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. By Eyles Irwin, Esq. ... Illustrated with maps and cuts.
Eyles Irwin (1751-1817)
Category
Books
Date
1780
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217148
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv,[1],400p., [6] leaves of plates (3 fold.) : ill., maps ; 4to. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case G. Shelf 5. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll border; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine. rebacked. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine.
Makers and roles
Eyles Irwin (1751-1817), author