AINSWORTH, William Francis. - Lot 29

AINSWORTH, William Francis. Travels and researches in Asia minor Mesopotamia, Chaldea and Armenia. London, John W. Parker, 1842. 2 volumes in-8. [12] pp (including frontispiece), 364 pp ; [12] pp (including frontispiece), 399 pp. Fawn half-basane with bevelled corners, cold-rolled boards, spines decorated with gilded boxes, gilded titles and black endpapers, speckled edges (binding slightly rubbed, spine faded, foxing to title and frontispiece of both volumes). First edition, illustrated with 2 black woodcut frontispieces, 3 folding maps and 44 black engraved illustrations. English account of an important voyage to Asia Minor, Armenia and Iraq. William Francis Ainsworth (1807-1896) was a surgeon, traveler, geographer and geologist. He took part in the famous Euphrates Expedition led by Francis Rawdon Chesney. Bookplate with the motto "Deo duce". Atabey, 11. [Armenia].