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A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809; WITH A Second Journey through Persia.... between the years 1820 and 1816
by MORIER James [Justinian] 1780?-1849
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Paternoster-Row.: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James Mr. RENNELL J Major. . First editions of both works (1812 & 1818); large-paper issue of the first, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1st ed, large paper, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 19 pls (includes 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps 1 folding), 47 wood engravings within text. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). T.e.g., some light offsetting to a few text leaves, variable spotting and toning to some plates (generally light), tide-mark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p. 136 more heavily spotted and browned, red marbled endpapers. Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy, and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. 'In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor (1812) and A Second Journey (1818), both met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5).
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- Title
- A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809; WITH A Second Journey through Persia.... between the years 1820 and 1816
- Author
- MORIER James [Justinian] 1780?-1849
- Illustrator
- SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James Mr. RENNELL J Major.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Place of Publication
- London: Paternoster-Row.
- Date Published
- 1812
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- travel Asia Iran Greece Armenia Persia Turkey
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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