Voyages dans le Béloutchistan et le Sindhy, suivis de la description géographique et historique de ces deux pays avec une carte.
Paris. Gide Fils. 1818. 1st French edition. Stock ID #149127 The French edition was occasioned by the French interest in Persia which dated from the time of Napoleon's military (and cultural) expedition to Egypt in 1798 and his dreams of conquests further east, including British India. A French military mission to Persia led to Anglo-French rivalry at the Persian court. Pottinger’s travels in eastern Persia and Scinde were an off-shoot of Sir John Malcolm’s several missions from British India, which was held to be threatened by the French and Russian ambitions of the time, and more information was being sought on the territories adjacent to India. Pottinger’s book was a pioneering work, and its competence reflected the future Sir Henry Pottinger’s glittering career as military Commander and Chief Plenipotentiary in the second half of the First Anglo-Chinese War and as first Governor of Hong Kong. When referring to this item please quote stockid 149127.
Translated. from the English by J.B.B. Eyriès. 2 volumes. Volume I: Engraved frontispiece, vi + 465 + [1] errata. Volume II: 381pp + [1] errata, folding map. Full calf worn with some loss at corners and joints, upper joint volume 1 split, marbled endpapers, light Library of Congress duplicate stamp on a preliminary leaf of each volume, some light occasional browning and soiling but generally the text is very clean and sound.
Price: $950.00 AU