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

Revised edition. Collins. London. 1974. Large quarto. 87pp. 212 photo plates. Original cloth in vg d/w.In the original cream slipcase, slightly soiled.

Printed for John Sharpe. London. 1829. 12mo. Engraved half-title. Title dated 1828. 226pp. 4 engraved plates dated May 1, 1829. Contemporary full calf, spine in four compartments with raised bands, blind and gilt tooling, leather label with gilt lettering. Boards with blind tooling, gilt rondels and double gilt rules. Edges gilt tooled. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Bookplate (handpainted Welsh Dragon) to fep. Plates lightly foxed, text crisp and bright, seemingly unread. A little light wear to edges, a handsome copy.

First edition. University of Washington Press. Trustees of the British Museum. Seattle. 1989. Quarto. 207pp. Photo portrait frontispiece, Numerous illustrations and plates, some in colour. Original blue cloth, silver to spine. Small bump to top corner. In original unclipped dust wrapper. A near fine copy.

First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol, Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard ... but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size, and being of small importance, the idea was given up". Later utilitarian quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy, firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.
John Middleton (1751 – 1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including the state of property, commons and… Read More

T. Nelson and Sons. London. [1885]. 15cm x 10cm. 96pp. 12 chromolithographs. Text engravings. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, burgundy and black. Rubbed to corners and spine. Occasional spotting. Plates slightly cropped to base. Upper corner tips of last three pages trimmed. Images not affected.

First edition. Longman et al. London. 1837. 8vo. 300, [297-299], bl. 301-338pp. [341pp: complete as published]. Lithographic frontispiece and 19 further plates from Hoskins own drawings, 3 of them folding, folding map at rear. Recent half calf, marbled boards. Raised banding to spine, gilt rules and lettering. New endpapers. Occasional spotting/foxing. Short closed marginal tear to edge of frontis. Erased stamp to top corner of title page. Initials to verso of frontis. (Half title not called for) Blackmer 833

George Alexander Hoskins (1802-1863) traveller, antiquary and artist. Secretary and Treasurer of the While Nile Association in 1839.

Hachette. Paris. 1894. Octavo. Half-title, title, 367pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 28 engraved plates, numerous text engravings. Full soft calf. Marbled endpapers. Incorporating the original paper covers. Small nick to base of spine. Some sporadic foxing. Edges untrimmed. Green silk bookmark.Engraved bookplate of Albert Briere featuring oriental dragon, mountain and palace design (Vietnam?)Narrative of a voyage from Venezuela, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Curacao, Aruba, Haiti to the three Guyanas.Gerrit Verschuur (1840-1906) Dutch writer and traveller.

First American edition. Printed by David Carlisle for W. Pelham, and W. P. & L. Blake. Boston. 1803. 12mo. 300pp. Contemporary full calf, spine in six compartments with leather label. Showing some wear to corners and head and foot of spine, small nicks, rubbing and abrasions etc commensurate with age. Slightly strained at title and at 227. Variable foxing and toning, as usual, particularly to the index and last few pages.Louis Marie Joseph Ohier de Grandpré (1761 - 1846) was a French navy officer and former slave trader. Between 1789 and 1790, Grandpré toured the Indian Ocean, beginning at Île de France (Mauritius), and included visits to India, the Seychelles, Vietnam (then Cochin China), Yemen, and Sri Lanka.

John Murray. London. nd. 11cm x 17cm. Advertising flyer for Scott's Last Expedition and The Voyage of the Discovery. Printed on both sides. Text and vignette to each.

Third Thousand. J. Unwin, W. S. Maclehose. Edinburgh & Glasgow. 1844. 12mo. vi, 258pp. Original embossed cloth, gilt lettering to spine. W.P. Kennedy Bookseller. Edinburgh label to fep. Slight wear to top of spine, bumped and rubbed to extremities. Toned. Strained at M-N. (A little hand-made button loosely inserted at this point)
Ridley Haim Herschell (1807-1864) The journey takes him through France, Italy, Athens, Patmos, Rhodes, Cyprus, Constantinople, Beyrout, Aksah, Baalbec, Damascus, Sasa, Kuneitirah, Tiberius, Nazareth, Samaria, Nabloos, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, etc.
"Here I was in Damascus, the oldest existing city in the world"