Lot 674
  • 674

Ives, Edward

Estimate
800 - 1,400 GBP
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Description

  • Ives, Edward
  • A Voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the Command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive... also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual Route. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773
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FIRST EDITION, 4to (260 x 205mm.), xii, 506pp., 2 engraved folding maps, 13 engraved plates, contemporary speckled calf, full gilt spine, red label



Ives travelled to India as surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The work includes an account and illustration of Geriah Fort (now Vijaydurg), a notorious pirate stronghold until the East India Company sent admiral Watson and Clive to seize the town and burn the ships.



His return journey was by way of Basra, Baghdad, Mosul, Diarbekir, Bir, Aleppo, Latichea, Cyprus and Leghorn.

Provenance

Jolliffe, armorial bookplate

Literature

Wilson p.107; not in Ghani or Atabey

Condition

A very good copy
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