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. Stock ID #223301 George Fitzclarence (1794–1842), the eldest illegitimate son of King William IV, was a soldier and scholar who served in the Napoleonic Wars and India. During the Third Anglo-Mahratta War, he served as aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Hastings before being chosen to deliver peace dispatches to England via an arduous overland route. When referring to this item please quote stockid 223301.
13 engraved plates (mostly aquatint, 9 hand-coloured and finished with gum arabic) + 4 engraved battle-plans with partial hand-colouring, + 2 maps (1 large folding map of India with Fitzclarence's route outlined in hand colour and a full page map of Egypt), xxiv (lacks half-title) + Directions to the Binder + Errata leaf + 502 pp; half navy morocco over textured linen boards, 28 x 22 cms, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, endpapers renewed, tinted fore edges, text with scant spotting and marginal staining, the large folding map with a sealed edge tear, the maps and plans with offsetting, neat previous owner's inscription to the front pastedown, a good copy of the first edition.
Starting in December 1817, he travelled from Bundelkund to Bombay—witnessing the defeat of the Pindarrees at Jubbulpore—and then sailed to Egypt. There, he explored the pyramids with Henry Salt and Giovanni Belzoni. Upon reaching London in June 1818, he published this account of his travels featuring notable aquatint plates many after sketches by him.
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