A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV,.. also a Journey from Persia to England. London, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773, First Edition. Complete With Maps and Plates. Contemporary Full Leather.


Author: IVES, EDWARD
Illustrator: With 2 folding Maps (one coloured) and 13 engraved Plates.
Edition: First Edition
Price: £1600




Description:

Published in 1773 by Edward and Charles Dilly, in London.
Seller notes: A Voyage from England to India in the year MDCCLIV And an historical narrative of the Operations of the Squadron and Army in India, under the Command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the Years 1755, 1756, 1757; Including a Correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some interesting Passages relating to the Manners, Customs, &c. of several Nations in Indostan. Also a Journey from Persia to England, by an unusual Route. With an Appendix, containing an Account of the Diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's Squadron: A Description of most of the Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, of India, with their real, or supposed, medicinal Virtues: Also a Copy of a Letter written by a late ingenious Physician, on the Disorders incidental to Europeans at Gambroon in the Gulph of Persia. ppxii, 506. BINDING & CONDITION: Contemporary full leather, rebacked with new spine ; small tears to the folding maps and foxing to the second one; occasional foxing and the odd small stain.



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