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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. WYLD, James (illustratore). Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, and a Map by Wyld. Brown leather boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are marked and generally grubby. Corners bumped and worn. Spine has five raised bands, spine label missing, bumping to the ends. Foxing to the endpages and but only mild foxing to the textblock. Folding map lithographed by James Wyld, geographer to the Queen & HRH Prince Albert. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 1004g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 033820:12g) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 1004 G. Book.

Couverture rigide. Regnault | Paris 1792 | 12.5 x 20.3 cm | 2 volumes reliés | Nouvelle édition de la traduction française illustrée, dans le premier volume, d'1 carte hors-texte dépliante de l'Inde avec les limites coloriées, tirée sur papier bleuté ; dans le second volume : d'1 carte hors texte dépliante de l'Arabie, tirée sur papier bleuté (cf Gay 83 et Lorin 2065 pour la première édition de 1786.) Reliures en plein veau moucheté, dos à cinq nerfs sertis de roulettes dorées et ornés de caissons dorés et décorés de motifs floraux dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de basane rouge, roulettes dorées sur les coiffes, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, tranches marbrées, reliures de l'époque, Cachets imprimés sur les pages de titre, étiquettes de rangement de bibliothèque en queues des dos, quelques frottements sur les dos et les plats avec petits manques de peau, agréable état intérieur. Les pages [283] à 414 du tome II contiennent la relation de Capper sur le passage aux Indes à travers l'Égypte et l'Arabie. "Capper was in the East India Company service from an early age. The text of his work is in two parts - a letter describing the voyage from India via the Red Sea, Suez and Egypt, and a journal of the route from India through the Arabian desert via Mesopotamia to Aleppo. At this time there was unofficial interest in opening a new route to India through Egypt - the two standard routes being via the Cape of Good Hope or through the Euphrates Valley - and some attempts were made to use this route. Irwin was forced to use the Egypt-Suez route ; Capper is advocating it" [Leonora Navari]. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] New edition of the French translation, illustrated in the first volume with a folding map of India with hand-colored borders, printed on bluish paper; and in the second volume with a folding map of Arabia, also printed on bluish paper (see Gay 83 and Lorin 2065 for the first edition of 1786).Contemporary full speckled calf bindings, spine with five raised bands, gilt-tooled compartments with floral motifs, red morocco title and volume labels, gilt roll tooling at head and foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.Library stamps to title pages, shelf labels at foot of spines, some rubbing to spines and covers with minor surface losses, internally clean and fresh.Pages [283] to 414 of Volume II contain Capper's account of the journey to India via Egypt and Arabia. "Capper was in the East India Company service from an early age. The text of his work is in two parts - a letter describing the voyage from India via the Red Sea, Suez and Egypt, and a journal of the route from India through the Arabian desert via Mesopotamia to Aleppo. At this time there was unofficial interest in opening a new route to India through Egypt - the two standard routes being via the Cape of Good Hope or through the Euphrates Valley - and some attempts were made to use this route. Irwin was forced to use the Egypt-Suez route ; Capper is advocating it" [Leonora Navari]. * 2 vol. in-8 ; 1) xxiv et 486 pp., 1 f.n.ch. d'errata, 1 carte hors texte dépliante de l'Inde avec les limites coloriées, tirée sur papier bleuté. - 2) viii et 414 pp., 1 carte hors texte dépliante de l'Arabie, tirée sur papier bleuté.