927 - 1098 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Bookshop ticket on title-p.; sl. browned. Dustwr. sunned at backstrip and sl. dam.
Venkataraman, L. and Pasricha A. Indian Classical Dance. Tradition in Transition. Ibid., Roli Books/ Lustre Press, 2002, 144p., num. col. ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., sq. folio.
- Dustwr. sl. rubbed, otherwise fine.
AND 5 others on Indian dance, all richly illustrated, i.a. S. KOTHARI (ed.), Bharata Natyam. Indian Classical Dance Art (Bombay, 1982, orig. cl. w. (dam.) dustwr., folio (1 leaf loose)) and M. KHOKAR, Dancing for Themselves. Folk, Tribal and Ritual Dance of India (New Delhi, 1987, orig. giltlettered cl. w. (sl. dam.) dustwr., folio).
- Lacks 6 plates; vol. 2 frontisp. and title sl. foxed; vol. 1 sm. stain in outer margin of first 20p. Bindings w. some worn spots.
- Sl. foxed.
AND 3 others similar by the same, in similar bindings.
- Lower hinge sl. weak.
- Pastedowns foxed; two bookplates and sm. number in pen on upper pastedown. Very fine copy.
= Blackmer 1116; Atabey 805; Lipperheide Lb 61.
- Year 1834 partly stained and mouldy; binding worn. Otherwise bindings w. minor imperfections. Years 1835 and 1837 wrappers sl. darkened; backstrips sl. worn and w. paper shelf tickets.
= Interesting periodical, containing extensive articles on various regions (i.a. Siam, China, Polynesia, Southern Africa, Madagascar, India) and articles on/ by various travellers.
- Lacks at least 76 plates; upper hinge weak; bookblock shaken; yellowed; occas. straight cuts in inner margin from removal of former plates; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Vellum sl. soiled.
- Some foxing (a few lvs. browned). Bindings trifle rubbed at extremities.
= Vol. 4 with subtitle "comprenant la conquête de l'Afrique".
- Some foxing; stamp on hitle and frontwr. Spine and wrappers along margins strengthened w. cl. tape.
= Rare. Cat. NHSM p.168 (orig. German ed., 1842).
Schipbreuk van den Gouverneur F. Ridder De Stuers op de Lucipara's den 5 van Bloeimaan 1837. Ten voordeele van de gewonde en zieke militairen. Arnhem, T.E. Slot & Zoon, n.d. (±1837), 24,(3)p., orig. wr.
- Wrappers soiled. = Rare. Cat. NHSM p.191.
= Offprint from the Werken uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap, Utr.
- Hinges weak. Spine-ends and joints sl. worn.
= Copy of the de luxe edition with the col. plates. Cat. Nat. Maritime Mus. 690; Ferguson 12627; Mendelssohn II, p.20.
- Dustwr. sl. yellowed and frayed at spine-ends.
AND 2 others in 3 vols.: C. HOCKING, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam, Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War lost in Action. 1824-1962 (London , 1969, 2 vols., orig. unif. rexine, 4to) and P.S. DULL, A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945) (Cambridge, 1978, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo).
- Unevenly browned; closed tears on folds.
= The text tells the story of the wreckage and disaster of the French frigate Medusa, in the words of one of the survivors. The woodcut illustration shows the survivors of the disaster of the vessel Medusa on their makeshift raft, after the composition by Theodore Gericault.
- Paper occas. sl. brittle; partly sl. yellowed. = Very rare.
- Partly waterstained in lower margin, also affecting some of the maps/ plans; occas. trifle waterstained in upper blank margin; a few maps/ plans sl. browned on fold(s) (1x w. some fraying); libr. stamp on title-p.
= Cohen/ De Ricci 128.
- All vols. owner's entry on title-p./ htitle; some foxing.
= Probably a translation of F.W.Schütz (a.o.), Geschichte der Kriege in Europa seit (...) 1792.
= Dealing with various aspects of Belgian military history.
AND 11 loose issues: série 11, no.1 and 3-8; série 14, no.1-3; série 15, no.2.