Voyage dans l’Inde au Travers du Grand Desert, par Alep, Antioche, et Bassora. Ouvrage où l'on trouve des observations curieuses sur l'histoire, les moeurs, et le commerce des Mainotes, des Turcs, et des Arabes du désert … TWO VOLUMES.

Name: Voyage dans l’Inde au Travers du Grand Desert, par Alep, Antioche, et Bassora. Ouvrage où l'on trouve des observations curieuses sur l'histoire, les moeurs, et le commerce des Mainotes, des Turcs, et des Arabes du désert … TWO VOLUMES.
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Taylor, Major John & Louis-Marie-Joseph, De Grandpré (Translator).

8vo. Volume I: xlvi, 420 pp., folding engraved map / Volume II: 419 pp., folding table, calf backed boards, slightly rubbed at extremities, blind stamps & Bookplate of Colonel S. B. Miles verso front cover, shelf marks on spine, ink and pencil markings verso front covers, a small marginal tear to fly leaf & half title page of volume 1, occasional light spotting, otherwise set in very good condition, Imprimerie de Marchant, Paris, AN XI, first edition, 1803.

Loius-Marie-Joseph De Grandpré (1761-1846), translated and added notes and critique to Major Taylor’s work, narrating the overland trip to India crossing the Ottoman Empire, from Aleppo in Syria, to Turkey, Iraq, then India, reporting mainly the different overland routes to follow, how to do so safely, with survival tips for the traveller, Grandpré was very much concerned with the relative influence of the different European powers in the places he visited, especially India, and reports on the war with Sultan Tippu.
Bibliographic references: Chadenat, 5467; Hage Chahine, 4732; Monglond, t. VI, 227.

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