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Altre immaginiEditore: London et alLloyd's Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company Ltd. . 1909
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Da: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Regno UnitoRobert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB
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EUR 1493,42
EUR 11,60 spedizioneSpedito da Regno Unito a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. (30.5 x 24 cm). pp.535+[1, colophon]. Publisher's full red morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others, circular gilt vignette to the upper board featuring an illustration of a sphinx, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Black and white map to the fron…t of the volume, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs thereafter, first several leaves ruled in gilt. Some trivial light spotting to endpapers, binding a bit rubbed at corners, generally a very good copy of this handsomely produced work on Egypt in the original publisher's leather binding. 'Originally designed to give in an attractive form full and reliable information with reference to the outlying parts of the British Empire, the scope of this series of works has been extended to cover the whole field of British commercial and $3 political influence. In some instances, governments seeking to place accurate knowledge of their countries before settlers, traders, and investors have published books and pamphlets from time to time; but there are other centres in which official enterprise in this direction has not been possible, or, at all events, in which action has not been taken, and it is in this field that the publishers are now working. So far, they have found ample justification for their labours in the widespread public interest taken in their operations in the countries and colonies which have been the sphere of their work, and in the extremely cordial reception given by the Press, British, foreign, and colonial, to the completed results' (preface).
