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Roma, 1928 settembre 30, copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo di pp. 16 de "La Tribuna illustrata – Supplemento illustrato de La Tribuna"
Copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo de "La Domenica del Corriere" del 20/09/1942
Calcutta, Lahiri & CO. 1908. In 16°pp.4nn.+Ritratto in ovale dell’Imperatore Eduardo VII+ 1 Carta Geografica dell’India Moderna ripiegata mis.mm.(300X300).+pp.213n.numerose Illustrazz.n.t.in b.n. ed altre Carte geografiche a colori.(Solco di ex tarlo alle prime 4 pp. che scompare sin da pag.1). Legat.tt.tela editoriale usurata e sbiadita.
Milano, Treves, 1894, 4 marzo, 11 marzo, 18 marzo, 25 marzo, 1 aprile, 8 aprile, articolo e nove illustrazioni (una a piena pagina) in sei stralci de "L'Illustrazione Popolare".
First edition, 4to, [6], 75, [1]pp., without the initial imprimatur leaf, running title on last leaf cropped ( one or two others just shaved), cut close on some lower margins with the occasional loss of a catchword, recent quarter calf, marbled boards. Details the damages which the English East India Company had sustained by the East India Company of the United Provinces that includes the capture of over 30 ships on the coast of America, including their cargoes, and the burning down of the English Factory of Cape-Corse, claimed by the English and Dutch East India Companies, the English Turkey-Company, &c, followed by a rebuttal of the Dutch demands. A large part of the work relates to transgressions in the West Indies. There is also a section dealing with fishing rights off the Greenland coast. European Americana 664/42; Goldsmith, 1743; Kress, 1130; Sabin, 11492; Wing C1371.
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968, in-8, tela editoriale con titolo in oro al dorso, pp. XIX, [1], 411, [1]. Ottime condizioni.
Volume V. Hardcover without jacket; a few marks on boards. Edges are sunned and a little worn; leading corners are bent and split. Spine is sunned, with bumped and nicked ends, and with portion of cover beginning to detach from spine head. Minor marks on discoloured page block. Pastedowns and endpapers are marked; abrasion and remnants of previous plate on front pastedown; small label on rear pastedown. p.227 is loose and almost entirely detached from binding. Rare instances of minor marks, small age-related stains and pencilled underlining on some pages within. Most pages are creased by binding (minor cosmetic effect only). All text remains clear. Used
First edition, 43, [1]pp., cont. name on upper blank margin of title, disbound. Goldsmith, 14717.
First Edition?, 4to, no half title, 39, [1] pp., disbound. ESTC T190063.
Bombay, Jehangir Bejunji Karani, Bookseller & Publisher, No.18 Parsi Bazar Street, 1884. 4to.; 2 hs., VI-691 pp. Encuadernación original en tela, muy fatigada.
Corners bumped. Some shelfwear. DJ has tear to front panel and some edgewear. ; Isbn: 8170070031; Vol. 11; 960 pages
AA.VV A concise history of science in India. New Delhi, Indian National Science Academy 1971 english, 689 ST1156 Opera con copertina rigida, sovraccoperta strappata in più punti.
Thick 8vo, iv, [2], 589, 19, [1]pp., printed in double columns, text in English and Hindustani, cont. half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, spine chipped.
pp. iii, 421 +Plus 3 plates of B/W illustrations. 12mo. 210mm. Publisher's maroon cloth binding with cover stamped with white, gilt, black and blue. Cover illustration depicts the bust of a woman draped in white set inside of a gilt crescent moon with a blue floral motif with the head of an elephant. Cover designed by Amy Richards with her monogram. Spine lettered and decorated similarly. Colors on boards bright. Front board clean, rear board rubbed with moderate soiling. Spine rubbed and damp stained. Corners sharp. Front and rear hinges cracked but contents tight. Hardbound. Very Good. NW60
pp. 245, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis. Top edge gold. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding embossed in gold. Very nice copy. OCC 9.
25,9x18,7 cm; 73 (1) pp. Tre carte fuori numerazione. Brossura editoriale con titolo al piatto anteriore. Il volume parla delle avventure di Vasco da Gama così come descritte nel poema epico di Luis Vaz de Camões e delle obiezioni in merito da parte dell' Amm. della Marina Portoghese Gago Coutinho. Buono stato di conservazione.
In-8 p. (211x128), pieno vitellino coevo, decorazione con titolo oro su tassello al dorso (piatti staccati, boards detached), pp. VIII,508, con 2 carte geografiche. Viaggi di: John Eldred, Benjamin Wood, James Lancaster, Henry Middleton, Anthony Hippon. Con lievi fioriture, peraltro ben conservato (slightly foxed, otherwise good condition).
Light wear to DJ; Simultaneously lamenting and celebrating modern India's drive toward industrialization and the hoped-for prosperity, author Lewis turns his adept pen to the subcontinent ; 8vo; 322 pages
VG/VG near fine save for slight edge-rounding to dj on spine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. clean attractive copy. well bound. 1st edition. Norman Lewis has already written two great travel books on South-east Asia: A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth, and now he completes his trilogy with A Goddess in the Stones. It was Lewis's belief that the old India described by early travellers remained to be re-descovered off the beaten track, and so he undertook a journey of 2,500 miles in search of this, starting in Bihar
First and only edition, small folio (305 x 190 mm), [12], xix, [1], 705, [1]pp., woodcut title page vignette in Arabic, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, several leaves folding, a couple of minor repairs to inner margin of title, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a handsome copy with text clean and fresh. This volume 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since the it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion'?Preface. All published, the intended second volume of Arabic "syntax" never made it to print.
8vo, xv, [1], 232 pp., 4 engraved plates (1 of the Bengali Alphabet, 3 of Compound Consonants), original cloth, head and tail of spine worn, ink blot on upper cover.
2 Vols., small folio (305 x 190 mm), xxxiii, [3], 49-458; [4], 582, [2]pp., text in English and Persian, occasional marginal pencil notes, title page and terminal leaf to both volumes browned, staining to inner upper corner of leaves to start and end of volume two, later vellum-backed marbled boards, title in manuscript to spines. One of the most extensive Persian grammars written in English. "Matthew Lumsden (1777?1835), orientalist, was fifth son of John Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, and a cousin of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821?1896), army general. After education at King's College, Aberdeen, he went to India as assistant professor of Persian and Arabic in the College of Fort William, and in 1808 succeeded to the professorship. In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Calcutta Madrasa, and superintended various translations of English works into Persian then in progress. From 1814 until 1817 he had charge of the East India Company's press at Calcutta, and in 1818 he became secretary to the stationery committee."?(Oxford DNB). Provenance: John L. Platts? signature in pencil to title page.
First edition, 8vo (230 x 145 mm), vii, [2], vi-xxviii, 427, [1]pp., some light spotting, rebound in half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco title label. William Yates (15 November 1792 - 3 July 1845) was an English Baptist missionary and orientalist. After joining the Baptist Missionary Society he sailed for India and arrived in Calcutta in 1815. From there "He continued to Serampore to join William Carey (1761?1834), who had been sent out by the same society in 1792, and under his direction began to study Sanskrit and Bengali. Almost immediately he began to help with the mission's publications."?(Oxford DNB.)
Tela c/sovr., cm14.5x22, pp 196 + 22 tav. e 15 carte su velina. Testo in inglese a cura del Department of Archaelogy in Pakistan.
