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Publicado por Forgotten Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 1330632761ISBN 13: 9781330632765
Librería: Forgotten Books, London, Reino Unido
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. Excerpt from Sketches of German Life. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item.
Publicado por Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1330632761ISBN 13: 9781330632765
Librería: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, Estados Unidos de America
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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Publicado por Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0666418284ISBN 13: 9780666418289
Librería: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, Estados Unidos de America
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HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Publicado por Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1330632761ISBN 13: 9781330632765
Librería: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Reino Unido
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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 1847
Librería: Leigh Gallery Books, LEIGH ON SEA, ESSEX, Reino Unido
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Half-Leather. Condición: Good +. No Jacket. First Thus. 340pp. Gilt lettering and decoration to panelled spine - green leather a little scuffed on the edges and corners, especially at foot of spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. An attractive copy.
Publicado por John Murray, UK, 1847
Librería: Books for Collectors, Lancashire, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a UK first edition hardcover, published by John Murray in 1847. The photos show the condition better than I can describe, however overall I am grading as Good condition, The book has a straight spine, with firm corners and spine ends. However you need to be aware the edges all round are scuffed - but this does not really detract from the book's appearance in my opinion. The boards are rubbed heavily though and grubby, but the binding is tight. Whilst the page edges are toned, the text block is clean aside from the odd fox spot. There is an owner ex-libris label affixed to the front inside board and a previous owner name in pencil on the front end paper. The title page confirms the publication in 1847.
Publicado por Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0666418284ISBN 13: 9780666418289
Librería: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Reino Unido
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HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Publicado por John Murray, 1847
Librería: The Last Book Store, Tyler, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. John Murray, London, 1847. Leather and marble boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. 340pp. Gilt lettering and decoration to paneled spine - Brown leather. Marbled endpapers and edges. What a beautiful little book! (CK).
Publicado por John Murray,, London,, 1847
Librería: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xii, 340. Disbound (i.e. lacking covers) but otherwise in decent sound condition with clean text. Suitable for rebinding or reading and reference. Disbound (i.e. lacking covers) but otherwise in Êdecent sound condition with clean text. Suitable for rebinding or reading and reference.
Publicado por [N.p., 1889
Librería: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Black ink on ruled notebook paper, 127 ff. / 254 pp., 30 to 32 lines per page, approx. 75,000 words, closely written on recto and verso. 1 vols. 8vo. Dacoits, Meteorites, New of the Mutiny, & the 'Buffalo Prince': a Career in Burma. A detailed and digressive retrospective account of the early years of the long service of Col. Alexander Gordon Duff (1828-1904) in Burma, composed in his retirement in the spring of 1889. Duff notes that he is reviewing his diaries while writing this account. Duff was a former officer of the Madras Native Infantry, and there is a great deal of whining about his misery while appointed to the Arrakan Hill Road, with detailed gossip on the failings of his superiors, including quite a damning verdict on Col. (later Sir) Arthur Phayre, who filled appointments "with the scum of the province". He writes bluntly of the local military administration: ". the inefficiency of the instruments employed. Prominent in this respect was the Pegu Light Infantry which was simply instead of a disciplined body a disorganised rabble." While rebellions inspired by the Mutiny were a constant fear, he was not concerned about the reliability of the native Police under his own supervision, but rather the possibility of contagion in districts with unreliable appointees. Later, as he is more settled in his post, there is considerable detail of the work of the assistant commissioner in rural Burma, practical tasks such as regulation of fisheries and tax collection, the usefulness of knowing short cuts in river traffic, occasional mentions of shooting pheasant, peafowl and deer for the pot, as well as dealings with itinerant snake charmers, wild elephants, recurring fears of cholera, and a number of unusual incidents. The memoir begins at the end of 1856, "I do not think there is much to tell of my last year at Tonghoo" [modern Taungoo]. He had been ordered down to Rangoon to await transport at the end of a year of "foreign service". Upon his arrival in Rangoon, he shared lodgings with Quartermaster General Col. Farren, "in those days living in Burma was anything but luxurious, food was indifferent, butcher's meat was hardly to be had, green vegetables there were none, potatoes were a costly luxury". Yet he did not want to return to India. "I had got my name sent up to Sir Archibald Bogle, then Commissioner of Moulmein, as a student of Burmese and desirous of joining the Commission". He was offered a job on the Arrakan Hill Road by Lieut. Forlong, who assured him there is no fever in the hills. This was a lie but "believing as I did in the lies he told me brought me all such good fortune as I ever experiened, and was in fact the turning point in my career." 25 January 1857, a special messenger arrives with telegram from Forlong to Executive Engineer Ingram, that Duff was wanted by Sir Archibald Bogle at Moulmein; when he arrives at Kyaukpyu, he learns that the position has been filled and experiences deep disappointment. "I little dreamed that I should see it as Deputy Commissioner . where after more than 27 years wanderings my career in that service finally ended." May 1857, released from road service; in Rangoon, meets [Henry Tristram] O'Reilly who had been Deputy Commissioner at Tonghoo, now Magistrate at Rangoon, "if I could pass the examination in Burmese he would give me the very first appointment that fell vacant." When word reached Rangoon of the terrible events of the Mutiny, all European soldiers were ordered to return. Duff received an appointment as an Extra Assistant Commissioner, with promise of the first promotion to Assistant Commissioner. Arrived at Prome (now Pyay) 4 July 1857, "matters had settled down a good deal though dacoity was still unpleasantly prevalent. There were no Europeans in the place except the officials who consisted of the Deputy Commissioner Major Grant Allan, the Asst. Capt. [A.R.] MacMahon, the Extra Asst., myself, the Civil Surgeon . besides these there were two American missionaries of the lowest style of that class, i.e., men who while themselves destitute of any education themselves professed to be converting the heathen" "When I arrived at Thayetmyo I found that the Police had just captured a man who was believed to be Nga Kyay the Murderer of Captain Latter" [in 1853]. November 1857, sent from Prome to the village of "Nyu Thein Kyoung", in the center of the subdivision: "a military officer ought to be in charge of such a post" An account of the loud noises heard early in the morning of 27 December 1857, and a visit to Quen-Gouk [modern Gyogon?], "the most northerly village of my jurisdiction" and the paddy field where the Quenggouk meteorite landed; it was dug out in fragments. "The paddy field was perfectly dry and the ground as hard as iron." On 24 August 1858, while he is trying a case, an earthquake occurred, of magnitude sufficient to bring down the pagoda of Prome. "Burma has been pre-eminently the land of mock princes - pinchbeck Perkin Warbecks - and however preposterous the story such an imposter tells ." As the local magistrate, he summoned one such Buffalo Prince and gave him a stern talking to; not long after, another Embryo Prince led a revolt in another province governed by an incompetent Phayre appointee and only the prompt arrival of the Magistrate of Rangoon, O'Reilly, with a force of 35 jail guards quelled the disturbance. Summary of his work 1858: "I find that in criminal matters I tried 652 persons, recorded the depositions of 869 witnesses and passed orders on 1784 petitions. In civil matters I tried 121 suits and passed orders on 1081 petitions, all the above business being transacted in the Burmese language. Besides this I had to keep a variety of accounts and wrote 449 official letters in English." 1859 opens with an account of the crimes and arrest of an outlaw named Shoay Goungalay, "who was a very daring Dacoit leader." In August 1859 isoffered an appointment from Hopkinson, Commissioner of Moulmein as Superintendent o.