Peruvian Tales. Related In One Thousand and One Hours By One Of The Select Virgins Of Cusco, To The Inca of Peru. To Dissuade Him From a Resolution he had taken to Destroy Himself By Poison. Interspersed With Interesting and Historical Remarks Explaining The Religious And Civil Customs And Ceremonies Of The Ancient Inhabitants Of That Great Empire.
Published by F. C. and J. Rivington etc., London., 1817
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, Staffs, United KingdomColophon Books (UK)
AbeBooks seller since January 2, 2015
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 137.79
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571 pages, Full contemporary calf, with gilt spine, the paper is of good quality and with a little age and occasional spotting, there are 3 or 4 pages with old ink marks from a 19th century pen not severe, but noticeable. several corners tips have been turned down. The old calf is a little rubbed. Lacks all before title with small old bookseller label inside cover "From Bettison's Library Leamington". A good to very good copy of this scarce title. 12mo(duodecimo). *NOTE: Written in the style and format of the 1001 Nights with much the same purpose, a fiction with some historical truths. All told in a series of nightly stories to stop the "Ynca" as spelled on the title page, from committing suicide, unlike the Arabian Tales where Scheherezade was trying to stop the Sultan from killing her. States little is known of the Translator Humphreys, but was supposedly writing plays in the 1740's. The original writer could have been Thomas-Simon Gueullette. Rare.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Peruvian Tales. Related In One Thousand and One Hours By One Of The Select Virgins Of Cusco, To The Inca of Peru. To Dissuade Him From a Resolution he had taken to Destroy Himself By Poison. Interspersed With Interesting and Historical Remarks Explaining The Religious And Civil Customs And Ceremonies Of The Ancient Inhabitants Of That Great Empire.
- Author
- Samuel Humphreys (added to by John Kelly) Translators from the French.
- Publisher
- F. C. and J. Rivington etc., London.
- Publication year
- 1817
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Calf
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
Colophon Books (UK)
Leek, Staffs, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since January 2, 2015
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We are a small, single-owner business. We have been operating on and off since 1977 and our stock is varied, leaning towards antiquarian and 19th century with the addition of original aquatint and lithographic, or woodcut engravings. Also maps and Ephemera - in fact, anything interesting on paper really. We have in stock every item we list. We do not use stock photographs, but photograph each item individually. We very rarely use "fine" or "mint" as a description, mainly due to the age and the fact that 99.9% of what we sell has been pre-owned and therefor Fine would not be a term for a book we sell despite its fine-like appearance. We always take items back unreservedly if not in the condition as described. We always try to describe fully.…
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