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

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Lot 1377
  • 1377

Wood, John

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500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the Oxus River by the Route of the Indus, Kabul, and Badakhshan... in the years 1836, 1837, and 1838. London: John Murray, 1841
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FIRST EDITION, 8vo (216 x 127mm.), viii, 424pp., folding engraved map, contemporary calf by Clarke and Bedford, marbled endpapers and edges, offsetting to map, joints repaired

Provenance

Earl of Cawdor, gilt arms on covers

Literature

Yakushi (1994) W218a

Catalogue Note

In 1836 Wood was appointed assistant to the commercial mission to Afghanistan under Alexander Burnes. During his time there he drew up a report on the geography of the Kabul valley and became the first European to trace the source of the Oxus.