Search Results: Travel and Exploration from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. Thames and Hudson. London. 2003. Large octavo. 240pp. 130 illustrations, 30 in colour. Original red cloth, embossed to upper board, silver lettering to spine. In the original dust wrapper, slightly chipped to extreme edge. A little offsetting of frontispiece ink to title. A nice crisp copy.

First edition. Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1989. Octavo. 395pp. Photo plates. Original black cloth, gilt to spine. In the original dust wrapper. Lightly and uniformly toned. A nice copy.Newspaper clipping, undated, loosely inserted: "Lost Tribe of black Eskimos found at Pole". The story of the hunters who are the direct descendants of Matthew Henson, who accompanied Peary to the Pole in 1909.The discovery of the North Pole by Commander Robert E. Peary.

First edition. David and Charles. Newton Abbot. 1979. Quarto. 224pp. Original green cloth, gilt to spine. In the original dust wrapper. A little spotting to edges, otherwise a nice copy.Signed by the author, dated April 1980

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.

First edition. Art Print. Sevastopol. 2001. 125pp. Colour photo and monochrome plates. Original photographic pictorial boards, gilt lettering. Photographic endpapers. 8 colour plates, 8 monochrome plates, maps and plans. Price inscribed below isbn. Small bump to lower corner of upper board, otherwise a near fine copy."the hero-city, the city monument, the museum in an open air ... the industrial and scientific centre of the South of Ukraine ... Every day the main city clock plays 'Legendary Sevastopol'. While listening to this melody remember everything this glorious, hospitable city survived and watch its sights attentively and respectfully" A guide to the cultural life, buildings and monuments, vine growing and wine making, religion, and history of the city published before the 2014 annexation by Russia, and the current war in Ukraine.

First edition. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. London. 1893. Octavo. xi, 300pp. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard (Coming Down From The Monasteries of Meteora), Photo portrait of the author, 21 further engravings from sketches made by Isabel Armstrong within the text. Original pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering. Pages untrimmed, edges darkened. Cloth worn, spine cocked, darkened and faded, corners bumped. Text bright and clean. Spotting to prelims and half title, foxing to the tissue guard, with a little transference to the title page. No inscriptions. Scarce.Isabel Armstrong (b.1848) and her travelling companion Edith Payne "announcing our intention of starting off by ourselves to Greece, the general opinion seemed to be that if we were going out to be murdered ..."

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

First edition. Mathews Miller Dunbar/Bailey Co-Production. London. 1975. Quarto. 144pp. 130 plates in monochrome and colour, indexed to rear. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy in the original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. The original dust wrapper is sunned and faded to spine, more so to the head, with short closed tear and crease to upper edge. A nice copy."The Highlands of New Guinea escaped the Victorian explorers which left this country with a last frontier... To take my camera and record an image that, that other corrupter of innocence, tourisme, has not yet destroyed. To just see people that have not been seen to death. To feel, no matter how small, a little of what the Burtons felt in abundance...Maybe one day in the distant future a child might come across this book in a pile of second-hand junk, and ask, "Did people dress like that when there were still tigers in the world?" and he might add "how lucky they were in the 20th century to have had such wonders"."

Eighteenth edition. John Murray. 1892. Octavo. viii, 2pp additions and corrections dated 1894, (2)pp addendum dated 1893, Great Eastern Railway, 420pp, xlv index, Murray's Handbook Advertiser, 1894-1895, 60pp. 16 maps and plans, including the additional 3 maps engraved in 1893. Turquoise endpapers with publisher's ads. Light pencil signature to upper margin of title. Occasional spotting. Original red cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. A little faded and spotted to spine. Corners slightly rubbed. All maps and plans are crisp with no misfolding.

Twenty-first edition. Karl Baedeker, Dulau & Co, Charles Scribner's Sons. Leipzig, London, New York. Small octavo. xxxviii, 548pp. 63 maps, 17 plans, 11 panoramas. Publisher's ads to fep. Map to reps. Marbled edges. Silk bookmarks. Original red cloth, gilt lettering. Some spotting/toning to maps and panoramas. Short closed tear to frontispiece map. Proud edges of folding panoramas slightly chipped. A little strained at title/frontispiece. Previous owner's signature to fep, with another signature crossed through. Cloth a little tired, but a reasonable enough copy, including an uncommon Baedeker's Handbooks loose insert advising methods for detaching single sections from the book and purchasing linen covers for the detached sections, "price 50 pfennigs".

First edition. Collins. London. 1980. xxiii, (1), 356pp. Text illustrations. Original quarter two tone cloth, silver lettering and vignette to spine. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, a little sunned to spine. Bookplate of Clare Tritton McLaren of Coughton Court to ffep.An anthology of writings through 155 years of train travel. Recalling historic journeys, the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Line, the inaugural journey of the Orient Express, Lenin's return to Russia, The Flying Scotsman, The Trans-Siberian, the Indian Grand Trunk Express, The Santa Fe Super Chief, etc. For some contributors, see the photograph image of the lower cover.

First and only edition. The Channing Press. The Channings. Dawlish. 1935. Octavo. 300pp. + 1p publisher's ads. Original yellow cloth, a little discoloured, with spot to upper board and ink spot to lower board. Printed paper labels to spine and upper board, both chipped. Partially unopened. Edward Archibald Rathmell Wilson (1875–1955) an actor, playwright, author, traveller, art collector and dilettante. A Rosicrucian, "Sine Metu", initiated 20/04/1913. A Theosophist. A regular contributor to the Occult Review and the Golden Dawn Magazine of The Brothers of The Path. He wrote the preface to Anthony Greville-Gascoigne's 'The Way of an Initiate' 1940. "I have, you will find, made this title include not only trains of steel but also trains of thought".
A scarce oddity. The writing is in the style of his Occult Log Books for the Golden Dawn Magazine. For whatever reason, his name in this publication is spelled with one, rather than two "l" s.
His obituary, in The Shirburnian, is damming with less… Read More

First edition. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1969. Quarto. xxii, 411pp. Frontispiece portrait of Alvaro de Mendana. 45 maps and charts. Near fine original dark green cloth, gilt to spine. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, with slight wear to extreme edges, in a protective cover (the reflective marks on the illustration/scan are on the protective cover)

Cassell and Co. London. 1937. 4th edition. 8vo. 245, (1)pp. Coloured frontispiece, map, 48 photo plates. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. In the original d/w, short tears and chips to edges, in a protective cover. Some toning to endpapers, occasional spotting to prelims.

First edition. John Murray. London. 1952. Octavo. xi, 391pp. Frontispiece, 12 further monochrome plates, 4 maps. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, in a protective wrapper, a few small edge chips, slightly sunned to rear of wrapper. No inscriptions. Sir Francis Younghusband 1863-1942. Soldier, explorer, geographer, naturalist, diplomat, philosopher and mystic.Two achievements of Sir Francis Younghusband capture the imagination: "one, his penetration as a youth of the Continent of Asia from East to West by an unknown route, immediately followed by his crossing of the Himalayas by an unknown pass; the other, his expedition through Tibet to Lhasa.". This volume provides an carefully woven biography told through the journals, correspondence, manuscripts etc provided by Younghusband's daughter, by the eminent biographer, George Seaver (1896-1976)

First edition. Simpkin, Marshall et al., Thos Cook & Son. London. 1926. iv, 116pp (including 2pp Thomas Cook adverts). Folding colour railway map frontispiece, Cook's Railway route map of the Italian Lakes, folding map of Milan. Original burgundy cloth, gilt to pine and upper board. Woven bookmark. All edges speckled red. Lightly rubbed to edge of spine. Frontispiece map slightly creased due to past misfold. Pencil notes to rear endpapers. Marginal ticks to Thomas Cook Adverts pages. Signature of W. B. Vardy in pencil to ffep. A nice copy of this volume of the Cook's Traveller's Handbooks series.

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.

i 4 blade. IV. Utgitt av Norges Geografiske Opmaaling. Geographical Survey of Norway 1874. Veinettet Ajourfort 1937. Large coloured folding map. 70cm x 91cm. Folding down to 11cm x 15.5cm. Slightly sunned to exterior folds.Edward Stanford Ltd Cartographers to the King plate to upper cover.Scarce.Tromso, Norway.

Hachette. Paris. 1894. Octavo. Half-title, title, 367pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 28 engraved plates, numerous text engravings. Full soft calf. Marbled endpapers. Incorporating the original paper covers. Small nick to base of spine. Some sporadic foxing. Edges untrimmed. Green silk bookmark.Engraved bookplate of Albert Briere featuring oriental dragon, mountain and palace design (Vietnam?)Narrative of a voyage from Venezuela, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Curacao, Aruba, Haiti to the three Guyanas.Gerrit Verschuur (1840-1906) Dutch writer and traveller.

The Amazon Provinces of Peru as a Field for European Emigration. A Statistical and Geographical Review of the Country and its Resources, including the Gold and Silver Mines together with a mass of useful and valuable information, with map and illustrations.First edition. Wyman and Sons. London. 1888. Octavo. Half title not called for, title, xv, (1), 309pp. 1p advert for The Mining Exhibition in Lima 1888. Mounted photograph frontispiece portrait, 31 further plates, including 4 folding maps, a further photographic mounted plate, 2 folding engraved plates. Original red cloth flexible boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt vignette to upper board, blind bordering. Spine faded, some areas of discolouration to boards, rubbed to extremities. Free endpapers untidily removed. Smudge to lower corner margin of frontispiece. Short closed tear to margin of one folding plate. Occasional edge or corner creases. A little edge spotting. Slightly shaky. This original publisher's binding is scarce as the soft boards… Read More