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Lot 205

The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris?in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.

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Chesney, Francis Rawdon. The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris?in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. Two vols., embossed brown cloth, spines lettered gilt, yellow endpapers. Half-titles, frontispieces, first vol. folding. Complete with all 49 duotone lithographed plates, retaining tissue guards, folding color lithographed map in rear pocket of first volume, text illustrations. Tall 8vo. Very good internally, ex-libris stamps and markings to prelims., bookplates, cloth worn, hinges tender. While the title page states that the work consists of four volumes, the third and fourth volumes were never published.