Transport: Trains, Boats And Planes from Paul Haynes Rare Books

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. 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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Augustus M. Kelley. New York. 1968. [Reprint of Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. 1851] Octavo. Two volumes in one. xii, 308pp; viii, 282pp. Original grey cloth, black and gilt to spine and upper board. In the original dust wrapper. A near fine copy. With an introduction by C. R. Clinker. The first comprehensive study of the English railway system.

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,… Read more about this item

David and Charles. Newton Abbott. 1970. [Originally published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. London. 1912] xii, 532pp. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. In the original dust wrapper, chipped to edges, with short closed tear and crease to fold and light red biro line. Some spotting to lower edge. An important work with source footnotes and a useful bibliography… Read more about this item