Authors starting with F from Donald Heald Rare Books

[London: William Faden, circa 1808, maps dated 1778-1808]. Large folio. (22 7/8 x 17 ½ inches). Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress contents leaf. 55 engraved maps or charts, hand-coloured, hand-coloured in outline or with touches of hand-colouring, by Faden, Laurie & Whittle, L.S. de La Rochette, Henry Roberts and others (1 on a single page, 38 double-page, 16 folding). (The four hemisphere maps and the map of the western Mediterranean shaved with slight loss to imprint or image area, 2 ot... more information

[London]: Wm. Faden, Feby. 11th, 1793. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in excellent condition apart from repairs to tears in bottom and lower left margins and to center fold. 24 1/8 x 31 1/8 inches. The extremely rare fifth issue of one of the most important early maps of the United States Faden's sequence of maps of the United States represents one of the most important cartographic depictions of the newly independent republic. The present map is the fifth issue of the fourteen total ap... more information

London: printed for W. Faden, 1 August 1794. Copper-engraved map, hand- coloured in outline. Good condition, with small neat repairs to fold and upper and lower margin, old light creasing. 24 x 30 1/4 inches. A spectacular and rare sea-chart of southern Florida, the Keys, the north coast of Cuba and the Bahamas. The British Admiralty assigned George Gauld, a Scots-born surveyor, the task of charting the difficult waters off the Gulf Coast of West Florida. Between 1764 and 1781 Gauld mapped an area that ext... more information

[London]: Published by William Faden, 1778 [but actually ca. 1835]. Engraved map on two sheets, measuring 21¼ x 29 inches and 23¼ x 13 inches. Total size of the map area measures 17½ x 34 inches. Some slight strengthening of the platemark. An early 19th-century printing of William Faden's important and detailed map of Boston and Boston harbor in the early days of the American Revolution. The map was drawn by the British Lieutenant Thomas Hyde Page, who was severely wounded at Bunke... more information

London: printed for Wm. Faden, Jany. 1st 1785. Copper-engraved map. Provenance: Martin P. Snyder. 21 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. The Snyder copy of the third and final state of one of the most important maps of the Revolutionary War, depicting the dramatic military events that transpired on the Delaware River, just below Philadelphia This large scale and finely engraved masterpiece of military cartography embraces the Delaware River estuary from Philadelphia down to the town of Chester. In great detail, the map s... more information

[London]: Wm. Faden, Feb. 11, 1785. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, trimmed within platemark top margin, trimmed to platemark bottom margin, neatlines intact, mounted on silk mending a split at center fold, large lateral margins. 20 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches. The extremely rare fourth issue of one of the most important early maps of the United States Faden's sequence of maps of the United States represents one of the most important cartographic depictions of the newly independent republic. Th... more information

[London]: Wm. Faden, 1809. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in excellent condition apart from repair to center fold. 22 x 27 1/2 inches. The seventh issue of one of the most important early maps of the United States Faden's sequence of maps of the United States represents one of the most important cartographic depictions of the newly independent republic. The present map is the seventh issue of the fourteen total appellations (including the parent plan and thirteen subsequent issues). Th... more information

[London]: Faden, 1777. Copper-engraved map with full original colour. 22 x 28 7/8 inches. The Parent Plan of Faden's extraordinary sequence of maps of the United States Faden's sequence of maps of the United States represents one of the most important cartographic depictions of the newly independent republic. The present map, made at the beginning of the Revolution, is the first of what would be fourteen total appellations (this and thirteen subsequent issues), and is one of the extremely rare firs... more information

London: Wm. Faden, August 10th, 1776. Copper-engraved map in excellent condition. 15 x 20 3/4 inches. An extremely rare separately-issued Revolutionary War battle plan by William Faden, depicting a critical altercation near Charleston, South Carolina This highly important and finely engraved map captures the dramatic action surrounding the British naval assault on Fort Sullivan (called here "Sulivan"), the strategic "key" to Charleston, the largest city and only port in the South. It i... more information

London: "Printed and sold by William Faden, Successor to the late Mr. Thomas Jefferies, Geographer to the King...", 10th August 1776. Copper- engraved map, engraved one-line dedication to Sir Peter Parker and letterpress text in two columns beneath the map. Inset plan of the fort. 20 7/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Extremely rare first issue of a separately- published Revolutionary War broadside battle plan depicting a critical altercation near Charleston, South Carolina. This highly important and finely en... more information

[London]: Wm. Faden, Feby. 11th, 1793. Copper-engraved map, full period hand colouring. 24 1/2 x 35 1/8 inches. The extremely rare fifth issue of one of the most important early maps of the United States. Faden's sequence of maps of the United States represents one of the most important cartographic depictions of the newly independent republic. The present map is the fifth issue of the fourteen total appellations (including the parent plan and thirteen subsequent issues), and is one of the extremely ra... more information

New York: 1833. Octavo. 499pp. 5 plates (2 folding). Original green cloth- backed brown/grey paper covered-boards, printed paper label to spine (label chipped, neat repairs to spine), green cloth chemise, green cloth slipcase, brown morocco lettering-piece. First edition of a classic narrative of voyages to the Pacific. Fanning's adventurous life at sea began at a young age. A native of Connecticut, he set sail in 1792 for the South Seas in search of seal skins. During the following quarter century he... more information

London: Francis Jukes, February 1792. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by R. Dodd. Wove paper. (One small expertly repaired tear to lower blank margin). 15 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches. 21 1/2 x 30 7/8 inches. A fine example of a very rare large format hand-coloured aquatint view after Joseph Farington, R.A. This rare view is of the coast of Scotland, looking out into the Firth of Forth and Bass Rock. Tantallon Castle itself is about four miles from North Berwick, and about 25 miles east of Edinbu... more information

London: Francis Jukes, 1 February 1792. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by C.Catton Jr. 15 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches. 20 1/8 x 27 1/8 inches. A fine example of a very rare large format hand-coloured aquatint view after Joseph Farington, R.A. This rare view, after a drawing made by Farington in 1788, is of Dunfermline Abbey, about 20 miles north west of Edinburgh, and 'one of the most important remains in Scotland. Excepting Iona it has received more of Caledonia's royal dead than any o... more information

[No date, but mounts watermarked 1837]. Folio. (23 1/8 x 18 3/4 inches). 92 leaves, window-mounted with 344 prints after Farington, Westall, Owen and others, and 2 original watercolours, all of views on or near the Thames, one plate folding, 28 hand-coloured. (Most plates cut close to the image, some with loss of imprint). Expertly bound to style in light brown half calf over original red textured cloth-covered boards, spine in six compartments with wide raised bands, the bands tooled in gilt with fillets a... more information

[Detroit: John Farmer], 1836. Folding pocket map, engraved by Farmer, full period hand-colouring. Five insets. Folds into original green morocco, covers decoratively blocked in blind, titled in gilt on the upper cover, printed Explanation by Farmer mounted on the inside front cover, printed advertisement for Colton maps mounted on the inside rear cover. 20 x 31 1/2 inches. Rare copy of the Detroit issue of Farmer's 1836 map of Michigan Territory. This is one of the earliest maps by John Farmer, "... more information

New York: J. H. Colton and Co., 1837. Folding pocket map, engraved by S. Stiles and Co., full period hand-colouring. Three insets. (Separations at folds repaired, flattened and matted). With publisher's blindstamped red morocco covers, title stamped in gilt on the upper cover preserved. 23 1/2 x 32 3/4 inches. Rare copy of the 1837 Colton issue of Farmer's map of Michigan, the first edition following statehood. This is one of the best maps by John Farmer, "the mapmaker par excellence of Mic... more information

Detroit: Silas Farmer & Co., 1895. Folding pocket map, city, ward and township boundaries, parks and railway lines printed in colours. Index of street names. "Dictionary of Detroit" printed on verso, including photographic and woodcut images of the city's buildings and landmarks. Folds into publisher's wrappers. (Inked library stamps, no on map surface). Provenance: inscribed by Silas Farmer on the front pastedown. 28 1/2 x 29 1/4 inches. Large map of Detroit during its time as the... more information

London: Richard Bentley, 1843. 2 volumes, 8vo. xxiii,297; viii,315pp. 19th- century green polished calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with leather labels, neatly rebacked with original spines laid down. Small bookplate on front pastedowns. Very minor foxing and soiling. Very good. The first English edition, after the first American edition of 1841. An important early account of the Oregon country, and containing an account of Farnham's three month visit to Hawaii. The author went to Oregon in 1839, ... more information