Search Results: Authors starting with B from Paul Haynes Rare Books

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 repaired to verso, with short closed fold tear. Slightly faded. Light water stain to extreme top edge of a few pages.Only two editions published in French, this being the last.Hinrichsen F226

Third edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipsic. 1908. Octavo. x, 247pp. All maps and plans as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Marbled edges. Publisher's adverts to feps. Map to reps. Double woven bookmarks. Lightly rubbed to head and tail of spine. Neat signature 'George Williams' to top of half-title. Dulau & Co. 37, Soho Square, London, W. booksellers imprint to lower title page.Hinrichsen E62

Third revised and augmented edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. Dulau and Co. London. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1907. Octavo. lxiv, 331pp. All maps and plans pristine as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. All edges marbled. Publisher's adverts to feps. Double bookmark. Lightly rubbed to head and tail of spine.
Hinrichsen E265

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 few minor dog eared corners, short marginal closed tears p119 & p327. Light toning. Darkening to free endpapers. Signature "Von Sommerfeld" to upper margin of half title. Pencil note in German to rfep. "Villa Imperial" marked with x on Bordighera town map. Light marginal pencil annotation to section on Genoa to Ventimiglia and Savona, mostly highlighting tunnels, bridges and beaches. Random pencil marks to rear pastedown, and inscribed date 21.4.47. Booksellers plate "Touristen-Magazin H. Mues, Berlin, W. Kronenstr. 15 Ecke Friedrichstr." Hinrichsen D351The signature Von Sommerfeld may be of some interest, and worthy of further research, as the full… Read more

Fourth revised edition. Leipzig. 1909. cxxvi, 447pp. 16 maps, 30 plans, 2 diagrams, panorama of Athens. Original red cloth, gilt. All edges marbled. Double silk bookmarks. Publisher's adverts to feps. Map to rear eps. Pocket to rear with folding map. Lightly sunned to spine. Occasional spotting/light toning. A crisp copy with the maps neatly folded. Signature of F H A Booth dated April 1909 to ffep. Hinrichsen E237.

14th edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1906. x, 234pp. Maps and plans as listed. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. All edges marbled. Double bookmark. Final map placed a little proud, but all folded correctly and little, if ever, used. Publisher's adverts to feps., map to reps. Minor shelf wear. Signature of B. H. Whitley to verso ffep, dated August 1906Hinrichsen D213
Benjamin Heywood Whitley (1879 – 1916) Ulverston. BA Dublin. FRCC Modern languages master at St Cuthberts, Worksop and at Loretto. 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Scots. Killed in action on the Somme July 17 1916. Commemorated on the Great Gable War Memorial.

Twelfth revised edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. George Allen and Unwin. London. Chas. Scribner's Sons. New York. 1929. Octavo. lxiv, [16], 518pp. All maps and plans as published, no misfolding or protrusions. Short closed attachment tear to frontispiece map. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine (faded) and to upper board. All edges marbled. Woven bookmark. Publisher's adverts to feps. Map to reps. Small indentation from elastic band to lower edge of upper board.Hinrichsen E59

Sixteenth revised edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1931. Octavo. xv, 366pp. All maps and plans pristine. Original red cloth, slight wear to head and tail of spine, small mark to spine. Publisher's adverts to feps., map to reps. All edges marbled. Double book marks. Rarely used, text crisp and bright.This was the first and only edition on Belgium and Luxemburg. (Previous editions included Holland). As such it is the most comprehensive volume on these countries.Hinrichsen E195

[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, in the scarce dust wrapper.
This is the first edition thus. The fourth and final edition of Nord de la France of 1893 was divided into Nord Este and Nord Ouest in this and the subsequent editions from 1895.
Hinrichsen F179.

Karl Baedeker. Leipsic. 1893. 5 maps. 1pp street index. Original wraps. Two corners chipped with marginal loss. Partial split to spine. Published as an appendix to Baedeker's Northern Germany (English edition) of 1893, the interest of this lies not only in its printed content, but in the signatures and notes on the last blank. Signatures of C. Clado; J.W. Earle; Clyde Fitch; and Thomas G. Stevenson. Notes: "Moscow to Warsaw Aug. 31, 1900". "Leanfuerstenheim (?) Brussel 271 Avenue Louise"... directions to "Heilbronner Strasse 25 - II Etage" Berlin. Notes in three different hands. Clyde Fitch (1865 -1909) was the most successful Broadway dramatist of his time. "There was a radiance about him always, and the same glow dominated his circle of friendships". He had a passionate affair with Oscar Wilde. Fitch was Wilde's "Faun" in Wilde's first draft of "In the Forest". "A notorious dandy with a penchant for foreign arts and sartorial luxury" his homosexuality and transsexuality was at odds with the… Read more

Thirteenth revised edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipsic. Dulau and Co. London. 1900. 8vo. xxxiv, 430pp. Folding coloured map frontispiece, 33 further maps, some folding, and 65 plans. Original red cloth, slightly mottled to edges, in original brown dust wrapper, with paper label to spine. Chip to one corner and head of dustwrapper spine. Adverts to fep. Book plate (Noble) to free endpaper map. All edges marbled. Green bookmark. Some toning to free endpapers. Last map sits a little proud, and edge is creased. A crisp copy. Scarce in dust wrapper.
Hinrichsen E27

Tenth edition, revised and augmented. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. T. Fisher Unwin. London. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1912. Octavo. lx, 478pp. All maps and plans as published. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. All edges marbled. Double bookmarks. A little wear to head and small tear to tail of spine, and rubbing to corners. First four pages with tiny dogears. No misfolding or tears. Lacks the grammar booklet which was designed for removal. Flyer for Sifton, Pread & Co. The Map House, printed in red, tipped in to ffep.Hinrichsen E233a

Fourth revised and augmented edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. 1922. [London: George Allen & Unwin. New York: Chas Scribner's Sons tipped in below]. lxx, 420pp. 14 folding maps, 12 plans. Original red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Marbled edges. Bookmarker. Publisher's ads to front endpapers. Edward Stanford Ltd Cartographers to the King bookseller's plate to fep. Proud edge of frontispiece map toned and slightly chipped, map unaffected; Maritime Provinces map misfolded. A few minor specks to boards. A nice crisp copy. The last edition of this title. Hinrichson E266.

Twelfth revised edition. Karl Baedeker. Leipzig. T. Fisher Unwin, 1 Adelphi Terrace. London. Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Avenue. New York. 1914. Octavo. xxx, 388pp. Folding frontis. coloured map, 36 further maps and 50 plans, several folding. Original red cloth, in original dust wrapper. All edges marbled. Two silk bookmarks. Adverts to front endpapers, map to rear endpapers. Short closed tear to attachment of first map, no loss. All other maps pristine. Dust wrapper chipped to edges and folds.The last pre first world war edition.
Hinrichsen E43

Second edition. Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London. nd. [1919] Quarto. xxiii, 422pp, 2pp ads. Colour frontis tipped in, colour plate tipped in, numerous further monochrome plates and illustrations. Contemporary quarter calf, green cloth. Spine in six compartments, with red and green leather labels, gilt lettering. Corner of frontis. slightly creased. A nice copy.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Green-Price to fep.
The Green-Price Baronetcy, of Norton Manor in the parish of Norton in the County of Radnor.

Macmillan and Co. London. 1867. Second edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxx, 371pp. Frontis port., folding coloured map, 7 further engraved plates, including the coloured map of the route, with unlisted 8th engraved plate "Skirmish with the Natives", text illus.; x, (1), 372pp. Colour litho frontis., 6 further engraved plates, text illus. Original decorative green cloth, gilt, v.sl. bumped to extremities. Occasional spotting. Short closed tear to map edge repaired. Short closed tear to rep Vol. II. "The discovery of the Albert Nyanza marked the pinnacle of Baker's career as an African explorer in so far as it helped to resolve the mystery of the source of the Nile. Soon after his return to England in 1865 he learned that he had been awarded the Royal Geographical Society's prestigious gold medal for his work in Africa." ODNB.

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 been created from his writings which chronicle his travels off the beaten path through the heart of the Dordogne and the Perigord, "the old English Duchy of Aquitaine as it was defined by the Treaty of Bretagny".

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. Closed tear to map and fold professionally repaired with paper tape. Staining from binding overlay to top corner of fep and ffep. Lightly toned, with some ghosting from plates and occasional minor spots or marks. Neat signature to title page. "Scot" written in light pencil to upper margin of p4.Originally written as "A Key to Walker's Geographical Tour Through France". A board game, "a new Geographical Pastime" published by W. Darton and listed in the publisher's adverts at the rear of the volume.The entries for each place are given a numerical value on the itinerary around France, beginning in Calais, and ending in Paris,… Read more

Seventeenth Edition. Embellished with a Characteristic Frontispiece. John Joseph Stockdale. London. 1807. Octavo. xxiv, 152pp. Rowlandson engraved frontis. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Toning to title and frontis.
Provenance: From the library at Clifford Priory (now demolished) Bookplate of B. Haigh Allen to fep. Signature of Bn. Haigh to title. Mentioned frequently in Kilvert's Diary, the Haigh-Allens of Clifford Priory were central to the social scene of the Welsh Marches. The strawberries of Clifford Priory the sweetest ever. His two daughters, Mary Lucy and Emily Kate are mentioned frequently by Kilvert in his Diary. Benjamin Haigh Allen was a personal friend of William Wilberforce and campaigner for abolition.
Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820) poet, satirist. 'All the talents' is a political satire of the Whig administration, and the origin of that name. First published in three parts, the later 'editions' were augmented by further dialogues. This is the first edition of the… Read more

Robert Jennings. London. 1826. First edition, Large Paper. Engraved title. Dedication to the Countess of Pembroke, 60 tissue guarded engraved plates with accompanying text, vignette. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and motifs. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing. Spotting to engraved title page. A handsome copy.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty (1789-1848) army officer and artist Batty compiled books illustrated with plates etched by himself. He served in the Peninsular War, in the Duke of Wellington's 1815 Campaign, at Waterloo, where he was injured in the thigh. "Following Wellington's victory, Batty entered Paris with the 3rd battalion on 7 July, having en route been at the storming of the fortress of Péronne on 26 June. Three days later, he became a lieutenant and captain in the first guards. He served in the army of occupation in France." He was elected FRS in 1822. "Batty acted as Lieutenant-General Sir… Read more