Capper | Observations on the passage to India, through Egypt, 1785

BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON, LOTS 54-108

CAPPER, JAMES

Observations on the passage to India, through Egypt…The third edition. London: W. Faden, 1785

8vo (233 x 140mm.), three folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate, errata leaf at end, contemporary tree calf

This work by Capper is in two parts: one describing the route from India by way of the Red Sea, Suez and Egypt, the other from England by way of Aleppo and Mesopotamia and down through the Persian Gulf to Muscat.

LITERATURE:

ESTC T105716

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington (1721–1794), contemporary inscription “Binning” on title