Search Results: Military History from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. The Connoisseur Publishing Company. (Printed by the Cranford Press). London. 1909. Quarto. Title page in red and black. xlix, 72pp. xxviii catalogue of adverts at end. 24 full colour plates, numerous further half-tone plates. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Decorative upper board, with vignette, gilt and black. Some foxing and edge spotting throughout to text pages (as is often the case with this title), plates unaffected.

A new edition, revised and enlarged. John Murray. London. 1857. 2 volumes. Octavo. xx, 480pp.; vii, (1), 428pp. Text illus. Full contemporary calf, elaborately gilded to spine, in six compartments, leather labels in red and olive with gilt lettering. Double gilt border rules to boards, with floral stops, edge tooling in gilt. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Slight darkening to area of upper board of Volume I. Minor shelf wear.
Bookplate stamp A.H.R. to ffep of each volume. Inscribed dedication to ffep of Volume I. "Arthur H. Robinson from his friend James Oswald on his leaving Eton Easter 1862" added note "James Oswald only son of O of Auchincruive Ayrshire d. Dec. 1865"
Sir John Francis Davis (1795–1890) Author, translator, East India Company. British diplomat and sinologist who served as Governor of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1848. Davis was the founder and first President of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong.

First edition. Printed for the Clan Line Steamers by Jarrold and Sons, The Empire Press. Norwich. nd. Octavo. viii, 135pp. Photo portrait frontis., 11 further photo plates. Original blue decorative cloth, gilt and blind tooling to spine, gilt and embossed vignette to upper board. Spine sunned, slight edge wear. Occasional neat pencil underlining. A large number of the Clan LIne's ships were requisitioned by the British Government during the First World War. They were called "The Scots Navy". Of 62 ships at the outbreak of war, 28 were lost.Only two copies of this rarer edition held in the UK: National Maritime Museum and the City of London Guildhall, who both query the date of publication. Not held in the British Library. The more common Cassells reprint was published in 1924.

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.

Herausgegeben von der Sturm Zigaretten G.M.B.H. Dresden. 1932. Oblong 4to album. (2), 40, (2), (2), (2)pp. 240 tissue guarded cigarette cards tipped in onto heavier card. Original cream, red and black embossed boards. Spine and corners a little rubbed. A nice copy, complete with all cards carefully mounted.
The Sturm Cigarette Company (Sturm Zigaretten, Storm Cigarettes or Military Assault Cigarettes) was created by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA). The plans originated in 1929 when Arthur Dressler proposed setting up the factory in Dresden, the centre for cigarette production in Germany.. The sale of its cigarettes provided the SA with operating funds. Coercion and violence were used to increase sales. The Nazi Storm troopers were not only encouraged to smoke the Sturm Cigarettes, indeed they were forbidden to smoke other brands.
Known as the Brownshirts, The Sturmabteilung (SA) was the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in… Read More

First edition. Printed by W. J. Parrett Ltd. 25 Cech Square, Margate. 1947. Original blue buckram, gilt lettering to upper board. (5), 144pp. 8 photo plates. 8 maps. Covers slightly darkened, a nice crisp copy with no inscriptions.Line drawn maps of England Battery Locations, Battery Routes, From the Beaches to Falaise, The Pursuit to the Seine, The Channel Ports, The Scheldt, The Maas and the River, The Reichswald Forest and the Rhine"This Diary is not meant to be good prose. It is not meant to be official. It almost certainly offends against a number of K.Rs. It is the Diary of a Battery Officers Mess. Its several authors wrote, when the spirit moved them and often in the oddest of places"

Three volumes. Macmillan and Co. London. 1930, 1931, 1935. Octavo. xii, 428pp, Frontis., 7 further plates; xiii, 333pp, Frontis., 6 further plates; vii, 241pp, Photo Frontis. Original blue cloth, spine labels (browned), faded and sunned to spines, covers mottled/marked. Scuff to Vol. II rear board. Tissue guards. "From the author" tipped in to Volume I, inscribed "To Jermyn Moorsom from his friend F. S. Oliver" to ffep Volume II.

Frederick Scott Oliver (1864-1934) Political writer, businessman

Jermyn Moorsom (1881-1951) Son of James Marshall Moorsom. Haileybury, Eton. One of Darling's Kingsmen at Cambridge, one of Josie Low's "Quartet", friend of EM Forster etc. m. Pamela Milbourne-Swinnerton-Pilkington (1926). Became a sheep farmer at Hyndlee, Hawick, and later moved to Durrus, near Cork. Died March 1951, Durrus Court, Bantry, having changed his surname to 'Moorson'.

"This is a book about politics. Its subject is the endless adventure of governing men. Its object is to show how politicians of… Read More

First edition. University Press, Cambridge. 1939. xlii, 373pp. 10 plates, folding map, text map, 7 tables. Original green cloth, gilt to spine. Edges untrimmed. Corners lightly rubbed. Map misfolded, with minor chipping to edge. Bookplate to fep of Lancashire Education Committee. Date due label removed from ffep. Brown pocket with card and original catalogue card to rep. Faint mark to top of upper board. This volume, published under the Polynesian Bequest embodies Williamson's manuscripts both published and unpublished. It covers Warfare in Central Polynesia, Kava in Samoa and Tonga, Kava in other Polynesian Islands, The Arioi, and Sex, Courtship and Infanticide. It includes a 14 page bibliography.

First edition. Kelly and Walsh. Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, Yokohama, Hankow. 1921. Octavo. 86pp. Colour frontispiece. 40 further photo plates, numerous pen and ink sketches. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine and upper board with vignette. Slightly faded, light wear. Occasional faint toning. Signature "Amory" to ffep. Chinese red booksellers stamp to ffep and title. Small vestige of a tipped in letter to ffep.
Samuel Cornell Plant (1866-1921) Know as Pu Lan Tian. The first shipmaster to command a merchant steamer on the Upper Yangtze River through gorges from Yichang to Chongqing. Plant created the Sichuan Steam Navigation Company, providing the first steam service on the Upper Yangtze as Captain of SS Shutung and SS Shuhun. From his houseboat, The Junie, he charted the waters of the gorges. "Plant installed the river's navigational marks, established signaling systems, wrote a manual for shipmasters, and trained hundreds of foreign and Chinese pilots." [A.C. Bromfield & Rosemary Lee, "The… Read More

First edition. Frederick A. Praeger. New York. Washington. 1969. Octavo. xii, (1), 423pp. 31 maps (2 folding - one coloured). Original green cloth, a little spotted, gilt to spine. In the original dust wrapper slightly chipped at edges and corners. A nice crisp bright copy with no inscriptions.Dorothy Woodman (1902-1970) Journalist, writer and activist, "vegetarian, pacifist, and dynamic revolutionist" [Louis Fischer]

Printed for C. C. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row and J. Edwards, Pall Mall. London. 1798. Quarto. 149pp. (103-252). Engraved frontispiece portrait. Two further large folding engraved plates. Occasional spotting, some foxing to the plates. Some small dogears to lower corner. Extracted from the larger work: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. Lacking boards, frontispiece plate loose, remainder firmly stitched, with remaining worn spine strip.Including: Supplement to the Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III. A Reply to the Observations of the Rev. Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, and President of the Society of Antiquities, On The Wardrobe Account of 1483, &c. Printed at the end of Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1770.Short Observations on The Remarks of the Rev. Mr. Masters, on the Historic Doubts, published in the second volume of the… Read More

Cliftonville Press. Hove. 1920. Octavo. xliii, 160pp. Tissue guarded photo frontis., 7 further photo plates. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, embossed to upper board, bumped to corners, bubbled to upper board, a couple of spots to spine, light wear. Edges untrimmed, occasional light foxing/spotting. No inscriptions.

Printed by W.S. for Richard and Ralph Simpson near the North Door of St Paul's. London. Third edition. 1708. Octavo. (8), 310pp. Contemporary calf, relaid to spine. Decorative and elaborately blind tooled and speckled to upper and lower boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, blind rules, leather label, gilt lettering. Vestiges of floral gilt tooling to edges. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Edges sprinkled red. Endpapers toned. Light marginal water stain to lower gutter of title page. Wright Bookplate to fep. A pleasure to hold and to read.
Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628-1699) Restoration diplomat, statesman and essayist. Jonathan Swift was his secretary from 1689; the original manuscript of this work was in Swift's hand. Swift began a sequel, but later abandoned it. Samuel Johnson stated Temple was "the first writer who gave cadence to English prose" and modelled his own style upon it. One of the earliest scholarly studies of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman culture.
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First edition. Printed for Henry Colburn. London. 1824. 4to. (2), vii, (1), xxxviii, 264, cxxxv, (1)pp. Folding map, 11 further plates (2 of which are folding). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spine in five compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and lettering. Worn and rubbed to joints, boards and extremities. Title page reinforced to gutter margin. Spot to margin of title page. Short closed marginal tear to vii. Map misfolded, with some closed tears to folds (no loss). Closed fold tears to Plate 1 (no loss). Plates 3 & 5 with short closed edge chips/tears. Plate 6 loose, with corners to margin cropped. Plate 8 loose, cropped to upper margin. Occasional spotting/browning. Pertinent marginal annotation dated 1874 to pages 192 & 241 in Cary's handwriting. Vestiges of a tipped in note to fep. Lacks plates 2, 9, 10, 11.
Provenance of note:
Inscribed to endpaper: "To C. Adams from Her Godfather Tom – after residing two years in this Garden of Eden 1864-5. Dated June 8th 1866".

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New edition. W. H. Allen & Co. London. 1896. Octavo. vi. (1), Errata slip, 333pp. Frontispiece portrait, tissue guarded. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine and upper board vignette. Rubbing to extremities and wear to foot of spine, with fading of cloth in places. Slightly askew, with a little straining at p113, p129 and hinges. Hawke, Edward, first Baron Hawke (1705–1781), naval officer, First Lord of the Admiralty. "As a superb operational commander in 1747 and again, in uniquely testing circumstances, in 1759, and as a successful first lord of the Admiralty, Hawke deserves to occupy a very special place in eighteenth-century naval history." ODNB.Montagu Burrows (1819-1905) British historian, Officer in the Royal Navy, the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, lecturing on Naval History.

Chatto and Windus. London. 1876. Octavo. xxxii, 368pp. 64 portrait plates engraved by Edward Scriven. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised banding, each compartment with gilt rules, motifs and decoration, leather label with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Some shelf wear to edges, corners a little rubbed and bumped. Some spotting to the frontispiece and title page. Occasional offsetting of portrait plates. Text crisp and bright. A handsome firm binding.
Provenance of interest: from the library of Rev. John Bowen Rowlands of Hubberston.
Inscribed to the free endpaper, "John Bowen Rowlands, Hubberston Rectory, 8 September 1894"
Reverend J.B. Rowlands (1844-1928), Trinity College 1857; M.A. Balliol College, the son of the Haverfordwest architect, Thomas Rowlands. He became rector of Hubberston, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1869. During his years there he gained the reputation of being a powerfully eloquent and accomplished preacher. It was… Read More

Hugh Rees. London. 1911. First English edition. xvi, 304pp. Photo frontis., 31 further plates, 2 trench plates, 6 folding maps. Original cloth, gilt. Bumped and rubbed to extremities. Occasional minor spotting.

Nikolai A. Tretyakov (1854-1917) Military Engineer and General in the Imperial Russian Army, commanding the Fifth East Siberian Rifles during the Battle of Nan Shan and the siege of Port Arthur. "Heroic".

August 4, 1904 - January 2, 1905, the siege of Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsular of Manchuria was the longest battle of the Russo-Japanese War.

The Naval History of Great Britain, commencing with the earlies period of history, and continued to the Expedition against Algiers, under the command of Lord Exmouth, in 1816. Including the history and lives of the British Admirals. Comprising also biographical sketches of the Admirals and other Naval Officers omitted by Dr John Campbell, or who have distinguished themselves since the time of that author. Preface by John Stockdale.8 Volumes. Printed by Joyce Gold, Sloe Lane, London for Baldwyn and Co, Bigg, Bohte, Bumpus, Carlisle, Cranwell, Fisher, Hughes, Lester, Mason, M'Lean, Offor and Sons, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Stockdale, Taylor, and Wright; Also Anderson, Newcastle; Comerford; Portsmouth; Curtis, Plymouth; Rielly, Liverpool; and Wilson, Hull. 1818. Octavo. (8" x 5"). Vol. I: Half-title, title, Directions to the Binder, xxi, xxiii, 539pp. Frontispiece portrait plate, 2 folding copper engraved maps hand coloured in outline; Vol. II: Title, 538pp. Frontipiece portrait plate; Vol. III: Title,… Read More

The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV. A New Edition, with additions and notes, and an account of the Burmese War and the Battle of Navarino by Captain Chamier, R.N. 6 volumes. Richard Bentley. Publisher in Ordinary to his Majesty. London. 1837. Octavo. (9" x 5.5")Vol. I: xxiv, 404pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait, 3 further engraved portrait plates, 4 folding sheets of abstracts(1-4); Vol. II: vii, 394pp. Frontispiece portrait, 3 further engraved portrait plates, 3 folding sheets of abstracts (5-7); Vol. III: vii, 376pp. Frontispiece portrait, 2 further engraved portrait plates, 6 folding sheets of abstracts (8-13); Vol. IV: vi, 376pp. Frontispiece portrait, 3 further engraved portrait plates, 2 folding sheets of abstracts (14-15); Vol. V: vii, (1), 401, (1)pp. Frontispiece portrait, 3 further engraved portrait plates, 4 folding sheets of abstracts (16-19); Vol. VI: viii, 567, (1)pp (errata). Frontispiece portrait, 4 further… Read More

Second edition with a new introduction and material changes. George Bell and Sons. London. 1906. 8vo. xxxii, 422pp. Photo frontis., 16 further plates, folding coloured map. Original pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering to spine, a little faded. Slight wear to top and tail of spine. Bookseller's plate "Chas E Lauriat Co, Boston" to lower edge of ffep. Endpapers lightly toned, otherwise a bright crisp copy. The new introduction comprehensively addresses the material changes in Nyasaland since the original publication of this book in 1903, and clarifies some areas which "were somewhat misunderstood".
"The book has much to say of wars, chiefs, customs. We commend the chapter on "Big Game" specially. "Nyasa affords probably the finest sport obtainable in Africa today" The Spectator 27 April 1907.