8vo. Volume I: xx, [1 list of plates], 404 pp., 11 plates including a frontispiece, 1 folding plate and 1 folding map at rear / Volume II: xii, 398 pp., 6 plates including a frontispiece, 1 folding plate and 1 folding map at rear, 1 table, vignette on each title page, contemporary cloth, faded, rubbed and rebacked largely retaining original back strips, partly unopened, occasional foxing throughout, browned and spotted, heavy foxing to endpapers & frontispiece of volume 2, small ownership blind stamp on titles, J. Madden, London, first edition, 1845.

Synopsis

“Luristan, or the land of the Lurs, embraces the greater portion of the mountainous country of Persia … The low country, lying to the south of this Chain of mountains … is denominated Khuzistan or Arabistan. These regions, which in general now offer to the eye the melancholy spectacle of decay, of devastation, and even spread out at intervals into utter wilderness, were not so in former ages. There was a time when they must have teemed with an industrious population, as the vestiges of ruined towns plainly denote … It is with a view of rescuing from a second oblivion this once classical ground, that the author has endeavoured to draw aside a corner of the veil which still covers this mysterious region” (preface, pp. iv-vii).
Clement Augustus de Bode, a member of the Russian legation in Tehran, filled some empty spaces in existing maps” (Howgego). “It is mostly a travel book, the author gives a good picture of tribal life and especially the political situation in Fars; principally the hostility between the Qashqai tribe which controlled Shiraz. There are also descriptions of historical sites and monuments along the way”.
Bibliographic references: Ghani, p. 93; Abbey, Travel, 391; Howgego II, G2; Henze I, 281; NYPL Arabia coll. 165.