Manuscripts, Letters, Provenance, Bookplates And Associations from Paul Haynes Rare Books

A COLLECTION OF 8 ITEMS OF HISTORIC INTEREST: HAND-CORRECTED PROOF; REVIEW COPY; CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS 1. Mailer, Norman Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers. Produced by Lawrence Schiller; Designed by Allen Hurlburt. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. 1973. 111 photographs, 271 pp. Original embossed cream cloth, discoloured. In the original dust wrapper, chipped, small hole to upper edge.… Read more about this item

An historic archive from the private collection of William Duckworth, Lake District Botanist, Plant Collector, Naturalist, of primary sources for the original discovery by Thomas Coulthard Heysham of 'Carum verticillatum' 45 years before William Duckworth had flattered himself for a time with being the first recorder of that rarity. Baker, J. G. A Flora of the English Lake District. George Bell. London.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1884. Small octavo. 334pp. Half calf, spine in five compartments with gilt rules and decoration, red leather label with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Some rubbing to extremities. Sunned to cloth. Cracked at title, but firm. Tauchnitz Edition. No. 2210. Armorial Bookplate of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Myles Fenton, (1830-1918), Engineer and railway magnate of Redstone Hall, Redhill,… Read more about this item

First and only edition. Ex Officina Huberti Antonii, Typographi Iurati, sub Aquila aurea. Bruxellae. M. DC. XXIIII. 1624. Stamp of the Antwerp publisher Philippum Lisaert below, not seen on other copies. Small quarto. Text in Latin and French. Title page with Horis Svis Quaeque Placet engraved horological vignette. Dedication a Seignour Jean de Montfort, Conseillier et Maistre. Lectori et Spectatori.… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

Editorial Augusta. Barcelona. 1925. Small octavo. xxiv, 269pp. 61 plates, 2 large folding maps, coloured in outlline. Short closed tear and crease to edge fold of the first large map, otherwise both maps are correctly folded and un-torn. Location of the Gran Hotel Palma de Mallorca circled with pencil. Original red cloth, worn. Gilt lettering to upper board. Hinges… Read more about this item

Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Volumes 22, 23, 31. 1875, 1876, 1884. xx, 688pp; xx, 791pp; xxii, 756pp. Bound in matching brown cloth, attractively grained leather labels with gilt lettering to spines. Renewed endpapers. Edges sprinkled red, darkened. A handsome set. Provenance: Dated signature (October 30 1883) of John Thornton to half title of Volume 31,… Read more about this item

A historically important photograph archive, together with the Peshawar HQ Logbook, being the collection of Major-General Sir Dauncy Batho Dashwood, Commander of the Peshawar HQ, North Western Frontier during the Waziristan Campaign. The British Frontier Headquarters at Peshawar at the eastern end of the historic Khyber Pass, close to the border with Afghanistan, midway between Kabul and Islamabad. The… Read more about this item

Sumptibus Fratrum Huguetan & Soc. Lugduni. [Lyon]. 1685. Folio. Title page printed in red and black, with title vignette engraved by Mathieu Ôgier. (6), 376, (4)pp. Illustrated with copperplate engravings by Mathieu Ogier and M. Demasso. Text in Latin and Greek. Recent antiqued half calf, marbled boards. Spine in seven compartments with raised bands and leather label. Renewed endpapers. All… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin et Louis-Francis Delatour. Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roi. 2nd ed. Paris. 1754.Small octavo. xlij, 311pp. 13 folding plates. Contemporary full calf, raised bands to spine, gilt floral embellishment and lettering. Vestiges of gilt edge tooling. Old paper label to top compartment, gilt motif and lettering. Contemporary marbled endpapers. All edges red. Silk bookmark. Rubbed to corners,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

First edition. Folio. Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes at the Star, the corner of Bride Lane, in Fleet Street; and J. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater Noster Row. 1710. Engraved title. Title page in red and black. 4pp dedication to Queen Anne, xxiv, 1296pp. Index Plantarum & Index Latinus [41pp]. Index Morbarum, erratum [6pp]. Numerous engravings. Full… Read more about this item

First edition. Faber and Faber. London. 1969. Octavo. 186pp. 41 photo illlus. 2 maps. Original red cloth, Gilt on black lettering to spine. A fine copy in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Bookplate of Clare Tritton McLaren to ffep. (Clare McLaren Throckmorton of Coughton Court) Romauld Landau (1899 - 1974) Sculptor, author and authority on Arab culture. His first… Read more about this item

Printed for Richard Phillips. London. [1806]. 8vo. 52, (2 [index, directions to the binder and erratum]), folding table. No title page as published. Modern dark blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt. Uniformly toned, some light spotting, otherwise very good. An abridgement of A Voyage round the World in the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804, in which the author… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item