Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1839
Boards. Condition: Good-. 313 pp. Vol. 1. Lacks title on spine , raised band, leather spine is worn, leather covers in good shape. Bookplate of the Duke of Roxburghe, frontis piece plate has water stain on bottom corner, slightly affecting the corner image.volume 2 287 pp leather covers smudged.
Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1839
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 312p, 287p octavo. illustrated with 3 full page plates, rebound in 3/4 leather and brown cloth new end papers, recently. Tipped in is a hand written note dated June 1850 from a Lt Franks to Brigadier General Costley thanking him "for his great kindness and bottle of Annaset" A very good tight copy.
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 306.
Seller: Chesil Books, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Richard Bentley, London, 1839, first edition; volume I only (of two); 8vo, 130 x 205mm; pp xiv, [xv], 312; frontispiece lithograph of Khosrou Mirza, the Persian Envoy to St Petersburg, and four line drawings in the text; original brown ribbed and blind stamped cloth boards; professionally rebacked and with the original spine laid down; apparently contemporary ownership inscription on the title page, "Captain Hughes Madras Lt. Cavalry";some light foxing or soiling internally and with some pencilled observations and comments on the text but generally clean. . . . An important work in respect of the area dealt with by Mignan which in this volumes covers his departure from Hamburg through to the Kurdish and Yazidi areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Armenia.