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Travels to the city of the Caliphs,

along the shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean including a voyage to the coast of Arabia, and a tour of the island of Socotra.

Stock Code 113922

London, Henry Colburn, 1840

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Wellsted's classic work on Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Much of this work is based on the travels of Lieut. Ormsby, conveyed to Wellsted verbally or through manuscripts. He travelled to Muscat, Gambrun, Bushire, Basra, Bagdad, Damascus and Tripoli, as well as in the eastern Mediterranean, before retracing his tracks to return to India. The voyage to Arabia and Socotra is Wellsted's own.

Wellsted's short career was almost entirely devoted to surveying and exploration of the Red Sea, Arabia and Oman during a number of expeditions between 1830 and 1837. His death at the age of 37 was attributed to a failed suicide attempt made in the grip of fever while exploring Oman.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 485; viii, 347 pp., 2 lithographed frontispieces, folding map in vol. I, light spotting to frontispieces and titles and final leaves, handsome modern maroon morocco-backed marbled boards gilt, a very good copy.

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Travels to the city of the Caliphs,

WELLSTED, James Raymond.

Stock code: 113922

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