Voyages en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique, contenant la description des Moeurs, Coutumes, Loix, Productions, Manufactures de ces Contrées, & l'État actuel des Possessions Angloises dans l'Inde ; Commencés en 1777, & finis en 1781, par M. Makintosh ; Suivis des Voyages du Colonel Capper, dans les Indes, au travers de l'Égypte & du grand désert, par Suez & par Bassora, en 1779 Traduits de l'anglois & accompagnés de Notes sur l'original & de cartes géographiques par J.P. Brissot.

New edition of the French translation, illustrated in the first volume with a folding map of India with hand-colored borders, printed on bluish paper; and in the second volume with a folding map of Arabia, also printed on bluish paper (see Gay 83 and Lorin 2065 for the first edition of 1786).

Contemporary full speckled calf bindings, spine with five raised bands, gilt-tooled compartments with floral motifs, red morocco title and volume labels, gilt roll tooling at head and foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.

Library stamps to title pages, shelf labels at foot of spines, some rubbing to spines and covers with minor surface losses, internally clean and fresh.

Pages [283] to 414 of Volume II contain Capper’s account of the journey to India via Egypt and Arabia. "Capper was in the East India Company service from an early age. The text of his work is in two parts - a letter describing the voyage from India via the Red Sea, Suez and Egypt, and a journal of the route from India through the Arabian desert via Mesopotamia to Aleppo. At this time there was unofficial interest in opening a new route to India through Egypt - the two standard routes being via the Cape of Good Hope or through the Euphrates Valley - and some attempts were made to use this route. Irwin was forced to use the Egypt-Suez route ; Capper is advocating it" [Leonora Navari].