Donald Heald Rare Books, Prints and Maps

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

AE Monthly - the Magazine for Book Collectors & Booksellers 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.

A House to Look Smart In 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 on January 20, 2012.

Business Day : 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.

Antiquarian Book Fair Interview - C-SPAN Video Library 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.

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

World's Most Expensive Book To Be Auctioned In New York; Estimated $7-10M - Forbes "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.

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

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

Donald Heald Original Antique Books Prints and Maps - Catalogues

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.

Antiquarian Books - BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673) - Atlas Major, in Dutch, volume VIII, Spain, Africa and t 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 Fair in London next week!

Antiquarian Books - REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818) - Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. - The. 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 series of aquatint views ever printed in India. Visit our stand in London next week at the Olympia Book Fair.

Antiquarian Books - MOFFATT, James (1775-1815) - [An album of twenty four views in India] - The Lond 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 additional plates, portraits and frontispiece floral wreath, the biographical note on Thory and additional text.

Antiquarian Books - REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph & Claude-Antoine THORY - Les Roses - The London Internati 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...