Valentia (George). Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, 1st ed, 1809
Valentia (George). Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: William Miller, 1809, 69 engraved plates (including 7 folding maps and 2 folding plans, many after Henry Salt), bookplate of Egremont to front pastedowns, occasional spotting, contemporary diced calf gilt, rebacked with original spines relaid, rubbed, 4to (Quantity: 3) Abbey Travel 515. 'Salt's drawings were also used for the sixty-nine engravings in the account of the mission published by Bulmer in 1809... The text of the work, ostensively by Lord Valentia, is said to be by Salt.' (Abbey)
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Valentia (George). Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: William Miller, 1809, 69 engraved plates (including 7 folding maps and 2 folding plans, many after Henry Salt), bookplate of Egremont to front pastedowns, occasional spotting, contemporary diced calf gilt, rebacked with original spines relaid, rubbed, 4to (Quantity: 3) Abbey Travel 515. 'Salt's drawings were also used for the sixty-nine engravings in the account of the mission published by Bulmer in 1809... The text of the work, ostensively by Lord Valentia, is said to be by Salt.' (Abbey)