Search Results: Natural HIstory from Paul Haynes Rare Books

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 panelled calf, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, blind rules. Gilt lettering and floral tooling to second compartment. Blind tooling to boards
Small symbols inscribed to base of title page. Neat historic addenda to the margins. P22 'Angelica' in historic script to margin. P173 small portrait to margin. P180 note to lower margin re 'hen Bane'. P256 script to margin "Touch me not or Elaterium". P671 script 'Powder' to margin. P892 script to margin 'Extract'. Occasional drawn marginal manicules. P1162 script to margin 'Powder'. P312 misnumbered 351. Four leaves of index restored to margins, in slightly smaller state. P63 slight loss of text (4… Read More

First edition. Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, in Gray's Inn; J. Hodges near London Bridge; J. Newbery, in St. Paul's Churchyard; B. Collins; And S. Crowder and H. Woodgate, in Pater-noster Row. London. 1756. Folio. Engraved frontispiece. Title page in red and black. (2), dedication, 533, (3) index pp. Text in double columns. Decorative engraved tailpieces. 75 engraved plates. Contemporary full calf. Spine in seven compartments with raised bands and red leather label. Relaid to joints and corners. Inner margin repair to title, lower edges of 1-4 chipped, paper fault small hole to 47/8, short closed tear to 113/4 with basic paper repair to verso, minor insect damage to lower margin 169/70, repair to outer margin 429/30. Toning/darkening to feps, frontispiece and title. Corner of front pastedown torn with loss. Creasing to title and frontispiece. Occasional spotting, a handsomely patinaed copy.
Historic pressed grasses have been loosely inserted at 269, 303, 337, 351, 419, 431, 437, 499, and at… Read More

Fifth edition, revised. Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow. 1891. Small octavo. xxxii, 277pp. Frontispiece portrait, 7 litho plates. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering and rules to spine. Corners a little rubbed/bumped. Floral endpapers. Signature to ffep, dated 1890.

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, 1884, with neat informative annotations in his handwriting to the text. John Thornton, publisher of Thornton's Shorthorn Circular from 1868, the most famous pedigree livestock auctioneer of all time. Assistant editor (with Strafford) of Coates's Herd Book. A poem, "The Golden Shorthorns" was published in PUNCH 1867, commemorating the Shaw Farm Windsor Sale'Twas Strafford raised his sandglass, and Thornton held the pen, When to a Windsor coffee-room flocked scores of Shorthorn men ; They crowded round the table, they fairly blocked the door- He stood champagne, did Sheldon, of Geneva,… Read More

Quarto. First edition. 143pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Original cloth, white lettering and photo to upper board. In original dust wrapper. Black endpapers. Inscribed to title page by the author with love to Clare Throckmorton. Loosely inserted are a typed quote from the first line of "The Horses and the Angels" by Agnes Nemes Nagy and an inscribed card to Clare: Botticelli Angel of the Annunciation, from Hungary."There is a small island in the Danube, near Rackeve. Its name is Angel Island - maybe not by chance..." From the introduction. Karoly Hemzo, photographer, was born in Budapest in 1928. A scarce title.

Blandford Press. London. 1967. Quarto. 191pp. Illustrations throughout. Original cloth faded and mottled to edges, rubbed to extremities, in chipped, creased and sunned d/w. Signature to pastedown.
Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912) Zoologist and medical officer on Scott’s two Antarctic expeditions. Wilson’s drawings and watercolours brought together for the first time. "Words must always fail me when I talk of Bill Wilson. I believe he really is the finest character I ever met" Scott.

William Blackwood in association with the National Trust for Scotland. Edinburgh. 1983. 4to. 86pp. Monochrome photo illus. Original laminated paper covers. Slightly bumped to corners.

First edition. John Donald. Edinburgh. 1989. 147pp. Photo illus in colour and monochrome. Original cloth, in original dust wrapper. Vgc.

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
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From the library of Enid Lucy… Read More

First edition, First Impression. Printed and Published for the Committee by William Lewis (Publishers) Limited. Cardiff. 1936. Large octavo, (near 4to in size) 31cm x 21cm. Printed in Caslon Old Face on colombier art paper. Title page in red and black. xix, 444pp. 4 folding coloured maps. 39 plates. 27 text figures. Includes the subscribers' list. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, faded to spine and some mottling to boards. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Occasional spotting, light foxing to prelims.
A General Survey of Glamorgan by A. E. Trueman; The Geological History of Glamorgan by A. Hubert Cox & A. E. Trueman; The Climate and Meteorology of Glamorgan by S. W. Rider; The Soils of Glamorgan by G. W. Robinson and D. O. Hughes; The Botany of Glamorgan by R. C. McLean et al; Zoology of Glamorgan by Colin Matheson et al.
Including "A Preliminary Prospectus of the Glamorgan County History. Volume I. Natural History". Quarto. 31cm x 21cm. 4pp. Printed in red and black. Historiated… Read More

William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1871. Octavo. 4 (ads), lxvi, 321, 16 (ads)pp. Original green decorative cloth, gilt, bevelled edges. Rubbed and worn to extremities. Hinges cracked, but firm. Pages untrimmed, occasional spotting.

William Sutherland (1833-1920) Scottish horticulturalist (Herbaceous) at Kew, Florence Court and Minto Roxburghshire, home of the Earl of Minto (subject of the conservation scandal of 1992). Correspondence held at Sissinghurst.

Provenance: Signature of "J Fraser Kew" to ffep and following page. John Fraser (1854-1935) FLS, VMH, Scottish horticulturalist and expert on the genus Mentha and Salix, RHS Chiswick 1880-1882, Kew 1882-86 & 1897-1909; editor of Gardener’s World Magazine.

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, historiated initials. Imprint date uses turned Cs. Running title: C. Plinii Secvndi Natvral Hist. Half calf, spine in seven compartments with leather label, renewed at a later date, retaining earlier marbled boards. Reinforced to hinges with linen. Some spotting, foxing, offsetting etc. A few minor dog-ears. Historic annotation in a neat hand to Lib. VI p.102 "These numbers are doubtless transposed" & to Lib. XXXIII p.653 "Ante de diminuum". A notably significant volume.
PROVENANCE
Early Inscriptions to Title Page:
D. Laurentius Strange
Charmay [indecipherable] [indecipherable] (written at an angle)
Bookplates to… Read More

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.

Timber Press. Portland and Cambridge. 2004. Small quarto. 431pp. Frontispiece, text illustrations, colour plates. Original green cloth, gilt to spine, in the original dust wrapper. A fine copy."The first comprehensive account of medicinal uses of wild plants by the country folk of Britain and Ireland". Includes a useful bibliography.

Natural History for Children: being a Familiar Account of the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, insects, fishes and reptiles, trees and plants. With plates and numerous cuts. In five vols. Vol. II. BirdsFirst edition. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster-row, and N. Hailes, Piccadilly. 1819. 12mo. Half title, Engraved frontispiece by J. Shury. Title. (2), 151, (1 adverts) pp. Over 50 woodcuts. Full contemporary tree calf. Spine in six compartments divided by double gilt rules. Leather label, gilt lettering. All edges sprinkled red. Bettison's Cheltenham bookseller's plate to fep. Signed Ellen Mary and Sarah Maria Seton Karr to ffep. Short detachment of title and contents to upper edge. Offsetting from frontispiece to title. Upper joint cracking but firm. Rubbing and wear to extremities. Each volume complete in itself. Extremely rare. One copy recorded - in the British Library.John Shury Engraver and print maker (1788-)

First editions. Volume I Printed for the Heirs of Charles Elliot; and C. Elliot and T. Kay, T. Cadell, and G. G. J. & J. Robinsons. Edinburgh. 1790. Volume II Printed for Bell and Bradfute et al. Edinburgh. 1799. Two volumes. Quarto. xiii, (1), 547pp; xii, 515pp. Later Quarter calf, marbled boards, spines in six compartments, with gilt rules and lettering. Tiny marginal corner loss I, xiii, light marginal stain to I, 544-7, II, 1-10. A handsome set.
William Smellie (1740-1795), Naturalist, Antiquary, Master Printer, Compiler of the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, founder of the Newtonian Society, member of the Scottish Enlightenment. As a master printer he printed works by David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Fergusson, James Beattie, Joseph Black, James Hutton and his great friend, Robert Burns. ODNB.
ESTC: T306102, T106301. Freeman 3437.

W. S Manley and Son. Leeds. 1994. Quarto. 60pp with colour photographs by the author. Original pictorial boards, as issued with no d/w., slightly sunned. The result of extensive research over 15 years. Signed by the author on title page.

Ian Appleyard (1923-1998) racing driver, Olympic skier and ornithologist.

First edition. First issue. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. London. 1848. Crown 8vo. xxiv, 416pp, 6pp manuscript index bound in. Engraved frontis., 6 further plates. Later rebacking using original red cloth embossed boards, bumped with shelf wear to extremities. Some foxing to plates, occasional spotting to text. Marginal tear 170. Last page chipped to upper corner. Occasional marginal pencil annotation, in the same hand as index.
Inscribed to title page "To Edw. Thomas" [indecipherable: Glansevern? Glansevin?]
Low, Sir Hugh
(1824–1905), botanist and colonial administrator. "Low became closely associated with James Brooke, who was then establishing his regime in Sarawak. Low also travelled widely in north Borneo and acquired exceptional knowledge of the land and people, which he demonstrated in his book Sarawak: its Inhabitants and Productions." Low developed a twelve-acre garden with a choice selection of plants. He made the first documented climb of Mount Kinabalu, the… Read More

Augustus M. Kelley. Reprints of Economic Classics. New York. 1967. Reprint of the Second Edition, corrected and enlarged. Originally Printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No. 51 in St Paul's Churchyard; T. Cadell, in The Strand; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh. 1771. 4 Volumes. Octavo. I: xxviii, 359, (1), Engraved Plates; II: (6), 459pp, Engraved Plates; III: vii, 464pp, Engraved Plates, Large Folding Map; IV: (5), 466pp, Pocket to rear containing six folding charts. Original faux leather, title lettering to spine faded. A few minor spots or marks. A clean, crisp, bright and tightly bound set of this nice reprint.Arthur Young (1741-1820) A writer, social and political observer, opponent of reform, and collector of early works on agriculture such as Duhamel du Monceau, Jethro Tull and Hartlib. Close friend of Walter Harte, author of Essays on Husbandry. The British Library features this important work: "George Eliot read A Six Months' Tour as research for her novel Adam Bede, in… Read More