past and present. Representing a diverse range of styles spanning many decades, this all-new edition highlights the talents of more than 50 distinguished artists. This companion to the bestselling first volume includes photography of both men and women. With an insightful introduction by writer and critic Lyle Rexer and commentary by the longtime collector Uwe Scheid, this compilation of the best in photography of the nude human figure presents 250 sublime and surprising images by artists including Lillian Bassman, Imogen Cunningham, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Lizzie Himmel, Horst, Andre Kertesz, Andres Serrano, Edward Weston, Joel-Peter Witkin, and many others.

[London: B. and J. White, 1793. Folio. (13 x 9 inches). 112 engraved plates, proof impressions before letters printed on laid paper, engraved by Mazell (i.e. 111 plates, plus the title vignette). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco by Kalthoeber, covers bordered in gilt, spine with double-raised bands in seven compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges Provenance: William Beckford (Sotheby's London, 6 May 1817, lot 289); George Chetwynd (bookplate and Glendon Hall blind-stamp on first plate); H.J.B. Clements (bookplate); Robert Pirie (bookplate) Beckford's copy of large paper, proof impressions of the plates from Pennant's History of the Quadrupeds, elegantly bound by Kalthoeber. While large paper editions of many of Pennant's works were available to purchase, albeit at significantly higher costs than regular issues, the present complete set of large paper proof impressions of the plates, printed before letters, was likely produced only for special patrons. The provenance… Read More

London, 1890. 18 pen-and-ink drawings, each mounted to card, twelve signed. Housed within a black morocco backed box. Archive of lovely drawings of London by a noted artist and illustrator. Philadelphia-born Pennell was appointed the Centurys European correspondent in 1884 and lived in London until 1917. Pennell and his wife Elizabeth became influential members in the Aesthetic Movement, and became friends with many of its participants, including James McNeil Whistler. Pennell, a prolific artist and writer, experimented with new graphic techniques and sought to draw critical attention to book illustration. The present pen-and-ink drawings were done to be used as illustrations within Pennell and Justin McCarthy's book Charing Cross to Saint Paul (New York: MacMillan, 1891). The illustrations comprise (titles taken from published edition, with sheet size measurements): 1) Charing Cross. 13 3/4 x 10 inches. Signed. 2) Morley's Hotel. 10 x 13 1/4 inches. Signed. 3) St. Martin's in the Fields. 14x10… Read More