Wellsted, James Raymond

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Travels to the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Including a Voyage to the Coast of Arabia and a tour of the island of Socotra. London: Henry Colburn, 1840
paper

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (226 x 138mm.), (vol.1) xiv, [ii], 406pp., [ii pp. adverts]; (vol.2) viii, 348pp., [iv pp. adverts], folding map, 2 tinted plates, original blindstamped brown ribbed cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase

Literature

Weber I, 320; Wilson p.242

Catalogue Note

Much of this work is based on the travels of Lieut. Ormsby, conveyed to Wellsted verbally or through manuscripts, to Muscat, Gambrun, Bushire, Basra, Bagdad, Damascus and Tripoli, and in the eastern Mediterranean, before retracing his tracks to return to India. The voyage to Arabia and Socotra is Wellsted's own.