FRASER, J. Baillie. Mesopotamia and Assyria, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of their Natural History … With a Map, and Engravings by Jackson. Fourth Thousand. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. [1841].
Small 8vo. Original ribbed cloth spine lettered in gilt, ornamented in gilt, all edges gilt; pp. 383, folding map, title-page with engraved vignette and tissue guard, three wood-engraved plates in pagination; a fine copy, Merchiston Castle School prize label to pastedown, awarded to Charles Chalmers and dated 23rd Dec. 1847.
First edition, later printing of one volume in the Edinburgh Cabinet Library series by the artist, traveller and colonial administrator James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856), which reached a third edition by 1846.
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