Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and Scythia

IN THE YEAR 1824. 

Major, the Hon. George Keppel, F.S.A.

Third edition. 

London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827.

Private collection.

Volume 1 only. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis”. Bound in polished calf with double gilt fillets on front and rear covers, and black double fillets with rosette motif at corners inside gilt. Spine with four raised bacnds, gilt decorations. Red morocco labels “Keppel’s Narrative” and “Vol. I” below first and third bands respectively. Red marbled endpapers. No evidence of mss. inscription on spine.