Search Results: memoir on the ruins of babylon by rich claudius james

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-03-20. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-03-20. Paperback. Used:Good.

Ulan Press, 2012-10-28. Paperback. Used: Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Duncan and Malcolm, 1839. Hardcover. Good. . Scarce. General shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Originally published in Vienna in a journal entitled Mines de l'Orient, this second edition printed in London in 1816 has been nicely rebound in 1/4 calf with gilt titling and marble boards. Bookplate on front pastedown and biographical entry on Rich taped to new front endpaper. Original pages and plates all in very good condition. 67 pp. 3 plates. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

London, Longman, Hurst, et al., 1815-1818. Two volumes in one, 8vo. Slightly later slate cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. iv, 67; [iv], 58, 6 engraved plates (3 folding); spine and extremities a little worn; offsetting from first plate to title, a little toned or spotted in places; otherwise very good. Second English edition of volume one, first of volume II, Rich's earliest and rarest contribution to Mesopotamian archaeology. The first memoir had been published previously in German in Hammer-Purgstall's Mines de l'Orient in Vienna. Rich was a talented linguist had who travelled widely in Asia Minor. Posted to Egypt during the early part of his career, he travelled from there, in Mamluk disguise, to Syria, Palestine, Damascus, Baghdad and Basra. In 1810 he was appointed the East India Company's resident in Baghdad. Rich was 'apparently fluent in Turkish, Arabic and Persian and familiar with Syriac and Chinese as well as French, Greek, Latin and Hebrew. [He] first visited Babylon in December 1811… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815-1818. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". None. An extremely scarce, finely bound, first edition of Claudius James Rich's two historical works on Babylon. Being the first edition of his 'Memoirs of Babylon' and his 'Second Memoir of Babylon'. Illustrated, with three plates to the first volume, and three plates to the second volume. With publishers' adverts to the second volume. Library bookplate to the front pastedown for Worcester Library. With their blind stamp to the plates. Claudius Rich was a traveller and antiquarian scholar. He was appointed a cadet in the East India Company's service, which allowed him to travel to Constantinople. He then proceeded to Alexandria as an assistant to the British consul-general, where he learned Arabic. He then travelled much of the Middle East and Asia. Upon moving to Baghdad as the British Resident in 1808, he devoted his time to investigating the geography, history and… Read More