Lot 718
  • 718

Keppel, George

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • Keppel, George
  • Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh. London: Henry Colburn, 1827
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (280 x 210mm.), xii, 338pp., folding map, 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, illustrations in text, contemporary red pebble-grained morocco-backed boards, spine panelled in blind, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, occasional spotting or offsetting

Literature

cf. Atabey 631 (second edition); cf. Blackmer (third edition); not in Weber

Condition

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