A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea : on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt ; and of a route through the deserts of Thebais, in the year 1777: with a supplement of a voyage from Venice to Latichea (2 volumes)

Eyles Irwin

Printed for J. Dodsley, London, 1787

[Includes Author's Book plate- Extra-illustrated] 2 volume set. 8vo. Bound in contemporary tree calf leather.  Rebacked, with renewed spines.  5 engraved plates (includes the four sepia aquatints from the 1780 quarto edition and also one extra plate) and 5 folding maps and plans, large folding map of Mesopotamia. Folding maps include:  "A View of the Town of Yambo on the Coast of Arabia," "A Map of the Red Sea," "The Nile Valley," "Assyria," Mesopotamia, and "Bablyonia," "The Gulf of Catarro on the Coast of Dalmatia."   Marbled end sheets. 387 pp; 401 pp. Armorial bookplates the author, Eyrles Irwin.  Second vol. has armorial bookplates of John Graham, Esq. and Thomas Henchman, Esq. "Irwin was born in Calcutta and served with the East India Company.  He departed for England in 1777, but his ship was captured by pirates, and the passengers were forced to cross the Arabian desert between the Red Sea coast the Nile, sustained only by the generosity of robbers, and forms therefore one of the earlist descriptions of Arabian lands. It took him eleven months to reach England." - Blackmer.  ESTC T130820. Citing 1780 ed: Atabey, nos 609 & 610; Blackmer 865.