Charles Rathbone Low | The Land of the Sun, London, 1870, first edition, presentation copy, pictorial green cloth

Charles Rathbone Low

The Land of the Sun: sketches of travel, with memoranda, historical and geographical, of places of interest in the East. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1870

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS SISTER, 8vo (179 x 118mm.), 16pp. advertisements at end, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, flat spine lettered in gilt, upper hinge repaired with tape, binding rather rubbed

Rare. Not in Eric Macro's bibliographies (see below). We have traced only two copies at auction in the last 30 years.

This work primarily relates to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea regions and includes chapters on Aden, Perim, Jeddah, Hormuz and Bandar Abbas, Muscat, Bahrein, Baghdad, Basra and other locations in the Persian Gulf.

LITERATURE:

Not in Macro's Bibliography on Yemen (1960) or Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula (1958)

PROVENANCE:

Emily S. Low, presention copy from the author. Inscribed on the preliminary blank: "Emily S. Low, with the affectionate love of her brother, the author, 18th October 1870"; sold Sotheby's 13 November 2008, lot 94