Lot 471
  • 471

FINLAY, ALEXANDER STRUTHERS

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Letters on a Journey to Bombay, through Syria and Arabia. [Glasgow]: Privately Printed, 1837
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (225 x 135mm.), [iv], 176pp., original brown ribbed cloth, yellow endpapers, uncut, slipcase, binding somewhat faded

Presentation copy, inscribed "To Miss E.A. Campbell[?] from the Author". The letters in this uncommon book are from Athens, Syra, Beirut, Damascus, Bagdad, Shoogy Shooch (near Basra), on board the Buggalow, and Bombay.

Condition

The condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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