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8vo hardback in black cloth gilt, spine repaired crudely with green cloth, pp695. A Good working copy.IF FURTHER DESCRIPTION NEEDED, PLEASE ENQUIRE. (Shelf 200) [1 kg +] NOTE: Heavy Books will require special shipping arrangements. PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct. …

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 18.5cm, first edition, 163p.,original brown blind-stamp decorated cloth, leaves browned, lacking rearfree (blank) endpaper, lightly worn, a very good copy. (Mt) A scarce"rankers" memoir of the Peninsular War. Anthony Hamilton (b.1779)enlisted in the 43rd Light Infantry and served in the battle of Vimiero,Corunna, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca and Vittoria. In thelatter he was captured by the French. After service in the West Indies,Hamilton was discharged at Quebec in 1819 as a sergeant , eventuallysettling in the United States.…

Soft cover. pp.iv, 368 with col. & b/w. plates. 8vo. Hardback. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block, only a very minor amount internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with blind decoration in vg. plus condition. Scarce and complete. A fascinating work. Albert Isaiah Coffin, MD, was an American herbalist (1790-1866). He advocated the therapeutic use of herbs and published a number of titles on medical botany and midwifery. Coffin gained a following in the north of England, especially among Methodist and temperance reformers. The journal was published monthly and bound into yearly volumes and considers the preparation and uses of herbs, comments on diet and diseases and much more.…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. First edition. A two-part collection of letters from the fascinating English Reformation, rebound into one volume by Maltby. Two volumes in one, rebound in a cloth binding in Oxford, 8th May 1964, by Maltby, with the binder's stamp to the rear paste down. Bookplate of Thomas Parker to the front paste down. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. The first and second portions of this collection of letters from the English Reformation, translated from authenticated copies of the autographs, and edited for The Parker Society by the Rev. Hastings Robinson (17921866). This work, rebound in one volume, gives an intimate insight into a turbulent period of English history.Robinson was an English Church of England clergyman and Anglican divine. Rebound in a cloth binding by Maltby, Oxford, 1964. Externally, very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Light offsetting to the end papers. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Later edition of this translation by the British missionary William Yates (1792-1845), following its publication in an edition of the entire Old Testament in 1844. Yates's Bengali-language rendering of the Bible took a decade to complete. Yates arrived in Calcutta in 1815 and, excepting a short period of home leave, spent the remainder of his life in Asia. "As well as an orientalist, he was a deeply read classical scholar, a Hebraist, and a student of Chinese" (ODNB). Darlow & Moule 2079 (for Yates's complete Bengali Old Testament). Small octavo. Original green horizontally ribbed cloth, printed paper spine label, edges sprinkled red. Bookplate recording presentation of vol. to American Bible Union by Calcutta Baptist Missionaries in 1853; old paper shelf label on spine; 20th-century blind stamps of University of Chicago Library on title page and final leaf. Spine repaired; very good.…

Later edition of this translation by the British missionary William Yates (1792-1845), whose Bengali-language rendering of the Bible took a decade to complete. His version of Genesis and Exodus was first published in 1842, in a volume covering the Old Testament up to Esther. Here, the text extends to the end of Chapter 20 of Exodus. Yates arrived in Calcutta in 1815 and, with the exception of a short period of home leave, spent the remainder of his life in Asia. "As well as an orientalist, he was a deeply read classical scholar, a Hebraist, and a student of Chinese" (ODNB). Darlow & Moule 2075 (for Yates's 1842 Genesis-Esther). Small octavo. Original purple cloth, rebacked to style with original title label and portion of original spine laid down, edges sprinkled red. Bookplate recording presentation of vol. to American Bible Union by Calcutta Baptist Missionaries in 1853; 20th-century blind stamps of University of Chicago Library on title page and final leaf. Very good.…

2 volumes, 1x 418, xiv 453 pages, TEG, 12 full page plates + text illus to The Angler, 6 full page + text illus to The Lives. Bookplate of Herbert S Snarbey and tipped in signature dated 1847 to each volume. Bound in full tan calf, blind stamped clover leaf to spine edges, typical of an art and crafts binding, base of spine stamped 1874, stamped to rear board lower margin possibley binders initials 19L.K.02. A vg matching set, the Walton is the 6th (titled 4th) Major edition. Coigney 56.…

First and sole edition. An important early work in the transmission of information about the celebrated Buddhist caves of western India, which Bird saw as repositories of universal value, mindful of "the duty imposed on us, as a nation, to preserve these relics of ancient art". Inevitably scarce, as just 59 subscribers contributed towards the expense of the lithograph plates. The caves at Ajanta were re-discovered when a British officer, John Smith, stumbled across them during a tiger hunt. In 1844 Major Robert Gill was commissioned by the Royal Asiatic Society to create reproductions on canvas of the wall paintings and Robert Fergusson's Illustrations of the Rock-Cut Temples of India was published at London in 1845, with tinted lithographs by T. C. Dibdin after sketches by Fergusson, predating the present work by just two years - although Bird's study incorporates researches he "had made as early as 1828, [which] firmly proved the Buddhist origin of the cave temples of Salsette, Karli, Ajanta, Ellora and others" (Archer & Lightbown, p. 126). However, Bird had originally caused outrage when he took a crowbar to some paintings at Ajanta, in an attempt to remove examples for study. This brought a public condemnation from Fergusson. However, "twenty years had brought a notable change of heart [in Bird]. For whereas the James Bird of 1828 defaced Ajanta notwithstanding protest, his own book spoke of 'the duty imposed on us, as a nation, to preserve these relics of ancient art'. Bird was not concerned solely with the caves as memorials to India's past. Rather, presaging the World Heritage Convention's criterion that its monuments must possess exceptional universal value, Bird imagined India's cave temples to be synedoches for its populace's state of grace" (Cohen). James Bird (1797-1864) entered King's College, Aberdeen, in 1810, taking his MA in 1814, and in 1815 continued his studies at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals in London. "He qualified in 1816 and, after another two years, enlisted in the East India Company's service as an assistant surgeon. He rose to be physician-general to the Bombay Army in 1847, having seen active service in Bengal in 1819, in the Kaira campaign, and at the capture of Kittur in 1827, and having held, amongst others, the posts of residency surgeon at Saltara, surgeon to the European and Native Hospitals at Bombay, and surgeon of an army division. A man of wide interests and great energy, he published a translation of a Persian history of Gujerat and researches into the Buddhist and Jain religions. He interrupted a voyage home in 1832 to tour Middle Eastern countries, and, in England in 1834, gave evidence before a Parliamentary Committee on communications with India. His retirement from India in 1847 signified the opening of a new phase of activity for Bird. He became lecturer on military surgery and tropical medicine at St. Mary's Hospital and an office-holder of various societies, being Lettsomian Lecturer in 1862, and was generally regarded as an authority on military medicine and public hygiene, on which he wrote extensively" (Royal College of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows online). Archer & Lightbown, India Observed, V&A, 1982; Richard S. Cohen, Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism, Religion, Modernity, Routledge, 2017. Small folio (370 x 255 mm). 53 lithograph plates (complete, numbered I-LIII plus unnumbered folding supplementary plate, plate XLIII not issued, complying with copies at Princeton and Harvard), lithographed by F. de Jesus after Lieut. Bird (78th Highlanders) and A. B. Orlebar. Contemporary grey-green bead-grain half cloth, marbled sides. Ownership inscriptions of "W. H. Clarke, Rainhill, 1876" to front pastedown, head of title, list of plates and Chapter 1. Spine rumpled, binding a little rubbed, lower fore-corner of plates damp-stained, scattered foxing, a few plates toned, folding plate a little soiled and ragged at fore-edge, closed tears into plates XXV and XXXII, overall a good sound copy.…