Scarce account of a journey to the Caspian region to better understand the manufacture of Eastern fabrics. The illustrations are based on the work if a French artist resident in Tiflis. Daghestan, Georgia, Kurdistan, Persia.
Description
First edition. 8vo., [xvi], 75pp., lithograph frontispiece and 10 lithograph plates (1 printed in colours), folding map, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, light wear, recased with new endpapers, a very good copy.