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•  Not in Goldsmiths’-Kress. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped title-label; leather rubbed over corners, joints, and spine extremities, with some scuffing to back cover and leather showing minor cracking over spine. Front fly-leaf with early inked annotations; title-page with owner’s name in lower margin inked out. Pages lightly spotted; one leaf with tear from outer margin, with small loss of paper not touching text.

•  Evans 36517. Recent cloth. Released from the New Hampshire Historical Society with its bookplate and one small, inoffensive rubber-stamped number in the upper margin of page 1. No other markings. Stray stains (last third). A crisp copy.

•  Not in Palau. Disbound from a volume of pamphlets, but in very good condition.

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The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49.   Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy.  (22313)

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•  Sewn. Some edges ragged; worming to upper margins of last few leaves, touching two letters.

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Friederika Freygang wrote the letters forming the first portion of the book, in which she discusses the people and natural history of the areas through which she and her husband Wilhelm passed, as well as local customs and culture; Wilhelm von Freygang, a diplomat engaged in negotiating a treaty with Persia, edited her letters and appended his own account of Persia.

•  Brunet, III, 1032. Original blue paper–covered boards rebacked with later tan paper, spine with printed paper label; edges rubbed, paper with spots of light discoloration. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate. Upper margins of half-title and title-page excised and now repaired. Larger map with short tear from inner margin, just extending into image. Scattered instances of faint foxing; three leaves with outer margins chipped, not affecting text.