Search Results: Americas and Caribbean from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. John Murray. London. 1891. Large 8vo. Xxi, (1), 268pp. Folding map frontis., 21 plates, further folding map. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. A little shaky. Bumped with wear to extremities. Occasional light spotting. Light marks to lower board.
Association Copy: with dedication to ffep: "Therese Villiers Stuart With Papa's fond love Oct 31 1892" [Therese Villiers Stuart, later Therese Muir Mackenzie, daughter of the author, author herself of Dromana: The Memoirs Of An Irish Family]Includes Surinam, Cayenne, Demerara, The Orinoco, Trinidad, Martinique, Florida, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica.
Welch 54. Hilton 9535. Spain & Spanish America 664. Cundall 334.

First edition. John Bale, Sons & Danielsson. London. 1911. Crown octavo. viii, 304pp. Photo frontis., numerous further photo plates, one colour plate (independence poster), 3 maps. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering and motif to upper board. Slight shelf wear and small abrasions to lower corner of upper board, corresponding tiny lower corner bumps to first few pages. Free endpapers lightly toned.Marshall Howard Saville (1867-1985) Curator American Museum of Natural History specialising in Meso-American and South American archaeology. "As my travels in Spanish South America extended over a period of six years, it may be fairly hoped that the knowledge of some of the places here described is not superficial, and professional work often procured adventures which, if ill paid in money, were rich in incident. The photographs have been selected from those taken during my travels, in the hope they may convey to the reader a more vivid perception."

The Amazon Provinces of Peru as a Field for European Emigration. A Statistical and Geographical Review of the Country and its Resources, including the Gold and Silver Mines together with a mass of useful and valuable information, with map and illustrations.First edition. Wyman and Sons. London. 1888. Octavo. Half title not called for, title, xv, (1), 309pp. 1p advert for The Mining Exhibition in Lima 1888. Mounted photograph frontispiece portrait, 31 further plates, including 4 folding maps, a further photographic mounted plate, 2 folding engraved plates. Original red cloth flexible boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt vignette to upper board, blind bordering. Spine faded, some areas of discolouration to boards, rubbed to extremities. Free endpapers untidily removed. Smudge to lower corner margin of frontispiece. Short closed tear to margin of one folding plate. Occasional edge or corner creases. A little edge spotting. Slightly shaky. This original publisher's binding is scarce as the soft boards… Read More

Second edition. John Murray. London. 1873. Octavo. xix, 340pp. Engraved frontis., folding map (with closed tears and small hole), 9 further plates. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering and blind motifs. All edges marbled. p.242 misnumbered 224. Light toning, occasional marks.
George Chaworth Musters (1841-1879) "The King of Patagonia" led a remarkable life. Born in Naples, he was orphaned by the age of four, and brought up by his uncle Hammond who had sailed with Fitzroy aboard "The Beagle". He lived and travelled throughout South America, and was recognised by the RGS for his contributions to the geographical knowledge of the continent.
His wife Mary is the ' Mary ' of Byron's poem, 'The Dream.'
"Commander R.N. Traveller and explorer in unknown latitudes of South America" [From his gravestone].

First edition thus. Signed dedication. William Heinemann. London. 2012. 312pp. Original black lettered grey cloth, in original unclipped dust wrapper. Signed dedication by the author in red ink to title page dated June 2012. A nice copy, edges slightly sunned. Translated by Frank Wynne. Alonso Cueto Caballero (1954- ). Peruvian writer and academic

Limited edition of 150 copies, this being number 82. Queen Anne Press. London. 2010. Octavo. 364pp. Limitation leaf tipped in. Frontis. portrait photo., further photo plates. Original green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Endpaper maps.
First published in 1933 this edition includes new photos from Fleming's album of the expedition and his own corrections. "The fate of Colonel Percy Fawcett, distinguished explorer and mystic, who vanished in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil in 1925 while in search of El Dorado, or the City of Z as he called it, has never ceased to intrigue and to inspire…Peter Fleming, my father, was a precocious young man of 24 when he embarked for Brazil…"

Williams & Norgate. London. 1911. 8vo. xxxiii, 385pp. 16pp publisher's adverts. Frontis., 15 further plates, folding map. Original cloth, gilt lettering and decorative motif taken from a Labrador racket or snow shoe to front cover. Slightly bumped and rubbed. Light toning. Blackwell's small bookplate to fep.

First edition. Macmillan Company. New York. 1917. Octavo. xxiv, (1), bl., 359pp + 4pp ads. Frontis., 11 further plates and maps. Folding map of the Caribbean Lands. Original blue cloth, with slight shelf wear. Partially unopened, edges untrimmed. Bookplate of Thomas Watson Kirkconnell to fep. Signature H. A. Olmsted to ffep.

Fourth revised and augmented edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1922. [London: George Allen & Unwin. New York: Chas Scribner's Sons tipped in below]. lxx, 420pp. 14 folding maps, 12 plans. Original red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Marbled edges. Bookmarker. Publisher's ads to front endpapers. Edward Stanford Ltd Cartographers to the King bookseller's plate to fep. Proud edge of frontispiece map toned and slightly chipped, map unaffected; Maritime Provinces map misfolded. A few minor specks to boards. A nice crisp copy. The last edition of this title. Hinrichson E266.

Third revised and augmented edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Dulau and Co. London. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1907. Octavo. lxiv, 331pp. All maps and plans pristine as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. All edges marbled. Publisher's adverts to feps. Double bookmark. Lightly rubbed to head and tail of spine.
Hinrichsen E265

George Routledge and Sons. c. 1905. Octavo. ix, 109, (1)pp. Numerous monochrome plates, two coloured litho plates, lacking frontispiece. Coloured folding plan "Section of a Cocoa Factory", Coloured folding chart of "Cocoa Producing Countries", coloured folding map of Trinidad. Original green pictorial boards, spotted and rubbed to extremeties. Signature to fep.
The natural history of cocoa, its growth and cultivation, its sources and varieties, and its manufacture, with a well illustrated section relating to Bourneville.

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.]

Dodd Mead & Company. New York. 1913. Royal 8vo. x, 141pp. Photo frontis., 29 further plates, map and text illus. Original red cloth, gilt, slightly sunned to spine. The Eighth Amherst Expedition, 1911.

First edition. T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1894. xxiii, 242pp. 6pp publisher's adverts. Tissue guarded photo frontispiece, 15 further photo plates. Original green cloth, faded and discoloured with some spotting. Top edge gilt, pages untrimmed. Some toning to free endpapers and tissue guard, otherwise generally crisp and bright.James Rodway (1848-1926) British Guyanese historian, botanist and novelist. Fellow of the Linnean Society.

First edition. Christopher Davies. Llandybie. 1969. 36pp. In d/w.

Robert Gerallt Hamlet Jones (1934-1999)

Writer and educationist. His only book of poetry written in English

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 English edition. Henry Colburn. London. 1828. 8vo. Title, xii, 428pp. Full marbled paper covered boards, 19th Century pseudo tree calf papier croisé pattern. Red spine label with gilt lettering and edge rules. Blue endpapers. Title page slightly toned. Lacking half-title. Rubbing to spine edges. A crisp copy of the rarer London first edition.
In making a Papier Croisé, the final step required that the paper be lifted up and carefully moved while still wet. This caused the characteristic knotting in the design.
John Ledyard (1751-1789) American explorer and adventurer. Ledyard accompanied Cook on the third and final voyage 1776-1780. Visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Prince Edward Islands off South Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and then Hawaii. It continued to the northwest coast of North America, making Ledyard perhaps the first U.S. citizen to touch its western coast, along the Aleutian islands and Alaska into the… Read More

Printed at the Riverside Press. For Private Distribution. Cambridge, Mass. 1907. 8vo. [xi], 323pp. Frontis., 12 further plates, tissue guarded, 2 folding genealogical tables. Half morocco, marbles boards. Spine in six compartments, each boxed in gilt, gilt lettering and date. Marbled endpapers. Silk bookmark. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Inscribed by the author to Mrs von Mohl to ffep, dated February 1908. 1955 inscription "from Papa". Bookplate of Wanda von Mohl to front pastedown.

Wanda von Mohl (née Countess von der Groeben), (1854-1910) wife of the German Diplomat Ottmar von Mohl.

Third edition. Lee and Shepard. Boston. [1875]. Octavo. (2), 310pp. 4 engraved plates. Original decorative cloth, gilt and black . Upper hinge starting. Corners rubbed, wear to tips of spine and edges. Provenance: Henry Sotheran Limited receipt for this copy dated 21 November 2011 loosely inserted. (£295.00 paid)

First UK edition. John Camden Hotten. London. 1868. Small octavo. xii, 403pp. Half title, Frontispiece portrait. Title. Later full blue calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt rules and lettering. Lightly toned. Spine slightly darkened. Signature of Raisley Moorsom in pencil to ffep.
The first edition of Whitman published in the UK, the only time Whitman (reluctantly) allowed his writings and his portrait photograph to be censored.