Lot 46
  • 46

Campbell, Donald

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • A Journey over land to India, partly by a route never gone before by any European. London: Cullen and Company, 1795
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (265 x 200mm.), half-title, modern red half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe

Literature

Wilson p.36 (later edition, dated 1796); not in Atabey, Blackmer or Weber

Condition

In good condition
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Catalogue Note

The book is divided into three parts: the first covers the overland journey through Europe, and then by sea from Venice to Aleppo, by way of Zante and Cyprus; part two contains much detail on Aleppo and the Turks and ends with his arrival and stay in Mosul; part three to Baghdad, Basra, and by sea down the Persian Gulf to Bushire and on to India.

This edition, dated 1795, appears to be uncommon.