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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.

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.

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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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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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