BINDER, Henry. - Lot 237

BINDER, Henry. In Kurdistan, Mesopotamia and Persia. Paris, Maison Quantin, 1887. Small folio, [4]-453 pp, title in red and black, portrait-frontispiece and numerous illsutrations in black. Publisher's illustrated green bradel percaline with bisautés boards, smooth spine with gilt title, top board decorated with gilt title and gilt plate depicting a tribal chief on horseback, gilt head, first color cover retained (slight wear to binding at covers and corners, without map). First edition. In publisher's boards. Relation of an archaeological and geographical mission entrusted by the Ministry of Public Instruction to the explorer Binder: starting from Constantinople, he travelled through Georgia and Armenia, the Mosul region and that of Baghdad before entering Persia. Frontispiece portrait of Henry Binder by René Jacker, 1887, and 200 phototypescript illustrations by Quinsac, based on Binder's photographs and sketches. Wilson, Bibliography of Persia, 22 [Persia - Iraq].