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'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎142] (173/582)

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'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.'

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The record is made up of 1 volume (545 pages). It was created in 1829. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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FROM KERMANSHAH
building, as the height of the tablet is not less than seventy or
eighty feet from the base of the rocky cliff, and perhaps a hun
dred feet above the general level of the plain.
Sept. 19th.—We were roused to prepare for departure before
it was yet daylight; but as our companions were great smokers of
the nargeel, which takes longer to fill, to light, and to dismantle,
than the pipe, the sun appeared over the eastern hills as we
mounted.
We had scarcely gone a hundred yards on our way, before an
other apparent tablet on the surface of the mountain, on our left,
attracted my attention; and though this was higher, and more
difficult of access, than the former, and though the wind was now
blowing a hurricane, the air piercing cold, and our companions
impatient, yet I was determined to alight and take a closer view.
As we drew near, I could perceive it to be a long inscription
of twelve lines, in the Persian language, but the Arabic character,
contained within a tablet, executed with great care. The charac
ters were of the best form, and deeply engraved; and between
each line of the inscription was drawn a deep and distinct incision,
tor the purpose of marking their separation.
' My Dervish, who read this with facility, found it related to the
khan at which we had slept. It recorded the name and virtues
of its founder, Hadjee Ali, the date and purpose of its erection,
^ the bou »daries of the lands in the plain, the rents and
hit if tb We ? t0 ^ a PP ro P riated t0 ^s support; adding,
he P f trl ^ SU1 ' P1US fr0m these rents ' af ter paying
enuS f r 611 ' 0 4 ^ —ai, it was to be sent lo'th!
sepulchre of Imam Ah, at Kerbela.
ing d ! <1 T 1 mterest me ver y dee ply ; but on mount-
characters wV W ^ 3 m0re distinCt view of some written
were two long lines, hTwe below ' 1 found the y
inscription ovpr a ' r * capitals, which had formed an
PX " irr sroup of ' cuiptured fi « u " s - '"f* life. ~™-
"«»th .pace , he of the ^

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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.

The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."

Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.

Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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1 volume (545 pages)

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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).

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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).

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English in Latin script

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Title: 'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.'
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:18, 1:546, iv-r:v-v, back-i
Author: Buckingham, James Silk
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