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Kensington Palace: 20 May 1809. 6pp., on 3 sheets of paper, each 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Each sheet inlaid at a later date. Renovating Kensington Palace.
(#34685) $ 1,750.
Letter signed ("Edward") to architectJames Wyatt, concerning repairs and alterations at Kensington Palace, including proposed work on the library.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS,
DUKE OF KENT
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Philadelphia: For the Author and Messrs. Carey and Hart, 1844.12mo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). [v]-182pp., plus 2pp. publisher's ads inthe rear. Publisher's green cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt,spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: bookplates on the front paste-down. The first edition of the first book devoted to roses to bepublished in America. (#30760) $ 375.
The Rose Manual; containing accurate descriptions of all the finest varieties of Roses.
ROBERT BUIST
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Printed for the Author, 1762. Folio (14 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches). [2], 20pp. Engraved dedication, 200 engraved plates byDarly, Foster, Taylor, Cloues, Miller and others after designs by Chippendale. Contemporary reverse calf, coverselaborately paneled in blind, expertly rebacked to style retaining the ori-ginal red morocco lettering piece. The third and best edition of Chippendale's ground-breaking furniture pattern book, the first and most im-portant published book of furniture designs in 18th century England. (#29958) $ 12,000.
The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: being a large collection of the most elegant anduseful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste ... The Third Edition.
THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Edinburgh: privately printed, 1906-1913. 15 parts bound in 8volumes, quarto (12 1/4 x 10 inches). 8 half-titles, 6pp. list ofsubscribers, 8pp. errata. 7 coloured titles, coloured frontis-pieces in volumes I-V (one chromolithographed), photogravureportrait frontispiece of the authors in vol. VII, 413 plates (373photogravures, 40 uncoloured lithographs). With originalwrappers bound in the rear of the Index vol. Contemporary redhalf morocco by R.H. Porter, gilt spines, top edges gilt. Prove-nance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplates). First edition with distinguished provenance of Elwes andHenry’s comprehensive work recording every species of treegrown outdoors in Great Britain and Ireland at the time ofpublication.
(#37439) $ 4,000.
The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland.
HENRY JOHN ELWES
AND AUGUSTINE HENRY
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull, 1616. Small folio, boundin sixes (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Woodcut illustrations in text, orna-mental headpieces and woodcut initials. [18], 732, [22]pp. Expertlybound to style to full period calf, covers with central gilt device,spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in thesecond, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance:Bridgewater Library (armorial bookplate on front endpaper). First edition of Markham's revised English translation of CharlesEstienne and Jean Liebault's important late 16th century work onhusbandry, gardening and country living.
(#36516) $ 7,500.
Maison Rustique, Or, The Countrey Farme ... Nownewly Reviewed, Corrected and Augmented, withdivers large Additions.
CHARLES ESTIENNE
AND JEAN LIEBAULT
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Published by Effingham Wilson, 1830. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches). xxxviii, [2],221, [1]pp. Extra-illustrated with small, trimmed portraits of John Tradescant the Elder and John Trades-cant the Younger, after Hollar. Later half green dyed calf and marbled paper covered boards, bound by Sizer, spine with raisedbands in six compartments, lettered in gilt, blue endpapers. Provenance: Cripps-Day, Francis Henry (gilt armorial stamp onbottom of spine); Charles A. Ward (armorial bookplate). A fine extra-illustrated copy of a noted early 19th century work on the history of gardeners and English landscape design.
(#35498) $ 350.
On the Portraits of English Authorson Gardening with BiographicalNotices ... Second Edition, withconsiderable additions.
SAMUEL FELTON
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
[Sherborne?]: Printed for R. Goadby, 1752. 8vo. 474, [8]pp. Three engravedplates (including folding frontispiece view of the British herring fishery offBrassa in Shetland). Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raisedbands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. Scarce 18th century compilation of gardening and husbandry advice, in-cluding an early printing of An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. (#35492) $ 1,500.
Miscellaneous Pieces. Consisting of Select Poetry, andMethods of Improvement in Husbandry, Gardening, andVarious other Subjects, useful to Families.
GARDENING
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Leipzig [and elsewhere]: F.G. Baumgärtner, 1798-1803. Parts 1-9only (of 60) in one, quarto (12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches). Titles and textin German and French. 90 engraved plates (8 with hand colour-ing). (Lacks titles for parts 7 and 8, and text for part 9). Expertlyrebound to style in half russia over period marbled paper co-vered boards, flat spine divided into six compartments, letteredin the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. A selection from this valuable and fascinating work.
(#27733) $ 2,000.
Ideenmagazin für Liebhaber von Gärten, Eng-lischen Anlagen und für Besitzer von Landgüternum Gärten und ländliche Gegenden, sowohl mitgeringem als auch grossem Geldaufwand ...
JOHANN GOTTFRIED
GROHMANN AND FRIEDRICH
GOTTHELF BAUMGÄRTNER,
editors
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
[Great Britain: 18th century]. Pen-and-ink and watercolour, on laid paper, inscribed in the upper left corner "Kew Palace toface p. 112." Sheet size: 7 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches. Tipped to a larger 18th century sheet. Early watercolour of His Royal Highness' House at Kew.
(#30254) $ 450.
[View of the Palace from the Lawn in the Royal Gardens at Kew].
KEW ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: Huquier and others, circa 1740] - 1744 - 1768. 18 suites and 4unassigned plates in one volume, folio (21 5/8 x 14 inches). Engravedthroughout. 150 leaves with 13 titles and 161 plates, all after Lajoue (1folding, 1 hand-coloured reverse-printed 'vue d'optique' plate), mostplates mounted to size, some plates cut to the edge or into the platearea. Mid-nineteenth century green morocco gilt, covers with widedecorative border tooled in gilt, expertly rebacked to style, spine incompartments with double raised bands, lettered gilt. Provenance:F.A. Magliss (inscription dated 1905? on the verso of the second platein the 16th suite). A unique 'sammelband' including the greatest engraved work pro-duced from Jacques de Lajoue drawings: a celebration of Frenchrocaille at its peak, as executed by an exuberant master. (#19311) $ 16,000.
[A collection of engravings of cartouches, architecturalfantasies and fans, all in a single album.]
JACQUES DE LAJOUE
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: de l'imprimerie de Prault, 1765. Large folio (24 7/8 x 181/2 inches). 8 engraved plates and plans (1 double-page plan,4 double-page plates by by Pierre-Philippe Choffard after LeGendre, 1 double-page and 2 single-page plates by P.E.Moitte after C.N. Cochin), 1 engraved headpiece by Choffard,the plates and text on laid paper. Expertly bound to style inhalf morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine ineight compartments with raised bands, lettered in thesecond compartment, the others with a repeat floral decor-ation in gilt, gilt edges. A lovely folio illustrated work on the design of the Place de laConcorde.
(#21532) $ 8,000.
Description de la Place de Louis XV que l'onconstruit a Reims, des ouvrages a continuer auxenvirons de cette place, & de ceux a faire dansla suite pour l'utilite & l'embellissement de cetteville.
JEAN-GABRIEL LE GENDRE
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Le Jardinier fleuriste, ou la culture univer-selle des fleurs, arbres, arbustes, arbrisseauxservant a l'embellissement des jardins ... sec-onde edition, revue, corigee & augmenteeconsiderablement.
Paris: Chez Saugrain Fils, 1754. 12mo (6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in-ches). 14 folding etched plates, woodcut illustrations.Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with raisedbands in six compartments, period marbled end-papers (wear to spine, lacks lettering piece). An early edition of this popular and influential work onthe cultivation and planting of trees, shrubs and otherflowering plants. (#29797) $ 450.
LOUIS LIGER
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
A Treatise on the Pot-Culture of the Grape.
London: W. S. Orr & Co., 1843. Small 8vo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches). viii,96pp. 2 plates, illustrations. Contemporary pebbled cloth coveredboards, expertly rebacked to style with red straight grained morocco. A rare little book on the cultivation of grapes in pots.
(#29491) $ 850.
JOHN MEARNS
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Histoire des Chênes de l'Amérique, ou descriptions etfigures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes deI'Amérique Septentrionale, considérées sous les rapportsde la Botanique, de leur culture et de leur usage.
Paris: de l'Imprimerie Crapelet, 1801. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). Half-title. 36 copper-engraved plates after Pierre-Joseph Redouté (32) orHenri-Joseph Redouté (4), by Plée (33) or Sellier (3). Twentieth cen-tury half green morocco and green cloth boards, spine with raisedbands in six compartments, panelled and lettered in gilt, marbledendpapers and edges. The first edition Michaux's magisterial monograph on all the knownspecies of North American Oaks, illustrated by the best knownbotanical painter of all time.
(#34008) $ 9,500.
ANDRÉ MICHAUX
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
The Gardeners Kalendar, Direct-ing what Works are necessary tobe done every month, in the Kit-chen, Fruit and Pleasure Gar-dens, and in the Conservatory ...the Third Edition.
London: for the Author, and sold by C.Rivington, 1734. 8vo. xv, [1], 278, [8]pp. Fron-tispiece engraved by J. Pine. Nineteenth century green patterned cloth, red morocco lettering piece. One of the earliest and most well-regarded of the gardener's "Kalendars."
(#35495) $ 550.
PHILIP MILLER
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757. 2 volumes, folio. [12], xxxiv, 124; [4], viii, 156pp. Half-titles. Engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces. Engraved allegorical frontispiece in vol. 1, engraved portrait of the author in vol. 2, 157 engraved plates, maps and plans. Periodspeckled calf, covers with a gilt roll tool border, spines with raised bands in seven compartments, red and green morocco letteringpieces in the second and third, the others with repeat overall elaborate tooling in gilt. Provenance: Abraham Roumieu, architect, 1734-1780 (signature and block-printed and ink-ruled bookplate); Richard Hill of Thornton House, Thornton Dale, Yorkshire, England(armorial bookplate). First edition in English of an important early illustrated account of exploration in Egypt.
(#26814) $ 11,000.
Travels in Egypt and Nubia... Translated from the ori-ginal published by com-mand of his Majesty theKing of Denmark and en-larged with observationsfrom ancient and modernauthors ...
FREDERIK
LUDVIG NORDEN
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Ben Billingsley and Samuel Crouch, 1676. 12mo (4 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches).[36], 259, [11], 24, [6]pp. (errors in pagination as issued). Woodcut illustrations.Later mottled calf gilt by Riviere & Son, spine gilt with raised bands, marbledendpapers, gilt edges. A guide to rebuilding the city of London after the Great Fire in 1666.
(#36873) $ 3,000.
The Purchasers Pattern, much enlarged. The First Part, shew-ing the True Value of Land or Houses, by Lease, or Otherwise... The Second Part, shews the Measuring of Land, Board, Tim-ber ... with Tables of the Excise of Beer and Ale ...
HENRY PHILLIPPES
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: A. Quantin for widow of A. Morel et Cie, [1869]-1877. 4volumes (3 folio atlas volumes [25 x 19 1/2 inches], quarto textvolume [13 x 10 inches]). Half-titles in each volume, titlesprinted in red and black. Text with 34 engraved plates andillustrations in text, atlases with 200 lithographed or en-graved plates, approximately 130 printed in colors. Contem-porary red morocco-backed marbled boards, panelled spinelettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Prove-nance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplates). First edition of the most important work of the nineteenthcentury devoted to Islamic art, with an exhaustive descrip-tion of the applied arts in Cairo.
(#37436) $ 27,500.
L'Art Arabe d'apres les monuments du Kaire.
ACHILLE CONSTANT T.
EMILE PRISSE D'AVENNES
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
New York: C. M. Saxton & Company, 1856. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). 3-103, [1], 4pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Publisher'sads in the rear. Publisher's cloth, covers decoratively blocked in blind,spine lettered in gilt (fading and wear to spine). Popular 19th century American practical winemaking manual. (#29924) $ 225.
The Vine-Dresser's Manual, an Illustrated Treatise onVineyards and Wine-Making.
CHARLES REEMELIN
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Tay-lor, 1803. Quarto. Stipple engraved por-trait of the author by W. Holl after S.Shelley, 27 engraved or aquatint plates,numerous engraved, wood-engraved oraquatint vignettes and illustrations (2with overslips). Expertly bound to stylein half calf and period marbled papercovered boards, marbled endpapers. A fine copy of the first edition: a classicwork on landscape gardening in whichRepton lays out and illustrates what heconsidered to be the fixed principleswhich should be adhered to in any largescale scheme.
(#36470) $ 15,000.
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecianand Gothic Architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different Noblemenand Gentlemen.
HUMPHRY REPTON
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: R. Ackermann, 1798 [plates watermarked 1816].Oblong quarto (9 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches). [4]pp, plus 24 aquatintplates (22 coloured), interleaved with descriptive letterpressfor each plate. Uncut. Contemporary boards, rebacked tostyle. Contained in a modern quarter morocco backed box. Scarce illustrated work of designs for heated greenhouses tocultivate exotic trees and plants.
(#36666) $ 4,500.
Collection de Differéntes Espèces de SerresChaudes, pour Forcer des Ananas, des ArbresFruitiers, et pour Preserver des Plantes Exoti-ques Délicates.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
St. Petersburg: Expédition pour la Confection des Papiersd'État, 1905. Elephant folio. Illustrated title in Russian andFrench printed in red and black, dedication to EmpressAlexandra Feodorovna printed in red and black, 4pp. textin two columns in Russian and French with illustrations ashead-piece and tailpiece, 1p. list of plates, 18 plates (num-bered I-XVIII, 12 chromolithographed, 2 double-page, onefolding), after A. Shchusev, P. Poryshkin and A. Minenko.Expertly bound to style in half black morocco and periodcloth covered boards, spine gilt with raised bands. First edition, large paper en plano (i.e. unfolded) issue ofan important illustrated Imperial Russian work on Islamicarchitecture.
(#34999) $ 15,000.
Mecheti Samarkanda ... Les Mosquées deSamarcande. Fascicule I. Gour-Emir [allpublished].
RUSSIAN IMPERIAL
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
COMMISSION
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1865. 8vo. 2 hand-coloured zinco-graphed plates by James Andrews, wood engraved plates and illus-trations. Contemporary pencil annotations. Publisher's red cloth,upper cover with central stamp in blind in gilt repeated on lower coverin blind (minor wear and repairs). First edition of a scarce illustrated monograph on the chrysanthemum.
(#29913) $ 475.
The Chrysanthemum; its history and culture.
JOHN SALTER
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
York: Printed by G. Peacock, 1779. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 2 engraved plates (one folding). Uncut. Expertly bound to style in halfrussia over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine tooled in gilt in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. First edition of the most important English work on the culture of the pineapple in the 18th century. (#29728) $ 1,200.
A Treatise on the Cultureof the Pine Apple and theManagement of the Hot-House.
WILLIAM
SPEECHLY
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Byzantine Architecture; Illus-trated by Examples of EdificesErected in the East During theEarliest Ages of Christianitywith Historical & Archae-ological Descriptions.
London: Day & Son, 1864. Folio (16 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). Half title. Chromolitho-graphed additional title, 70 tinted litho-graphed or chromolithographed plates, many printed with gold (numbered II-LXX, [plate I being the additional title, plus LX bis), plates XVIII/IXX and LXIX/LXX on same double-page sheets), numerous woodcutillustrations. Early tan cloth over period black cloth covered boards, worn. Provenance: Haverhill Public Library (bookplate,blindstamp to title and two text leaves). First English edition. (#26286) $ 2,750.
CHARLES TEXIER
AND R. POPPLE-
WELL PULLAN
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