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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.
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

First edition, very rare first print of the first issue; 4 folio volumes, 412x262 mm, of this extraordinary work, considered to be one of the finest illustrated books ever produced in France. Coeval binding, red morocco plates framed by golden roulette, smooth caramel-coloured spine with gold friezes and two inserts with title and volume number in gold, gold edges, marbled paper endpapers, cases lined with marbled paper. Vol. I: Frontispiece, Full-page portrait, pages XXX, XVIII, 124, 70 Plates; Vol. II: pp. [4], II, 135, 1 blank, 68 Plates; Vol. III: pp. [4], IV, 146, 68 Plates;Vol. IV: pp. [4], II, 188, 69 Plates. All volumes with half-title and title pages unnumbered. Vignette in the title, engraved headpieces and finials, 209 woodcuts in the text. Splendid allegorical frontispiece with the bust of La Fontaine of Oudry, finished by Dupuis and engraved by Cochin, a portrait of Oudry engraved by Tardieu based on a design by Largillière (rarely found only in some cases) and 275 plates engraved in… Read More

FIRST edition, with ALL 12 engraved folding plates present in great condition, Plate 6 is misbound before Page 33 instead of before Page 17; internally in very good and clean condition throughout. 2 pp. advertisements at end, marginal damp-staining towards end, scattered faint spotting, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, 1816.