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First edition of Locher's With Star and Crescent, describing Muscat and Baghdad.
First edition of Locher's With Star and Crescent, describing Muscat and Baghdad.
First edition of Locher's With Star and Crescent, describing Muscat and Baghdad.
First edition of Locher's With Star and Crescent, describing Muscat and Baghdad.

LOCHER, A.

With Star and Crescent. A full and authentic account of a recent journey with a caravan from Bombay to Constantinople, comprising a description of that country, the people, and interesting adventures with the natives.

Philadelphia, Aetna Publishing Company, 1889.

£450.00
£450.00

With Star and Crescent.

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Despite this journey being from Bombay to Constantinople, after stopping off at Muscat most of the narrative is about the time spent in Baghdad and the subsequent overland voyage to Aleppo, with comments made on the Bedouins and their 'rascally' nature.

First edition; 8vo (20.5 x 14.5 cm); 15 illustrated plates including frontispiece, three of which steel engravings; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, inner hinges expertly repaired, a very good copy: 634pp.

Stock code 124878

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First edition of Locher's With Star and Crescent, describing Muscat and Baghdad.

With Star and Crescent.

£450.00
£450.00

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