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Trackless Winds.
San Francisco: Johnck and Seeger, 1930. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10]; 64; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, grey paper over boards, blue titles to upper. Untrimmed pages. Photogravure frontispiece of Burton by illustrator. Inscribed by author in black ink to frontispiece. Minor spotting throughout, sunning to..... More
[Arabian Nights] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a series of 71 original illustrations reproduced from the original pictures in oil specially painted by Albert Letchford.
[Benares, by The Kamashastra Society, 1885] London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. The Library Edition. Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only. Complete in 12 volumes; large octavo, (27 x 18 x 56cm). Frontispiece portrait and photogravure illustrations with titled tissue guards. Publisher's original red half morocco with raised bands..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes..... More
A Cyclopaedia of Commerce, Mercantile Law, Finance, Commercial Geography and Navigation: Comprising Descriptive and statistical accounts of commodities, with customs and excise regulations, duties, &c. Commercial statistics of the different countries of the world, including their physical character, productions, trade, seaports, monies, measures, finances, &c. Summary of the principles of commerce, finance, and banking, with historical and statistical illustrations. Digest of commercial law, including insurance, partnership, principal and agent, bills of exchange, sale, guaranty, bankruptcy, shipping, and contracts and obligations in general. Commercial arithmetic and accounts, exchanges, coins, measures and weights, public funds, interest, annuities, and assurances, with numerous tables. Explanation of mercantile terms and usages, besides a variety of miscellaneous information. With four maps.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. [Trade and Finance Encyclopaedia] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.iv; 684. With folding maps of England, Scotland, Ireland and the World, one as a frontispiece and three at rear. Extremely small print. Publisher's brown cloth, recently re-backed with original spine laid over. Gilt titles..... More
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