Lot 1242
  • 1242

Sykes, Ella C.

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • Through Persia on a Side-Saddle. London: A.D. Innes & Company, 1898
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (224 x 137mm.), viii, 362pp., [ii pp. adverts], folding map, 32 photographic plates, original dark green cloth, dark green endpapers, uncut, slipcase, very slightly rubbed

Provenance

Mabel Maclaren, Constable Burton Hall, 1898, inscription

Literature

Ghani p.361; Wilson p.220 (edition dated 1901)

Catalogue Note

Ella Sykes accompanied her brother Captain Molesworth Sykes who had been asked by the Foreign Office to found a consulate in Kerman and Baluchistan.