Collection of Eleven Offprints and Extracts on Miscellaneous Subjects]. 1. ABEL, Sir Frederick. Accidental Explosions Produced by Non-explosive Liquids. Royal Institution of Great Britain. Weekly Evening Meeting Friday, March 13, 1885. 2. SMITH, Philip Vernon. The House of Lords and the Nation. 3. AMOS, Andrew. An Introductory Lecture of the Law of Property, Delivered in Downing College, Cambridge, On October 24, A.D. 1853. 4. KIEPERT, Heinrich. Ethnographische Übersichtskarte den Europäischen Orients (Untere Donaulander, Tûrkei und Griechenland). mit Erläuerndum Text. 5. Report by Major Stuart on the Island of Hayti for the Year 1876. 6. STUART, Major Robert. Haiti, or Hispaniola. 7. BUTLER, Spencer Percival. Causes of the Turkish Invasion

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8vo, with the parts in slightly differing sizes. Early moiré green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. 1. 25, (1) pp. 1885. Inscribed by Abel to the head of the first page. 2. Second edition. 40 pp. London: England Office, 1884. Inscribed "from the author" to the head of the first page. 3. (ii), 53, (3) pp. Cambridge: J. Deighton, 1853. 4. 12 pp., folding colour map. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1877. 5. 63-132 pp. [N.p: c.1877]. 6. 42, (2) pp. Green printed upper wrapper inscribed to "C. Malcolm Kennedy Esq. with author's compliments". London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, [extracted] "from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1878". 7. 32 pp. Cambridge: John Deighton [and] George Bell, 1853. 8. 76 pp. Contemporary stamp of the booksellers Libreria Ravelo, Hermano Sao de Cuba to the first leaf. Santo Domingo: Imprenta de Garcia Hermanos, 1878. 9. 38 pp. Green printed upper wrapper, folding map of part of Kurdistan. London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons. 10. (161)-240 pp. [N.p.]: February 1857. 11. (ii), xl, 58 pp. [N.p.]: Printed for the Camden Society, 1871. Some minor discolouration to the cloth, very good overall. This volume was owned by the British diplomat Charles Malcolm Kennedy (1831-1908). He entered the Foreign Office in the early 1850s and steadily rose through the ranks. He was mainly tasked with Britain's commercial interests in various parts of the world, as can be deduced by the broad range of subjects contained herein. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 37662

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Titel: Collection of Eleven Offprints and Extracts ...

Verlag: [1853-85].

Erscheinungsdatum: 1853