SOUTHGATE Horatio, “Narrative of a tour through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia”, New York, 1840. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo (20x12,5cm), pp. xii,334 + x,356,[4]. Complete. Half titles, engraved frontis, engraved map and a folding map in vol.1, 3 engraved plates in vol.2, and illustrations in text. Original cloth, brown and green. Some marginal water-staining in vol.1. Horatio Southgate followed one of the first waves of American Christian missionaries in the Levant in an effort to detect the Christians of the East (Nestorians, Assyrians). His travels started in 1836 and his first stop in the Levant was at Syros. He traveled from Constantinople to Trabzon along the Black sea and continued through the inner Pontos (Haldia) to Armenia. He spent several years around the Armenian plateau, Kurdistan and Mesopotamia. He provides first hand and accurate descriptions for unknown, up to then, peoples and places. Atabey 1161, Blackmer 704.