Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia,
and along the Southern Shore of the Lakes of Van and Urumiah in the Autumn and Winter of 1837.
Stock Code 97675
London, John Murray, 1839
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Wilbraham was a Captain in the British Army on military secondment in the service of Mohammad Shah. He gives a good description of Qilhak village, north of Tehran, which had just been given by the Shah to the British Legation. In two good profiles of Mohamad Shah and Hajji Mirza Aqasi, the latter is portrayed as nearly insane (Ghani).
First edition. 8vo, xviii, 477pp., errata slip after contents, engraved frontispiece, 4 lithographed plates, folding map, contemporary blindstamped calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, a fine clean copy.
Ghani p398.
First edition. 8vo, xviii, 477pp., errata slip after contents, engraved frontispiece, 4 lithographed plates, folding map, contemporary blindstamped calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, a fine clean copy.
Ghani p398.
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