Authors starting with W from Donald Heald Rare Books

[no date, but circa 1780]. Pen, ink and watercolour plan on laid paper, signed with initials in lower right corner ' J.M.W' (Some expert restoration, including tears to old folds and an irregularly-shaped area replaced in field to the left of the estate). 35 x 24 1/2 inches. In gilt frame with beading. 43 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches. A beautifully executed garden design, possibly for Schloss Scharzau am Steinfelde in Austria. The design shows the Schloss in outline only, with the gardens concentrated to th... more information

[New York: n.d. but 1848 or earlier]. Steel engraving by Pollack after Wade, completed in pen and ink. Sheet size: 15 x 20 5/8 inches. An attractive certificate with a large view of Governor's Island from Manhattan. To the left, the tallest building is the Sailor's Home, a hostel which opened in May 1842 at 190 Cherry Street, New York City. At dock across the street from the hostel is the "Wesleyan Floating Bethel" - in effect a floating mission,, dedicated in November 1844 (Rev. Hedstrom... more information

London: published by Thomas M'Lean, Howlett & Brimmer printers, 1818 [plates watermarked 1823]. Folio. (14 x 10 inches). Hand-coloured stipple- engraved portrait frontispiece of Antonaki Ramadani by Thomas Charles Wageman, engraved additional title printed in sepia with integral hand- coloured aquatint vignette, 29 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind, spine in six compartments with semi-raised bands, lettered in gilt... more information

London: Published by Tho. Jefferys at the Corner of St. Martins Lane, Oct. 1, 1755. Engraving beautifully hand-coloured. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 11 3/4 x 19 inches. 13 1/4 x 19 7/8 inches. 17 x 23 3/8 inches. A sweeping view of Lord Harrington's wood at Petersham, by the eminent engraver Anthony Walker after a drawing by Jean Baptiste Chatelain. This arresting view of Lord Harrington's wood at Petersham, is one of the most desirable engravings by Anthony Walker af... more information

Keene, N.H.: Printed at the Sentinel Press, By the Author, 1816. 12mo. 143pp. (Overall light toning, corners somehwat rounded). Bound to style in blue/grey paper-covered boards, cream paper backstrip, with paper labelpaper boards with paper spine and label. Minor foxing and soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Very good. One of the best primary sources on Tippecanoe and Detroit, with an account of Col. Ball's fight on the Sandusky River, and other events in the campaign against... more information

London: Published by James Walker, No. 49 Upper Mary Le Bone Street, May 10 1784. Mezzotint. State i/ii before the addition of the title and with imprint dated 10 May 1784. In fair condition with the exception of being trimmed just outside the plate mark. Image slightly rubbed. Crease running along left margin. Bent crease in bottom right corner. Small tear in bottom right edge. Light crease running across middle of image. Image size: 18 x 14 inches. 19 15/16 x 14 inches. 20 1/8 x 14 1/4 inches. A striking... more information

London: William H Allen & Co, 1850. Steel-engraved map, southern sheet only (of 2). Good condition. 26 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches. The southern-most sheet of an engraved sea chart (issued in two sheets) of the coast of China from the Canton River to just north of the mouth of the River Min, with insets of the River Min to Fow-Chow-foo; Mouth of the Yung-Kiang; Mouth of the River Woo-Sung; Killon Harbour and Merope Bay; and River Woo- Sung to Shang-Hae. With latitude and longitude scales, compass roses, sound... more information

London, Paris & Strassburg: 1829-1832. Hand-coloured lithograph by M. Gauci, printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 18 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches. 20 3/4 x 14 inches. A finely detailed plate from Wallich's 'Plantae Asiaticae Rariores', a rare scholarly work on the most exotic trees and plants from the tropical zone. A renowned Danish physician, botanist, and plant explorer, Nathaniel Wallich travelled to Nepal, Western Hindostan, Av... more information

London, Paris & Strassburg: 1829-1832. Hand-coloured lithograph by M. Gauci, printed by Engelmann & Co. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. 18 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. 20 3/4 x 14 inches. A finely detailed plate from Wallich's 'Plantae Asiaticae Rariores', a rare scholarly work on the most exotic trees and plants from the tropical zone. A renowned Danish physician, botanist, and plant explorer, Nathaniel Wallich travelled to Nepal, Western Hindostan, Ava and Lower Burm... more information

London, Paris & Strassburg: 1829-1832. Hand-coloured lithograph by M. Gauci, printed by Engelmann & Co. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and very light foxing. 20 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches. 20 7/8 x 14 inches. A finely detailed plate from Wallich's 'Plantae Asiaticae Rariores', a rare scholarly work on the most exotic trees and plants from the tropical zone. A renowned Danish physician, botanist, and plant explorer, Nathaniel Wallich travelled to Nepal, Western Hindos... more information

Boston: Smith & Bumstead, 1858. Lithographic wall map with full period color, 59 x 61½ inches. Expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in burgundy cloth, and on contemporary rollers. Very good condition.. A large, lovely, and brightly colored wall map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located just east of Boston and including Charlestown, Cambridge, Somerville, Lexington, and Concord In 1850, Henry F. Walling began the most comprehensive survey of Massachusetts towns that had ever... more information

Kingston, Canada West: Putnam & Walling Publishers, 1860. Lithographed map, full original hand-colouring, folding in 36 sections, backed onto linen at a contemporary date, edged with green silk ribbon. (61 1/4 x 62 inches). A fine large-scale map of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Counties in Canada, including a large view of the city of Kingston. Ristow devotes an entire chapter to the work of Henry Walling in American Maps and Mapmakers (pp. 327-338.), noting that Walling, along with Robert Pearsall ... more information

London: published by F.J. Sargent, 6 August 1810. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by F.J. Sargent after J. Walmsley, backed onto early card mount. 19 1/4 x 25 3/4 inches. 28 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches. A highly atmospheric and almost lyrical view of `a place of retirement and peace' (Dorothy Wordsworth) Firmly in the 'picturesque' school of painters, Walmsley here shows an early summer morning on Loch Dochart, in Perthshire, Scotland: two travellers make an early start and the mist is still to be bur... more information

London: Published at R. Dodson's, Fine Art Gallery, 147, Strand, 1 November 1887. Aquatint engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 8 1/4 x 13 7/8 inches. 15 3/4 x 19 5/8 inches. A fine image from the celebrated suite of racing prints entitled, 'Dodson's Racing Incidents'. All four of the prints in the series were from paintings by Thomas Walsh, a prolific artist about whom little is known. He worked mainly in watercolour... more information

London: Published at R. Dodson's, Fine Art Gallery, 147, Strand, 1 November 1887. Aquatint engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 8 1/4 x 13 7/8 inches. 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches. A fine image from the celebrated suite of racing prints entitled, 'Dodson's Racing Incidents'. All four of the prints in the series were from paintings by Thomas Walsh, a prolific artist about whom little is known. He worked mainly in watercolour... more information

London: R. Ackermann, 1840. Aquatint, hand-colored, by R.G. & A.W. Reeve. 22 5/8 x 28 1/2 inches. The Great Western, creation of legendary engineer Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was the first ship to be designed to carry enough coal, specifically to steam across the Atlantic. She set off on her maiden voyage from Bristol in April 1838, apparently unaware that the Sirius, a smaller ship from a rival company, had left Cork three days earlier on the same run. The Sirius arrived in New York on the morning... more information

London: M & N Hanhart, circa 1864. Hand-coloured lithograph, heightened by touches of gum arabic. Very good condition. 8 x 11 1/8 inches. 11 1/8 x 15 inches. Most likely from Bowler's "Pictorial Album of Cape Town," this plate depicts a scenic view of the St. Andrew Church, otherwise known as "The Scotch Church," on Somerset Road in Cape Town. St. Andrew's was one of the first Presbyterian churches established in Cape Town and one of the first institutions to use natural gas... more information

London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann and Rodwell & Martin and printed by Charles Hullmandell, 20 April 1823. Lithograph. State iii/iii. In good condition with the exception of some skillfully rendered repairs in the margins. 13 1/4 x 17 5/8 inches. 19 x 23 1/2 inches. A striking print of the Duke of Grafton's horse Primrose, by the celebrated animal painter James Ward. This is a marvelous print of the Duke of Grafton's horse Primrose with her foal, from a series of 14 throughbred horses exec... more information

London: Published by James Ward, No. 6 Newman Street, Jan. 2, 1804. Mezzotint. Proof before letters. Possibly state i-vii/ix, Chaloner Smith notes that there are six progress proofs, and one finished proof before inscription in the British Museum. Without comparison it is impossible to note which state this print is. In excellent condition with the exception of some light foxing in the margins. Laid onto contemporary backing sheet with rubbed crease in upper left corner. Image size: 25 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches.... more information

Thomas Milton (Dublin) and J. James Barralet (London), June 4, 1787. Mezzotint, with hand-coloring, after J. James Barralet (1747-1815). 19½ x 24 inches. Practical ballooning, in which humans could be airborne by means of a balloon, and permitted to descend to earth again, dates from the successful attempts of the Montgolfier Brothers in late 1782. Advances followed fast, and by early 1785 Blanchard and Jeffries crossed the English Channel. A few months later, Richard MacGwire attempted to top that ... more information