Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - May - 2004 Issue
Botany, Ornithology & Natural<br>History From Donald Heald
An oryx from The Book of Antelopes
If you like antelopes, and who doesn’t like these beautiful and graceful animals, Philip Lutley and Michael Oldfield Thomas produced a four-volume set entitled The Book of Antelopes from 1894-1900. This includes numerous color illustrations, about half from noted animal portraitist Joseph Wolf. Many of the illustrations were actually created almost twenty years earlier for a work by Sir Victor Brooke which was never published. Fortunately, they did not go to waste. Item 253 is a first edition of this book on antelopes. $17,500.
For those who prefer lilies, there’s Lida Clarkson’s The Gathering of the Lilies. Lida Clarkson, herself an illustrator, combines her beautiful pictures with poetry to create an appealing book. Item 168. $300.
Item 254 is a 24-volume set focused on Australian animals. Written by George Shaw and Frederick Nodder, the volumes were printed from 1790-1813. Entitled Vivarium Naturae... The Naturalist's Miscellany…, it introduces many findings from Australia to the rest of the world. Shaw is credited in an earlier work as being the first person to use the name “Australia” in print. $37,500.
Donald A. Heald’s complete catalogue can be downloaded from their website. Go to www.donaldheald.com and click on “Catalogues” on the top toolbar. This will bring you to a page where you can download their catalogues. For last month’s review of Part I of this catalogue, go to www.americanaexchange.com/aemonthly/viewreview.asp?rid=81.
