commander james felix jones (3 Ergebnisse)

Edition : First Edition. , Contemporary full marbled calf, rebacked skillfully. Gilt decorative border on boards. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt text on morocco label on 2. Gilt ornamentation on 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Tooled dentelles on all edges., An outstanding work on present day Iraq. Of particular importance is the magnificent large scale wall map of Baghdad which is included. This book contains the most important of James Felix Jones?s memoirs in regards to his travels in Persia, Turkey, and Iraq. It includes six important historical, archaeological and geographical essays covering Baghdad, the Nahrwan canal and large parts of Kurdistan, the topography of Nineveh and the old course of the River Tigris. The author and surveyor, Commander J. F. Jones (1813-1878), joined the Bombay Marine - later renamed the Indian Navy - at the age of 14. By the late summer of 1839 he had begun work in the Persian Gulf, where he was to spend most of the next 25 years. He was a Political Agent in Bushehr from 1855 to 1862 and had an important role to play in the British invasion of southern Persia in 1856. In 1844 Jones, in company with Major (now Sir Henry) Rawlinson, was sent to collect information regarding the disputes between Persia and Turkey. The results were officially printed in 1849, under the title ?Narrative of a Journey through Parts of Persia and Kurdistan.? In 1853 he completed a map of Baghdad on a large scale, with a memoir on the province. , Size : 4to (255x170). , Illustrated with 30 plates and maps (all hand coloured and most of them folding), and some in-text woodblock engravings. , This book contains the bookplate of R. Frederick Barlow and the donation plate of Mrs. Miles on behalf of her late husband, the famous Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles, on the verso of the top cover. A few unobtrusive blind stamps of the Bath Public Library , References : Wilson p. 111, P. Blank. Title page. Contents and index (iii-xxii). List of maps and plates. 1-500. Appendix. A fine example of this scarce work. Plates and text are clean and crisp bound in decorative period binding. Although scarce, this book is normally found with partial hand colouring. But in this example all plates have full hand colouring.

Large 8vo. XXII, (2), 500, (folding leaf of appendix) pp. With 27 (of 32) plates, mostly folded and coloured. Modern half calf with marbled paper boards. Red morocco label to gilt spine. First edition, very rare. The volume includes seven important historical, archaeological and geographical essays covering Baghdad, the Nahrwan canal and large parts of Kurdistan, the topography of Nineveh and the old course of the River Tigris. Also included are some 30 maps and plates, many in colour, most notably the ground-plan of Baghdad. Felix Jones first saw service on the Palinurus, surveying the northern part of the Red Sea, whilst a later commission found him engaged on the Arabian survey under Haines. In 1839 he surveyed the harbour of Graine (Kuwait) and this led to an almost continuous period of service in Mesopotamia and the Gulf, ending in 1862 as Political Agent in the Persian Gulf, in which capacity he planned the British invasion of Persia. - Lacks the large maps of the Katul es Kesrawi and River Tigris. Labels to spine chipped, spine faded, occasional blue pencil markings between pages 259 & 288, and between pages 364 & 368. Generally text and plates very clean and fresh, map at page 136 torn at fold with no loss. - No pocket is present in the rebinding nor are the 3 maps which the pocket should contain. Paper slightly browned, otherwise in good condition.

First edition. Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government No. XLIII, New Series. Folding table, 5 folding maps (3 of which are loose in the front and back pockets) and 25 lithographed views, plans and plates. Many of the maps and plates are hand-coloured. Large 8vo. Original brown cloth, as issued, neatly rebacked and repaired, retaining the original paper labels to spine and upper board; boards slightly scuffed, corners bumped, otherwise near very good. A few small closed tears along the folds to the large map of Baghdad, one corner missing from the map of the Tigris (not affecting the image). Endpapers browned and slightly fragile, interior very good otherwise. xxiii, 500, [1] [folding appendix sheet]pp. Bombay, Printed for the Government at the Bombay Education Society?s Press, A notoriously rare book, complete and in the original binding. Jones?s work is among the most important nineteenth-century sources on Ottoman Iraq, with a particularly valuable study of Baghdad, in which the city is described in granular detail, from its coffee houses to Najdian horses.The book is also beautifully illustrated with hand-coloured lithographed illustrations, chiefly focused on architecture, and maps. The large folding map of Baghdad is a spectacular achievement, especially so as it was based upon a clandestine survey by British officials who recorded its dimensions on their shirt sleeves.   Felix Jones joined the Bombay Marine at the tender age of fourteen and first saw service in the Palinurus surveying the northern part of the Red Sea, whilst a later commission found him engaged on the first British survey of the Persian Gulf under Haines. In 1839 he surveyed the harbour of Kuwait (then referred to as Graine), and this led to an almost continuous period of service in the Middle East, ending in 1862 as Political Agent in the Persian Gulf, in which capacity he planned the British invasion of Persia.   Memoirs? relates to his travels, surveying and archaeological researches in Ottoman Iraq, Kurdistan and the Kermanshah province of western Iran. R.M. Burrell, in his excellent introduction to the 1998 reprint (Archive Editions), stresses its importance and research value, singling out the Memoir on the Province of Baghdad for special praise: ?For historians, the outstanding paper in this volume is the fifth one? It is nothing less than an encyclopaedia of information on Baghdad in the mid-nineteenth century? (p.xxvi). In just under a hundred pages, Jones unfurls an abundance of intelligence; including lists of principal buildings, size of population (Jones estimates 60,000), diversity (communities, languages etc.), and lists of trades and occupations.   Accompanying Jones? notes on Baghdad is a beautiful coloured lithographed map of the city (held in the back pocket). Measuring 32 by 52 inches, it is remarkably detailed and accurate, so much so that ??in 1912 the Ottoman Governor of Baghdad made an official request for a copy, in order to assist with the implementation of various schemes of municipal reform.? (ibid., p.xxix). Though Jones? text is tight-lipped about the survey for the map ? which had to be carried out in secret, to avoid Ottoman suspicion ? Burrell reveals how it was done. He describes how Jones? colleague W. Collingwood, ??after walking down a particular street? would take a pencil and record on his shirt cuffs both the direction of the street and the number of paces he had just taken in traversing it.? (p.xxix, but see C.R. Low History of the Indian Navy, 1613-1863, London 1877, vol. II, p.409, for the original description). The present example of the map is in near fine condition, which is highly unusual for a map of such size.   The plates were printed on thin paper particularly susceptible to damage, but in this copy they are in a remarkably good state of preservation and the colours remain vibrant. On the plates accompanying the paper on Baghdad, Felix Jones remarks: ?The nine views of Baghdad which now follow are kindly furnished me by Dr. Hyslop [Assistant Surgeon]. They are photographs of his own taking, quite true, though somewhat indistinct owing to deterioration of the collodion.? To this day, Hyslop?s photographs ? which, if extant, would be among the earliest photographs of the Middle East ? have not been found.   Wilson, p.111.