Published by Printed for Kingsbury, Black, Lodon, 1822
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Oxford, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. vii, 272 pp., 12 pp., of Itinerary of Lieutenant Thomas Lumsden from Merut, in India to London, hand-coloured folding frontispiece engraved map, engraved plate, a little browned, contemporary full calf, slightly rubbed at corners & rebacked largely retaining back-strip, marbled endpaper and edges, bookplate of John Waldie verso front cover, occasional spotting mainly to margins, otherwise copy in general good condition. SCARCE WORK. Lieutenant Thomas Lumsden was a commander attached to the Bengal Horse Artillery. He wrote his entries in this work day by day, in the course of a journey from India to London. Lumsden started his journey on the 3rd of October 1819. with the company of Lieutenant A. Cameron of the Bengal Horse Artillery and Dr. Matthew Lumsden who had perfect knowledge of Arabic and Persian. Lumsden visited the town of Muscat, Bushire, then travelled through Persia, Armenia, Central Asia, Ukraine, Georgia, Caucasus, Russia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Paris and ended his journey in England. Not in Ghani. #23218.
Published by London Black Parbury et al, 1822
First Edition
First edition; 8vo, vii, 272, 12 pp., hand-coloured folding map, engraved plate, contemporary calf, split to upper joint but firm, a very good copy. Rare. Lumsden includes a short account of Muscat and describes his voyage up the Persian Gulf. also includes Bushire, Isfahan, Tabriz, Tiflis, Rostov, Odessa and Cracow. Lumsden travelled to England in 1820 from India in the company of his cousin, Matthew, the famous authority on the Persian and Arabic languages. F Wilson p. 131.