Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & 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 New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2016 Americana: Items 1 - 30 Voyages and Travel, including Cartography: Items 31 - 48 Natural History, including Landscape Design: Items 49 - 72 Color Plate and Illustrated, including Photography: Items 73 - 88 Miscellany: Items 89 - 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. AMERICANA 1 AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Edmund BURKE (1729-1797); and William PITT (1708- 1778). [Sammelband of three important works by Edmund Burke and William Pitt, regarding American Independence]. London: 1775. 3 volumes in 1, quarto (10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches). Bound to style in half period russia and period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Francis Maseres (contemporary ink marginalia and signatures). An important association copy of three important works, including first editions of two famous speeches by the English orator Edmund Burke. The works included are as follows (in bound order): 1) Edmund Burke: The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. [4], 65pp. First edition. “Contains the famous sentence: “Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of government, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquest and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in a single life” (Sabin). Adams, Controversy 75- 17a; Howes B979, “b.”; Sabin 9296. 2) Edmund Burke. Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. On American Taxation, April 19, 1774. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. iv, 57, [1]pp. First edition. Burke’s famous argument for the repeal of the duty on tea. Adams, Controversy 75-16a; Howes B980, “b.”; Sabin 9295. 3) William Pitt. Plan Offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House of Lords, entitled, A Provisional Act, for Settling the Troubles in America, and for Asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1775. 14, [1]pp. First edition. William Pitt was one of America’s staunchest supporters before the Revolution. This was his grand plea for conciliation, presented in February 1775. Pitt argued for complete sovereignty of Parliament over the colonies, but at the same time requested the King to recall the troops from Boston. His plan was defeated. Rosenbach called the work rare in his seventh catalog in 1913. Not in Adams. Nebenzahl 12:136; Rosenbach 7:480, “rare”; Sabin 63071. The first two works bound in the sammelband are by Burke. The first, a masterful March, 1775 speech, urges a reconciliation with the colonies. In the second, on the subject of American taxation, Burke urges the Crown to repeal the tea tax. Both of these works are especially rare in their first editions. The third work is a plan put forth by former Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder, proposing the recall of British troops from Boston and a conciliatory policy toward the colonies. Both statesmen, in opposition to the prevailing English administration. hoped to prevent the war which was on the verge of breaking out; needless to say, their voices of reason did not prevail, but these speeches are among the most famous given by English statesmen of the period. The half title of the first work is signed “F. Maseres. May 25, 1775,” and this first work includes some ink marginalia in his hand; the titlepages of the second and third works are signed “F. Maseres.” From 1766 to 1769, Francis Maseres was attorney general of the new British province of Quebec and was involved in colonial affairs in Quebec after the revolution. An important assemblage of three important conciliatory efforts by two of the most important American sympathizers of the pre-Revolutionary period, once belonging to an important British official in Revolutionary-era Quebec. (#29390) $ 17,500 2 ARISTOTLE’S MASTERPIECE. Aristotle’s Master-piece Completed. In two parts. The First Containing the Secrets of Generation in all the Parts Thereof...the Second Part being a private Looking-glass for the Female Sex. New York: Company of Flying Stationers, 1793. 12mo (5 1/8 x 3 inches). 130pp. Woodcut frontispiece and 7 woodcut illustrations (including a full-page illustration of a child in utero). Contemporary calf-backed paper covered boards. An early American edition of this famous and mildly racy publication. As a result of its frank discussion of sexual matters, this work was considered pornographic and is considered to be “the dirty book of the early modern period.” The book contains detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse, human sexual development, sexual organs, the exact meaning of virginity, sterility, pregnancy, childbirth, adultery, etc. The frontispiece shows “The Effigies of a Maid all hairy, and an infant that was born black, by the Imagination of the Parents.” There are also several woodcuts in the text, including an illustration of a womb and the female reproductive system. Rare, with only ten copies noted by ESTC. Evans 25120; ESTC W6202; Austin 61 (#31020) $ 4,500 3 BODMER, Karl (1809-1893, illustrator) -- Prince Maximilian zu WIED-NEUWIED (1782- 1867). Voyage dans l’Intérieur de l’Amérique du Nord execute pendant les années 1832, 1833 et 1834. Paris: Chez Arthus Bertrand, 1840-1843. 4 volumes (text: 3 volumes, 8vo [9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches]; atlas: 1 oblong folio [17 x 23 1/2 inches]). French text: Half-titles, 1 lithographic plan, 31 plates of wood-engraved vignettes, 6 wood-engraved illustrations, large engraved folding map. Atlas: 81 engraved and aquatint plates (48 large aquatint tableau plates [19 hand coloured], 33 vignette plates on full folio sheets [7 hand coloured], all after Bodmer. Text volumes uncut and with the original front and rear wrappers bound in. Text volumes: expertly bound to style in half dark blue morocco and period cloth covered boards, spine gilt, marbled endpapers. Atlas: contemporary half dark blue morocco and cloth covered boards, flat spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. The greatest illustrated American travel narrative and the most important depiction of American Indians in the frontier era: a very rare issue with the best plates hand-coloured. Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied’s famed narrative of his trip to the United States and up the Missouri River in 1833-34, with its magnificent atlas of views and scenes of Indian life by Karl Bodmer, is justly celebrated as the greatest illustrated American travel narrative and the most important depiction of American Indians in the frontier era. The journey took place at a time when the unspoiled, mythic West of the exploration and fur trade era was still vibrant, though on the verge of being shattered by the expansion of the United States. Bodmer’s engravings of the Indians encountered on the upper Missouri are among the most iconic and celebrated images of the American West. Maximilian was already considered a distinguished anthropologist for his earlier work in Brazil when he arrived in the United States in the fall of 1832 with the artist Karl Bodmer. After travelling from New York to St. Louis in the spring of 1833, they proceeded up the Missouri in the steamer Yellowstone, visiting the line of forts established by the American Fur Company. At Bellevue (in present-day Nebraska) they encountered their first Indians, then went on to make contact with the Sioux tribe, recording their little-known ceremonial dances and observing individuals extraordinary for their conduct and dignity. Transferring to another steamer, the Assiniboine, they continued to Fort Clark, where they met the Mandan, Mintari and Crow tribes, then the Assiniboines at Fort Union, the main base of the American Fur Company. On a necessarily much smaller vessel they journeyed through the extraordinary geological scenery of that section of the Missouri to Fort Mackenzie in Montana, establishing a cautious friendship with the fearsome Blackfeet. From there it was considered too dangerous to continue and the return journey downstream began. The winter brought its own difficulties and discomforts, but Bodmer was still able to execute numerous studies of villages, dances and especially, the people, who were both intrigued and delighted by his work. The portraits are particularly notable for capturing individual personalities, as well as forming, together with Prince Maximilian’s written studies, the primary account of what have become virtually lost cultures. In the spring of 1834 the Prince and his artist retraced their path down the Missouri and back to New York and Europe. Karl Bodmer (1809-93) was engaged by Prince Maximilian to provide a pictorial record of his travels among the Indians on the Upper Missouri. His work shows great versatility and technical virtuosity, and gives us a uniquely accomplished and detailed picture of the scenes observed on the expedition and particularly the Indians encountered. The plates in Bodmer’s atlas, made up of 33 smaller “vignettes” and 48 larger “tableaus” (for a total of 81 plates), is justly famous as the best depictions of American Indians executed before the era of photography.