[Rarebooks] FS: Asian travel book with folding map of Afghanistan. London: 1857

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(TRAVEL) Ferrier, Joseph Pierre. CARAVAN JOURNEYS AND WANDERINGS IN PERSIA, 
AFGHANISTAN, TURKISTAN, AND BELOOCHISTAN; with Historical Notices of the 
Countries Lying Between Russia and India. Translated from the Original Unpublished 
Manuscript by Capt. William Jesse. Edited by H. D. Seymour, with Original Map 
and Woodcuts. Second Edition. London: John Murray. 1857. xxii,(2),534pp. plus 
errata leaf. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 2 plates and 2 maps (1 of North 
Western India, and 1 a large folding map of Afghanistan). Cont. green calf, 
lightly scuffed, covers a bit sunned, gilt decorated spine (faded to brown), 
spine label mostly lacking. Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Without 
the ads at the end found in some copies.     $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Our map, “North Western India,” states, “to accompany Ferrier’s History of 
the Afghans,” and is not called for in the list of illustrations.

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