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Lot 157
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Pelly, Lewis

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Description

  • A Visit to the Wahabee Capital, Central Arabia [in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 35]. London: John Murray, 1865
  • paper
8vo (220 x 142mm.), in total 11 folding maps and one plate (Pelly's account is pp.169-191 and has one folding map), original light blue printed wrappers, unopened, fitted cloth box, spine slightly worn at head

Catalogue Note

Pelly's route took him from Kuwait to Riyadh, ending at Okair (Al Uqayr) on the Arabian coast opposite Bahrain and Dukhan. 

This volume of the RGS journal also includes Richard Burton's On Lake Tanganyika, and other articles on Cambodia, Kurdistan, Greenland, the North Pole, and north-west Australia.