Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1320
  • 1320

Waring, Edward Scott

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Description

  • A Tour to Sheeraz by the rout [sic] of Kazroon & Feerozabad. With various remarks on the manners, customs, laws language and literature of the Persians. Bombay: Courier Press, 1804
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, small 4to (215 x 152mm.), [ii], [ii errata], iv, 196, 64, [ii errata], 12pp., contemporary half calf, marbled boards, text slightly stained

Provenance

Major Colebrooke, bookplate; Arthur Cole, presentation inscription from Colebrooke

Literature

Ghani p.387 (London edition); Wilson p.240

Catalogue Note

THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS WORK, PUBLISHED IN BOMBAY.

As well as a detailed description of Persia, the work also includes chapters 'Of the horses of Arabia and Persia', 'Of the Wuhabees', and 'City of Bassora'.