Beschreibung
350 pp, 22x14cm, A tear to one page margin. Some light rubbing to binding edges. Recent binder's blind full leather [black sheepskin]. Full title reads: " Our Gipsies In City, Tent, and Van. Containing An Account of Their Origin and Strange Life, Fortune-Telling Practises, & c. Specimens of Their Dialect, and Amusing Anecdotes of Gipsy Kings, Queens, and Other Gipsy Notabilities". Contents: The Gipsies: A Separate & Mysrterious People; The Origin of the Gipsies; Migrations & Persecutions of the Gipsies; Dialect of the Gipsies; Gipsy Surnames & Intruders into Gipsy Families; Singular Incidents of Gipsy Life; The Tents, Vans, & Home Life of the Gipsies; Gipsy Weddings, Births, Baptisms; Etc.; Longevity, Deaths, Funerals & Epitaphs of Gypsies; Jews, Gipsies, Money, Vanity, Grand Balls, Etc.; Mental Powers, Gipsy Teachers & Pupils; Alleged Vices of Gypsies, & Hospitality to Strangers; Gipsy Gratitude: Spirit of Revenge; Working & Pet Animals of Gípsies; Religion, Superstitions & Dreams of Gypsies; Fortune-Telling Practices of the Gipsies; Gipsy Claimants & Twilight in Gipsydom; The King & the Dying Gipsy; The Gipsies' Appeal. Several page corners creased. Some small stains to binding.Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014210
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: Our Gipsies In City, Tent, and Van. ...
Verlag: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1885
Einband: full leather.
Illustrator: Textual illustrations.
