John Macdonald Kinneir: Voyage dans l'Asie mineure, l'Arménie et le Kourdistan, Paris 1818 First edition in French,in 8vo,complete in two volumes,contemporary fine colored hard covers,text clean and bright, overall in very good condition John Macdonald Kinneir (1782-1830) was an officer in the East India Company's army and a political agent. He spent years crisscrossing the Middle East. His travels were not just for pleasure; he was essentially a British intelligence officer mapping the routes that the French or later the Russians might take to invade British possessions in Middle East and India. Kinneir’s in 1813-1814 traveled through Cyprus, Asia Minor, and Armenia with a copy of the classics in hand.He spent much of his time identifying the exact locations where Alexander the Great fought and marched or to trace the retreat of Xenophon’s through the rugged mountains of Armenia and Kurdistan to the Black Sea. He provides harrowing descriptions of the climate in Anatolia and Armenia, where he noted that the inhabitants were forced to live in underground houses to survive the brutal winters. A British agent analytical travel account