Nanterre, Societe d’ethnologie. 8vo.,pp.470, paperback, with pictorial dust-jacket, b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to endpaper and ownership inscription to title page, foxing to upper edge, a very good copy.

Longman: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. Second edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xv,418;v,422, uncut, decorative blue cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black, chromolithographic frontispieces and 3 further colour plates with tissue guards, 8 dichromatic plates, drawn by R. Burton and lithographed by Hanhart, one b/w plate, folding map, 2 folding plans and one single-page plan; heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (both volumes), foxing to prelims and edges, light roll to spine of Volume II, rubbing to extremities, with small split to headband of Volume II and to foot of spine of Volume I, a very good set.

London: Gay and Bird/Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1895. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,93, printed paper wrappers, b/w plates, folding frontispiece Cabin Plan, b/w map; closed tear and creasing to fore-margin of frontispiece, light wear to extremities of wrappers, paper covering of spine lost, a good copy, which is lightly foxed to prelims, else internally clean, though with surface soil to wrappers.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. 12mo., pp.223,(i)Index, decoratively blindstamped green cloth with pictorial spine in gilt, a.e.g., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, 12 further engraved plates; owner’s nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, with handwritten plate pasted down and now partially removed from rear paste-down endpaper, lacks free endpapers, wear to extremities, spine a little rolled, a good copy of this scarce title.

London: E. Wallace, 1842. Fourth edition, 12mo., pp.iv,140, quarter green roan, gilt, marbled boards, engraved frontispiece and 13 further engraved plates; vestiges of ink ownership inscription (dated 1842?) to prelim blank, toning to prelims, foxing/toning to plates and adjacent leaves, with some foxing throughout, light crease to spine, gentle wear to extremities, a very good copy.

London, Grant Richards. 8vo.,pp.xx,297, blue cloth, green lettering, b/w plates, figures and maps; author’s presentation copy with signature to title page, lightly rubbed to extremities and lightly toned to spine, foxing to endpapers and frequently foxed to margins occasionally affecting text and illustrations, o/w very good. No dust-jacket.

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1967. 3rd edition (revised and abridged) 8vo., pp.xxvii,228, hardcover, black lettering, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp. x, 447, b/w illustrations throughout, 2 colour folding maps, terracotta cloth, gilt embossed decoration, gilt top edge, uncut; slight foxing and darkening to endpapers, small tear to front endpaper, soiling to extremities, some wear and darkening to spine, o/w a very good copy with bright contents.

London: Routledge, 1990. 8vo., pp.xvii,289, black hardcover, silver lettering, 6 b/w maps; light soiling to boards, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly shelf-worn, else very good.

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,94 (English text),(90) Hebrew text, blue cloth, gilt, folding colour map as frontispiece, manuscript facsimile plates; ex Reference library, with stamps to prelims and sporadically throughout, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, and small label to foot of spine, heavy foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, a good copy of this scarce title.

London/New York: Putnam, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,318, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 14 further b/w plates and 2 b/w maps; foxing to fore-edges, some foxing throughout, a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tears and light wear to edges, as well as loss to head of spine.

Sheffield: Vertebrate Publishing, 2017. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,178, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout, endpaper maps; very good indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, with light creasing and slight peeling of laminate to extremities, but otherwise very good.

London: Trigraph, for the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1984. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,244, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and map, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities and sunned to spine and extremities.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition, 4to., pp.xvi,679, contemporary half calf with contrasting title label to spine, five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, folding frontispiece map, 28 engraved vignette illustrations to chapter headings; crease to upper corner of pp.xiv-17, toning to title/map, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy indeed. Includes Appendix, ‘Containing a Refutation of Certain Unfounded Calumnies Industriously Circulated Against the Author of this Work, by William Burckhardt, Mr. William John Bankes, and The Quarterly Review’, in which Buckingham seeks to confute the accusations of plagiarism brought against him.

London: John Murray. 8vo., pp.xvi,510,(i)publisher’s advert, uncut, publisher’s pictorial green textured cloth, gilt, 6 folding plates and 2 folding maps (one of which as frontispiece), in-text illustrations; light marking to cloth, light wear to extremities, neat repair at head of spine, a very good copy.

London: Shackell and Arrowsmith, 1975. Paperback reprint of the 1823 edition, 8vo.,pp. 118, paperback, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, wrappers coming away from contents to front inner hinge, otherwise firm, toned to margins, overall a very good copy.

Amsterdam: Chez Henry & Theodore Boom, 1679. Second edition, two volumes, 12mo., pp.456;489, full vellum with hand-lettered spines, 32 engraved plates, pictorial vignette to titles; small ink autograph to title page of Volume I, with small ink mark also to revserse of frontispiece and inked number to vellum at inner dentelle of front endpaper to Volume II, light creasing to fore-edges of prelims, clean within, a very good set indeed.

London: Kerby and Son. 8vo., pp.v,135, brown cloth, gilt, 14 monochromatic plates including frontispiece; foxing to prelims, front inner hinge cracked, cloth split along upper joint, board still holding, contents slightly shaken with one section re-inserted and another with stitching loose and so slightly proud, otherwise a good copy.

New York and London: The Century Co, 1924. First edition, 8vo., pp.349, pictorial dark green cloth showing a large statue of the Buddha, blocked in red and paler green, pictorial spine, gilt lettering, 31 b/w plates plus frontispiece; small ownership label to front endpapers, a near-fine copy.