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Gypsies : some curious investigations, collected, translated, or reprinted from various sources, concerning this peculiar race
De Peyster, J Watts (1821-1907)
1887
"This edition is limited to 150 copies."
Letters to John Hasfeld, 1841-1846
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881); Hasfeld, John; Fraser, Angus M
1984
"This volume completes the publication of George Borrow's letters to John Hasfeld, preserved in the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library in Leningrad"--P. 5. In 1982 the press published his Letters to Jo...
De l'état présente et de l'avenir des principautés de Moldavie et de Valachie : suivi des traités de la Turquie avec les puissances européennes, et d'une carte des pays roumains
Colson, Félix
1839
1838: "Cigains" number 3,851 in Moldavia - p. 13; "Cigains" number 5,582 in Valachia - p. 14; chapter "Sur les Cigains ou esclaves en Moldo-Valachie" - pp. 141-150.
The Newgate garland; or, Flowers of hemp : being a choice noosegay gathered in the pleasant fields of such canting and flash literature as was written from approximately the hanging of those accomplished burkers, Messrs. Bishop and Williams, to the execution of... Thomas Neill ... including akk the verses known to be extant of ... Jack Fireblood ... To all of which is added an anonymous but authentic Autobiography of a thief, written during the 'seventies in thieves' and prison slang
Hanchant, Wilfred Lewis; Martin, Sir Theodore (1816-1909)
1932
Suggested apparently by Theodore Martin's article in Tait's Edinburgh magazine, April, 1841: "Illustrations of the thieves' literature. no. 1. Flowers of hemp: or, The Newgate garland, by Bon Gaultier...