A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, [WITH] A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople

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Complete, 2 tours in 2 volumes, 48 leaves with 52 plates, maps & illustrations along with 47 wood engravings within text, first editions of both works (1812 & 1818), large-paper issues, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1812, 1st ed, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 23 pls on19 leaves (includes folding, 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps), 47 wood engravings within text, t.e.g., some light offsetting, spotting and toning, more so in Vol 1, tidemark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p136 more heavily spotted & browned, red marbled endpapers. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). Signatures [3], b-b4, [c2]only, B-3K4. [7], (viii-xix), [1], B1-3K2. (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5).