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DE BODE, Clement Augustus, Baron. Travels in Luristan and Arabistan. London: J. Madden, 1845. 2 volumes, 8 (222 x 140mm.). 15 wood-engraved or tinted-lithographed plates, 2 folding, and 2 folding maps (frontispiece to vol. I partially detached, many plates heavily browned, map in vol. II slightly damaged at inner margin, final quires of vol. I slightly pulled). Later green roan (re-cased, spines sunfaded and scuffed).
FIRST EDITION. "Luristan, or the land of the Lurs, embraces the greater portion of the mountainous country of Persia ... The low country, lying to the south of this Chain of mountains ... is denominated Khuzistan or Arabistan. These regions, which in general now offer to the eye the melancholy spectacle of decay, of devastation, and even spread out at intervals into utter wilderness, were not so in former ages. There was a time when they must have teemed with an industrious population, as the vestiges of ruined towns plainly denote ... It is with a view of rescuing from a second oblivion this once classical ground, that the author has endeavoured to draw aside a corner of the veil which still covers this mysterious region" (preface, pp. iv-vii). (2)
FIRST EDITION. "Luristan, or the land of the Lurs, embraces the greater portion of the mountainous country of Persia ... The low country, lying to the south of this Chain of mountains ... is denominated Khuzistan or Arabistan. These regions, which in general now offer to the eye the melancholy spectacle of decay, of devastation, and even spread out at intervals into utter wilderness, were not so in former ages. There was a time when they must have teemed with an industrious population, as the vestiges of ruined towns plainly denote ... It is with a view of rescuing from a second oblivion this once classical ground, that the author has endeavoured to draw aside a corner of the veil which still covers this mysterious region" (preface, pp. iv-vii). (2)