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 desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. In letters to a lady.
Eyles Irwin (1751-1817)
Category
Books
Date
1780
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3185847
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv,[1],400p., [6] leaves of plates (3 folded): ill., maps ; 4to. Annotations in pencil in Appendix, and occasionally in main text. No ownership marks. Binding: Eighteenth-century full tree calf, sewn on three recessed cords. Gilt tooling on spine. Red leather spine label, lettered in gilt: "Irwin's red sea". Gilt gauffered edges.
Makers and roles
Eyles Irwin (1751-1817), author