Books Martineau, Witchcraft, and Middle East Subjects (7). Martineau, Harriet. Autobiography. with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman. second Edition. London, Smith Elder, 1877. Three volumes complete.Vol.1 : 2 engraved plates, viii,441pp. Vol.2 : 4 plates, viii,510pp. Vol.3 : (6),495pp. some occasional minor spotting, marbled endpapers and edges, 8vo., contemporary 1/2 morocco and cloth boards, spine gilt with raised bands.Gilt crest of a parliamentary library at spine base and on front board. No other markings external or internal. a nice copy. This second edition published the same year as the first, although part of it had been published in 1857; Meinhold, Wilhelm, and Lady Duff Gordon, (Translated by) Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. the Most Interesting Trial For Witchcraft Ever Known. Printed from an Imperfect Manuscript By Her Father Abraham Schweidler, the Pastor of Coserow etc... [bound with] Select Biographies. Cromwell and Bunyan. by Robert Southey. London, John Murray, 1844(12),171,(1) & viii,180pp., small 8vo., contemporary half red morocco, elaborately gilt spine, marbled endpapers, edges and boards. There is some foxing/browning to the blank endpapers, otherwise clean in an attractive binding in excellent condition; Marmion, Shackerley. the Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion. with Prefatory Memoir, Introductions, and Notes. Edinburgh, William Paterson / London, H.Sotheran & Co., 1875xxii,(2),295pp., edges untrimmed, large 8vo., modern 1/2 morocco, spine gilt, marbled boards. An excellent copy. a volume in the series 'Dramatists of the Restoration'. One of 150 large paper copies(?) of a total edition of 633; [Morier, James Justinian] the Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan (3 vols) London, John Murray, 1824. First edition.Three volumes - lxxv,(1),272, & (4).403,(1), & (4),388,(1)pp., edges uncut and slightly dusty, small 8vo., recent binding to style in 1/2 red morocco, black title labels, marbled boards. Two leaves in vol.1 with a splash stain (tea?),very occasional light traces of use, but a very good copy. Half title present in all three volumes. Sadleir 1793. Wolff 4925; Sykes, Major P. M. the Glory of the Shia World. the Tale of a Pilgrimage. Translated & Edited from a Persian Manuscript by Major P. M. Sykes...assisted by Khan Bahadur Ahmad Din Khan.London, Macmillan, 1910.4 colour plates, numerous illustrations, a folding plan, xiv,279.(1)pp., 8vo., publisher's decorative cloth with gilt vignette on front board. a very good copy. a fictional account of a pilgrimage to the shrine at Meshed purportedly by the grandson of Haji Baba. in a preface Sykes writes ...my ambition has been to write a second Haji Baba, which would serve as a true picture of Persia some ten years ago, before constitutional reform appeared on the horizon; Fables by the late Mr. Gay. in two volumes. [bound in one vol.] London, C. Hitch and L. Hawes [et al.], 1757. Engraved frontispiece and titlepage, 68 half-page engraved illustrations (good impressions), (20), 334pp., one cm. stain to fore-edge of about 20pp., titlepage a little foxed and some occasional light spotting and signs of use, 8vo., recent rebind to style in 1/2 tan calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with red label; Morell, Sir Charles, translator, [pseudonym of Ridley, James.] the Tales of the Genii; Or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam the Son of Asmar.London: James Wallis, 1805. Two volumes.2 engraved frontispieces, 12 engraved plates after W.M.Craig, xliv, 368,432pp., 8vo. 21.5 x 14 cm, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in panels. Joints cracking but neatly repaired and very firm. Endpapers replaced to match. Very good internally. First published 1764. One of the best of the many imitations of the original 'Arabian Nights Entertainments', first translated from Arabic into French by Galland and then into English in the early 18th century.