A Winter Journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps and Georgia; thence ... into Koordistaun. (Vol I, of two)

Name: A Winter Journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps and Georgia; thence ... into Koordistaun. (Vol I, of two)
Author: Mignan, Captain R

Book Description

Richard Bentley, London, 1839, first edition; volume I only (of two); 8vo, 130 x 205mm; pp xiv, [xv], 312; frontispiece lithograph of Khosrou Mirza, the Persian Envoy to St Petersburg, and four line drawings in the text; original brown ribbed and blind stamped cloth boards; professionally rebacked and with the original spine laid down; apparently contemporary ownership inscription on the title page, "Captain Hughes Madras Lt. Cavalry";some light foxing or soiling internally and with some pencilled observations and comments on the text but generally clean.

Dealer Notes

An important work in respect of the area dealt with by Mignan which in this volumes covers his departure from Hamburg through to the Kurdish and Yazidi areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Armenia.

Author Mignan, Captain R

Date 1839, first edition

Binding Original brown ribbed and blind stamped cloth boards; professionally rebacked and with the original spine laid down

Publisher Richard Bentley, London

Condition Good

Price: £625.00

Offered by Wakefield Young

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