Search Results: Spain and Portugal from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. First issue. Adam and Charles Black. London. 1911. Large octavo. vii, 172pp + publisher's ads. Twenty plates by Ella Du Cane: Tissue guarded colour frontispiece, 19 further tissue guarded plates; folding map. Original cream cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Light spotting and darkening to page edges. Endpapers uniformly toned, light foxing to the half title. Folding map slightly proud. Some light discolouration to the cream boards. A nice copy with no inscriptions or annotation.

Editorial Augusta. Barcelona. 1925. Small octavo. xxiv, 269pp. 61 plates, 2 large folding maps, coloured in outlline. Short closed tear and crease to edge fold of the first large map, otherwise both maps are correctly folded and un-torn. Location of the Gran Hotel Palma de Mallorca circled with pencil. Original red cloth, worn. Gilt lettering to upper board. Hinges cracked. Toned to endpapers. A few dogears. Retaining the original attached Hotel Falcon bookmark with attribution to this work. Purple inked stamp of the Turismo de Palma de Mallorca to verso of title page. Embossed price to lower board.
Inscription of interest to the ffep: (1936 inscription in different ink to the later inscription)
"Wimperis. Palma de Mallorca. January 1936. 3, The Vale, Chelsea, SW3". "To VW* 1960 & to Alan and Virginia 1966."
Edmund Walter Wimperis (1865-1946), Architect. The son of Edmund Morison Wimperis, watercolourist, and brother of the playwright Arthur Wimperis, Edmund Wimperis was architect to the Grosvenor… Read More

First edition. George Philip and Son; Philip, Son and Nephew. London & Liverpool. 1903. Small quarto. xix, 344, (4)pp. Tissue guarded photo frontispiece portrait tipped in, Folding coloured map, 3 further maps, numerous photo plates and text illustrations. Contemporary half calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and leather label. Beautifully gilded floral endpapers. All edges gilt. Slight rubbing. A handsome volume.Albert Frederick Calvert (1872-1946) FRGS Mineralogist, Traveller, Author, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabel, and Commander of the Royal Order of Alfonso XII. "His substantial contribution to Hispanism is awaiting reassessment" ODNB.

First edition. David Douglas. Edinburgh. 1882. Small quarto. viii, 83pp. Engraved frontispiece by John Le Conte (1816 - 1887) from an original by the author of the base of the remarkable cloud of June 26th 1881 and the old lava stream in the foreground. Spectroscopic plate. Original cloth, gilt to upper board and spine. Slightly faded to spine. A nice crisp copy.
Provenance: Inscribed by the author to James M. Bryson. James McKay Bryson (1824 – 1894), Optical Instrument maker at 60 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Fellow Member of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, the Photographic Society of Scotland, and for a time was Clockmaker for Scotland. Inventor of the Chromatic Teetotum in 1855. On 13 April 1858 at the Meeting of the Photographic Society of Scotland, James Bryson presented ·A Microscopic Camera ·A New form of Stereoscope. James McKay Bryson provided Charles Piazzi Smyth with scientific instruments for his researches and studies. The spectroscope used for the plate in this volume was made… Read More

Fourth edition. Printed for T. Cadell and G. Robinson. London. 1779. Octavo. Lacking half-title, xxiv, 311pp. Full calf, spine renewed, original boards showing small areas of surface wear. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering, blind tooling and leather label. Hinges reinforced. Spotting to title and prelims, and occasionally elsewhere. Circular Medical Society of London stamp to title; Unobtrusive 'Withdrawn By The Wellcome Library' to verso of title page. Neat lettering to upper margin of title page, and to verso of ffep.
Cleghorn, George (1716–1789), physician. Stationed in Minorca 1736-1749. The comprehensive introduction which covers the Minorquines, festivals, witchcraft and evil, climate, agriculture, wine, minerals, the natural history of the island, lists of plants and animals, together with the native names of several species, is followed by seven chapters on epidemical diseases, plus weather and Meteorological tables.
ESTC N10137

Third revised edition by Vera Mendes and Fernando Mascarenhas. Quetzal Editores & Antique Collector's Club. New York & Woodbridge. 1995. Quarto. 142pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. A lovely copy in the original blue cloth, embossed to spine. Decorative endpapers. In the original dust wrapper, with small chip and delamination to top left hand edge. With the bookplate of Clare Tutton McLaren of Coughton to ffep.

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.

First edition. Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd. Publishers to the Holy See. London. 1935. Octavo. x, 330pp. Frontispiece, 15 further plates. Original orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Boards and spine sunned and unevenly faded. Spotting to prelims and title page, text and plates crisp and bright.Juan Alban Fraser, Chevalier of the Portuguese Order of Christ, for many years the Vice Consul for Spain at Bristol. In this volume he traces the connections between Bristol and the West Country of England with Spain up to c. 1700. In the introduction written in Madrid, March 1935, Ramiro de Maeztu writes, "The days of England's self-glorification, when a Buckle could dedicate his life to explaining why British Civilization was so superior to that of other nations, have passed away ...in these days of universal crises we see the world reverting to nationalism"Ramiro de Maeztu (1875-1936) A year after he wrote this he was executed in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. His last words were: "You do not… Read More

Vintage. London. 1991. 230pp. Original covers. Text sunned to margins. Slightly bumped to corners.
Presentation copy from the author: To Bruce with love from Norman April 1991.

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 Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original MSS by Awnsham and John Churchill. Vol. VI. 43-142. Removed from the larger volume, thus lacking boards, sewn and intact with original spine strip. Final page partially detached at base. A couple of spots/browning, otherwise crisp and bright. All edges sprinkled red.

Penguin. London. 1985. 202pp. Original covers, with creasing. Text sunned to margins.
Presentation copy from the author: "BRUCE - the latest for your collection. A better jacket than the original, I think. Salute! Norman"

First English edition. Ingram Cooke and Co. London. 1853. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, Engraved title, Title, v, (3), 308pp. (4) Publisher's catalogue. 6 engraved plates. Numerous text engravings. Publisher's catalogues to yellow endpapers. Original embossed decorative cloth, with gilt to spine. Edge chipping and short splits to head and foot of spine. Some spotting and foxing. Inscribed Lizzie to upper margin ffep. Leighton, Son and Hodge, Shoe Lane, London plate to rep.Historic newspaper clipping tipped in to ffep. "Ghastly Scene at a Bull Fight. A Matador Gored to Death" reporting the death of bull fighter El Manuel Garcia Espartero May 27th, 1894, in Madrid. Hemingway devoted several manuscript pages regarding this bull fighter in his research for "Death in the Afternoon" and "The Undefeated". Killed four years before he was born, Hemingway regrets never having seen him fight. Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) French writer, artist, photographer, Daguerreotypist, and poet, "the… Read More

First edition. Gurney & Jackson. 1893. Octavo. xx, 472pp. Double-page frontispiece map, 52 plates, further text emgravings. Half calf, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Spine in six compartments with gilt embellishment, leather labels with gilt lettering bound and signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Slight foxing to preliminary pages, occasional spotting.
From the library of Humphrey Adam Gilbert (1886-1961) of Bishopstone, Hereford, hunter, shooter and fisher; author of a Tale of a Wye Fisherman, with his signature dated 1932 to first blank.

First edition. Quarto. Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, In The Strand. London. 1798. xi, [1] errata, 272p., 15 engraved plates. Folding engraved map of Portugal. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with double gilt rules, red leather label and gilt lettering. Silk bookmark. Light shelf wear, a couple of nicks to spine, corners rubbed. Occcasional light spotting/offsetting. A handsome volume.
ESTC N1850. Four copies only recorded in the UK: BL, Cambridge University, Bodleian, and MPL Special Collections. One copy held by the National Library of Ireland. Not held at Trinity College Dublin. One copy held at the Houghton Library, Harvard. Not held at Stanford.
Murphy, James Cavanah. Blackrock, Co. Cork, Ireland 1760 – 1814
Born in Cork, and trained in the Dublin drawing schools, Sir James Chatterton first noticed Murphy's artistic skill. He became an architect, and attracted the attention of Hon. William Burton Conyngham under whose patronage Murphy was sent in… Read More