France And French Interest from Paul Haynes Rare Books

3rd edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1902. 16mo. xxiv, 346pp. 27 maps, 31 plans as listed, all in good order and seemingly unopened. Original red boards. Gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Marbled edges. Publisher's ads to front pastedown. Red and green silk bookmarks. Faded to spine, a little surface wear to boards. Cracked to hinges, but firm. A… Read more

First edition. George Routledge. London. n.d. [1867 – source Getty Research Institute] vi, 138pp. Contemporary green half morocco, marbled boards, gilt to spine. Bound by Walker and Son, Plymouth. All edges sprinkled red. Light toning to endpapers. George Rose (1817-1882) a former curate in Camberwell, London. After leaving the Church of England in 1855, Rose underwent a major career change… Read more

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 extremities,… Read more

First edition. Printed and sold by William Darton, Jun. London. 1815.112, (3), 4pp publisher's ads. Folding engraved map, 12 copper engraved plates, (carriages and trades etc.) all in the original uncoloured state. Contemporary quarter calf, plain boards. Faded gilt lettering and rules to spine. Worn, with loss to head and foot of spine. Hinges and joints cracked, but holding. … Read more

First edition. Printed by arrangement from Messrs Churchill for John Walton; Tho. Wotton; Samuel Birt; Daniel Browne; Thomas Osborn; John Shuckburgh; and Henry Lintot. London. 1732. Folio. p.43-142. (99)pp. Two column text. Engraved tailpiece. The first English publication of this translation of Careri's travels through Italy, France, England, The Low Countries, The Empire and Austria. Extracted from A… Read more

Two volumes. Privately Printed. Oliver and Boyd. Edinburgh. MCMIV. Large octavo. xxx, (1), 281pp. Engraved frontispiece, 6 further engraved plates; xv, (1), 412, (2)pp. Engraved frontispiece, 7 further engraved plates. Original cloth, original labels to spines. Largely unopened, and untrimmed. Labels faded, covers slightly grubby. Chip to corner of one label. A couple of flecks and spots to covers.… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

[First edition thus] Fifth edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Paul Ollendorff. Paris. 1895. Octavo. xxix, 361pp. 8 maps, 22 plans, several folding. Original red cloth, mottled to edges of both boards. In original dust wrapper, chipped to edges and spine. All edges marbled. Green bookmarker. Signature Robinson to ffep. Small paper fault excess folded corner to title. A crisp copy,… Read more

First edition. Longman. London. 1971. Octavo. xiii, (1), 336pp. 29 monochrome illustrations. Map. Original cloth, gilt to spine. Original protected unclipped dust wrapper, two small closed tears to top edge, minor rubbing to top corner, slight fading to spine. Bookplate of Clare Tritton McLaren (Clare McLaren Throckmorton of Coughton Court) to ffep. Frederica Dorothy Violet Carrington (Lady Rose) (1910 - 2002)… Read more

First edition. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. London. 1863. Octavo. xii, 314pp. Original embossed red cloth, gilt to spine. Light shelf wear and rubbing to edges. Partially unopened. Inscription "Presented to Benjamin Williams Ffrith Tryddyn by Mrs Jones" dated 1910 to fep, same date to ffep. Vestiges of a removed bookplate to fep. James Bromfield (1815 -) [I.… Read more

Second English edition. Kaye & Ward. London. 1968. Octavo. 224pp. Photo illus. Original blue cloth, gilt. Original protected, unclipped dust wrapper. Edges lightly spotted. A very good copy. Gaston Rebuffat (1921-1985) One of the greatest climbers of all time.

Imprimerie de Charles Hérissey. Evreux. La Librairie Illustrée. Paris. [1888] Quarto. xii, 690pp. (1) Imprim. 8 tissue guarded coloured plates, numerous engraved full page illustrations and text engravings. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards. Spine in six compartments, gilt lettering, motifs and rules. Marbled endpapers. Some toning to half-title and last few pages. Slight shelfwear to edges and corners. John… Read more

Chez Dufart, Imprimeur-Libraire. Paris. An. 6. [1798] 7 volumes in 3. 12mo. Tome Premier: 205pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Second: 203pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Troisieme: 195pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Quatrieme: 183pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Cinquieme: 158, (1)pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Sixieme: 134, (1)pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Septieme: 146, (1)pp, Engraved frontis. Quarter calf, marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gilt… Read more

First and only edition. Chez Louis Janet Libraire, successor de son pere. nd [c.1800]. 12mo. 212pp. Engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, with tissue guards. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full red grained morocco, spine with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. Boards with double gilt border rules, foliar and floral embellishment, edge tooling, inner foliar curlicues. All edges gilt, (gilding a little… Read more

Chez Guibert. Paris. 1828. First edition. Octavo. [4]. 280pp. Coloured frontispiece, coloured map. Contemporary silked cloth, leather label, gilt lettering. A little rubbed, bumped and faded. Pages untrimmed, foxed, with water staining to upper margins. Signature M. Griffiths to ffep. Amand-Narcisse Masson de Saint-Amand, (1794-1831) Letters of a traveller at the mouth of the Seine, containing historical information, trivia and statistics… Read more

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. 1855. First English edition. Octavo. 493pp. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label. All edges marbled. Neat signature (M.C.E.S. Douglas) to upper edge of first blank. Shelf wear to extremities and boards. Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821 - 1891) historian and writer. Russell Martineau (1831 - 1898), Linguist, translator and… Read more

Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1912. 8vo. xiii, 191pp. Tissue guarded colour frontis., 70 further plates, 8 maps. Original publisher's pictorial cloth in green, white, tan and black. Gilt lettering to spine. Very bright. Some browning to endpapers and occasional foxing. The motoring Grand Tour pioneer.

Richard Bentley and Son. London. 1894. First edition. Octavo. xii, 411pp. Engraved frontis. with tissue guard, 37 further engraved illustrations, folding map. Half morocco, marbled boards, bound by Mudie. Slight shelf wear, rubbing. Spine in six compartments with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers and edges. Spotting to free endpapers. A cultural hike in the footsteps of Edward Harrison Barker has recently… Read more

University of Toronto Press. 1985. Royal octavo. cxix, 517pp. Original cloth in v.slightly soiled chipped dustwrapper. Essays written from 1826 to 1849, with scholarly interpretation and introduction.