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Lot 217
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
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FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick, 1st Earl of Munster (1794–1842). Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England in latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818. London: John Murray, 1819.
4to (260 x 203 mm). 5 engraved maps (1 folding), 14 engraved plates (9 hand-colored). (Some offsetting.) Contemporary full calf (front hinge starting, wear to extremities). Provenance: William M. Christy (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, the illegitimate son of King William IV of the United Kingdom, writes of his adventures while stationed in India during the Third Anglo-Maratha War and his explorations of the pyramids at Giza with pioneering Egyptoloists Giovanni Belzoni and Henry Salt. SCARCE, "having been bought up by the local author" (Abbey). Abbey Travel 519; Blackmer 597; Tooley 222; Gay 2025.
Property from the Estate of William D. Weiss, Jackson, Wyoming