'Etruscan' calf binding.- Fitzclarence (Lieutentant-Colonel George

'Etruscan' calf binding.- Fitzclarence (Lieutentant-Colonel George Augustus) Journal of a Route Across India, through Egypt, to England, first edition, half-title, 13 engraved plates (mostly aquatint, 9 hand-coloured) and 4 engraved battle-plans with partial hand-colouring and accompanying letterpress explanatory leaf, 2 engraved maps (one folding with routes supplied by hand in red & yellow), errata leaf, final leaf blank but for imprint, some light offsetting, contemporary 'Etruscan' calf in the style of Edwards of Halifax, the covers with central painted panels of a Middle Eastern-inspired capriccio (upper) and ?British coastal scene (lower) within gilt- and blind-ruled borders, spine gilt with raised bands, rubbed, joints cracked, corners worn, 4to, John Murray, 1819. *** Includes accounts of battles during the third Anglo-Mahratta War, visits to the caves at Ellora and the fortress of Doulatabad, and the pyramids of Egypt, all accompanied by fine hand-coloured aquatint plates of soldiers and views. Fitzclarence (1794-1842) was the eldest illegitimate son of the Duke of Clarence, later William IV, and Dorothea Jordan, and served in the Peninsula War and in India. In 1831 he was created Earl of Munster and in 1841 was elected President of the Royal Asiatic Society. In later years he suffered from mental instability, possibly due to porphyria inherited from his grandfather George III, and took his own life. Artist or Maker

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