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

Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking Glass, facing St Magnus Church, London Bridge. Fourth edition, with additional section on Perspective. 1755. 8vo. [6], 352, [8]pp. Unusual allegorical frontispiece engraved by James Hulett, 16 further copper plates of which 2 are folding (V mis-numbered VI). Later full calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt and blind tooling. Blind tooling to upper and lower boards. Repaired closed fold tear to one plate. Closed repaired tear to p.157/8. Slight chips to corners of frontispiece. Some toning, spotting and offsetting.
The Laboratory; or School of Arts: in which are Faithfully Exhibited, and fully Explained, A variety of curious and valuable Experiments in Refining, Calcining, Melting, Assaying, Casting, Alloying, and Toughening of Gold; with several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. Choice secrets for Jewellers in the Management of Gold; in Enamelling, and the Preparation of Enamel Colours, with the Art of Copying… Read More

First English edition. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. London. 1870. 8vo. viii, 328pp. Original blue cloth, gilt. Spine unlettered. Rubbed with wear to extremities. Some minor spotting. The London edition of this notorious book which contains the Note by The Publishers not present in the Boston edition.

John Lampugnani. Milan. nd (c.1902). Octavo. xvi pp (decorative adverts), 86pp, 72pp (decorative hotel adverts - on yellow paper), endpaper adverts. Five folding maps: one T shaped coloured folding map, partially split to folds, no loss; one double page coloured map of Como; one five-page coloured folding map of Lago di Lugano, Lago di Como and environs (slightly protruding edges toned); one double page coloured map of Lugano; one six page coloured folding map of Lago Maggiore. Photo illustrations. Original blue decorative limp cloth, slightly bubbled, faded to spine and motif on lower board.

First edition. Victor Gollancz. London. 1946. Octavo. 234pp. Original green cloth, with gilt lettering to spine a little dulled, in the original (protected) dustwrapper, slightly edge chipped, sunned, soiled and spotted. Slight foxing to rear endpapers.
Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) Irish Renaissance novelist and writer. Founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland. A native Irish speaker, O'Flaherty wrote primarily in English. A number of his books were banned by the "Committee on Evil Literature". All of Flaherty's novels were first published outside Ireland. "Land" is set in County Mayo, in the time of Parnell, Cogadh na Talún and the struggle of the Irish tenantry and the English landlords.

[First edition thus] Fifth edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Paul Ollendorff. Paris. 1895. Octavo. xxix, 361pp. 8 maps, 22 plans, several folding. Original red cloth, mottled to edges of both boards. In original dust wrapper, chipped to edges and spine. All edges marbled. Green bookmarker. Signature Robinson to ffep. Small paper fault excess folded corner to title. A crisp copy, in the scarce dust wrapper.
This is the first edition thus. The fourth and final edition of Nord de la France of 1893 was divided into Nord Este and Nord Ouest in this and the subsequent editions from 1895.
Hinrichsen F179.

Ninth edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1910. 16mo. xxxvi, 547pp. 23 maps, 28 plans, 2 panoramas. Printed front endpapers, map to rear endpapers. Double woven bookmarks. All edges marbled. A bright crisp copy in the original red publisher's cloth, gilt. In the original brown dust wrapper with some edge tears, protected. One map (Provence) sits a little proud, as bound. Pencil signature of Duncan Bogle. Lausann, Switzerland dated Oct 3rd 1910 to verso ffep. Hinrichsen F188

Second edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Paul Ollendorff. Paris. 1905. Octavo. lxii, 620pp. Maps and plans as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Publisher's adverts to fep. All edges marbled. Double woven bookmark in green and red. First and last maps a little toned, all others pristine, with no misfolding or protrusion. Frontispiece map tear repaired to verso, with short closed fold tear. Slightly faded. Light water stain to extreme top edge of a few pages.Only two editions published in French, this being the last.Hinrichsen F226

First and only edition. Chez Louis Janet Libraire, successor de son pere. nd [c.1800]. 12mo. 212pp. Engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, with tissue guards. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full red grained morocco, spine with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. Boards with double gilt border rules, foliar and floral embellishment, edge tooling, inner foliar curlicues. All edges gilt, (gilding a little faded in places), green silk ribbon bookmark. Small area of surface loss to lower board (see photo). Corner tips lightly rubbed. Occasional light spotting, mainly to free endpapers. Text and plates crisp and bright.
Guy Toussaint Julien Carron (1760-1821) born in Rennes. Educator, writer and philanthropist who founded a number of social and educational institutions: schools, libraries and pharmacies while in exile in England. Deported to Jersey (1792-1796), on the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Carron returned to France and became head of the Institut de Marie - Thérèse.
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Typed and handwritten signed letter to "My dear Watson" dated 5th January 1934. 1pp. 20cm x 25cm. King's College Zoological Department headed watermarked notepaper. The advance copy of the book mentioned is Huxley's "Elements of Experimental Embryology" co-written with Gavin de Beer. "I have got a German refugee working here who is getting interesting results with Sabella". The German refugee was Fabius Gross (1906 – 1950) Hitler's Black Book entry: "Since 1934 – Researcher at King's College, London University. Speciality – genetics; experimental cytology; protozoology; experimental zoology." Gross and Huxley published 'Regeneration and reorganisation in Sabella' in 1935. The letter also mentions work with Alexander Wolsky and C. J. Bond.

Handwritten note in pencil to verso: "Touting for signatures for candidature for Roy Soc". Nominated for candidature many times from the 1920's, and failing each time, it was not until 1938 that Huxley was eventually admitted as a Fellow. The tone of the… Read More

Chez Guibert. Paris. 1828. First edition. Octavo. [4]. 280pp. Coloured frontispiece, coloured map. Contemporary silked cloth, leather label, gilt lettering. A little rubbed, bumped and faded. Pages untrimmed, foxed, with water staining to upper margins. Signature M. Griffiths to ffep.

Amand-Narcisse Masson de Saint-Amand, (1794-1831) Letters of a traveller at the mouth of the Seine, containing historical information, trivia and statistics on the regions of Normandy of Caux, of Lieuvin and Roumois, in the departments of the Lower Seine, Calvados and Eure. Scarce.

Two Volumes. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies. London. 1820. Large Octavo. xcii, 429pp. Extra illustrated with Frontispiece portrait of Defoe by Michael Vandergucht, engraved by J. Thomson. Title page engraved vignette, 10 further engraved plates; v, 415pp. Engraved Frontispiece (Robinson Crusoe taking leave of his father and mother), 9 further plates. All indexed plates by Thomas Stothard, engraved by C. Heath. Large Paper Edition in a contemporary unsigned elegant full maroon morocco binding, embellished with elaborate gilt and blind tooling to spines, boards, edges and inner boards. Bevelled lozenges to all boards, with blind tooled cross hatching, fleur de lys and floral centrepieces. Lightly rubbed, some scuffing to upper board of Volume II and lower board of Volume I. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Silk bookmarkers. Light offsetting to title pages, occasional spotting, otherwise bright and crisp. A handsome, firmly bound set.
DEFOE, DANIEL (1660-1731) A notable classic of world… Read More

Two volumes. First edition. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. London. 1897. Octavo. 278pp; 273pp. Original blue embossed cloth, gilt. Both volumes showing rubbing and wear. Foredges untrimmed. Occasional spotting, particularly to the endpapers. Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription to both volumes: "Edward J. O'Brien October 22, 1919 Secretum meum mihi" [The secret is mine].
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, published as Edward J. O'Brien (1890–1941) writer, poet, editor and anthologist. Some of the authors first brought to public attention by O'Brien include Erskine Caldwell, Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Hemingway etc.
[See an interesting biographical article: Edward J. O'Brien ROBERT WHITEHAND Prairie Schooner, Vol. 14, No. 1 (SPRING 1940), pp. 1-12]
Ernest Percival Rhys (1859 - 1946), Anglo-Welsh poet, author, and editor of Everyman's Library. This work was part of The Pamphlet Library edited by Arthur Waugh, the object of which was to present… Read More

First edition. Large Octavo. viii, (1), 252pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue at end. Frontispiece, 39 further plates. Original cloth, slightly faded, in original protected dust wrapper, toned and slightly chipped. Edges untrimmed. Signature to ffep.

J. Pigot & Co. London. [1823]. Royal 8vo. 525pp. Folding engraved map of London. 9pp fine adverts at back, some folding. Later quarter calf, leather label, gilt lettering and rules, marbled boards. Small repair to chip at base of title page (see photo). Binder's reinforcement to mount of title page and folding map of London. Lacking the map of England, as is often the case. Some toning, small ink stain to foredge.
"Containing a classification of the merchants, manufacturers and traders of London, the County of Middlesex, and all the towns and villages within twelve miles of the Metropolis, with separate alphabetical references; also upwards of three hundred cities, towns and sea ports in the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex. Together with historical and descriptive accounts of each town - lists of the Coaches, Carriers… Read More

First edition. First Issue of Savoy's Graphic Novel. Savoy Books. 279 Deansgate, Manchester. 29th January 1990. Quarto. Unpaginated. Graphic illustrations. Crease to lower cover. Including a letter from the publisher regarding this publication. The Romance of the Century: Lord Horror and Jessie Matthews How it might have been.

First edition. Geoffrey Cumberleigh. Oxford University Press. London. 1954. viii, 127pp. Original cloth, in original protected dust wrapper, sl sunned and chipped to extremities.

The Cresset Press. London. [1938] Oblong quarto. (3), 157, (2)pp. Original paper covered boards with cloth spine, sunned, rubbed and worn to edges and extremities. Vestiges of tape to front pastedown. Bookplate dated 1938 to ffep. Historic price (£20) from December 1999 to ffep. Edges tanned. Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (1891-1963) Political cartoonist and caricaturist.

First edition. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. London. 1863. Octavo. xii, 314pp. Original embossed red cloth, gilt to spine. Shelf wear, fading and rubbing to edges. Partially unopened. Inscription "Presented to Benjamin Williams Ffrith Tryddyn by Mrs Jones" dated 1910 to fep, same date to ffep. Vestiges of a removed bookplate to fep. James Bromfield (1815 -) [I. Hope; James Broomfield] He lived at 16, rue de Callac, Morlaix for more than a decade in the mid nineteenth century with his wife, children and two sisters, one of whom, Elizabeth, was the author of 'Recollections of Brittany, in Prose and Verse'. London: James Blackwood, 1863.
In 1851, the founders of the Le Bulletin Évangélique de Basse-Bretagne, his friends pastors Achille Le Fourdrey, John Jenkins, James Williams and Jacques Planta, appointed him as treasurer. At the same time, he became the editor of this small suppressed newspaper. James Bromfield was passionate about the Protestant evangelization of Brittany, and religious… Read More

Two volumes. First editions. John Murray. London. 1874. Octavo. xvi, 360, 6pp publisher's ads. 7 engraved plates, 18 text engravings, folding coloured map in rear pocket; vii, (1), 346, 20pp publisher's ads. 14 engraved plates, (including 3 litho reproductions of Livingstone's journal, one in colour), 6 text engravings, folding coloured map. Original decorative cloth, gilt to spines and upper boards, blind tooled border to boards. Uniformly sunned to spines. Pages untrimmed. Original endpapers. Occasional light spotting, toning to outer exposed verso panels of pocket map. Map would seem to have been rarely taken from its pocket, with no tears, wear or misfolds. Lightly rubbed to extremities. A handsome set, with no inscriptions or annotation.David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) African missionary and explorer. Livingstone was buried in Westminster Abbey on 18 April 1874. A black slab in the centre of the nave in the Abbey marks his resting-place. ODNB.Horace Waller FRGS (1833 - 1896) Anti slavery… Read More

First edition. Hamish Hamilton. London. 1981. xii, 260pp. Photo plates. Original red cloth, gilt to spine. In the original protected dust wrapper, slightly sunned to spine. A nice copy.Ewart Scott Grogan (1874-1967) "The Churchill of Kenya"