The World in Miniature; Tibet, and Indian Beyond the Ganges; containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, religion, amusements, &c. of the nations inhabiting those countries: illustrated with twelve coloured engravings.
by Frederic Shoberl (editor)
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- Very Good
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- Condition
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About This Item
London: printed for R. Ackermann., 1824 xi, [9], 352 printed pages (some light spotting and offsetting). Undated but 1824. 12 hand-coloured engravings, including colour frontispiece. Contemporary ink inscription on preliminary page. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. 9.5 x 15 cm. Contemporary full diced calf (slightly rubbed, and slightly worn at head of spine and at corners). Spine in compartments with hand-tooled floreate gilt decoration and complete with contrasting green morocco label and gilt titling. Boards with scrolling blind hand tooling within twin gilt double fillet borders . Part of the comprehensive 43-volume series of The World in Miniature by Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853); dates of other volumes in series range from 1821-1825. Covers the peoples of India and Tibet, Bhutan, Burma, and Southeast Asia, written at the height of Britain's conquest and colonisation of the region. Abbey, Travel, vol. I, p. 17.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The World in Miniature; Tibet, and Indian Beyond the Ganges; containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, religion, amusements, &c. of the nations inhabiting those countries: illustrated with twelve coloured engravings.
- Author
- Frederic Shoberl (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- London: printed for R. Ackermann.
- Date Published
- 1824
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My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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- Gilt
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