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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 Travel: Items 1 - 44 Colour Plate and Illustrated: Items 45 - 73 Natural History, including Landscape Design: Items 74 - 100 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. TRAVEL 1 ANNESLEY, George, Viscount Valentia & Earl of Mountmorris (1770-1844); and Henry SALT (1780-1827). Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. London: W. Bulmer for William Miller, 1809. 3 volumes, 4to (10 13/16 x 8 3/4 inches). Half-titles, 1p. ad for Salt’s Twenty-four views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt. 3 engraved vignette headpieces, 63 engraved plates by Fittler, Angus, Heath, Landseer, Storer and others, most after Henry Salt (5 folding, 1 double-page), 6 engraved maps (5 folding). Contemporary dark blue straight grain morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind, spines in five compartments with semi-raised bands, tooled in gilt on each band, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (expert restoration at the joints). [With:] William MILLER (1769-1844, publisher and bookseller). Nine autograph letters signed from Miller to the Viscount Valentia, London, 30 July 1807 - 22 December 1809. Together 23 pages, 4to, loosely inserted into a pocket affixed to the vol. 1. front endpaper. A lovely set of the first edition of the Viscount Valentia and Henry Salt’s tour through India and to the Red Sea, illustrated with engravings after Salt. This copy with original manuscript letters by the publisher to Valentia concerning its publication. Henry Salt accompanied Viscount Valentia as secretary and draughtsman on this four and a half year tour through India, and Ceylon and to the Red Sea, Ethiopia and Egypt. Salt’s “Twenty-four Views,” published in 1809 and advertised in this work, was a result of the tour and two engravings present here are depicted in that work. For a lengthy contemporary review of Valentia’s Voyages, see the London Quarterly Review, vol. 2 (1810), pp. 82-117. The original correspondence present here concerning the publication of the work is fascinating. In a 30 July 1807 letter Miller declines to purchase the copyright of the work and explains that in light of “the expences attending...a large edition...& the anxiety and time which must attend the getting up of such a work, the profits which would remain would not be a sufficient compensation...” But two years later, on 3 June 1809, the project is very much alive: “I intend to subscribe the work to the trade early next week in order to ascertain the number of copies to be wanted immediately...” 30 June 1809: “The fate of the Travels is going as well as could be expected...” But there are inevitable hassles: 10 July 1809: “as to the carelessness of the Binders, it is proverbial and I lament my inability to make them better...” On 10 October 1809 he plans the timing of the octavo edition. In the final letter, 22 December, he is selling Valentia a copy of Thomas Daniell’s Oriental Scenery and other works. A fascinating correspondence offering insight not only on the evolution of this book, but on the London book trade at the beginning of the 19th century. Abbey, Travel 515 (note); Lowndes p.2747; Allibone, p. 2504; P. Godrej and P. Rohatgi, Scenic Splendours, p. 52. (#25527) $ 7,500 2 BIGGS, Thomas Hesketh (1822-1905, photographer) - Theodore C. HOPE. Architecture at Ahmedabad, the capital of Goozerat, photographed by Colonel Biggs ... with an historical and descriptive sketch, by Theodore C. Hope ... and architectural notes by James Fergusson ... Published ... under the patronage of Premchund Raichund. London: John Murray, 1866. Quarto (11 x 9 inches). Half-title, tinted wood-engraved frontispiece, 2 lithographic maps (one printed in two colours), 22 wood-engraved illustrations (2 full-page). 120 albumen photographs by Thomas Biggs, on individual thin card mounts, the mounts with printed red single line borders with small decorative flourishes at each corner, numbers and captions, all printed in red. Original green pebble-grained cloth, covers elaborately blocked in gilt with a wide decorative border in the “Indian” style surrounding a central gilt vignette drawn from plate number 112 titled “Meer Aboo Toorab’s Tomb”, rebacked to style with green morocco, spine gilt extra, yellow endpapers, g.e. An important, early and rare photographically-illustrated record of the art and architecture of western India. “Like many military men in India, Biggs became fascinated with archaeology, but he soon discovered the difficulty and uncertainty of sending manual copies of stone inscriptions back to London. Biggs was furloughed on sick leave in England starting in 1850 ... he watched his brothers practicing photography and it struck him ‘that it would be a perfect method of copying the sculptures and inscriptions.’ ... Biggs took lessons from Samuel Buckle and then presented his plan to the directors of the East India Company, who were so impressed that they traded him a complete new photographic outfilt in exchange for his first album. He was appointed ‘Government Photographer, Bombay’ and was the first person to officially assume that position” (Taylor, Impressed by Light, pp. 290-291). As a member of the Bombay Photographic Society he had been equipped with a set of Ross’s single and double lenses and a kit which allowed him to make 15 x 12 inch pictures. His task was to photograph the Muslim buildings, sculpture and inscriptions of Western India. The preface to the present work notes that “The Government of Bombay has at various times taken steps towards portraying ... the magnificent architecture with which the Presidency and the territories bordering it abound.” Biggs made over one hundred paper negatives of Bijapur, Aihole, Badami and other sites in Western India. The results were exhibited at the Photographic Society of Bombay and much admired, but the increasing unrest, which culminated in the Mutiny of 1857, forced him to hand over his work to surgeon and fellow photographer Dr. Pigou. The preface continues: “Subsequently, a series of plans and drawings of Beejapoor, which had been prepared under the superintendence of Captain Hart, were published for the Government under the editorship of James Fergusson.” In 1865, at the request of the Governor of Bombay a committee was set up and given the task of publishing the photographs of Biggs, Pigou and a third photographer A.C.B. Neilly “in the form of a comprehensive series of volumes on the Architectural Antiquities of Western India” (preface). The present work, published in London under Biggs supervision, was the first fruit of this ambitious enterprise and is believed to have been limited to forty copies. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 332 (#21869) $ 17,500 3 BLOUNT, Sir Henry (1602-1682). A Voyage into the Levant. A Breife Relation of a Journey, lately performed by Master H.B. Gentleman, from England by the way of Venice, into Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Bosnah, Hungary, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Rhodes and Egypt, unto Gran Cairo: With particular observations concerning the moderne condition of the Turkes, and other people under that Empire. The Second Edition. London: Printed by I.L. for Andrew Crooke, 1636. Small 4to (7 x 5 inches). [2], 126pp. Trimmed, touching the first work title and a few headlines and page numbers. Expertly bound to style in 19th century straight grained brown morocco, covers elaborately bordered 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: E.B.,Trinity College, Cambridge (inscription on verso of title dated 1748). Scarce early English work on the Levant. Blount journeyed to the Levant in 1634 and first published his account two years later (the present second edition appearing later in the same year). It is an important English work and one of the first to view the Turks without prejudice. “Blount wrote objectively and viewed Turkish society as different from, but equally valid to, the life he knew in England” (Blackmer catalogue). Atabey 119 (first edition); Blackmer 154; STC 3137; Wing B3317; Weber 289. (#27695) $ 3,750 4 BOURNE, Samuel (1834-1912); Charles SHEPHERD (fl. 1858-1878) and Arthur ROBERTSON (fl. 1858- 1864); and Juan LAURENT (1816-c.1892). [Important album containing 90 albumen photographs, predominantly landscape images of India, including views in the Himalayas, as well as ethnographic studies of its peoples]. [India: circa 1860-1870]. Oblong folio (11 1/2 x 18 inches). 90 mounted albumen photographs (70 by Bourne and 11 by or attributed to Shepherd & Robinson, all of India, the remaining images of the Alhambra by Laurent), nearly all with a period manuscript captions, mounted recto only. Most images signed and numbered in the negative. Contemporary black morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind, expertly rebacked to style, flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt and blind rules, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
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