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 Americana: Items 1 - 71 Travel: Items 72 - 99 Natural History & Gardening: Items 100 - 134 Color Plate & Illustrated: Items 135 - 193 Bibliography, Books about Books & Art Reference: Items 194 - 242 Miscellany, including Literature: Items 243 - 275 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. AMERICANA 1 ADAIR, James (1709-1783). History of the American Indians; Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches). Half-title. Engraved folding map. Later full brown morocco, covers with a gilt border, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Provenance: London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews (ink stamp on title, leather label on rear pastedown); Harry Snyder (bookplate). First edition of the “best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them” (Howes). James Adair was a frontiersman and fur trader who lived among the Catawba, Chickasaw, and Cherokee for forty years, gathering first-hand information about the customs of these Indian tribes. He was one of the first white settlers to explore the Alleghenies, and because he lived among the Indians, his observations “of the peculiarities of the Southern Indians ... is not without great value” (Field, p. 3). As the title details, in this work he explores their “origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system, with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c.” Clark I, 28; Field 11; Graff 1; Howes A38; Sabin 155; Vail 643. (#26606) $ 3,800 2 ARROWSMITH, Aaron (1750-1823) and Samuel LEWIS. A New and Elegant General Atlas. Comprising all the new discoveries, to the present time. Containing sixty three maps, drawn by Arrowsmith and Lewis. Boston: Published by Thomas & Andrews, May, 1812. Quarto (10 5/8 x 9 inches). Letterpress title (verso blank), 1p. list of maps (verso blank). 63 engraved maps (2 folding). Expertly bound to style in calf-backed contemporary marbled paper- covered boards, flat spine in six compartments divided by fillets, lettered in the second compartment. Provenance: Henry Roice (contemporary signature on the front pastedown). Nice copy of a scarce early American atlas, with an important early mapping of the American West. The first edition of this atlas was published in Philadelphia in 1804. American mapmaker Samuel Lewis had formed a partnership with English mapmaker Aaron Arrowsmith to publish an atlas to accompany editions of Morse’s American Geography, which had been criticized for its poor illustrations. The atlas, as the title page infers, was a separate production could be used with any gazetteer or geographical work. Phillips lists further editions of 1805, 1812 and 1819. According to Ristow, all editions contain the same maps. Almost half of the maps in the atlas are of American interest: in addition to the two folding world maps at the front, maps 29-59 are of the Americas, with maps 31-50 being of individual States or Territories. Of note are four maps of importance to the American West, titled: North America, Louisiana, British Possessions in America and Spanish Possessions in North America (cf. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 259, 260, 261 & 262). The map titled Louisiana, which is based on the Soulard mapping, is of particular importance, depicting the region west of the Mississippi explored by Lewis and Clark. “The Samuel Lewis map was the primary map of the newly purchased territory of Louisiana and its surroundings and, as such, reflected the shaped American popular geographical images of the western interior at the time of Lewis and Clark” (Mapping the West, p. 80). Phillips, Atlases 718; Ristow pp.265-266; Rumsey 2436 (1804 first edition) (#24633) $ 3,500 3 BARKER-MOORE & MEIN MEDICINE COMPANY. Barker’s “Komic” Picture Souvenir [Parts 1-4]. Philadelphia: [Hayes Litho. Co., Buffalo, NY], [circa 1890]. 4 parts [complete]. Oblong 8vo (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches). Numerous woodcut illustrations. Numerous ads. Original chromolithographed wrappers. With chromolithographed wrappers. Scarce early American comic book issued in four parts, primarily as an advertisement for quack medicine intended for both man and animals. While individual parts of this ephemeral work are encountered, complete sets of all four parts are scarce. (#26431) Sold 4 BARTLETT, William Henry (1809-1854, illustrator). - Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1806-1867). American Scenery; or, land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature ... [issued with:] Canadian Scenery Illustrated. London: George Virtue, 1840-1840-1842-1842. 2 works in 4 volumes in 13 original parts, quarto (10 9/16 x 8 1/4 inches). 1pp. list of subscribers included in the 8pp. of advertisements at the front of part I, an additional 4pp. of advertisements are bound at the back of the final part. First work: steel-engraved portrait Bartlett, 2 engraved additional titles with integral vignettes, 1 map of the northeast of America with routes marked in red, 117 plates by R. Wallis and others, after William Bartlett. (Some spotting). Second work: steel-engraved portrait of Bartlett, 2 steel-engraved additional titles with integral vignettes, 1 map of Canada. 117 plates by R. Wallis and others, after William Bartlett. Original red roan-backed green glazed paper-covered boards, the upper covers printed with the series title with a large integral wood- engraved vignette (spines rubbed and faded, some with sections lacking, some covers detached). First editions in original parts of American Scenery and Canadian Scenery: a very rare combined parts issue. The two works were issued quarterly to subscribers in the present 13 parts. The American Scenery section ends in part 7, and Canadian Scenery runs from part 7 to the end. The continuous numbering of the parts, the combination of the end of the first work with the start of the second work in part 7, together with the uniform nature of the bindings all indicate the issuance of the two works together. The fascinating text by Willis forms an appropriate context for Bartlett’s images, combining to create a valuable visual record of North America. Born in London, William Henry Bartlett “was apprenticed to the architect and antiquarian, John Britton ... Bartlett studied and copied architectural drawings of the past and present and, with Britton, visited noted ruins in England from which he made detailed sketches to be engraved for some of Britton’s own publications. ... One of [Bartlett’s] first major assignments was to supply illustrations for Dr. William Beattie’s Switzerland illustrated (London, 1836), published by George Virtue ... Bartlett’s travels were extensive and continuous, and they led to illustrations for works on Syria, the Holy Land and Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast, northern Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, the coastal areas of Britain, the Bosphorus, the Danube, the United States, and Canada ... According to Britton and Beattie, Bartlett visited North America four times: 1836-37, 1838, 1841, and 1852. From the summer of 1836 to July 1837 he was in the United States acquiring illustrations ... and in the summer and autumn of 1838 he was in the Canadas sketching for Willis’s Canadian scenery illustrated (1842 ... his travels during 1836-37 began in New York City and took him north to the White Mountains, N.H., west to Niagara Falls, N.Y., and south to Washington, D.C. ... [His] was an art which, reflecting the theories of William Gilpin and Edmund Burke, emphasized the irregular and rough, light and shadow, ruined buildings and vast mountains, wild river reaches and towering crags ... Above all, Bartlett’s landscapes were readily identifiable ... As a result, Bartlett’s sketches have considerable historical value, for they depict the country and its people as they appeared in 1838 to one with an eye for the picturesque ...”(Dictionary of Canadian Biography.). American Scenery: BAL 22755; Howes B209; Sabin 3784; Canadian Scenery: cf. Harper Early Artists and Engravers in Canada p.18; TPL 2424 (#24195) $ 2,750 5 BEATTY, Charles (1715?-1772). The Journal of a Two Months Tour; with a view of promoting religion among the frontier inhabitants of Pensylvania, and of introducing Christianity among the Indians to the westward of the Alegh-geny Mountains. To which are added, remarks on the language and customs of some particular tribes among the Indians. London: William Davenhill and George Pearch, 1768. 8vo (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches). 110, [1] pp. Half-title, publisher’s advertisement leaf in rear. Later half blue straight grain morocco over marbled paper covered boards, flat spine lettered in gilt. First edition of Beatty’s journal of his travels among the Delaware Indians: “the first account of Indian towns in southeast Ohio” (Howes). The author was an Irish-born Presbyterian missionary who preached widely in both America and Europe.