Topographical Views from Donald Heald Rare Books

London: Published by White and Co, 1810. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving. Very good condition apart from several tiny nicks at the edges of the sheet and a skillfully repaired loss and 1/4" tear in the top right corner and bottom margin respectively. A picturesque view of the torrential falls of the River Ryhdol, near Hafod House from "Tour to Hafod,"… Read more about this item

London: Published by White and Co, 1810. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving. Very good condition apart from some overall light foxing in the margins. A picturesque view of the Pyran falls near Hafod House from "Tour to Hafod," a fine collection of plates depicting the mansion and its surrounding landscape engraved by Stadler after drawings by Smith. In his text, J.… Read more about this item

London: Published by White and Co, 1810. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving. Very good condition apart from a 2 1/2" loss in the top right corner, several small tears at the edges of the sheet, and a few skillfully repaired tears in the margins. A picturesque view of the lowest cascade of the great fall of the Fynnach, "one of the… Read more about this item

1798. Watercolor. Painted on watermarked laid wove paper. Watermarked with a Russell & Co, 1798 watermark. In excellent condition, with the exception of a number of tiny tears along the edges of the sheet. A crease along the left top corner of sheet. Right margin is creased outside image. A beautiful watercolor depicting a lively port with ships in… Read more about this item

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482. Two volumes in one. 4to. (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Sixth edition. A-F8. 48 ff. 96 pp. 30 lines per page. Cosmographia: 1-29 ff. De situ orbis: 30-48 ff. Full-page woodcut map of the world on a Ptolemaic cone-shaped projection with architectural border and letterpress text. Woodcut and floriated initials. Rubricated throughout. Gothic letter… Read more about this item

Frankfurt, 1654. Folio. (13 x 7 3/4 inches). 220, [10] pp., complete with engraved title and 137 total plates. Half calf over marbled paper boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece. Patterned endpapers. First edition of Merian's most comprehensive topography This meticulously crafted volume, published in Frankfurt in 1654, stands as the most extensive and lavishly illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. Hand-coloured aquatint by Robert Havell & Son, after Fraser. A fine example of a view taken during the first recorded journey by Europeans through the Himalayas. In 1815, following the end of the war with Nepal, Fraser and his brother William, a political agent, spent two months on a tour of the Himalayas.… Read more about this item

London: Vanity Fair, 1878. Lithographic transfer in sepia ink. Printed on laid paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 11 x 6 1/8 inches. A beautiful view of St. James's Street in London by the celebrated artist James McNiell Whistler, published in "Vanity Fair" in 1878. This important print is a view of St. James's Street in London by… Read more about this item

[London], 1839. Lithograph by Shotter Boys. Printed in colours, by Charles Hullmandel. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and a few faint pencil marks in the lower right-hand corner. A very fine image from Boys' 'Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen &c': ''a work of exceeding beauty' (Abbey) and one of the most important in… Read more about this item

[London: T. Boys, 1842. Hand-coloured lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys, printed by Charles Hullmandel. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. A very fine image from Boys' 'London As It Is': a work 'of considerable importance' (Abbey). Abbey writes of the work London As It Is from which this beautiful image comes: apart "from the beauty… Read more about this item

London: Rodwell & Martin, 1802. Hand-coloured aquatint by Robert Havell & Son, after Fraser. Small repair to lower blank margin. A fine example of a view taken during the first recorded journey by Europeans through the Himalayas. On 18 June 1815 Fraser and his brother William reached Urshalun, near to where the Nepalese General Kirti Rana had surrendered. Three… Read more about this item

London: William Miller, 1809. Hand-colored aquatint by R. Havell. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches. In this large panoramic view, Salt demonstrates the appropriateness of the sobriquet, "City of a Thousand Minarets". In the foreground is the great Sultan Hussan Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Cairo. As we look through the streets towards the distant… Read more about this item

London: Published by John Boydell at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand, 1750. Engraving with hand-colour.Very good condition with the exception of some light soiling in the margins and minor creasing at the sheet edges. A striking view of Penmaen Mawr in Northern Wales, from Boydell's series of plates "Collection of One Hundred Views in England and… Read more about this item

[London: Day & Son, 1849. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe, coloured by hand, mounted on card in imitation of a watercolour (as issued). In pristine condition. A fine example from the deluxe issue of David Roberts' monumental works on the Middle East: 'The Holy Land' and 'Egypt & Nubia', considered the greatest lithographically illustrated works issued in the 19th… Read more about this item

1770. Hand-coloured engraving. Title is inscribed in a contemporary hand on verso of sheet. In excellent condition. Trimmed as usual and mounted on washline background. Mounting sheet is watermarked laid paper. Image size: 13 15/16 x 20 1/16 inches. A wonderful romantic view in the grand tradition of the picturesque English landscape. Towards the middle of the eighteenth… Read more about this item

Ulm, Germany: Lienhart Holle, 1482. Map. Double-page woodcut map with fine original hand-coloring and Latin place names in letterpress type printed. Carved gold leaf frame with Amiran anti-reflective archival glass with UV protection. Scale: c.1:4,000,000. Sheet: 16 1/2 x 22 inches). Frame: (25 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches). This is the earliest obtainable map of India. A magnificent incunable… Read more about this item

London: Thomas McLean, 1818. Aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Robert & D. Havell. Very good condition apart from some slight discolouration of the paper due to age. A fine image from the very rare first edition of Havell's "A Series of Picturesque Views of the River Thames," one of the greatest English colour-plate view books… Read more about this item

[Denver, 1880. Mounted albumen photograph, on period card mount measuring 22 x 18 inches. Image size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. Light horizontal crease through the image. An image which helped create Yellowstone National Park. Jackson began his career in photography in 1858, working as a retouching artist in a studio in Troy, N.Y. In the 1860s,… Read more about this item

Ulm, Germany: Lienhart Holle, 1482. Map. Double-page woodcut map with fine original hand-coloring and Latin place names in letterpress. Carved gold leaf frame with Amiran anti-reflective archival glass with UV protection. Scale: c.1:4,000,000. Sheet: (15 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches). Frame: (25 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches). A beautiful incunable map of Western Europe from the 1482 Ulm edition… Read more about this item

[London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1784. Etched and engraved by T. Cook after a drawing by Webber. Image size: 10 1/4 x 7 inches. John Webber, R.A. was born in London of Swiss parents. He was the draughtsman on Captain Cook's third and final voyage to the South Seas. In this intriguing portrait, Webber depicted the strange ritual… Read more about this item