Lot 1301
  • 1301

Valentia, George Annesley, Viscount

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802 [-] 1806. London: Printed for William Miller, 1809
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, LARGE AND THICK PAPER COPY, 3 volumes, 4to (332 x 248mm.), (vol.1) vi, [viii], 496pp.; (vol.2) [iv], iv, 520pp.; (vol.3) [iv], iv, 506pp., 8 folding engraved maps, 61 engraved plates, contemporary green straight-grained morocco, full gilt spines with double raised bands, covers extensively decorated in gilt and blind, wide gilt turn-ins with matching inner joints, chocolate watered silk endpapers with blind decorative borders, gilt and gauferred edges

Provenance

Marquis of Bute, sale Christie's, 15 March 1995, lot 344

Literature

Hilmy I, p.38; cf. Abbey, Travel 515 (note)

Catalogue Note

A MAGNIFICENT COPY.

Lord Valentia travelled on a British mission from India to Abyssinia to secure a port on the Red Sea, accompanied by his secretary Henry Salt, after whose drawings the engravings were made. The first volume deals with India and Sri Lanka - with sections on Benares, Calcutta, Lucknow, etc. - the second two volumes cover Abyssinia, Egypt and the Red Sea, including much relating to Mocha and Jeddah.