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Travels in Mesopotamia.

Including a journey from Aleppo to Bagdad, by the route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin, & Mousul; with researches on the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and other ancient cities.

Stock Code 95512

London, Colburn, 1827

Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00
Original price £1,650.00
£1,650.00
£1,650.00 - £1,650.00
Current price £1,650.00
The second part of Buckingham's overland journey to India from Egypt in 1816-17.

First octavo edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xx, [ii], 479; vi, [ii], 538, 2(ads) pp., engraved folding map, folding lithographed plan and plate, 27 wood-engraved plates, lacks half-titles as often, occasional spotting, heavier to map and engraved plates, contemporary dark blue half calf, spines gilt, slightly rubbed.

Atabey 163 (this copy); cf. Blackmer 5 (4to. edition).
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Provenance: Sefik Atabey (bookplates).

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Travels in Mesopotamia.

BUCKINGHAM, James Silk.

Stock code: 95512

£1,650.00

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