Recent Arrivals from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition, number 28 of a limited edition of 500. Signed by both Lord Dunsany and Sydney H. Sime. G. P. Putnam's Sons. London. 1922. Quarto. (6), 322pp. Tissue guarded frontispiece, signed by the artist Sydney H. Sime. Preface signed by Dunsany. Quarter vellum, cloth. Leather label, gilt lettering a little faded, date and rules. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.… Read more about this item

Sixteen volumes. Privately Printed by The Burton Club. n.d. [19--]. Royal octavo. Title pages printed in red and black. Vol. I: Maze calligraphy plate in Kufic script spells out the title of the translated book "Kitab Al Layla Wa Layla" with an intricate puzzle play on words. Tissue guarded Frontispiece portrait of the author. xxi, 362pp; Vol. II: Tissue guarded… Read more about this item

A COLLECTION OF 8 ITEMS OF HISTORIC INTEREST: HAND-CORRECTED PROOF; REVIEW COPY; CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS 1. Mailer, Norman Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers. Produced by Lawrence Schiller; Designed by Allen Hurlburt. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. 1973. 111 photographs, 271 pp. Original embossed cream cloth, discoloured. In the original dust wrapper, chipped, small hole to upper edge.… Read more about this item

Royal Asiatic Society. [Publisher's extract From the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April, 1933]. 6pp. Stapled paper wraps, as published. Upper cover a little dusty, with chip to edge. Staples oxidised. Giuseppe Tucci (1894-1984) Italian Orientalist, Archaeologist, Adventurer and Scholar, Lecturer at the University of Rome, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. Ippolito Desideri (1684-1733) Italian… Read more about this item

3 volumes. First edition. Macmillan and Co. London. 1899. Octavo. (8" x 5"). Vol. I: xiv, 340pp. Tissue guarded engraved frontispiece, 45 further engravings (including 3 maps); Vol. II: xii, 339pp. Tissue guarded photo frontispiece, 57 further illustrations (including 4 maps); Vol. III: xi, (1),350, (2)pp. Engraved frontispiece, 24 further illustrations (including 3 maps). Original blue cloth, gilt to spines… Read more about this item

The Naval History of Great Britain, commencing with the earliest 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… Read more about this item

First edition. Printed by Hadden Best & Co. Ipswich for the Author. 1977. 8" x 6". 18pp. Original pictorial stapled blue wraps. A little sunned to covers. A meticulously researched monograph, with appendices. Scarce. In 1874 the engine, railway and six Englishmen left Ipswich for Shanghai in the SS Glenroy via the new Suez Canal. These men, with a Chinese workforce,… Read more about this item

First edition. G. Bell & Sons. London. 1931. Octavo. 688pp. Frontispiece portrait, 8 further plates. 2 large folding coloured maps. Original light green cloth, gilt to spine. Some mottling to upper edge of lower board. Small ink spots to p.539. A nice firm copy with no tears or misfolds to the maps. Salmon, Charles Edgar (1872-1930) This work was published posthumously… Read more about this item

First edition. Privately printed for the Authors by V. T. Sumfield, Station Street, Eastbourne. 1907. Octavo. (2), 511pp. Tissue guarded fontispiece, 14 further plates. Folding coloured map to rear. Original green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Ink spot to lower margin of the title page. Some rubbing and wear to extremeties. Occasional light foxing, mainly to endpapers and… Read more about this item

First edition. Privately printed by T. Buncle & Co. Ltd. Arbroath. To be obtained from the Author, Albert Wilson, Tir-y-Coed, Ro Wen, Conway. 1938. Octavo. (3), 413pp. Frontispiece, 36 further photo-plates. Colour map of Westmorland to rear pocket (with tapered margin as published). Original green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Some occasional light foxing to endpapers and verso… Read more about this item

Flora of Guernsey and the Lesser Channel Islands: namely, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and the adjacent islets. First edition. Dulau & Co. London. 1901. Octavo. viii, 501pp. 5 coloured maps: The Islands; Guernsey (folding); Alderney; Sark; Herm. Original cloth, gilt to spine. Edges untrimmed. Partially unopened. Some foxing/toning to endpapers, otherwise a bright copy. Ernest David Marquand (1848–1918) One of a number… Read more about this item

First edition. Belfast Naturalists Field Club. Belfast. Macmillan and Bowes. Cambridge. 1888. xxxiii, (2), 331pp. Original decorative cloth, gilt lettering and motif of Rosa Hibernica to the upper board. Slight wear to corners. Ownership signatures of Mortimer and Robson, Woodside, Helen's Bay, to ffep. Published after the tragic death of Thomas Hughes Corry age 23, drowned on Lough Gill in… Read more about this item

First edition. T. Buncle & Co. Arbroath. 1945. Octavo. 62pp. Frontispiece, 5 further plates. Large folding map. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. Map endpapers. Occasional light toning (war paper), a nice copy. Campbell writes, "By July final plans were made and the party completed: Messrs A. J. Wilmott, E. B. Bangerter and J. A. Crabbe from the Department of Botany,… Read more about this item

First edition. W. Meals and Company. Carlisle. 1898. Octavo. xxxvi, 398pp. Folding map, a little creased and sunned to the fore-edge, geological map. Original cloth, gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Occasional spotting, light toning to endpapers. A couple of light marks to boards, lightly bumped to corners. Occasional marginal plant-hunting and botanical notes in an unknown hand, with dates… Read more about this item

Nagel Publishers. Geneva. 1979. 2 Volumes. Octavo. 203pp, 45 colour plates, 73 monochrome plates, endpaper maps; 221pp, 21 colour plates, 64 monochrome plates, endpaper maps. Original faux leather binding, in the original dust wrappers. No inscriptions. A nice set. PERROT, JEAN (1920–2012 ), French prehistorian and archaeologist specialising in the Middle and Near East.

An historic archive from the private collection of William Duckworth, Lake District Botanist, Plant Collector, Naturalist, of primary sources for the original discovery by Thomas Coulthard Heysham of 'Carum verticillatum' 45 years before William Duckworth had flattered himself for a time with being the first recorder of that rarity. Baker, J. G. A Flora of the English Lake District. George Bell. London.… Read more about this item

First edition. William Pamplin. London. 1862. Octavo. l, 469pp. Four hand coloured plates, crisp and bright. Map, split to folds and incomplete, in tape repaired pocket to fep. Original green embossed cloth, gilt to spine. Ink splash to upper board, foredge and lower edge. Faded to spine, a well used copy with some neat annotation and underlining by its previous… Read more about this item

Die Maschinen-Elemente - ihre Berechnung und Konstruktion mit Rücksicht auf die neueren Versuche - Bände. Erster Band Text, zweiter Band Tafeln und Tabellen. Two volumes. Alfred Kroner Verlag, Leipzig. Quarto. 1908. 952, 65 double page plates, 29pp. Publisher's adverts. Text diagrams and illustrations in addition to the plate volume. Half morocco. Spines in five bands, leather labels, decorative gilt. All… Read more about this item

First edition. Methuen and Co. London. 1928. Octavo. x, 244pp. 8pp publisher's catalogue. Original cloth, sunned to the spine, with a few spots. Corners bumped. Endpaper map. Corner clipped to ffep. Frontispiece plate, 18 photo illustrations on 15 further plates. Occasional light spotting. Ownership inscription in pencil to ffep. Sir Algernon Aspinall (1871-1952) Secretary of the West India Committee.

Originally printed for the Camden Society in 1868, reprinted with the permission of the Royal Historical Society AMS Press. New York. 1968. Octavo. xxxvii, 106pp. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. A near fine copy. Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) English courtier and diplomat, polymath, natural philosopher, astrologer, alchemist and leading intellectual described as "The Ornament of this Nation". Not only a… Read more about this item