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Donald A. Heald Rare Books california book fair DONALD A. HEALD | RARE BOOKS 2020 california book fair PART I 2020 Just click the title of each item in this illustrated short list and follow the link to a full description and images on our website. Questions? Contact us or email [email protected]. americana 01 Ansel Easton ADAMS Taos Pueblo From an edition of 108 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Folio (17 x 12 1/2 inches). [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text. 12 original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6 1/2 inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Publisher’s tan morocco backed orange cloth, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom morocco backed slipcase. (#36374) $ 80,000 02 American REVOLUTION [The Stamp Act] ... An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Suties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America. Very rare first official printing of the Stamp Act: an exceptionally important document in American history. London: Mark Baskett, 1765. Folio (12 x 7 7/8 inches). [2], 279-310pp. 5 George III, cap. XII. With 3 related 1766 Acts of Parliament. Disbound. Housed in black chemises and black morocco backed slipcase. (#37747) $ 27,500 Edwin F. BEAN 03 Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California. Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the Various Towns and Mining Camps, the Names and Occupation of Residents ... The first Nevada County directory, the first history of the county as a whole, and the first book printed in Nevada County. Nevada [i.e. Nevada City, California]: Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1867. 8vo. vi, [6], 424pp. Tipped-in ad slip be- tween pages 184 and 185. Contemporary purple morocco. Provenance: E.G. Waite, of Gregory & Waite, Grocers, Nevada City (bookplate, name in gilt on upper cover). (#38094) $ 3,200 California GOLD RUSH Rare first edition of among the earliest caricatures of the Forty-Niners: a classic 04 Journey to the Gold Diggins by Jeremiah of California Gold Rush comic book Saddlebags. literature. New York: Stringer & Townsend, [1849]. Oblong 8vo (5 1/2 x 9 inches). 63, [1]pp. Pictorial title and 112 wood engraved comic illustrations. Original green lower wrapper (upper wrapper, which repeats the title is lacking). Housed in a modern cloth slipcase. (#29954) $ 9,500 05 CASE & DRAPER [Group of 10 photographs of natives, art and landscape of the Alaska panhandle]. Rare photographs by a noted early Alaskan studio. [Skagway, Alaska: 1905-1907]. 10 silver print photo- graphs, 7 titled, dated and with photographer’s imprint in the negative. Markings on verso suggesting they were used in the early 20th century for a French publication. Each approximately 9x7 inches. (#37957) $ 8,250 George CATLIN 06 [Archive of three autograph letters signed from George Catlin to Captain William Shippard]. Three personal, hand- written letters by the artist George Catlin to his friend, Captain William Henry Shippard. [Great Britain: 1840s]. To- gether, 4pp. Each approximate- ly 7 x 4 3/8 inches. Usual folds. Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. (#36456) $ 8,500 07 George CATLIN Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. First edition, hand-colored issue, of Catlin’s Portfolio, a key work for any serious collection of Western Americana. London: C. & J. Adlard for George Catlin, Egyptian Hall, 1844. Folio (23 x 16 1/2 inches). [Pp.1-2] letterpress title (verso blank); [pp.3-4] To the Reader; pp.[5-]20 text. 25 hand-coloured lithographic plates, on thick paper, after Catlin, drawn on stone by Catlin (2) or McGahey (23), printed by Day & Haghe. Publisher’s half brown morocco and brown cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, pale green endpapers. (#33867) $ 110,000 Hernan CORTÉS & Francesco 08 Antonio LORENZANA Historia del Nueva-España, escrita por su escalarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes. First edition of this “important and highly esteemed work” (Sabin): a cornerstone on the Spanish colonial conquest of Mexico and the early exploration of southern California. Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770. Folio (10 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches). Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece bound following the title, 2 engraved folding maps, 33 engraved plates (1 folding), plus engraved title vignette and engraved initial on the dedication leaf. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (expert restoration at head and tail of spine). Provenance: Father Faustino Arevalo (1747-1824, signature on front pastedown); Jesuit ink stamp on verso of title. (#30269) $ 13,500 David B. EDWARD 09 The History of Texas; or, The Emigrant’s, Farmer’s, and Politician’s Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil and Productions of that Country.... An early and important work on Texas, with the Map of Texas. Cincinnati: J. A. James & Co., 1836. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches). 336, [2]pp. Publisher’s advertising leaf in the rear. Engraved folding map, hand-coloured in outline. Publisher’s brown cloth, rebacked retaining most of the original spine and paper lettering piece. (#36659) $ 8,000 Benjamin FRANKLIN The fourth, first collected, and by far the most desirable edition, containing for the 10 Experiments and Observations on first time complete notes on all the Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in experiments, as well as the correspon- merica...to which are added, Letters dence between Peter Collinson, Franklin, and Papers on Philosophical Subjects ... and other collaborators. London: Printed for David Henry, 1769. Quarto (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches). [2], iv, [2], 496 [i.e. 504], [16]pp. including leaf of errata and advertise- ment “concerning this fourth edition.” Seven engraved plates (four folding). Half title. Contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked to style retaining the original red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: F. G. Smyth (armorial bookplate). (#36420) $ 45,000 John Charles 11 FREMONT Narrative of the Exploring Expedi- tion to the Rocky Mountains, in the year 1842; and to Oregon and North California, in the Years 1843-44. Very rare edition complete with the Rufus Sage map. Syracuse: Hall & Dickson; New York: A.S. Barnes, 1847. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches). 427pp. plus large folding map, two plates, and 4pp. ads. Original brown publisher’s cloth, spine gilt, repairs to joints. (#28318) $ 6,250 Robert Benjamin HART 12 [Collection of five original watercolours of Pima Indians and their lands in Aravaipa Canyon, Arizona, made by Forty-niner Robert Hart on his journey to the California gold fields]. An extraordinary group of watercolours made by a Virginian travelling the Southern Route to the California gold fields in 1849, among the earliest illustrations depicting the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, and showing their lands in the Aravaipa canyons. [Aravaipa Canyon, AZ]: [late July 1849]. Five original watercolours on card stock, detailed below. Each matted and housed in a red morocco backed box. (#27856) $ 17,500 13 HAWAII The Friend ... [Vol. IV]. A full year’s run of a noted Hawaiian newspaper. Honolulu: Charles Edwin Hitchcock, printer, 1846. 24 consecutive issues bound together, quarto. Volume IV, Numbers 1-24. Letterpress title and 192pp. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled paper covered boards. (#36331) $ 6,000 HAWAIIAN IMPRINT JOHN S. EMERSON 14 He Hoakakaolelo No Na Huaolelo Beritania, I Mea Kokua I Na Kanaka Hawaii E Ao Ana Ia Olelo. The first English-Hawaiian dictionary. Lahainaluna: Mea Pai Palapala o ke Kulanui, 1845. 8vo 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. x, 184pp. Text in two columns. Expertly bound to style in dark blue straight grain morocco backed contempo- rary marbled paper covered boards. Some dampstaining. Prov- enance: Dr. Benjamin F. Hardy (signature dated 1856 on front free endpaper and ink inscription on title, “First book of the language of Hawaii”). (#25392) $ 7,500 Ferdinand V. HAYDEN Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery, 15 With a Description of the Geographical and Geological Features, and Some Account of the Resources of the Great West; Containing Thirty Photographic Views Along the Line of the Pacific Rail Road, From Omaha to Sacramento. A classic photographically illustrated book on the American West, with albumen photographs by A. J. Russell. New York: Julius Bien, 1870. Large 4to (12 x 9 1/2 inches). viii,150pp. Half-title. Thirty mounted albumen photographs. (Some dampstaining in the margins). Contemporary three- quarter green morocco over green cloth, spine gilt, edges gilt. (#27937) $ 15,000 16 Louis HENNEPIN A New Discovery of a Vast Country in Amer- ica, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico ... The second edition of the English translation: with provenance to an important Director of the Hudson’s Bay Company. London: Henry Bonwick, 1699. Two volumes in one, 8vo. [22], 299, [1], [32], 178, [2], 303-355pp. plus two folding maps and seven plates (six of them folding) including the frontispiece. Contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Sir Charles Halkett (early signature on title); Sir John Halkett (early signature on endpaper and armorial bookplate). (#37145) $ 9,000 Simeon IDE and Sarah HEALY 17 A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: with a minute and interesting account of one of the largest emigrating companies. (3000 miles over land), from the east to the Pacific coast ... An Ide family association copy of a Bear Flag Rebellion rarity. [Claremont, N.H.]: Printed for the subscribers, [1880]. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches).
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