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18974415London: H S Nichols 1897. Edition de Luxe reprint - Coffin Set. Hardcover. Fine/Original box fair. Letchford A. Penzer p 20. This is the "coffin set" or boxed 1897 edition printed by Nichols. Of all the reprints the second best after the true first is the Nichols edition of 1897. The most elaborate of these is Style C described in the prospectus as follows: In three quarter levant Selected Syrian large grained Angora goat skins. Sumac tanned of the characteristoics Damascus red. Full gold black and five double bands Grolier corners gold tops tooled sides silk head bands triple cord stitching hollow backs rein forced joints gold veined end papers. The twelve volumes enclosed in a leather casket 23" x 12.5" x 8.5 " to place on an ordinary bookshelf or stand on a table. The casket in olive green morocco lined soft cloth with a spring lock and key of oriental design this set does Not have the key. It contains the 71 Letchford plates printed on special paper. Volumes over 400 pages each. The set was issued at L1515s each. There were 500 such sets. All 12 of the books in this set are Fine appearing as if never read or opened. The case however has seen better days. The leather is dried and cracking and chipped and the inside shows its age. Repeat the key is missing. A very scarce and stunning set. H S Nichols hardcover
241j1550Toronto: The Cumberland Press. Good. 1988. Privately Published Limited Edition. Paperback. Signed and numbered 74/100 by Neil Peart inside back cover. "And now it was all over. I didn't want to replay it all or relive it again but man- will someone hurry up and figure out a way to slow the good times down But no- even African Time can't make a day last one minute longer." -p 201. Describes his African travel experiences during September of 1987. Neil Peart 1952-2020 was the renowned drummer and main lyricist of the internationally acclaimed Canadian rock band Rush which he joined in 1974. He dedicated this book to his then wife Jacqueline and daughter Selena both of whom left the world prematurely and tragically in the 1990s causing Peart to take a prolonged timeout from his musical career. Rush tribute website Cygnus-X1 suggests this to be one of several books/travelogues authored and privately published by Peart during the 1980's a full decade before he released his first novel. Apparently these books were all produced in very limited quantities and only gifted to friends and family thus rarely found. 205 5 pp. Bibliography. Occasional black and white illustrations by David Bygott. 11" x 8.5". Tight and unmarked with average wear. A sound and precious memento of the the iconic drummer known to his fans as "The Professor". ; Illustrations; 4to; Signed by Author . The Cumberland Press paperback
1938241H0034London: Secker and Warburg. Fair in Poor dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Jomo Kenyatta atop front free endpaper. "One of the first really competent and instructive contributions to African ethnography by a scholar of pure African heritage. Through his upbringing Mr. Kenyatta combines to an unusual extent the knowledge of Western ways and Western modes of thought with a training and outlook essentially African. As a first-hand account of a representative African culture as an invaluable document in the principles underlying culture-contact and change; last not least as a personal statement of the new outlook of a progressive African this book will rank as a pioneering achievement of outstanding merit." - Introduction. Author was the founding father of Kenya and led the nation from its independence in 1963 until his passing in 1978. pp. xxvi 339. Index. Glossary. Eight pages of black and white photographic plates. One-page map of Gikuyu Country. Somewhat above-average soiling and wear to original tan cloth. One-inch opening between foot of backstrip and front board. Brilliant gilt lettering in green panels upon backstrip. Contents unmarked with occasional moderate soiling and minimal foxing. Binding tender in places but intact. Two openings each less than one centimetre to central portion of front hinge. Very heavy wear to dust jacket now in archival protection.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Facing Mount Mt. Kenya - The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu Kenya Africa Mau Mau Kikuyu Gekoyo Gikuyu; Signed by Authors . Secker and Warburg hardcover
1595100047AG1595. Paris / London / Antwerp and other places of print c.1595 - 1851. Some stunning examples of hand-coloured copper-engravings plus one manuscript map Tuckey / Congo - Zaire. All of these maps in very good / excellent condition. This collection presents itself for becoming an amazing a meaningful starting-point for an Africana-Collection decoration for a Safari-Lodge interior-design for an Africana-themed library etc. etc. The price includes worldwide free shipping per DHL Express-Courier 2-3 day-delivery. Ask for complete list and images and please also inquire about our amazing book-collection of Africana which would be a great match for this collection of vintage maps. unknown
179033833Edinburgh: J. Ruthven for G.GJ. and J. Robinson et al and Printed by George Ramsay and Company for Archibald Constable and Company 1790; 1808. 6 volumes. The First Edition Edinburgh imprint sometimes called “the best edition†Cox with the First Edition of Murray's fine and important work on Bruce. Engraved title vignettes in all volumes. Vol. I with illustrated header on the dedication to the King and with 53 very finely engraved plates and maps and charts including 3 very large folding maps. The Murray volume with an additional 22 engraved plates including a portrait frontispiece of Bruce and two large folding maps at the end of the volume. A total of 75 plates and 5 large folding maps. 4to 300 x 240 mm. with the half-titles in vols. !-!V very handsomely bound in very handsome contemporary half polished calf over marbled paper covered boards. The spines with raised bands are gilt ruled and decorated with gilt lettering on red morocco labels original endleaves end-leaves and with a fine antique engraved armorial plate. Early ownership inscription to title-page and a fine early armorial bookplate. The Bruce lxxxv 535; viii 718; viii 759; viii 695; xiv 230 3 large folding maps index errata pp. The Murray xiii 5044 ads. pp 22 engraved plates and maps. A fine and desirable set in scarce contemporary bindings the paper fresh and clean and the text-blocks as solid as could be the bindings are very handsome withminor evidence of use or age at the extremities a bit of tenderness to the hinges of a few volumes but these are still sturdy and strong and the folding maps are in excellent condition. HIGHLY IMPORTANT EARLY EXPLORATION INTO AFRICA AND A RARE EDITION IN FULL CONTEMPORARY CALF WITH ORIGINAL SPINE PANELS AND WITHOUT REPAIRS. A cornerstone to any collection of Africana this is one of the earliest and greatest illustrated works on the seminal discoveries to be made on the continent over A hundred year period. This set with the added murray volume rarely encountered in matching binding as here.<br> With time on his hands and at the urging of a friend Bruce composed this account of his travels on the African continent including comments on the history and religion of Egypt an account of Indian trade a history of Abyssinia and other such material. Although Bruce would not be confused with "a great scholar or a judicious critic. few books of equal compass are equally entertaining; and few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveller" DNB. "The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography" Cox II p. 389.<br> Bruce was one of the earliest westerners to search for the source of the Nile. In November of 1770 he reached the source of the Blue Nile and though he acknowledged that the White Nile was the larger stream he claimed that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and that he was thus the discoverer of its source.<br> The account of his travels was written twelve years after his journey and without reference to his journals which gave critics grounds for disbelief but the substantial accuracy of the book has since been amply demonstrated.<br> James Bruce traveled to Egypt in 1768 accompanied by the Italian artist Luigi Balugani. They spent five years in Upper Egypt Abyssinia and in the exploration of the Nile. With the exception of the French surgeon Poncet no European had visited Abyssinia in over 150 years so Bruce's account was of unique importance in providing valuable information on the region to Europeans. The plates based on his own and Balugani's drawings include maps botanical and zoological specimens antiquities artifacts and plans of monuments.<br> A cornerstone to any collection of Africana this is one of the earliest and greatest illustrated works on the seminal discoveries to be made on the continent over a hundred year period. J. Ruthven for G.GJ. and J. Robinson et al and Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company hardcover
187252516London: Tinsley Brothers 1872. First edition first issue binding 2 volumes 8vo pp. xii 2 503 1; vi 2 519 1; folding map highlighted in blue 11 wood-engraved plates including 2 frontispieces 4 full-p. sketch maps; original chocolate brown cloth gilt vignette on upper covers both volumes neatly rebacked with original spines laid down; previous owners' bookplates pertinent newspaper clippings tipped into both volumes at endpaper and half-title; a good sound copy. Zanzibar is Burton's account of the country and its natural history and Burton's and Speke's various journeys 1857-59 in the lake regions of east Africa including the discoveries of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika. The final chapter is Burton's memorial of Speke with whom he had many points of divergence regarding the geographical discoveries at Victoria and the Nile basin. Spink Catalogue no. 49; Penzer pp. 88-89; Casada 72: "It is in my opinion among the most important of his African-related studies. Tinsley Brothers unknown
18523836London: Jon Van Voorst 1852. First Edition - only 500 copies printed. Hardcover. Near Fine. First ed. 107 pp 4 lithographed plates. Only 500 copies printed. Penzer p 41. After 10 years 257 copies remained for sale so the publisher recommended scrapping them and preparing a second edition. Thus the book is now RARE. Bound in dark purple cloth with gilt blind border enclosing corner & center designs on both covers. Gilt spine lettering. Burton's falconry experiences while in Sind in Northern India. A work that still today is of great interest to falconers and Burton collectors. Lovely very near fine to fine in all respects. Jon Van Voorst hardcover
1940170773London: British High Command in the East c.1940-43. Greetings and Peace be upon you A rare chit for RAF pilots to carry during the North Africa Campaign 1940-3 in case of being lost or captured. Written for the benefit of British personnel in the field the focus is simple and concise. The first paragraph in English and Arabic presents a simple greeting asking for hospitality. The following gives points of conduct such as "remove footwear before entering their tents" and "do not expect breakfast if you sleep the night. Arabs will give you a mid-day or evening meal". A word list includes translations of "friend" "food" "tired" and "enemy". The document was colloquially known as a "goolie chit" a "throwback from an earlier war when Royal Flying Corps pilots in India and Mesopotamia needed security in the form of a document that promised a reward to anyone who would bring a British aviator back to British lines. It was so called because local tribesmen in the area were said to turn over aviators to the women who castrated them for use as servants" Feast. We have encountered two other issues: one slightly simplified British issue and an American issue carried by all pilots and crewmen of the Twelfth Air Force with a message from President Roosevelt instead of the British High Command in the East. Quarto single-sheet 244 x 173 mm text in Arabic and English on recto only edge-mounted on thick black card within white card mount all on laminate board presented in dark oak frame with conservation acrylic glazing 353 x 280 mm. Vignette of the Great Seal of the Realm at head. Backed on coarse linen minor foxing sometime folded. A very good example of a fragile publication. "Notes for Communicating with Arabs" IBCC Digital Archive document 25543; Sean Feast Coming Down 1988. unknown
18513855London: Wm H Allen 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. with notices of the topography and history of the province. 422 pp Penzer p 40. Burton worked with the Bombay Army survey and eventually traveled to the annexed Sindh province in 1851. Bound in terra cotta cloth with blind triple border enclosing blind oval design on both covers. Gold lettering. The book has been scarce almost since it was published. Sindh is today's Pakistan. VG copy in orig. cloth. Large folding map not called for pasted neatly opposite title page. Bookplates of Mission House library inside front cover and Political Department nicely written on title page. Little soiling upper left hand part of spine. Rare in original cloth. Wm H Allen hardcover
18723863London: Tinsley Brothers 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. Visits to the Libanus the Tulul el Safa the Anti-Libanus the Northern Libanus and the Ala. First ed. Penzer pp 85-88. Two volumes: 360 pp folding map plates text ill. 400 pp plates & text ill. In most of the copies the binder inserted the plates incorrectly so the list of illustrations is faulty and the plates are bound in different order in different copies. Burton COnsul at Damascus 1865-1871 traveled to Syria to explore it and Lebanon. Nicely bound in half leather over marbled boards marbled endpapers raised spine bands gilt rules on bands. A good looking set showing little wear. Scarce. VG. Tinsley Brothers hardcover
18324725London: John Murray 1832. First Through Fourth editions. Hardcover. Good. The FIRST four volumes of this prestigious publication. Volume the first 1832 London John Murray 264 pp 3 large folding maps worn half contemporary leather over marbled boards front cover detached. Kimbolton Castle shelf label. Volume the second 1832 London John Murray 342 pp 8 folding maps. worn contemporary leather over marbled boards. Kimbolton Castle shelf label. Volume the third 1833. London John Murray 1834. 328 pp 6 folding maps plates. Kilbolton Castle shelf label. Worn contemporary leather over marbled boards. Volume the fourth 1834. 1834 London John Murray. 422 pp. 6 folding maps ill. Worn contemporary leather over marbled boards. Kimbolton Castle shelf labels. The first four journals. In spite of worn outside appearance they are internally quite nice. These first four volumes are rarely listed. Photos include those of table of contents of each volume. An amazing compendium of world exploration almost 200 years ago with a fine royal association. John Murray hardcover
131201Undetermined. very good. Oblong loosely tied album 28 X 40 cm. A total of 87 albumen photos mounted on linean backed stiff grey card boards mostly on both sides. Images for the most part are in excellent conditon with no offsetting and unfaded. very good The album comprises two components with the first 15 images being of Madeira. These images are all 17.5 X 23 CM in size. They are all captioned and signed in the image by the photographer Santos Madeira. The suject matter includes: towns people city views ethnographic agriculture and railways. An interesting selection all in excellent condition and from an unusual place. The second collection of images are all of South Africa. This lot includes a total of 72 images mostly ranging in size from 17.5 X 23 CM to 15 X 20.5 cm. The subject area's include: Cape Town Kimberley Diamond mine operations. Underground mining Native workers at the mine. An image of the de Beers share certificate Johannesburg and area 5 images of the interior of the Sterkfontein Caves and some agricultural scenes. A wonderful album full of interesting large format images in excellent condition. unknown
186052513London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts 1860. First edition likely the second issue; 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 2 412; vi 2 468; engraved folding map hand colored in blue and green 12 chromoxylographs 22 woodcuts in the text; 20th century three-quarter green morocco gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered direct in 3 t.e.g.; the plates all with a small and discreet stamp in the margin not touching the image and the map with an old paper repair at the folds on the verso; otherwise a fine copy. There were two issues each in a different cloth binding. As the book has been rebound we can't be sure which issue this is except that the map is in volume II in this set which is where it should be in the second issue. Casada 42; Penzer p. 65-67. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts unknown
187652519London: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle 1876. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xiv 2 261 1; vi 2 255 i.e. 355 1; largely unopened; 4 wood-engraved plates and 2 folding maps plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in a secondary unrecorded binding of original blindstamped terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spines. Sir Richard Burton 1821-90 is well known for his colorful career recorded in numerous books and articles as a diplomat explorer and ethnographer. In 1861 he was appointed consul to Fernando Po now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea remaining there for four years until he was transferred to Brazil. These volumes collate the expeditions and ethnographic observations made during his time there. In his preface Burton writes that the "plain truth" about the African has not been told in Britain declaring that English occupation of West Africa has proved "a remarkable failure." First published in 1876 the second volume recounts a journey made from Fernando Po to Loango Bay and up the Congo River. Of particular interest is the penultimate chapter "The slaver and the missionary in the Congo River" in which Burton expresses his ambivalence towards a European presence in Africa. Volume 2 also includes appendices containing geographical observations. Penzer p. 94; Spink 56; Casada 66: "This work covers the Fan people and the region of the lower Congo. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle unknown
19134001Oxford University Press 1913. First Edition in English. Hardcover. VG. decouverts par Aurel Stein dans les Sables due Turkestan Oriental.TEXT IN FRENCH translated by and published for E. Chavannes. Large format. 232 pp 37 plates one folding. Oxford University Press hardcover
1750216492Siegmund Ehrenfried Richter Königl. Hoffactor Dresden Leipzig Görlitz. 1750. Hardcover kartoniert Originaleinband 1750-1770. Zustand: Exemplare einer Privatbibliothek mit Kennungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen. Siegmund Ehrenfried Richter, Königl. Hoffactor, Dresden, Leipzig, Görlitz., hardcover
1879167372Pietermaritzburg: Printed by P. Davis & Sons 1879. Detailed intelligence issued shortly before Isandlwana First and only edition unrecorded institutionally this the only copy known. "This small pamphlet contains considerable detail on its subject: 'Compiled from information obtained from the most reliable sources and published by direction of the Lieut.-General Commanding Lord Chelmsford for the information of those under his command'" Raugh. The brief but informative notes are followed by a tabulation of the headmen detailing their father age regiment tribe principal residence and finally remarks expanding on the notes as to the number of men they command their relationships to Cetewayo and status within the Zulu political and military structure. Provenance: Pencilled inscription to the front panel of the wrappers of "Major Grenfell Deputy Assistant Adjutant General 14.1.79" this was Francis Wallace Grenfell 1841-1925 60th Rifles later field-marshal lord Grenfell and commander at Suakin and Toski in the Mahdist War. Grenfell had gone out to South Africa in 1874 and was aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Cunnynghame commander-in-chief; he saw action at Quntana in the Xhosa War of 1878 and in the Anglo-Zulu War at Ulundi having witnessed the aftermath of the debacle at Isandlwana remarking that "officers and men behaved splendidly - dying back to back - and at the last rallying round the colours not a man of the regulars attempted to escape till all was lost" Emery p. 106. Part of lot 421 Quentin Keynes Sale Christie's 8 April 2004. Octavo pp. 6; 4 double-page tables on 5 leaves. Sewn in original printed pink paper wrappers. Some "service wear" wrappers soiled and rubbed mildly damp cockled back panel with vertical crease where once folded back and consequent soiling to the last blank page contents with pale toning and lightly rippled at the edges from atmospheric damp overall very good. Raugh 575. Frank Emery The Red Soldier: Letters from the Zulu War 1879 1977. unknown
190522629<p>Manuscript record of Chinese immigrant workers in the Rose Deep Gold Mine near Johannesburg 996 pages large 4to.; original half leather binding title in gilt on upper cover. The manuscript chronicles the service of 874 Chinese immigrants dating from February 1905 to January 1908. Each miner has a full page listing: registration number name and surname amount earned moneys advanced remittance to China number of shifts worked number of working shifts in month leave sickness accidents desertion unlawful absence deaths repatriation total shifts lost and remarks as to conduct and character. After the Anglo-Boer War production on the gold mines of the Witwatersrand was very low due to a lack of labour. The British government was eager to get these mines back working as quickly as possible as part of their overall effort to rebuild the economy. Much of the local labour had returned to farming and the Governor Lord Milner reluctantly agreed with the assent of the British government to import Chinese coolies each on a three-year contract that terminated with compulsory repatriation. The mines had become unpopular with Africans due to attempts to reduce wages in order to maximise profits. Some mines experimented using whites as unskilled labour but these experiments were unsuccessful as they tended to demand higher wages. On the 19th of June 1904 the first Chinese labourers thus arrived at the Witwatersrand. Between 1904 and 1910 there were almost 64000 Chinese working on the Witwatersrand gold mines near Johannesburg. Most of these contractors were recruited from the Chinese provinces of Zhili Shandong and Henan. This measure was very successful in increasing the production of gold from mining but in the long run it faced stiff resistance from white labour that considered the Chinese unfair competition in terms of skilled and semi-skilled jobs. Chinese labour in the South African Mines met appallingly dangerous condition a lack of sanitation good food and welfare. Herbert Hoover who would become the 31st U.S. president was a director of Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation CEMC when it became a supplier of coolie labour to South African mines. The first shipment of 2000 Chinese workers arrived in Durban from Qinhuangdao in July 1904. Almost all the Chinese labour was entirely recruited and shipped by CEMC. When the living and working conditions of the labourers became known public opposition to the scheme grew and questions were asked in the British Parliament. The scheme was abandoned in 1911. The mass importation of Chinese to work on the gold mines contributed to the fall from power of the Conservative government in the Britain. However it did stimulate to the economic recovery of South Africa after the Anglo-Boer War by once again making the mines of the Witwatersrand the most productive gold mines in the world. Little is known about the lives of the Chinese men who actually worked in the Witwatersrand gold mines and this is a rare document which sheds light on this largely forgotten page in Imperial history. Spine lacking and worn.</p> No Publisher hardcover
188352639London: Chatto & Windus 1883. First edition small 8vo 2 volumes pp. xii 2 354 2 32 Chatto & Windus ads; vi 381 3; 2 folding maps chromolithograph frontispiece in vol. II a few illustrations in the text; original decorative red cloth stamped in red and black; spines soiled and spine extremities chipped; cloth a little soiled; good and sound. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: "The work was an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron who was the first European to cross central Africa 1873-75 to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second although Cameron was an accomplished literary hand in his own right. Chatto & Windus unknown
18821867Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1882. First in English. Hardcover. VG. Eastern or Chinese Turkestan. Historial and geographical sketch of the country its military strength industries and trade. 255 pp ill. One of the earliest and rarest works on this still little known mystical region. A surprisingly VG copy in original brown cloth deco end papers. Thacker Spink hardcover
19223976Dehra Dun: Government of India 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. narrative of the report of the survey of India detachment with the DeFilippi Scientific expedition 1914. Printed at the office of the trigonometrical survey. 42 pp ill. panoramas 29 lithographed plates and two folding maps inserted in rear pocket. The Depsand Plateau upper Yarkand River march to Suget Yarkand Valley and journey to Europe. Notes regarding the disused routes of the Kora-Koram. Large format. VG to VG. Internally nice. There is a splash of dark ink on the top front cover about 1 1/2 inches x 1 inch. Soiling on board edges. Better than vg but not quite vg. Rare. Government of India hardcover
178848745Uppsala Joh. Edman 1788-93. 8vo. Four beautiful excellently preserved contemporary half calf bindings. Gilding and gilt title-labels to spines. 26 389 1; 32 384; 14 414 30 341 pp.Engraved vignette and 10 engraved plates og which two are folded. With all four half titles inserted. Printed one fine good paper and internally very nice and clean. Indbundet i 4 ensartede smukke og velbevarede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og med forgyldte titeletiketter i skind på rygge. Kobberstukket vignet Goda Hoppet Udda samt 10 kobberstukne plancher hvoraf 2 udfoldelige. Med alle 4 halvtitelblade som dog er indsatte. Trykt på skrivepapir og indvendig meget rene. <br/><br/><em>First edition in a very fine copy of Thunberg's account of his famous naturalist and ethnographical travels in Europa Asia and Africa. Thunberg is sometimes called "the father of South African botany" and "the Japanese Linnaeus". In the first two volumes he vividly decribes the botanical and ethnographical features of South Africa around the Cape."Thunberg’s description of his great voyage published in four parts in Swedish in 1788-1793 and soon translated into English as Travels in Europe Africa and Asia 1793-1795 as well as in French and German contains material of great ethnographical interest." DSB. </em> unknown
165676600Paris 1656. 4to. Samtidig mykt helpergamentbind. 100 s. 2 s. annonser. Med 18 dobbeltsidige grensekolorerte kart. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. Unpaginated. 100 pp. In addition two pages of advertisements. 18 engraved double page maps. Boundaries coloured. Chez l’Autheur. Fransk. <br/><br/><em>Noen få sider med små rifter affiserer ikke teksten eller kartene. Noe gulnet i ytterkantene.A few pages with small tears not affecting text nor maps. Some browning to extremities. Nicolas Sanson d’Abbeville 1600-1667 “considered by many to be the founder of the French school of cartography†Tooley. </em> hardcover
19123986Paris: Privately printed 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Itinerary of the Pelliot Mission. Three Years in Upper Asia. mimeographed translated from Pelliot's article in L'Illustration. TEN Original photos inserted in text presumably these were originals from the magazine illustration. Paul Pelliot made an important three year journey through Central Asia Chinese Turkestan and Western China. Soon after his return he related details of his journey and that speech was printed in L'Illustration. Henry Getty translated that article and obtained original photos to insert. It seems like only a small number of copies could have been printed. Half leather over marbled boards marbled endpapers. Other than some browning around the very edges of the sheets this is in VG to vg condition and RARE. Privately printed hardcover
25481OXFORD PRINTED AT THE THEATRE 1702-4. FIRST EDITION THREE VOLUMES FOLIO 26 BY 40CM. 557pp 581pp 603pp. RECENTLY THIS YEAR 2016 FINELY REBOUND AND RESTORED IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER NEW BROWN BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS. VOLUME 1: LACKS TITLE PAGE HALF TITLE PREFACE xxiii pp 557 pp. PROFESSIONAL REPAIR TO SOME EARLY PAGE EDGES. VOLUME 2: HALF TITLE TITLE PAGE DATED 1703 DEDICATION 8pp 581 pp EARLY PAGES WORN TO THE EDGES THEN VERY GOOD EVIDENCE OF WORMING TO A FEW LATE PAGES. VOLUME 3: TITLE PAGE DATED 1704 DEDICATION 603 pp INDEX. ONE VOLUME CONTAINS THE ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH OF NORTH WALES DATED 1707. OVERALL A VERY HANDSOME AND TIGHT SET. EXTRA WILL BE REQUIRED POSTAGE OUTSIDE THE UK. OXFORD, PRINTED AT THE THEATRE, 1702-4 hardcover
