Lot 891
  • 891

[Money, Robert Cotton]

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Journal of a Tour in Persia, during the Years 1824 & 1825. By R.C.M. London: Printed by Teape and Son, 1828
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (195 x 123mm.), [iv], 256pp., half-title, folding map, black morocco by T. Lloyd, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges

Literature

Wilson p.148; not in Ghani

Catalogue Note

PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on title "Revd Jerram with the best regards of the parents of the Author. 30th September 18[...]" (inscription cropped).

Money, an officer in the Honourable East India Company's Civil Service, travelled from Bushire to Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan, Tehran, Hamadan, Kermanshaw and Baghdad. THE BOOK TAKES THE FORM OF LETTERS TO HIS PARENTS, BY WHOM THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED.