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BUCKINGHAM, James Silk (1786-1855). Travels in Assyria, Media and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the Ruins of Persepolis. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. 2 volumes, 8 (209 x 130mm). 26 wood-engraved plates, the majority after the author, folding engraved map of Persia. (Title to vol. I crudely-repaired on verso, dedication leaf with similar repair at inner margin, one contents leaf detached, L8 in vol. I stained on verso, occasional marginal staining and thumb-soiling in the first vol., first plate in vol. II partially detached, another plate slightly creased, gathering D also creased.) Contemporary half calf and mottled boards (spines rubbed and frayed, labels worn, inner hinges split). Provenance: Institutio Theologica, Andover (bookplates).
Second edition. The first edition appeared as a single quarto volume in 1828. As Buckingham states in the preface, it was his fourth (and final) book of Eastern travels, much of it written "after the hours at which even the most studious repair to their couch"; he tells his reader that the preface itself was completed "in the Travellers' room of the Crown Inn, at Melcombe Regis, with an animated conversation passing all around me." Lowndes p. 305. (2)
Second edition. The first edition appeared as a single quarto volume in 1828. As Buckingham states in the preface, it was his fourth (and final) book of Eastern travels, much of it written "after the hours at which even the most studious repair to their couch"; he tells his reader that the preface itself was completed "in the Travellers' room of the Crown Inn, at Melcombe Regis, with an animated conversation passing all around me." Lowndes p. 305. (2)