£1,188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
London: Bickers and Son, 1900. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt, photographic onlays to boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure frontispiece, 20 halftone plates, folding map, bookplate (Adrian Sykes), spine sunned and rolled, markings to fore edge of front board, tips bumped, endpapers browned
Note: The author's first book, describing a journey from Damascus to Batumi (modern-day Georgia) via Aleppo, Baghdad, Mosul, Lake Van and Tbilisi. Rare at auction and in libraries.