Royal Geographical Society--The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society [-Supplementary Papers (2 vol.)].

London: 1834-1890 (an incomplete run, comprising the years: 1834, -37, -41, -51, -64, -65, -71, -72, -74, -80, -84, -87 and –90), 12 volumes, 8vo, (comprising volume numbers: 4 (part 2 only), 7 (part 1 only), 11, 20 (part 2 only), 34, 35, 41, 42, 44; New Series: volumes II no. 2, VI no.7, IX no.8, XII no.1), many maps and plates, most folding, some coloured, uniformly bound in modern half calf, most with original wrappers and advertisements bound in, Supplementary Papers in original publisher’s blue cloth, volume 11 part 2 lacking pp. 121-137, one or two maps cut along folds by binder, spines of Supplementary Papers discoloured, one spine chipped at ends (12)

a fine collection of articles by burton, chesney, wellstead, ainsworth, palgrave, pelly, blunt, doughty and bent, many with maps.

These volumes include many articles on the Near and Middle East, including: "Observations on the Manners of the Inhabitants who occupy the Southern Coast of Arabia and shores of the Red Sea; with remarks on the Ancient and Modern Geography of that quarter, and the Route, through the Desert from Kosir to Keneh" by J. Bird (1834); "Reports on the Navigation of the Euphrates" by Captain (Colonel) Chesney (1834); "Narrative of a Journey from the Tower of Ba-'l-haff on the Southern Coast of Arabia, to the Ruins of Nakab al Hajar in April 1835" by Lt. Wellstead (1837) with a map; "Extracts from Notes made on a Journey in Asia Minor in 1836" by W. Hamilton (1837) with a map; "Narrative of a Journey into the Interior of Oman in 1835" by Lt. Wellstead (1837) with a large folding map; "Notes of an Excursion to Kal'ah Sherkat, the U'r of the Persians, and to the Ruins of Al Hadhr, the Hutra of the Chaldees, and Hatra of the Romans" by W. Ainsworth (1841) with a folding plate; "An Account of a Visit to the Chaldeans, inhabiting Central Kurdistan; and of an Ascent of the Peak of Rowandiz in the Summer of 1840" by W. Ainsworth (1841) with a folding map; "Notes on the Physical Geography of Palestine" by Col. Von Wildenbruch (1851); "The Kubbabish Arabs between Dongola and Kordofan" by Mansfield Parkyns (1851); "Notes taken during a Journey through part of Northern Arabia in 1848" by Dr G. A. Wallin (1851) with a folding map; "Observations made in Central, Eastern and Southern Arabia during a Journey through that country in 1862 and 1863" by W.G. Palgrave (1864); "Visit to Lingah, Kishm and Bunder Abbas [in the Persian Gulf]" by Lt.-Col. Lewis Pelly (1864) with a map; "Travels in Kurdistan with notices of the Eastern and Western Tigris and Ancient Ruins" by R. Thornton (1865) with a large folding map; "A Visit to the Wahabee Capital, Central Arabia" by Lt.-Col. Lewis Pelly (1865) with a folding map; "Account of an Excursion in to the Interior of Southern Arabia" by Captain S.N. Miles and others (1871) with a folding map; "Notes on the Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, the Volcanic Region east of Damascus and the Umm Niran Cave" by Captain R.F. Burton (1872) with a folding map; "Notes on a Journey in Yemen" by C. Milligan (1874) with 2 maps; "Notes on recent Persian Travel" by Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederic Goldsmid (1874); "A Visit to Jebel Shammar (Nejd). New routes through Northern and Central Arabia" by Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1880) with a map; "Travels in North-Western Arabia and Nejd" by Charles M. Doughty (1884) with a map; "Journey from Shiraz to Jashk via Darab, Forg and Minab [in Southern Persia]" by J.R. Preece (1885) with a folding map; "A Journey through Yemen" by Maj.-Gen. F.T. Haig (1887); and "The Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf" by J. Theodore Bent (1890) with a map.