A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople.... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Half-title. xix, [1], 435 pp. Engraved frontispiece, 12 plates (a few double-page or folding), 2 maps, and 4 hand-colored aquatint plates, wood-engravings in text. 4to (309 x 237 mm). Later cloth. Some foxing to frontis. and title and a few other plates, light offsetting from text to one colored plate, most plates with small marginal inkstamp, cloth chipped at corners and spine ends, well-margined. First edition. Morier traveled to Persia as Secretary to Sir Gore Ouseley Ouseley's mission resulted in the Anglo-Persian treaty of May 1812. Abbey, Travel 358; Atabey 837. See illustration.
A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople.... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Half-title. xix, [1], 435 pp. Engraved frontispiece, 12 plates (a few double-page or folding), 2 maps, and 4 hand-colored aquatint plates, wood-engravings in text. 4to (309 x 237 mm). Later cloth. Some foxing to frontis. and title and a few other plates, light offsetting from text to one colored plate, most plates with small marginal inkstamp, cloth chipped at corners and spine ends, well-margined. First edition. Morier traveled to Persia as Secretary to Sir Gore Ouseley Ouseley's mission resulted in the Anglo-Persian treaty of May 1812. Abbey, Travel 358; Atabey 837. See illustration.
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