Lot 191
  • 191

Buckingham, James Silk

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Buckingham, James Silk
  • Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, Including a Journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, To Hamadan, The Ancient Ecbatana, Researches in Ispahan and the Ruins of Persepolis. London: Henry Colburn, 1829
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (271 x 226mm.), iii-xvi, 546pp., folding map, 1 hand-coloured aquatint plate, contemporary calf, red label, yellow endpapers

Provenance

Alexander Speirs, armorial bookplate

Literature

cf. Wilson p.34 (second edition, 1830); cf. Ghani p.55 (1971 facsimile)

Condition

A fine copy
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Catalogue Note

"Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat; narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay" (title-page).