Lot 129
  • 129

Binning, Robert Blair Munro

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • Binning, Robert Blair Munro
  • A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1857
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo, (vol.1) xii, 434pp.; (vol.2) viii, errata slip, 438pp., half-titles, original blue cloth gilt, yellow endpapers with printed adverts, slipcase

Literature

Wilson p.22; Diba p.166; not in Ghani

Condition

A fine copy
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Catalogue Note

After Ceylon the author travelled from India to Bushire by way of the Persian Gulf, and made the return trip by the same route.