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Donald Heald Rare Books a Selection of Fine Books and Manuscripts Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Fine Books and Manuscripts Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Fine Books and Manuscripts Donald Heald Rare Books 124 East 74 Street New York, New York 10021 T: 212 · 744 · 3505 F: 212 · 628 · 7847 [email protected] www.donaldheald.com All purchases are subject to availability. All items are guaranteed as described. Any purchase may be returned for a full refund within ten working days as long as it is returned in the same condition and is packed and shipped correctly. The appropriate sales tax will be added for New York State residents. Payment via U.S. check drawn on a U.S. bank made payable to Donald A. Heald, wire transfer, bank draft, Paypal or by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover cards. 1 [BARBA, Alvaro Alonso (1569-1662)]. Grundlicher Unterricht Von Den Metallen. Ephrata, PA: J. Georg Zeisiger, 1763. 2 parts in one, 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches). [4], 5-198, [4], 14pp. Full-page woodcut on p. 187 (Browning as usual). Modern calf, incorporating portions of the original covers, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment. The first book on mining and geology published in North America and a rare Ephrata imprint. Barba originally published this work in Madrid in 1640 based on his personal observations while serving as a Catholic priest in the mining district of Potosi, Bolivia. Numerous editions followed, including the present first American edition published on the famed Ephrata press. The book, the earliest on mining, ores and minerals to be published on a colonial American press, gives a description of the revolutionary practices being implemented in the South American mines. Barba describes the generation of metals, methods of extracting silver by mercury, the process discovered in 1607 for extracting gold, silver, and copper by boiling with a salt solution and mercury in a copper vessel, and the refining and separation of these metals. There is also a chapter on petroleum products in Peru and elsewhere. The plate shows mining tools and a brick oven. The present American edition would seem to be translated from a 1740 London edition. “Very rare imprint” (Sabin). Evans 9333; NAIP W018481; Hildeburn 1873; Seidensticker, p.60; Doll & Funke 399; Arndt 267; Rink 769; Sabin 67375. (#27694) $ 7,500 2 BERLEPSCH-VALENDAS, Hans Eduard von (1849-1921). Decorative Anregungen. Leipzig: Verlag von Meissner & Buch, [1899]. Folio (18 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches). Contents loose in portfolio, as issued. IX pp. text. 33 colour plates, each mounted on card. (Some chips and voids to card mounts, the images unaffected). Publisher’s purple cloth portfolio, upper cover pictorially stamped in blue, yellow and green, rebacked with blue cloth, flaps repaired. Scarce work on designs based on plant forms for art nouveau bookbindings. Swiss-born Art Nouveau artist Berlepsch-Valenda trained as a painter under Gottfried Semper in Frankfurt and at the Munich Art Academy. He worked as an architect, interior architect and designer of commercial art in Munich’s Jugendstil and was strongly influenced by the English garden city movement. His Art Nouveau and Garden City movement influences are quite apparent in this very scarce work illustrating his designs for book bindings based on plant forms. (#26184) $ 1,600 3 BROWN, Henry Collins. Book of Old New York ... The rare Old Prints are from the Private Collections of Mr. Robert Goelet, Mr. Percy R. Pyne 2d, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. New York: Privately printed for the subscribers, 1913. 4to (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches). 103 plates (5 in colour). Uncut. Publisher’s full dark blue morocco, upper cover stamped with the seal of New York in gilt and colors and titled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: William F. Gable (presentation inscription by Brown on the half-title and with a letter by Brown to Gable laid in). The deluxe limited edition in full morocco: in pristine condition. (#26412) $ 800 4 BURTON, William E. (1804-1860). Bibliotheca Dramatica. Catalogue of the Theatrical and Miscellaneous Library of the late William E. Burton ... to be sold at auction by J. Sabin and Co. New York: 1860. Large 8vo (11 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Jackmann after a daguerreotype by Brady. Priced throughout in a period neat hand. Publisher’s wrappers bound in. Extra-illustrated, with newspaper clippings concerning Burton and the sale, as well as an Autograph Letter Signed by Burton, dated 25 May 1851, to binders Pawson and Nicholson, sending them paper to interleave a bound volume of old plays. Period half black morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, marbled endpapers. Extra-illustrated, large paper edition of the catalogue of the Burton collection: the most noted collection of rare theatre books collected in America in the mid-19th century. The collection was auctioned off by Joseph Sabin & Co. in New York beginning on Oct. 8, 1860. The introductory notice indicates: “It contains a most surprising mass of rare old English Plays; Works on the Drama, History of the Stage, Theatres, Theatrical Characters and Biography, Pageants, Royal Progresses, and Processions, Mimes, Pantomimes, Masquerades, Mummeries, Mysteries...Old English Poetry, will be found not only voluminous, but abounding in rare and choice copies, including many English translations of the classics of very early dates; while the Dramatic collection is replete with the first editions of most of the Plays of importance. Shakespeariana is especially rich, not only in rare books, but in some presque unique copies of books printed for presentation only.” (#26769) $ 450 5 CHIPPENDALE, Thomas (1718-1779). The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern-taste ... The Second Edition. London: Printed by J. Haberkorn for the Author, 1755. Folio 17 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches). Letterpress title in red and black, 4pp. list of subscribers. Engraved dedication to Earl of Northumberland, 161 engraved plates by Darly and Miller after Chippendale. Expertly bound to style in full period calf, covers bordered with a gilt roll tool, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, tolled in gilt on either side of each band, black morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, period marbled endpapers. Provenance: I. James, Halton (signature on title). Chippendale’s groundbreaking furniture pattern book, the first and most important published book of furniture designs in 18th century England. Chippendale intended for his Director to function as a trade catalogue, principally depicting four of Chippendale’s most famous styles: English and French rococo, Chinoiserie, and Gothic. “His special claim for artistic fame is as a brilliantly original, innovative, and influential designer who also made masterpieces of furniture. His designs were plagiarized from at least the early Victorian period by the publisher John Weale, and more or less free adaptations from The Director have been a staple product of commercial furniture makers since the mid-nineteenth century” (ODNB). The first edition of Chippendale’s Director was published in 1754, with the present second edition issued a year following. Chippendale’s Director was extensively used by furniture makers in the 18th and 19th centuries, making copies with the plates in good condition exceptional. (#27158) $ 8,750 6 COLEBROOKE, Sir Henry Thomas (1765-1837). A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language ... Volume 1 [all published]. Calcutta: Printed at The Honorable Company’s Press, 1805. 4to (9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Printed in English and Sanskrit types. xxii, 369, [1], [4]pp. 4pp. errata in rear. (paper toned). Period cloth- backed paper boards, rebacked with leather, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: College of Fort William (period inscription on verso of title). “The first European work to be based on the indigenous linguistic tradition” (ODNB). Colebrooke, a noted Orientalist, first arrived in India in 1782. After several government posts and a diplomatic mission, he devoted himself to the study of Sanskrit and was appointed an honorary professor of Hindu law and Sanskrit at Calcutta’s new Fort William College in 1801. Interestingly, the present volume was at one time part of the library of that institution. “[His] principal work ... was his Sanskrit Grammar. Though it was never finished it will always keep its place, like a classical torso, more admired in its unfinished state than other works which stand by its side finished, yet less perfect” (Thomas E. Colebrook, The Life of Henry Thomas Colebrook, London: 1872). “Colebrooke’s volume stands as a monument marking the beginning of the study of traditional Sanskrit linguistics (vyakarana) by non-Indians, and in due course that study was to bring vyakarana into the global development of linguistics” (ODNB). Brunet 11742 (#26698) $ 7,800 7 CONDER, Josiah (1852-1920). Landscape Gardening in Japan ... [With:] Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan ... with Collotypes by K. Ogawa. Tokyo: Printed by the Hakubunsha ... Published and sold by Kelly and Walsh, 1893. 2 volumes, small folio. Half titles. xi, [1], 161 pp. With 37 full-page plates, and 55 figures illustrating the text. [Supplement:] [8] pp. 40 collotype plates executed by Ogawa Kazuma, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text. Publisher’s uniform green cloth, upper covers elaborately blocked in gilt, lower covers in blind, patterned endpapers (repairs to joints). First edition of Conder’s definitive work on landscape gardening in Japan, with the important photographically- illustrated Supplement. “The present work is an exposition of the rules and theories of the Art of Landscape Gardening in Japan, from ancient to modern times.
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