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First Edition. Medium 8vo (9 x 6 ins); pp [xvi] + 320. With a total of 18 plates, maps and plans including three large folding maps coloured in outline, two plans, tables, indexes. Publisher's brown cloth with embossed illustration of a tower to front board, gilt lettering on spine faded, spine with around half a dozen short horizontal abrasion marks to lower section and wear to head. Tips of corners bumped and rubbed. Ex.libris Pall Mall Gate library, with bookplate and three lozenge shaped library stamps to the half title and titlepage. Manuscript notes to rear endpaper. An engaging account of Le Messurier's travels from London to the Caucasus to Vladikavkas, Tiflis via the Georgian military road, Caucasia, Trans-Caucasus railway, Baku, Naphtha Springs, through Transcaspia to Asunada, the Oxus to Bokhara, Persia to Resht, Teheran, Isaphan, Bushire and finally to Bombay, with much on each place visited, astute observations on religion, customs, politics, trade, transportation, etc, and intelligence observations on the Russian rail building across Caucasus. Le Messurier served as a senior railway engineer with the Bombay Public Works Department and fought in the second Afghan War (1878-80). Seller Inventory # 16108
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