Travels in Arabia, Two Volumes. Volume I: Oman and Nakab el-Hajar. Volume II: Sinai, Survey of the Gulf of Akabah; Coasts of Arabia and Nubia.
Author: Wellsted, Lieut. James Raymond.
Publisher:
John Murray
Language:
English,
Reference ID:
H17129
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8 vo. Volume I: xvi + 1], 446 pp. + [4 pp. list of books printed by Murray] frontispiece engraving quite browned at edges. 1 folding map of Naka bel Hajar, 1 plate of Arab of Bisbyrean Camels facing page 296 quite browned at edges, (lacking folding maps facing page one) / volume II: x, 472 pp. + [4 list of books printed by Murray], all 8 plates are present but heavily browned especially at edges, but maps are clean, [frontispiece trimmed at edges + 7 plates & maps], otherwise clean inside, contemporary green cloth, rebacked with new endpapers, copy from the library of Professor Karl-Heinz Bernhardt, London: John Murray, 1838. James Raymond Wellsted (1805-1842) was a surveyor in the Indian navy, who travelled extensively in the Arabian Peninsula. In 1830 he was appointed Second Lieutenant of the East India Company's ship “Palinurus” which made a survey of the Gulf of Akaba and the northern part of the Red Sea and in 1833 surveyed the Southern coast of Arabia. He spent two months exploring the island of Socotra and twice visited Oman, in 1835 and 1837. He retired from the service in 1839 and died a few years later in 1842. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Astronomical Society. _x000d_ Bibliographic references: Howgego III, 635; Macro, Arabian Peninsula, 2283; Gay 3603; Weber I: 289; Wilson p. 242