Salt, Henry Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt

Salt, Henry Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt London: William Miller, 1809. Atlas folio (73 x 52cm), contemporary half russia, gilt black morocco label to front board, pictorial hand-coloured aquatint title-page, 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates (of 24: lacking 'Calcutta' and 'Poonah'), all on thick wove paper, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermarks (all dated 1830 where visible, except 'A View near the Roode Sand Pass', 1834), contemporary protective paper guards bound in between plates. Lacking the title-page, bound without the text as usual (Tooley: 'The text is not important and the work is usually to be found without it'), leather on spine worn away with fragments laid in, front board near-detached, wear to corners, spotting to endpapers, front free endpaper torn, occasional light spotting, variable light finger-soiling to plate margins, no guard between title-page and 'Sandy Bay Valley' plate (bound before title-page) and both consequently slightly marked, 'Mosque at Lucknow' with spots above skyline, 'A View within the Fort of Monghyr', 'View of Grand Cairo' and 'Pagodas at Trinchicunum' each with a few spots or marks above skyline, 'Vale of Calaat' with superficial paper disruption along top edge of platemark [Abbey Travel 515; Tooley 440] Qty: (1) Note: A near-complete set of Salt's spectacular aquatints in very good condition. Henry Salt (1780-1827) accompanied George Annesley, Viscount Valentia on an eastern tour beginning in 1802. 'He visited India, Ceylon, and the Red Sea, and in 1805 was sent by Valentia on a mission into Abyssinia, to the ras of Tigré, whose affection and respect he gained, and with whom he left one of his party, Nathaniel Pearce. The return to England in 1806 was made by way of Egypt, where he first met the pasha, Mehmet Ali' (ODNB).