Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 299

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
[FINLAY, ALEXANDER STRUTHERS.] Letters on a Journey to Bombay through Syria and Arabia, in 1834-35. [4], 176 pages. 8vo, original cloth, backstrip lacking, covers detached; scattered foxing. Np: Privately Printed, 1837

Additional Details

first edition of an epistolary account of the author's experiences travelling overland from Lebanon to Iraq before continuing to Bombay by sea. With a signed inscription from his father, the cotton merchant Kirkman Finlay, to Thomas Murdoch Esq.