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

John William Parker. West Strand. London. Extracts from Vol. X, No 295, 317; Vol. XVII, No 521, 523, 526, 533, 537. 1837, 1840. Small quarto. [56pp] Paginated as published, with engravings and line drawings. Bound together in paper covered boards, spine label. Lightly toned.Poems by Thomas PringleEngravings: "View of Cape-Town and Table-Mountain Cape of Good Hope" Unattributed, unrecorded elsewhere."Caffres and their Kraals" Unattributed, unrecorded elsewhere"Halt of a Boor's family" reverse image copy originally published in African Scenery and Animals by Samuel Daniell"Bushmen Hottentots armed for an expedition" reverse image copy originally published in African Scenery and Animals by Samuel Daniell"Korah Hottentots preparing to remove" reverse image copy originally published in African Scenery and Animals by Samuel Daniell"A Kaffer Village" reverse image copy originally published in African Scenery and Animals by Samuel Daniell"Bichuana women manufacturing earthenware" reverse image copy originally… Read More

First edition, limited to 500 copies on Van Gelder paper, this being number 305. Charles Carrington. Paris. 1897. Octavo. Original cover, half title, title, xix, 265pp. Coloured frontispiece and six further coloured plates by J. Wely. Further monochrome illustrations throughout. Red half morocco, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with gilt floral motifs and lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Shelf wear and rubbing. Front hinge cracked at base. Stitching strained at original cover, 64/5 and at 81. One plate loose. Some toning, spotting and marks throughout. Historic yellowed sellotape repair to tear at p17/18 - text still readable though. Original cover darkened. A scarce volume of bawdy erotica.https://parisolympiapress.com/2021/01/31/charles-carrington-collection-stories-from-the-folk-lore-of-russia-aleksander-n-afanasyev-done-into-english-by-the-translator-of-the-book-of-exposition-in-the-science-of-coition-the-old-man-young/

3 volumes. First edition. Macmillan and Co. London. 1899. Octavo. (8" x 5"). Vol. I: xiv, 340pp. Tissue guarded engraved frontispiece, 45 further engravings (including 3 maps); Vol. II: xii, 339pp. Tissue guarded photo frontispiece, 57 further illustrations (including 4 maps); Vol. III: xi, (1),350, (2)pp. Engraved frontispiece, 24 further illustrations (including 3 maps). Original blue cloth, gilt to spines and upper boards. Top edges gilt, lower edges untrimmed. Rubbing and wear to extremities. Small nick to spine and spotting to upper board of Vol. III. Upper hinge to Vol. I strained. Small hole to fep Vol. II. Ownership signature "Keene" and W. H. Smith subscription library bookplates to fep of each volume. Loosely inserted three newspaper clippings from 1903 "Admiral Keppel travelling in the East, has had his jewels, orders and money stolen by a Chinese boy" and "Death of Sir Harry Keppel, O.M. Father of the Navy" 1904, plus an undated clipping from c. 1903 illustrating Henry Keppel's recipe for… Read More

First edition. First issue. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. London. 1848. Crown 8vo. xxiv, 416pp, 6pp manuscript index bound in. Engraved frontis., 6 further plates. Later rebacking using original red cloth embossed boards, bumped with shelf wear to extremities. Some foxing to plates, occasional spotting to text. Marginal tear 170. Last page chipped to upper corner. Occasional marginal pencil annotation, in the same hand as index.
Inscribed to title page "To Edw. Thomas" [indecipherable: Glansevern? Glansevin?]
Low, Sir Hugh
(1824–1905), botanist and colonial administrator. "Low became closely associated with James Brooke, who was then establishing his regime in Sarawak. Low also travelled widely in north Borneo and acquired exceptional knowledge of the land and people, which he demonstrated in his book Sarawak: its Inhabitants and Productions." Low developed a twelve-acre garden with a choice selection of plants. He made the first documented climb of Mount Kinabalu, the… Read More

George Harrap & Co. London. nd. [1911]. 293pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Title page in red and black. Top edge gilt. Partially unopened, opened edges untrimmed. Grey endpapers. Full grained morocco. Spine in five compartments with gilt boxing and lettering. Raised banding with gilt foliar curlicues. Occasional spotting. Neat pencil signature to fep. A handsome volume.Pioneering in literary style, a parody of German Idealism. Sartor Resartus can be translated as 'The Tailor Re-tailored'. Diogenes Teufelsdrockh is the fictional author of 'Clothes, their origin and influence'. Clothes which simultaneously reveal and conceal the divine. Diogenes Teufelsdrockh translates as "God born Devil's dung". Influenced by Swift, Geothe and Sterne, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus had a huge influence in turn on American writers such as Emily Dickinson, Thoreau, Melville, Twain and Jorge Luis Borges.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish writer, philosopher and historian.

First edition. Methuen. London. 1982. 270pp. Numerous photo plates and maps. Original blue cloth, silver to spine. In original unclipped dust wrapper. Small area of delamination to lower corner of d/w. Some toning, a nice copy.

Robert Jennings. London. 1826. First edition, Large Paper. Engraved title. Dedication to the Countess of Pembroke, 60 tissue guarded engraved plates with accompanying text, as indexed, vignette. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and motifs. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Light variable foxing. Spotting to engraved title page. A handsome copy with historic provenance.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty (1789-1848) army officer and artist Batty compiled books illustrated with plates etched by himself. He served in the Peninsular War, in the Duke of Wellington's 1815 Campaign, at Waterloo, where he was injured in the thigh. "Following Wellington's victory, Batty entered Paris with the 3rd battalion on 7 July, having en route been at the storming of the fortress of Péronne on 26 June. Three days later, he became a lieutenant and captain in the first guards. He served in the army of occupation in France." He was elected FRS in 1822.… Read More

John Ouseley. London. nd. [c.1910]. Royal 8vo. 210pp, (1) advert. Illus. Original decorative cloth. Ffep excised. Slight offsetting to half title. Extremities sl. bumped.

First edition. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1969. Quarto. xxii, 411pp. Frontispiece portrait of Alvaro de Mendana. 45 maps and charts. Near fine original dark green cloth, gilt to spine. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, with slight wear to extreme edges, in a protective cover (the reflective marks on the illustration/scan are on the protective cover)

First edition. Thames & Hudson. London. 2001. Quarto. 296pp. Double folding plates. Profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome. Original yellow cloth, black lettering to spine, in original protected dust wrapper. Pictorial endpapers. Edge paper fault to p225. A fine copy.

Second impression. Jonathan Cape. London. August 1935. (The first issue came out in July 1935). Quarto. 672pp. Frontispiece portrait, 53 further plates, 4 folding maps coloured in outline. Original brown buckram, gilt lettering to spine, gilt vignette to upper board. In original unclipped dustwrapper, priced 30s net. Pages opened, and untrimmed. (p259/60 slight margin loss from opening, not affecting text). Some mottling to boards. Dustwrapper chipped with marginal loss to edges, a little grubby, in protective wrapper. Pencil signature to ffep.
Loosely inserted:
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Lawrence of Arabia Memorial 3pp. Includes list of the Friends of Lawrence.
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T. E. Lawrence Jonathan Cape catalogue and order form. 6pp.
Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (1888-1935) "Lawrence of Arabia". Archaeologist, Author, Diplomat, Army Officer. Written while Lawrence was a liaison officer during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. An essential book in any collector's library.

George Allen. Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. 1889. 4to. xii, (1), (1), 222, (1) pp. 14 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum, leather labels to spine, some natural discolouration and spotting to vellum, slight nick to bottom edge of upper board. Inner gilt feathered curlicues. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed to Kenneth Moorsom from his Eton tutor July 29 1897 to first blank: a personal gift rather than a prize. Kenneth James Calvert Moorsom (1878-1907).

First edition. Dent. London. 1947. Octavo. vii, 183pp. Photo illus., map. Original cloth, sunned to edges, in original chipped dust wrapper, with short tears. Toned endpapers. Woodcut bookplate of Barbara Holloway to fep.[removed][removed]

Seeley, Service & Co. London. nd. [1947]. Octavo. 380pp. Photo frontis., Numerous photo plates and text illus. Original quarter cloth, a little faded and spotted to boards and bumped to corners. Signature to ffep. Contains the original Lonsdale Library triptych bookmark.

Typewritten letter, 25cm x 20cm. 1pp. signed and addended in blue ink to Lieut.-Col. Sir Thomas Moore, C.B.E., M.P. 186 Piccadilly W1. On headed notepaper, dated 23rd January 1948. Regarding the Yugoslav Aid Committee, mentioning the Duchess of Atholl, Moore's son-in-law James Harrower and Moore's daughter Priscilla. Short fold split to edge.
Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha Liberal MP, Cabinet Minister, Secretary of State for War, dismissed in 1940, revealing widespread anti-Semitism in government. Oswald Mosely calling him a "Jewish Warmonger", Henry Pownall called him a "political jewboy". H.G. Wells named him in "The Shape of Things to Come" 1934 – prophetically it turned out. (Belisha Beacons were introduced by him)
Lieut. Col. Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore MP for Ayr 1925-1964. In the 1930's he publicly supported Adolf Hitler and the policies of Nazism.
The British Yugoslav Aid Committee under the chairmanship of the Duchess of Atholl, Sir Thomas Moore M.P.: Post Holocaust and… Read More

Augustus M. Kelley. Reprints of Economic Classics. New York. 1967. Reprint of the Second Edition, corrected and enlarged. Originally Printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No. 51 in St Paul's Churchyard; T. Cadell, in The Strand; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh. 1771. 4 Volumes. Octavo. I: xxviii, 359, (1), Engraved Plates; II: (6), 459pp, Engraved Plates; III: vii, 464pp, Engraved Plates, Large Folding Map; IV: (5), 466pp, Pocket to rear containing six folding charts. Original faux leather, title lettering to spine faded. A few minor spots or marks. A clean, crisp, bright and tightly bound set of this nice reprint.Arthur Young (1741-1820) A writer, social and political observer, opponent of reform, and collector of early works on agriculture such as Duhamel du Monceau, Jethro Tull and Hartlib. Close friend of Walter Harte, author of Essays on Husbandry. The British Library features this important work: "George Eliot read A Six Months' Tour as research for her novel Adam Bede, in… Read More

John Bailey. Darlington. nd. [1881] Quarto. 20 litho plates. Original pictorial boards, reinforced to edges with paper tape. Hinges cracked, endpapers chipped. Occasional spotting.

Victor Gollancz. 1981. Quarto. (6)pp. 122 studies. Original cloth, in d/w.

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-1979) OBE, RA.

Chapman and Hall. London. 1837. Fifth edition. 12mo. 80pp. 6 engraved plates by Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882)]. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spine in 6 compartments with raised banding, gilt tooling, leather labels and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. The original blue/green paper cover is retained within the binding. Top edge gilt. Edges untrimmed. Some ageing, toning and spotting. The leather label identifies the author as Albert Smith. A handsome volume.
Published anonymously and usually attributed to the Rev. Edward Caswall (ref. Halkett & Laing), and occasionally to Charles Dickens. The identification of Albert Smith as the author of this work, together with his association with Dickens, plus the comparable spirited and ascerbic writing style makes for interesting consideration.
Albert Richard Smith (1816-1860) the English popular writer, humourist and novelist; entertainer, traveller and mountaineer. A regular contributor to Punch, Household Words (ed. Charles Dickens) and… Read More

First edition. Published by the Order and at the Expense of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. And Sold at the Apartments of the Society at Somerset Place. Sumptibus Soc. Antiquar., Londini.: Publish'd According to Act of Parliament, 23d. April 1795. Elephant Folio. Half-title, 9pp. 14 copper engraved plates. Each plate carries the dated publisher's imprint of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Plate I (added engraved title-plate) carries the draughtsman's signature of John Carter. All signed as engraved by James Basire. Original quarter calf, blue paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Original title plate to upper board, with two small areas of loss. Hinges strengthened with linen tape. Wear, cracking and repair to spine. Edges and corners worn. Some age discolouration to boards. Front free endpaper creased. Slight edge chipping. Occasional light spotting/foxing. Some creasing to tissue guards. Armorial bookplate to fep. ESTC T105074
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