![BUCKINGHAM, James Silk (1786-1855). Travels in Assyria, Media and Persia. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. 2 vols, 8° (213 x 135mm), folding engraved map of Persia, 25 wood-engraved plates, most after the author, drawn on the wood by W.H. Brooke. (Occasional light dust-soiling and spotting.) Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt, marbled edges and endpapers (lightly rubbed, covers a little stained and scuffed, title labels lacking). Provenance: S.F. Jacson (title inscription, awarding him the book as a classics prize, Rugby, Christmas 1841) -- [Newton Hall Library, Northumberland].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05489_0149_000(013521).jpg?w=1)
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BUCKINGHAM, James Silk (1786-1855). Travels in Assyria, Media and Persia. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. 2 vols, 8° (213 x 135mm), folding engraved map of Persia, 25 wood-engraved plates, most after the author, drawn on the wood by W.H. Brooke. (Occasional light dust-soiling and spotting.) Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt, marbled edges and endpapers (lightly rubbed, covers a little stained and scuffed, title labels lacking). Provenance: S.F. Jacson (title inscription, awarding him the book as a classics prize, Rugby, Christmas 1841) -- [Newton Hall Library, Northumberland].
Second edition, forming the fourth and most notable work in a series that followed the author's overland journey to India between 1813 and 1818. The first editon appeared in quarto in 1829. Lowndes I, 305 (wrongly dating this edition 1831). (2)
Second edition, forming the fourth and most notable work in a series that followed the author's overland journey to India between 1813 and 1818. The first editon appeared in quarto in 1829. Lowndes I, 305 (wrongly dating this edition 1831). (2)
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