Edition : First Edition. , Contemporary full marbled calf, rebacked skillfully. Gilt decorative border on boards. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt text on morocco label on 2. Gilt ornamentation on 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Tooled dentelles on all edges., An outstanding work on present day Iraq. Of particular importance is the magnificent large scale wall map of Baghdad which is included. This book contains the most important of James Felix Jones?s memoirs in regards to his travels in Persia, Turkey, and Iraq. It includes six important historical, archaeological and geographical essays covering Baghdad, the Nahrwan canal and large parts of Kurdistan, the topography of Nineveh and the old course of the River Tigris. The author and surveyor, Commander J. F. Jones (1813-1878), joined the Bombay Marine - later renamed the Indian Navy - at the age of 14. By the late summer of 1839 he had begun work in the Persian Gulf, where he was to spend most of the next 25 years. He was a Political Agent in Bushehr from 1855 to 1862 and had an important role to play in the British invasion of southern Persia in 1856. In 1844 Jones, in company with Major (now Sir Henry) Rawlinson, was sent to collect information regarding the disputes between Persia and Turkey. The results were officially printed in 1849, under the title ?Narrative of a Journey through Parts of Persia and Kurdistan.? In 1853 he completed a map of Baghdad on a large scale, with a memoir on the province. , Size : 4to (255x170). , Illustrated with 30 plates and maps (all hand coloured and most of them folding), and some in-text woodblock engravings. , This book contains the bookplate of R. Frederick Barlow and the donation plate of Mrs. Miles on behalf of her late husband, the famous Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles, on the verso of the top cover. A few unobtrusive blind stamps of the Bath Public Library , References : Wilson p. 111, P. Blank. Title page. Contents and index (iii-xxii). List of maps and plates. 1-500. Appendix. A fine example of this scarce work. Plates and text are clean and crisp bound in decorative period binding. Although scarce, this book is normally found with partial hand colouring. But in this example all plates have full hand colouring.

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Title: Selection from the Records of the Bombay Government. Memoirs by Commander James Felix Jones, I.N.
Publisher: Bombay Education Society Press c. 1857, Bombay
Publication Date: 1857
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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