Lot 59
£353
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Grant, Asahel. The Nestorians; or, the Lost Tribes: containing Evidence of their Identity; an Account of their Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies; together with Sketches of Travel in Ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia. London: John Murray, 1841. First UK edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, folding lithographic map as frontispiece, spine rolled, minor loss to paper at one corner of front board, light spotting to map and endpapers;
Moore, George. The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West, with New Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, viii [2] 423 pp., half-title, 14 lithographic plates (one folding), occasional Hebrew text, 24 pp. advertisements, white marking to foot of spine, cloth splitting on joints, section of front free endpaper excised, variable spotting to plates;
and 6 others (not collated): 2 books in Armenian, probably printed in Istanbul, 1877 and 1892; Washington Irving, The Life of Mahomet and his Successors, London: John Murray, 1850, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, spines sunned and rolled, worn at ends; Torah Elohim Sefer Shemot [title in Hebrew, i.e. Book of Exodus], Vilnius, 1899, 8vo, spine perished; and similar