223 Oriental Series. Comprising—RUSSIA, 3 vols., by Sir Donald MacKenzie Wallace and Luigi Villari. CHINA, 4 vols., by Capt. F. Brinkley. PHILIPPINES, 1 vol., by Mrs. Campbell Dauncey. JAPAN, 8 vols., by Capt. F. Brinkley. KOREA, 1 vol., by Major Austen. MANCHURIA, 1 vol., by Sir Alexander Hosie. SIAM, 1 vol., by P. A. Thompson. BURMA, 1 vol., by R. Talbot Kelly. AFGHANISTAN, 1 vol., by Agnes Hamilton. INDIA, 1 vol., by Col. J. D. Rees. PERSIA, 1 vol., by F. B. Bradley-Birt. TURKEY, 1 vol., by Edward T. Knight. Numerous full-page photographic reproductions, with the frontispieces finely printed in colors. 24 vols. Royal 8vo. ¾ Japan Vellum, thick board sides, elaborately colored backs, with emblematic designs to each series, gilt tops, uncut. Boston and Tokyo: J. B. Millet Co., 1910.
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The standard work on the Asiatic and Oriental countries. Here is a set of books the like of which has never been seen before. It describes the manners, morals, customs, religions, art, literature, politics, industries, of all the great people who live on the other side of the Pacific, with whom our immediate future is vitally connected for better or worse. The day that Japan won over Russia marked the birth of a new courage in all the countries west of us, and the recorded observations of trained writers, skilled in all languages, took on a vastly increased importance.
These magnificent volumes contain over 7,600 pages, printed in large type, on excellent laid paper especially made for this edition, and placed in a de luxe binding.
224 Oriental Tales. Translated into English Verse. By J. Hoppner. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo. old mottled calf. London, 1805. $5.00
Should some of these Tales appear to bear a little hard upon the female character, the author would request the fair reader to consider that they represent Eastern manners and morals, and that they are the actions of a people whose gods were monsters or whose prophet was Mahomet.
225 Ovid's Metamorphoses. Translated by the most Eminent Hands. Also, Ovid's Art of Love, together with His Remedy of Love. Translated into English Verse by Dryden, Congreve, and others. To which are added, the Court of Love, A Tale from Chaucer, and the History of Love. Illustrated with many fine, curious and amatory copper-plates. Unexpurgated Edition. 3 vols. 12mo. New ¾ maroon morocco levant inlays, gilt tops. London: Davies, Becket, Caslon, Cadel, Robinson, Evans, and J. & R. Tonson, 1764-1773. $22.50
An exceptionally neat little set with the scarce volume of Art of Love, Court of Love, and History of Love added. The many curious copper-plates are the earliest impressions.
226 Pugilism. Fistiana; or, The Oracle of the Ring. Comprising a Defence of British Boxing. A Brief History of Pugilism, from the earliest Ages to the Present Period. By the Editor of Bells Life in London. 16mo. original cloth gilt, gilt edges. London, 1841. Scarce. $5.00