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Important association copy from the library of Wilfred Thesiger, who explored Iraq, the home of the Marsh Arabs, Kurdistan, and Persia from 1949-1958
Important association copy from the library of Wilfred Thesiger, who explored Iraq, the home of the Marsh Arabs, Kurdistan, and Persia from 1949-1958
Important association copy from the library of Wilfred Thesiger, who explored Iraq, the home of the Marsh Arabs, Kurdistan, and Persia from 1949-1958
Important association copy from the library of Wilfred Thesiger, who explored Iraq, the home of the Marsh Arabs, Kurdistan, and Persia from 1949-1958

Sir Wilfred Thesiger's copy


FRASER, James Baillie.

Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, etc. with sketches of the character and manners of the Koordish and Arab tribes.

London, Richard Bentley, 1840.

$2,034.00
$2,034.00

Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, etc.

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An important association copy from the library of explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger, who explored Iraq, the home of the Marsh Arabs, Kurdistan, and Persia from 1949-1958, and wrote a number of books on the region.

A tour from Persia to Shahrizor, Kifri, Baghdad, the Euphrates and back.

'One of the earliest accounts of life in Kurdish villages. The narrative is in the form of letters to someone in England. There is a very interesting account of events after Fath Ali Shah's death, the succession of Mohammed Shah and the intrigues and claims by his rivals' (Ghani).

First edition, 8vo, 2 vols, viii, 382; ix, 477pp., engraved frontispiece to each volume, bookplates of Sir Wilfred Thesiger and Steve Fossett; later green pebble-grained cloth, morocco labels, tiny chip head of spine vol. I, old illegible signature to verso of frontispiece with slight show through to recto else a clean fresh copy in very good condition.

Ghani 142.

Stock code 98927

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Important association copy from the library of Wilfred Thesiger, who explored Iraq, the home of the Marsh Arabs, Kurdistan, and Persia from 1949-1958

Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, etc.

$2,034.00
$2,034.00

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