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BISHOP, Isabella Lucy (ne Bird, 1831-1904). Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan including a summer in the upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian Rayahs. London: John Murray, 1891. 2 volumes, 8 (200 x 135mm). 13 plates, 2 folding coloured maps. (Frontispiece to vol. I detached and frayed at outer margin, also affected by short tear.) Original blue-grey cloth gilt, upper covers with title in gilt enclosed by an all over floral pattern blocked in deep blue, gilt-lettered spines, unopened (spine slightly frayed at head).
FIRST EDITION. Isabella Bishop travelled to Persia and Kurdistan from India, having earlier undertaken a journey to Tibet. She was already a widow when she left for India in February 1889. Proceeding to Cashmere, where she came in close touch with the Church Missionary Society, she went on to lesser Tibet, describing this journey in Among the Tibetans (London, 1894). "She was back at Simla in October, and soon travelled from Karachi to Bushire, thence to Bagdad and Teheran, an 'awful jounrey'; and through the Bakhtiari country, Western Persia, Kurdistan, and Armenia to Trebizond on the Black Sea. She reached London again in December 1890" (DNB). On her difficult tour, she attached particular importance to her meetings with the Nestorian Christians. (2)
FIRST EDITION. Isabella Bishop travelled to Persia and Kurdistan from India, having earlier undertaken a journey to Tibet. She was already a widow when she left for India in February 1889. Proceeding to Cashmere, where she came in close touch with the Church Missionary Society, she went on to lesser Tibet, describing this journey in Among the Tibetans (London, 1894). "She was back at Simla in October, and soon travelled from Karachi to Bushire, thence to Bagdad and Teheran, an 'awful jounrey'; and through the Bakhtiari country, Western Persia, Kurdistan, and Armenia to Trebizond on the Black Sea. She reached London again in December 1890" (DNB). On her difficult tour, she attached particular importance to her meetings with the Nestorian Christians. (2)