Authors starting with O from Donald Heald Rare Books

Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1848. Folio. (16 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches). 16 lithographed plates by J. H. Bufford after Isaac Sprague. (Light dampstain along bottom edge). Original green cloth, upper cover with gilt-blocked decorative vignette containing the title, rebacked in matching cloth to style. A classic series of landscape views in New Hampshire and Maine. The plates, lithographed by Bufford, comprise: 1) The White Mountains; 2) Mount Crawford; 3) The Notch of the White Mountains; 4) The Lower Cas... more information

London: Printed by the Author, 1671. Folio. (16 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches). Ruled in red throughout, title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 37 plates (6 portraits, 31 views and plans [2 of these folding, 29 double-page]), 19 maps (2 folding, 17 double-page), 66 engraved illustrations. (Portrait facing page 60 expertly remargined, some small neat repairs to margins and folds). Contemporary English paneled calf gilt, covers with paneling tooled with fillets and roll tools, the inner panels with loz... more information

London: Printed by the Author, 1671. Folio. (16 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece (a 'before-letters' issue), 37 plates (6 portraits, 31 views and plans [2 of these folding, 29 double-page]), 19 maps (2 folding, 17 double-page), 66 engraved illustrations. Contemporary calf, covers tooled in blind with a central panel enclosing a lozenge with foliate cornerpieces, expertly rebacked preserving original red morocco lettering piece and 'FFF' ownership s... more information

London: printed for J. Brotherton, J. Clarke [and others], 1741. 2 volumes, octavo. (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches). 8 folding maps by Herman Moll. Contemporary speckled calf, covers with double fillet gilt border, spines in six compartments with raised bands, later red morocco label in the second, later dark green label in the third. The second expanded edition of this fundamental 18th century reference work on British America This second edition includes the story of William Penn and the Indian princess (as told... more information

London: printed for John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Richard Parker & Ralph Smith, 1708. 2 volumes, octavo. (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). 8 folding maps by Herman Moll. Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked). First edition, with material omitted from the second edition. Oldmixon's name is signed to the dedication of this first edition only, and Sabin suggests authorship should be attributed to Moll, who produced the maps. In many other respects the editions are different. There is much material on Penns... more information

London: John & Josiah Boydell, 1 December 1796. Stipple engraving, by C.G. Playter, finished by R. Thew. 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches. 20 7/8 x 28 3/4 inches. A very fine copy of one of the greatest images from Boydell's magnum opus, illustrating the works of England's greatest dramatist. "This is Shakespeare on a grand scale, the Shakespeare of titanic emotion, of compelling gesture and vivid gaze... the greatest of the engravings... are by any standard powerful works with an inescapable emoti... more information

London: Published by J. Dean, Bentnick Street, Soho, May 1, 1786. Mezzotint. Printed on watermarked laid paper. In good condition with a skillfully mended tear along the lower plate mark. Image size: 15 5/16 x 20 7/9 inches. 16 7/8 x 20 7/8 inches. 17 13/16 x 21 7/8 inches. A charming mezzotint of three children playing cards, engraved by John Dean after John Opie. John Opie demonstrated a remarkable talent at a young age. He became the protégé of the poet John Wolcot who briefly trained hi... more information

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1924. Quarto. (12 x 10 inches). Title in red and black, small format errata slip. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Chater, 3 folding lithographic maps (printed in two of three colours), 18 coloured plates, 243 half-tone plates recto and verso of 71 leaves. Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, t.e.g. Limited edition of 750 copies. The core of this important collection was formed by Wyndham O. Law, and bought en bloc by Chater at the urging of James Ora... more information

London: Published by Js. Bretherton, 1 January 1797. Hand-coloured aquatint by C. Rosenberg after Orde. 15 3/4 x 20 1/8 inches. The second of a pair of images of the `longest and most determined engagement ever fought' (Parker) `The Blanche frigate, Captain R. Faulknor, while off Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadaloupe, on... [4 January 1795], engaged the French frigate Pique. The fight having lasted an hour, the Pique fouled the Blanche, and the Frenchman made several attempts to board, but each time galla... more information

circa 1775. Drypoint by James Bretherton after. 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Inscription: "Mr. Orde f.*** A Sketch ***Bretherton/---Quae cur[a] nitentes/Pingere equ[i]---." A fine character study of Stubbs aged about 50. The artist is shown, half-length in profile, seated at an easel, intent on an unseen subject. His left arm is raised, brush in hand, before a canvas with the outline of a prancing horse visible. His palette rests on his right fore-arm. He is wearing a frock coat and knee breeches. Acco... more information

Chessington or Southampton: published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, 1940-1948. 111 (of 115) maps, numbered 64, 71, 75-78, 82-86, 88-114; 116-141, 142-153; 154-156, 157-190, each printed in colours, folded, in sections backed onto cloth (each 28 1/4 x 31 3/4 inches,) within original orange and black printed thin card wrappers. Maps in very fine condition. All contained within three compartmentalised light brown calf carrying cases (9 x 5 1/2 x 17 inches,) each case with dark brown m... more information

London: circa 1795. Colour printed stipple engraving with additional hand-colouring. In good condition with the exception of some small expert repairs. Lower margin repaired with loss of imprint. Image size: 16 3/4 x 22 5/8 inches. 18 7/8 x 24 1/4 inches. A fine image after Morland: 'a master of genre and animal painting, an artist worthy to be placed in the same rank as the best of those Dutch masters whom he studied as a boy' (DNB) George Morland was one of the most successful genre painters of ... more information

London: Edward Orme, 1 January 1807. Aquatint engraving, coloured by hand, by James Godby and Henri Merke (watermark: 'J. Whatman 1805'). 12 x 17 3/8 inches. 17 1/2 x 22 1/8 inches. A fine image from 'Orme's Collection of British Field Sports': "the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries" (Schwerdt) Samuel Howitt, "genius, artist, sportsman", concentrated his considerable artistic talents on picturing scenes of horse-racing and hunting in ... more information

London: Edward Orme, 1 December 1807. Aquatint engraving, coloured by hand, by Thomas Vivares and Henri Merke. 11 11/16 x 16 3/4 inches. 17 5/8 x 23 1/4 inches. A fine image from 'Orme's Collection of British Field Sports': "the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries" (Schwerdt) Samuel Howitt, "genius, artist, sportsman", concentrated his considerable artistic talents on picturing scenes of horse-racing and hunting in all its aspects. Born in Nott... more information

London: Edward Orme, 1807-1808 [pre-publication watermarks:1804-1806]. 1 volume, bound from the 10 original parts, oblong folio. (17 11/16 x 22 inches). Hand-coloured aquatint title by James Godby and Henri Merke after W.M. Craig, letterpress contents leaf with hand-coloured aquatint vignette by J. Swain after Howitt, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates (titled in English and French) by Godby, Merke, Craig, Clark, Vivares after Howitt (plate 2 with letterpress overslip "RACING" pasted over caption &... more information

London: Published by Orme, 1806. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving, printed on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing in the top margin. 13 1/8 x 17 3/4 inches. 16 x 21 1/2 inches. A picturesque view of the remains of the historic Newport Castle on the banks of the River Usk in southeast Wales. The medieval sandstone castle was most likely erected by Hugh d'Audele in 1327-1386 and underwent extensive renovation during the fifteenth century at the behest o... more information

Antwerp: Ortelius, '1587' [ but 1595]. Copper engraving with period hand colouring. Latin text on verso of one half of the sheet. In generally excellent condition. 17 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. The Ortelius map of the New World with the amended coast of Chile, from the Latin edition of his 'Theatrum' Among the most beautiful of Dutch maps, this is a superb example of the Ortelius aesthetic with its marginal floral ornamentation, strapwork cartouches, masks, sphinxes, ships and sea monsters, all ... more information

Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1573, Latin edition. each 17 x 21 3/4 inches. A set of five highly important and beautifully coloured maps form Ortelius's third Latin edition From its initial publication in 1570, Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, epitomised the highest standards of production, becoming the inspiration for atlases for the next two centuries. The strong aesthetic appeal, consistent size and the assiduous study of sources became the hallmarks of Ortelius maps. Typus Orbis Terrarum uses the o... more information

Antwerp: Ortelius, [1595]. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, Latin text on verso of one half of the sheet, in excellent condition, apart from a small expert repair to the left blank margin, and a small section of the upper blank margin torn away. 21 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches. A superb map of Europe by one of the greatest names in the history of cartography This important map of Europe derives in large part from Mercator's own work; Russia from Jenkinson's map; Scandinavia from Olaus Magnus... more information

[Washington]: War Department, Corps of Engineers, [1873-1874]. 50 stereoscopic photographic albumen prints (42 by O'Sullivan, 8 by Bell), on original card mounts (4 x 7 inches), the mounts with the series number, photographer's name and descriptive title on the verso. Modern morocco-backed cloth box. A rare complete set of this fine series of stereoscopic views from Lieutenant George Wheeler's 1871-74 expedition in the West, one of the first systematic surveys of the north rim of the Grand Can... more information