Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition ... During the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.

£2,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

With a manuscript note pasted to the front free endpaper “The accompanying pages give the result of many years labour in the East, and they are offered for the kind acceptance of Mrs. Payne by the Author with a grateful recollection of the many kindnesses he received from herself as well as her husband. Passhotel Ballyardle Dec 14th 1869”. Ballyardle was close to Chesney’s home in Co. Down. “This is the concluding portion of Chesney’s account of the Euphrates Expedition, not a later edition of the first part. In addition to the reconstructed section of Chesney’s original manuscript which had been lost in the 1830’s, it contains the journals of Captain Charlewood and of General J.B.B. Estcourt, an account of Helfer’s visit to the Arabian desert, and Ainsworth’s account of Constantinople” (Atabey). Atabey 236; Wilson p.41.

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