Search Results: Titles starting with F from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. John Donald. Edinburgh. 1989. 147pp. Photo illus in colour and monochrome. Original cloth, in original dust wrapper. Vgc.

William Blackwood in association with the National Trust for Scotland. Edinburgh. 1983. 4to. 86pp. Monochrome photo illus. Original laminated paper covers. Slightly bumped to corners.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. nd. [c.1906]. 8.5cm x 14cm. Postcard advertising the publication of "The most significant book on the subject since Nansen's" Printed in dark green. Unused.

Final Search for the Jeannette Arctic Expedition in Siberia. Illustrated London News. October 7th 1882. Double page folding plate, with article to verso. Partially split to fold.

First edition. G. Bell & Sons. London. 1931. Octavo. 688pp. Frontispiece portrait, 8 further plates. 2 large folding coloured maps. Original light green cloth, gilt to spine. Some mottling to upper edge of lower board. Small ink spots to p.539. A nice firm copy with no tears or misfolds to the maps.
Salmon, Charles Edgar (1872-1930) This work was published posthumously the year after his death, being completed by W. H. Pearsall who contributed the preface. Salmon's herbarium was bequeathed to the British Museum.
This copy was from the private collection of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

First edition. T. Buncle & Co. Arbroath. 1945. Octavo. 62pp. Frontispiece, 5 further plates. Large folding map. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. Map endpapers. Occasional light toning (war paper), a nice copy.Campbell writes, "By July final plans were made and the party completed: Messrs A. J. Wilmott, E. B. Bangerter and J. A. Crabbe from the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History), Mr C. V. B. Marquand, late of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and myself".
One of a number of floras currently being catalogued, formerly from the private library of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

Flora of Guernsey and the Lesser Channel Islands: namely, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and the adjacent islets. First edition. Dulau & Co. London. 1901. Octavo. viii, 501pp. 5 coloured maps: The Islands; Guernsey (folding); Alderney; Sark; Herm. Original cloth, gilt to spine. Edges untrimmed. Partially unopened. Some foxing/toning to endpapers, otherwise a bright copy.Ernest David Marquand (1848–1918)
One of a number of floras currently being catalogued, formerly from the private library of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

First edition. Privately printed by T. Buncle & Co. Ltd. Arbroath. To be obtained from the Author, Albert Wilson, Tir-y-Coed, Ro Wen, Conway. 1938. Octavo. (3), 413pp. Frontispiece, 36 further photo-plates. Colour map of Westmorland to rear pocket (with tapered margin as published). Original green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Some occasional light foxing to endpapers and verso of map. A nice copy.
ALBERT WILSON (1862-1949)
This copy was from the private collection of of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

First edition. Privately printed for the Authors by V. T. Sumfield, Station Street, Eastbourne. 1907. Octavo. (2), 511pp. Tissue guarded fontispiece, 14 further plates. Folding coloured map to rear. Original green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Ink spot to lower margin of the title page. Some rubbing and wear to extremeties. Occasional light foxing, mainly to endpapers and verso of the map. Occasional unobtrusive marginal pencil notation. Signature of J. H. Davies to ffep in pencil.
JAMES ALFRED WHELDON MSC, ALS, ISM (1862 - 1924) His herbarium specimens are at The National Museum of Wales.
ALBERT WILSON FLS, FR MET. SOC. (1862-1949)
This copy was from the private collection of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

First edition. W. Meals and Company. Carlisle. 1898. Octavo. xxxvi, 398pp. Folding map, a little creased and sunned to the fore-edge, geological map. Original cloth, gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Occasional spotting, light toning to endpapers. A couple of light marks to boards, lightly bumped to corners. Occasional marginal plant-hunting and botanical notes in an unknown hand, with dates (1920's) and locations.This copy was from the private collection of of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

First edition. William Pamplin. London. 1862. Octavo. l, 469pp. Four hand coloured plates, crisp and bright. Map, split to folds and incomplete, in tape repaired pocket to fep. Original green embossed cloth, gilt to spine. Ink splash to upper board, foredge and lower edge. Faded to spine, a well used copy with some neat annotation and underlining by its previous owners: Ownership ink stamp Ex Libris F. Townsend to half title upper margin. Signature of Robert Paulson to ffep.Robert Paulson (1857-1935) F.L.S. Mycologist, lichenologist, botanist. President of the Essex Field Club. Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society. British Mycological Society. Contributed to lichenology collections from Mount Everest and Spitzbergen. Contributer to Essex Nat.; Proceedings of the Linnean Society; Lichenology of the British Isles; the Lichenologist. Herbarium at British Museum Natural History.
One of a number of floras currently being catalogued, originating from the private library of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
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First edition. Published for the Folk-Lore Society by Elliot Stock. London. 1883. Octavo. 11, (1), 228pp. Blue cloth, gilt to spine, faded. Short splits to joints at head of spine. Rubbed to extremities. Occasional light spotting.
William George Black CBE, FSA (1857 – 1932) Scottish antiquary, lawyer and politician. This is the authoritative English work on medical folklore. Publication of the Folk Lore Society XII.

George Routledge and Sons. c. 1905. Octavo. ix, 109, (1)pp. Numerous monochrome plates, two coloured litho plates, lacking frontispiece. Coloured folding plan "Section of a Cocoa Factory", Coloured folding chart of "Cocoa Producing Countries", coloured folding map of Trinidad. Original green pictorial boards, spotted and rubbed to extremeties. Signature to fep.
The natural history of cocoa, its growth and cultivation, its sources and varieties, and its manufacture, with a well illustrated section relating to Bourneville.

Seeley Service & Co. London. nd [1947]. 367, (1)pp. Photo frontis., photo plates. Original cloth, gilt to spine and cover motif. Slight mottling to boards. Upper hinge cracked but firm. Publishers ads at front.

First edition. John Murray. London. 1952. Octavo. xi, 391pp. Frontispiece, 12 further monochrome plates, 4 maps. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, in a protective wrapper, a few small edge chips, slightly sunned to rear of wrapper. No inscriptions. Sir Francis Younghusband 1863-1942. Soldier, explorer, geographer, naturalist, diplomat, philosopher and mystic.Two achievements of Sir Francis Younghusband capture the imagination: "one, his penetration as a youth of the Continent of Asia from East to West by an unknown route, immediately followed by his crossing of the Himalayas by an unknown pass; the other, his expedition through Tibet to Lhasa.". This volume provides an carefully woven biography told through the journals, correspondence, manuscripts etc provided by Younghusband's daughter, by the eminent biographer, George Seaver (1896-1976)

First English edition. W. Swan Sonneschein and Co. London. 1885. Royal Octavo. xix, 428pp. Engraved frontis., Folding map, numerous further engraved plates. Original blue decorative cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Top edge untrimmed. Partially unopened. Reinforcement to verso map fold. Minor shelf wear. Armorial bookplate of Clarence Adams "Vita sine litteris mors est". A bright copy.

First edition. Belfast Naturalists Field Club. Belfast. Macmillan and Bowes. Cambridge. 1888. xxxiii, (2), 331pp. Original decorative cloth, gilt lettering and motif of Rosa Hibernica to the upper board. Slight wear to corners. Ownership signatures of Mortimer and Robson, Woodside, Helen's Bay, to ffep. Published after the tragic death of Thomas Hughes Corry age 23, drowned on Lough Gill in 1883 while carrying out a botanical exploration. The details are outlined in the preface by Samuel Stewart.(One of a number of floras currently being catalogued originating from the private library of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay)

First edition. J. Johnson & T. Cadell. 1778. Octavo. (6), xliv, (1), 428pp. Later half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments, with leather labels and gilt and blind embellishment. New endpapers. Edges a little darkened to the introduction. Short closed tear to xvii, small corner loss to xix. A crisp and bright copy. Lengthy and handsomely hand-written note to ffep, presented by the Revd. J. Cockin, May 1839.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) British Enlightenment polymath. Scientist, theologian, philosopher he was the first to identify oxygen and other core gases. He invented soda water. In 1794 he emigrated to Pennsylvania where was befriended by Thomas Jefferson as 'one of the few lives precious to mankind'. His achievements have only recently begun to be acknowledged. His metaphysical works influenced Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer. Priestley saw matter as the manifestation of spiritual force.
Price, Richard (1723–1791) FRS, philosopher, demographer, and political… Read More