Voyages en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique, contenant la description des mœurs, coutumes, loix, productions, manufactures de ces contrées, & l’état actuel des possessions angloises dans l’Inde ; commencés en 1777, & finis en 1781 ;
followed by Colonel Capper's travels to India, through Egypt & the Great Desert, by Suez & Basra, in 1779.
Londres et se trouve à Paris - Regnault - 1786
- Format : In-8
- Number of volumes : 2 tomes.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : Tome 1: XXIV-486 pp. Tome 2: 414 pp.
- Language : Français
Full period marbled calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with golden boxes with red title and brown tomaison pieces. Red slices. Decorated with 2 folding cards, one engraved by Croisey, the other by Pierre-François Tardieu.
First French edition, translated by Brissot, decorated with 2 folding maps.
The book presents, in the form of letters, the account of the journeys undertaken by the explorer William Macintosh through Europe, Africa and India, and contains, in particular, at the end of Volume II, an extract from Sparrmann's journey to Cape of Good Hope, with a description of the Hottentots and caffres.
From the library Desplaces de charmasse (ex-libris).
Nice copy, very complete of the errata sheet at the end of each volume.
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