Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries ... By Lieutenant Henry Pottinger ...
Pottinger, Henry, Sir, 1789-1856
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3230041
Summary
Full description
"Travels in Beloochinstan and Sinde" - an account of Lieut. Henry Pottinger's travels in the East. Includes colour illustrations and map. Some annotation in ink on the book. Some additional newspaper articles, letters, etching of Pottinger, photographs, cuttings etc. inserted in the front and back of the book (some loose, some attached with adhesive) mostly about Pottinger and the Stephens family. Some letters addressed to "Percy" (possibly a Percy Somers Tyringham Stephens who was the original owner of the book) from various sources, also addressed to "Martin", addressed to Mrs Rachel Stephens a postcard about giving a sitting to Vandyk, a poem by R.M. Further letters of various dates to various recipients. Some references to Pottinger's influence in China. References to Lord and Lady Knaresborough (obit., funeral article). Letters in reference to Henry Stephens and family.
Bibliographic description
xxx, 423, [1] p. : col. front., fold. map ; 4to. Numerous insertions and additions in the form of press cutting, photographs and correspondence, relating to Pottinger, Stephens and Meysey-Thomson family history. Includes autograph letter of condolence signed from Lord Palmerston to R. Stephens on the death of Henry Pottinger, 1856; drawing of the tomb of Pottinger, Malta. Provenance: indirectly associated. With the nineteenth or early twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Percy Somers Tyringham Stephens [1860-1934]. The work seems to have passed to Lyme through Martin Tyringham Stephens, son of the above. Percy Stephens was the cousin of Helen Winifred Meysey-Thompson, a grand-daughter of the author, who married Richard William Davenport Legh, 3rd Lord Newton (1888-1960). Binding: nineteenth-century green calf; double gilt fillet borders; gilt tooled spine; five false bands; gilt lettered red spine label (damaged): Travels in Beloochistan | Pottinger.
Makers and roles
Pottinger, Henry, Sir, 1789-1856