Search Results: Titles starting with O from Paul Haynes Rare Books

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 Circular Medical Society of London stamp to title; Unobtrusive 'Withdrawn By The Wellcome Library' to verso of title page.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

Tomus I. Editio Ultima. Fredericum Horreum. Amstelodami & Franquerae. 1723, 1724, 1727. Small quarto. Title page in red and black, (1), (3pp) Dedicatio, (11pp) Praefatio, (13pp) Lemmata Capitum, 1052pp, (6pp) Index Praecipuorum Locorum Scripturae Sacrae, (2pp) Index Vocum aut Phraseum Hebraerum & Graecarum, quae in his Libris exponuntor, (23pp) Index Rerum Praecipuarum, (6)pp. Engraved frontis portrait, engraved Kabbalistic plate. Text in Latin, with Hebrew and Greek. Engraved historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Vellum, with embossed floral vignette to boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands and hand lettering (with erroneous date of 1637). Some discolouration to vellum. Corners bumped, with wear to lower corner of upper board. Text bright and crisp, paper fault to lower margin p 325/6. Light marginal toning. Separate title pages for Books II, III & IV, imprints reading Franquerae, dated 1723, 1723 and 1724 respectively. Complete indices for this volume of the Four Books.

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De l'imprimerie de P. Didot L'Aine. L'An 111 de la Republique. 1795. Edition limited to 100 copies. Se vend chez Ponce et Regnault, graveurs, rue du Fauberg Jacques.In 18: 11x 17cm. Half title, x (in smaller state), 173pp. Eng. frontis by Rouchard, 3 double engraved plates after Marillier (in two states, & large paper). Occasional light spotting. Fine copy in the original full crushed red levant morocco, raised bands to spine, inner gilt dentelles, silk bookmarker, top edge gilt.
Provenance:
A fine copy from the libraries of two notable bibliophiles.
Bookplate of Lord Stanley of Alderley. John Thomas Stanley (1766-1850), 7th Baronet and First Baron Stanley of Alderley of Alderley Park, Cheshire. He undertook learned expeditions to the cultural centres of Europe, becoming one of the first explorers of Iceland.
Amédée Rigaud (1819-1874), circular bookplate, black and gilt with elaborate initial R, motto "bona fide sine fraude". This volume is listed in the Catalogue de Beaux Livres Rare et Curieux… Read More

Printed by J. Kendrew. Colliergate, York. [c.1820]. 10 x 6.5cm. 16pp. Cover features a woodcut illustration and poem. Illustrated with twenty-nine woodcuts. Sewn, with outer cover colourwashed yellow. A small closed nick or abrasion to the edge of the upper cover, a nice original chap book, not a reprint.
Opie N700; Davis 46.

First edition. Chapman and Hall. London. 1856. viii, 316pp. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated May 1st 1856 to end. Original cloth, blind tooled. Part of spine strip missing, requiring attention and renewing, as is often the case in this work, due to the fragility of the cloth used. (Price has been adjusted accordingly to allow for the work to be done professionally to the new owner's taste). Wear to boards. A little spotting to title page, generally bright, binding firm. Original yellow endpapers. Occasional pencil to margins. Small Armorial bookplate to fep. ("R.T." or "R.J." ) Binder's plate to rep: Bound by Bone and Son, Fleet Street, London.

Photo Album brochure. Orient Line. c. 1954. Landscape octavo. 20.5cm x 15.5cm. Initial full photograph of the ship plus 18 monochrome photographs on stiff card. Stiff acetate covers with lettering in white. Spiral bound. First page bound upside down. Illustrating the Swimming Pool. The Sports Deck, The Library, The Restaurant, The Veranda Bar, The Lounge, 2-berth cabin, 3-berth cabin, 4 berth cabin, 6 berth cabin. Built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow, the passenger-cargo ship S.S. Orsova sailed on her maiden voyage from Tilbury to Sydney, Australia on 17 March 1954. "Orsova was the first large ship to dispense with a conventional mast, and featured a 'Welsh Hat' steampipe on top of her funnel, to reduce soot" [poheritage.com]S.S. Orsova 1954-1974.

First edition. The Victoria and Albert Museum. London. 1989. Quarto. 147pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial paperback. Small bump to upper corner of the front cover. A good copy.

Chez Dufart, Imprimeur-Libraire. Paris. An. 6. [1798] 7 volumes in 3. 12mo. Tome Premier: 205pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Second: 203pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Troisieme: 195pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Quatrieme: 183pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Cinquieme: 158, (1)pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Sixieme: 134, (1)pp, Engraved frontis.; Tome Septieme: 146, (1)pp, Engraved frontis. Quarter calf, marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. All edges sprinkled blue. Minor shelf wear. An attractive set.

First edition. The Postal History Society. George Allen and Unwin. London. 1948. Quarto. xi, 174pp. Frontis. portrait of Thomas Waghorn, 7 further plates, text illus and maps. Original blue cloth, a little bumped, in original unclipped torn dust wrapper. Endpapers and edges spotted.
Signed by the author J. K. Sidebottom dated 22. xi. 48, and the editor C. R. Clear dated 23. xi. 48 to ffep.

Printed at the Riverside Press. For Private Distribution. Cambridge, Mass. 1907. 8vo. [xi], 323pp. Frontis., 12 further plates, tissue guarded, 2 folding genealogical tables. Half morocco, marbles boards. Spine in six compartments, each boxed in gilt, gilt lettering and date. Marbled endpapers. Silk bookmark. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Inscribed by the author to Mrs von Mohl to ffep, dated February 1908. 1955 inscription "from Papa". Bookplate of Wanda von Mohl to front pastedown.

Wanda von Mohl (née Countess von der Groeben), (1854-1910) wife of the German Diplomat Ottmar von Mohl.

First edition. Quarto. The Old Wooden Shop, Mayfair, London. 1953. xi, (2), 156, (2). Frontis., 50 plates. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, slightly sunned to base of spine. Original protected dustwrapper, soiled and torn with loss. Signed by the author, "With every Good Wish", dated Oct 25th 1954. Publisher's ads/reviews loosely inserted. (2pp)