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Unexplored Baluchistan - Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer

1882 - Griffith &, London - First Edition
For a year and a half beginning in 1876, English explorer, linguist and telegraph official Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer explored the desert plateau spanning modern-day Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, an area known at the time as Baluchistan.

Housed in a bespoke leather tipped green moire silk covered slipcase, and illustrated with a fold-out colour map of the author’s route, a portrait frontispiece and eleven illustrations (ten full-page and one in-text).

This rare first edition traces Floyer’s journeys from Jask to Bampur, through the Persian Gulf, and from Jask to Kerman via Angohran. It has a map as well as appendices on the dialects of western Baluchistan and plants Floyer collected on his travels, and is the book that established Floyer as an explorer.

The preface is by Sir Frederic Goldsmid, the man who helped establish the boundaries of the British empire in Baluchistan, and for whom the nearly 1000-kilometre Iran-Pakistan border – also known as the ‘Goldsmid Line’ – is named.
 
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