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 t... more information

Boston: c.1953. Tempera on paper. Initialled "R.S.W.", no date. Mounted circular label, lower right. 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Framed. Handsome 1950's sports car design All of our present information about this drawing comes from a label on the back of the piece, which indicates that it comes from the archives of the A.J. White Motor Vehicle Research Company - designers of exotic cars in the Boston, MA area. We have not discovered any further information about the A. J. White Research Company ... 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. Hedstro... more information

London: published by Thomas M'Lean, Howlett & Brimmer printers, 1818 [plates watermarked 1823]. Folio. (14 1/8 x 10 1/4 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 panelled in gilt and blind, expertly rebacked to style with the spine in six compartmen... more information

circa 1840. Mezzotint. Printed on wove paper laid onto wove backing sheet. In good condition with the exception of being trimmed within the plate mark and laid onto backing sheet. Image size: 22 3/8 x 17 inches. 28 5/8 x 20 3/8 inches. A handsome portrait of William White, the first American Bishop and one of the founding members of the Episcopalian church in America. William White (1748-1836) was born in Philadelphia . He traveled to England in 1770 to be ordained in the Church of England, becoming the ... 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 a... 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 strikin... 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: printed for D.Browne, W. Mears and G. Strahan, 1720. Octavo. (7 1/2 x 4 11/16 inches). Contemporary speckled calf, covers with single gilt fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, brown morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment. The fine Francke/Macclesfield copy of this first-hand record of an ill-fated New England-inspired attempt to unseat the French in Canada, written by the chief protagonist "Walker presents a defense of his unfortunate 1711 expedition against ... 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, A... 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 Bur... 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 Hindo... more information

London, Paris & Strassburg: Richard Taylor for Treuttel & Würtz, Treuttel jun. & Richter, [1829-]1830-1832. 3 volumes bound from the 12 original parts, folio. (21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches). Half-titles to vols.I and III (as issued), 3pp. list of 160 names subscribing for 225 copies. 294 fine hand-coloured plates (comprising: 293 lithographs drawn on stone by Maxim Gauci [1 folding and numbered '222-223'] after Vishnupersaud [114], Gorachand [87], Charles M. Curtis [7], William Griffith... 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 eve... 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 bu... 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 watercolou... 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 watercolou... 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 mornin... more information

London: J.R.Smith, 6 March 1780. Mezzotint by John Raphael Smith. 18 3/16 x 13 3/4 inches. 25 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches. A very fine impression of this charming image: the central figure is said to be a self-portrait of the artist. The original painting was exhibited originally at the Royal Academy in 1779, where it was titled 'A group of figures with a fruit barrow'. The original is now in the collection of Sir Reresby Sitwell and is also known as 'The Cherry Barrow'. 1779 proved to be the last... 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 ga... more information