Colonel William Tweedie, Turkish Arabia being an account of an official tour in Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia, 1886-7.
Printed book with numerous manuscript marginal comments and interlineations, mostly of a philological nature, in the hands of Tweedie and others. Published Calcutta, 1888.
Colonel William Tweedie, C.S.I., Bengal Staff Corps, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and H.M.'s Consul-General at Baghdad. He also wrote The Arabian Horse, his Country and People, with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians and Other Illustrations (1894), a study of the Arabian horse and the Arab people, written while in Baghdad between 1885-1891.
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Presented to the Library by Major General W Tweedie, 1908.
Call number used to be ms1402
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Binding: red morocco. Paper: 21x33cm
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