Lot 481
  • 481

Floyer, Ernest Ayscoghe

Estimate
500 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Floyer, Ernest Ayscoghe
  • Unexplored Baluchistan. A Survey... of a Route through Mekran, Bashkurd, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey. London: Griffith & Farran, 1882
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (240 x 145mm.), xviii, [ii], 508pp., half title, photographic portrait frontispiece, 11 plates (4 tinted), folding map, original olive green decorated cloth, dark green endpapers, slipcase

Floyer explored Baluchistan as far north as Bampur and as far west as Bandar Abbas before crossing Persia via Kirman and Isfahan to Baghdad.

Literature

Wilson p.72; not in Atabey or Ghani

Condition

A very good copy
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