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Travels in Chaldaea, including a Journey from Bassorah to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon, performed on foot in 1827. With observations on the sites and remains of Babel, Selencia and Ctesiphon

Travels in Chaldaea, including a Journey from Bassorah to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon, performed on foot in 1827. With observations on the sites and remains of Babel, Selencia and Ctesiphon

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Travels in Chaldaea, including a Journey from Bassorah to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon, performed on foot in 1827. With observations on the sites and remains of Babel, Selencia and Ctesiphon

by MIGNAN Robert Capt 1803-1852

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London: New Burlington Street: Hebry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Journey on foot through Arabia. First and only edition. In contemporary half dark blue calf over green marbled boards, some wear, joint cracked. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, edges worn. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi-xvi), [1], 2-333, [1] list, 9 pls (complete, includes 2 folding maps), 16 wood engravings within text, occasional spot. Frontispiece and plates drawn by R. Craggs. Maps engraved by Sidney Hall. (217*133 mm). (Atabey 908). History of modern Bussorah, between the years of the Mohammedan Æra, 953 and 1076: equivalent to those of the Christian period, 1546 and 1665; Memoir on the ruins of Ahwaz, read before the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, June 14, 1828 and printed in the second volume of their transactions; An itinerary from Bussorah to the city of Tabreez, or Tauris, by Semavah, Meshed Ali, Kufa, Hillah, Bagdad, and Sulimaniah performed by the author in the summer of 1828; List of journeys performed by the author in the years 1826, 1827, 1828.

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Title
Travels in Chaldaea, including a Journey from Bassorah to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon, performed on foot in 1827. With observations on the sites and remains of Babel, Selencia and Ctesiphon
Author
MIGNAN Robert Capt 1803-1852
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Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
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Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Hebry Colburn and Richard Bentley
Place of Publication
London: New Burlington Street
Date Published
1829
Size
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Weight
1.54 lbs
Keywords
Arabia travel Iraq exploration history
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