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Jones, James Felix SELECTIONS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE BOMBAY GOVERNMENT. NO. XLIII – NEW SERIES. BOMBAY: BOMBAY EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, 1857 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (255 x 165mm.), xxii, [2], 500pp., folding table, 5 folding maps, 3 in pocket at rear, 25 lithographed plates, red straight-grained morocco, full gilt spine, blue marbled endpapers, gilt edges RARE. The selections comprise: [1] A steam-trip to the north of Baghdad; [2] Journey for the purpose of determining the tract of the ancient Nahrwan canal; [3] Journey to the frontier of Turkey and Persia, through a part of Kurdistan; [4] Researches in the vicinity of the medial wall of Xenophon; [5] Memoir of the Province of Baghdad; [6] Notes on the topography of Nineveh… and on the general geography of the country between the Tigris and the upper Zab. “The most important of [Jones’s]… numerous memoirs are included in Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government (1857). Jones made an important contribution to the development of safe communications between Britain and India - the basis on which the empire developed” (ODNB).