1839 Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A first edition.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, four tinted lithographs, and with a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete.

With errata tipped in.

Wilbraham, an officer in the British Army and at the time seconded to the service of Mohammad Shah of Persia, provides detailed observations of the Transcaucasian and north-west Persian regions.

He offers descriptions of places such as Qilhak village near Tehran and includes character sketches of figures like Mohammad Shah and Hajji Mirza Aqasi.

With twelve pages of advertisements to the rear, dated May 6, 1839.

Rebacked, in the scarce publisher's original cloth binding, with endpapers renewed.

With a former owner's inscription to a front blank.

Written from the perspective of a British military officer with direct experience in Persian military service.