Paris: Printed by E. Desfosses-Neogravure [for the state], 1936, 1949. Pamphlet. Respectively [35] and [25]p., both items are 10x8 inch pamphlets, staplebound. The 1936 piece is illustrated in b&w with facsimiles of documents establishing the game and remarkably clear small photogravures from various periods; somewhat handled and dusty with a...... More

Cat.No: 223480

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Lake House Investments Ltd., 1966. Hardcover. 247p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.5 inches, map endpapers, corners bumped, small hole in cloth of front board, pages lightly toned else good condition in a heavily worn dj with a small hole on the front panel corresponding to the hole in the..... More

Cat.No: 267881

London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1938. Hardcover. lxix, 228p., maps and illustrations as called for, hardbound in bright blue cloth boards gilt & blind (the standard Hakluyt formula). Find four folded maps in end-pocket, these in perfect condition. Corner-tips mildly turned, top & tail rims slightly crimped, tiny nick..... More

Cat.No: 280292

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Hardcover. 217p., illustrated with several inserted plates and a front endpaper map in facsimile. Hardbound in green cloth boards titled in black. A very good copy, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. More

Cat.No: 279181

Goteborg: Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhallet, 1979. Paperback. 232p., illustrated with one line map (very last leaf), text entirely in English, softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed (but rubricated) grey wraps (laid lines, nice stock), continental-style paperback with overlapping covers (a bit worn) and closed signatures (a former owner read all..... More

Cat.No: 265564

Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution, 1998. Paperback. 53p., b&w reproductions throughout, nicely done, softbound in 11x6.5 inch lime-green wraps, a clean sound unmarked copy. India was at this time "the wealthiest Muslim nation on earth" and artists could be hired by..... More

Cat.No: 264325

Rome: Jouvence - Viella, 1982. Various paginations, nice clear reproduction of texts and facsimile maps, the doublespreads mounted on stubs so these open fully, a small folio in rather utilitarian decorated papered boards, 12x8.5 inches. Mild edgewear, spine rims slightly crimped with a touch of paper-fray to topmost, generally sound..... More

Cat.No: 265004

Paris: Editions Chandeigne / Quetzal Editories, 1993. Hardcover. 137p., cloth-covered boards, 9x11.25 inches, profusely illus., very good condition in like dj. More

Cat.No: 272489

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. ix, 315p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock throughout, illustrations and maps as called for. Hardbound in 9x5.5 inch dark blue cloth boards titled gilt and decorated in blind, untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges, a mildly edgeworn volume with turned corner-tips, crimped top and..... More

Cat.No: 281541

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Hardcover. xviii, unnumbered line-maps section, 326p., hardbound first edition in clothbacked boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. An excellent copy all round: entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Quoting dj text: "..written in the 1550s..only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s..... More

Cat.No: 264047

Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 1979. Pamphlet. 31p., a flimsy copyshop sort of production but marvelous content, illustrated with a number of b&w vignettes. Bliss writes lengthy annotations, his catalogue (28 pages actually, remaining leaves are a useful detailed index) is comprised of 67 such notes. Saddle-stitched in 8.5x5.5 inch wraps..... More

Cat.No: 284319

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. Hardcover. xv, 439p., illustrated with period images and a line map, hardbound first edition in drab cloth boards titled in black. A generally good copy with several flaws: firstly, a quarter-inch tear at the head rim, then group-damage to four leaves (pp.228-238, torn creased margins)..... More

Cat.No: 46223

London: Duckworth, 1975. Hardcover. 142p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, frontis., faint offsetting to free front endpaper else very good condition in a price clipped, lightly yellowed dj with old price sticker on the front flat. More

Cat.No: 270793