LUMSDEN, LIEUTENANT THOMAS: A Journey from Merut in India, to London, through Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, and France, during the Years 1819 and 1820 by Lieutenant Thomas Lumsden, of the Bengal Horse Artillery. , London: for Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen, 1822.First edition. Engraved frontispiece but lacking the map. 8vo, pp. vii:272:12 (Itinerary), old crude quarter calf, uncut, inner joints broken. Lacks front free endpaper, inscribed George Emerson, Quebec Sept. 23, 1857 on front pastedown. Some foxing and light soiling, damp-marking to the frontispiece, occasional damp-marking to margins. Although lacking the map this is a good unsophisticated copy, uncut with wide margins, and with the half-title. (Book ref. 6789 ) £ 450.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Bristow & Garland , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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