The Land of the Sun, London, 1870, first edition, presentation copy, pictorial green cloth

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Lot 207 | The Land of the Sun, London, 1870, first edition, presentation copy, pictorial green cloth
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The Land of the Sun: sketches of travel, with memoranda, historical and geographical, of places of interest in the East. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1870

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS SISTER, 8vo (179 x 118mm.), 16pp. advertisements at end, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, flat spine lettered in gilt, upper hinge repaired with tape, binding rather rubbed

Rare. Not in Eric Macro's bibliographies (see below). We have traced only two copies at auction in the last 30 years.

This work primarily relates to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea regions and includes chapters on Aden, Perim, Jeddah, Hormuz and Bandar Abbas, Muscat, Bahrein, Baghdad, Basra and other locations in the Persian Gulf.
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