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29/03/2026

The Chaldean Account of Genesis. Containing the Description of the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the Times of the Patriarchs, and Ni**od: Babylonian Fables, and Legends of the Gods; from the Cuneiform Inscriptions - £999.99.

George Smith of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum.

Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1876. First Edition and impression. Bound in full leather prize binding of Wimbledon School (London), with gilt emblem to the upper board dated December 1875. Boards with gilt rules to the outer edges. Banded spine with title plate to the upper spine present, chipping to the head. Boards with some scuffing, light damp marking to the lower spine edges. All edges gilt, with gilt inner dentelles and marbled endpapers. Leather prize plate to a J H Leslie to the inner cover. Block sound, with no pages detached. Blank pages with some foxing. Photo frontis and 4 plates, a little damp marking to the inner lower pages of the plate pages, with further in-text illustrations, all present. Madam Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophy movement heavily referenced this work in her 1888 book 'The Secret Doctrine' to support her theories of Occultism, Cosmogenesis and Ancient Wisdom. Very rare First Edition.

Significant work by George Smith (1840-1876), the English Assyriologist that compiles translations of cuneiform inscriptions that reveal Babylonian myths and legends, particularly those that correspond to stories found in the Book of Genesis. Smith's work was groundbreaking as it demonstrated that many biblical narratives had parallels in ancient Mesopotamian literature, suggesting a shared cultural heritage. In 1872, Smith achieved worldwide fame by his translation of the Chaldaean account of the Great Flood, which he read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology on 3 December. The audience included the sitting prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone. According to the accounts of his coworkers in the reading room, on the day of the discovery, when Smith realized what he was reading he "began to remove articles of his clothing" and run around the room shouting in delight. This work is better known today as the eleventh tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest known works of literature, discovered by Hormuzd Rassam in 1853 on an archaeological mission for the British Museum on behalf of his colleague and mentor Austen Henry Layard. The following January, Edwin Arnold, the editor of The Daily Telegraph, arranged for Smith to go to Nineveh at the expense of that newspaper and carry out excavations with a view to finding the missing fragments of the Flood story. This journey resulted not only in the discovery of some missing tablets, but also of fragments that recorded the succession and duration of the Babylonian dynasties. In November 1873 Smith again left England for Nineveh for a second expedition, this time at the expense of the museum, and continued his excavations at the tell of Kouyunjik (Nineveh). An account of his work is given in Assyrian Discoveries, published early in 1875. The rest of the year was spent in fixing together and translating the fragments relating to the creation, the results of which were published in The Chaldaean Account of Genesis (1880, co-written with Archibald Sayce).

Introduction - Some explanation is necessary in introducing my present work. Little time has elapsed since I discovered the most important of these inscriptions, and in the intervening period I have had, amidst other work, to collect the various fragments of the legends, copy, compare, and translate, altering my matter from time to time, as new fragments turned up. Even now I have gone to press with one of the fragments of the last tablet of the Izdubar series omitted. The present condition of the legends and their recent discovery alike forbid me to call this anything more than a provisional work; but there was so general a desire to see the translations that I have published them, hoping my readers will take them with the same reserve with which I have given them. I have avoided some of the most important comparisons and conclusions with respect to Genesis, as my desire was first to obtain the recognition of the evidence without prejudice. The chronological notes in the book are one of its weak points, but I may safely say that I have placed the various dates as low as I fairly could, considering the evidence, and I have aimed to do this rather than to establish any system of chronology. I believe that time will show the Babylonian traditions of Genesis to be invaluable for the light they will throw on the Pentateuch, but at present there are so many blanks in the evidence that positive conclusions on several points are impossible. I may add in conclusion that my present work is intended as a popular account, and I have introduced only so much explanation as seems necessary for the proper understanding of the subject. I have added translations of some parts of the legends which I avoided in my last work, desiring here to satisfy the wish to see them as perfect as possible; there still remain however some passages which I have omitted, but these are of small extent and obscure - October 26, 1875.

CHAPTER I-THE DISCOVERY OF THE GENESIS LEGENDS. Cosmogony of Berosus-Discovery of Cuneiform Inscriptions-Historical Texts-Babylonian origin of Assyrian literature-Mythological tablets - Discovery of Deluge texts - Izdubar, his exploits-Mutilated condition of tablets-Lecture on Deluge tablets-"Daily Telegraph" offer-Expedition to Assyria-Fragments of Creation tablets-Solar Myth-Second journey to Assyria-Tower of Babel-Clay records-Account of creation in "Telegraph" "Daily Telegraph" collection-Interest of Creation legends-The Fall-New fragments-List of texts.

CHAPTER II-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE, Babylonian literature-Kouyunjik library-Fragmentary condition-Arrangement of tablets-Subjects.-Dates-Babylonian source of literature-Literary period-Babylonian Chronology-Akkad-Sumir-Urukh, king of Ur-Hammurabi-Babylonian astrology-War of Gods-Izdubar Legends-Creation and fall. Syllabaries and bilingual tablets-Assyrian copies-Difficulties as to date-Mutilated condition-Babylonian library-Assyrian empire.-City of Assur-Library at Calah-Sargon of Assyria. Sennacherib-Removal of Library to Nineveh-Assurbanipal or Sardanapalus.-His additions to library-Description of contents-Later Babylonian libraries.

CHAPTER III-CHALDEAN LEGENDS TRANSMITTED THROUGH BEROSUS AND OTHER ANCIENT AUTHORS. Berosus and his copyists-Cory's translation-Alexander Poly histor-Babylonia-Oannes, his teaching-Creation-Belus. Chaldean Kings-Xisuthrus.-Deluge-The Ark-Return to Babylon-Apollodorus-Pantibiblon-Laraneha-Abydenus-Alorus, first king-Ten kings-Sisithrus-Deluge-Armenia. Tower of Babel-Cronos and Titan-Nieolaus Damascenus. Dispersion from Hestireus.-Babylonian colonies-Tower of Babel-The Sibyl-Titan and Prometheus-Damaseius-Tauthe-Moymis-Kissare and Assorus-Triad-Bel.

CHAPTER IV-BABYLONIAN MYTHOLOGY. Greek accounts-Mythology local in origin-Antiquity.-Con quests-Colonies-Three great gods-Twelve great gods-Angels-Spirits-Anu-Anatu-Vul-Ishtar-Equivalent to Venus-Hea-Oannes.-Morodacb-Bel or Jupiter-Zirat banit, Succoth Benoth-Elu-Sin the moon god-Ninip-Shamas-Nergal-Anunit-Table of gods.

CHAPTER V-BABYLONIAN LEGEND OF THE CREATION-Mutilated condition of Tablets-List of subjects-Description of chaos.-Tiamat-Generation of gods-Damascius-Comparison with Genesis.-Three great gods.-Doubtful fragments.-Fifth tablet.-Stars.-Planets.-Moon,-Sun.-Abyss or chaos-Creation of moon-Creation of animals-Man-His duties-Dragon of sea-Fall-Curse for disobedience.-Discussion-Sacred tree-Dragon or serpent-War with Tiamat-Weapons-Merodach-Destruction of Tiamat-Mutilation of documents-Parallel Biblical account-Age of story.

CHAPTER VI-OTHER BABYLONIAN ACCOUNTS OF THE CREATION. Cuneiform accounts originally traditions-Variations-Account of Berosus-Tablet from Cutha-Translation-Composite animals.-Eagle-headed men.-Seven brothers-Destruction of men.-Seven wicked spirits-War in heaven.-Variations of story-Poetical account of Creation.

CHAPTER VII-THE SIN OF THE GON ZU. God Zu-Obscurity of' legend.-Translation.-Sin of Zu. Amaro.a Xl Anger of ·the gods.-Speeches of Anu to Vul-Vul's answer. Speech of Anu to Nebo-Answer of Nebo-Sarturda-Changes to a bird-The Zu bird-Bird of prey-Sarturda Lord of Amarda.

CHAPTER· VIII-THE EXPLOITS OF LUBARA. Lubara-God of Pestilence-ltak-The Plague-Seven warrior gods-Destruction of people-Anu-Goddess of Karrak-Speech of Elu-Sin and destruction of Babylonians-Shamas Sin and destruction of Erech-Ishtar-The great god and Duran.-Outha-Internal wars-Itak goes to Syria-Power and glory of Lubara-Song of Lubara.-Blessings on his worship-God Ner-Prayer to arrest the Plague

CHAPTER IX-BABYLONIAN FABLES. Fables-Common in the East.-Description.-Power of speech in animals-Story of the eagle-Serpent-Shamas-The eagle caught-Eats the serpent-Anger of birds-Etana-Seven gods-Third tablet-Speech of eagle-Story of the fox-His cunning-Judgment of Shamas-His show of sorrow-His punishment-Speech of fox-Fable of the horse and ox-They consort together-Speech of the ox-His good fortune-Contrast with the horse-Hunting the ox-Speech of the horse-Offers to recount story-Story of Ishtar-Further tablets.

CHAPTER X-FRAGMENTS OF MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS. Atarpi-Sin of the world-Mother and daughter quarrel-Zamu-Punishment of world-Hea-Calls his sons-Orders drought-Famine-Building-Nusku-Riddle of wise man-Nature and universal presence of air-Gods-Sinuri-Divining by fracture of reed-Incantation-Dream-Tower of Babel-Obscurity of legend-Not noticed by Berosus-Fragmentary tablet-Destruction of Tower-Dispersion-Locality of Babylon-Birs Ni**od-Babil-Assyrian representations.

CHAPTER XI-THE lZDUBAR LEGENDS-Account of Deluge-Ni**od-Izdubar-Age of Legends-Babylonian cylinders-Notices of Izdubar-Surippak-Ark City-Twelve tablets.-Extent of Legends-Description-Introduction.-Meeting of Heabani and Izdubar-Destruction of tyrant Humbaba-Adventures of Ishtar-Illness and wanderings of Izdubar.-Description of Deluge and conclusion-First Tablet-Kingdom of Ni**od-Traditions-Identifications-Translation-Elamite Conquest-Dates.

CHAPTER XII-MEETING OF HEABANI AND IZDUBAR. Dream of Izdubar-Heabani-His wisdom-His solitary life-lzdubar's petition-Zaidu-Harimtu and Samhat-Tempt Heabani-Might and fame of Izdubar-Speech of Heabani. His journey to Erech-Thc midannu or tiger-Festival at Erech-Dream of lzdubar-Friendship with Heabani.

CHAPTER XIII.-DESTRUCTION OF THE TYRANT HUMBABA. Elamite dominion.-Forest region.-Humbaba.-Conversation. -Petition to Shamas.-Journey to forest.-Dwelling of Hum baba-Entrance to forest.-Meeting with Humbaba.-Death of Humbaba.-Izdubar king.

CHAPTER XIV-THE ADVENTURES OF ISHTAR. Triumph of Izdubar-Ishtar's love-Her offer of marriage. Her promises-lzdubar's answer-Tammuz-Amours of Ishtar-His refusal-Ishtar's anger-Ascends to Heaven-The bull. Slain by Jzdubar-Ishtar's curse-Izdubar's triumph-The feast-Ishtar's despair-Her descent to Hades-Description-The seven gates-The curses-Uddusunamir-Sphinx-Release of Ishtar-Lament for Tammuz.

CHAPTER XV-ILLNESS AND WANDERINGS OF IZDUBAR. Heabani and the trees.-Illness of lzdubar-Death of Heabani-Journey of lzdubar-His dream-Scorpion men-The Desert of Mas-The paradise-Siduri and Sabitu-Urhamsi. Water of death-Ragmu-The conversation-Hasisadra.

CHAPTER XVI-THE STORY OF THE FLOOD AND CONCLUSION. Eleventh tablet-The gods-Sin of the world-Command to build the ark-lts contents-The building-The Flood-Destruction of people-Fear of the gods-End of Deluge-Kizir-Resting of Ark-The birds-The descent from the ark-The sacrifice-Speeches of gods-Translation of Hasisadra.-Oure of lzdubar-His return-Lament over Heabani-Resurrection of Heabani-Burial of warrior-Comparison with Genesis-Syrian nation-Connection of legends-Points of contact-Duration of deluge-Mount of descent-Ten generations-Early cities. Age of Izdubar.

CHAPTER XVII.-Conclusion. Notices of Genesis-Correspondence of names-Abram-Ur of Chaldees-Ishmael-Sargon-His birth-Concealed in ark-Age of Ni**od-Doubtful theories-Creation-Garden of Eden-Oannes-Berosus-Izdubar legends-Urukh of Ur. Babylonian seals-Egyptian names-Assyrian sculptures.

17/03/2026

1857 - Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan (Baluchistan); With Historical Notices of the Countries Lying Between Russia and India (£399.99)
Ferrier, J. P. (Joseph Pierre)

Published by John Murray, London, 1857. Second edition. Bound in the publisher's bling stamped red board, titled in gilt to the spine. Light soiling to the boards, a little wear to the spine ends and board corners. 534pp + publisher's catalogue from November 1856 to the rear. Inner hinges good. Brick red endpapers. Block sound, with light age toning to the pages, a little scattered foxing here and there, slight bumping to the upper corner of the block, a couple of latter leaves unopened to the upper edge, but overall in Good condition. Includes an extensive contents section. Translated from the original unpublished manuscript by Capt. William Jesse and edited by H D Seymour. Includes a large folding map to the rear of the book. A fascinating travelogue indeed. Good+ to Vg- overall. Heavy at over a kilo exc pkg.

28/06/2025

LEWIS CARROLL - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1867) RARE Early Edition - 10th Thousand - £999.99 (SOLD)

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) / John Tenniel (Illustrated)

Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1867. Tenth thousand; published just 2 years after the first of 1865. Recently re-spined in modern cloth, titled in gilt, though retaining the original boards. Covers with line border in gilt, with gilt roundel illustration of Alice to the front and the Cheshire cat to the rear. Board corners bumped and worn, general marking and soiling to the covers, but binding good otherwise. Plain dark blue endpapers, a little chipping to the edges. Half title with a previous owner's name and date (Louisa Augusta Boden - 1868). Frontis of the King and Queen of Hearts, with tissue guard still in place, albeit spotted. Block sound, with age toning, as expected, and the odd foxing spot or mark here and there, but generally in good order. Wonderfully illustrated by John Tenniel. Good+ overall. Early edition of Carroll's classic Children's fantasy novel.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book. It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knew—scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her. The book has never been out of print and has been translated into 174 languages. Its legacy includes adaptations to screen, radio, visual art, ballet, opera, and musical theatre, as well as theme parks, board games and video games. Carroll published a sequel in 1871 entitled Through the Looking-Glass and a shortened version for young children, The Nursery "Alice", in 1890.

06/06/2025

The Joy of Youth shortened a day into a blink; the Loneliness of old age are stretched a moment into an endless nightmare - Yiyun li

05/06/2025

By far the largest collection of Signed First editions we have obtained in a very long time. Eye wateringly expensive, but worth the 500+ miles of driving in constant rain to the other side of the country to collect them. Many thanks to Ana for driving most of the way - and putting up with the co-driver's suggestions......

08/05/2025

Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929 - £499.99 (SOLD)
Beatrix Potter

Published by Frederick Warne and Co Ltd, London, 1928. First and only edition. Bound in the traditional illustrated hardcover small format boards, with onlay of Peter Rabbit to the front cover. Covers with general marking and wear to the extremities. Lacking the spine strip, making binding shaky, though boards are still in place. Illustrated endpapers show rabbits bordering a lettuce plant. Pages with minor age toning, a little faint damping and wrinkling, but generally in good condition. This was the only Beatrix Potter almanac produced. Writing to the Warnes's about the design of the borders Beatrix Potter said "I shall not be able to do much more; these are good but they try my eyes very much. I cannot see to do them on dark days, and the lambing time is beginning .". The author was unhappy with the finished article, and so the planned series of almanacs did not go ahead, making this book particularly rare.

20/04/2025

The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours. MS 1058-1975 [Facsimile Book of Hours - Limited & Numbered Edition] with a Commentary by Stella Panayotova. £499.99

Published in London by the Folio Society, 2009. First Edition (thus). Number 886 of 1180. Housed in a hardcover blue cloth clamshell box. Includes a separate commentary book by Stella Panayotova. Beautifully bound in full blue silk brocade, with a pineapple design in gold. A perfectly rendered facsimile of a profusely illustrated Flemish book of hours dated around 1510, containing 63 full page gilded colour illustrations and intricately illustrated borders filled with birds, insects and flowers on every page. In Fine condition, and appears unread.

From the limitation page "The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours has been reproduced from Fitzwilliam Museum MS1058-1975 C The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2009. It has been printed by Beacon Press, Sussex, on Furioso Paper and bound by Smith Settle, West Yorks, in full silk brocade woven only for this edition by Stephen Walters and Sons, Suffolk. The edition is limited to 1180 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society and 20 lettered copies which are not for sale. This is copy number 886"

24/12/2024

A Very Merry Christmas to you all, and best wishes for a very Happy, and healthy, 2025.

15/12/2024

Winnie The Pooh (First Edition, First Impression)

MILNE, A. A. (Alan Alexander) Illustrated by Ernest H Shepard.

Published in London by Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First printing, with "First published in 1926" on the copyright page, as called for. Recently rebound in half blue leather, though the original cloth for the front cover has been retained and is bound in at the rear of the volume. Double banded spine titled in gilt, with gilt lining to the bands. All edges gilt. Map endpapers to the front and rear, showing hundred Aker (acre) wood. Pages are lightly toned, the odd minor spot, faint crease to the dedication page corner, but generally in overall Vg- condition.

Classic Children's book. A collection of short stories following the adventures of an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. This story is the second in the Pooh series, following the 1924 When We Were Young, though this title remains the much more popular of the two titles, selling around 50 million copies worldwide

18/10/2024

BRITANNIA DEPICTA or Ogilby improv'd by OGILBY, John (1600-1676) BOWEN, Emanuel (1694-1767) and John OWEN (1720) First Edition.

Full title of - BRITANNIA DEPICTA or Ogilby improv'd; : being a correct coppy of Mr: Ogilby's Actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all ye cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles. And to render this - work universally usefull & agreeable, (beyond any of it's [sic] kind) are added in a clear & most compendious method 1, a full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate &c. their arms, antiquity, charters, privileges, trade, rarities, &c. with suitable remarks on all places of note drawn from the best historians and antiquaries - By Ino. Owen of the Midd: Temple gent. 2, The arms of the peers of this realm who derive their titles from places lying on, or near the roads 3, The arms of all ye bishopricks & deanaries, their foundation, extent, yearly-value, number of parishes &c. 4, The arms, & a succinct account of both universities & their respective colleges, their foundations fellowships &c. Lastly particular & correct maps - of all ye counties of South Britain; with a - summary description of each county, it's [sic] circumference, number of acres, boro' & market towns & parishes, air, soil, com[m]odities, manufactures & what each pays in ye 2. sh Aid &c. The whole for its compendious variety & exactness, preferable to all other books of roads hitherto published or proposed; and calculated not only for the direction of the traveller (as they are) but the general use of the gentleman and tradesman by Eman: Bowen engraver.

OGILBY, John (1600-1676) BOWEN, Emanuel (1694-1767) and John OWEN.

Printed in London by Thomas Bowles, 1720. Page 128 is incorrectly numbered 121 to denote a first impression. Engraving bordered title page. 8 pages of tables and 273 engraved maps, as called for, all shown. Full leather binding, worn, with the front cover holding on by binding strings, making front cover shaky with the outer hinges cracked. Banded spine, chipped and scuffed, morocco title plate present to the upper spine, possibly a later edition. Maps are generally in good condition, though a couple of pages have been repaired, as shown. Previous owner's plate to the inner cover (George Bowen) marbled endpapers. A couple of the pages close cropped to the edges, minor loss to some edge words. Good/None.

First published in 1720 in its current format, but a reduced version of Ogilby's "Britannia" first published in London in 1675. "Ogilby secured the. title of His Majesty's Cosmographer early in 1671 [and] drew upon the support of the King and other patrons in the production and publication of Britannia., the work for which he became best known. Chiefly a road atlas, it was securely based on contemporary and collaborative research. Ogilby drew out 2519 miles of road in the form of 100 strip maps, a technique that was widely imitated throughout the following century. Measuring distances by waywiser (his "great wheel"), he made allowance for roads that ascended hills yet had to be depicted in two dimensions on paper, and his surveys helped to standardize the mile at 1760 yards throughout the kingdom. Britannia marked the first major advance in cartography in England since the Tudor period, though it did echo earlier traditions. It was republished in 1698, 1719, and 1720, and on subsequent occasions up to modern times" (DNB). This is one of Emanuel Bowen's earlier works, and his contribution to eighteenth-century world and British atlases would be substantial. Using contemporary sources, he published and drew maps for the "Complete System of Geography" (2 vols., 1744-7), "The Maps and Charts to the Modern Part of the Universal History" (published in 1766 under Thomas Kitchin's name), the celebrated maps for John Harris's "Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca" (1744-8), and all twenty-two new plates in the final edition (1754) of Patrick Gordon's "Geography Anatomized", the county maps in his "Large English Atlas" (1760) the first to cover England and Wales on a large scale, and subsequently reduced by Bowen and Kitchin for their "Royal English Atlas" (ca.1763) and then by Emanuel and Thomas Bowen for "Atlas Anglicanus" (1767-8), published after Emanuel Bowen's death by Kitchin. "All three works are characterized by detailed texts in the spaces surrounding the maps and by elegant rococo decoration, which became the hallmark of his engraving" (Iolo Roberts and Menai Roberts for DNB).

13/10/2024

A Journey From London to Persepolis; Including Wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia - £2499.99 (SOLD)

John Ussher

Published by Hurst and Blackett, London, 1865. First Edition, First Impression. Extremely rare travelogue of the author's journey through the Middle East and Central Asia. Thick 8vo. Wonderfully illustrated with chromolithographic plates, as called for (all shown) light spotting or discolouration to title and margins of the plates, the odd handling mark, but generally clean and tight throughout. Bound in full leather prize calf of Chatham House College School, Ramsgate, rubbed to the extremities, bumping to the board corners. Closed edges marbled. Marbled endpapers, with recipient's plate to the fep (Harold Bertram Leney), and prize inscription to the second blank. Inner hinges a little weak, but holding, with stitch repair at the index section. 703pp. Savill & Edwards, London, Printed. A heavy volume, over 2kg exc pkg

An account of travels through Russian Daghestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia and Persia. This account follows the journey of the author who sets out to achieve his goal of penetrating the mountains of Daghestan, a success which was only possible through the hospitality of those whom he met along the way. An adventure taken solely for purposes of pleasure and amusement, only to be later published once it was suggested that these records of paths and encounters could prove useful to future travelers looking to venture to these 'comparatively untrodden countries' (preface). Bobins IV 1476; Ghani 379; Wilson 233.

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