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Journal of a Route Across India, Through Egypt, to England in the Latter End of the Year 1817, and the Beginning of 1818. By George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence.
London: John Murray, 1819.
xxiv, 502pp., errata leaf, 1 large folding map, 18 full-page plates and plans (9 colored aquatints). 4to.
Full contemporary speckled polished calf, gilt, original gilt spine laid down. Large margins. Occasional faint offsetting, fine plates.
Housed in beautiful red fitted clamshell box with decorative gilt text.
Fitzclarence, serving in India during the Mahratta campaign, carried peace treaty despatches by overland route from the western frontier of Bundelkund to Bombay, traversing through the desert, exploring pyramids with Salt and Belzoni, down the Nile river, to London via Alexandria and Malta.
Abbey Travel 519; Tooley 222
Bibliographic Details
Title: Journal of a Route Across India, Through Egypt, to England in the Latter End of the Year 1817, and the Beginning of 1818
Publisher: London: John Murray, 1819.
Publication Date: 1819
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First
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