[Rarebooks] FS: VOYAGES AND TRAVELS TO INDIA, CEYLON, THE RED SEA, ABYSSINIA, AND EGYPT, 1809, with plates & maps

[Charles Agvent]

VALENTIA George Annesley, Viscount. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS TO INDIA, 
CEYLON, THE RED SEA, ABYSSINIA, AND EGYPT, IN THE YEARS 1802, 1803, 
1804, 1805, AND 1806. London: William Miller, 1809. First Edition. Three 
quarto (9" x 11-1/2") volumes in contemporary mottled calf leather with 
gilt rules, marbled endpapers and edges, rebacked recently and 
sympathetically with black morocco spine labels and gilt lettering. A 
Large Paper copy illustrated with 3 engraved vignettes and 69 engraved 
plates including 11 folding, 7 of which are maps, 2 of which are large 
maps of the Red Sea area. The illustrations are based on drawings by 
Henry Salt who accompanied Annesley on his voyage. The first volume 
deals with India and Sri Lanka, with sections on Benares, Calcutta, and 
Lucknow. Volumes two and three cover Abyssinia, Egypt and the Red Sea, 
including Mocha and Jeddah. Abbey, Travel 515. Armorial bookplate on the 
front pastedowns and a modern, tasteful bookplate on the front endpapers 
of each volume. Sporadic foxing, some plates with offsetting from the 
text, bindings firm and Fine. Overall a Near Fine example. (#019028)    
     $4,500

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