Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MORIER, JAMES. A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople in the Years 1808 and 1809. 18 aquatint and 8 line-engraved plates after Morier; 3 folding engraved maps. [iii]-xvi, 438, [2] pages; lacks the half-title. 4to, 295x229 mm, contemporary calf with gilt palmette border, neatly rebacked, front joint starting, endpapers renewed; offsetting from the plates and maps, light browning through much of the volume, clean tear in plate between pages 90 and 91. Bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library on front pastedown, their embossed stamp on title, some text leaves, and most of the engraved matter. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812

Additional Details

first edition. Abbey Travel 357; Ghani, pages 266-67.