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Ulan Press, 2012-11-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

Ulan Press, 2012-11-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

London:, 1860. narrow folio, xii, 65, 1 pp, concerns irregularities involved with John Orrell Lever's proposed steamboat line between Galway and America; text toned and flaking at margins, complete text but disbound and a reading copy only,. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

HMSO, 1868. xiv, 166, [viii], 115, [ii], 25, [ii], 32, [ii], 7, [ii], 77, [ii], 12 pp., seven papers bound together representing the history of Anglo-American negotiations regarding the development of law and rules of extradition, all folio, half leather & marbled boards, ex library, binding worn. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

[London] : Ordered, by the House of Commons, 1822. Paperback. Good. Folio. Original blue wraps. 239 pp. Lacking most of spine. Shelfwear. Slighlty shaken. Piece of rear wrap lacking. An uncut copy.

London, 1872. Paperback. Very Good. xxviii, 204p. Original deep blue wrapper. 34cm. Backstrip and adjacent areas reinforced with a strip of light blue paper. Bookplate. Text double-columned. Parliamentary Publications: 1872, 314. Includes testimony at pages 110-112 of Captain Richard F. Burton after he had been recalled from Damascus.

London, UK: British House of Commons, 1855.. Folio. Oblong. String Binding (no boards), 65 pp. Letterpress, Some Pages Uncut, Good with minor tears along edges, stamps on some pages, else VG. First Edition.PROVENANCE: Collection of Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.Hugh Small as a child lived above his surgeon father's consulting rooms in Harley Street almost opposite Florence Nightingale's first hospital. He graduated from Durham University in 1966 with honors in physics and psychology and worked in the US, Chile, and France before becoming a partner in a multinational management consultancy based in London. He is also the author of The Crimean War (Tempus, 2007). Hugh is widowed with two daughters and four grandchildren.

[London]: Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 1842. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. 4 folding maps (3 in Part I and one in Part II, xxvi, 744, 637p. Contemporary 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Covers intact but rather heavily scuffed and rubbed. Bookplates removed on both front pastedowns. Contents generally sound and clean although the large folding map of the coast of West Africa in Part (Volume) II is quite fragile because it has split apart along many of the original folds and needs careful handling and repair to make the map whole again. These volumes contain a wealth of material about British trade and administrative activities in Gambia, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast, the three areas of particular British interest and control in West Africa in the 1840s -- Lagos and other pieces of what is now modern Nigeria were still outside British influence and control in 1842 and Benin hadn't yet been grabbed by Germany before passing to Great Britain after World War I. These volumes… Read More

[London]:: Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,, 1817-1822.. First edition.. old quarter calf over marbled boards (about half of the backstrinp is lacking).. Old ink ownership signature at head of title page; a few inoffensive spots of light foxing; binding very worn at extremities and splitting at joints (sewing structure sound); front pastedown stained.. Folio,. Fine technical engraved plates, some folding.. Included are HC Reports no. 422, 574, 244, 180 and 417.