Lot 1336
  • 1336

Wellsted, James Raymond

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Travels in Arabia. London: John Murray, 1838
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 135mm.), (vol.1) xvi, 446pp., [ii pp. colophon]; (vol.2.) x, 472pp., 8pp. adverts, 5 engraved maps [3 folding], 7 lithographed plates, original blindstamped olive green cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase, plates spotted

Provenance

S.E. Widdrington, Newton Hall, armorial bookplate

Literature

Weber I, 289; Wilson p.242

Catalogue Note

Volume 1 is on Oman; volume 2 covers Sinai, the survey of the Gulf of Akabah, and the coasts of Arabia and Nubia.