James Raymond Wellsted

A first edition account of important travels through the Persian Gulf.

• Sold as a set of 2 volumes.
• James Raymond Wellsted (English).
• 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.
• Octavo.
• 485, 347 pages.
• Two lithographed frontispieces, and folding map in volume I.
• Bound in modern brown half sheep gilt, tan labels.

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

Wellsted's short career was almost entirely devoted to surveying and exploration of the Red Sea, Arabia and Oman during a number of expeditions between 1830 and 1837. His death at the age of 37 was attributed to a failed suicide attempt made in the grip of fever while exploring Oman.