Author: Wolff, Joseph

Publisher: London: Saunders & Otley 1860.

Description: viii 535p xi 463p appendix protesting some errors in dictation, original brown ribbed cloth with gilt lettering to spine and publisher's monogram to board, frontispiece with tissue-guard, text clean and bright, spine hinges weak, one segment of spine detached but present, this set is due to receive new endpapers, faint glue traces to bottom of spine where shelfmark was removed, no names or stamps, glued to endpaper is a folded original letter, 10 lines of text, ALS, with flaws, by the author, dated 1834, addressed to Captain W[?] and asking for a passage to Suez to be reunited with his wife Georgiana in Malta. Special copy with author letter, bookbinder will make a this a special treasure

Order No: PIP 198296

Language: English

This book has been catalogued with the following subject terms: 19th Century, Arab World, Christianity, Islam, Transport

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