Donald Heald Rare Books, Prints and Maps

Donald Heald Rare Books, Prints and Maps Antiquarian books, prints, maps and rare manuscripts We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, where Mr. Mr.

Donald Heald Rare Books, Prints & Maps offers the finest examples of eighteenth and nineteenth century books and prints in the areas of Botany, Ornithology, Natural History, Americana & Canadiana, Native Americans, Voyages & Travels, Maps & Atlases, and Sporting. Founded in England in 1972, we have for the past 40 years formed and contributed to important private, institutional and corporate colle

ctions. Items of note which we have placed include a unique copy of Abbot’s Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia with plates on vellum, an extremely rare extra-illustrated large paper Spanish edition of Blaeu’s Atlas Mayor, a 1613 Besler Hortus Eystettensis; and a large paper issue of Redouté Les Roses with the plates in two states. We are renowned for our extensive print inventory which is unsurpassed in quality: an acknowledgement of this came from an unexpected source when examples from our stock were photographed and included as illustrations in what is now one of the most important reference works on botanical books, Great Flower Books, published in 1990. The Sporting collection recently incorporated the complete print stock of Ackermann & Son of London, established in 1783. Heald has served on the Board of Governors as Treasurer, and Security Chairperson. We are members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, International Fine Print Dealers Association, and American Historical Print Collectors Society. Heald is a member of the Grolier Club, and the American Antiquarian Society.

Bruce McKinney speaks to the important role antiquarian booksellers play in advising collectors in the formation of priv...
09/01/2012

Bruce McKinney speaks to the important role antiquarian booksellers play in advising collectors in the formation of private libraries.

Online magazine for those who collect or trade in rare and antiquarian books and ephemera.

Heidi Mitchell’s interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the revival of libraries in private homes.
06/27/2012

Heidi Mitchell’s interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the revival of libraries in private homes.

Old-School Reading Rooms Stage Grand Return; No Books? Firms Will Pick, Style

Canada's most important business news network interviewed Donald Heald to discuss the sale of Audubon's Birds of America...
06/26/2012

Canada's most important business news network interviewed Donald Heald to discuss the sale of Audubon's Birds of America on January 20, 2012.

Business Day puts a spotlight on the stocks and stories expected to move the markets, then switches to minute-by-minute coverage throughout the trading day in Canada and the U.S. Marty Cej, Frances Horodelski, and Kim Parlee along with BNN's team of reporters and expert guests provide comprehensive ...

We just dug up this old video on C-SPAN of Donald being interviewed in 2004 at the Antiquarian Book Fair in New York.
06/04/2012

We just dug up this old video on C-SPAN of Donald being interviewed in 2004 at the Antiquarian Book Fair in New York.

At the New York Antiquarian Book Fair Mr. Heald was interviewed about the eighteenth and nineteenth century illustrated books and prints with which he deals.

06/04/2012

Nice piece in Forbes that came out in January 2012 just before Christie's big Audubon sale that quotes Donald Heald.

"American Flamingo" (Audubon/Christie's Images, Ltd., 2012) Here’s a book you can’t purchase for your iPad or Kindle reader: a rare first edition of John James Audubon’s illustrated Birds of America, which will be auctioned off next Friday (Jan. 20) at Christie’s in New York. The four...

Donald Heald at the fair in London in front of his stand.
05/26/2012

Donald Heald at the fair in London in front of his stand.

Today is the last day of the London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia. Here is a photo of our stand.
05/26/2012

Today is the last day of the London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia. Here is a photo of our stand.

05/23/2012

Please download our catalogue of the 50 books we will show at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia opening tomorrow at 3pm.

Please come to the opening tomorrow to see our Blaeu atlas, an outstanding extra-illustrated copy of "Atlas Major" compr...
05/23/2012

Please come to the opening tomorrow to see our Blaeu atlas, an outstanding extra-illustrated copy of "Atlas Major" comprising maps of Spain, Africa and the Americas: a sumptuously coloured copy with the maps heightened in gold.

An outstanding extra-illustrated copy of the volume of Blaeu's "Atlas Major" comprising maps of Spain, Africa and the Americas: a sumptuously coloured copy with the maps heightened in gold. The present volume is presented in three distinct parts. The additional Visscher maps - general maps of Spain,...

We are offering the first of Humphry Repton's three great works on landscape gardening published in 1794 at Olympia Book...
05/18/2012

We are offering the first of Humphry Repton's three great works on landscape gardening published in 1794 at Olympia Book Fair in London next week!

Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co., sold by J. & J. Boydell and G. Nicol 1794

We are bringing a very rare album of 24 views of India by James Moffatt published in Calcutta in 1804 - the greatest ser...
05/16/2012

We are bringing a very rare album of 24 views of India by James Moffatt published in Calcutta in 1804 - the greatest series of aquatint views ever printed in India. Visit our stand in London next week at the Olympia Book Fair.

A fine and very rare album of Moffat's highly important views of India. In its entirety, this album represents the greatest series of aquatint views ever printed in India. We have occasionally been able to offer individual prints by James Moffat, but this is the first album that we have ever encount...

Come to our stand at Olympia to see our fine set of Redouté Roses published in Paris in 1853 containing the 23 additiona...
05/15/2012

Come to our stand at Olympia to see our fine set of Redouté Roses published in Paris in 1853 containing the 23 additional plates, portraits and frontispiece floral wreath, the biographical note on Thory and additional text.

A very fine set of Redouté's best known work. The "most complete edition" (Madol) to be published during his lifetime, this is a re-issue of the second octavo edition, with the addition of St. Petersburg to the imprint, and containing the 23 additional plates, the portraits and the frontispiece flor...

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