Dar-Ul-Islam; A Record of a Journey Through Ten of the Asiatic Provinces of Turkey

1904

573,40 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Parla con il Libraio

Metodi di Pagamento

PayPal
Carta di Credito
Bonifico Bancario
Scopri come utilizzare
il tuo bonus Carta del Docente
Scopri come utilizzare
il tuo bonus 18App

Dettagli

Anno di pubblicazione

1904

Luogo di stampa

London. Bickers & Son

Autore

Sykes, Mark, Introduction By Edward G. Browne

Edizione

First edition.

Soggetto

Travel - Asia

Lingue

Inglese

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

8vo [24 x 18 cm]; xxiii, 294 pp, 75 plates from photos including three not called for, 21 maps, mostly colored & folding (lacks Essengeli to Shaykhli map as usual, which was issued separately) , frontis, table, with the list of Shiah Villages Round Arga. orig red cloth with gilt title lettering and decorations on front cover and spine, mounted map on front cover in gilt border, spine a little faded not effecting lettering, small bookplate on endpaper, signature, minor foxing on few leaves, very good copy. 'A rare work covering travels from Damascus to Aleppo, through the Diyarbekir area to Mosul and thence to Van and Tiflis' (Library of Peter Hopkirk, Sotheby's sale). Only three copies are recorded at auction in the last 25 years. The appendix by John Hugh Smith is his diary of a journey from Aleppo by Way of Deir Zor and the Khabur, to Urfa where he re-joined Sykes. Good illustrations showing people, views, country-side, buildings, ruins, etc.