A VOYAGE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND TO BENGAL, Undertaken in the Year 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale; The Character and Arts of the People of India; With Some Remarkable Religious Rites of the Inhabitants of Bengal...

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1803 · Boston

by de Grandpre, L.
Boston: Printed by David Carlisle, for W. Pelham, and W. P. & L. Blake, 1803. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First American edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 300 pages of text including an index. Original full calf binding is moderately rubbed; original maroon leather spine label; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Previous owner's names on front endpaper and title page: Edward Kane, Edwared Willis, Detroit. First and final few pages are moderately browned at the leading edge, with minor foxing. A few pages with minor creases to one corner, and several pages with minor staining. Published without illustrations. Title continues "...To which is Added A Voyage in the Red Sea; Including A Description of Mocha, and of the Trade of the Arabs of Yemen; with some particulars on their Manners, Customs, &c. Translated from the French of L. de Grandpre. An Officer in the French Army." Grandpre, Louis Marie Joseph O'hier, comte de (1761-1846). Page 265 "The principal object of cultivation in Yemen is coffee..." First American edition.. (Inventory #: 011690)
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