VOYAGES, TRAVEL & ATLASES
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Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: C. Lambin, 1661. Small 4to. [12], 112pp. Engraved por- trait
of Anne Marie Louise D'Orleans. Expertly bound to style. First
edition of this rare work on precious stones and pearls found in
the East and West Indies, including a section on pearl fishing in
the Persian Gulf.
(#38729) $ 9,000.
Les Merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occident- ales, ou Nouveau
Traitte des Pierres precieuses & Perles.
ROBERT DE BERQUEN
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: printed for Jacob Robinson, 1743. 8vo. xx, 220pp. Expertly
bound to style in period russia and marbled paper covered boards,
spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. First
edition of "one of the principal accounts of the 'Wager'"
(Hill).
(#38106) $ 3,500.
A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1. Containing a
faithful narrative of the loss of His Majesty's Ship the Wa- ger on
a desolate island in the latitude 47 South, longitude 81:40
West.
JOHN BULKELEY AND JOHN
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: Le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes, folio. Titles printed in red
and black with en- graved vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot,
half-titles. 65 engraved maps and plates (including 1 page of
engraved sheet music) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, and Fonbonne after
d'Anvillee, Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier and others, 4 en- graved
head-pieces after Humblot, occa- sional engraved initials.
Contemporary French mottled calf. The first edition of Du Halde's
celebrated and comprehensive history of China and the most
important cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth
century. The work is further noted as a cornerstone of northwest
Americana, as it contains the earliest printed record of Bering's
first expedition with the earliest map of any portion of
present-day Alaska.
(#31324) $ 37,500.
JEAN BAPTISTE
DU HALDE
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: William MacKenzie, [1863]. 3 volumes, small folio (16 7/8 x
12 inches). 111 mounted gold-toned albumen photographs (additional
title with mounted vignette and 36 photographs, in each volume).
Scattered minor foxing at sheet edges. Expertly bound to style in
half black morocco and publisher's period cloth covered boards,
spines with raised bands in six com- partments, ruled in gilt on
either side of each band, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt
edges. The best edition of Frith's photographs of Upper and Lower
Egypt and the Holy Land.
(#31437) $ 29,500.
Sinai and Palestine ... [With:] Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the
Pyramids ... [And with:] Upper Egypt and Ethiopia.
FRANCIS FRITH
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: Editions Geographiques, Maritimes & Coloniales, 1934.
Folio (20 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches). 39 double-page colored maps. Text
in French. Includes index. Half cloth over paper boards. A
collection of detailed colour maps which show the geography,
topography and economy of the French colonies, including Algeria,
Tunisia, Cameroon, Guyana and Madagascar.
(#39669) $ 750.
Atlas des Colonies Francaises. Protectorats et Territoires sous
Mandat de la France.
GUILLAUME GRANDIDIER
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Nuremberg: Officina Hommaniana, 1739. Two parts in one, folio.
Title printed in red and black, text in two columns, historiated
initials, woodcut head- and tail- pieces. 20 hand coloured maps and
plates (six folding). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with
raised bands, morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (North Library book- plate to
front pastedown, dated 1860). The Macclesfield copy of an important
historical atlas of Egypt and the Holy Land.
(#35286) $ 2,800.
Regni Davidici et Salomonæi Descriptio Geographica et Historica,
una cum Delinea- tione Syriæ et Ægypti.
JOHANN MATTIAS HAAS
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: printed for T. Osborne, H. Whitridge, C. Bathurst [inter
alia], 1764. 2 volumes, folio. Titles printed in red and black. 61
en- graved maps, plans and plates (15 maps folding, and 2 plates
folding). Contemporary russia, covers with a gilt border, spines
with raised bands in seven compart- ments, red and green morocco
lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with a repeat
decoration in gilt, marbled end- papers. Expert repairs to joints.
A lovely copy of the third edition of Harris's important
compilation, edited by John Campbell, with Emmanuel Bowen's
important map of Georgia and the first English map of
Australia.
(#36646) $ 15,000.
Navigantium atque Iti- nerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a complete
collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred
of the most au- thentic writers ... Now carefully revised, with
large additions, and con- tinued down to the pre- sent time.
JOHN HARRIS
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by W. Johnston, 1769. 2
volumes, quarto. ix, [7], 405, [2]; [2], 465, [2]pp. Two engraved
frontispiece portraits of Amherst and Wolfe, folding en- graved map
of British Dominions in America by Thomas Kitchin in vol. 1. Errata
leaf in rear of each vol. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with
original spines, spines with raised bands in six compartments, each
panelled in gilt, morocco lettering piece in the second.
Provenance: George Gun (signatures, armorial bookplate). "One of
the most accurate and detailed accounts available on the sieges of
Louisbourg and Quebec" (TPL).
(#36889)
$ 6,500.
JOHN KNOX
An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America for the
Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760: Containing the most Re- markable
Occurrences of that Period; particularly the two Sieges of Quebec,
the Orders of the Admirals and General Officers; Descriptions of
the Countries where the Author has served, with their Forts and
Garrisons; their Climates, Soil, Produce.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: P. Pourrat Freres, 1838-39. 8vo, 2 volumes (9 1/8 x 5 7/8
inches). Half- titles. Frontispiece portrait in vol- ume 1. 510,
[1]; 547, [2]pp. Including errata leaves. Title vignettes in both.
41 plates (19 color, 2 folding). Light foxing. Quar- ter calf over
marbled boards, spine flat, black lettering pieces, marbled edges,
mar- bled endpapers. A complete copy. First edition of this
detailed account by the naturalist aboard Duperrey's voyage, with
beautifully colored natural history plates.
(#39667) $ 1,800.
RENÉ PRIMEVÈRE LESSON
Voyage Autour du monde entrepris par ordre du gou- vernement sur la
corvette La Coquille.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Printed for Edward Orme ... by W. Bulmer & Co., 1812
[text watermarked 1805, plates watermarked 1805-1823]. Folio. 50pp.
25 plates (23 hand-coloured aquatints by M. Dubourg after
Middleton, Philip Giuntotardi and others [3 double-page], 2
uncoloured engraved plates). Contemporary full straight-grain
morocco, embellished in gilt and blind, spine in seven compartments
with raised bands, lettered in gilt on a red morocco lettering
piece. A very fine copy of this important colour-plate work written
and illustrated by Middleton: "the first American classical
archaeo- logist" (C.E.Norton), the son of Arthur Middleton (a
signer of the Declaration of Independence) and the brother of Henry
Middleton (a governor of South Carolina).
(#39369) $ 19,500.
Grecian Remains in Italy, a Description of Cyclopian Walls and of
Roman Anti- quities. With topographical and pic- turesque views of
ancient Latium.
J.J. MIDDLETON
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1867. Folio (15 3/8 x 12
1/4 inches). 54 hand-coloured lithographic maps and town plans (the
first map printed with an additional table of the world time zones
on verso, five double-page), num- bered 1-91 (i.e. including
numbering of the insets and with the plan of St. Louis unnumbered).
Publisher's red half mo- rocco and red cloth-covered boards, the
upper cover decoratively blocked in gilt, the lower cover blocked
in blind, rear endpaper torn. A fine, complete copy of Mitchell's
important New General Atlas.
(#35085) $ 1,800.
Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing maps of various countries
of the world, plans of cities, etc., ... together with valuable
statistical tables.
S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL, JR.
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1859. Folio. Letterpress title, 2pp. intro,
and descriptions of plates, errata slip tipped to verso of
Introduc- tion. 56 albumen photographs (each approx. 11 x 8 1/2
inches). Contemporary half morocco, title gilt-lettered on morocco
label on front board, edges gilt. Provenance: presentation
inscription 'to his old and sincere friend,' M.H. Bloxham
(signature and bookplate). Limited edition of 25 copies: a very
fine author's presentation copy of this masterpiece amongst early
photographically-illustrated works.
(#37097) $ 48,000.
The Pagoda of Hallibeed, illustrated by fifty-six photographic
views, with descriptive letter-press.
RICHARD BANNER OAKELEY
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: printed by the Author, 1672; Tho. Johnson for the Author,
1671. 2 volumes, folio. [Nieuhoff:] Title in red and black.
Engraved additional title, double-page map of China, 18 plates (1
double-page), 94 engraved illustrations within the text. [Dapper:]
Title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 40 engraved plates
and maps (2 double-page maps, 38 plates [31 double-page, 1
folding]), 57 engraved illustra- tions within the text.
Contemporary calf, expertly re- backed to style, spine with raised
bands in seven com- partments, red morocco lettering piece in the
second, the other with an overall repeat decoration in gilt. Scarce
set of Ogilby's English editions of Nieuhoff's and Dapper's
accounts of the early Dutch embassies to China: the most
comprehensive descriptions of China in the 17th century and among
the most beautifully ill- ustrated works on the region from that
period.
(#33455) $ 35,000.
An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to
the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China ... [With:] Atlas Chinensis:
Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages in Two
Embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to
the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi,
Emperor of China and East-Tartary ...
JOHN OGILBY
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P. James, 1847. iv, 9-189pp. First
edition, second issue, with corrections made on pages 31 and 121
and without the errata slip tipped in at page 189. Facsimile
wrappers, remnants of original rear cover bound in. Rear cover with
partial loss, backed with later paper. Light wear and soiling,
heavier to first and last few leaves. In a cloth slipcase and
chemise, gilt leather label. One of the most complete accounts of
wagon trail life.
(#31383) $ 8,500.
Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains, to the Mouth of the
Columbia River; Made during the Years 1845 and 1846: Containing
minute descriptions of the Valleys of the Willa- mette, Umpqua, and
Clamet; A General Description of Oregon Territory ... A List of
Necessary Outfits for Emigrants; and a Table of Distances from Camp
to Camp on the Route.
JOEL PALMER
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1898-1919. Quarto, 11 volumes (10 5/8 x 8 1/2
inches). Etudes Diverses: 3 vols.; Geographie et Voyages: 7 vols.;
Atlas: 1 vol. Numerous maps, color plates and photographic
illustrations. Engraved portrait of Pavie in Volume I of Etudes
Diverses. Signed by Pavie on the first page of the Preface in the
Atlas and the Introduction of each of the remaining volumes except
Volume VII of Geographie et Voyages. Original wrappers bound in.
Contemporary brown leather, spine in five compartments with raised
bands, lettered in gilt in the second, third, and fourth, marbled
endpapers. Complete set of the seminal French exploration of
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
(#39497) $ 12,000.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: Librarie Armand Colin, 1902. Folio (16 3/8 x 13 inches). iv,
74, [26]pp. Includes index at the end. Text in French. 27 colored
maps (26 double-page, 1 single- page). Contemporary red half
morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in six compartments, let- tered
in second, marbled end- papers. A "new atlas of the French colo-
nies, drawn up by order of the colonial administration."
(#39518) $ 350.
Atlas des Colonies Francaises dressé par ordre du Ministère des
Colonies.
PAUL PELET
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, [1807-]1816. 3 vols (2 vols. quar-
to text; large quarto atlas, two parts in one). Historique text:
half-titles, 2 folding tables, engraved portrait frontispiece;
Historique atlas: engraved titles, 40 stipple and line engraved
plates, 14 maps. Extra-illustrated with an additional portrait of
Baudin in vol. 1 text and 25 additional unnumbered en- graved
plates, comprising all the plates added to the 1824 second edition
atlas. 19th century green calf backed marbled paper covered boards,
flat spines, marbled endpapers. The rare first edition of the
official narrative of the Baudin- Freycinet Expedition: a unique
example extra-illustrated with additional plates from the second
edition.
(#31302) $ 30,000.
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes ... [With:] ... Partie
Historique rédigée par M. F. Péron. Atlas par MM. Lesueur et Petit
...
FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE PÉRON, LOUIS-CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET,
AND NICOLAS BAUDIN
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Printed for John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789.
Quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches). xii, 384, xl pp. 20 engraved
plates, charts and maps (6 folding charts or maps, 2 engraved
portraits, 12 engraved plates [including 5 ornithological plates
with contemporary hand-colouring, as issued]). Contem- porary full
tree calf boards bordered in gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments,
red morocco lettering piece, marbled end- papers. Rare deluxe issue
with hand-coloured plates of the first edition of a classic
narrative of the early exploration on the Northwest coast.
(#39418) $ 16,000.
NATHANIEL PORTLOCK
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
A Voyage Round the World; but more parti- cularly to the North-West
Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the
King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1843. 3 volumes, 8vo. xxxiv, 488;
xviii, 480; xvi, [2], 524pp., plus 3 engraved portraits, 2 engraved
maps and an engraved plate. Publisher's brown cloth, elaborately
blocked in blind, spine titled in gilt and with a gilt stamp
reproducing the arms of Cortes. Housed in three green mo- rocco
backed slipcases. First American edition: a cornerstone work for
any collection on American literature or the historiography of
Mexico. A stunning copy in original condi- tion.
(#35933) $ 1,950.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Printed for R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1830. Folio (16
1/8 x 12 7/8 inches). Engraved title, 21 hand coloured engraved
maps with aquatint by Sidney Hall (6 double- page). Publisher's
marbled paper covered boards with letterpress label, expertly re-
backed to style with brown morocco, flat spine ruled and lettered
in gilt. First edition of among the most unusual at- lases of the
19th century.
(#31394) $ 9,500.
EDWARD QUIN
An Historical Atlas; in a Series of Maps of the World as known at
different periods; constructed upon an uniform scale and colored
according to the political changes of the period.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., 1909. 8vo (10 1/2 x 7
1/4 inches). xvii, 551, [1]pp. Frontispiece portrait plus 15
photogravure plates, 1 folding map, and 2 folding facsimile
letters. Publisher's green crushed morocco gilt, upper cover with
gilt device of Africa and lettered Bula-Matari, spine lettered in
gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Green cloth box, with morocco
label titled in gilt.
SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY
The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ... edited by his
wife, Dorothy Stanley.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 250 copies signed by
Dorothy Stanley.
(#39378) $ 4,250.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Ltd., 1890.
Quarto, 2 vols. Half-title. Mounted frontispieces in each volume.
Presentation copy "to Stanley M. Burroughs. Born 13th July 1888" on
limitation page in volume 1. Fine woodcut engraved text illus-
trations printed on india paper and mounted throughout and six
etchings by George Montbard signed in pencil. 4 chromolitho-
graphic maps and plans. 2 signed letters pasted to back free
endleaf and inside back board. Publisher's half dark brown morocco
and parchment-covered boards, gilt-stamped. Housed in buckram
chemises and slipcase. Limited edition copy, numbered 194 of 250,
with two signed letters addressed to Silas Mainville Burroughs,
founder of the pharma- ceutical company, Burroughs, Wellcome &
Co.
(#39413) $ 7,500.
SIR HENRY
MORTON
STANLEY
In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin,
Governor of Equatoria.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. xv,
[1], 436pp. Fourteen plates (five of them colored lithographs, one
folding) and folding map. Contemporary blue polished calf, spine
gilt extra, leather label. Provenance: In- scribed on the fly leaf:
"C.S. Newton from his affectionate friend Alfred Trower. On his
leaving Eton, Midsummer 1865." A wonderful account of travel in
Mexico and Central America, illustrated with colour plates.
(#28629) $ 1,250.
G.F. VON TEMPSKY
Mitla. A Narrative of Incidents and Personal Adventures on a
Journey in Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador in the years 1853 to
1855.
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books
Paris: André Pralard, 1683. Folio. Four parts in two volumes.
Numerous pagi- nation sequences. Includes thirty-five engraved
plates and maps (twenty-four folding), with many in-text woodcut
ill- ustrations. Without the map of Japan, but with the Tasman map
of Australia in the third issue. Bookplate on front pastedowns.
Light toning and foxing. Contemporary calf, spines gilt; skillfully
rebacked with original spines laid down. Among the greatest early
voyage col- lections, with a copy of the Tasman map of Australia
present in its third state.
(#31354) $ 45,000.
MELCHISÉDEC THÉVENOT
Relations de Divers Voyages Curieux. Qui n'ont point esté Publiées,
ou Qui ont esté Traduites d'Hac- luyt, de Purchas, & d'Autres
Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et
de Quelques Persans, Arabes, & Autres Autheurs
Orientaux....
Donald A. Heald | Rare Books