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

William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1871. Octavo. 4 (ads), lxvi, 321, 16 (ads)pp. Original green decorative cloth, gilt, bevelled edges. Rubbed and worn to extremities. Hinges cracked, but firm. Pages untrimmed, occasional spotting.
William Sutherland (1833-1920) Scottish horticulturalist (Herbaceous) at Kew, Florence Court and Minto Roxburghshire, home of the Earl of Minto (subject of the conservation scandal of 1992). Correspondence held at Sissinghurst.
Provenance: Signature of "J Fraser Kew" to ffep and following page. John Fraser (1854-1935) FLS, VMH, Scottish horticulturalist and expert on the genus Mentha and Salix, RHS Chiswick 1880-1882, Kew 1882-86 & 1897-1909; editor of Gardener's World Magazine.

Eighteenth edition. John Murray. 1892. Octavo. viii, 2pp additions and corrections dated 1894, (2)pp addendum dated 1893, Great Eastern Railway, 420pp, xlv index, Murray's Handbook Advertiser, 1894-1895, 60pp. 16 maps and plans, including the additional 3 maps engraved in 1893. Turquoise endpapers with publisher's ads. Light pencil signature to upper margin of title. Occasional spotting. Original red cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. A little faded and spotted to spine. Corners slightly rubbed. All maps and plans are crisp with no misfolding.

Handwritten letter, Gosport, November 9th 1818. 23cm x 33.5cm. 2pp. Folded: 23cm x 18.5cm + 23cm x 15cm, with address and wax seal to verso. Short closed tear to fold. Corners creased. To Dr Patrick Kelly, Finsbury Square, London. Regarding the death on October 28th of Thomas Simpson Evans LLD FLS (1777-1818) aged 41, Mathematician, formerly Assistant Astronomer Royal to Dr Maskelyne. 'His library was considered one of the most valuable collections of mathematical and philosophical works in the kingdom.' ODNB
Dr. William Burney (1762 – 1832) Burney's Academy for the Education of Young Gentlemen Destined for the Navy, Army, and the East India Company's Service was founded in 1791. It would later become the Royal Naval Academy, under the patronage of William IV, Queen Victoria, and King Edward VII, educating members of the royal family through the 19th century. Author of 'The naval heroes of Great Britain', 1806; 'The British Neptune: or, a history of the achievements of the Royal Navy, from the… Read More

Handwritten letter, in the original envelope, franked Foreign Office. 6.45pm 21 August 23. 19cm x 12.5cm. 4pp.
Foreign Office 1 Carlton House Terrace S.W.1. August 19 1923 to The Editor, Bengal Past and Present, Calcutta Historical Society, Town Hall, Calcutta.
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), politician, traveller, and viceroy of India. At the time of writing, he was Foreign Secretary. In January 1924, Curzon vacated the Foreign Office and he was able to devote much of 1924 to completing one of his finest books, a study of Calcutta and the viceroys which was posthumously published under the title British Government in India; the work mentioned in this letter.
Sir Evan Cotton
(1868-1939) Liberal politician, barrister, administrator, journalist, historian and writer. His Calcutta Old and New, first published in 1909, remains unsurpassed to this day. He was the son of Henry Cotton (Liberal MP) the author of 'New India, or India in Transition' who opposed Curzon's… Read More

"Happy Christmas to you and have a good time" 11.5 x 16.5 cm (26 x 18 cm mounted). Original etching, signed by the artist. Further signature to inner mount. The etching illustrates two chefs preparing food.Fritz Gross (1895 -1969) Architect and artist, the instigator of open plan design, born in Brelitz, an Austrian Jew who fled to England with his family in 1938 at the invitation of the President of the Royal Institution of British Architects. The Fritz Gross collection is housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

First edition. Williams and Norgate. London. 1927. Large Quarto. xxiv, 55pp. 8 colour plates, 64 half-tone plates. Original red cloth, gilt to spine and board. A little faded and rubbed. Pages untrimmed. Toned to endpapers. Pencil inscription to ffep: "With my best wishes Elizabeth".

Christmas 1930. Favil Press (No. 110). Folded sheet. 24cm x 30cm. Mummer's song. Musical notation, text and coloured woodcut. Handwritten conundrum to verso. Toned, untrimmed. John Ormerod Greenwood (1907-1989) Actor, author, playwright, producer and Quaker historian. Founder member of the Group Theatre of London.

First edition. Frederick A. Praeger. New York. Washington. 1969. Octavo. xii, (1), 423pp. 31 maps (2 folding - one coloured). Original green cloth, a little spotted, gilt to spine. In the original dust wrapper slightly chipped at edges and corners. A nice crisp bright copy with no inscriptions.Dorothy Woodman (1902-1970) Journalist, writer and activist, "vegetarian, pacifist, and dynamic revolutionist" [Louis Fischer]

Fisher, Son & Co., The Caxton Press, Angel Street, St. Martin's-Le-Grand, London. [1845-47] Two volumes. Quarto. First editions. 128pp. Engraved half title, engraved frontispiece plate, 50 further engraved plates; Engraved half title, engraved frontispiece plate, 47 further engraved plates, 104pp. The 99 plates are by Turner, Stanfield, Prout, Cattermole, Roberts and Allom. Contemporary half maroon morocco, spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt double rule emphasis and gilt lettering. Marbled boards. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Silk bookmarks. Some variable spotting/foxing. A very attractive set.
Provenance: Armorial book plate of Fothergill to fep of each volume.

Svmptibvs Samvelis Crispini. [Samuel Crispin]. Coloniae Allobrogvm. [Geneva] 1615. Folio. Title page in red and black. Engraved device depicting Fama to title page. [34], 746, [160], [8], 116, 3-29pp. Pages 2 and 27 incorrectly numbered 116 and 23, pagination complying with the Kew copy. Main body of text printed in double columns, with marginal printed notation. Head and tail pieces, historiated initials. Imprint date uses turned Cs. Running title: C. Plinii Secvndi Natvral Hist. Half calf, spine in seven compartments with leather label, renewed at a later date, retaining earlier marbled boards. Reinforced to hinges with linen. Some spotting, foxing, offsetting etc. A few minor dog-ears. Historic annotation in a neat hand to Lib. VI p.102 "These numbers are doubtless transposed" & to Lib. XXXIII p.653 "Ante de diminuum". A notably significant volume.
PROVENANCE
Early Inscriptions to Title Page:
D. Laurentius Strange
Charmay [indecipherable] [indecipherable] (written at an angle)
Bookplates to… Read More

Printed for C. C. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row and J. Edwards, Pall Mall. London. 1798. Quarto. 149pp. (103-252). Engraved frontispiece portrait. Two further large folding engraved plates. Occasional spotting, some foxing to the plates. Some small dogears to lower corner. Extracted from the larger work: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. Lacking boards, frontispiece plate loose, remainder firmly stitched, with remaining worn spine strip.Including: Supplement to the Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III. A Reply to the Observations of the Rev. Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, and President of the Society of Antiquities, On The Wardrobe Account of 1483, &c. Printed at the end of Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1770.Short Observations on The Remarks of the Rev. Mr. Masters, on the Historic Doubts, published in the second volume of the… Read More

The History of Dundee; being an account of the origin and progress of the burgh from the earliest period; embracing a description of its antiquities, topography, public works and buildings, manufacture and commerce, municipal, educational, and charitable institutions, with biographical sketches of eminent men. A new and enlarged edition of the work, published in 1847, by James Thomson. John Durham and Son. Dundee. 1874. Royal 8vo. xvi, 419, (1), xxxiii, 8pp. Folding map frontispiece, further illus. by the author. Original publisher's red cloth, with the Dundee crest in gilt to upper board, gilt lettering to spine. Some rubbing and shelf wear, corners bumped, fraying to head and tail of spine. Hinges cracked but pretty firm. Spotting to title page. Small dot of red sealing wax to rep. Map carefully reinforced to edges and fold. Includes the subscribers list.

Two volumes. First editions. s.n. London. 1705. s.n. London. 1707. Small quartos. (22), 544, (8)pp; (10), 549, (6)pp. Later full calf, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands and leather labels. Renewed endpapers. All edges sprinkled to volume I. Variable light toning and occasional spotting to Volume I; intermittent light water staining, spotting and toning to Volume II. Minor insect damage to gutter margin p211-250 Volume II. Paper fault: 2 small holes and corner loss to penultimate page of Volume II with no loss to text.
ESTC T94112.
Jean Crasset
(1618 – 1692)
George Webb (1653 – 1725)
"The History I have now in hand, speaks of so strange and surprising Adventures which happedn'd at the very utmost extremities of the World, that they may well pass for Romance and Fables." [From the Preface.]

Printed by Dean and Co. [for H. Washbourne]. London. nd. [1847]. Octavo. iv, ii, iii, bl, (1), iii, (1, instructions to the binder- China), iv, iii, (1, instructions to the binder- India), 402pp. Tinted lithographic frontispiece: "The Ceremonies observed in every province and city of China, on the occasion of an eclipse", Folding map of China, 16 further tinted lithographic plates of China; Folding map of India, 14 further tinted lithographic plates of India. (31 tinted litho plates in total, painted by T.J. Rawlngs, B. Solwyn, B. Clayton, J. Pollard, G. F. Sargent). Numerous text illustrations. Contemporary half calf. Spine in six compartments with gilt tooling and raised bands, gilt rules and blind tooling to boards. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Blue silk bookmark. Corners lightly rubbed. Minor dent (from elastic band) to top edge of upper board. Small tear at attachment of frontispiece. Lacking the title page. Occasional light offsetting. Plates and text crisp and bright. A handsome… Read More

First edition. Mackie, Brewtnall and Co. Altrincham. 1879. Quarto. xi, (bl.) 195, (bl.), (1)pp. 7 engraved plates, tinted photo litho plate of the charter, genealogical table. Historiated initials, engraved headpieces and tailpieces. Original brown cloth, faded, rubbed and marked. Gilt lettering to spine, gilt emblem to upper board. Original endpapers. 'Bound at the Guardian Office Warrington' plate to lower ep. Lightly toned to first few and last few pages. The bordered engraved plates include: Bowdon Church 1858; Bowdon Parish Church Restored; Dunham Hall 1697; Carrington and Altrincham Scolds' Bridles; St Margaret's Church Dunham; Market Place Altrincham 1858; Brooks Bank Altrincham. Still the definitive source of the history of these parishes, with detailed appendices.

Printed; and sold by the Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland. London. 1764. 12mo. Title, (bl.), (2), 232pp. Including index. Half calf, spine in five compartments with raised bands, gilt and blind tooling, leather label with gilt lettering. Marbled boards and endpapers. Loss to base of spine strip. Upper hinge cracked. Wear to corners and edges. Intermittent spotting and light toning. A crisp, firm text block.
"Apparently similar to SABIN 1636 but three years earlier in date, and without the attribution to "a Midshipman on board the Centurion". Often attributed to "John Philips" which may have been a pseudonym, since that name is not listed on the Centurion's muster roll; Sabin attributed authorship to Richard Walter.
ESTC T90060 SABIN 101190.
UK holdings at the British Library and Cambridge University.
[The Gale ebook, a copy of the BL holding, has had a frontispiece portrait added from the 1767 edition. The original does not possess a frontispiece.]

W. Spurrell & Son. Carmarthen. 1920. Royal 8vo. xix, 347pp. 6pp subscriber’s list. Photo port. frontis., 4 further plates, text illus. Original green cloth, gilt lettering, slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, some slight foxing. Inscription removed to fep with rubbing. Volume 2 was not published until 1992. A Brief Description and History of the Castle of Oystermouth by W. H. Jones FRGS 8pp. loosely inserted, with owner’s signature.

Augustus M. Kelley. New York. 1968. [Reprint of Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. 1851] Octavo. Two volumes in one. xii, 308pp; viii, 282pp. Original grey cloth, black and gilt to spine and upper board. In the original dust wrapper. A near fine copy.With an introduction by C. R. Clinker. The first comprehensive study of the English railway system.

J. Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate. York (c.1820). 10 x 6.5cm. 16pp. Illustrated with sixteen woodcuts. Sewn, with outer cover coloured yellow. Very slightly darkened to edges, a little spotting to lower cover, a nice copy. This is an original, not a facsimile
Opie N 1072

Four volumes. Printed for Scott and Webster, (successors to Mr. Dove). London [ca. 1835]. Octavo. Engraved title, title, half title, xlvii, 592; title, half title, xxxv, 652pp; title, half title, xlviii, 543pp, Directions for placing the Plates; title, half title, 622pp. 22 Engraved plates. Full contemporary calf, blind lattice, foliar and multi bordered tray tooling to boards, foliar gilt tooling to edges, gilt to spine, leather labels. Marbled endpapers and edges. Text bright and crisp. A little foxing/toning to some plates. Wear and rubbing to extremities, a few nicks and scratches to the boards. A handsome, firmly bound set. Rare: One copy only recorded of this edition in JISC: held by the National Trust. Not in the British Library. Not listed in WorldCat.
ARMORIAL ENGRAVED BOOKPLATES TO EACH VOLUME
Gwynne Hughes, Glancothi
Colonel William Gwynn Hughesof Glancothi, Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire. F.R.G.S. (1841- 1920). Colonel William Gwynn Hughes spent most of his Army career in Burma, retiring after… Read More