Sketches of Persia. From the Journals of a Traveller in the East
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1828. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Item #10206
Octavo. 316 pp. First American edition. Original publisher's boards, rebacked in sympathetic cloth with new printed paper title label; handsome conservation. Board edges are rubbed; contents are generally foxed and toned; early previous owner name has been effaced. Originally issued by John Murray in London in 1827, this is the first American edition Malcolm's work. Malcolm was a diplomat and colonial administrator in India and spent much of his professional career in India and the Near East. He wrote extensively on these areas, both histories and observations. M. E. Yapp, in Strategies of British India: Britain, Iran and Afghanistan, 1798–1850 (1980) summarizes Malcolm's career thus: "he was the ideologue par excellence of British India. . . . His insight, his imagination, his willingness to think outside accepted patterns, and, above all, his capacity to bring in a range of considerations far beyond that of which others were capable, all mark him out as a man of real intellectual genius" (qtd in. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). American Imprints 33998.
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