A Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition.
Kegan Paul, Trench. 1888. Stock ID #163464 "In 1835 Ainsworth was appointed surgeon and geologist to the expedition to the Euphrates under Francis Rawdon Chesney to examine the feasibility of opening up the Mesopotamian rivers to steam navigation as a new route to India, as well as asserting British political presence in the area, promoting British commercial ties, and gathering scientific and archaeological data. Ainsworth constructed geological sections across northern Syria and the Taurus Mountains, discovered several deposits of commercially important minerals in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, and explored a substantial part of south-east Persia." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. When referring to this item please quote stockid 163464.
2 volumes. Volume I: Folding map, xiv + 447pp, List of Officers Attached to the Euphrates Expedition; Volume II: vii + 492pp, appendix, index, a number of the final gatherings unopened. Recased, modern endpapers and black cloth spines lettered in gilt, original blue boards lettered in red, lower corners bumped. Some foxing half title volume I but otherwise very good and clean.
Price: $675.00 AU