Lot 201
Ernest Floyer, Unexplored Baluchistan – London, 1882 – Woodburytype of the Author, Illustrations and a Folding Map – First Edition
Unexplored Baluchistan. A survey, with observations astronomical, geographical, botanical, etc., of a route through Mekran, Bashkurd, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey, by Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer. London: Griffith & Farran, 1882. First edition. English.
Illustrated with a woodburytype frontispiece (the author and his Baluch servant), 11 prints (ten plates, one in-text) depicting various views and sites, and a folding map (printed in color), showing the author's route.
[1] f., XVII, [2], 507 pp. (including 7 pages with prints) + [4] plates + [1] frontispiece + [1] folding map, 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears to folding map. Minor blemishes. Stains and blemishes to binding. Spine torn (with much loss) and crumbling. Front board and several gatherings detached.
