from Paul Haynes Rare Books

Rudolph Herzog. Berlin. [1916]. 4to. 132pp, on heavier paper + unused diary on a lighter weight, toned paper. Numerous illustrations in monochrome and colour. Original cream cloth, with black and gilt decoration to boards and spine. Decorative endpapers. Pencil holder. Slightly bumped to corners. Some slight discoloration to boards. Contains in addition to the calendars, the seating plans of the… Read more

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

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.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. nd. [c.1906]. 8.5cm x 14cm. Postcard advertising the publication of "The most significant book on the subject since Nansen's" Printed in dark green. Unused.

The Cottage Furniture Arcade (Next door to P. E. Gane, Ltd.), 161-2, Commercial Street, Newport, Mon. 16mo. nd. [c. early 20th century]. 14pp. Original pictorial paper covers, red and black. String tie. Staple rusted. Includes Kitchen Economy, Fuel Economy, Cleanliness, Saving Gas, Soap, Table of Rough Measures, The Larder in Hot Weather, Odds and Ends, Cast Iron and Economy.

Album. Oblong quarto. 19.5 x 27 cm. Jean Frey Buch und Kunstdruckerei. Zurich. nd. [c.1907]. 96pp: 46 photograph plates. 46pp adverts, 2pp family tree form (unfilled), 1pp index. 1pp introduction. Original pictorial boards, gilt lettering and colour vignette to upper board, black lettered advertisement for Henckell & Roths Lenzburger Confituren to lower board. Cloth spine. All edges red. Decorative… Read more

Album. H. Siebenhar. Koln. nd. 16.5 x 27 cm. 14 engraved plates, from photographs, on embossed art paper. Original pink cloth boards, gilt lettering and floral motif to upper board. Stamp of H. Siebenhar to rep. Boards a little discoloured with some wear. This album of photo-lithographs is rare. No copies in Worldcat. Siebenhar's Rhine Panoramas are more… Read more

Three original British Official photographs. Issued for the British Information Services by the Central Office of Information. London. 7 February 1963. 20.5 x 25.5 cm. Royal Marines conquer another Antarctic Peak. Pictures just received from the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship H.M.S. Protector, taken during the successful climb to the top of the hitherto unscaled 9,000 feet Mount Gaudry, highest… Read more

B.K.W.1. [Brüder Kohn Wien 1]. nd. [c.1916]. Oblong quarto (17 x 25 cm). Album of 24 colour plates from watercolour paintings of Vienna by various artists. Original pictorial red and cream boards, red cloth spine, gilt lettering to upper board with armoured knight in black. B.K.W.I. in black to lower board. The plates are captioned in German,… Read more

Printed by Bennett Brothers Ltd., Counterslip Works, Bristol. nd. (early 1900's) Oblong 8vo (24.5cm x 15cm) 58pp. Covers in green ink. Photo and engraved illustrations. Stapled. Lightly toned, covers a little discoloured. Final page index of prices struck through neatly with pen. Updated prices printed in purple ink. Order forms at rear removed at serration. Within the text is a… Read more

Quarto. 12 monthly parts bound in one volume. Ward, Lock, & Co. London 1880. xxx, 518pp; 12 hand coloured plates "The Newest French Fashions" for each month printed by Lefevre and published by Goubaud et Fils. With the subscribers' inserts: the cut out patterns have never been used. Large folding Fashion Sheet January 1880, Madam Adele Letellier: collar, cape,… Read more

"Happy Christmas to you and have a good time" 11.5 x 16.5 cm (26 x 18 cm mounted). Original etching, signed by the artist. Further signature to inner mount. The etching illustrates two chefs preparing food. Fritz Gross (1895 -1969) Architect and artist, the instigator of open plan design, born in Brelitz, an Austrian Jew who fled to England with… Read more

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

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

Typewritten letter, Chele Orchard, Ringwood, dated 24th April 1947, signed and addended in black ink to Dr MacPherson. 1pp. 25cm x 20cm. Thanking him for the "parcel of rice, cocoa-nut and ground nuts, which in other days I used to call ful Sudani". With mention of Gold Coast, McMurtrie, Libyan Oases, rice, cocoa-nut, ground nuts, Sudan, the fight against the… Read more

Handwritten letter. Gosport, November 9th 1818. 33cm x 23cm. folded 2pp. From William Burney To Dr P[atrick] Kelly, Finsbury Square, London. With seal. Corners creased. Uniformly lightly toned. Regarding the vacancy for Mathematics Master at The Royal Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital occasioned by the death on October 28th of Thomas Simpson Evans LLD FLS (1777-1818) aged 41, Mathematician, formerly Assistant… Read more

Bound together with: Janssen, L. J. F. Der boom van Jesse, eene muurschilderij uit de XV eeuw. In de Buukerk to Utrecht, bescheven en opgehelderd. Utrecht. 1846. Bound together with: Manuscript dated 1829. 8vo. lii, 396pp. Title page in red and black, engraved frontis., 2 folding engraved maps, 1 folding engraved plate, slight tear. [19pp]. Folding engraved plate. Original… Read more

Christmas 1930. Favil Press (No. 110). Folded sheet. 24cm x 30cm. Mummer's song. Musical notation, text and coloured woodcut. Handwritten conundrum to verso. Toned, untrimmed. John Ormerod Greenwood (1907-1989) Actor, author, playwright, producer and Quaker historian. Founder member of the Group Theatre of London.