Abstract: A Tour to Sheeraz by the Route of Kazroon amd Feerozabad with various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language and Literature of the Persians to which is added A History of Persia from the Death of Kureem Khan to the Subversion of the Zund Dynastyby Edward Scott Waring.Publication Details: London, printed for T Cadell and W Davies, in the Strand, by W Bulmer and Company, Cleveland Row.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii).Physical description: Dimensions: 315mm x 250mm
Abstract: Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf" and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.Physical description: Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).
Abstract: A Journey from India to England, through Persia, Georgia, Russia, Poland, and Prussia, in the year 1817, by Lieut. Col. John Johnson.Publication details: Printed by A Strahan, Printers-Street, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, London, 1818.Physical description: Leaves of plates (some colour), with illustrations (some colour).Physical description: Dimensions: 280mm x 210mm.