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London: Captain Henry Wilson, 1803. .Belonging to the Honorable East India Company.; The Fifth Edition. To which is added A Supplement.by J. P. Hockin, of Exeter College, Oxford; Note the paper size of this edition; Full calf with gilt spine title & marbled endpapers/pastedown; A good+ textblock in a fair worn binding; Fold out Chart of the Pelew Islands & 20 plates (lacking 2, crossed out on the illustrations list by the binder); 244 & 72 pages. Size: 9"x11.5". Hardcover.

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986. Inscribed & signed by Authors (first names only); Prepared under thge auspices of the College of Humanities, The Ohio State University; Black cloth with gold titles; An almost fine copy with small ink notes on rear endpaper, owner ink signature/date/place, + 2 matching ownership stamps; 274 pages. Size: 5.5"x8". Hardcover.

Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2009. Part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies series (Section Two, India); Inscribed & Signed by the Author in ink on the prelim; Black cloth, white titles, cover illustration vignette, clay paper, & many photo illustrations with some in color; A near fine copy; 109 pages of text, + 122 plates, + 46 plans & charts. . 6"x9.5".

Richard Diran Kloian, 1981. Second Edition; 65th Anniversary Memorial 1915-1980; Inscribed & signed in ink on the title page by the Author; Black wraps with white spine title, black cover title, pictorial cover, & some photos; A very good paperback copy with evidence of 2 staples at top of cover; 304 pages. Size: 8.5"x14". Signed by Author(s). Soft Cover.

Innsbruck: Wagner'schen Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1891. Half dark green cloth & marbled paper over boards, gilt spine title & border on green leather label; A very good copy with minor underlining & handsome engraved bookplate inside front cover by Richard Lux 1923 for Eugen Herz (Austrian industrialist); 252 pages. Size: 5.5"x8.5". Hardcover.

London: Walter Smith and Innes, 1889. 3 Volumes; Nubbly burgundy cloth, gilt spine titles, pale yellow endpapers/pastedown, frontis portrait engraving in vol. 1, & 2 fold-out facsimile documents; A good+ ex library set with paper spine shelf numbers; 315, 363, & 463 pages. Size: 5.25"x8". Hardcover.

Amsterdam: Francois L'Honore, 1708. Later full brown polished sheep, gilt spine title on black Morocco label, raised spine bands, gilt decorated spine panels, handsome frontice engraving, & 6 fold-out maps; A just very good binding over a good textblock; 375 pages + Table des Matieres, + 1 page of publisher advertisements. Size: 8"x10.5". Hardcover.

Gale & Polden, 1920. Being an account of the doings of the Sadlier-Jackson Brigade, and Altham Flotilla, on the North Diva during the Summer of 1919; Blue cloth, gilt cover title, blind covers border, & green marbled endpapers/pastedown; A very good+ copy with minor corner edge bump & ownership stamp inside front cover; 194 pages. Size: 4.75"x7.25". Hardcover.

Lugd. Batav.: Hackiana, 1677. .Et selectis Jani Gruteri, H. Glareani, Cypr. a Popma, Ludov. Carrionis, Jani Douzae, & aliorum.; Accedunt huic Editioni Jani Melleri Palmerii Spicilegia in eundem Auctorem.; Cum Indice Rerum & Verborum locupletissime.; Editio Novissima.; Full vellum, remnant of manuscript spine title, gilt crowned heraldic device & border to covers, frontis engraving, & device with bird to title page; A near very good copy with ties missing & 2 bookplates inside front cover; 596 pages + Index. Size: 4.75"x8". Hardcover.

Detroit, Michigan: Cadillac Motor Car Company, 1919. 1/4 dark blue cloth & green velour over boards, gilt cover title, illustrated endpapers/pastedown, frontis illustration, & many black & white illustrations throughout the text; A very good copy with corner edgewear, & ink ownership; 77 pages. Size: 9"x12". Hardcover.

New York: Arno Press, 1973. Facsimile edition from The Middle East Collection; Several fold-out maps; Purple cloth with gold titles; An almost fine copy with one map loose; 638 pages. Size: 5.5"x8.5". Hardcover.

Bologna: Societa Tip. dei Compositori, 1875. 1/4 brown cloth & shiny patterned paper over boards, with actual photograph tipped onto frontis; A very good copy with news clip on fep; 228 pages + Indice. . 4,5"X6,75".

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. Limited to 900 copies; 3/4 red leather & red nubbly cloth over boards, gilt spine title, all edges slightly red speckled, attractive endpapers/pastedown, frontis sword illustration, & 101 black & white tissued plates; An almost good ex-library copy with wear to extremities with 4" loose on front gutter, & several quires coming loose; Size: 10"X12.75". Hardcover.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1959. Blue cloth with gold spine title; Foreword by C. H. Philips; A very good copy in a just good dust jacket; 476 pages. Size: 5.75"x9". Hardcover.

London: Printed for the Editor, 1786. The Sixth Edition, much improved, Being more minute and particular Account of that Arch Impostor; In this Edition the whole of his various Forgeries and Fraud are circumstantially related, together with his Origin, and all the materia[l] Occurrences of his Life, including that desperate Undertaking of Forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, in the most artful and surprising Manner, baffled every Mode of Detection, set on foot by the Directors and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for a Series of Six Years. With this Edition is given, as a Frontispiece, an exact Representation of his Person, in the Disguise he wore when he negotiated his first Parcel of Counterfeit Bank Notes, in the Year 1780, and likewise another Portrait of him in his usual dress.; Brown cloth, gold spine title, & fold out frontis illustration; A good toned textblock in a fresh fine binding with new endpapers/pastedown by Bessenberg Bindery; 68 pages. Size:… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868. 2 Volumes; Half brown leather & green cloth over boards, gilt spine title, top edges gilt & tissued frontis vol. I; A good+ set; 768 & 738 pages. Size: 6.75"X9.75". Hardcover.

Paris: Jules Renouard, 1860. Half blue cloth & marbled paper over boards, & all edges speckled; A good+ unevenly foxed copy; 493 pages. Size: 5.75"x9". Hardcover.

Detroit: O. S. Gulley, Bornman & Co, 1890. Period Enbraced, 1531 -1890; Together with Biographical Sketches of the Early Explorers and pioneers; Blue buckram with all edges marbled; A good ex-library copy; 478 pages + Errata. Size: 6.75"X10". Hardcover.

London: R. Ford, R. Hett, J. Chandler, 1727. .To which is added, The Church and the Dissenters compar'd as to Persecution, in some Remarks on Dr. Walker's Attempt to recover the names and Sufferings of the Clergy that were Sequestred, &c. between 1640 and 1660. And also Some Free Remarks on the Twenty-eighth Chapter of Dr. Bennet's Essay on the 39 Articles of Religion.; 2 volumes; Blue library buckram, gold spine titles, & pale endpapers/pastedown; A good+ textblock with mild toning and some foxing fore & aft, in a very good binding (all ex-library); 1005 & 146 pages + 63 page Index. Size: 4.75"x7.25". Hardcover.

[By the Author], 2006. Inscribed & signed in ink by the Author; Green paper over boards with white titles & cover illustration, illustrated endpapers/pastedowns, & many photo illustrations in the text with some in color; A near fine copy; 182 pages. Size: 6.75"X9.5". Signed by Author(s). Hardcover.