London: Thomas Tegg, 1813. 12mo (16.5cm.); contemporary black gilt- and blind-tooled paneled calf, gilt spine in five compartments, brown morocco spine onlay, marbled endpapers; vii,[1],304pp.; engraved frontispiece and added title page. Leather a bit rubbed at extremities, some shallow creasing to a few early leaves, text block unevenly foxed throughout..... More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1839. 12mo; full contemporary brown gilt-tooled morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [2],xi,[1],576pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, eleven plates. Binding expertly recased, dark, shallow dampstain affecting fore-edge margin of frontispiece, plates rather foxed, else a Very Good, attractively bound copy of this uncommon illustrated edition. More
Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24x3cm); 344pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 222 photographic images in color and B&W. Note that this is the true first edition, in hardcover, not the 2008 reprint from Paul Holberton Publishing, which bears the same ISBN..... More