GREORGE, VISCOUNT VALENTIA
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS TO INDIA to CEYLON, THE RED SEA, ABYSSINIA, AND EGYPT
IN THE TEARS 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 AND 1806.First Edition
Three Volume Set
Year: 1809
Size: 31 x 24.5 cm (12.2 x 9.6 inches)
Printed For William Miller., London., Large quartos, vi, [8], 496 pp.; [4], iv, 520 pp.; [4], iv, 506 pp.
No. of Illustrations: 66 plates and 3 vignett, maps and plans, 12 of the maps and charts are folding.
2 large maps of the Red Sea and a large plan of Alexandria All complete as per the list of plates.
George Annesley, 2nd Earl Mountnorris and 9th Viscount Valentia, was an aristocrat and adventurer, and member of parliament for Yarmouth between 1808-1810.
In 1802 Valentia embarked upon a voyage to India via the Cape Colony (he accompanied the British mission to Abyssinia, to secure a port on the Red Sea as The British were attempting to consolidate their position against Napoleon's forces who threatened to seize Egypt.) , in the East India Company ship Minerva (which had previously been employed transporting convicts from Ireland to Australia). He took with him as his secretary and draftsman Henry Salt (his Twenty-four Views in St. Helena, published in 1809, was another result of the tour). The expedition took them through India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt and Annesley utilised the paintings and drawings made by Salt as the basis for the illustrations in this three volume narrative of the expedition.
Includes descriptions of Lucknow, Benares, Seringapatam, Jeddah, Mocha, Calcutta, Madras and Ceylon, and an overview of the inhabitants and history of the Abyssinian regions of Aksum and Adwa. Volume III contains an account of the Ethiopian highlands by Salt.
BINDING: Bound in modern half Moroccan leather. Marbled boards. Title label in gilt on spine. Fine bindings and covers. Clean, unmarked pages, in exceptional condition.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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