Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 323

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Buckingham, James S. (1786-1855)
Travels in Mesopotamia, including a Journey from Aleppo to Bagdad.

London: Henry Colburn, 1827.

First quarto edition; illustrated with folding frontispiece map and two wood-engraved plates; rebound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, endpapers marbled, all edges marbled; ex libris Christopher Harrison with armorial bookplate; (plates foxed; offsetting to title; rebacked with original spine preserved, light rubbing, edges exposed); 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.

The same title was also published in the same year in a two-volume octavo edition.