Lot 651
  • 651

Howel, Thomas

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • A Journal of the Passage from India, by a route partly unfrequented through Armenia and Natolia, or Asia Minor. London: printed for the author, [1789]
  • paper
FIRST EDITION (235 x 145mm.), [4], 188pp., folding engraved map, original grey boards, white paper spine, edges uncut, slipcase

An account of a twelve-month journey back to England from India undertaken in 1787 up the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates and then overland via Baghdad to Constantinople.

Provenance

Clive Coates, book label, and signature in ink on endleaf dated 1938

Literature

Ghani p.181; Wilson p.101 (1791 edition)