Lot 214
  • 214

Keppel, George

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England… Second edition. London: Henry Colburn, 1827
  • paper
8vo (212 x 130mm.), 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, folding engraved map, contemporary diced russia gilt, some spotting to map

Literature

Atabey 631

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Three editions of Keppel's account of his return from India to England were published in 1827, the third with the title Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia and with an additional plate. The journey, which began in January of 1824, took him through Iraq, Kurdistan, and into Russia.