Cowper, Henry Swainson

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (222 x 138mm.), PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO "... Aveson | from the Author | October 1901" on the half-title, double photographic frontispiece showing two views of a Persian astrolabe, 2 maps, one folding, illustrations in the text, including 16 photographic, 2pp. publisher's adverts at end, original green cloth gilt, some soiling and rubbing to boards

Ghani p.85; Wilson p.49

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An interesting and unusual account Cowper's "solitary journey" on the caravan route from Aleppo to Baghdad, then on to Babylon, Karbela, Basra and down the Persian Gulf, and finally to India by sea.