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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.' [237] (268/582)
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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PALACE OF OUR RESIDENCE.
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sembles in its general aspect that of the Chehel Sitoon, and the
pillars are of the same number and description. We passed
our evening here, enjoying the splendid view of the city, till
night invited us to repose.
' Into this lodge we entered; the low room was round and spacious, the ground spread
with silk carpets, in the midst a marble tank full of crystalline water (an element of no
small account in those torrid habitations), and round about the tank, vessels of pure gold,
some filled with wine, others with sweet-smelling flowers.
' Thence into a chamber, furnished in manner as the former, but with three times more
vessels of gold, set there for pomp and observation.
* At the end sat the Potshaugh, or great King, cross-legged, and mounted a little higher
than the rest, his seat having two or three white silk shags upon the carpets.
i His attire was very ordinary; his tulipant could not outvalue forty shillings, his coat
red calico quilted with cotton, worth very little, his sword hung in a leather belt, its handle
or hilt was gold; and in regard the King was so plain attired, most of the court had like
apparel on for that day.
* Yet the plate and jewels in that house argued against poverty, a merchant then there
imagined it worth twenty millions of pounds.
' So soon as our lord ambassador came to him, he by his interpreter delivered briefly the
cause of his journey, which was to congratulate his victorious success against the Turk, to renew
the traffic of silk, and other things ±o benefit the merchants, and to see Sir Robert Sherley purge
himself from those imputations laid on him by Nogdibeg the King of Persia his late ambassador.
' The King gave him a very gracious reply, and whereas he thinks it honour enough to let
the great Turk's ambassador kiss the hem of his coat, and sometimes his foot, he very nobly
gave our ambassador his hand, and with it pulled him down and seated him next to him
cross-legged, and calling for a cup of wine, drank to his Majesty our famous King, at which he
put off his hat, and the King seeing it, put off his turban, and drank the cup off, which our
ambassador pledged thankfully. And the people thought it a strange thing to see their King
so complimental, for it is a shame with them to be bare-headed.
' The chamber wherein he was entertained, had the sides painted and gilded very beauti
fully, though indeed the verse may be inverted. Materia superabat opus, and not materiam.
< Round about, with their backs to the wall, were seated fifty or sixty Beglerbegs, Sultans,
and Chawns, who sit like so many statues, rather than living men. The Ganymede boys go
up and downe with flagons of wine, and fill to those that covet it.
' The day before this ceremony, the King rode to hunt the tiger, accompanied only with
two hundred women, his wives and concubines; most of them were attired like courageous
Amazons, with scymitar, bow, and arrows, the eunuchs riding abroad to prohibit any to come
in view of them : the penalty is no less than loss of life, a dear price for novelties.
4 And though for the most part, when the King is in a progress, he has sometimes ten thou
sand, other times twenty thousand Cozelbashaws, or soldiers of best reckoning, yet at our being
then at court, two thousand was the most then attending him.' Pages 96—98.
There are passages in this, and indeed in the works of all old travellers, which could not
now be printed ; but the curious must be content to refer to these in the originals.
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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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- '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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:18, 1:546, iv-r:v-v, back-i
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- Buckingham, James Silk
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