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The Desert Route to India; Being the Journals of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1751
Author:
CARRUTHERS, DOUGLAS (Ed)
Title:
The Desert Route to India; Being the Journals of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1751
Publisher:
Hakluyt Society 1929
Description:
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motifs & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled/rough cut page edges (some still uncut), frontispiece with detached tissue guard, illus, folding map of Syria & Mesopotamia to rear, VG+ (light scuffing to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & staining to spine & edges)
Keywords:
first edition hakluyt India Aleppo Basra Mesopotamia great desert caravan route history
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