Jones, James Felix

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (255 x 165mm.), folding table, 5 folding maps, 3 in pockets at front and rear (2 of which have old backing), 25 lithographed plates, many plates and maps fully or partially hand-coloured and/or folding, original cloth, printed label on upper cover, occasional spotting or dust-soiling, discreet library blindstamps, binding worn, rebacked retaining most of original spine

R. Frederick Barlow, bookplate; Bath Public Reference Library, book label and stamps

Wilson p.111

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RARE. The selections comprise: [1] A steam-trip to the north of Baghdad; [2] Journey for the purpose of determining the tract of the ancient Nahrwan canal; [3] Journey to the frontier of Turkey and Persia, through a part of Kurdistan; [4] Researches in the vicinity of the median wall of Xenophon, and along the old course of the River Tigris; [5] Memoir of the Province of Baghdad; [6] Notes on the topography of Nineveh… and on the general geography of the country between the Tigris and the upper Zab.

“The most important of [Jones’s]… numerous memoirs are included in Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government (1857). Jones made an important contribution to the development of safe communications between Britain and India - the basis on which the empire developed” (ODNB).