Middle East.- Ainsworth (William)

Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldaea; Forming Part of the Labours of the Euphrates Expedition, tinted lithographed frontispiece, title with wood-engraved vignette, folding map, three hand-coloured folding geological sections at end, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue, light age yellowing, intermittent foxing, later half calf, marbled endpapers, John W. Parker, 1838; Southgate (Horatio) Narrative of a Tour through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia, and Mesopotamia...., first English edition, 2 vol. bound in one, vignettes on titles, half title, large folding lithograph map, torn at folds, lacking plates, library stamps, light age yellowing, occasional spotting, rebound in modern green morocco, spine gilt, new endpapers, [Wilson p. 213; Atabey 1161], Tilt & Bogue, 1840; with Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn) Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their History, half title, 7 folding chromolithograph maps, 5 black and white illustrations, some offsetting, occasional spotting, bookplate of the Lord Rootes, contemporary blind ruled sheep, spine gilt, gilt arms of the Hulme bequest 'Munificentia Hulmiana', stamped on covers, marbled edges and endpapers, a.e.r., extremities rubbed, John Murray, 1862, 8vo (3)

*** Ainsworth was the surgeon and geologist to the Euphrates expedition, which was led by Lt. Colonel Francis Chesney, to whom this work is dedicated.