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(SUEZ CANAL) LYNCH, Thomas Kerr.
A Visit to the Suez Canal.
Publisher: London, Day and Son, Limited, March 1st 1866
Stock code: 46459
Price: £975 Currency Conversion
First edition. Uncommon, only 6 copies on COPAC, OCLC adding just 4, only two of these, including the Library of Congress, in America. Lynch travelled with his brother Henry Blosse Lynch " … on the second Euphrates expedition of 1837–42, with the aim of establishing steam communication with the areas drained by the Euphrates and Tigris and the Persian Gulf. Ironically, the difficulties which he encountered proved the unattractiveness of the river compared with the sea route to India: but Lynch, with a brother, probably Henry, set up the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company in 1862. Its steamers regularly plied the rivers and, because it was the only formal representation of British interests in the area, it received protection from the Foreign Office. Lynch travelled extensively in Mesopotamia and Persia. After his return home he was for some years consul-general for Persia in London." (ODNB) His trip to view progress on the Suez Canal was clearly, at least partially, professionally-motivated.
Octavo, original terracotta sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, panelling in blind to both boards. Tinted lithographic half-title and 9 other plates, folding lithographic map, plans to the text. Small ink stamp of the The Clinton Hall Association to the title page. Very mild shelf-wear, light browning mainly marginal, some slight chipping to the fore-edges, but overall a very good copy.
