Lot 108
  • 108

FITZCLARENCE, JOURNAL OF A ROUTE ACROSS INDIA, THROUGH EGYPT, TO ENGLAND. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, 1819

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600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England. London: John Murray, 1819
FIRST EDITION, 4to (267 x 203mm.), half-title, 19 maps and plates (including 7 maps and plans and 9 hand-coloured aquatints), contemporary calf, slight offsetting and spotting, lacking last leaf with imprint, rebacked and rubbed

Provenance

Egremont, bookplate

Literature

Abbey, Travel 519; Blackmer 597; Hilmy I, p.233; Wilson p.71

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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Catalogue Note

Fitzclarence gives a description of India during the time of the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818), while also exploring the pyramids of Egypt with Henry Salt and Giovanni Belzoni.